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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
The Art Of Marketing Is Sadly Neglected These Days

ence and a lowering of his naughty head which betokened that the lady in question was a generous and we'll known patron.
 listened shamelessly and her order ran like this:
 "A seven-pound roast, and the kidneys want sent out this afternoon; lamb chops for tomorrow, and pair of chick ems for the next day, and a three-pound porterhouse steak for the next"
 That was all; the conversation didn't take five minutes of either the butchers time or the lady's.
 That's the kind I like" said he pres about and I sends 'em the best I have in my shop, week in and week out. Don t haggle over prices and buys something good every day"
 I knew her type exactly; the butcher needn't have explained.
 She was the prosperous Birmingham woman who frequents the butchers stall that she has patronized for the past 10 years-and the ice cream place, and the bakers, the two latter of whom have handed down the inherited Sunday des- sert since the days of her childhood, and since she's been married she hasn't di- yerged therefrom
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The butcher thoroughly approved Mi lady's" style of marketing.
 hundred such as the lady of the lovely mauve tailored gown. should say, a prosperous one.
 He considers himself a good judge of meat, and it flatters him for a customer to give him an order off-hand and leave to his taste and discretion the selection of the meats.
 He doesn't know that his reputation as a faultless butcher isn't always sustained for sometimes the husband of the family alludes to the fact that "the roast Is of a toughness." and then wonders why carv- ing knives are never sharpened anyway
 Of course. the lady of the lovely mauve gown may remark lightly upon the sub ject next time she goes to the butchers and may incidentally remark about a change" but of course it's all talk, be- cause 'Mr. Butcher'' gets busy and the next roast he sends out is the most tooth- some that has ever been sent, better by far than any cut he's ever had
 I've heard that honest butchers regard ladies who go pol1ing about in the market jabbing the large quarters of meat with
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won't, and there's an end to it. honest ly believe If he knew each day what was coming on the table-the same thing the same day of each week-hed quit home tomorrow. His mother kept house that way. and maybe that accounts for his peculiar habits about such things. He's often said that Wednesdays and Sundays days, when he was a boy. if the proverb- al baked chicken and rice and gravy weren't on the table"
 I asked a girl who had taken course in domestic science about her mode of marketing and she said:
 From the up-to-date housekeeper's s point of view. anything that she takes from the sameness of things ought to be welcome. Food is a mighty important fac tor after all. A sane interest in food-in the fuel that supplies our bodies with en- ergy-is a normal thing, only a lot of women seem to have forgotten 1t In their excitement over things dancing, card playing golf and other amusements. This type doesn't seem to realize how the fate of the entire household hangs on her hands. To be a good housekeeper is not so much to know the exact proportion of fats and phosphates or water in a given
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article Of food, as to be able to originate paiatable menus on a large or small table allowance"
 She got so deep Into things, and talked so scientifically that I tried to beat n nasty retreat. but she followed me, ,ay- ing:
 Time was when staple cut of meat. two vegetables and simple dessert served was considered a splendid meal: now. however soup and salad, coffee and cheese. and all sorts of things are in eluded. Physicians and domestic scen- lists are teaching that 1t is a good thing for our digestions to vary our diet. no matter how much is included on our menus and"
 But I had fled before all this technical knowledge.
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/ Relieve me-" the butcher remarked sadly. trade ain't what 1t used to be-"
 I must have looked as skeptical as I felt, for I had just handed him the bet ter part of a s bill, with which had been entrusted in exchange for the few mor- ,sels of meat that we still feel able to purchase weekly.
 Things is so high and the Chicago trusts is grinding us poor retail merchants down so and 'women's Department in newspapers Is responsible for learnin' fe- male folks to make cheap cuts taste so good with new fangled fxin's and things. that it's nearly ruined us" he went on 'volubly.
 He then leaned mournfully over the stall to hear the order that the next in line was about to give.
 I saw his glance brighten, and mine fol- lowed his to see what there was about this particular customer to lift the gloom so perceptibly.
 The fit of the lovely mauve gown, and the faultless arch of the aristocratic in- step in the high-heeled boots and the Jaunty little bonnet all proclaimed the so- lution of the problem as "Milady' stepped -Hut of her limosine.
 The butcher was listening with defer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
FRECkLES
February and March Bring Out Un slightly Spots. How to Remove
 Easily

The woman with tender skin dreads February and March because they are likely to cover her face with ugly freck- les. No matter how thick her veil, the sun and winds have strong tendency to make her freckle.
 Fortunately for her peace of mind. the recent discovery of new prescrip- tion. othine-double strength, makes 1t possible for even those most susceptible to freckles to keep their skin clear and white. No matter how stubborn a case of freckles you have. the double strength othine should remove them.
 Get an ounce from your druggist and banish the freckles. Money back if 1t fails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

1 a story of the progress of one of these | big-eyed imaginative young women who dream and dream about the Prince Charming that is coming some day, and are shocked to find that when he does come he usually doesn't wear curls and often chews tobacco. The girl goes
 from a Wisconsin farm to the University of Chicago and plods along through that dried up patch we call education till she meets a professor whom she thinks she loves He jilts her. and she thinks her
 heart is broken. man loves her in vain
 and he thinks his heart is broken also.
 All of them just thinking, you see: not
 knowing. But at last she comes to know
 about love when she works side by side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
DAWES DAUGHTER. .

By Patience Bevier Cole. Frederick A.
 Stokes X Co., publishers. New York.
 Patience Bevier Cole, in spite of the success of her novel. Dawes Daush- ter" keeps insisting that she is not liter ary. Perhaps this very fact is what makes so many people find Dave s Daughter home-ly and human. Mrs. Cole recently wrote her publishers: "I write with both babies ioggling my el- bow or climbing over the back of my chair, usually at the dining room table: this not because I have no writing retreat all fixed up on the third floor. for I have, but because by straying downstairs in the thick of things I save the babies trudging up the two flights, which they would have to climb if their parent mounted to the study to be absolutely alone.
 Writing interests me very much but not nearly so much as the babies and the hardy garden. as fYknds and birds and books and amateur photography and weed-pulling and dozen other things"
 Another thing" she continues, "college did not take with me as an intellectual experience. It was much pleasanter, dur ing lectures and recitation periods to look out of the window and dream dreams, or to study my fellow students. or, sone- times, frankly to shut my eyes and slum- Der. until the bell rang"
 It was not until after her marriage that she thought of taking up writing serious ly and the year after her first baby was born, her first story appeared in Every body's." She found life. in contradistionc ton to books. intensely interesting, and the queer little bits of everyday life are what she loves best to put into books. as is shown in Dave's Daughter"
 Very old-fashioned and decidedly differ ent from most of the latter day Prob lem novels is "Dave's Daughter and quite worth while.
 And the wedding gown will cost BIO, ,0O0 My land of Canaan, Mattie,, whatever do you think of that.'-and on that query hangs the story. Hattie and Matte Ben
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
DoLrSMAr1rrY.sa PHILOSOPHY

Hits CT powerful morti- fyin' experience, Ole Miss, ter CT BUSINESS OMAN ter have her BOSS treat her Remarks an Erpinions lightly an indifferently, as dough she wuz his WIFE. YaSS11nn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
"ABOvE THE SHAME OF CTRCUM.
 STANCE''

ADoN IL HE Sf1AMt E. OF
 STANCE"
 By Gertrude Capen Whitney CMrs. George Erastus Whitney,. sherman. French Ss Co.,, publishers. Boston,
 Quite out of the path of literary work is Gertrude Capen Whitney's Above the Shame of Circumstance"
 Handsomely gotten up-a pleasure to the eye as we'll as to the mentality, the book deals with subject which it be- hooves everybody to pay more attention tc, namely "The Practice of the Pres ence," in the ordinary walks of life.
 serveant girl who is hired in a wealthy family. finds herself listening to the conversation of her superiors over the Flea cups one afternoon. and she hears the story of little Sara Crewe-Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's little heroine, who chose the better part" and immediately in her mind begins to awaken the vital things, the things that count, and the key note of the story is this awakening which lies in her own choosing.
 Not that we are elected,' says one of the women in the group" chosen by a domineering God but that we elect our part of Gods gifts or elect to pass them by We have the power of choice. Of course, if we are one substance with God, we possess His attributes. Whether we use them or not is another matter"
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written about before, but not in quite so attractive a manner-nor yet so interest ing.
 There are streaks and streaks, but the yellow" streak is the one upon which this story hinges, and it causes lot of strenuous times in the household of a young man and woman who have taken each other Ito have and to hold" but who worry good deal in the accomplish ment of the matter.
 The story in brief concerns the heroine, Anne Churchill of South Carolina, who upon her graduation marries Dick Nelson, a son of her fathers old friend and neigh bor. Dick and his parents resided in the Philippines and, after their death, came to America for his college degree some what late in life. Here he meets Anne and their marriage results. Almost im- mediatey upon their arrival in Manila his love for her begins to wane. and his af-
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fections are transferred to the wife of an Englshman who handles Dicks vast bus mess interests. In addition to the trag- edy of neglect, Anne learns that her hus- bands mother was not Spaniard. but a. native Filipino, and that Dick was full ly aware of the fact when he married her This is the problem Anne faces and as time goes on the additional one of her own heart in regard to Major Crittenden, who loves her devotedly and chivalrously. In the midst of this Dick, through <he Japanese representative, becomes n- volved in a scheme to overthrow the pres ent government and make himself prince or dictator of the Philippines.
 The author is doing brilliant work for the Philippines, as Kipling has done for India. and he creates an atmosphere of charm about these islands that engages the attention of the reader and makes pretty scene for his stories.
 THE MAIN ROAD" By Maude Radford Warren. Harper
 Bros. publishers New York.
 Maude Radford Warren who. in her new novel. The Main Road" has given gallery of womens portartis-the shel- tered girl, the society woman. the Russian Jewess socialist, the artist and the old fashioned sentimental heroine remon- strates wit hher friends matter-of-fact 'iNtS VI iudiTliuOHy.
 Why. honey-bIg." ths girl replies, whether you love or not you have to have three meals a day and a roof. And. besides, don't you reckon I'd like to live as well as some of these women Dick knows?"
 ''If loved a man"
 "Oh, if you loved man, Janet you'd live in a rainbow with him till the damp ness drove him out. and then you'd go runnin' after him with tears so he'd think it was still the rainbow chasin' him. l don't know any way of findin' out wheth- CT you can live with man except by layin' yo' plans"
 Of co'se he thinks l think any nice girl who loves man could live with him on bread and cheese in a tent. Any girl with right good sense has 10 translate for man into a style plea sin to his sen s.bilities..
 As matter of fact "The Main Road ia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
There's No Corn That '"CETS-IT" Won't Get

No More Fussing, Piasters, saIves and Corn Pains. Try the New Way
 Just look at the way that corn comes ! off That's what you'll say when you Hy wonderful "GETS-IT" on that corn you've tried so long to pry off your toe. s'lFsL3o.. :. lnpsPuoM AL 'ssoqS moA 70 ,no ennf noA oTeN HULL su1oO ssoqI loJ 'uspvDa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
A New Version

MT. Taft's triumphant announcement | that he has been able to reduce his weight to more reasonable figure recalls one of the many stories told in connection with his stoutness, says Pearson s Weekly
 He was trying to catch train one day, but, though he ran as hard as he could, he missed 1t. He turned to those about him with a regretful sigh: "Ah well' he said, you know the proverbs more waist less speedl"
  with a man in Chicago settlement dur ing a garment strike.
 Often enough in real life love comics Just that way and the author has put it rather attractively and made a finale of her story which is more than satisfactory OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REVTEWS
 LATER).
 THE FOUR FEATHERS" By A. F. w. Mason. The Macmillan company, publishers, New York.
 "1'HE HEADQUARTER RECRUIT AND OTHER STORIES" By Richard Dohan Frederick A. Stokes & Co.,, pub fishers. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

Christ Marie Alamo. Together we will go forth, heart of my heart, never more alone. and in truth and in understanding
 practicalize our teachings as we rise into the zenith of 1ife's day.
 Then she and Carlos. heart in heart, and life in life, moved on in Gods great world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

ner, twins and 57 years old each, live tho very simple life in the small Long Island toWn-this query of dress fits in with the occupation of the vigorous twin, 'Mattie, ' mildly assisted by "Matie" who boasts some and evolves the domestic doings.
 Both carry out a secret desire to wrote letter to the "Billion-Dolla Bride about that horribly costly gown-and in consequence "Dave's Daughter" automo- piles to Long Island.
 "Dave's Daughter is in love with a young western man, who is stubbornly op- posed to marvin ga girl with a big for tune, himself being a three-thousand-a- year employe, with more hopes of rising financially "Chrstabel.'' the daughter, finds great joy in the companionship of the spinster twins-poor, lonesome little girl, fretting for the unfrilled life on the windswept lands of the west, where lives the man that she loves, although she's booked to marry a rich and distinguished New Yorker
 Just how the affair of the company turn out will be left for the reader to find out and he will enjoy doing so from the start to the finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
"THE STREAK.

By David Pottee. With illustrations hy Gayle Hoskins and NJ. J. Spero. l. R. Iippincott Company. publishers, Phila- delphia.
 David Pottee in his novel. "The Streak" introduces us to Q streak which has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

their forefingers or, worse still, with their fans or parasols, as very undesirable GUS toners. and when they get their choice home they can never quarrel or make a fuss with the butcher, because the meat isn't what they expected. as he reminds them that they selected it themselves, and there's nobody to blame.
 So, after all. it's Just as well to let the butcher have his way
 |. I've been collecting some information on the subject of butchers and markets and things of the sort. which may be inter- esting.
 ''why. certainly I have a standing or der at my butchers" said one woman who has the reputation of being very good housekeeper. "If I didn't I'd never have meals off my mind for a moment I go to market occasionally. but the butch CT knows more about the best cuts of meats than I do. so why worry?'
 "Do I have the same things to eat on the same days of the week?" another woman repeated my question after me. around to find new things to eat. John has such queer taste. I always say that I wish he was more human and would eat the things the children and like, but he
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Those of Middle Age Especially.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

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 "GETS-IT" is sold by all druggists 35c a bottle, or sent direct by E. Law renee Co. Chicago.
 "GETS-IT" is sold in Birmingham by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, 1904 Second avenue. Birmingham; Gale Drug e.. 'ttations Pratt City. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

By Dion Clayton Calthrop. Frederick A. Stokes x Co.,, publishers, New York. From drawing initial letters to pro- ducing pallets extend the occupations on which Dion Clayton Calthrop, the au- thor of 'Susette," trained himself for novel writing. Tn between came design ing advertisements. painting pictures. writing epics. laying out gardens, etch- ing. cooking, designing stage costumes and scenery, making plays, collecting AL pine plants. snuff boxes and tipstaffs. Mir. Calthrop whimsically ends an account of himself as follows; My godfather is Sir Johnstone Forbes Robertson. My grandfather was Dion Boucicault 1 was married in October, 1901, and have been the happiest man in the world ever since. keep dormice I wrote a quarter of my last book in French and I have just sprained my ankle climbing in the Pyrenees. And I wish somebody would give me e1oco year so that I could be free to do what work I liked"
 In "Susette" MT. Calthrop has written with much feeling and sweetness about his charaetres the chief of which besides the heroine is young English lord, who in one of the islands of the numberless Low Archipelago.
 There he meets "Susettee," quaint original girl, who has lived on the little island all her life and has never seen but
  The little French girl falls in love with Algy, as he does with her, and after her fathers death, she decides to marry him. but not without a lot of obstacles being placed in her way.
 In the end all turns out happily. and you can't help loving Susette and feeling a warm. almost human interest in the girl as her life expands and broadens and happiness at last comes to her.
 
 RUTH ANNE''
 By Rose Cullen Bryant. with illustrations by Will Grefe. J. B. Iippncott Con- pany publishers, Philadelphia ,
 Tn Rose Cullen Bryant-.heralded as a relative of the great William Cullen Bry- ant, than whom none has ever been more admired or beloved in the world of liter ature-we are introduced to a brand new aspirant for literary honors. -~s Her book, Ruth Anne,' has to do with 'social conditions' and the feminist movement" and IS very frankly written, ofttimes almost too much.
 The heroine appears to be an experi- mentalist in physical sensations, and such matters are not always to be discussed in print-in tact, very rarely so-but the a,- thor has undertaken to do it, and not without effect.
 Perhaps less materialistic story would have helped the cause that Is evidently close to the heart of the writer, and when experience is gathered no doubt a better story will be forthcoming from the clever writer's pen.
 THE STREAM By David Pottee. With illustrations by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
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