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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-08
Quite True

From the New York Post.
 Young MT. Hallowell was not much of a preacher, but, much to his own sur prise and everybody else's, he was ap- pointed chaplain on battleships. He desired to amuse as well as instruct his men. and to that end he arranged a magic lantern lecture on Bible scenes and incidents
 sailor who possessed gramophone vas secured to discourse appropriate music between the slides. The first pie trre shown was Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The sailor cudgeled hls brains and ran through his repertoire, but he could think of no piece exactly appropriate.
 "Play up. play up," whispered the chaplain.
 Suddenly an inspiration struck the sailor and to the consternation of the ch aplain and the delight of the audience the gramophone squawked out:
 "There is only one girl in this world for me"
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HOWARD GLEE CLUB OHAVE PRIVATE CAR
Student Body Elects Coun- Gil and Officers for Ath-
 letic Vacancies
By JASPER c. HUTro

The Howard College Glee club will he the only glee club in the state to make their tour in a private car. According to an announcement made by Mrs Roberta Harris Vim, booking agent for the Glee cup arrangements have been completed for the club to travel in an exclusive car this year. The club will carry 24 mem bers on these tours and they will extend throughout the state, the first trip to be- gin in December.
 A student council to confer with the college executive and members of the faculty on all important questions relative to the student welfare, has been chosen at Howard. A. H. Reid, president of the student body organization, was made chairman of this council, and a member from each of the other classes has been elected to serve with him.
 All vacancies in the Athletic association were filled, except for track manager, at a meeting of the association held in the college auditorium this week. Those elected to offices are as follows: Charles B. Price of Athens, vice president; Cary Phillips, secretary; T. B. Gibson, baseball manager; Shelly Jackson and Roney Hil- Hard, assistant managers; J. E. Dun. away. basketball manager; G. c. Chance, tennis manager.
 Miss Mamie M. Hidden, dean of women, has announced that 30 young women are taking work at Howard college this ses- sion, making nearly 100 per cent in- crease over the enrolment for last year. The co-educational department of the college is fast assuming a leading rola in the student body activities. The young women will soon give minstrel for the benefit of athletics, will have a tennis team and a basketball team for the sea- son.
 T. B. Gibson, a junior, of Lineville, Is the Howard representative for the Rhodes scholarship this year. Mir Gibson was among the men to take the exami- nation held at the high school this week. The scholarship is valued at $500. The Rhodes scholarship was won by Clayton E. Crossland, a graduate of the class of 'O7, who was the only other Howard stu dent to have tried for the scholarship be- fore MT. Gibson. He is now president of the Fork Union academy of Virginia.
 Good progress is reported from all de- partments of the college in class work. The students are down to real, earnest work, and after getting settled have been ma king excellent showlngs
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to run nine-month schools. will mean mora to the cause of education in va rious other ways and will enable the state to throw aside the cloak of illit- eracy in which it is enshrouded ana become a state of knowledge that will rank with any of it's sister states. This remedy that will solve the problem Will be put to the voters on November [, when the local school tax amendment to the constitution providing for an additional assessment of mills school tax will be voted on.
 The passage of this amendment means more efficiency in the schools
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It means longer sessions, good build ings, better equipped classrooms and departments. It will be, if passed. a new epoch in the educational regime of the state. incidentally a provision for better educated, more enlightened and efficient citizenship.
 The school exhibit at the State Fair. prepared under stress, is good It would be far better under other circum- stances. It is a question left entirely to the voters in November to decide whether the schools shall continue inadequately equipped or be put on a par with those of other states.
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NEWS OF INTEREST ANNOG TE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGE2
Education the Creation of the
By DIR. PAUL V. BOMAR President JudsOu College


 dsOn College it's kind in view of life, the inevitable that in its of the worship of efficiencyher system finest educational system o'less able to the world, with a system than any way has made good as no
 has made good, Germany isiency to do get along with her neighpoi one at the other nation in the world. citations with Surely any amount of efalled a com things which does not ena5 fault some same time to live in right Naan has not his fellow man cannot pc iucation has plete education. There IS part of the where, some part of the mot merely been properly unfoldet. lse, but with to do not merely With q to do not man, but with the whole ma but with 8 with a part of the univerw man all the whole universe. It nake him not meerly with mans taspIzen. It must mans relation to his feyill not only over the world. It must nit he will be only a workman, but a cto be- There so unfold him that he tie in order to be able to do his work, fo ..darkening also the man he ought 5order to de- must be no contraction. of hing. manual greater efficiency in life, ,ted with man of the chamber of life in
 velop film" Mental traAt merely the training must be supplemen the acquisi- training. xlcreation of Education, therefore. is nc this clearly impartation of knowledge ncpatiently to- tion of skill; 1t is also tht1awn for us a. spirit When teachers ser be the un- and work consistently and
 ward this, 8 new day will
 and education will come ,SGE VA z foldment of life in it's entirCOG "
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and education will come tSCE m 2 foldment of life in it's entirCOG "
WOMAN'S COLL,'
 DEDICATE NEa & by Bishop
Address Will Be Delivere McCoy-Miss Aldridge
 President ,avir,
Bx zor poBysey memorial

By ZOE DOBTsey iieino,,ai ., The dedication address inrnooi' -...o.,a+o,,o i,, +be Mast will be ds- si-S i1, 1,7as,,osdav oft.i Mccoy. The Woman's College of Alabarr ID Wi ~ Iivered by Bishop James H. anu ...a.. ,hoirn,.r of vhon friends of the M Jackson of Birrninghamua. V number of the alumnae and oo :" college will be present on nel' = e'i- oey-'' The Massey memorial hall addition to the college, WI accommodating so many sls all parts of the south. iitei
 Mrs. c. A. Bowen, for fpi'a' mingham, is convalescing sy ha ness at St. Margaret's hos riai 'eeiio -0- The senior class of l9lf Miss Burchie Aldrige it's president.
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Telltale Parrot
the Baltimore American

the Baltimore American.
 ly were sitting close together in From Pafior.
 ThefI gave you that parrot as n the rfday present, did I not, Matilda? He} }e-Yes, but surely, Albert, you are birttigoing to speak of your gifts as if-- rh le-1t was young and could not onak at the time? Aoe Shc-- Yes, and 1t has never been out this parlor. spS HeThere are no other young ladies .t this house? oif She-No, there are not. 4 HeThen, why-why, when T kissed iiFour photograph in the album while waiting for you did that wretched bird fimitate your voice and say: Don't do T that, Charlie: please dont?'
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THE GIRL PHILLIPA."


 By Robert w. Chambers Illustrated by Frank Cring. D. Appleton 6. Co, pub fishers, New York
 Robert w. Chambers, always up to date and abreast with the times, gives us perhaps the most absorbing and appealing novel with the plot laid in the thick of the European war, of any of the day.
 Brilliant, dashing, leaping with starts and bounds from one episode of smoke and blood and thunder, to another, with a beautifully tinged romance running through the story, MT. Chambers has, with his incomparable pen, written down q most enchanting story.
 Yesterday she was but slip of girl leading the uneventful life of a cashier in a little French cafe near the border of Belgium.
 Today she is deeply involved in one of the most desperate struggles ever wased by the secret service systems of Europe.
 Such is the suddenness with which the Girl Philippa is thrust by fate In the center of the momentous events which precede the European war.
 In this splendid romance of war and love and adventure, Mr. Chambers re- turns to the style of his novels Of the Franco-Prussian war-"Lorraine,' Maids of Paradise" etc. An English ofncer' an American artist, Sister of Charity, and the Girl Philippa are the chief figures ir the story which chronicles the daring attempt to steal the secret of the famous darkness shell. Dramatic incident piles on incident with bewildering rapldity, and there is always that delightful touch of romance which has made Mir Chambers a fayorite with a million readers. .cr4RIsTIAN CERTANTlEs OF BE-
 LIEF"
 Rv Julian K. smyth. The New Church Press. publishers, New York
 All thoughtful readers will do well to turn to the pages of Julian K. Smyth's christian Certainties of Be- lief" They are courageous, convinc- ing
 If is a timely volume; for it comes in an hour when. to some of us, all the old anchors seem to be loosening from their ancient grip on the gran fte The great war has descended on the world like cleaving tempest and in the crash and Fwreckage men are asking 'Ts there anything that holds firm? Are there any realities that we are sure of? Have all the certaintles crumbled under the whirlwind?'
 Julian K. Smyth comes to Hing upon the shadow the light of hope-comes to sound across the discord music of courageous faith. He declares that the props of the spiritual verities are still secure, still unshaken by the chances and changes that sweep over human
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"WITTE ARRIVES.

By Elias Toebnkin Frontlspiece' leo-
 erick A. Stokes & Co, publishers New
 York.
 Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale compares "Witte Arrives with Mary Antin's brilliant book "The Promised Land" and says: we Americans ought to be heartily grateful for both DOCKS. He adds:
 ''The novel is written by young man and has some of the rawness Of youth as well as its fine spirit. There Is such vitality here, such sincerity, such iNins, breathing men and women, such power of narration that one halls him With a hearty respect It is book that, potn from the point of view of art and Of so- ciety, every American ought 10 reao Somebody has arrived besides Witte.
 This book is the great American novel which Robert Herrick once said an lin- migrant would rise and write sald an author who read the manuscript.
 The story is of family of Jewish lm- migrants especially of the youngest, Emil, who works his way through hard ship and suffering and-at last ar rives." As a picture of the Immigrant and of Jewish family life it is sympa- thetic and true and shows remarkably their assimilation into American life their absorption of American ideals. their unswerving patriotism and appreciation of the opportunities offered them.
 OTHER BOOKs>RECEIvED.
 (Reviews Later)
 SHAKESPEARE AND PRECIOUS STONES By George Frederick kunz. J. B. Lippincott Co.,. publishers. Phila- delphia.
 FROM NATURE FORWARD. By Har- rett Doan Prentiss. J. B. Lippincott Co.,, publishers, Philadelphia. MAKING MONEY MAKE MONEY" By H. l.. Barber. A.. J. Munson & Co.,, publishers. Chicago. "TIE RAILWAY LIBRARY AND STA TISTICS." Compiled and edited by Slos- son Thompson. Stremberg, Allen & Co.,, publishers. Chicago
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weight to hang right, while the glitter ing surface of charmeuse makes just the proper contrast to dull the texture of the wool
 Whether the price of woolen material will seriously go up is as difficult to forecast as the ending of the war. How ever. the factSremains that good cloth or serge dress should not be thrown away, but encouraged by all the means of art to appear in the guse of new frocS when given few touches of chars mouse A gown of charmeuse may be quite attractively remodeled by using remnant of serge.
 USE FOR SERGE AND SATIN
 The dress in the illustration will give you simple method of using charmeuse aid serge. I have used what might be called commonplace jumper of serge over an old waist of charmeuse How ever. this commonplaceness is relieved by a touch of embroidery and design, of black soutache braid set on a design, around the waistline. The embroidert ts' around the armholes is scroll-like pfx { tern done in heavy black floss. A tot skY of color in vivid shades of emerald. TX
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ambitions he rides roughshod over the hearts of those who love him. His wife IS one of the victims of his greed. success begins to pail upon him after a tune; then he sets out to seek Truth and the quest brings him round in circuitous ways to where he had discarded Love. Then only does he realize the true meaning of success.
 TOMBSTONE OF THE BORDER" By Harold Blindloss. With Frontiespiece
 in Color. Frederick A Stokes company
 publishers, New York.
 This is one of MT. Bindloss' most excit- ing works. A truly modern mover, every page of which thrills with the joy Of life and action.
 Andrew Johnstone and his American comrade Whitney leave the Canadian wilds to visit relatives in Scotland Events alosg the wild coast of the North sea offer an unexpected task of daring. Myste- rious lights and strange comings and so- ings along the Solway shore, ships sunk , and submarines in hiding give Andrew a task to serve his country. He knows the coast like his hand and no storm IS wild enough to keep him from navlgat- ing the treacherous inlets and islands In search of the sides operating there. Aided by Whitney's keen American mind An drew tracks the enemy With unexpecteo and remarkable consequences. Bindloss is at his best in thls new vein He is keen about the scotch downs | and Solway coast setting and the war l has got fresh vigor into his story. pretty romance threads it's pages.
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.....ss...s..sss..sssss.sssss very good. A
 held by a band rise, and tan may be iT,, ,nada finish ta black, this embroidery collar of serge little cuff of charmeuse surmo,,nted bv a of serge, forms an easi is loose on one the sleeves. A roundi+h snan fasteners bound in black braid, : flounce of serge smaller rolling collarh tbe old skirt of side where it fastens v,,,, nav he bound
 The slightly circula froclx is becoming is plainly stitched os,elI as to the Wom- black satin. The had fiailre sI
 to lth the schoolgirl as NULL FIGURE
 an of more deveiopAation is Suggested
 GOWNS FOR Hpeling serge or
 In the other illus .,a,slsirt The old method of renos ad 4 as hin yoke cloth gown by the omitted and the plice basque and .,sas draped over serge iskirt is mous saanssstoo narrow rms feature may Ne+s like opening fs overskirt or atnk~@r each hip. The any sklrt Whie,H IT sSH with two points or too piaih. pot~<as fronts. This fea- left III the drapef fSto lengthen the surpice basque IS leipan who is short m eltner slus-ol Way be of serge ture Will peN N}ouhS rGveres of white or Wais.line U O. we Mql2use, with white with a collar and f1rsTyoo,,o natterp this IL may De ol chaltsy sto cut It finishes uperty satln coiifaistline in the back
 II shaPeu py afound the points and pasque VIII pe eVThree small triangles at the hPrnai tin emerald green and ana IS eorueu afnts of the basque. The are embroideredt tsiior stitcbing
 plack on the potffs may be of serge or serge sleeVe IS cfarmeuse. This model basque py plailto have many advantages Ihe loose cuwoman The skirt drapery cream or pidcfpe too pronounced. The will pc Iound twill Apparently increase for the stout N the Fwaistline
 should not overia cloth gown in any sklrt yoke , than dark blue, a char the lengtn oself tone will be a better 1T maklngi contrast of black Some other snadf addition of a wide hem col mouse Tn Affs of black charmeuse with cnolce fer collar of white will be times .he Efficient rejuvenation for a lar ana cyess. A wide leeway is per- turnovt combining materials at pres- lounu sYthe best designers seem to de- cio.n I'll making a gown out of a va lnitteu If fabrics. This fact simplifies ,.r eil,s 1or for the home dressmaker and lik intman who feels she must use up tf;sa Hterials which are still good
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Tn Holland sand is pi pensive, and is used irls straw as beds for cows
 mals perfectly clean, { slight raking in the ne and freshen it. |
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"BENIGHTED MEXICO"
 By Randolph Wellford Smith. The John
 Lane company, publishers, New York.
 That the fate of more than one great
 nation is dependable upon some A1mme- diate settlement of the vexed Mexican
 question is the common belief of all those
 conversant with the subject The writer of this work, Randolph Wellford Smith, is trained journalist and author with many years experience In London, New York and Washington, who has been deep student of government, political economics and administrative justice and, more especially, of MeXico's many sociological and humanitarian problems. From an absolutely impartial view point, MT. Smith has forcibly brought to bear all his knowledge and observa- tions of that benighted and ill-fated land in the intense. dramatic narrative. His ! work may make history and lead to |ght for a downtrodden and storm tossed peo- pie and certainly it cannot fail to inter- est the most casual reader. For Mexico is a land of tragedy where all human en- deavor seems to have been lost for cen turies until today when chaos, anarchy and assassination rule supreme.
 "GREAT SNAKES
 By William Caine. The John Lane conn pany publishers, New York.
 
 A chance encounter at country inn of staid old gentleman and dissipated young clubman and the interchange, through error of two leather bags brought about many astonishing events. A blind white worm, dropped into the old gentleman bag by waggish tramp, 1 proved an unpleasant travelling compan- 1 ion, but at the journeys end was instru- l mental in breaking down the barriers | that separated two ardent young lovers, and helped toward the conversion of an i inebriate.
 | The story carries one rapidly from one ! lively incident to another, all of them marked with the keen sense of humor i that is characteristic of MT. Craine s
 work The re;sIer will indulge in many chucFles before he reaches the end of
 the career of the blind worm.
 "wINDY M'PHERsoN's SON" l By Sherwood Anderson. The John Lane | company, publishers, New York. | The problem here presented is that of
 sacrificing the individual to the race.
 The drift of the tale is that the actual l sufferings and vcssitudes of the present generation, at whatever period that gen.
 eration should be placed are of little ac- . count provided they help forward the next generation and exempt them to some ex- | tent from experiencing over again the l sufferngs and vcissitudes they them- selves have experienced. The hero of the l story, who begins life as a newspaper | boy in & small town of the middle west | has within him the makings of great financier. In order to accomplish his
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ity. The tornado uproots the forest
 the earthquake shakes the hIls; still
 earth's center remains unmoved ana
 the stars keep their ancient places
 Firmly and with the emphasis of con-
 viction MT. Smyth points out to us the
 principles established from everlast-
 ing unto everlasting, the deep founda-
 tions upon which life eternal is erect
 ed He banishes despair strengthens
 hope and glorifies religion as the ex-
 pression of an ordered and useful life.
 He takes his stand upon faith; but 1t
 is a faith based upon reason. His
 ground is broad his sympatties glow
 ing; andl his words will strengthen
 the wavering and confirm the believ-
 ing.
 For the benefit of the doubting, ev-
 cry generation needs to have the truth
 of life re-expressed by some positive spirit in terms of the thought ana action of the new day. So MT. Julian Smyth, convinced that the Christian religion is based on the immutapie adamant of reality comes with his per suasive book Christian Certainties or | Belief" comes to reaffirm Christianity | and it's everlasting principles.
 | Christ in His incandescent sincerity, unclouded by dogma, is presented here i in the piercing simplicity of the Mas 1 ter's own words-those quiet all-ln- | 1 of human experience have so often | ratified. And the Bible is also dis | cussed as the freshest of all books, as the most influential of all books. as the most inspiriting of all books, i! as the most enduring of all books. l BIC TIMBER"
 By Bertrand w. Sinclair. With from | tispiece by Douglas Duer. Little, l Brown & Co., publishers, Boston. 1 To the lumber camp of her brother l Charlie in the Roaring Lake region of | British Columbia comes Stella Ben ton, when her father dies and the, in- come that has supported her in lux ury suddenly ceases. Benton is only | a beginner in the lumber business and
 not yet numbered among its big tim | ber," as is his neighbor, Jack FyIe | Therefore he counts his pennies and uses everybody to further his own | self-centered ambtion-his sister hard est of all. When she has come nearly l to the end of her endurance as camp l cook and general drudge Jack F'yfe offers her fway out-as his wife. She accepts, thinking anything better than | her present condition.
 l How she both overestimated and un- | derestimated herself, how Fyfe proved 1 himself to be even Digger" than she | ever dreamed. and the manner in which the fates finally disposed of the prob lems they both met, make good ma 1 teriaI for dramatic story which loses nothing from Mir. Sinclair's handling. | Charlie Benton, his fiancee, Stella i, Jack. and the "other man" are all very human, very live figures, who are in
 fiuenced-even made or broken-by the
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The railroad connecting Chile and Bo-| livia which crosses the Andes IA, 105 feetl above sea level. provides oxygen cham bers. in which passengers can get relief
 from the rarefied air in the high altitude.|
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Victor was convaIescing

>y., vorr q weeks, was doz- run 'ne e library, and on
 young motner "no a bowl of fruit. from an illness or somehter, 10 years old. ing in a big chair in tn hAe room, Thinking a table beside her stoool child advanced, Suddenly her little daugs from the bowl, cautiously tiptoed into thu
 her mother asleep, the Ger was greatly took a couple of orangesAoc on the and silently stole away. said not a word,
 Now, though the moth the youngster grieved by this immoral pIv awake. part of her offspring. she sthe child reap nor did she even permit, her hand un- to see that she was realle room just as
 About 10 minutes later red before She peared. With the fruit 1s bowl and, as touched, she crept into tother heard her silently as she had ente
 replaced the fruit in th. got left, Mr. she turned to go the m sssss-- mutter to herself:
 That's the tune yolntiful and mex Devil!' stead of hay and
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5ntiful and mex itead of hay and
 It keeps the ani- requiring only a orning to soften
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"BENIGHTED MEXICO"

"big timber" around which they build their hopes of fortune and happiness.
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utroduced. In all ,tsis very good. A held by a band " made finish tp { collar of serge surmounted by a
 is loose on one tn snap fasteners. flounce of serge
 the old skirt of n may be bound rock is becoming Il as to the wom-
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-27

Here's little Miss 1880 with her
primly pointed basque, lust like big
sisters" and her wide and stiffIy
folded skirt, her oId-fashioned bon
net and Old-fashioned little coat trip