The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
Rr DOLLY nALRYMPLE

Before I let pretty Mrs Badham tell her story about the attractive heroine of this story, whose given" name Is Zoe, and whose taken" name is Gollomb, I am going to tell one of zoe's own stories, which I hope will sort of set some people right about her name.
 Just as I loathe and abominate Boches and Sim Feiners, kerosene lamps and big lowered cretonne knitting bags, loud smelling soap and red ink Sounds like Mary McLane, doesn't it0 just so do I loathe and abominate people who pro- nounce our own dear Geraldines name "Far-rah," and our own dear Zoes name "Zo."
 Now, I don't profess to be a pro- nouncer of names or whatever it is that strikes 'em right. but I've got sense enough to know that when l see two per fectly nice little lady-like dots sitting up calmly and peacefully on a high rail fence over nice little 'e" at the tail end of somebody's name, like they do in Zoe's that they mean something. (Our paper doesn't make dots, as you'll mo- tice, but Zoe writes her name with the two imposing dots, and papers that do make dots make them over the "e" in Zoes name) Anyway, I was going on to say I'd just naturally know that those two dots call for some sort of earthly recognition; even if they weren't there. whats the use of knocking a poor lit- tie ''e" in the head when it hasn't com mitted a crime? However, to get back to the dot argument, wouldn't you if
 
 that "e'' like an ''a,' or accent it, or do something to it? Anyway, I'd never make it silent like the 'I'' in Roosevelt Goke), and thereby abbreviate a perfect ly good two-syllable name to a one-sylla- ble affair. In fact, I'm sure that wouldn't "auction-like," say I'll pass" but I'd make it something or bust; hence,-but-this is Mrs. Zoe's story.
 Zoe evidently isn't any too well pleased with her name herself, and she certainly wants all of it coming to her. that there is she probably puts her name in the annals of what my friend, MT Owen Hatteras, in a story under the caption of "Pertinent and IInpertineht," once called Famous Women of Profane His tory.'' which, includes such frivolous and nonsensical names as Myrtle" Kitty" Dolly" "Mabel'' and "Pearl.n
 Anyway, so Zoe's story goes when some one asked her why she hesitated to com init matriomny the second time. she ob- served in that vivaciously gay manner of hers:
 Do I hear you asking why I don't take name like Gollomb Do you real ize that it has silent 'b' in it? All my life I've been explaining Zoe That's enoughr'
 Anyway, Zoe didn't resist the hand some suitor long, but annexed the name of Gollomb very gracefully, which she's awfully proud of since it stands sponsor for one of the most talented and capable newspaper men of the day, who works side by side with his clever wife, col laborating on stories with her, gathering and collecting poems" and doing the thousand and one other things that con- genial people enjoy in literary fields.
 And now that we've settled that point and Zoe and have had our say" I'm going to ask Mrs. Badham to tell you what she told the Highland Book club the other day about Zoe when she had for her subject Syndicate Writers" as all this nice bunch of women sat before a big roaring log fire in the handsome library of Mrs. George Connors' home and knitted for the soldiers while they listened to the story of one of Ameri- cass really notable and worth while newspaper women.
 As everybody in this neck of the woods knows, Zoe Beckley is the adorable sister of Mrs. Leslie Fulenwider and that is recommendation enough. Mrs. Fulen- wider's wit and humor, her beauty and charm have made her one of the most beloved women in this town and none of us will ever forget when she told us last winter at "The Drama League about the plays she saw in New York that season in the most inimitable man. ner, and everybody wondered why she