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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
THE MYSTERY OF THE THII-
 TEENTH FLOOR"


 By Lee Thayer. Frontispiece. The
 Century company. publishers, New York city.
 James Randolph Stone, lawyer fla nous, rich and aged, with a suite of of flces on the thirteenth floor of New York office building, dictated a new will to his stenographer on that sum mer morning, and when she had tram scr1bed it she took with her into Mir stones private office clerk to witress It. She and the clerk walked back into the main office; and hardly 10 seconds later, hearing groan in Mir Stones private office. they rushed back and found him stabbed to death
 Among suspected are James Stone, a favorite nephew, with whom, how ever, he had quarreled the night before because the young man insisted on marrying the girl he loved; Hamilt on Calbert whom the old lawyer had ruined, and who had just rented but had not occupied an office next to the pri- vate office of MT. Stones and Chester Morgan. thieving. cigarette smoking nephew of the dead man.
 To the many readers who revel in the lntricacies of the mystery story this novel will appeal powerfully; it cHal- lenges the most resourceful and in genious reader to solve the murder in advance of the story. Moreover there Is intertwined with the theme of mys- tery a theme of love of unusual at tractiVeness. And both themes are car ried to conclusions most gratifyings to the reader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
SAVE THE BABIES
 IS CRY IN FRANCE
Big Campaign of Education Is Under Way in Towns
 and Villages
By Assooiated Press

Paris. March 19-"Save the babies' is the message that has been taken into the remote towns and villages of 1S departments of France by the chi1dren's bureau of the American Red Cross.
 France is considered second to none in scientific knowledge of infant wei fare, but hitherto that knowledge has been largely confined to her medical schools her hospitals and to the minds of her child specialists It needed to be taken right into the homes, f France was to save her coming generation
 To combat ignorance of the principle of child hygiene on the part of French mothers. to popularize fresh air and clean teeth to preach the truth that tuberculosis is preventable, to encour- age breast feeding and sensible cloth ing for infants, was the task which the American Red Cross, IT monehs ago, set itself to perform.
 The result is, as the bureau statistics show, that 250 900 French children have directly benefited by the efforts of this section of the American Red Cross
 It organized four great expositions In four of the busiest cities of France Lyons, Marseilles. St Etienne and Toui7 ouse. Three hundred thousand persons went through the turnstiles of these shows and they took home every piece of the child welfare literature that they could obtain.
 Travelling eXpositions next went into 13 French departments They gave simple lectures and demonstrations xx f4l e L.,I, ,l~,11 in n styW hall or the market place, and with the aid of their own cinema and supply Of picture cards and colored posters, told the mothers how the health and welfare of their offspring might be pro- noted. Nearly 2,000, 900 pieces of child welfare propaganda were thus dis tributed, with the gratifying result that in many instances mothers returned to the show to tell that they had 5ene- fited by this or that piece of advice giv- en by Hes Amereains
 Finally, the bureau has trained young Frenchwomen as social visitors ard sent 4S of them out among their own people. In Lyons, MarseilleS, Corbeil, Blois, St. Etienne and Paris they are doing intelligent and constructive so- cial work, beginning at the home itself, where they are endeavoring to instil modern methods of child hygiene and the prevention of disease.
 Another feature of the activities Of the children's bureau has been the es- tablishment of childrens playgrounds. A start has been made at Rouen, where 1 two playgrounds have been inaugurated for the use of children between the ages of and 5. The workers are Miss Jane G. Hennessey, who has had seven years experience as playground teacher in New York, and Miss Beulah Kennard, a member of the faculty of New York university, and for 20 years president and superintendent of the Pittsburg Playground association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
WOODED
 MAIDS WITH SONG
Hundreds of Them Have Taken French Brides
 Back to Portugal
By Associated Press

Lisbon, March 16.-The Portuguese have not failed to live up to their rep utation for gailantry during their three years sojourn in France. The authori- ties have received notice of .6S1 mar riages to French girls to Portuguese officers and soldiers. and many hun dreds more are expected to follow.
 The young Portuguese warriors. it would seem, exercised an irresistible fascination upon the French maidens by reason of the romantic melancholy songs of Portugal called "fados," with which they serenaded their sweethearts 10 the accompaniment of guitars. These airs. 1t is said, gained wide popularity in the Armentieres sector, where the Portuguese expeditionary forces were located
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

Wilfred Thomson Grenfell. M. D., superintendent of the Labrador medi- cal mission of the Royal National Mis- sion of Deep Sea Fishermen, was born February 2S, 1863. He fitted out the first hospital ship for the North sea fisheries, and cruised with the fisher men from the Bay of Biscay to Iceland. He established homes for them on the land and arranged mission vessels for them on the sea. He went to Labrador in 1892. when he built four hospitals, a series of cooperative stores and an orphanage, and established numerous small industrial schemes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
SCORE BY INNINGS '

By Charles E. Van Loan George H.. Doran Co., publishers, New York city,.
 MT. Van Loans volume of baseball yarns, each one hot off the bat, will strike vast audience as having all the essential elements of the great American novel,
 Among games called in this truly Hom- eric book of the diamond are the fol- lowing: A remarkable practical joke per petrated by q very rich type of well known baseball expert reporter; one lin which genuine "Injun' player, who looked about as intelligent as secoHd- hand totem pole, takes a hand; one lin which a lad off the game for life" comes back; and one in which is introduced "a she-male ball team,' with Miss Pansy De Marr, peerless shortstop of the BaEti- more Bloomer Girls B. B. C., more than conspicuous.
 Big leaguers and scrub teamers are hu- morously N-rayed. And the volume is the most complete work extant on the most gorgeous language in the world base -ballese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
The Flavor of Old Annapolis

Harrison Rhodes in Harper's Maga- / zine.
 The American flavor of Annapolis is phrase which perhaps calls for i'm mediate explanation. For the flavor of the place is still amazingly English. The street names. Duke of Gloucester, Prince George. Fleet street, Conduit, King George, Hanover (which is Corn hill street as it never was in London), and Shipwright street all smack of London. They are intimately and some times pathetically reminiscent of the English Queen for whom the town was named. Prince George street is for her husband. and Duke of Gloucester for her little son, the only one of her IT children who survived babyhood sur vived only till he was II. Now that the revolution is so far away and England and America are again allies, there is something very pleasant in those old names which Annapolis never changed Nowhere in America does one get stronger sense of the English origin of us, of family connection which somehow survived the quarrel and has now come right again. Some day Annapolis would be the suitable site for somef friendly small celebra- tion of the renewed Anglo-American site for some friendly small celebra- statue of Baron ~Kalb Q. German who had lived in France and loved her and came across to America to die here in our first fight for liberty.
 Annapolis might almost be an Eng fish town, if it were not for the half tropical heat of some of it's summer days, for the presence of a large, soft spoken, easygoing back population, and for the nearness of the great bay of Chesapeake. | is perhaps in the of Mar ket Space at the edge of little harb or. some summer Saturday morning, or some hot moonlit August Saturday night, when there is a great deal of con fusion of soft-shel1 crabs, that Eng land most fades away And yet what is left is full of memories of the English colony, planted in new landscape and by new waters, and in spite of this keeping in America something of old England, her traditions, her merriness and her love of good cheer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
w Cured Myself of Tuber-
culosis"

Every sufferer from Weak Lungs-everyons afflicted with chronic cough-should read this remarkable history of a druggist. afflicted with Tuberculosis. who experimented on him. self. seeking q road to health. With his sim pie treatment ny cough-racked. tortured person may find quick relief In a home treat ment Soothing. pleas- ant; anyone may use 1t under plain directions Just send name and address on post card to ADDlLINE. 2o52 Capi- tai Trust Bldg. Col ambus. Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
THE BOOK SHELF
Nv THE BIBLIoPHILE

subjects in her book, which come easily within the scope of her gossip. For example, she refers to the long (forgot- ten, but once distinguished, barrilter, who, by trying to prove that a man killed by prussic acid had acquired the poison by eating apple -pips, was all ways known thereafter as Apple -pip Kelly" declares that Sir William Nen- ner did not discover vaccination to pre- vent emallpox-although he did snow the difference between typhoid and ty- phus-insists that Mrs. Langtry naver was good actress, and declares that the marquis of Queensberry did not draw up the rules of the pugilistic ling commonly attributed to him. She ends the volume with a tribute to the men of England who are fighting in Frahce, and, speaking as an EngliShwonnan, says that the reason, and the only lea son we" have not gone under during the war has been the love of home and the mother that makes it-that is what is winning us this war" Many of the illustrations are portraits by Spy" the well known caricaturist of Vanity Fair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
oFuRrHEf, 1ND1scREr1oNs."

By "A Woman of No Importance.' H.
 lustrated. E. P Dutton & Co, pub-
 fishers, New York city.
 This new volume by the anonymous author of Me mories Discret and In discreet" emphasizes the conviction that the writer, whether she really considers herself of mo importance" or not, must be, or has been, a promi- nent figure in the smart London life she describes so entertainingfy and in such intimate detail. That she is the wife of an army officer who has served in India is obvious. Also that she was included in what, in the eighties, was known as the Prince of Wales set" and has always lived more or less in the atmosphere of royalty She seems to have known everybody who was anybody in politics. literature, the- atrcals. art and science. for her anec- dotes of people, frequently amusing and never spiteful--a common failing of social "reminiscences in print--con- cern such persons as Bafour. Joseph Chamberlain, Labouchere. Kitchener, Sir William Jenner, Mrs. Cornwallis West, Queen Alexandra, Edward VII, Miss Braddon. Mrs Langtry, Mrs James Browa-Potter. and large part of the English peerage. All are dealt with in a chatty way that is the great charm of the book. She was a great admirer of Queen Victoria, and she knew the present Kaiser when young man. She quotes this opinion of him by Lady Ely. who was very close to the Queen, and which ise of interest at this time: The German Emperor is over bearing and often rude. The only per son on earth of whom he stands in the least awe is Queen Victoria, his grand mother. He behaves very nicely in her presence, but. when staying at Os- borne in the Queens later years, news reached her majesty that he grandson had been up early and with the gar dener, asking all sorts of questions and ferreting about. The riot act was read to him, and he did not like it."
 The author covers a wide range of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

WILD YOUTH AND ANOTHER"
 By Sir Gilbert Parker. Illustrated J. B. Lippincott company, publishers, Philadelphia.
 A Gilbert Parker success of the kind that made him famous and beloved oE host of readers, is forecast, for the Wild Youth and Another" just as pow erfuI a tale of the Canadian west as has ever delighted the lover of dramatic fiction. It is a Canadian ver- sion of Beauty and the Beast heart-gripping drama of love and jealousy and exquisite romance.
 Into the electric atmosphere of the booming western town of Askatoon, old Joel Mazarne brings his lovely young wife, Louise-a child who has never learned the lesson of life; who has passed from her convent world into that of marriage without any volition of her own, at the bidding of her mother who thus saves the remnant ot the family fortunes. Askatoon is daz- ed at the contrast between the fair white flower of girlhood and the low ering temper and caveman character of Mazarine. who has worn out two wives before he welded Louise. Daz- ed and mortified for the laws of na- ture seem to be defied by such a mat ing.
 What lover of Shakespeare has for gotten how Miranda and Ferdinand changed eyes"-and souls-at first sight? Just such a meeting occurs be- tween Louise and Orlando Guise when the latter rides over from Slow Down ranch to consummate a business deal with Joel Mazarine. Orlando is young and handsome; a slightly foppish (to western notions) exterior covers a manly and chivalrous nature. His ranch is already extorting approval from critical neighbors for it's rapid development and growing prosperity. Here was rival, indeed, to awaken the devils of jealousy in Mazarine's primitive mind. sIt is beyond his con- prehension that Louise and Orlando could be innocent of wrong intent or action
 Swiftly gather the dark clouds of tragedy over the heads of the lovers; unavailing the efforts of the wise Young Doctor" to avert them. The play of primitive passions and the re- action of the life of the western com- munity are given vivid portrayal The love of youth for youth-an inexorable. law of nature works with the certain. ty of gravitation or any other funda- mental principle of matter and spirit, a many-colored background of nature and human society is drawn with swift strokes, unerringly skillful and faithful. Style, wit and humor are eX- quisitely blended with the bold out lines of the drama. The climax Is in? tense and thrilling, and its solution of the problem wholly satisfying and of the eternal fitness of things. A rare treat for the lover of the beauti- full in style and matter, and for the seeker after fresh and vivid fiction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
Whey, the Baby Needs a LaxatiUe---

No one knows better than the ever watchfu mother-thc natural doctor of the family in all the small ills-that when the baby is cut of sorts it is usually due to indigestion or constipation.
 It is always well. in any of its illnesses, to look for this cause. The diet may have to be changed, but before good can result from it, the bowels must be moved.
 The mother has the choice of many med- cines-cathartics, purgatives, bitter waters. pills, physics, etc. But the little body doesn't need such harsh remedies for they wrench the system and do only temporary good, so often followed by an unpleasant reaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

A better plan is to employ a mild, gentle laxative of which only little is required. There is combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold by druggists under the name of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin that thousands of mothers have used successfully for baby's constipation and its accompany ing ills, such as belching, wind collie, rest lcssness, sleepNessness, etc.
 The nursing mother will also find it ideal for herself, and it is especially important that she be free from constipation.
 Syrup Pepsin is guaranteed to do as prom ised or the druggist will refund the money. Thousands of cautious families have it in the house, secure against the little ills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

You .ai pe happy-footed in a mo- inent Use "Tiz" ana never suffer with tender, raw, burning, blistered, swol len, tired, aching feet. liz and only ."Tiz" takes the pain and soreness our of corns callouses and bunions.
 As soon as you put your feet in a "Tiz" bath, you just feel the happiness soaking in. How good your poor old feet feel They want to dance for joy. "Tiz' is grand. "Tiz' instantly draws out all the poisonous exudations which puff up your feet and cause sore, in- famed. aching, sweaty feet.
 Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" at any drug store or department store, Get instant foot relief. Laugh at foot sufl fesers who complain. Because your feet are never, never going to bother or make you limp any more.-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
'1.6ER|A'S WEALTH : IS BOUNDLESS +
 EVER DEVELOPED
Correspondent Gives In- stances of SlOwness of Travel in the Great
 Unknown Country

Vote: This letter from the AssO- ciated Press correspondent sent to Omsl< to obtain for American read CTS facts concerning the all-Rus- sian government there travelled
 much more than half way around the world. It came east by the way of Nladivostok and across the Pa ciiic to San Francisco and thence to New York and was more than six weeks in transit. Much of the delay in forwarding mail by this route, the only one available, is due to the slow transportation across Siberia.
 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
~S COL. ASHER MINER DECORATED MYTH kae D.S.C. asaa MRS. MINER e

business leader in Wkeshare Pa old eighth National Guard he displayed The
  H. Colonel helped place of position. heavy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
THE SECRET CITY"

By Hugh Walpole. George H. Doran Co.,. publishers, Np York city.
 Drenched with color and passion, and drama. work of art which mingles the elements of Wilkie Collins and of The Golden Bowl here is the most penetrat- Ing picture yet given of the soul whlh bore the worlds menace today-bolshev- ism.
 Indescribable awe is given to The Se- cret City," by the circumstances that it is not concerned with the outward man ifestations of war. but to adapt the Russian proverb itself, with the dark forest of the hearts of men, The scene is Petrograd-a Petrograd at once utterly beyond belief and entirely convincing The time is coming and the bursting Df the revolution,
 Vera is, as she proclaimed Not "a 'heroine in book, But alive, alive," Alexei Petrovitch Semyonov is one of the most surprisingly sinister figures in literature. The Rat-what is he?-the rising dark peril And so the scene sg knit of a multitude-each fact in the weirdest caldron in history
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

It has been proved that sudden cold sometimes causes the death of thousands of fish in the shallow waters of the trop ics and subtropics. Many species are So chilled to become helpless, and either killed directly by drowning or are washed asore in a comatose state. The phenomenon is known localyl as freez- ng," although the temperature of the water may be several degrees above the freezing point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

riage for moment, not even since this avalanche of mystery and pretending scandal had descended upon him; 1T possible he loved his troubled young wife more than ever-with sudden instinct that worse was to come ne vowed that nothing should ever make him love her less"
 How this husbands faith was tried almost to the breaking point by tho strange situation in which his beautiful young wife had become involved, which she refused to confide in him; how singly each grappled with the sinister thing and won back a com plete understanding of each other, IS told in this remarkable novel of San Francisco society
 Mrs. Atherton proves again her riS.st 10 the title of greatest American nov elist by the craftsmanship. human un- derstandins and dramatic power of this novel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
PRICE AS ALWAYS

In spite of greatly increased laboratory costs due to the War by sacrificing profits and absorbing wal taxes we have maintained the price at which this family isxat,ve hes been sod by druggists for the past 2o years. Two sxes-S0c and $1.o0,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
FREE SAMPLES
feet X Laxati De

If you have never used Dr, Caldwells Syrup Pepsin send for free trial bottle to Dr. w B. Caldwell 463 Washington St. Monticello, H. If there babies home abk for copy of Dr. Caldweifs book. "Thc Care of Baiy.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
THE BUcCANEER FARMERp

THE BUCCANEER FARMER'
 By Harold Blindloss. Frederick A.. Stokes company, publishers New York City
 Romantic adventure in the Carlo bean. including an exciting share in a Central American revolution. is not what usually befalls an English gen tleman farmer, yet such is the lot or the hero in this Blindloss novel
 Full of action. variety and suspense. the story centers about the career of d young adventurer- farmer who is not afraid to play straight game on losing hand for honor's sake. His ad- ventures with the world lead him far into drama of intrigue which re- calls the old romantic days when pi rates haunted the Gulf of Mexico. and back again to England. where he meets a new challenge. which taxes all the resources of upfaltering courage an. swift action which he had acquired in his rougher life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-13
THE AVALANCHE

By Gertrude Athe.ton. Frederick A. Stokes company, publishers. New York City.
 He had never regretted his mar
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-22
THEIR FIRST YEAR
MARYkNOLLERS IN CHINA EN-
THUSIASTIC ABOUT THEIR
WORK.

When the first band of Maryknoll
missioners was about to embark for
China a year ago, they wrote en-
route: eve wouldn't change places
with anybody in this world"
Now that the first year of mission
airy experience has passed, these
American apostles are as enthusiastic
as ever about their chosen work. On
September s, 1919, the first anniver-
sary of their departure from Mary
knoll, the acting superior of the little
band, Rev. James E. Walsh, wrote:
ut seems that it can't be a whole
year already, but it certainly was this
day last year when we said the last
goodbye and hit the long trail. This
has been rather a busy year for us,
and certainly it has been crowded
with many strange, new experiences.
1 want to say that it was the happiest
year of my life. Happy it has GER
tainly been, but all like dream
we're still dazed. 1t strikes me as
not unlike ordination day, or events
of that sort. You are happy all right,
can't seem to bring it home to yourself
till later. Anyhow, it has been the
most wonderful year,"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-22
TO IMPROVE MOVIES
CIVIC ORGANIZATION WILL WORK
TO PROMOTE HIGHER STAND
ARD.

Friday afternoon of last week the
committee which met in the council
chambers of the city hall decided on
positive program to improve the
quality of the photo plays in this city.
The meeting was brought to order by
Mrs. H. T. Quinlan. Mayor Hodgson
and number of social workers spoke
on the necessity of some control over
the moving picture industry with re-
gard to the presentation of decent
plays. 1t was decided to seek the CO.
operation of the theatrical producers
in the work.
Mayor Hodgson was appointed per-
manent chairman, Mrs. J. E. Rounds,
vice chairman, and Mrs. J. F.. Lynch
Of the Catholic Guild, permanent Sec
rotary. This movement originated in
the civics department of the Guild.
The chairman will appoint a com.
mittee Of social workers to meet a
committee from the producers in or
der to work in harmony and with a
spirit of mutual cooperation. An ap
peal to the managers of the theaters
to bring only unobjectionablep plays tc
this city will be made by both com
mittees.