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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

Mrs. F. B. Clements is visiting Mrs. F. D. Crawford in Atlanta.
 Miss Louise Going has as her guest Miss Ruth Harkins of Ashville.
 Mrs Octavus Cohen of Charleston, who has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. De- tavus Roy Cohen at the Dian apart ments for the past two weeks, left Mon day for New York to join her husband. MT. and Mrs. Cohen will return to Bir- mingham early in May.
 pr. and Mrs Lewis Morris have re- turned from Coden, where they spent the weekend after attending the musical convention in Mobile.
 Miss Bessie Morris has returned to her home in Sulligent after visit to Miss Sallie and Miss Inez McAllister.
 Mrs. Alfred A. Walker is spending this week with her mother, Mrs. Northington in Prattville.
 Mir Donald Long has returned to Ma rion institute after spending several days with his parents, MT. and Mrs V. w. Long.
 Mrs. E. Bayne of Selma has returned to Her uoIne dltef d NlSib to iclatiNce in Birmingham.
 Mrs. c. w. Harrington and Miss Julia Quarles of Mobile are guests of MT. and Mrs. c. H. Marsh at their home on Twelfth avenue, south.
 Mrs J. H. Moon of Meridian is visiting her daughters, Mrs. J. E. Garrison and Mrs. J. R. Wright.
 
 MT. and Mrs. B. Manley Allen will re- turn tomorrow from Little Rock, where they have been visiting for several weeks.
 NIr. and Mrs. Claude Gotten and MT. and Mrs. Robert Gotten left yesterday for Mentone, where Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gotten have taken a cottage for the sum- mer.
 Miss Gladyce Murray of Mobile will be the guest of Miss Mabel Marler during the reunion. Miss Murray has been ap pointed sponsor for the Fourth brigade, Sons of Veterans, for the reunion. Mrs Shelby Cullom and children have returned to their home in Huntsville after visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Walker. Mrs Willard Wheeler is the guest of Mrs. H. S. Bartlett during grand opera. Mir and Mrs. Crawford Johnston, MT. and Mrs. Webb Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fowlkes, Maj and Mrs. E. M. Tutwiler, MT. and Mrs. Eugene Brown, Maj. W. B. Leedy and Mrs. H. G. Seibles, who have been at French Lick for the past 10 days. are expected home tomor- row.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
MRS. KNIGHT HOSTESS
 TO BRIDGE CLJTR

Mrs Stanley Knecht entertained the members of the Tuesday Bridge club yes terday afternoon at Green lodge in Edge wood in compliment to Mrs. Homer Starks of Tennessee.
 After the game dainty refreshments were served to the following: Mrs. Homer Starks, Mrs. Foster Hamilton, Mrs. J. Q. Smith. Mrs F. B. Clements, Mrs. Griffin Laml1in, Mrs. J. c. Crouch, Miss Roberta Adams, Mrs. Frank Ward, Mrs. George Reese Miss Mae Ward, Mrs. Marsh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
HAPPENINGS OF TODAY
 IN SOCIETY

MT. and Mrs. Jaffee entertain the Lus- sier-Jaffee wedding party at dinner. Mrs. Barton hostess to Wednesday Luncheon club.
 Mrs. Watts entertains Wednesday Bridge club
 -Randle wedding at Church of the Advent.
 Mrs. Leftwich hostess to clubs at Motor and Country club.
 Schuster-H Hahn wedding.
 Mrs. Steele hostess to Bachelor Girls
 O'Ferral- Underwood weddins- solem- niZed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

will aid the expectans mother in conserving her h e a1th, her strength, her mental repose and the ab- sence of vexati o u g pains is a subject of vast moment. Among the recognized helps is 8 splendid rem c dy known as Mothers Friend" Applied to the muscles it sinks in deeply to make them
 firm and pliant, it thus Effc fha cf-rufn n~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Exchangeable tickets for the spring festival, which takes place May Il, are on sale at all the music houses. Mrs. H. M. Perry, chairman for the central com mittee for the festival, may be reached every morning, except Monday and Sat urday, after 10 o'clock, on fifth floor at Cable hall.
 There will be meeting of the Council of Women's clubs this morning at 10:3O o'clock in the commissioners audience room in the city hall.
 The Birmingham Graded union will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
MRS. GALLUP HOSTESS
 AIT AFTERNOON BRIDGE

Mrs. H. E. Gallup will entertain the members of the Wednesday Bridge club this afternoon at her home on South Thirteenth street in compliment to her visitor, Miss Laura Dews Bloodworth of Forsyth, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

herd, Miss Celeste Pool; Polixenes, Miss Florence Jordan; Camille, Miss Florence Robertson; Dorcas, Miss Orlean Perkins; Mopsa, Miss Annie Sparkman; Silvius, Miss Ruth keiSer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

son, Mrs. W. J. Lynch, Mrs. K G. Mar shall. Mrs. J. L. Paisley, Miss F'rieda Thiel, Mrs J. H. Gribble and Mrs. John son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

Mudd, MT Tom Estes, MT. Oscar Under wood MT. Val Kolb and MT. Lawrence Cummings of Indianapolis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
MRS. DRENNEN TO
 ADDRESS Y. w. C. A.

Mrs Earle Drennen will give her ln- teresting talk on her experiences as Red Cross nurse in Europe at the Young Womans Christian association on Thurs day evening at o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

meet this morning at 10 o'clock at the First Methodist church. s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
The Boy is Father
 to the m an

Old sayings like this are fraughf with 2 most important meaning. And what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

Edith Thomas, Miss Eva Mae Morgan, Miss Emma Carr and Miss Kathleen Me Geever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

MERRILL CALLAWAY, Who before her yesterday, Miss Hale Weyman Mrs. Galloway her glhood in wide of friends Mir Mrs. Calla will make their home in Atlanta
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-14
PRESS DISGRACED BY TAKING BRIDES OF
POLITICIANS WILSON FREE OF BOSSES
BY N. b. COCHRAN

New York, Nov. 14-PrOgTeSSiVe
in all parties have turned to analysis
of how it happened, and find in the
meaning of Wilson's reelection a
great forward movement in demOc-
racy during the next four years. Viii
son has been freed from obligation
to any bosses in the Democratic
party and is free'to be. a progressive,
non-partisan, aIl-American president.
Wall street was openly again him:
NeY York with As, Pennsylvania
with SO, Illinois with 29, New Jersey
with IA, Indiana and Michigan with
Is each, gave Hughes 1876 votes, the
bulk of his strength. Tammany was
of no account to the Democratic
party, and the three leading bosses
of the Democratic old guard-Mur-
ply, Sullivan and Taggart-delivered
not a vote. There is no Democratic
boss in Ohio, and Ohio joined the
progressive west in throwing the Re
publican Old Guard overheard and
making Wilson the real progressive
leader.
Wilson not only had a plurality of
the popular vote, but has carried 80
of the 48 states, even. though Mime
sofa is credited to Hughes.
In the west, where the real pro-
gressive movement started, the Pro-
gTessives vote went to Wilson. In
the east, where many of the Progress
sives of 1912 were really Roosevelt
Republicans, most of the vote went
to Hughes. The election of Hiram
Johnson in California and Senator
PoindeXter in Washington, while VIII
son carried both states, shows that
the Progressives of the west knew
what they were doing. Another in
dication of this is the difference be-
tween the Hughes vote in Wisconsin
and that of LaFollette. Here are
three great progressives, Johnson,
Poindexter and LaFollette, elected to
10 GonoRo
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-14

The real prOgreSSiYeS Of the re-
public have not only elected Wilson,
but have freed him from the reac-
tionary element in the Democratic
party and have paved the way for a
new political alignment, with Wilson
the leader of the progressive move
ment-and free to be as progressive
as the country wants him to be.
Perhaps Wilson had the vision be-
fore the campaign started, for he
went over the heads of the bosses of
his own party and made his non
partisan appeal directly to the peo-
pie themselves. He is now in posi-
ton to unity the progressives and
either make the Democratic party
the real progressive party for 1920
or make it easy for all progressiVes
to get together in another party in
1920 the people, in control of their
own government.
Wall street made desperate eff
fort in the closing days of the cam
paign to win the election by the brute
force of money. A colossal adVertis-
ing campaign, that must have cost
millions, was made, the purpose be-
ing to brighten people into voting for
Hughes. No doubt the vast expendi-
tuTe of money to carry a presiden-
tial election will be investigated, so
the people may know who put up the
money and who got it. AS a news
paper man of 80 years experience, I
say there never before was such a
prostitution of the press-and if the
people know THEIR business it will
never happen again. The old theory
of newspapers being moulders Of
public opinion assumed that the
molding was done by the editorial
column-by argument. But with the
growing supremacy of the advertis-
ing department the practice will be
that the man with the most money
to buy advertising space will control
- don't oorn
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
AS To Spelling.

An Ohio man, writing to an Ohio newspaper voices a protest
against present methods of spelling as follows:
As to whether English spelling is improving or getting worse
I can't think there is room for two opinions. How can any one
familiar with the spelling of the eighteenth century, of Shakes
peare, of the Pastor Letters, to go no further back-how can nc
doubt there has been a fairly steady betterment? There is room
yet for a vast deal more, and, despite the old fogies, it is coming
fast or slowly. That we have botched the spelling Of a few words
which our ~forefathers spelled more simply only illustrates the
truth that there, are back eddies in all streams. t
Maintain the historic continuity of the language? A dead
language cannot, escape change, much less a living one. Much OF
our crooked spelling we cling to for the sake Of etymolo!g g III. II ;; a
cranky beginnings we know it is Greek. Maybe our Hellenists
know how the old Greeks pronounced phi. ps. pm. mn, phi and
the like, and of course, they want to preserve the linguistic con
.tinuity. But is it worth the price? Not long ago l quoted ii
your columns Paul's saying that the %psychical man cannot al receive ',
the things of Spirit Of God, and the printed made it physical
To the ear the two words are distinct enough, but they are ever
lastingly tripping the eye. Why not transliterate the Greek k; as We We
pronounce it and spell one with an "s' and the other with ar
"f'? Half the modern European languages write it #" We
ourselves do in a few words which we have derived lie 1e through th tst
Filipino as the spaniard spelled him, but the islands we go or
spelling our own classic way, with a "Ph."
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
Pastures and Meadows.

How necessary the building of strong honey structure is funda-
mental in animalhusbandry, is a circumstance OF which the farmer
is too seldom reminded. A great many animals do not get a right
start in life because BODYBUILDING material IS deficient IN their
pasturage. 1t is no less true, that range cattle bought for tatten-
ing are often rickety and cannot be brought to a profitable weight,
because Strengthening of the frame can not go hand IN hand
with the putting on of flesh. Bones are built OF phosphate OF
lime as every one knows. But fodder and grass are deficient IN
this. if the soil of pasture and meadow do not readily supply It,
Permanent pastures are very prone to be i'll supplied with lime:
Evidence of this is everywhere to be seen in the prevalence OF
sour grasses and in messy patches indicating a sour and unaerated
organic matter does not properly decay, the clay in the soil be-
comes sticky, bacterial life wanes and as the air cSnnot penetrate,
the clovers and sweet grasses die out.
The value of a pasture lies not only in the quantity but IN the
nutrient quality of its grass. An abundance of clover is essential
because it aug1nents the soil nitrogen and helps the other vegeta-
ton. Nitrogen makes flesh. But clover. does not flourish without
lime. In spite of the high price Of meat, many farmers are but ill
not get a chance for vigorous growth. Denmark, Holland, the
Tristan and Hostein provinces OF Germany, all celebrated Tor tnelr
stock, pay much attention to making fat meadows An I'M
portant factor in their treatment is lining. hForli1ne tells here as
almost nowhere else. i'faaH4 8a Iii 1aHa VI a. y
The pasture soil is very liable to sour. Lime corrects this. 1t
crumbs the clay so the air can penetrate. 1t develops bacterial
life and decays the animal and vegetable matter, digests it as it
The phosphates Of the manure, fixed in insolube form by the iron
and alumina oxide of the soil, are; liberated by lime and become
available to the plant, and through them, for the bone OF the
cattle. More flesh means more nitrogen and that, as we nave
said, means lime for the clover. Attend to the pastures and
meadows now with lime that acts most quickly. Quick action is
most soluble forms. On the lawns Of the department OF agrlcul-
ture, it is distributed with a spreader even on fresh green grass,
so there is no fear of its hurting the immediate growth, It's not
necessary to wait until spring to lime grass lands. The winter
time is most favorable for the purpose of giving an early and
vigorous start.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
Playground Cities.

Neighborhood Fairgrounds under the direction Of play lead
ers were maintained in 4S2 American cities during the year end
ing November l, 1915, according to the annual report of the
Playground and Recreation Association Society of America, made
public recently, The number. Of new Fairgrounds obtained was "a
operation up to 1924. More than 100 cities employ 1,O53 pay
leaders throughout the year. In 25o cities, Fairgrounds. Like
parks and schools, are administered by the municipality itself
Last year the expenditures in the cities Of America were ST.
066,377. In nineteen cities, bond issues authorized in seventeen
of these amounting to $1,663, 750. In ~fortynine cities, %neighbor-
hood Fairgrounds have been donated to the city by private in
dividuals. Six hundred and twelve school buildings are reported
to be in use as evening recreation centers in 1856 cities. Fifty
five cities report 146 buildings set aside and wholly given over as
neighborhood recreation center buildings. In ~twenty-six cities,
streets are set aside for play.
Is The average daily attendance on the summer Fairgrounds in
3S9 ciis reporting was S14, 1903. Ninety cities reported an aver
age daily attendance at winter centers of 200,478.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
Columbia Men Workers.

Columbia students working last summer earned $55,3lS49 TO-
ward their expenses for the new semester, the appointments
committee has reported. Some acted as tutors and travelled about
the country in opuence, while others earned 81 a day by work
ing as conductors on Long Island trolley cars.
One student in the graduate school of political science carried
off the prize j~ob-summering in Newport as companion to a
wealthy boy. In the four months he was thus employed he saved
$1,000. Others acted as tutors to boys who went to me Panama
Pacific exposition and earned from $1OO to $3.50 a month, in addi-
ton of all expenses. Twelve tutors spent an enjoyable summer
at resorts on the Jersey coast, netting about Sl5o a month 1of
a few hours work a day.
One student, as chauffeur for a family at the seaside, earned
$75 a month. Three were patent demonstrators, earning Sl5 a
week. Nine served as musicians at summer hotels, earning thelr
board and SIS week. During the tennis championship games 52
students acted as ushers. Others did similar work at the Astor
cup races.
About ~forty-fve women students at the university outside OF
those registered with the employment bureaus at Barnard and
Teachers College reported earnings during the summer.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
Why Men are Bald.

In the American Magazine" DR.. Arthur +. Reynolds, former
health commissioner of Chicago, gives the following reason for
badness:
"The hats that men wear are the cause Of their badness above
the hat line. Women also wear hats, but their hats are fastened
to their hair and do not grip the head, as mems hats do. All
other causes of badness, such as infections, seborrhea, etc, affect
both sexes alike, and are, in fact, more difficult to treat locally IN
women than in men, because Of their long hair.
"How does the hat affect the growth of hair in man? By COM
pressing the arteries, the veins, the %lymphatics, and to some ex-
tent the nerves that supply and nourish the hair. 1t is not be-
cause the hat is hard or soft or that it keeps the head too not,
1t is because the hat band congresses the vessels and starves, the
rule do not grip the head SO tightly as hats do.
Badness usually begins at the summit Of the crown toward
the back part, at the distant and weaker part of the vessels fur
nshing the circulation. In such cases the pressure has been on the
vessels on the side of the head. Sometimes the badness begins
above the forehead, and is the high forehead type of badness. In
these cases the pressure has been upon the vessels of the fore
head. Sometimes the head is bald low down in the back, where
the pressure has been upon the vessels in this region. When the
head is completely bald on top the pressure has been on the entire
vascular supply Of the scalp.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30

ton was a not very large room on University Place. How the
girls worked over thatroop! They ". made Z i tit attractive with rugs
zines and music. And then they waited for the, young women
to come and enjoy themselves. $*B 2
Folk are more or less inclined to be skeptical about new
things. The eager to help young ladies had announced that they
we're opening a roomf for the entertainment Of lonely girls. They
promised social. evenings and parties and pledges Of friendship
nothing; and the shop girls and stenographers and lonely
little school girls, who had discovered that the city gives very
little for nothing were frankly nervous about accepting the .s IN.
into the attractive room and found that the promises were real
promises of real things. Now, in the central branch alone, there
have been 1885 members, and in a year 1902 guests. The cen
Association buildings that flourish in Greater New York-nine in
Manhattan and four in Brooklyn.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The "real'
Russian ballet has at last come TO
New York and conquered. The troupe
is presided over by Serge de dag
hileff, who wears a monocle, and is
surrounded by a bevy of the most
gorgeous beauties that New York has
even seen. They are not slim and
fairy like, but large, muscular wom-
en-. b.
The company took Paris and Lon
don by storm but it was doubted If
Manhattan would give them the same
reception but it did. 1t is nearly SIX
years since Pavlowa and Mordkin
captured the town for Russian dances.
Many followed in their train and then
came the fox trotters and %relegated
the Russian dances to the background.
The company lacks two dancers who
have been prominent Of late years in
the Diaghileff season in Paris and
London-Nijinsky and Karsavina. The
man who has upheld the Russian and
interpretative lances in New York is
Louis H. Chaliff and he is pleased at
the reception accorded the dancers
more than anyone else.
The background for the dancers and
the costumes were designed by Bakst
and the music is the work of ultra
modern men like Stravinksky as we'll
as music as old as Chopin.
Washington Square is fighting for
its very existence. Every effort is be-
ing made by the old residents to pre-
vent an invasion by business and in
dustry-terms which in this instance
mean the sweatshop. Washington
| Square is the last remnant of old New
York which has escaped the destroy
ing hand of an inharmonious modern
ity.
The row of houses from University
Place to Fifth avenue, facing south, is
the only remaining group Of residences
built with an eye to the principle of
architectural unity. The Washington
arch, designed by Stanford White and
so reminiscent Of the Arc de Triomphe
in Paris, is one Of the few monuments
in New York which is not dwarfed
and nullifed by the proximity of high
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
The Senses of Plants.

The sense most developed in plants is that of sight, which
enables them to see light but not to distinguish objects. rms
sense limitation is found among many Lying Lying creatures cseat res ,s such as
visual organ buf give proof of their luminous impressions by
t H1sue eon alssF; $ that At they y , manifest N when exposed to a ray Of
sunshine. Similarly, it is easy to gauge the influence OF hgnt
side and its stalk in growing will incline toward the source Of
light. Psychologists explain this by suggesting that ts SIDE Teot TO
remains, however, the fact that the plant has reached to the light
of whose effect it was conscious. ~ ~
4 sense common to many plants is that of touch. Of this the
most illustrative example is, as its name implies, the sensitive
plant. Another leaf, responsive to the touch, is the catch-fty,
whose two halves close down one upon the other by means OF a
central hinge.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
An Indians Comment.

Are we civilized? young woman of q certain city who visited
the Grand CANYON a few weeks ago had an educated Indian as
a guide one day, and as the party went along they saw a f ia ths
aggravated by something his young son mad done stop on 'e
The Indian was indignant. "That is what l call barbarous,4
he exclaimed. "Now that boy will always remember this Eh g ieat
CANYON as the place where he received a spanking. He might
have carried a picture Of it's grandeur in his mind that wo W1
have assisted in developing him, but W now wall all that at is sh iPG4eo to @ ems
dnre pain, but we don't inAict it." And wasn't the Indian right?
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30

thrift in every form. It Is worth
while listening to what they have to
say and follow their examples. And
It is quite surprising what small be-
ginnings these men made and how
extremely thrifty and saving they
we're. Nothing was too insignificant
to be carefully laid aside for future
use, such as string from bundle, that
John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia
merchant saved to be- used again and
the old newspapers which he care
fully smoothcd out to wrap around
packages that required no better
wrapping. Most young business men
Of today would regard the saving of
such items as beneath them--yet
John Wanamaker has amassed a
Ireat fortune, has done a great
amount of good in the world and one
reason that he is so much extolled
and quoted today is that he practiced
lust such habits of thrift.
Sir Thomas Upton, who now has
approximately 10000 employees all
over the world. started with scarcely