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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
RANDOM NOTES

Miss Betty Rosalind Gilmore, who has | spent the winter studying the harp in Memphis, has returned to this city to be with her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. J. Gil- more, for the holidays. Mrs. F. M. Pointer returned Saturday | from an extended visit to California, in- cluding San Francisco and the exposi- tions.
 Mrs. Mary Boschwitz and Mrs. Will | liam A. Kilgore left yesterday for Wash irgton to attend the. National Suffrage convention. They will be at the New Will lard
 MT. and Mrs. John Merrell were recent guests of Mrs. Thomas Hamilton Simms.
 Mrs. G. B. Baskerville of Eutaw and two children are visiting her parents MT. and Mrs. William Hurt, South Tenth avenue.
 MT. Thomas Hamilton Sims will re- turn today from a trip to New York. Miss Lucia Butler and Miss Matte Butler of Kentucky will arrive today to be guests of Miss Roberta Lamb. Mrs. Ben L. Loventhal of Louisville is expected Saturday to visit Mrs J. c. Marks for few days Mir. and Mrs. N. E. Shelby have re- turned to New Orleans after visiting their daughters, Mrs Henry Dean and Mrs. Thomas Bowron. Miss Georgana Drummond of pasa- dena, Cal who is attending a New York school, will arrive next week to be the guest of Miss Margaret Moore. MT. and Mrs Jack McQuillan Carter will leave Wednesday for their home in Philadelphia after hav-ng spent a week with their mother. Mrs John w. Tom linson.
 Mrs. R. w. Faison and Mrs. Lambeth of Charlotte, N. C., arrived yesterday to be guests of Mir. and Mrs. M E. Dewstoe for the Faison-Cameron wedding,
 
 MT. and Mrs Ralph Falkner of Mont gomery are visiting MT. and Mrs w. J. Cameron.
 Mir. and Mrs. Milton Smith of Louisville George Ward for the Faison- Cameron wedding.
 Miss Sarah Cole and Miss Virginia Cole of Ripley, Miss, are guests of Mir. and Mrs Russell Hunt Mrs Jack T. Walton and her little son, Jack Walton. Jr., have come from Greens boro to spend the holiday season with her parents, Mir and Mrs. Frank White.
 
 Miss Elizabeth Prince and Miss Jordan Prince, students at Washington college, will come to Birmingham December + to spend the holidays with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Prince. l Mrs. John B. Oates and her little daugh- ter, Vera Webb Oates. of North Carolina arrived last evening to be guests of her | parents MT and Mrs. George M. Webb I Mrs. Sam Blau of Dayton, O., is visiting | at the home of Mrs. Max Blach on South l Fourteenth avenue. 1 The many friends of Mrs. Max Blach will be glad to hear that she has recov- 1 cred from her recent illness.
 Miss Mary Munger is visiting Miss Flor ence Harris in Montgomery. 1 Mrs. Lyanan C.. Dorgan is the guest of | her daughter, Mrs. w. s. Webster. 1 ] Miss Lorraine Cunningham of Mobile is expected January to be an attractive guest of Miss Annie Franklin. i San Never Be Mine' "I Grow Weary | "Ovar tho Poofs s.So Falls tha Tnur'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
MRS. RHODES LUNCHEON
 FOR MRS. LUPTON'S GUESTS

Mrs Rufus N. Rhodes will be hostess at luncheon at the Tuhtwiler Thursday
 to compliment Mrs. Micajah Woods and
 Miss Lettie Woods of Charlottesville, Va, who are spending the winter with Dr. and Mrs Frank Lupton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
LITTLE JOKERS WITH
 MRS. BIRCH THURSDAY

The Little Jol1ers will gather at the home of Mrs. Alex Birch on Iroquois street Thursday for their regular weekly meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
MISS THATCH INFORMAL HOSTESS YESTERDAY

To compliment her guest, Miss Corina Eaglesfield of Indianapolis, Miss Mayo Thatch entertained informally yesterday
 afternoon at her home at Terrace Court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14

Because of fur or warm velour de laine coats that cover the wearer's dress completely taffeta silk gowns are fash. ionable this winter. This new model of dark blue chiffon taffeta has a full outer skirt that loops up at the sides in pannier puffs and corsage with piped seams and touches of embroidery.
 
 which the tables for the game were ar- ranged, and the score cards were sug- gestive of the fall season. The game prizes were awarded to Mir and Mrs. Russell, and the guests prize fell to Miss Genevive House and MT. Warren.
 Dainty refreshments were served the following guests: MT. and Mrs. House, MT. and Mrs. Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Ga william, MT. and Mrs. Houlihan, MT. and Mrs. Warren, Miss Genevive House, MT Robert Pearson and MT. and Mrs. Pear son.
 The next meeting will be with MT. and Mrs. Russell on December 22.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
MISS BURNS TO HAVE
 CHRISTMAS DANCE

Miss Desiree Burns will entertain at a dance Tuesday evening, December 2S, at her home on South Thirteenth avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14

San Never Be Mne," q Grow Weary,' over the Roofs, "So Falls the Hour.'
 DHardelot, "I Know a Lovely Gar den;" Korbay, Hungarian Folk Song, '' List To Me, Rosebud" Coombs, "Her Rose;' Kellie, Apple Blossoms.
 Traditional songs of the Zuni Indians, transcribed and harmonized by Treyer.
 Sunset Song,' to be sung iii costume; Invocation to the Sun God ''Incanta- ton Upon Sleeping Infant ''The Sunrise Call "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14
News and Gossip of Fashionable Realms

TeNr Informally Cub-EvHs O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14

Miss Lorraine Cunningham of Mobile is expected January to be an attractive guest of Miss Annie Franklin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-14

N IRMINGHAM and Atlanta are sol
 closely linked in social affairs that ~ gossip about the doings of fash
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-18

moving the collar and leaving the
neck decollet it's a very smart din.
ner gown.
Delicate pink crepe de chine and
.sheerest white organdie are COM
bined in the fairy-like frock with its
icobwebby founces. The skirt is box
;pleated with two deep flouncest of or
candle at the bottom, pointed fiounc-
les of ofgandie finish the sleeves.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-18
PHOTOS; By VICTOR &oRe
BY BETTY BROWN

The double-service gown is what
Nine. Marguerite of the Fashion Art
League of America calls a gown re-
Gently designed for Miss Ethel Hill,
whose society dances and society
gowns have made her famous Worn
with a high collar the gown is suit
able for afternoon wear, but by re-.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
IF HAIR Is TURNING
GRAY, USE SAGE |
Don't Look Old! Try Grandmotn
Recipe to Darker and Beauty
Gray, Faded, LifeIess Hair.

Grandmother kept her hair bee
fully darkened, glossy and abund
with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulpl
Whenever her hair fell out or tooh
that dull, faded OF streaked app
ance, this simple mixture was appl
with wonderful effect. By asking
any drug store for ''Wyeth's Sage
Sulphur Hair Remedy" you will ge
large bottle of this old-time reel
ready to use, for about 80 cents. T
simple mixture can be depended VI
to restore natural color and bea.
to the hair and is splendid for d
druf, dry, itchy scalp and falling h;
A well-known druggist says eve
body uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulph
because it darkens so naturally a
evenly that nobody can tell it has be
applied-it's so easy to use, too. Y
simply dampen comb or soft bru
and draw it through your hair, TAXI
one strand at a time BY morni
the gray hair disappears; after &
other application or two, it is
stored to its natural color and loo
glossy, soft and abundant Adv.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
Worth, the Dressmaker.

The noted Partisan dressmaker,
Worth, owed his early success to the
patronage of that famous parsonage
Of the third empire, Princess Pauline
de Metternich, the wife of the Austri-
an ambassador to France. By her wit
and numerous vagaries Of dress and
manner she created a sensation at the
court of Napoleon III and Eugene.
Therefore it was easy for Worth to
become the most sought of the worlds
dresmakers when the princess ap-
proved his styles. Charles Worth,
while so long the creator of French
fashion, was an Englishman, born in
Bourne, England, in 1926, and died in
Paris in 1895.-Baltimore Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
Whale Souuht Liberty.

Thrills are by no means out Of date
in the New Zealand Of today, and a
few weeks back the workers in a
sawmill at Whangaparapara were CIV
en- an exhibition of the vigor that lies
in a thwarted whale. One of these
monsters of the deep, many Of whom
are seen about the coasts of the Do
minton, where whaling was once a
very profitable industry, recently
found it's way up one of the small
harbors, and finally got inside the
booms where the logs are kept for
the saw mills. 1t seemed happy
enough there for a while, till it sud
denly discovered itself in enclosed
water, and then the fight began. 1t
lashed round and round in blind fury,
sending huge bauri logs tumbling
about like walking sticks, and then
cleared a passage and made off full
speed ahead for the open sea. Unfor-
tunately for itself, it drove head on
against pile, and the blow stunned
it so that 1t was stranded on the
beach,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04

problem of the unemployed The
"hotel," an old, dilapidated building
belonging to the city, was put in the
care of Jeff Davis, who believes he
can get the hobos together and run
the hostelry on a cooperative scheme
Every hobo will have to go out every
day and do some work of some sort.
In return for his labors he will get g
nights lodging and plenty of grub"
This plan is also expected to furnish
the city at a moderate cost with any
extra large amount of laborers it may
have need Of in any emergency. The
food supply of the hotel will consist
of voluntary contributions, but no
hobo need expect to feed at the ex-
pense of the others. Jeff" Davis has
had considerable success with a sim
liar plan in Seattle and other western
cities where he has been great fac
tor in relieving unemployment, and he
hopes his efforts in the metropolis
will bear the same fruit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
NOT A MATTER OF INTELLECT
Though Not Generally Understood,
Culture" Really Appertains to
the Spirit

We talk much of culture and get
it mixed up with learning and schol-
arship. 1t may be these things, but
never unless it has another quality,
and that is gentility. Culture is a
matter of the spirit, rather than the
intellect. It is not as John Galsworthy
says, scientific learning, social method,
and iron discipline, nor the power of
approaching and producing works of
art Culture belongs to the soul; II
feels more than it thinks. Think of
a mean, grabbed. short-spoken man be-
ing cultured! He is the very opposite
of it We have seen tall scholars who
could read Greek, solve the calculus
and discuss Spinoza, who were not
as much cultured as q rabbit.
1t is the bad idea of what culture
IS that has done lots of harm in the
world Boys are taught that if they
are shrewd and know a lot, they are
cultured Parents are apt to be proud
OF their smart boys, while the gentle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
MOST DIFFICULT HINDU FEAT
Dancing Girl Balances Eqes on
Threads That Are Stretched From
Rim of Wheel.

Of the many wonderful feats per
formed by Hindu jugglers, one of the
most remarkable is the egg dance.
Usually it is executed by a girl, fan
tasticaIly dressed. She makes use OF
a willow wheel, around which at equal
distances are threads, and at the end
of each thread there is moose, held
open by bead.
This wheel the girl places on her
head, while she carries a basket Of
eggs on her arm. When the music
strikes up she begins to dance, and
the wheel begins to spin around. She
then takes an egg from the basket,
places it in one of the thread nooses,
and throws it from her with sufficient
force to draw the knot tight The
spinning of the wheel keeps the thread
stretched, with the egg at the end of
II.
She then takes another egg from
the basket, places it in another moose,
end repears this until there is an egg
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
HAS NOVEL MACHINE.
Inventor Says 1t viii Fly, Run,
Swim and Dive.
Denver Man Took BumbIebee as
Model for His Remarkable Con-
trivance-WiII Make Up to
800 Miles an Hour.

Denver.-William A. Sharpe, a me-
chanic, after 13 years of experiment.
ing, is completing a machine which,
he says, can fly, run, swim and dive.
1t is designed to carry four passen-
gers. 1t will derive its lifting and pro-
polling power from the rotation of
wheels and revolving and oscillating
propellers.
Sharpe is f1fty-two years old and a
mechanical engineer, and has pat
ented an automobile starter, an auto
primer and captive aeroplane.
He is constructing his new combi-
nation machine at Sixteenth and
Broadway. He says it will travel on
the ground with the smoothness and
swiftness of a racing automobile or
shoot into the air with the perfect
equilibrium and ease of a swallow, and
be poised there; navigate the ocean
with the speed of a motor boat, or can
be used as submarine. 1t is designed
to attain a speed of from 80 to 300
miles an hour, carrying 1000 pounds
for each 1000 pounds weight of the
car. There are four wheels on the
car, and in each wheel there are four
propellers. The entire vehicle is built
of pressed steel and aluminium.
"The device is designed on we'll
recognized principles" says Sharpe.
Nothing new is attempted in the
steering device, transmission system,
differential, lighting system, gear shift
or motor. I have designed propeller
blades, rotating within the circumfer-
ence of wheel, which by an ingen-
ious system Of opposing or presenting
the broad surface of the propeller
blades during their downward stroke,
and presenting the edge of the pro-
peller blades during their upward
stroke, exert a lifting power of the
combined surface of the blades in an
upward and forward motion.
Il have planned to spend $4,000 on
my first machine, although the cost of
the machines when put on the market
will be no more than a standard auto
mobile. The body of my car will be
Is feet long and 80 inches wide The
wheels are 81 inches in diameter and
weigh 100 pounds and will make 400
revolutions per minute.
For years I made a study of the
humble bumblebee and came to the
conclusion that if machine could be
constructed embodying the principles
of flight employed by the bee it would
be a success in both air and water"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04

place objects cluttering the table at
his elbow.
Inarticulate murmurs swelled and
ebbed, now louder, now more family
as the crowd surged forward or drew
back, appalled, by that moveless,
breathless, awe-compeIlfng figure.
a breathless moment; then the hor-
rifed murmur rose here, there and
everywhere: Hes dead! He's dead!"
when quietly and convincingly bluff
masculine voice spoke from the door
way behind them:
You needn't be frightened. In an
hour or a half-hour he will be the
same as ever. My aunt has such at
tacks. They call it catalepsy."
Imperceptibly the crowd dwindled;
the most discreet among them quite
content to leave the house; few, 'and
these the most thoughtful, devoted all
their energies to a serious quest for
the woman and child whom they con-
tinued to believe to be in hiding some
where inside the walls she had so au-
daciousIy entered
The small party decided to start
their search by hasty inspection of
the front hall, when a shout and
scramble in the passages beyond cut
short their intent and held them pant
ing and eager, each to his place.
Frightened, they drew their gaze
from the rigid figure in the chair, and,
10 he ord rar Nillu TolIn o
cheeks, listened to the distant muir
muT on the far-off road.
What was it? They could not guess,
and it was with unbounded relief they
pressed forward to greet the shadowy
form of young girl hurrying toward
them from the rear, with news in her
face. She spoke quickly.
THE woman is gone. Harry Doane
saw her sliding out behind US just
after we came in. She was hiding in
some of the corners here and slipped
out by the kitchen way when we were
not looking. He has gone to see"
BreathlessIy Miss Weeks cut the
girls story short; breathlessly she
rushed to the nearest window, and,
helped by willing hands, succeeded in
forcing it up and tearing hole in the
vines, through which they one and
all looked out in eager excitement.
A motley throng Of people were
crowding in through the double gate
way. Some one was in their grasp.
1t was Bella! Bella, the giant! Bella,
the terror of the town, no longer a
terror but a struggling, half-fainting
figure, fighting to free himself and get
in advance, despite some awful hurt
which blanched his coaI-black features
and made his great limbs falter, while
still keeping his own and making his
way, by sheer force of will, up the
path and the two steps of entrance
his body alternately sinking back or
plunging forward as those in the rear
or those in front got the upper hand.
CTO BE CONTINUED
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
Gable Over Whirlpool.

An aerial passenger galloway is
soon TO be built across the whirlpool
at Niagara falls to enable visitors to
get a close view Of that marvel of
nature and to experience the thrills
connected with such a view without
mourning any danger The system,
which is described with illustrations
in the August Popular Mechanics
magazine, is similar to one recently
installed at San Sebastian, Spain, for
spanning a chasm between two noun
tain resorts, and to the one that
climbs the first stage of the Wetter-
horn in Switzerland. The whirlpool
is situated in Canadian territory,
about six miles below Niagara falls.
The galloway is to be about ITO feet
long, with the cables stretched at an
elevation of about ESQ feet above the
whirlpool. The car, which has al
ready been built in Spain. has a ca
pacity Of fifty passengers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
Bv ANNA KATHARINE GREEN


easily disturbed temper which had
given edge TO his invective when he
stood as pleader in the very court
where he now presided as Judge But
away from the bench, once quit Of the
courthouse and the town, the man who
attempted to accost him on his way to
his carriage or sought to waylay him
at his own gate had need of all his
courage to sustain the rebuff his pre-
sumption incurred.
The son, a man Of great ability who
was making his way as a journalist in
another city, had no explanation to
give OF his fathers peculiarities.
Though he never came to Shelby-the
rupture between the two, if rupture
it we're, seeming to be complete
there were many who had visited him
in his own place of business and put
such questions concerning the Judge
and his eccentric manner of living as
must have provoked response had the
young man had any response to give.
But he appeared to have none. Either
he was as ignorant as themselves of
the causes which had led to his IA
theirs habit Of extreme isolation, or
he showed powers of discrimination
hardly in accordance with the other
traits of his admirable character.
All Of which closed inquiry in this
direction, but left the NAV of curl
osity unsatisfed.
And unsatisfed it had remained up
to this hour, when through accident
or was it treachery-the barrier to
knowledge was down and the question
of years seemed at last upon the point
of being answered.
Meantime fussy, talkative man was
endeavoring to impress the rapidly col
lecting crowd with the advisability of
their entering all together and ap-
preaching the Judge in body.
I'VE can say that we felt it to be
our dooty to follow this woman in,"
he argued. Didn't you say she had a
child with her, Miss Weeks?"
Eyes, and"
TELL US the whole story, Miss Weeks
Some of US haven't heard it. Then if
it seems our duty as his neighbors and
well wiehers to go in, Wen just go in"
The little woman towards whom this
appeal was directed Immediately be-
gan her ingenious tale. She was sit
ting in her front window sewing. Ev-
erybody knew that this window faced
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04

Engineers have long been trying to
discover an economical way of produc-
ing carbon from natural gas. Under
the methods now in use there is such
an enormous waste Of gas that the
process is too expensive. Harry Bea-
com Of Wl5onburg, Harrison County,
w. Va, has been studying this matter
scientifically and experimentally for
many years, and now he announces
that he has found a method whereby
he produces a black without any ash
and far superior to that made under
the older processes, and whereby the
waste of gas is almost entirely elimi-
mated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
REMARRY AFTER At YEARS
Kansas City Couple Divorced in 1867
Are Reunited and Once More
Happy.

Kansas City.-Married in 1855, d.
vorced in 1857 and remarked in 1914,
is the connubiaI record of Abraham ].
Randall, eighty-one years old. After
the ceremony the wife Of his youth,
now bent under the weight Of eighty
four years, took him to what has
been her home for ten years.
The brides second husband, W.
Scott, died several years ago.
e "One day l was talking to my
daughter-we have four children, you
know" Randall said, land she said,
Dad, Christmas is coming Then
thought of May Ann, got on a train,
and here we are"
Four eyes smiled and two hands
snuggled closely.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04

in every moose. Her fantastic costume,
her perfect motion, and all the eggs
swinging on stretched threads at once
present a curious sight.
1t requires much art to execute the
dance, for one false step would cause
the eggs to be dashed together and
the dancer to be disgraced.
After dancing for some time with
all the eggs swinging around her head,
she takes them out of the moose one
by one, all the time keeping the wheel
balanced and in motion, and again
places them in the basket on her arm.
After the performance the specta-
tors are allowed to examine the eggs
to see that they are reaI.-Ideas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
CAT BATTLES WITH TURTLE
Philadelphia Man Awakened by the
Noise of Fierce Fight in
Rear of Home.

deIphia.-When B. F. Magnfn
Of Ninth street and Ridge avenue,
Darby, went to investigate a noise in
the rear of his home, which awak-
ened him early in the morning, he
found the family cat battling a two
pound swapping turtle. The cat, I'M
able to understand his opponents tao
tics, was furiously scratching the lat
ter's hard shell back.
The snapper made prodigious eff
forts to seize the cats flesh with his
beak, but was unsuccessful. Magnin
separated the two, and captured the
snapper, who will next be seen in the
form of snapper soup.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
Greek Coins Most Perfect

Between the rude issues of Asia
Minor and the most perfect coins of
the Greek states is an interval of
three centuries, during which all that
is known, or probably ever will be
known, in identifying a steel die was
achieved So far as design is con
cerned, the Greek coins were simply
perfect No modern coins can com
pare with them in beauty.-Scientff
American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-02-04
JEALOUSY PROOF OF LOVE"
Indiana Judge So Holds, Refusing
New Trial in Divorce
Suit.

Evansville, Ind.-Holding jealousy
is proof Of love, Judge Logsdon re-
fused a new trial in the divorce case
of Andrew E. Sullivan, prominent
Sunday school worker, against his
girl wife, Thelma. The husband was
denied a divorce