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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
CONCERNING CALICO CATS

i, don't always stick to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth vixen criticizing their neighbors.
 If the Funk & Wagna1fs Dictionary people don't include these definitions in their big dictionary, of '"The Century and the rest of the dictionaries do not tot these meanings down opposite Cal ico Cat" then we must use an Alden da" for the Photographer in a rare mood has overlooked one of the very best bets' of modern times, and one of the very worst pests of the day
 Swinburne had a theory to this effect q have never been able to understand what should attract a man to criticism but the noble art of praising!'
 After all, who are the people who criticise?" asked Balzac, and later the 1 self-same question came from Disraeli, and the answer in both cases is
 ''Those who lave failed'
 l, Ave. there's the rub; the failures, l the .'discards in lfe's deck of cards" the might -have-beens; those who have missed the mark, and in consequence find nothing better to do than to try to pull the others df they can) into the same boat with themselves! The boat marked "Failuren'
 criticism after all is not to legislatt but to raise the dead,' said Sir Walter Raleigh. Sometimes it raises Hadeso
 Anyway, it does seem as if people coult find something better to do than tall
 about their neighbors (unAndly),
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theatre Nursery

Henry A. Beers, in Yale Review.
 Many of our Presidents, however lls- tie given to the use of the pen, have
 been successful coiners of phrases phrases that have stuck "entansiinS alliances" "era of good feeling" "in- nocueus desuetude,F "a condition, not a theory" Lincoln was happiest at this art, and there is no need to men- tion any of the scores of pungent say
 ings which he added to the language and which are in daily use. President Roosevelt was no whit behind in this regard All recognize and remember the many phrases to which he gave birth or currency; predatory wealth,
 bull moose" Init the line hard"
 weasel words" my hat is in tie ring" and so on. He took humor- ouy delight in mystifying the pubic with recondite allusions. sending ey- eryone to the dictionary to look out Byzantine logothete," and to ths Bible and eyclopedia to find Arnagedf don |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

Take plain phosphate is the ad-
 vice of these physicians to thln' dehca'e'
 nervous people who lack vim, energy
 and nerve force. and there seems 10 pc
 ample proof of the efficacy or thls prep aration to warrant the recemmenda- tion. Moreover, if we judge from the countless preparations and treaImte;n.Ss aS which are continually being advertised for the purpose of making thin people fleshy. developing arms, neck ana o,ss pus,, and replacing ugly hollows and ansies hye the soft, curved lines of health ana beauty, there are evidently thousands or men and women who feel keenly their excessive thinness
 Thinness and weakness are often due 10 starved nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than is contained in modern foods. Physicians claim there 1 is nothing that will supply this de- l ficiency so well as the organic .phos- l phate known among druggists as bitro- 1 phosphate, which is inexpensive-and Is sold by Letaw's Pharmacy in Birming I ham and most all druggists under 2 guarantee of satisfaction or money
 back By feeding the nerves directi,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
sHoIJhD BE PRESCRIBED BY EVERY DOCTOR AND USED IN EVERY HOSPITAL
 Saws Editor of "Physicians' Who's Who"

and by supplying the body cells with the necessary phosphoric food elements bitro- phosphate should produce wei come transformation in the appearance, !, the increase in weight frequently being astonishing
 Clinical tests made in St. atherine' s Hospital N: Y; e. showed that eSo so pounds respectively, through an aa- ministration of organic phosphate both patients olainNsthey. have not felt as strong and well for the past twelve years.
 Increase in weight also carries with it a general improvement in the health: Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack ot energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, should soon dis appear dull eyes ought to brighten and pale cheeks glow with the bloom of perfect health.
 Physicians and hospitals everywhere are now recognizing it's merits by its use in ever >increasing quantities Frederick Koile, M. D.. editor of New York Phyfician's '.WEo's Who, says. sBitro- Phdsphate should be pSeseribed by every doctor and used in esgry nos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
TEEN. NER VOUS PEOPLE
 NEED BITRO-P PHOSIE9 9HI ATE
What Ii Is and How It Increases Weight, Strength
 and Nerve Forces In Many Instances
pitaI to increase strength and nerve force and to enrich the blood"

pitaI to increase strength and nerve force and to enrich the blood.'
 Joseph D. IIarrigan, Former Visiting Specialist to North Eastern Dlspensa- tory says: Let those who are weak. thin, nervous, anaemic. or r7lfa-doWn, take q natural. unadulterated substance such as bitro-p phosphate and you Will soon see some astonishing results n the increase of nerve energy, strength of body and mind and power of endur- ance.
 Phosphate is made entirely of the organic phosphate compound re ferred to in the National Standard Dis .pensatory as being an excellent tome and nervine and a preparatioH whleh has recently acquired considerable rep- utation in the treatment of neuras- thenia The standard of excellence. strength and purity of it's subsfF ( z F ts beyond question, for every Bis
 phate tablet is manufactured *EKi Accordance with the U. s xH copoeia test requirements Bif
 Dhate is theWfore not a pate r eine and should not be contrN fs any Of the secret nostrunS. s9.
 tonics or widely advertised ~eN{
 CkUTiON:- Although Bari t'as 'sA ohnte is uusurpasSed for rel1etsA7 NFtr roi,xsress, sIeepieSsne~s anG Aszserstl weak ness, owing to it's tende'tes fe8zs~ | crease weight 1t nl1ouid no< hs sN Fl TT anyone wko does not desire r. nt fl txIckhs l.s x x I3z \
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 if you and I were talking right this very minute. heart to heart, face to face. So let's reason it out to- together friend O mine, and after bit methinks you'll find that transcribed upon your Social Register" is quite a large and enthusiastic "sprinkling' of this variety of animal, both male and fe- male.
 They are sometimes called in vulgar parlance Lounge Lizards" Piazza Cats" Porch Hens'' and Knitting Knuts," but at heart they are all just the same plain old Calico Cats!" A Calico Cat puts to blush the fam ous "Cheshire Fuss of the fable in Alice in Wonderland
 "Cats in Calico" to be sure may be seen almost any day "ambling'' down the tloroughfares, the simulacrum of fe- line. an eidolen such as MT. Howells describes.
 These "Calico Cats" are historical, be- lieve me. There's a Belgian poet; he was the greatest poet of his day (with the possible exception of D'Annunzio), Emile verharen Che died at Rouen), who has written about
 "Cats of ebony,
 Cats of flame'
 But, manifestly a cat cannot be both flaming and calico at the same time, just as one can't be both melting and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29


 By Cynthia stokely G. P. Putnam's s
 Sons, publishers, New York city. No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored medium through which the great dark continent it's tales unfolds.
 A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm, a hedge of Blue Aloes, cactus | of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping things-a whisper and summons in the dead of the night an odor of death and the old. l There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmos- phere of the Veldt.
 i THE VALLEY OF VISION'' I By Sarah Comstocll Frederick A. Stokes | Co.,, publishers, New York city. Marcia was born into the proudest ard most arrogant family of Banbury village where the mental and spiritual outlook of the best people" was as re- stricted as the village itself. From in l fancy she rebelled against the marrow | environment, instinctively resisting hel l f;,milys efforts to reduce her to Banbury ! ideals.
 Shesincurs the displeasure of the vii ] lage society with all it's consequences but keeps as her friend the most popular boy in the village. Richard Goodrich. He | too is sort of social rebel, as ht spurns the conventional career laid ou for him and wants to be a great manu l facturer.
 | He and Marcia form an alliance ant work together for the realization of theil separate but interfusing ideals, each
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

While I'm writing a little verse comes to mind which contains a bit of phi losophy which is amusing as well as worth while:
 ",There was a woman who had done Some little things she shouldn't,
 And while she kept her secret well
 Some other people wouldn't!
 Marie Bashkirtseff says. in her immor- tai "Journar':
 There is nothing like keeping the mind occupied work is cure for every thing, especially mental work. l cannot understand women who spend their time knitting or embroidering; the hands busy and the mind idle. A multitude of friv- olous or dangerous fancies must crowd the mind at such a time and if there is any secret trouble in the heart the thoughts will dwell upon that, and the result must be disastrousn There's the point exactly. "Satan finds some evil for idle hands to do;" this evil only too often takes the form of gossip and may the Lordshave mercy lupon the victim!
 1 I read a story not long ago in big metropolitan newspaper about the very same subject of which I am writing Only this story called the gossips Piazza Cats" instead of Calico Cats,' as have.r Listen to what the writer had to say about this species of people: 1 "The habitat of this ubiquitous ami i nal, the Piazza Cat, is any old piazza 1 which is convenient to said eat; hence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

safe and sane, if not commonplace. His thoughts are not on adventure as he
 rides to his work in the subway or home for the night on a bus. But let him sit down on a bench in Madison Square sometime between midnight and
 dawn. At the far end a young man in cape is audibly asleep.
 Suddenly pair of wide shoulders, clad fn navy blue serge, appear under a nearby park lamp. Their owner circles the granite -bowled fountain, and drops almost diffdently into the seat next the youth in the cape overeoat.
 A moment of alert observation, to right and left, every derelict in the square
 seems set to sleep till sunup. The wide shoulders lean over toward their nelgh- hor-business of listening intenty-then hand creeps out toward the youth and slips snaSe-like beneath the cape Of his coat-commonplace, safe, sane?
 This is the quie beginning oI one or
 the. ten thrilling adventures of "The Man Who Couldn't Sleep"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

the classification Felinus Porchibus- Her chief occupation is scratching. She is necessarily gregarious, since she never operates upon kerself-worse luck!-but upon the regulations of those so for tunate as to be of another species. There fore an assistant with equally long, sharp claws and as gentle purr is a neees- sity of her being.
 The piazza cats are usually fed, housed and kept in extreme idleness by galley slaves known as husbands, who grill in red hot frying pans called city offices, to fry out the fat of the land upon which | the piazza cats subsist. This process also supplies the unlimited amount of leisure required by Felinus Porchibus for scratching purposes.
 ! As is the case with all felines, they see best in the dark They have even been known to detect dark deeds that were never committed
 They are particularly inimieal to fine fabrics, and will destroy in a single af- ternoon conclave the delicately woven tapestry of reputation that has taken three generations to produce.
 The piazza cat may be known by an unfailing sign to the careful observer of unnatural hisaory-the velvety dulcet quality of her purr. Wise folk can al- ways detect it, and look immediately for the pins in her pincushion claws.
 There is no remedy for her. Attempts at extermination on the part of press and nulnit are useless. as the galley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
"FROM WAR TO PEACH
 n--i. l I.... i'll (Hc

By Herbert Quick, The Boobs Merrill CO.,
 publishers, Indianapolis.
 Ins considering the veXed problems or the present, Mir Quick has his face turned toward the future which he hopes to see made as glorious as any period ol the past. A better democracy, higher rural morale, education based on lite as it is, Americanization of society, dem ocratic attitude toward national defense establishment of the disabled, employ ment of our industrially unsettled are subjects treated. He closes ms sane ang ealf. lf.controlled volume with an eloquent plea that we give to the common man not only freedom of speech, not only free dom of the press, not only religious I'D ertv. but economic liberty as well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

duality in his own nature, which, evel in his junior year, will not allow h3H
 to decide between electrical engineers ing and landscape gardening Materi nal testimony is to> the effect that ri has unusual talent in music and tnal if only-but sons specification of th| reasons for his retarded artistic deyel opment is so convincing and ezoneraij ing that it should be set down here \ full: (a) uncomfortable antipathy q the personality of Miss Boggs, hlI first. and last, music teacher; CD dlsl located forefinger from foul tip; tcs fatal facility in playing by eari (aI congenital inability to play anythlE] in sharps. Almost any prosperouI comfort-loving American householf can show one such talent, which mieh
 have come to fruition had the require, ments and training for pianofort' playing been less unreasonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Ole Miss, after JULY DE THIRST" mos uv de WIT, lak everything else, will be- DRY. Yassum.

pleasantly exchanged about the foibles and fancies of others is all right; who could live without personal reference now and then t,o our enemies-nay, our friends-but malicious unlAind, hurtful scandal is a sin that is as bad as any sin that can be committed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
Our Musical Undergraduate

Arthur Whiting in the Yale Review Our undergraduate, Of the lootpd' scx, has found, great satlsfactlon III me eon,bination of mechanics and aes-
 thetics. typifying, as it does, certain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
By -oLLY DALR YAIPLK

slaves who breed her are legion-and the1 are imbued with wholesome fear of hei claws So, like Tennysons babblingI burbling, bubbling, unmuzzled brook. shl goes on forever.
 The only alleviation to be looked fol lies in the hope that, some glorious dayl scme great scientist. goaded to desperai ton, will discover an antitoxin whic1 shall destroy her scratchabihties and bI called Rough~en Cats. Pretty strenuous write up, isn't it, But my friends, there is much truth fl the lines; much food for thought; mucl genuine, onest-to-goodness, good old hard morse sensep in it, for the tribe whether Piazza Cats" Calico Cats' ol what not, I regret to say, infests thI world in large numbers these days a1I2 the deadly work goes on like the babblil brook-6oreverA No, the female of the species- is "a worse than the male; don't get that idie irto your head, for when a man is a gos sip-well, I can stand any sort of botch of a woman, but a hotch of man (and that's what he is when hl stoops to petty gossip and destruction ol
 character and reputation and the verl heart of people, is just too unspeakaple
 too unimportant to bother with
 "Callco Cats are dangerous animal|
 therefore it behooves us to be on oul
 guard, my friends, lest we come in foI | our share of their scorching, acrimonious
 vjrile criticism, for who is there cd
 muzzle the Calico Cat?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
"BLUE ALOES"

simple story of noble life which stands as he Hved-an example to follow,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

.sruE MAN WHO COULDN'T SLEEP D. Arthur Stringer. The Bobbs Mer-
 Till Co. publishers, Indianapolis.
 The most thrilling of all adventures are the adventures of civilization TOT they are always unexpected. New York city. lighted. rolieed' alive with life, seems to the average cl,izei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29


 sporting things in unexpected ways and places Frail sheltered, unequipped they often are facing lfe's unforeseen handl- caps with smiling and invlnclple cour- age. Olive Higgins Prouty, with her rare understanding and subtle sympathy, has here recorded with a compelling polg- nancy the intimate experiences or a leW of these thorough going good sports. | There is, for instance, the youngest dane hter of a pampered, idle family, who, tiring of being useless social orna ment, takes up her fathers dare and | tolls throughout stifng, blistering l summer in a New York office. She misses
 a trip to Califorpia; but she proves her self sterling metal and wins coveted l reward. -
 There is the thinly clad, silken garbed | young person, who with the courage oi ] ignorance joins a party or mountain l climbers in the winter snoWs They eN- pect her to be a drag and a kill joy l R,t because she has the true sporting
 blood. she keeps on till she drops, in
 snite of frosted feet and tortured lungs. | Anc the big, s.x-foot athletic leader or
 the partN is the first to take off his hat and lose his heartAto a true sport when he sees one. Finally. there is the girl weighed down with the knowledge of her own useiess-
 ness. She faces the big, unanswerapie
 enigma of life-why was she born Why 1 At last she finds her answer, on the pat
 tIefelds of France-finds it as she meets
 tho sunreme test of that love, greater | tI,an which hath no man, and knows one brief moment of supreme content
 1 These stories are distinguished by the same charm and sympathy that gainea popularity for Mrs. Prouty hoppi' General Manager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29
GOOD SPORTS"

"GOOD SPORIS
 By Olive Higgins Prouty. Frederick A. Stokes Co. publishers. New York city, Not all good sports are heroes or the athletic field or the race track or Broadway Some of the most admiraoie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-29

meeting with a large measure Of sue cess. An engaging love story, no less inter esting because of it's unexpected hnale. The author of ''The Soddy' has written a novel that builds largely upon the hrm foundation of her distinguished hrse book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-09
State Auditor HOLDS
Up Injury Grants

Pierre, Aug. 9.-State Auditor
Reeves has declined to issue warrants
for $1,000 each to G. e. Mackey and
Oscar Hunt, which were provided by
special acts of the last Legislative
session. His holding is on the
ground that, in his opinion. these
appropriations are in violation of the
constitution and before he pays out
anything on the claims he desires a
ruling of the supreme court as to
whether they are valid claims against
the state.
These appropriations were granted
for personal injuries received by
these two men seventeen years ago,
while they were members of an artil-
lery company of the state guard.
Both were injured by the prematui e
discharge of field gun they were
using in firing salutes while they
were In camp at the state fair.
The state auditor also is having
freight bills of the differest state in
stitutions checked over for the last
five years, and has found several In
which there were overcharges.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-09
PREPARATIONS FOR
COUNTY FAIR
LAKE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
EXHIBIT In SEPTEMBER

The county agricultural board has
decided to hold fair this year on
September 2-5. On account of war
conditions none was held last year,
but now preparations are going for
ward for a full line of county exhib-
it's, big race program and all the
other features of an up-to-date couE-
ty fair.
The list of cash premiums will be
large. Those to be awarded prize
winning members of the pig and calf
clubs will be especially attractive
since they range from so to rs per
cent than ordinary. The stock sec
tion bids fair to claim much atten-
tion from breeders by reason of the
move throughout the county to pro-
duce more classy herds.
A place will be made for the edu-
cational exhibit from the public
schools of the county. This year
new interest will be found in the re-
suits attained through the operation
of the Smith-Hughes law that cont
bfnes agricultural extension practices
with intensive training along farmine
lines in general. These courses are
carried along with other. regular
school work and it is reported that
there are many Smith-Hughes stu
dents over Lake county.
Several attractions for the amuse
ment of the young are to be secured
and it may be that the managing
board can arrange to have an aviator
here to perform some thrilling stunts
Young and old can look forward 4
the coming event with the knowledge
that 1t will be the best fair ever helt
in Lake county.