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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-01

By MARION HARLANn

fellow feeling for writer's of whatso-
ever class. If l could comprehend, just
what you wish to know respecting the
arrangement of your gripping
drama l might be able to advise you to
some extent. l have never essayed play
writing myself, albeit | have the hap
piness of knowing some eminent dram
atists and am tolerably familiar with
their methods of work. | can assure yon
that no respectable manager will flch
your plot and use 1t feloniously. If he
APPROVES of your work you may set your
mind at rest on that point
Ii is hardly worth while to copyright
your play until you have determined 70
put it upon the stage. Then your man.
ager will see that this is done. for his
sake as for your own.
Do not consider it another stage in
the wet blanket process when / remind
you, as a friend. that the market for
plays is full just now, and with work
from practiced authors whose works
command respectful attention AS with
other kinds of literary enterprises.
there is little hope for noviees in the
art of climbing the ladder of success.
True, there is always room at the top.
but the ascent is tedious and painful.
A celebrated dramatist left upon record
this bit of counsel to aspirants: Ira
vaillez. Travaillezi Toujours travaillezi"
Which is, being freely interpreted
Keep eternally at work. 1t holds good
In every profession.
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THURSDAY MARY PIERREPoNT AND woRTLEY MONTAGUE

am only In middle life, why not go en-
and make another. and who should say
nay I remember when a youth of beng
seated at dinner table, the occasion be-
ing the celebration by splendid man
and his charming wife. of their silver
wedding. A large company of relatives
and neighbors had gathered to do honor
to these good people. A big land owner
and a big man in every way. said Il
shall never be satisfied until I own all
the land that joins me- bright and pref
ty girl replied, 20 grandfather YOU don't
mean to say that because that would
carry your possessions from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, ana from the lakes to the
Mexican gulf, and / reckon you would
want them TO fish i'm What about the
rains coming to suit everybody. If the
showers fell when everybody was ready
for them 1t would be raining somewhere
in sight every day. How many ladies
have you known who were fully satisfied
with their wearing apparel in quantity
and quality.
The heading of this article suggests
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SOCIETY AND HOME TOPICS FOR WOMEN

of beating it in the old way by long
pounding with a flat iron. Reforms can
be gained even without the ballot-we
but these things are dome much more
wastefully. with much moee labor while
women are limited to in6Ireet methods +"
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young says 1T is
the greatest thing Illinois has ever done.
II YOU had been deprived of your civil
rights ever since you were of legal age,
how would you feel when you We're final
1y given them? DO you believe words
could express your happiness?''
Mrs Raymond Robins, president of
the National womens Trade Union
league, says: Every forward looking
woman Is suffragist. The ballot is
a practical necs ssity to protect the work.
ing mothers of our country"
Miss Margaret Haley of the Chicago
Teachers FederH6on rejoices, and Miss
Mary Mcdowell of the University Settle
ment says: II have always wanted won-
en- to vote for two reasons: to bring about
rational system vof garbage collection
and disposal in Chicago and to close
up the dead end of 'buhlbly creek, and
put in a sewer inst cad. Now 1t will be-
DONE "Bubbly creek" is the name given
to the place where the refuse from the
stock yards pours intp the water maxi
ing a hideous stencil and poisoning the
air for the whole neighl sorhood. The beef
trust has had political Influence enough
to head Off all efforts. toSmake lit abolish
the nuisance
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How to Keep a Stock Pot

please tell me how to keep a stock
pot. l know how to make the stock in
the first place, but l don't know how
to utilize leftovers in the stock pot, and
! should like very much to know. Is the
stock all recooked each time anything
is added When | remove the fat from
the top of my cold stock and take some
of it out for soup should l reheat what
1t left SO that the cake of fat will form
again? E. s. H."
''Leftoversi are utilized by dropping
them into the stock pot and bringing
the contents to boil TO insure ANAL
gamation of the ingredients, One nota-
BILE housewife puts into her stock all
'dahs" of vegetables and scraps of
cooked meats not available for further
table use. She even adds baked ap-
pie or spoonful of apple sauce oc
casionally. And her broths are excel
lent and varied. Reheat the stock after
each contribution. AS with the spinach
of the French epicure who demanded OF
his chef after the thirteenth reproduc
tion of the dish why itNwas not cooked
Is times to begin with. you cannot
spoil the stock by cooking several times
provided you bring quickly to the bub-
BILE, then remove and cover at once to
keep In the strength. Why should the
fat reform unless fresh supplies of
greasy materials are supplied? Rejoice
In getting rid of 1T. A greasy soup is
an abomfnation to the intelligent house
mother.
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NEWS Of THE DAY
IN SOCIETY WORLD
Matters of General Interest
to Women
THE DAYS EVENTS
Miss Mary bradshaw and Miss Mar
tha Bradsh; wv Issue Cards to Tea.
- Mason S teiner Invitations
Arrive Bridge Parties
BY nfY7RTIzE MILES

TIE recent su Efraee victory in Illl--
nois has brought joy to all believers in
woman's right to vote, but particularly,
perhaps TO that grorp of remarkable
Chicago women whose good works quite
apart from their Jews ON suffrage have
made them famous throughout the Uni
ted States. A nun thes, of these women
are known and below ed by many Birming-
ham people who. asi yet, have not be-
come interested in thi s~phase of feminism,
bur who indorse other humanitarian pro-
jeots in which they ar concerned.
Jane Adams says: frhe women should
have votes. The prob lems of our time
viii be solved only when all of the best
mind, conscience and talent in the COM
rnunity are brought to Their solution"
Julia c. Lathrop saysg Woman suf-
frage is a natural and inevitable step in
the march of society forward Instead of
being incompatlble with child welfare, 1t
leads toward 1t, and is Indeed the next
great service to be rendered for tho well
fare and ennoblement of the home.'
Judge Mary Bartelne of the court for
delinquent girls, when asked by a Chicago
paper to comment on the suffsage'victory,
answered.: 'T have nothing TO say but
|"Hurrahr"
Miss sophonisba P. Brechnrdse the be-
ioved assistant dean of women cit the Uni
versity of Chicago, says: "The' ballot is
a labor saving device, like the biscuit ma
chine which has been introduced to make
the beaten biscuit of Kentucky. instead
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mine. since you brought your soul to me-
sweetest Lotte. Long did s you lie. me
struggle with doubts; and | can hardly
describe the singular coldness which |
thought to observe in YOU. and which
forced burning avowals back into my
heart
1t appears that while Charlotte long
admired Schiller as a genius he had not
inspired in her the love that he so much
longed for. Her sister Caroline, during
this period, did all in her power to assist
the poet in trying to gain the favor of
Charlotte. and Schiller credits her assist
anee In this same letter when he SAYS:
"A beneficent angel was Caroline when
she came to meet my timid secret so won
derfully."
But that much of her apparent coldness
was assumed is shown in the reply that
Charlotte wrote to the poet two DAYS
later: so you thought | was cold aud
my demeanor dignified? You did not guess
that this coldness was but assumed to cen
ceai the emotions which | would not ac-
knowledge 20 myself, and still less to any
one else, for the reason that / was not
always sure OF your attachment to mo
Often felt as if there was nothing left t.,
divide us, as IL youlrealy We're to me all
that you seemed, but then. again, | felt
as though / were nothing to you. nothing
whatever. vaguely divining this to be
your state Of mind. but ignorant that iuv
own behavior was the cause. /
could conceive of no happiness without
you, could imagine no other woman 70
contribute 10 your felicity. and make you
happy through sincere and faithful love. -
In spite OF the great attention that
Sehiller's genius brought to him the idea
of being a lion was most offensive 10
him. His pride and his modessr alike
forbade It, The delicacy of his nature, ag-
gravated into shvness by his education
and his habits. rendered situations of dis
play more than usually painful to him.
In the circles of fashion he appeared
unwillingly, and seldom to ADVANTAGE:
their glitter and parade were foreign to
his disposition: their strict ceremonial
cramped the play of his mind His con-
versation was delightful. abounding at
once in rare and simple charms. Besides
the intellectual riches which II carried
with 1t, there was a flow of kindliness
and unaffected good humor. which al
ways renders ,1ullness itself agreeable.
Schiller ami his Charlotte lived together
for Is years. the poet dying in the spring
of 1905, at the age of 49, In the full vigor
of his intellectual powers
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80 HOW'DNOU 'WRITEA
gMz<Q [OVE'LETTR ~
HOW SCHILLER WROTE mo- CHARLOTTE Won LENGEFELp

Friedrich Ven Schiller. the German poet
and dramatist, was man of much senti-
ment which Is reflected in many of his
best poems and plays. 1t ran through
practically all of the channels in which he
found employment as we'll as recreat ation.
He loved TO be much alone and found
great delight in wandering in solitude
amid the groves and lawns, the green
and beautiful places ON the banks of the
Elbe. 1t was not unusual to see hln
floating in a gondola feastng. himself
with the loveliness of earth and sky
Yet before the darkness summoned him
exclusively to his tasks, Schiller COM
monty devoted a portion of the day to
the pleasures of society. Could he have
found enpoyment in the batteries of ad-
miring hospitality, his fame would have
procured them for him in abundance. But
these things were not to his taste.
Schiller was born at Mannheim, a small
town in Wirttemberg on November TO-
1853. When he was 80 years old he paid
a visit to Weima-, where he became ac-
quainted With Hecder and Wieland, aud
afterward with Goethe. With the latter
he did not get on very we'll at first. Grad
ually, however, they became cordial
friends. and it was through Goethe's
friendship that he was appointed profess
sor of history at the University of jena.
Shortly after, he arrived there he mar
ried Charlotte Won Lengefeld, to whom he
had been engaged for considerable time
Their courtship was one of the most inter-
esting of the personal periods of his life
and that he was most ardent in his at
tachment is shown by the character cf
the letters which have been published
On August %, 1899, Schiller wrote t.
Charlotte in the following endearing
terms: "a month ago how much would 1
not have given for the mere hope of what
is now realized-for single look into your
soul, And now THAT | read everything
there which my heart has thirsteth for SO
long, my wishes anticipate the future, and
shrink from contemplating the long
space during which We must still remain
separated
My spirit lives In a new and lovelicr
world since l have known that you are
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From Left Over Soup Meat

Allow soup meat to get cold and cut
into neat slices. Put into a saucepan
one cup water, one-half cup vinegar,
one4half onion cut in small pieces, one
half teaspoon salt, two cloves. >one-half
bay leaf; let these come to a boil. Dis
so&'e three large ginger snaps in lit
tie water until there are no Jumps, then
add them to the boiling liquid Put
sliced soup meat in this and boil three
or four minutes. If you wish to cook
a large quantity of meat. double the
other'i gredients.-Kindness Off Mrs. r.
H. D.
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WHAT "MILADY" EXPECTS
OF THE LOW TARIFF
n. DOLLY DAiRyMPLE

| know a very chaming woman. now
the wife of a distinguished federal
judge in washington. who was asked
once upon a time about a certain beau"
who was very attentive to her.
Hes terribly in love with YOU" said
a Jealous suitor.
Why he's never discussed anything
tenderer with me than the tariff" said
she, blushing delightfully."-.
Just what degree of tenderness she
invested the "tariff' With was known
only to her clever mind, but it Is safe
to say that the same lady would be
willing and eager to join all the others
who have been trying for weeks past
to figure out" just how much is going
to be saved when the drop IN prices
comesl
Not only to the business people of the
country is the tariff" discussion in
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DispGsing of a Play

will some one tell me how sto ar
range a play or drama after 1t is writ
temp I have a gripping one and really
don't know how TO arrange the parts
manager OF one OF the large houses
isRgoing to read and correct 1t for me,
and I at least would like to have it
written out in the correct way Can
you also tell me ifsthis man, while cor
recting this play for me, could copy sand
play 1t some time later without paying
anything for 1t? I do not like to do all
the work and then have some one do
thati After writing play must you
have.it licensed before having it played,
or not? PAULINE. G.
1t Is an ungracious business to wet
blanket a scheme that lies near the
heart of the author. And I have a lively
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-01
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Can Man Be Made Satisfied and Con-
tented?

To the Editor of The Age Herald
Did you ever see satisfied and coa-
tented person. No. you neter did, nor
never will. There is always something
wrong and lacking. Solomon. who ex-
ceeded all other kings of the earth in wis
dom and riches. and who was so favored
of God. was not satisfied and contented.
Men have been honored by their country
men and placed in high position. but they
become restless and ambitious and strive
to go higher and higher, and this is COM
mendable.
A man makes a million and he says /
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Caring for a Fern

viii you please help me out with my
sword fern? | have never had any luck
with plants. This was given to me while
in the hospital and II is a beautiful
fern | want to make it grow and keep
it alive. Some tell me II needs lot of
sun: others say not Also some say
lots of water. while others say the
opposite 1t has lots of fresh shoots
coming out, but the leaving on the old
swords seem to be getting yellow.
MRS. A"
Ferns, like other plants, must have
rest. In the wild state they get this in
winter IL yours drops yellow leaves
1t is probably because it has been
growing greenly all winter long Do
not be discouraged If 1t seems to lam
guish for a while. Set it out in the sun.
see to it that 1t has plenty of water. and
give it time" for a refreshing season
of rest It will come up all right in a
few months. For the present be satis-
fled to keep it healthfully alive. Fern
growers are invited to contribute their
testimony.
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teresting, but every woman who specu-
latest at all. or interested in bills" and
and spending money tand where is there
one who is notsS finds II an absorbing
topic
Time was when women didn't know
the difference between the tariff and
chocolate fudge, but In tifese parlous
days things are different.
"Miady" is busy counting Just how
much money she will be able to retain
In her pocketbook after the passage Of
the bill.
She is wondering If the reduction
that viii follow in the wake of the
"bill." will really mean a nice little
lift over" amount in her pockets after
her regular seasons shopping expendi-
lures have been accomplished or-just
what?
One even wonders IL Mrs Woodrow
Wilson. herself, the FIRST lady of the
land" has not indulged in little secret
drawing era of protective tar
ifr"
Perhaps
She is thinking that the reduced
prices will offer her a small loophole
for a slightly more elaborate toilet
than the thousand dollar year one
that she has allotted to herself.
At the time of the announcement by
Mrs. Wilson that ANY woman should
be able to dress on thousand a year"
a well known and fashionable modiste
in this city-a creator OF very lovely
gowns. declared that such an economi-
cal feat was well nigh impossible for
the Presidents wife
She was so interested In the question
in fact that she made out list putting
what a woman so much In the public
eye as Mrs. Wilson would be compelled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-01
INFORMAL LUNCHEON FOR
MONTGOMERY YISIT0RS

Mrs. Ross C. Smith entertained inform
ally at luncheon Saturday at the Golf
Auto club, Roebucl SIudngs. in compli-
ment to MISS Mary Greene. Miss Nimmo
Greene and Mrs. Manley Foster of Mont
gonery. who came up to attend the
Smlth-Truss wedding.
The new club has filed long needed
felt, among the summer stay at homes,
and no day passes without some hospi-
tality, however small 1t may be, taking
place within its pretty living room or
dinning room, and the swimming pool is
the favorite place about town these hot
days.
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Taking LIN Elocntinn

Il am thinking of taking up elocu-
ton by myself. Will you kindly give
me the name of a good eloeution in
struction book? Do you think girl Is
years of age is too old to take it up?
&C. F. s."
A girl of 1S is not day too old to
begin to train her voice and to learn
to use 1t to the best advantage 1 am
less confident as to the possibility of
her becoming good elocutionist with
out other help than that she may get
from books. So doubtful am l upon
this head that 1 refer the question to
professional readers" We shall be
thankful to have them decide the mat
ter 1t may be that we may incidentally
have an offer from one of them to lend
you further aid in fitting yourself for
your profession
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many other things that I might mention.
but in summing the matter up, I believe
that the reader win agree with me that
the best satisfied and contented people
are those who have love and gratitude and
try to carry comfort and good cheer to the
human race There are three characters
In life that we should never be satisfied
with nor contented to live among me
tyrant. the oppressor. and the law break
er. And we should never forget that 10
law is enforced unless backed by public
opinion. J. LAWLER DARBY.
Bjrning gham. May 30, 1873
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interesting social arrangements in her
honor will be consum1nated. This after
noon Mrs. w. T. Weekly will enter
tain at bridge to compliment Mrs. Brun-
ner.
Miss Elizabeth Cade of Tuscaloosa is
visiting Miss Bessie McCrossin.
Miss Holland Fits, vino has been in
college this year at Glencoe. Md. is at
home to spend the summer with her
parents. Col. and Mrs. William C. Fits.
She was a guest during the finals at
Bethlehem college and at the University
of Georgia at Athens
Miss Leila Wood left yesterday to spend
a week with Miss Algie Aahe of Shelf
field.
Mr. and Mrs William STREET., Jr., spent
the week end at Borden Wheeler Springs.
Mrs Manly Foster has returned to
her home in Montgomery.
Rev. Dr. Thomas Beard, Miss Mary
Beard and Miss Dickinson leave tomorrow
for Colorado, DR.. Beard going to the
sanitorium at Boulder for a month and
Miss Beard and Miss Dickinson for a
months recreation in Denver and neigh
boring points of interest. DIR. Beard will
extend his visit in August to Mapa, Cal,
returning by Southern Pacific railroad
September l.
Miss Eda Bandel Hall of baltimore.
Md is visiting at the home Off DIR. Anne
M. Robinson on Euclid avenue.
Mrs. ]. Withers Clay, Miss Emily Clay
and Master Clement C. Clay left Friday
via Savannah for New York city. where
they will spend six weeks.
Miss Mary $. Clay is taking a.course at
Columbia university. She will go to Min
neapolis, where she has accepted a posi-
tion in one of the high schools of that
city.
A party including Miss Ethel Mathews,
Miss Lucille Smith, Mr.. John Ingram, Mr.
Miller Ingram and Mrs. John Mathews
enjoyed a 200 mile auto trip, leaving Bir-
mingham at 10 O'Clock Saturday morning
and arriving at Ingram Lithia Wells at 3
o'clock, to attend the Saturday evening
dance. Sunday they visited Admission,
Gadsden and several other smaller towns
arriving home at o'clock Sunday even
ing.
Mrs. John Mathews is at Ingram Lithia
weeks.
Miss Eleanora Douglass has returned
home after a delightful visit tospoints in
Louisiana and Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Oster (Frances
ShauD, whose welding occurred recently
In Mariana, Ark. have returned from
their wedding tour in the east and Can
ada and are with Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Gold. 22o1 South Fourteenth avenue.
Miss jamie Going will leave next Monday
for tour of the west.
The Southern Women's Golf associa-
ton. notes the Lookout will meet in Chat
tanooga in May 1914, and already plans
are being made by the CHATTANOOGA wom-
en- interested Tn golf to entertain the play
ers and arrange for the annual tourna-
ment, which is one of the most delightful
things annually in the south Several
well known women golfers throughout the
south have announced their intention Of
entering the tournament.
DR.. Percy Woodsll left last night for
Little Rock, Ark, where he will deliver
convention If osteopaths. which is in ses-
sion at that place
Mrs. James A. Downey and Mrs ]. J.
Eaton left Sunday night for three
weeks trip to Buffalo, Albany, New
York and Washington.
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Bran RiscI.iIs

One quart bran. one pint -four. one
quart milk, two teaspoons baking soda,
IL tablespoons molasses. Mix well, dis
solving the soda in little hot water;
bake as cookies or in tins: eat one after
meals or between meals. Good for con-
tipation.-K andness of J. 7. J. B.
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MRS. C. S. SIMMONS
HOSTESS AT BRIDGE.

friends Thursday afternoon at bridge in
compliment to Mrs A. r. Hopper of OKLA
homa City, Okla. Mrs. Hopper is delight
fully remembered here as Miss Kat1l-
arine Smith of Augusta, Ca, the guest of
Mrs. Simmons on several occasions be-
fore her marriage.
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Sweening With Kerosene

Kerosene has been recommended to
me to sweep with l must dampen the
broom In order to prevent the dust from
rising and to disinfect the floors and
rugs. VIII you kindly let me know If
its use will CRIME or discolor the car
pets and floors? A. L. M"
The busters must be dipped in the
oil, then wrung hard and dried in the
air and shade, not in the sun. They
will then take up the dust without scat
ering 1t. Bind the prepared duster upon
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A Family Named Hanson

IT am looking for family by the
name of Hanson. They moved to Chi
cago from Cedar Rapids about ~ years
ago. There were two girls, Mamie and
Anna, and a boy named Henry They
were a Roman Catholic family The
mother and father were both living at
that time I am sorry not to know either
lof their ChristianSnames
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CARDS ISSUED TO
MASON-S STEINER WEDDING

Birmingham friends are in receipt Of
the following:
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Eugene Steiner
request the honor of your presence at
the marriage of their daughter, Helen, to
DR.. Enoeh Marvin Mason, on Tuesday
evening, JuT 10, at $50 O'Clock, Court
Street Methodist church, Montgomery.
An enclosed card states:
VIII be at home after August 10 Bir-
mingham.
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a10fN REWARD

REWARD OF $1,000 WILL BIZ
PAID For INFORMATION R1AULT-
ING IN THE ARREST AND CONvIC-
TION OF ANY PERSON OR PERSONS
NITRO GLYCEVIN on OTHER Ex-
IsOSYvE ON ANY STREET CAN
TR AyCk IN THE CITY OF BfRMING-
FfAya CITY OF BIRMINGHAM,
nh G. ExUM. As PREefDENC OF
THE BOARD OF COMMISSION ERS.
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the brushy part of the broom. I have
never heard of dipping the broom it,
self in kerosene for the purpose you
mention. Mops may be treated in like
manner. The oil will not harm floors or
carpets
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MRS. JOHN A. MOORE
HOSTESS AT TEA

In compliment to her sons bride, Mrs.
Chalmers Hale Moore, Mrs. John A.
Moore will entertain atstea Friday after
noon at her home.