The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-21
Dolly Hears Mrs. Caudle, IT,, Deliver Some Very Pointed Curtain Lectures Blending the Family Umbrella at Christmas Time)

00M sno.sl's s@s1r that: sa-' gone Within Ne the last month! What were you to do? Well, to be sure, that's a pretty question to ask me when I have
 my poor brain muddled and fuddled with thousand and one vexing question a | dayl Why let old Tattle-tale go home | without one! That's the answer I'm
 very certain there's nothing about that
 old bum that would melt or spoill Take cold indeed! Who'd care I'd like to know? Besides he'd better have taken | cold than to have taken our best um- | brellal Don't tell me that he'll return it MT. Caudle; anybody'd think you were born yesterdayl An, If anybody ever did return an umbrella, least of all an | Irresponsible old reprobate like Tattle- tale, least of all at Christmas time. And how are the children to get to school tomorrow. Do you hear that rain, Mr. Caudle? It's awful; simply awful; it's raining cats and dogs; two ktties and a puppy have just landed on the win- dow sill and nY poor little lambs hav- ing to trudge to school in the rain, all because you were so polite and lent the last good umbrella we had to miserable old whisky soaked tobacco smelling card playing reprobate%
 "The children, I'm determined shan't go to school in this rain, MT. Caudle; they shall stay at home and grow up to be numslSulls just like their father; yes, they'll have you to thank, sir, and no- body else. People who can't look ahead for their children and feel for them ought never to be fathers, sirl"
 n4 Christmas party at Mrs. Gay boys tomor- row. Get a taxi? I'd like to know who d pay for it, MT. Caudle; not you; that's certain and sure; taxis indeed? You'll never be able to pay for anything as long as you go on throwing away your prop erty and beggaring your children, buying umbrellas, for that's what you'll be dele gated to the rest of your life. if you keep on lending the last umbrella we possessi"
 I've got a good notion to tell every body at the tea about your foolishness, MT. Caudle. If old Tattle Tale had gone home at respectable hour he wouldn't have needed an umbrella, because the rain didn't set in until after Il o'clock, and besides, why can't he read the mington, N. C., and Mir Lawrence Lewis or Clnclnnau ana GreenbI1er White Sul- phur Springs the announcement made at luncheon given in Wilmington Sat urday
 Miss Wise is the niece and heiress of Mrs. Robert Bingham of St Louis and Florida, who before her marriage to Henry M. Flagler was Miss Lily Kenan of Macon. Just before her marriage to MT. Bingham she announced that Miss Wise would inherit the bulk of her mill lions.
 'Mr. Lewis is the son of MT. and Mrs Thorton Lewis of Cincinnati, and comes of a prominent Ohio family. He is a member of several we'll known clubs, and, like his fiancee, is fond of outdoor sports.
 "The marriage will take place soon after Easter"
 Miss Mary Ball entertained at a lunch con and linen shower yesterday at her home on South Nineteenth street, in honor of Miss Helen Bethea, bride- elect.
 Among the guests were Miss Bethea Miss Katherine Ledbetter, Miss Helen Terrell, Miss Lucy Smith. Miss Elizabeth Wyman, Miss Margaret Moore, Miss Susie Greene, Miss Marguerite King, Miss Alice Bowie, Miss Elizabeth Locke, Miss Eliza beth Jordan, Miss Josephine Johnson, Miss Emily Ford, Mrs. William Bartlett, Mrs. T. r. Ball, Mrs. William Marion Bothea, Mrs. s. L. Ledbetter, Mrs. Clar- ence B. Ball, Mrs. F. M Ball and Mrs Edwin Ball.