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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
LOVE LETTERS OF A
 ROOKIE :,

 By Barney Stone; headquarters company 18th field artillery. American expedt- tionary force. illustrations by Gordon Ross. The Sherwood company, publish CTS, New York city. In the attractive little Golume entitled Love Letters of a Rookie," by Barney Stone, the author observes:
 ITO R. E. S., whose Suggestions made these pages possible and palatable. This is quoted because the person who inspired making possible and palatable" these attractive letters certainly knew what he was doing-because few books have been more readable or more enter taining or more delightful than these let ters inscribed ITO Julie" The first let ter begins:
 "Dere Julie: 0n camp somewhere be- tween the kitchen and the lunch coun- er)"
 It is really one of the most amusing of the many letters contained in the lit tie volume; especially amusing is tho postscript" to the first letter, when Barney states: 'I don't know why they call us dough-
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boys for thirty per-ain't much dough, | is it, Angelface?"
 The little volume is quite worthwhile and is written in the attractive "slangy" diction of the army and is original as we'll as different, from the usual run of war books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
HAIR ON FACE
 DISAPPEARS QUICK

The most effective, Seenvenient and harmless way te remove hair is with DeMiracIe. the erigfnal
 sanitary liquid. 1t acts quickly with certainty and absolute sale
 ty. Results from fts use are in- mediate and lastfng.
 Only genuine DeMlracle, the
 original sanitary 1lQuAd, has .
 meney-back guarantee in each paekage. At toilet counteru ln
 COG. S1 and a sixes, or by nall
 from us in plain wrapper on re- ceipt of price. FREE book mailed fin plain sealed envelope on request. De
 Miracle, 120th St. and Park Ave. New York.
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THE ADVENTURES OF A
 BROWNIE"

By Miss Mulock. Illustrated J. B. Lip pincot company, publishers, Philadel- phia.
 Everybody knows about Brownies these days; they are the most up-to-date little elfs on the round earth. if We are to believe all that we hear about them but the "Brownie' of Miss Mulock's
 charming little story was one of the old-
 fashioned Brownies" who knew and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
"GIILL1vER,s TRAVELS" ]"

 By pr. Jonathan Swift Illustrated. J. B. Lipplncott company. publishers, Phil adelphia.
 In the island of Lilliput upon which Gulliver was cast by shipwreck, dweit a people so small that the most of them did not exceed six inches in height; in- deed were quiet beneath this stature. Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's larg- est horses, each about four inches high, were employed to .draw me toward the metropolis" wrote Captain Gulliver. In this land Hike garden, in which the fields resembled so many beds of flow ers," Gulliver had many strange adven- lures, not the least of which was his prowess in carrying off about 50 men-ot- war of the enemy nation of Blofuseu and thus saving Lilliput from great danger But what were these experiments com pared with those in Brobdigan whither he travelled later? Where his nine year-old 1 nurse was very good-natured, but above 1 40 feet high, being little for her age; where he became the Queens favorite; quarreled with a dwarf barely 90 feet high; and many other strange and amus- 1 ing happenings.
 It cannot be thought that any child S education is complete until he has mas tered this most diverting history.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

ally made to fit their particular figures
or altered to fit them.
If the standard, corset does not fit the
figure of the purchaser, then, theoretically,
the purchaser has not a standard figure
If she cannot wear the standard shape
then her figure is technically deformed
Therefore, these women who must pay for
specially made corsets or having corsets
altered to fit them ought to be freed from
any tax on corsets on the same line Of
reasoning as persons with deformed feet
or ankles escape the tax on specially fitted
shoes. But even this is very unpIeas-
ant door of escape from the corset tax
No woman likes to put in claim that
her figure is deformed
And when is a boy not boy?
There is nothing in the law taxing
babies or infants wearing apparel. The
law says that boys boots, underclOthes
and so forth shall be taxed under certain
conditions. But there is nothing in the
law providing any taxes for the same
articles for girls. Up to the age of a year
or two boy babies and girl babies wear
just the same clothes. Did the muddle-
headed experts who wrote the tax law
intend to do the gallant thing and inten-
tiOnally soak the boy baby for his clothes
and relieve the dear little girl baby from
the tax burden? There is little evidence
elsewhere in the Law of any such courtesy
toward the feminine sex
So the shOpkeepers, aided by the moth.
ers of babies. have decided to correct the
careless stupidity of the people who wrote
the law. This is how it is done
Boy babies and girl babies are not really
boys or girl. They are infants and wear
interchangeable clothes-yOu can't tell
from the clothes Of an infant whether Il
is boy or a girl. So until the infants
become old enough so that their clothes
make it apparent that the infant is q boy
a tax on boys" should not apply There
is nothing in the law about taxing infants.
A boy is an infant and not boy until he
wears boys clothes. Therefore, a boy "A
not boy until he wears the clothes OF A
boy. The tax collector has 20 right to
pursue his investigation beyond the face
of the returns, as the politician puts II.
But that is not all about boys The Law
says that mems shirts must be taxed and
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tea-eOats. You may buy any Of these tax
free so long as you do not pay more than
$3.50 for the garment But II the material
is fur or most Of its value il represented
by fur trimming 1t Is not q lounging robe
at all. In that case. it is "furs." and As
such taxable at 10 per cent on the total
Of its cost at the shop. Would you think
kimono is a loungins robe9 On. no. II
is mott It is "a garment Of Japanese or
pseudo-Japanese workmanship" and does
not pay any tax unless the price is above
SIS.
Going back to jewelry-your allowance
for an umbrella or parasol Is "a. II you
buy a IS umbrella you must pay $50 for
It. But IL the umbrella is ornamented
with a silver band or its handle tipped
with silver, It is then not an umbrella but
jewelry, and is assessed 5 per cent max
ing the price S5.25. 1t does not matter
whether the silver is real or only imita-
tiOn. The umbrella is jeweIry, just the
same
A hatpin with a piece of yellow glass at
nc up lulltdtlLS lOpdA VI pClhdPo dLlbCA'
is jewelry Anything with ivory on it is
jewelry But. a curious exception, imita-
ton ivory is not jewelry, while both imi-
tation jewels and metals are.
A spangled shawl is jewelry. and
so is a grandfathers clock! In fact, all
kinds of clocks as we'll as watches-and
so, likewise. are field glasses. A picture
frame ornamented with gold. silver or
ivory is not picture frame, but jewelry.
IT, however il is adorned with merely sill
yer leaf or gold leaf it is a picture frame.
all right. and there is no tax unless the
price be above $40
In Ibis confused work of defining what
is everything we have from children to
carpets art has not been neglected.
A statue is only a statue when it repre-
sents a human being or some animal.
But even when it is all of this it is not a
statue when it is a part of a building
The statues that adorn the New York Gus
tom House and public and other buildings
and residences throughout the country i'm
mediately pass out of the statuary class
when they are made part of the structure
Sculptures include everything that IS cut
or carved by hand. sun-dial is a
sculpture and so is paperweight, but the
makers of the act evidently had some
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legs of wearing this sort of 'jewelry' as
the man who has very little the matter
with his eyes.
But that is not quite all. If you like TO
wear the big horn-rimmed glasses. they
are not listed qs "Jewelry." Since cellu-
loid rims contain no precious metal they
are not Jewclry. and therefore escape the
tax But not everybody likes to wear the
ostentatiOus horsebinders which you can
see across the street. IF you do not like
these monstrositieS you must pay the Gov
ernmeni for exercising your superior taste
in wearing the Invisible unrimmed eye
glasses
The Internal Revenue people who collect
he taxes have made rules and explana-
tiohs. but of course. what they say is sub
iect 10 final decision by the courts SO
they have ordered taxes collected on ror.
sets, declaring that underwear is amy gar
ment worn under the outer dress. such a,
undershirts. drawers. pants. bloomers.
union suits, tights. camisoles, corsets. cor
set-covers, brassieres. chemises and
vests" But this ruling also adds that this
list IFS by no means intended to be ex-
haustive"
Are porous plasters, abdominal belts,
etc. also underwear? The revenue col
lectors are on record as ruling that live
snails are wild animals in captivity" and
frogs legs must be taxed as poultry"
What is a lounging robe? mans
breakfast coat is a lounging robe, accord
ing to the Treasury Departments defni-
ton, but so are also boudoir gowns and
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not taxable!

And suppose father, a small-sized man,
goes in any buys a dozen shirts and says
they are for his boy. What is the tax col
ector going TO do about It?
Some shops have arbitrarily said that a
shirt below the size OF 1872 collar is a
boys shirt Anything bigger than IL y
size is a mans shirt. BY this arbitrary
ruling, small men can walk in boldly and
buy boys shirts and GET away with it
But unless your big. husky-framed boys
can wear boys shirts they become men,
and are punished accordingly. So the wise
people who wrote this clause into the law
have produced all sorts Of confusion. hard
feeling and words which are not At to
print in this column
1t is misfortune, OF course. TO have TO
wear eyeglasses. The new tax law has
been so ingeniously devised that the worse
your eyes are the heavier the tax you pay
This thoughtful arrangement comes about
in this way.
Under the careless, loose way Of taxing
jewelry, anything with a little piece of
precious metal on 1t becomes "Jewelry"
The law does not know that there is any
difference between a diamond set in gold
or dollar umbrella with little piece Of
silver-plated metal on Il or a pair of eye
glasses with a gold-plated tip-they are
both "jeweify'
SO eyeglasses with the customary gold
clip become jewelry and must be taxed
per cent OF the price. man with only
moderately poor eyeslght can get a PAIR
OF lenses Tor about "a, q gold-plated clip
for about $3.50, which means a tax of
Copyright, 1919, by Star Company
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

THE clumsy new tax law which was
rushed through the last session of
Congress turns out to contain many
inconsistencies and puzzles which nobody
can answer A luxury tax is laid on a
long list of articles of mems, women's,
misses and boys" wear-but nothing is
said about girls. So girls shoes. caps,
stockings and so forth cannot be taxed.
because nothing is said about girls" in
the new law.
But when is a girl a girl?
When does a girl become a miss?
There is no authority in law or in the
dictionary fixing the time or place when
--othe girl ends and the miss begins.
ss-' Some shopkeepers say that a girl begins
= to be miss" when she is six years old
Next door you find shop which thinks
that a girl is a girl until she is seven.
And Mr.. John w. Hahn. executive secre-
"stary of the National Retail Drygoods
ssAssociation, feels sure that girl does
not become a miss until she is twelve
:.syears old. With all this variation of opin-
ions. shoppers have begun to go shopping
.for children's clothes at stores which de-
.clare girl TO be girl until she is twelve
years old or more.
Are corsets underwear?
Right here the law has precipitated
question of national importance with many
- complications The National Retail Dry
goods Association has asked the tax col
lectors what to do about it. Under Sec
.tion 904 of the new law all underwear
b" costing over So must pay tax. But is a
De corset underwear? The manufacturers.
he wholesalers and the retailers deny
that a corset is underwear The mere fact
hat corset is worn under the outer cloth
thing does not make the corset underwear
If you put an overcoat or a wrap over your
dress suit or evening gown, does your
UTess suit or evening gown become under
o., ear? Some stores are collecting the
luxury tax on corsets and others are not
Some indignant women who have been
squeezed out Of the tax have agreed to
take the case into the courts.
But there is another side to this corset
puzzle. The law very particularly states
That the tax on boots, shoes and so forth
must not be applied to specially made
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

thirty-three cents on
this piece OF "jewelry."
But If a college prOfes-
sor or a doctor has a
very inferior pair OF
eyes and requires COM
pliCated lenses that
cost, say. $40 a pair.
his complete eye-klass-
es. With the plated tip,
will cost $3.50 anu his
tax will be eighty-three
cents. Thus, with rare
intelligence. the fran
ers of the tax law have
managed Il so that the
man with the very seri-
Gus defect i'm his vision
pays nearly three times
as much for the priVi-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-01

If corseGs Are underwent, Then
eorSsls That Have t. Bs Altered
10 Fit o. Specially Made to Fit
shoala Bs Free Of fAk snthe Same
TAsory That Psople Whese Feet
and Ankles Do Nee Flt Standard
Styles of Shoes Are aDoformed''
and, Therefore, Are faa Free.
special ideas Of their own about glass.
Cut-gIass, even though carved By hand. is
excepted from the sculpture tax and does
not even become = statue wheB n repre-
stnts a human being or some animal"
And now consider the processes of rea-
sOnlng which regulate the lmblbing of
soft drinks and the eating Of ice cream.
lemon soda from the faucet ls taxable at
the rate Of one cent for every ten cents
worth. A lemon soda In q bottle is not
taxable at all But IL you ask the clerk
to dilute your lemon soda or other soft
drink from bottle with little carbonated
water from his faucet, straIghtway it be-
comes a taxable soft drink Tea, coffee.
beef tea, clam BROTH clam blsaue. tomato
bisque, tomato bOhillon are not soft drinks
in the minds Of the legislators Does this
mean that these old friends have been
tracked down as sefpents lurking among
the innocent sodas and are marked for sue
Cessive executions by constitutional amend
ment?
If you buy a sandwich in a restaurant
and order a plate of ice cream with it the
ice cream is then part of meal and not a
luxury. But if you get your sandwich at
the soda fountain and take ice cream with
it it is a luxury and YOU pay the tax. II
you buy your ic" cream in box to carry
il away. it is not luxury, but il you buy
il in cones" you pay the tax. even though
you take the cones away with YOU. The
Alice in Wonderland idea behind this re-
nIarkable differentiation seems 10 BE- that
because the cones can be eaten right there
az the fountain they therefor are pre-
sumed to be eaten there. whereas the
closed package could not remain closed
package and still be eaten on the spot.
Soft drinks and ice cream are not lux
uries either at church festivals or at
annual outings such as, say the
'Steenth Ward Peoples Club C''wives and
babies invited and the glad hand to alI")
but at the races. at a circus or at an
agricultural fair they become taxable lux
uries
And the most luxurious of all luxuries
are stilettos daggers, dirks and brass
knuckles. which are assessed at 100 per
cent on the dealers price.
Nevertheless, even here there are deli
cate shades of opinion, for one can buy
bowie knife, which is as deadly as any of
these others. with an addition Of one ten
per cent Of the retail cost.
Solomon, with all his wisdom. would
never have been able to solve the puzzles
Of the luxury tax law.
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shoes, or appliances
for crfpples or per
sons with deformed
feet Now the cor
set Is made, like
shoes. on standard
measurements. But
very few women ex-
actly fit the stand
ard measurements.
The result is that
hundreds of thou
sands of women
have corsets speci-
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boys. shirts need not
be taxed-but what
is a boys shirt?
There is nothing in
the style, textile,
weave, collar, pat
tern, design or shape
TO distinguish a boys
shirt from a mans
shirt. What then de-
cides whether a
mans shirt lying on
the counter is a
boys shirt or a
mans shirt? # a boy
walks in and buys
the shirt, it would be
fair to assume that
it is a boys shirt.
But suppose the boy
is buying the shirt
for his father, an
lnder-size man. Then
is it a boys shirt or
a mans shirt? Here,
then, the same shirt
may be either a bCy's
shirt or a mans
shirt-the same shirt
may be taxable and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-16
SEVEN KILLED
ONMINE SWEEPER
S u. S. S. BUCKLEY

Washington, July 15-One officer
and six enlisted men We're Ff'1ed in the
destruction of the American mine
sweeper Richard H. Buckley by the
explosion of mine in the North sea
July II Two other officers were in
jured
The dead are Commander Frank A
King, Hoyd Harmon, engineman: two
seamen two firemen and a cook.
According to the records at the navy
department. Commander Kings next of
kin is bis wife who lives at 346 Grant
street, Albany, Alabama. Commander
King vas 35 years of age and was
appoint,d to the naval academy from
AIabaml in 1903. He served on board
the batieship Arizona during the war
and wal promoted to commander ear
ly this year The survivors of the
Buckleyhave been taken to the Ameri-
can miIe force base at Inverness
Scotland According to cable dispatches
to the navy department, this morn
ing, ong one body has been recov-
cred.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-16
WILL
GIVE ROOSTER TO
BE AUCTIONED

Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and
Orlando "the big four" each have
agreed TO give a rooster TO be auctiono6
at Demopolis, Ala. On August IA and
Is to assist in the raising of funds
for the construction of a bridge over
the Bigbee river on the Dixie Overland
highway accarding to an announcement
made today by Representative Oliver
of Alabama. Mr.. Oliver called at the
white house with Representative Nc
Duffee also of Alabama and Senator
McKeller, of TIE nnessee, a former Ala
bamian. AT the conclusion of five
minute talk with the president, Mr..
oliver said the three roosters con-
tributed by Clemenceau. Lloyd George
and Orlando already had arrived in the
United States and that President VIII
son had agreed TO buy a bird and turn
over all four later.
The Alabama representative said
that in addition TO these birds many
others would be contributed by various
well known people throughout the
United States including Representative
Cannon, Champ Clark, and the gov
ernors of several states. He said the
roosters contributed by the big four"
would be taken to Alabama on a spe-
cial train and that it was expected the
rooster sale would bring about $500
600 TO lie used for the construction of
the bridge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-16
DEVELOPMENT
AT ST. ANDREWS
CONTEMPLATED
Recommendation That Pre-
lirninary Survey of Harbor
Be Made Has Been Ap-
proved.
BY GEORGE n. MANNING.

Washington, July 15.-The board of
engineers for rivers and harbors today
approved the recommendation of the
district aud divisional engineers that
an examination and preliminary sur
vey be made of st. Andrews bay,
Florida, with a view to improving It to
permit of it's extended use for COM
mercial purposes.
St. Andrews bay is said to offer one
of the best natural locations in the
United States for development of
big harbor. Large commercial in
terests of New York recently made
large purchases of land there with a
view to ultimately using the port for
big trade it is expected to build up
from the port to Central and South
America.
Senator Fletcher, of Florida, has
been insistently urging that this sur
ment of the harbor at St. Andrews bay
be undertaken. At a conference he
held with the board of engineers to-
day, they agreed to approve the rec
ommendation of the district engineer.
Tn survey will be made at once
it is expected. Senator Fletcher hopes
that the report can be made to con-
gress by December SO that it will be
possible to have an appropriation to
begin the harbor development put in
the annual rivers and harbors bill at
the congress session beginning in
December.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-16
SOLDIERS CRY "
ROUGH USAGE IN
PRISON CAMPS

Washington, July 15-Six former
American soldiers testified today be-
fore a special house committee inves-
tigating alleged cruelties to military
prisoners in France and declared that
merciless assaults We're committed
without provocation on prisoners by
arrogant officers in charge OF prison
camps. Only one OF the witnesses,
all of whom were charged with being
absent without leave, was convicted.
the others having been acquitted or
the charge dismissed.
The Bastile, the stockade, prison
farm No. ?, and Stanns hotel, also
known as "the brig were places
named by witnesses as scenes OF al
legged cruelties, which were said TO
have extended over several months In
1918 Some officers in charge OF
prison camps. it was said, had been
convicted by court martial and others
were awaiting trial. Lieutenant
Hardboiled" Smith. one Of the prison
camp officers, was mentioned FREE
quently, while others named We're
Lieutenants Mason and Sullivan and
Sergeants Ball, Wolfmeyer and Bush.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-16
FOUR Are HURT
when AUT0HIT
ELECTRIC POLE
Driver of Car Coming South
on Palafox Was Unrnind-
full of Sharp Turn at Lee
Square.

Miss Geneva Huff, of Virginia.
formerly a teacher in the local
schools. was painfully cut On The lip
and over the eye; Miss Lois Hardee.
of Floridatown, sustained a spraincd
ankle and other minor injuries. and
her sister, Miss Merle Hardee, sus-
tanned sprained back, and Mrs. Eu-
gene Faircloth was bruised about the
head and shoulders. carly last night
when a car on which they We're riding
collided with an electric wire pole on
the north side of Lee Square, on Pala-
fox street.
Only one other party in the car at
the time of the accident, Eugene Fair
cloth, escaped injury. The pole was
broken down about six feet above the
surface of the ground and fell length
wise On the car, which was demolish-
ed. Mr. and Mrs. Faircloth being only
occasional visitors to the city, were
not mindful of the sharp turn around
the park and this resulted in the acci-
dent. Mrs. Faircloth was driving the
car.
The accident occurring at the lime
It did, when the streets We're fairly
crowded attracted a large crowd to
the scene. The injured ladies were
hurricdlto the Y. w. c. A, where the
girls ofjthe party all make their home
and they were attended by DIR. Block
er. Miss Huff was later sent 10 the
Pensacola hospital.