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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
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for himself? All New York has daily
 cries over her stuff. Next to the bour bor industry she causes more red eyes than any other agency known to the genus homo
 let in your six-gun we dol She is Zoe Beckley, feature writer of the New York Evening Mail. She is visiting our town for the while, and in the meantime is watching for the Indians. But why kid
 her with old stuff? Zoe has us roped, l thrown and branded at the jump I've been in the newspaper game only l a few minutes" and Zoe lifted her veil ! so that no one at the Palace ho- i tel would mistake her for Fatima, trav cling incog. "The first week I worked l the managing editor confided that my stuff was so rotten it was good. I sought a secluded window that overlooks dark and grewsome alley and took deep cry I for myself.
 q was afraid I was losing my job. I I hated to give it up, too. for it was such l a good one. I sometimes made as high as s a week."
 According to Zoe, her first managing editor was so mean that he would walk five miles to put flea on another chaps beard. He had the disposition of a lime
 phosphate and was so old-fashioned that he would pull coat shirt over his head to take it off.
 Then the old fellow disappeared. Maybe the chap they call Father Time, the gent who holds an hourglass in his hand, took a pencil and scratched it across the era bbed boys name. Zoe doesn't know. She entered the newspaper game after several years of hard work pounding dictation mill in an insurance office. They gave her 12 bucks every seventh day as damage and paid for the type writer repairs. At the desk next to her work bench sat Mccarthy. Just which | Mccarthy 1t was we are not sure, as l there are at least three of them In New York. Now Mac was accustomed to say | funny things. He never knew he was | funny, as it was secret between him
 and his wife.
 One day Zoe told Helen Rowland about Mac
 .Why don't you write some of his say l ings?" Helen asked II think they would
 make a hit. I'll give you letter to MT. Crabb of the Evening Suppress. That started me-" Zoe admitted. "When Crabb died, I wandered up the street for I was without a job. The as- sistant Crabb hated me. I then took my very cold feet up the Evening Mail stairs. 1 have been there ever since" | Zoe has interviewed everyone of in- l portance from John D. to Tony, the shoe | complexion beautifier
 "The average New Yorker thinks any one who lives in another city is merely | camping out. But find the west a real place for people," That is her opinion l of the neck of the woods that did so | much to elect Woodrow Wilson last time. | When Zoe gets back to her work as Gotham's most eminent sob sister none of us who now know her will feel like crying over her stories. For we will re- 1 member that vivacious way of hers, those
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didn't write, too; what was the reason There are three reasons-a big splendid husband and two big splendid boys.
 ITO visualize Zoe Beckley," Mrs. Bad- ham said, lis to have come before you two big Irish blue eyes bright and alert, with curling black lashes. A brilliant smile and a countenance radiating health and humor There is a dynamo back of that brow which sends current straight over to you, awakening thought, feeling and lively interest that have long laid dormant within you"
 ''Who is Zoe Beckley? Why, she is a syndicated journalist, which means that she writes for 40 of the leading newspa- pers in the United States. She is a valuable member of the New York Even- ing Mail and at times fairly makes that paper hum with her breezy New York style, for she is a New York product, having been born and reared in that wonderful burg. She writes also for va rious magazines. Lastly, she is the sister of our beloved president, Mrs. Fulen- wider. which endears her most in our hearts,"
 "In few short years she has risen from a business woman to the highest pinnacle in journalism. Her husband, Joseph Gollomb, is also a writer of note'
 w nen l IOunu Zoe Bechley was my subject for talk wired her for enlight- enment Geographically, and as litera- teur," since had known her best as a friend for many years and in the social walks of life I received a letter in reply, which reveals the writer and her style more clearly than anything could possibly present, and I'm going to read it because it is so characteristic, so bright and clever"
 ''This is the letter." Mrs. Badham con tirued, (which is dated from the office of the Evening Mail, New York city: Dear Little Mrs. Badham: I am really overwhelmed. I don't know how it hap pened. But do Know this: That there is nothing a person leaps at with quite such enthusiasm as the chance to talk about himself So for fear I shall find out mistake has been made and I am not after all the person meant. I hasten to comply with your wired request I've never had such an opportunity before, and may never have it. again. So do please overlook any symptoms of excitement you may trace
 in this note.
 There is just this about the news
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

surprise awaiting them, because after just one application the gray hair van ishes and your locks become luxuri- antly dark and beautiful.
 This Is the age of youth. gray haired. unattractive folks aren't want. ed around. so get busy with the Sage and Sulphur tonight and you'll bt amazed at your youthful appearance and the real beauty and healthy condi- ton of your hair within few days Inquiry at drug stores here shows tha, Sulphur" and the folks using 1t are enthusiastic. This preparation Is de. lightful toilet requisite. It is not in tended for the cure. mitigation or pre- yention of disease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

Gray, faded hair turned beautifully
 dark and lustrous almost over night, is d reality, if you'll take the trouble to mix sage tea and sulphur. but what's the use, you get a large bottle of the ready to-use tonic, called "Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound" at drug stores here. Millions of bottles of ..Wyeths" are sold annually. says a well-known druggist. because it dark ems the hair so naturally and evenly
 You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur and. draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at time. Those faded, dry, scraggly and thin have a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
HEAD STUFFED FROM
 CATARRH OR A COLD
Says Cream Applied in Nostrils Opens Air Passages Right Up.

Instant renef-no waiting. Your clogged nostrils open right up; the air passages of your head clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuf- fling, blowing, headache, dryness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh disappears.
 Get a small bottle of Elys Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pene- trates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and relief comes in- stantly.
 It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with a cold or nasty catarrh.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
Ugh! Ca|ome| Sickens; SaIivates!
 Please Try Dodson's Liver Tone
I am sincere! My medicine does not upset liver
 and bowels so you lose day work.

, under my personal money-back guaran- tee that each spoonful wilt clean your sluggish liver better than dose of nasty
 calomel and that it won't make you sick.
 Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver med icine. You'll know it next morning be- cause you will wake up feeling fine,
 your liver will be working, your head
 ache and dizziness gone, your stomach
 will be sweet and your bowels regular. You will feel like working; you'll be
 cheerful: full of vigor and ambition. Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vege- table, therefore, harmless and cannot salivate. Give 1t to your children. i Millions of people are using Dodson's
 Liver Tone instead of dangerous calolneI
 now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of calomel is almost stopped entirely here.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
OLD FOLKS NEED 'CASCARETS" FOR LIVER, BOWELS Salts, calomel, pills act on bow els like pepper acts in
 nostrils Enjoy Life! Don't stay bilious, sick, headachy and
 constipated
Get Q 1O. cent box now.

Get @ 10-cent box now.
 Most old people must givo to the bowels some regular help, else they is perfectly natural. It is just as nat ural as it' Is for old people to walk slowly. For age Is never so active as youth. The muscles arc less elastic. And the bowels are muscles
 So all old people need Cascarcts. One might as well refuse to aid weak eyes aid to weak bowels. The bowels must be kept active. This is important at all ages. but never so much As Ut fifty.
 Age is not a tfmc for harsh physics. into activity. But lash can't be used every day. What the bowels of the old need is a gentle and natural tonic: On. that can be constantly used without harm. The only such tonic Is Cascarets, and they cost only 10 cents per box at any drug store. They work while you sleep.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

You're bilious! Your liver is sluggish You feel lazy, dizzy and all knocked out. Your head is dull, your tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach sour and bowels constipated. But don't take salivating calomel It makes you sick; you may lose a days work.
 Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones Cal omel crashes into sour bile like dyna- mite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping.
 If you want to enjoy the incest, gem tlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone to- night. Your druggist or dealer sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
Highland Book Club Bey Charming Light and Adds Iure To Her Newspaper Halo

editor in New York, refuting the Glass ification" the Denver Post labeled her with, and this is what she said:
 Denver, Col, June 9. The Evening Mail, New York City:
 Paid my respects to Denver Post staff and they returned the compliment with a story in last Saturdays edition, calling me sob sister. Don't believe it. Haven't one good sob in my system and no desire to extract same from any one else. Am acting perfectly normal. Will explain all when I return. # ZOE BECKLEY. New York may claim Zoe Beckley as its very own, but Birmingham registers a claim. too. I wouldn't exactly say she's a "step- sister to us because she might treat us that way-if did, and wouldn't say she's a sob sister, she's too bright and bubbling and vivacious for that to be laid at her door, but let's just say she's a sister once removed, to whom we pay homage, sincere and unalloyed, for she's a credit to her profession and a glory to the nation and none wishes her more punches of success and fame and none doffs her newspaper bonnet more cor dially to Zoe than her admiring newspa- per sister Dolly Dalrymple,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

two laughing eyes of Irish blue, that cheery manner of expressing herself. Zoe is real people, and plays the game as if she always had four aces in front of her. She will pack up and trek for the city of a million cabarets tomorrow. Mizpah, Zoe! Whatever that means"
 When Zoe read the story she immedi- ately sent a wire to her perfectly good
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
Great Chiefs Of D. Of p.
Visiting IN This Section

Great Chiefs of the Degree Of Po-
cahontas of the state Of New Jersey
are visiting the various councils of the
order in this section this week. Last
night Great Pocahontas Cecilia Ed
man of Pleasantville; Great Chief of
Records. Lila Thompson of New
Egypt; Great winonah Sophie Erick-
son OF this city. with District Deputy
Kathryn Smith Of this city visited
Bright Eyes Council. No. SO. Roose-
welt, to raise up the chiefs of that
council. The latter was accompanied
by a large delegation of members of
Mohawk Council. No. Sc of this city.
Tonight will be the visit to Red
Feather Council. No. IS of Midtown;
Thursday afternoon to Ianthe Council.
No. 6 of South Amboy; Thursday
night to Mondamin Council. Nc. SO OF
Sayreville, and Friday night, District
Deputy Mrs. Smith and staff will raise
up the chiefs of Mohawk Council in
Red Mems hall in Smith street The
trip to Midtown tonight will be made
by trolley. leaving from the switch
near the Central crossing in Smith
street at 6:45 O'Clock.
The great council of the state OF
New Jersey viii hold its annual con-
vention in this city October ~ n
% for which great preparations are
being made.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
MILITARY COLOR
TO SURPRISE PARTY

CorporaI Burl Cleeton was tender
cd a military farewell party at the
home of Miss Alma Christensen. ID
First street. Friday evening. MUSIC
and dancing were enjoyed as were
the refreshments served from a table
decorated with the American nag Ia
different designs. Among those pres
ept were the Misses Lillian BECK.
Esther Christensen. Lily Setudal,
Tstx Eedderson. Mamie Smith. Alice.
Oira and Alma Christensen: Sergeant
Archie Piper, Corporals Howard
Nurry. George Weber. Burl election
and Privates Arthur Brose, Andrew
MfkkeIson, Soren Fedderson and Alex
Browne, of the u. 8. S. Talbot. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Beck and MIS-
Peter Christensen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
Changes Necessary In Makeup
of State Institution Boards
o. spsesai Correspondsns.

TRENTON. July - Several
changes will be necessary n the make
up Of some Of the new boards Of
managers Of the state institutions
which were recently appointed. The
following have declined to serve:
George A. Armour. OF Princeton, on
the New Lisbon Feeble Minded Home
for Males: Mrs. r. v. Kuser. WomeR's
Reformatory at Clinton, and James
w. Trsnchard. of Bridgeton. on the
vineland Soldiers Home. In the lat
ter instance Frank NJ. Riley. Of
Bridgeton. has been named 60 succeed
T~renchard. and 6tgmund Eisner. of
Red Bank. has beer added to the
managers of the Jamesburg Reforma-
tory.
Calvin Derrick, OF East View. N. T.
who is to have charge Of the Division
Of Education and Parole In The new
Charities Department. and David I.
Kelly, of East Orange. who Is TO direct
the Division OF Labor and Agriculture.
assumed their new duties today. Jo-
seph Thompson. Of Toms River, In
charge Of the Division of Inspection.
has already entered upon h work OF
his office.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
LODGES

Thor Lodge No. 46, Danish Broth
erhood. Is scheduled to meet tonight
at Washington hall.
"A meeting of Halcyon Castle No.
81. Knights of the Golden Eagle. will
be held tonight.
There will be a meeting of Mid
dlesex Council, Royal Arcanum. to-
night.
Installation OF the newly elected Of
hcers of Algonquin Lodge, No. ~.
Knights OF Pythias, will take place
Monday night, July %. according to
the plans made at q meeting of the
lodge last night at Odd Fellows hall.
District Deputy Grand Chancellor Fe-
Der of Railway. and STAFF. will come
here at that time and place the now
staff In their respective chairs. The
lodge Is meeting only twice q month
during July and August instead OF
every Monday they will meet the Sac
ond and fourth Mondays.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
HAD
MOST PRESENT
American Mechanics Had Big
Meeting at Piainsboro Last
Niqht- Hammer for Cranbury

Junior Order United American Me-
chanics representing the various coun-
ellis throughout the county of Middle
sex. were at the meeting of the Past
Councillors Association held last night
with Plainsboro Council No. Ze9. OF
Piainsboro. County Councillor George
z. Crabiel, OF Charles L. Walters
the chair. Five candidates were init
lated into the order with Goodwill
Council No. 80. degree team In charge
of the work. Harvey l.. Hu1ldsh was
captain of the team. There were about
one hundred and fifty present at the
meeting that witnessed h initiation.
william A. Connell. of Middlesex
Council No. So. Of this city. presided
during the initiation.
The banner for the council having
the largest percentage of members
present was awarded to Eagle Council
No. IS, of Spotswood, and the hammer
for the smallest number was awarded
to Cranbury Council No. so, of Gran
bury. Because of the initiation the
quoit games that had been scheduled
were dispensed with at this time.
Plans for the annual outing and shore
dinner that is to be held at Soldiers
Beach Wednesday. August II, were
practically completed at this time. The
members will so down to the beach
about 2 o'clock for the baseball game
and outing sports that will be held and
the dinner will be served at 7 O'Clock
at night. The next meeting of the as
ISOLATION will be held Monday night.
August IL, with Friendship Council
No. 81, of New Market. instead of
August s, as stated In the roster of the
association.
That meeting will be known as
somerset County Past Councillors
Night" when the members of the
Somerset county Past Councillors As
ISOLATION will be the guest of the local
association.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
PERSONALS

Mrs. william X. Petty. Of Rector
street has received word of b safe
arrival of her son. William, In
France. He writes hat he has been
made a corporal and h feeling fine.
He sends his regards to his friends
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Raymond and
family, OF New York. formerly OF this
city. were local visitors yesterday.
Mrs. Oscar Roeder and children oil
Brooklyn, visited relatives In this city
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kreamer have
returned 10 their home in Vineiand
y. T.. after spending a week with MI
and Mrs. Herbert Phillip in Market
street.
Miss Elizabeth Guest. of Metuchen.
visited Mr.. and Mrs. James Hughes
IN Amboy avenue over the weekend
Mrs. Isabelle Waters and hei
daughter Alberta. of Tottenville. were
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. John klu-
sendorf. In Laurie street. over the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
COMMUNITY GIRLS
TO HOLD MEETING

The War Camp Community Service
Girls Patriotic Beagnue will hold us
irst meeting in the club rooms OF the
public library Friday night. All girls
under sixteen will meet at 1880 O'CLOCK
and all girls sixteen or over VIII meet
nj R.15 o'clock. All those who sign
ed the pledge cards are requested TO
attend and all other girls who may be
interested are cordially invited.
Miss McMaster will discuss with the
esFs= he workings of the patr1ouo
League and Miss Roberta Winans will
put the program of the evening recroa-
fiou center to be opened at Hayes
Park before the meeting.
A meeting of this character was
held In New Brunswick last night and
was a decided success. Let Perth AM
hov as usual set the pace.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
CITY Briefs

The regular meeting of the La
dies Auxiliary Of the British-Amert-
can Relief Association will be held
on "Wednesday night al 8 .. m. In the
club rooms. Odd Fellows hall, Smith
street.
The regular weekly meeting OF
the Young Peoples Society OF 6t.
Stephens Danish Lutheran Church IN
Broad street will be held in the
church basement tomorrow night. A
number OF the delegates OF the re-
cent convention. stili IN this city. will
be h guests at the meeting tonight.
A social will follow the meeting.
The meeting of the Board of
Park Commissioners. which was post
poned last eek owing to Thursday
being July 4. will be held tomorrow
night.
Charged with driving q car with
out the necessary license or license
plates, Sam Chanilansky was arrested
by Traffic Ohicer Lybeck yesterday
and fined $40 by Acting Recorder
Somogyt.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
Hayes Park Playground
0pens---HoId Field Meet

The Hayes Park Playground
opened yesterday. Owing to the late
ness of the opening many of the chill
dren were not aware Of this fact. At
first when Miss Cynthia Frost ar
rived there at about 2 o'clock and
blew her whistle only about ten chill
dren responded to its call. They
started to play dodge bali and within
an hour about seventy-hve were play
ing upon the field.
A field meet was then held. The
boys broad jump wa won by Alfred
London and the ifty-yard dash by
Seldom Hoagiand: the girls broad
jump and ffty-yard dash were won by
Miss Alice Bjork.
Today the baseball teams are being
organized for the boys and folk dane
ing will start for the girls.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
RELIEF
C'''OhGN PLAN
Executive Committee Had a
Meeting Last Night and Com
mittees Are Appointed.

The Jewish War Relief and We'll
fare Fund campaign committee met
last night In the Board of Trade
rooms and arranged plans for the
drive which is to start in this city
next week to raise sz5.000 for the re-
! Galicia. Palestine and Turkey. 1t
was reported at the meeting that
81. 1000 of the $4,000 allotted to the
city q been pledged.
The campaign will be similar to
that recently carried on by the Red
ICross and which proved to be sue
csssfuI. Different committees and
chairmen have been named n viii
have charge of the work. The house
to house canvass will be done under
the direction of women captains. The
headquarters for the drive have been
established in the Board of Trade
rooms M are in charge Of Mrs
Elmer Shaw, who served In a like
capacity In both the Red Gross and
War Saving Stamp drives.
The committees and chairmen ap-
pointed at the meeting a 8 night
were:
Business men committes-Adolph
G~reenbaum, chairman.
Dentist committee-Dr. Kuntz,
chairman.
Insurance committee-John So
Iu2lQ. CHAIRMAN.
Church committee-Rev. Wlbert
Westcott. chairman.
Doctors committee-Dr. Charles I.
Silk. chairman
Bank and Building Loan commit
Itee-W. p. Runyon, chairman; John
w. Pfeiffer.
Lawyers committee-Adrian Lyon,
chairman.
Factory committee-A- Clayton
I(Nlaa chairman
Building Trades committee-Ira r.
Grouse. chairman.
Publicity committee-D. p. Ohm
stead, chairman; Irving b. Lincoln
and Henry H. Nussbaum.
Each n who subscribes toward
the relief will be given 4 poster con-
tanning a ten pointed blue star on a
white background.
A. meeting of all workers Ia sched-
uled to be held at the city hall on
Thursday night.
During the meeting of the execu-
tive committee Mayor John r. Ten
Brock, after being informed that the
.city's quota Is $4,000, remarked.
why, Perth Amboy will go over the
top, as IL has done in all other cam
paigns."
The Jewish relief campaign Is to
obtain money with which to aid the
Jews In the war torn countries. where
they are living lives little better than
animals. The following telegram
from the Hague to the Jewish Wal
Relief and Welfare Fund through
out the country was received and
fully explains the conditions which
confront the Jewish people 1 the
nations now at war:
For Gods sake raise all money
you can, conditions indescribable. n
people perishing from nun
ger. Soup kitchens and asylums for
aged and children closed for ack of
funds. Children cannot attend schools
account extreme weakness and lack
of clothing. An unexampled catas
trophe faces the Polish Jews. Send
hslp."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
DON'T COMPLAIN
It's An Almost Sure Sign of
Nervousness and Run
Down System.

nv ard are generally the people Wild
do things Henca he man or woman
who IL always nnding fanl II usually
on the verge OF = nervous or nhyssea.
'brsak-dowh FOR your own tnterest 49,
Condition 20 on It win sap both your
mental and physical trsnsta 70 ths
last drop
Instead build up h body By incrsas-
lag your strength and xttalltf. CHAs-
ffou of Iron ana ofheT strenEth-mAk-
tnw arnRM. viii inereaso your stfenkkn
ana vitality fully 1oQ PEI cent In tNe
weeks. B1t Yon mazt tnks II reEa-
Ter ale n rarth AmbeT ~ RaxIlan
|Dran CO. snikh and AApis 1sa-A@s
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-09
NOVELTY DANCE PLANNED

The next novelty dance of the Z.
NJ IT. A. will be held in their hall to-
morrow night. IL Is to be a surprise
dance, no one knowing what the
feature of the evening will be unui
ne arrives. The proceeds Will De
given over to the Jewish War Keller
Board.
Refrcshments will be sold. In ex-
change for your donation you will re-
ceive some of the goodies ON hand.
The affair Is in the hands of Leo
Iowenkopf. The usual excellent
music will be furnished by Sol Kauf-
mans orchestra.