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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

- WRITE to ask of you great ia
~ vor. After lifetime of enjoyment
of moderate wealth It has become
necessary for ME to support my
self. I have always been book
worm and ardent music lover, and have
moreover received the best of private
school education at home and abroad
When ] lost the income upon which had
thought | could depend my first idea was
to secure classes in languages and music.
About the time had come to this decision
l noticed a great change in my sight, and
on consulting an oculist learned that the
optic nerve bad become affected in way
no glasses could help. On being pressed
he had to own the probability of my be-
coming blind in five or six years. This
crushing news almost stunned me and ]
have no family or close friends to whom
to turn for help and sympathy. l have
racked my brains to think of some way
of self-support, but even domestic service
requires quick eyesight and the same ap-
plies TO any other line of manual work.
The only direction in which can see any
outlet from my perplexities lies in type
writing, since in that my education and
tastes could be turned to account. As
piano playing in the dark has always been
nearly as easy to me as in the light think
l would find tipping easy to learn, While
my ability to take dictation in French or
German should be an asset of some value
While the outlook may not be promising,
yet in no other direction can l see any
vista at all. Whether can make money
by or not typewriting will eventually be-
come necessary to me for my personal use.
when l can no longer write by hand.
Therefore must set to work at once while
/ still have sight to make the learning
easier. All this leads to my request. /
am told that If cain get machine can
teach myself with the aid of a manual is
sued by the makers. Many of the con-
Germs teach the blind. The trouble is that
l cannot afford even to rent a machine
much less buy it. So write to ask if any
of your readers have typewriter they
don't need or one which they would lend
me. / don't dare to hope for it, but see
no other way of getting one. while the
precious months are flying. My total
eclipse may come in three or four years.
/ have so much fear Of not getting the
machine that am preferring a reserve
request. A good fountain pen would be a
great help to me. have had unfortunate
experiences with two Of the cheaper va
riety. So, if any one happens to have du-
plcates or wishes to replace his or her
present pen by one of a newer sort should
be very grateful for the discarded one.
'.E. NJ E.
The letter from which the preceding
has been taken is much longer than the
condensation 1 have made, and 1t Is all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Old Piano a Boon.

As l write this letter feel that am
asking a great favor of the ii. III. c. II
some kind person should have an old
piano--O, could never express my thank
fulness were 1 to receive such a thingI
/ have an organ which Is old and cannot
last much longer. l can play well, and 1t
would almost break my heart to have no
instrument. | am poor and am trying
to get an education, and feel sure will
never possess such a thing as piano.
1t is great deal to ask for know. but
1t may be some one may have an old
instrument. SARAH d.
/ print your pathetic letter as 1t was
written and let 1t tell your story. It 10
asking much to expect piano from the
Corner. Yet such wonders have come to
pass in former days. and I cannot help
being hopeful for you. An old square
piano, discarded for newer that takes
up half the rbom. would bring little in
an auction room. 1t would be prize
10 " our girl"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

they grow older they naturally take q
more important part in the family chat.
but in their early childhood they should
be made to understand the Difference and
respect due to their seniors and that
they must manifest this by silence unless
they have something worth while to
say.
The half grown boy and girl some
times seems to be even a poorer judge of
this than the smaller child and is not to
be snubbed quite so ruthlessly as the
juniors. Yet even with the sons and
daughters of the awkward age the early
training will show itself in decent table
manners. IL 1t fails to do this further
discipline may be attempted and the
effort made to turn the talk into line
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

which will be beneficial as we'll as pleas
ant.
Never should quarrelng be allowed at
mealtimes. The Scrapping such as
l have referred to is not only bad for the
digestion and unpleasant to those who
must listen to it-it Is also distinctly i'll
bred. The mother who Is striving to
bring up her household with good man
ners must feel that this part of their
instruction should by no means be over
looked or Sighted.
When you are at my table l expect
you TO speak to one another as gentle
men should in the presence of a lady,"
was the reprimand I heard mother
address to two sons who were disputing
more vehemently than good breeding
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

l am delighted TO know that the Corner
is helping this mother to renew her youth,
and ! hope she may carry out her inten-
ton of growing a day younger every
twenty-four hours, l TRUST, too, that some
kindly friend may have the musical in
strument she Graves and may be able to
send ii to her home. With eight children
under Is ] should think there would be so
much going on all the while that no one
would have time to stop to listen to music
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

members are present, the mealtime
should be looked upon as a period for
helping with the childrenis education in
conversation as well as in disseminating
general information. But when guests
are there the children should understand
that courtesy demands they should sub
ordinate their own desire to talk to the
pleasure of the strangers
Such state of affairs Is not impos-
sible.-ssI have known of homes in winch
1t existed and have had the chance TO
judge for myself how much more agree
able are such households than those IN
which the infants are permitted to have
their own way to chatter as they please,
to interrupt as they like. and to make
themselves the centers of attention. AS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

Tho Corner n an inspiration 10 me.
had begun to think that my life had set
tied into a stupid gray. because was
nearly 40 and had spent all Of the last
seventeen years for my children and had
fallen behind. But now am going to
grow twenty-four hours younger every
day until get back my lost youth and
ambitions have . big favor to ask the
Helping Hand. I have eight children
under Is and we live on on farm where
we can never hear music Of any kind. and
We get very dun Sometimes. What want
to ask - II any one has = musical instru-
mert Of any kind that could be gwen to
us. An old organ or piano would be well
como. Or II any one has an old phono-
graph and records. We would surely ap-
preciats It. know, this Is a big thing to
a SIX for, but I have tried all the other ways
I could think Of to get what want.
Mrs. s. J. 81
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Ready 10 Be of Service.

Your letter has just come. l have
written to the addresses you sent and if
/ can be of service in some other way than
writing I will gladly do so. I also thank
you sincerely for your kind wish about
the ranch. l know the mention of it
would not be permissible In print. Still.
things look brighter and the prospect is
much moro cheerful than when / last
wrote to you. NJ. e. H.
1 print this letter because am always
glad to give space to mention Of the
writer. who lives on q ranch, niles from
the nearest town. with a three times Z
week mail delivery, Ia alone much OF the
time. and yet is always CHEEKY. with more
than she finds time to do and invariably
willing to lend hand In the limo Of help
Ing and encouraging others BY letters or
messages. wish her all the good luck
in the world for herself. and for the Cor
ner desire scorer more Ike hsri
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Whole Wheat Mullins.

" love to cook and 1t gives me pleasure
to send you the following recipe for whole
wheat mullins. which ! hope may prove
to be of help to some one else: Melt half
a tablespoon of lard and stir It into two
beaten eggs; add tablespoon of sugar,
half a pint of milk, and two eupsof whole
wheat -four sifted with half teaspoonof
salt and a large teaspoon OF baking pow
der. Bake In muffin tins. These. are. good.
J. NJ. L."
Thank you for the recipe. l am sure
the mullins are good.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Cipes Copies of Songs.

u am just in receipt of the package OF
letters from you requesting old songs. ana
they are SO much mixed that can do 1T
tie or nothing with them i separated
them as best l could and will send songs
to all those who complied with the re-
auirements l stated by sending self-ad-
dressed and stamped envelopes. Please
do not send me any more requests in this
condition, but send them back and tell
the inauirers that they must comply with
the conditions or they will not hear from
me. ] knew there would be a rush FOR
the old songs and that was why restrict
ed the requests to those who would seno
STAMPED envelope for reply. Will you
please state again in the Corner that
all inquirers for songs must comply with
the conditions by inclosing to you self
addressed postcard for my address and
then send me the self-addressed and
stamped envelope for reply? They will
then receive the song. If I have it. and
anyhow learn whether have 1t or not.
have sent nearly every applicant one or
more songs AID one person asked for as
many as eight. had to disappoint two,
each OF whom wanted only one song each,
but told them to write again and men
ton four or five Of their favorite songs
and was almost sure could send them
one or more. 1T. T."
The old proverb. q Ride free horse to
death" is familiar to most of us and it
strikes me it is being illustrated in the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

situation especially trying felt it would
not be fair to put into print. but the APP
preaching blindness is only one feature of
a position which is almost more than any
of us could bear with courage venture
TO be more hopeful than Il. M. b. and to
believe that both the typewriter she asks
and the fountain pen may be forthcoming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Makes Housekeeping a Profession.


Makes Housekeeping a Profession.
81 have enjoyed the Corner for long
time and | am especially interested In the
articles on better housekeeping. as am
one of the women who try to make
housekeeping a profession. believe my
knowledge of how to mend hot water
bag may help other readers, as by Its
means the bag may be made to serve
double or treble its natural life. As soon
as a tiny leak appears cut small piece
OF adhesive plaster and stick it over the
break. first putting hot water In the bag
to heat the rubber. A worse leak, how
ever, can come in the mouth of the bag
and can be remedied by removing the old
rubber washer and putting on new one.
have noticed the wishes of people who
want views and descriptions of the won
ders of Arizona, such as the Grand Canon
and the prehistoric remains which exist
In the state. would be glad to send pic
lures or letters In description of them In
return for . favor I myself wish to ask
/ am anxious to teach my children about
the different birds and animals. so I am
making a collection of pictures In their
colcrs. Could some of the members help
me in making such collection? I have
started scrap book and whenever we
put q picture in the book we learn as much
as we can of the habits and life of each
bird or animal. The pictures are more
interesting when they are colored.
hope some Of the readers of the Corner
will save and send me such pictures and
let mo make TO them the return have
suggested. MRS. A. L."
I am sure this correspondent will be
helped by the kindness of some of those
who have the colored pictures she Graves
and will send them from fricndliness or In
the hope Of receiving in return the views
and descriptions she offers. On my own
account wish to thank her for her sug-
ceStion ~ to repairing the hot water bag
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING H

osition Of Mrs. II. J. In touch with her.
As matter of course any offer to take the
child would have to be accompanied with
full references. and these should also be
given by the parents
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Magazines and Floper Seeds.

DO you know of some one who would
like magazines? ! have great many
would gladly forward to any one who
could pay the cost of transportation. I
wish 1 might pay it. but this Is impossi-
BILE. These magazines were sent to me
by friends gained through the Corner and
have many different numbers. VIII you
ask one OF your readers to send me the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

l trust that the directions for knitting the
honeycomb stitch may be forwarded for
the mother.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK.

SUNDAY.
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with
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corn
DINNER
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apples
usc1nox sArunnAx
Corn BEEF lash m BREAKF
pudding Boiled .s 1m ss~ sauce
cunm pnnwa1 Isl rML
dp leftover.
Sliced
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BREAKyA LUNCHEON
- cabinet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
OBITUARY..
JOSEPH p. OSBORNE.

Joseph 7. Osborne. seventy three
years old, a lawyer, died at his home,
287 Ridge Street, Newark, Yesterday.
He was the son Of the late William Z.
Osborne and Eveline Couse osborne
and was born at Flatbrookville, n. j.
He was a nephew of Mrs. Joseph Couit,
of Newark. For forty years, up to
1918, when he retired, Mr.. Osborne
maintained his law Offices at 20 Nassau
Street, New York. He received MS
early legal training in the once o., OF
Couit G. Anderson, in Newton, N. j. lie
went 10 Newark in 1857. He was edu-
Gated at Mount Retirement Seminary,
Deckertown, n. j., and at the Rankin
Institute, Chester, n. J. He was gradu-
ated from the New York University Law
School, and later studied law under
Theodore w. Dwight at Columbia. :,
He was admitted to the New fork
bar in 1864 and in New Jersey in 1869:
He was an authority on the history OF
his own times, national, political ana
religious. Mr.. Osborne leaves wiie,
Kate Hamilton Osborne, daughter OF
the late Colonel Morris r. Hamilton, OF
Trenton; a daughter, Miss May Os-
borne and a son, William Hamilton Os,
borne. all of Newark. The funeral Will
be held to-day at 2:30 p. m.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
PEPYS AUTOGRAPH
WORTH $3.50 AT SALE
General Grants Letter Predict
ing Fall of Richmond
Brings Only SIT.

A three-page autograph letter, signed
by Samuel Pepys, in particularly hne
condition, was sold to George ID. Smith
for $3.50 at the sale of rare letters at
the Anderson Galleries yesterday.
This letter, which was written at the
Navy Office on April IS, 1868, related
10 supplies for the Kings feet off the
coast of Portugal and the recovery of
money due Charles III by merchant of
Lisbon. The letter was also signed by
Sir George Carteret, Admiral Sir John
Mennes. Admiral Sir William Batten
and Sir W. Coventry.
Mr.. Smith also gave Sl27.5O for a
two-page letter from John Evelyn TO
Samuel Pepys on the general history
of the navy and navigation. which he
urges Pepys TO write. The letter was
written at Whitehall in 1879. Mr..
Smith also obtained for SAT long and
important letter from Robert Fulton,
Inventor of the submarine, steam
navigation, etc, 1765-lol6,' TO John
Brockenbrough, incorporating a con-
tract drawn up by Fulton and contain
ing his name twice, in case the Englsh
capture New York Tin the War OF 1871
and prevent his boats running 10 Al
bany.
In a letter from General U. S. Grant
20 his father. written at City Point.
Va. on September 8, 1864, for which
MIR Smith paid $77.50, the general, writ.
ing of criticism of Sherman and
himself. says: "The country has been
deceived about the size of our armies.
We have been contending against near
lv equal forces to our own, and they
always on the defensive and strongly
;ntrenched. Richmond will fall, as At.
lanta has done, and the Rebellion will
be suppressed" The total OF the sale
was Sl,446.36.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
GIRLS In TABLEAUS
PORTRAY HISTORY
Hundreds Take Part In Brook
Ign Pageant, Opened by
McAneny.

More than four thousand persons
crowded into the 23d Regiment Armory,
Brooklyn, last night, at the opening OF
the Brooklyn Historical Pageant. Act
ing Mayor McAneny opened the exer-
cises with a short address, in which he
prophesied that il would be only mat
ter of years before the population Of
Brooklyn would be greater than Man
haitian.
Each important phase of Brooklyn's
history was represented in the varied
and elaborate tableaus. Several hun
dred high school girls and scores OF
older men and women, nearly 1000 in
all, took part in last nights pageant
The prologue, in which alumna Of
Packer Institute, Brooklyn Heights
Seminary and Froebel Academy APP
peared. was entitled "The Spirit Of
Nature Reigns." Miss Marion Thomp-
son took the leading part.
The first tableau showed the Canar-
sic Indians, aborigines in full regalia.
Then Hendrix Hudson was seen landing
on Coney Island in 1909 A scene in old
Bruekelen Town followed, showing the
thrifty Dutch burghers and their
"vrows."
The episode of Melrose Hall in 1775
was next shown, when the Tories con-
spired unsuccessfully to seize General
George Washington. The 23d Regi-
ment gave a stirring reproduction of
the Battle of Long Island in 1916.
Passing to the Civil War epoch, the
last group of tableaus included Henry
Ward Beecher's farewell address to the
Brooklyn 14th, the "red-legged devils"
A large number of Erasmus High
School girls reproduced the famous
calico ball of 1864, where thousands of
dollars were raised to help the
wounded Union soldiers. In the final
group Father Knickerbocker was seen
surrounded by his five daughters, the
five boroughs of greater New York.
Among the prominent men who took
part were DR.. William l.. Feltner, as
George Washington; David Porter, as
Hendrix Hudson, and the Bev J. II.
Farrar. who impersonated Henry Ward
Rapchpr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
Kitty Gordon's Call to Battle
Wasted on English Actor Here
England Needs You. Prove
Yourself Worthy of Your
Heritage" She Pleads =
Who's Shep" Asks Height
ley. Pencilling His Eyebrows.

Said Kitty Gordon to Cyril Height
ley: Honor calls you. England needs
you
Said Cyril Keightley to Kitty Cor
don, "Who are your
Kitty Gordon is an English actress,
famous for her beauty. Her husband,
CAPTAIN dc la Poer Beresford, Is fight
ING with the Allies. She thinks all
Britons of fighting age and physique
should be there. So she wrote her
thought to Cyril Keightley, an Eng
lish actor, applying it especially to
actors and particularly to him. Mr.
Keightley says he never got the letter.
The letter is as follows:
ENGLAND needs you. VIII you let
vour King and your country call to you
In vain? | write TO you rs one who
has the best right in the world-the
right of English birth. the right OF
woman whose husband is on the firing
line. the right Of a woman whose
brother has Just won promotion on the
battlefield and the right of woman
whose heroic and beloved nephew Is
buried in the trenches at Ypres.
ENGLAND has been struck by an as
sassin of national greatness, and the
naondav Of our race will change speed
ilv to the ignominious evening OF
decadent people unless British man
hood rallies TO the flag.
"Already hundreds OF actors are
Aqhting in France and Flanders. Join
tbem Every able-bodied Briton Is
needed. viii you let the Teuton shame
you7 Have YOU none OF the fire in
your blood that made England's chiv.
iarv the war time glory of the world
How can you read OF the thin red line
ar Mons. the ver-to-be-forgotten
NIGHT at Neuve Chapelle, and remain IN
his country as a stage player? / de-
mand that every English actor In this
country who is we'll and fit sail at once
for home, enlist and on the battleneid
win a glory greater than was ever pos
sible before. IAN,
"Wear the fitting costume OF your
race, not the costume OF an actor play,
ing a part. Let the sun OF france hhu
not the grease paint dye your cneeAs
manly red. Be Briton. be "oI.hy
of your magnificent heritage, 20 where
honor calls, and remember, IL cohSGI'p-
ton ever comes, it will be because Eng
land no longer breeds men i" SUI
fcient numbers" ,uu
Mr.. Keightley, collarless ana DUSTY
daubine paint on his face In his dres-
sino room at the Eltnge Theatre. was
taken aback when this letter was SHOWN
him. 1t had been mailed to him ut the
Lambs Club, Of which he said no wss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
BENEFIT FOR GREEN ROOM
Club Furnishes Excellent Pro
gramme at the Shubert.

The twelfth annual revue for the
benefit of the Green Room Club took
place yesterday afternoon at the Shu-
bert Theatre. Considering the rich
ness OF the bill. II was surprising that
the audience was not larger one,
though probably the inclement weather
had something to do with this.
Four one-act plays were presented,
"Dora's Decision" by Augustin Mac
Hugh; "The Dream Woman" by Sara
Cowan; "The Bomb" by Gordon John
stone and Mr.. Williams, and Back OF
the Yards" by Kenneth Sawyer Good
man. OF these the last two were in
teresting and dramatic. In "The Bomb
Wilton Lacksye as a detective mas
querading as q criminal and Charles
Judels as an Italian padrone gave pow
erful impersonations, while In Back OF
the Yards" Ernest Glendinning as an
embryo gunman gave renewed evidence
that this young man Is one of the most
promising of our younger players.
Others on the bill were Miss Grace
George, c. Aubrey Smith, Miss Irene
Fcnwick, John Mason, Carl Jorn, Joe
Weber and Lew Fields, George NJ.
Cohan, George MacFarlane and De
Wolf Hopper and a number OF singers
from the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera
Company In excerpts from 1.-THE Mi
kndo."
"a railroad romance" by Thompson
Buchanan vas snoths Or pleasing feature
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-22
SUFFRAClSTS PLAN
TO KEEP AT WILSON
Delegations Will Ask to
See Him in Any State
He May Visit.

Washington, May 2l.--Recent fall
ures TO interview President Wilson
Rave left the suffragists undismayed.
The attempt TO obtain audience with
the Chief Executive will be continued,
according 10 an announcement to-day
by the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage. The statement reads:
THE Union will not change its
policy of sending local delegations in
various states to see the President
when he visits their respective com.
nunities because any delegation OF
women was refused an audience with
him.
Every time the President goes into
a state he will be asked TO see q depu-
tation of suffragists. The members OF
the Congressional Union are in earnest
and they believe that the President
should receive them.
tine New York suifragists did ex-
actly the right thing in asking for an
opportunity to present their case for
national enfranchisement to the Presi-
dent when he visited their city.
"As the leader Of the majority party
in Congress, President Wilson, more
than any one else in the whole coun-
try, has it in his power to advance or
hinder the progress of the suffrage
amendment in the next Congress. 1t
would have been the greatest mistake
in the world for the New York women
to allow the President TO come to their
city without learning of their strong
desire for political freedom.
an refusing to receive the women
of New York for n few minutes, or
even TO answer their letter requesting
an interview, the President put him
self into an indefensible position"