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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Winter in a Garden

From the Countryside Magazine and Sub
 urban Life.
 \ knew about snow, of course-had l not shovecd my own sidewalk part of the time for score of years? But had forgotten some of the snow happenings about my boyhood's garden home, sc that the marvellous elasticity of the seem ingly stiff arborvitaes under a great load of clinging whiteness was new to me, as I waded about, lifting carefully here and shaking gently there to release the branches from their heavy burden
 Twenty years of walking on city streets gave me no preparation for the sheer beauty of the wal lSthrough foot of virgin snowfi with the afternoon sur sending blue shadows into every foot print The outlining in snow or the love- 1y reverse curves of the branches on the western big horse chestnut showed me anew what tree architecture means
 I made acquaintance, one winter day of hoarfrost with the delicacy of the sturdy young linden, and with the green plumes of the Norway spruce nearby. Gu riously enough, I passed without seeing 1t fine persimmon, which presume was loaded then, as it has been annually fruit. Those same scraggly quinces which looked so forlorn in November took on a new possibility when their branches were cased in crystal, for no fruiting could come completely justify their existence at least to the hungry eye of the desk bound man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Scotch Bill of Fare

From the London Chronicle.
 Several readers write to say that surely the English holiday makers in Scotland who protest against the Scottish bills ot fare at the boarding houses and hotels are unreasonable. If one goes to Paris writes one correspondent, "one rather en- joys eating the food of the place and accepting it's feeding hours and methods It is welcome change to have only cof- fee and rolls at the hour when Brixtor and Balham are gorging themselves with thawed eggs from Siberia and bacon that is all sristle: and le'heure verte Is grea idea, also big improvement on the brandy-and-soda interlude in tho city be- fore one catches the train that takes one toward home and dinner.''
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A Sure Wrinkle Remover And Other Beauty Secrets

fort. But such labor is no longer neces- sary by reason of the use of formula beautifier I have ever known. With a half pint of hot water mix two table spoonfuls of glycerine, and while stir ring pour in one ounce of Zintone. When cool it makes an exquisite, satiny cream and is ready to use. This is exceedingly economical, and you can and must use 1t generously on face. arms, hands, neck and shoulders every day
 MRS. NJ. o. IT don't use any face powder but my. own. made according to my own formula. Being entirely free from chalkinesS and extraordinarily fine and smooth, 1t gives tint and velvet You can obtain this face powder now at drug stores, and is called "Valeska Sur att Face Powder"
 MRS NO-FORM-It is difficult mat ter at. best, to develop the bust, but there is only one way that deserves a two ounces of ruetone. half cup of sugar, and a pint of cold water. and talk ing of this two teaSpoonfuls after meals and at bedtime. This should do it if any thing can.
 MISS o. N R.--The best soap in the scurf, dead skin particles and dandruff as can eggol. This produces wonder fully rich, creamy father and is unex- teaspoonful of eggol in half cup of hot water for your shampoo. Enough eggol can be secured from your druggist at a moderate cost to give over twelve ex- quisfte shampoos.
 DISSATiSFIED--I do not wonder that you are dissatisfied with the many sup erfluous hair removers you have used You will remove such hairs perfectly and without burn or irritation by using, simple sulfo solution. which dfssoIves the hair instead of burning it off and leaving red spot. It is very startling solution, but if your druggist hasn't if then get the sulfo powder which is every bit as effective. works the same way and which you simply wet with a htlie water just before you apply it.
 
 MISS T. o. B.--I regret you were mi out because the druggist had no neroSin but if you will in such cases write. ad dressing ''Va1eska Suratt. Care of Secre tary, Inompson Bldg, Chicago" en- closing fifty cents. you will be supplied by return mail.
 LOOKS BAD--You will go on forever using creams to get rid of pimples, and erful blood cleanssr There is nothing better than mixture of twelve ounces or sugar dissolved in a pint of water and one ounce of sarsene, taken. in doses of three or four teaspoonfuls three of four times day. Get the sarsene in the ori- einal package. by the ounce at the drug store. You will get rid of your pimpies quickly.
 MRS. D. NJ. L.---It Is an astonishfne fact that blaclSheads can be removed ill few minutes by sprinkling some DOW dered nefoxin on a hot. wet sponge and rubbing this on the blackbeads. It re- moves them all. the big and little ones The ne1oxin can be obtained at the drug store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

and best than can be bought. For two years they go through a curing process and seasoning which makes them delic- iously palatalole. They of course are very highly favored, which adds materially to the taste of the biscuit Twenty per cent of the biscuit Is ham, and this use in a Dulverized form. After it is sliced and chopped up. then I grind 1t very fine and mix it with the dough, the two as- similating and blending until you can scarcely tell when the bread is finished, that there is any meat in it, yet 1t is so nutritious that it is unnecessary to have anything else for meal when you have the ham biscuit For luncheon, for pie nics. for afternoon tea and any sort of affair the ham biscuit is incomparable, and with soft drinks or tea and coffee, in fact. the ham biscuit blends with any thing and makes delightful meal"
 People who have sampled my new food product" Mrs. Johnson continued, nave been so much impressed with it's excellence that a stock company is go7. ing to be formed and the biscuit put on the market in large quantities Dainty
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AvOndale


 Miss Thelma Moore was hostess Friday evening to number of her friends. Peach blossoms and ferns were the dec orations. Five hundred was played, and an ice course was served to the following guests: Miss Hattie Traverthern, Miss Lola MoCool. Miss lnna Mae SnoWdon, Miss Burns Wa.ldman and Miss Kathleen Faulkner; MT. Porter Williams, Mir Ora Hood, MT. Willie Jordan, MT. Malcom Hanllins and MT. Arthur Williams.
 The T. D. S. club met Saturday after noon with Miss Violette Swift. Forty-two was enjoyed throughout the afternoon, and the prize was pair of silk hose. Violet shaped ices were served to the fol- lowing members: Miss Mabel Garrett. Miss Ida I<illian, Miss Ruth Kelly, Miss Lorine Farr, Miss valla McCool and the hostess.
 Mrs J. w. Prude was hostess to the Cressendo club Friday afternoon. After an interesting programme delightful re- treatments were served to Mrs. s. R. Caf- fee, Mrs. George Hanlin, Mrs. Fl. l.. Mar tin, Mrs. T. l.. Hendrix, Mrs. H. M. Lit tie. Mrs. Harry Passmore, Mrs. C. Pass more, Mrs. Carl Roberts. Mrs. F. M. Scott. Mrs. Ebert Smith, Mrs. W. R. Starbuck, Mrs. P. l.. Walker, Mrs. James Wilson, Mrs. Walter Harrell. Mrs. G. w. Hays, Mrs. F. A. Griswold, Mrs. G. c. Ellis, Mrs. Frank Fans, Mrs. G. C. Ellis, Mrs. J. F. Davis, Mrs A. l.. Brown, Mrs. R. v Allgood and Mrs. O.. H. Mont gomery.
 Mrs W. A. Griffin and little daughter, Lucile, are in Greenville. S. c.
 Mrs. D. Mckenzie has returned from a two weeks visit to relatives in Brookside.
 Mrs. W. J. Hand of Acmar is the guest of Mrs. J. D. McCool.
 Mrs. F. S. O'BryaDt, who has been the guest of Mrs J. G. Funderburk, has re- turned to Akron.
 Mr. Gus Taylor of Norfolk, Va, is the guest of relatives in Avondale.
 MT. M J. Higgins has returned from a trip to Texas.
 MT. Cecil Page of Mount Vernon is the guest of his mother. Mrs. Lula Page.
 The w. M. U. of the Avondale Baptist church will meet Monday afternoon at the Tabernacle. All members of the circles are requested to be present.
 The Avondale chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, will be at home with Mrs Abner Hawkins Tuesday afternoon.
 Miss Louise O'Neal has returned from Montgomery.
 Mrs. J. T. Hester has returned from Chattanooga.
 MT. Grover Russell is spending several days at Steele.
 MT. Grady Allgood and MT. James Bur. gess left this morning to visit MT. and Mrs. Will Algood in Montgomery.
 Mrs. Clyde King has returned from Tennessee.
 MT. and Mrs. Sell South are in Berry. Mir. R. F. Nix has returned from Fort Payne.
 Miss Bessie Bentley of Rockford Is the guest of Miss Eunice Brown. Miss Geneva May of Gainesville. Ga. is the guest of her father, MT. J. S.-May
 The NJ. O. NJ. club gave dance at Grif- fins hall Friday night. Ices were served throughout the evening, and about :. young people enjoyed the evening.
 Circle A of the Avondale Baptist church will serve q chicken and turkey dinner Tuesday, April $. at 22O Spring street.
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secret lies in the material used. not in fhe manner of use. Massage alone is of no value. Ordinary creams are or little merit The following formula, to my mind is positively revolutionary in its results, yet it is simplicity itself Mix 1his formula yourself at home In few moments and you will have quantity of surpassing wrinkle remover which would ordinarily cost many dollars if il could Be bought in the stores already prepared
 ounces of powdered eptol and two table epoonfuls of slycerine. This forms q cream. When cool. apply regularly every day, generously. The eptol can be ob- tained at any drug store. This cream re moves light and deep wrinkles. lines of worry, habit and age. and makes d1f- ference of years in your appearance
 
 MISS HOw7--Poor girll You will be able to comb and brush your hair viz orously without having a single strand come out and your hair will begin to grow out most beautifully again if you will apply every other day or so, and in liberal quantities, a mixture made of half d pint of alcohol. half pint of water and one ounce of beta-quinol. Shake thoroughly, and then it will be ready to use. If you prefer. you can use imported bay rum ;nstersa of the water and alcohol
 MRS O. F. L--Most of the beautiful somplexions you have admired have been aeyelooed after years of painstaking eff
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Society
(Continucd from Page Twenty-nine)

a plate luncheon was served to the fol-
 lowing members: Miss Nina Bain, Miss
 Eleanore Gillam, Miss Mary Robinson.
 Miss Robena Manchlin. Miss Marion
 Bradford and Mrs. Joe Robinson.
 One of the most attractive parties Of
 the week was that given by Mrs. Brand
 Currie, ccmplimenting the members of
 the Young Matrons Social club. The
 house was bright with spring flowers and
 jonquils, hyacinths and lilies appropri-
 ately represented the Easter season. There were four tables of games. The club prize, a crocheted sofa pillow was
 won by Mrs. w. P. Townsend. The guest prize. pair of silk hose. by Mrs. Charles Nixon, and the consolation prize, a blooming lily, by Mrs. Reynolds Lyde. The club members present were Mrs. John Carns, Mrs. John O'Neal Mrs. w. P. Townsend, Mrs. Jesse Johnston, Mrs.
 Eugene Newsom, Mrs Shiel, Mrs. Will liam Simmons, Mrs. George Brewer and Mrs. Dewitt Simpson. The invited guests
 were Mrs. Anglin White, Mrs. John | O'Neill, Mrs. Reynolds Isyde, Mrs. Charles | Nixon, Mrs. Jesse Parrish, Mrs. William l Hurham Miss Maude Silliman, Miss l Minnie 1Iowse and Miss Elsie Brooks.
 The Iroauois club met on Friday aft | ernoon at the home of MT. Edwin Dur
 ham, one of its members. The rooms l on the lower floor were thrown together mad decorated with palms and ferns. | Punch and ices were served throughout 1 the evening between the dances. Those
 present were: Miss India Gormley, Miss | Frances Strange Miss Helen Forsyth, Miss Cariotta Durham, Miss Margaret | Nall Miss Elizabeth Maddox, Miss Lillie | Maddox, and Miss Eben Cooley, MT. l Stanley Simpson, MT. Jonh Townsend, Mir Bernard Cooley, Mir. George Me
 Laug Min. MT. Edward Dugger. MT Sid-
 ney Taylor, Mir. Capers Perryman and Mir. Howard Owings.
 The R. D. Jackson chapter of the 1 United Daughters of the Confederacy met on Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. 1 C.. A Bain. Spring flowers, peach blos-
 soms, violets and jonquils, made the
 house bright and fragrant. An election
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Wylanl

MT and Mrs. John Guthrie entertained the Four Hundred club Thursday evening at their home on Fifth avenue. Easter lilies and carnations were used as decora- tions in the parlor, where several contests were enjoyed At late house they were enjoyed. At late hour they were in- vited into the dining room. where re- treatments were served the following guests: Misses Jeanne Mullen, Jeanne Neil Marion Brown, Willie Wallace. Mar tha Brown Desma Dewberry, Lizzie Mae Walker Lizzie Massey, Nettie Williamson Christine McCrowe Teenie McCorie, Emma Lowery. Isabel Turnbull Margueret Cam he. Martha Liddell, Jeanne Brawley. Messrs. John Mullen. w. P. Broden Will liam Brodie. R. Brown. Charles Guthrie
 Ben Moxieys Pearl Crane. George Ellis
 Win Haywood, Harry McCrore, Tom Gill more and Paul Stewart
 MT. and Mrs. N. B. Mcclellan enter tained the w. E. B. class recently at their home on Tenth avenue. The evening was spent in playing different games. after which refreshments were served the fol- lowing young people, Willie Williamson, Rosa Lee Powe, Gladys Haywood, Jessie
 May Marshal, Sarah Gilmore. Mollie Hall. Nellie Borough, Allie Lewis. Lizzie Mae Walker, Lottie Smith, Ellen Brodie. Liz zie Reed, Ethel Smith, Harry Gardner, John Mcclellan, Clarence Elders, Fred Mcdonald, Norman Kaufman, Raymond Parkhurst, Julian Rube, Roy Edwards, Peter McCord, Newman Robinson. Lee Hooper and Lester Laggins.
 Dr. and Mrs H. A. Riviere entertained a number of their young friends Friday evening at buffet luncheon in honor of their sister. Miss Julia Miller of St. Clair Springs, and Miss Jewell Hall of Cuba.
 The evening was spent playing forty-two.
 Miss Nolan gave several piano selections
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secrets That Will Save You Years of Time and Many Dollars In Your quest For Beauty, Told by Na1esl>a Suratt, Famed as the Greatest Seif-Made Bcauty Actress
 By VALESkA SuRATr WYE all more or less lead lives or quiet w desperation, and the older we be- come the more pronounced seems to be our resignation. And particularly is this true with women upon whose faces Time is sketching. in wrinkle characters. all epic of it's flight.
 More wonderful to these women. then. seems the statement that wrinkles can be eradicated as surely as chalk from a, slate We are all sisters in the skin skin is skin. That the skin can be made youthful in it's vigor and appearance, is no longer question. It is fact. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

boxes attractively lettered and prettily gotten up will be used for the biscuit, and these will contain two dozen biscuit, which will be sold for 20 cents. Another thing that comments the biscuit is the fact that they seem not to get stale as other breads do. If after several days there is any tendency whatever toward this they can be put in the stove and heated, and they come out again crisp and fresh as when they were newly made"
 T believe that Birmingham is going to be put on the map when it comes to foodstuffs," Mrs. Johnson said, by our ham biscuit, and unless l am greatly mistaken I think within a sfsprt time they will be used all over the entire coun- try with satisfactory results. The groc- erymen here in my own town of course will have the first opportunity to pass judgment upon them, and l feel confi- dent that they will consider them the most nutritious and wholesome food prod uct, as well as the most palatable, that has been placed on the market in many days"
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during the evening. Those present were: Misses Myrtle Avery Mary Lusk, Jean nette Lusk, Lillie Nolan, Belle Parkhurst, Lizzie Smith, Alice Davis, Julia Miller, Jewell Hall. Dr. O. T. Miller. MT. Chris Thomson, MT. and Mrs Albert Harris.
 The Domestic and Art club met with Mrs. D. P. Page as hostess Friday after noon at her home on Fifth avenue. Mrs. R. L. Glasglow was reader for the after noon. Club colors yellow and white, were used in the decorations and refreshments. Tiny chicks were given as favors. The following guests and members were pres ent: Mesdames Walter Hiane, Fred Reid, Benjamin Arnold, Thomas R. Walker, James Rountree Robert Glasglow, An drew Morgan, H. A. Riviere, Misses Julla Miller, Edith Ellis and Jewell Hall.
 Mrs. Sara Sloan and Misses Bertie and Clara Sloan have returned to their home in Empire after a pleasant visit with MT B. $. Sloane's family.
 Miss Nell Collins of Graysville and Miss Sadie Seggley are visiting Mrs B. S. Sloan.
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the wretched dyspepsia to which he wal subject was fully accounted for by the fact that he was particularly fond of very nasty gingerbread. Many times Il have seen him sitting in the chimney y corner smoking his pipe and eating this gingerbread"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
MAY REVEAL SECRET
 IN COMING NOVEL
Mrs. Mamie Athert0n Au-
 thor of "Grey Sand"
QUEER VACCINATIONS
The Great Von Moltke and Little Dor ritt-"Nasty" Ginger Bread That Thomas Carlyle Just Couldn't
 Resist-Literary Gossip
By HAYDEN CHURCH

London, March 14.-(Special )=If
 these were not war times one would
 he quito safe. I fancy in prophecy
 ing something like a record sale-in
 the British Isles, anyhow-for a forth
 coming novel bearing the odd title of
 Grey Sand" for its author, it seems,
 is no other than the beautiful and famous Mrs. Atherton, whose name has figured prominently in several of the most sensational society divorce cases of recent years and who, as suredly, could. if she would, tell some
 tales and reveal some secrets that would cause fluttering in exalted dove cotes
 Mrs. Atherton's London publisher warns me that this new aspirant for the bays of the successful novelist must not be confused with Mrs. Ger
 trude Atherton' an admonition that was scarcely needed. The Christian name of the author of Grey Sand,p ii proves, Is Mamie" q don't think we had heard this previously, and at the present moment in the intervals of correcting her proofs, she is busy with the reception of Belgian refugees.
 She is the daughter of Sir Edward Dean-Paul, baronet, and married Colonel Atherton of the Twelfth lanoers who eventually ask ed for, and obtained, divorce, naming as "co- respondent" the then Capt. Yarde Bull Ter Cnow Lord Churston), who after ward married Denise Orme, the mu- sical comedy actress. This was the first of three, if not four, causes celebre in which Mrs. Atherton who is as re- nowned for her wit as for her good looks, figured, all of which involved noble names, that of one of Engiand's richest dukes having been, 1t is whis- pered, kept out of one of them only
 with the greatest difficulty.
 Incidentally Mrs. Atherton has been
 something of a globe trotter. She was in South Africa during the war 5here
 and few women can claim to have seen battlefield with it's hastily buried
 dead as Mrs. Atherton saw Spion-k -kop.
 She was present, too. at the 1asi h.
 dian "Durbar" and knows Egypt right
 through, wintering regularly in Cairo, in
 fact unless Warwickshire claims her
 for the hunting. The last country that
 she visited was Russia She is 1 dog fancier and a collector of objects
 dart" her maisonette in Curzon street containing, besides many fine pieces which she has inherited, a choice as- semblage of treasures picked up at Christie's auction rooms, where she seldom misses a sale. Grey Sand" should be some" book. We shall all have to beg, borrow. or steal it.
 Germans Read Dickens
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that the works of Charles Dickens are the favorite reading of German soldiers. After the first surprise at this news, how ever, one recalls the fondness of Count von Moltke for the great Victorian rov- elist. Forster, Dickens bographer, cords that in 1871, when Bismarck and Jules Favre met in a house outside of Paris to open negotiations. AIoltke sat in 8 corner of the room throughout the dis cussion, deeply absorbed in Little Dor rit."
 Writer of Unique Books
 It is some little tfme-close OF three years, in fact-since we have heard aught of the Rev. E. J. Hardy, who achieved worldwide renown through writing How to Be Happy Though Married" and who. previous to his retirement in 1908, had been. for over a quarter of a century, a chaplain in the British army. An Irish man, like that other clerical humorist, Canon Hannay George A. Birmingham, Hardy has served in many parts of the world, including Bermuda, Malta, Egypt, Hongl<ong and Halifax, and probably no writer living, not even Kipling, knows the British soldier as well as he.
 Shortly after the Boer campaign he added to his already long list of books one respectfully entitled, "Mr. Thomas Atkins" and a volume from his zen, which will make it's appearance next month, deals with the subject again, this time as ''The British Soldier, Hero and Humorist." The authors recreations. as detailed in "Who's Who" are character istically original, being as follows Rid ing on horse, camel, ass, bicycle top of a motor bus talking to simple, hard work ing people, looking at flowers and picking fruit in garden. taking a sunbath, thinking of the queer things of life, swim ming" His club is given as His Wife's Tea Table" He was born at Armagh in 1S4S, and is thus 66. He published How to Be Happy etc, in 1881 though my copy Of 'NVhos Who" amusingly makes 1t 1S24 and since then has put forth 27 volumes including 'The Business of Life" title also used later) by Robert w. Chambers John Chinaman at Home How to Be Happy Though Civil'' and ''The Love Af- fairs of Some Famous Men," which is dedicated to '.ny only wife" In all, a diverting character and typical product of the ould sod.
 Jacobs Writes ito the Editor" Unlike a score or more of his literary
 brethren whom one could mention, W. w. Jacobs, whose sailor men and barges have given us all so many hearty laughs
 has never manifested any predilection for writing to the newspapers. Until the