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Mrs. w. T. Cooper and little daughter, Jessie, spent Tuesday in Wheatley with her father.
 Mrs. Clyde G. WOudfin return cd to her home this week from the hospital much improved in health.
 Miss Carrie Kelly of Memphis, has been her for the past week attending her sick aunt, Mrs. B. Kelly.
 Wanted at once, two share croppers that can take care of 20 or 25 acres each; good fresh land, good houses. Apply to o. O. Travis, Monroe, Ark.
 Mrs. M. I. Braman of Fruit land, Tenn, is in the city the. guest of her daughter, Mrs. Roswell Davis, on South Main street.
 J. Ross Chambers, the Argus Superintendent, was back at his
  old home in Augusta this week attending to business and visit ing friends.
 Miss Ray Churchill, who has been in Little Rock for the past six months, has returned to Brinkley and is at her old posi- tion in the s. Salinger Go. store.
 Albert Schields, who has been across the sea in the U. $. ser vice, returned Wednesday, hav- ing received his discharge from Camp Pike. Albert was among the first Brinkley boys to "go ov.5t."
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AND PERSONAL

ia Folsom was a Vls-
 Monday.
 e Kelly, of Wiville,
 en seriously ill, is re-
 loving.
 kise Dickinson is still bo' is reported some )get Kelly, who has Irously ill, is conval- |LE-Two tons of hable.
 l Mrs. A. s. Crabb.
 sl.5O, pure Barred |n Stagg, Phone 104, b Murlo returned to D Pine Bluff Monday i days pleasant visit (her and friends. !. Rainwater return |Onday from a visit Rnd family in Little P-2 light house Pms, by couple with F, City Barber Shop. cooper, who has been ce as a soldier boy F. has returned to Pd resumed his old pe Bank of Brinkley. Pnd fine record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

MONEY TO LOAN 6:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

LOST-AIREDALE DOG IN NoRwOoD, WE'LL GROWN EIGHT MONTHS OLD, BLACK BACK, BROWN LEGS. FINE SPECIMEN; NAME ROEBUCK; LOST SUNDAY MORNING.; SUITABLE REWARD FOR AID IN RECOVERY. PHONE MAIN 6523-J. BOULEVARD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

MAXWELL touring car, four months old, driven 5000 miles; well cared for; extra casing and tubes; looks and runs like new; for sale by owner may be seen at DeShazo Motor Co.,, 404 s. 2lst st. s70O cash, or terms to responsible party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

TWO FORDS FOR SALE-i917-19fS 5-passenser; good top and body; all new tires and inner tubes; motor just overhauled; in good mechanical conditions can be seen at Alabama Garage Co.,, 2d Ave, between 17th and 18th streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22

CO- IONSEED MEAL-An grades: vel vet bean meal, carlots or less; write or wire us for delivered prices. Steele By-Products Co.,, Postoffice Box 52 c. B. Payne. sales manager. Birming- ham, Ala. S4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-22
WANTED TO RENT

WANTED TO KENT-A 5 or Groom cot tage iE West End or Woodlawn; pos- session wanted Jan. 1. Call Woodlawn
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MONEY

We are prepared to make loans in Bir- mingham on hgh-class business and residence improved property at 5la per cent. BIO Lyric Theatre bldg. D. F. Allen.
 bales, but bullish tsrders pointed out
 MnNrX rTn a0
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vestfgation of the choice of mode of
transportation to be improved. These
economic problems are little appre-
ciated and still less studied. More
over. in the present state of knowl-
edge, essential data are to a large ex-
tent lacking in regard to highways
Nobody has been commercially inter-
ested in intensive and intelligent
studies of the transportation facilities
which will best serve the welfare of
the great mass of the people. But I'M
til such studies are made. and we
really know as much about transpor-
tation as a whole as we now know
about that limited part of transporta-
tom between the receiving and deliv-
cry doors of railroad freight houses,
we are doing a good deal of guessing
about what is the best thing to do.
And some of our guesses will be incor
rect and cause a waste of money.
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was dressed in soft rolls. The narrow
eyes widened and Strengthened, and it
would not be surprising if means were
used to darken eyebrows. as support
ers were employed to aid the fallen
arches. Mr.. Perkins had dwindled
away to a paltry 200 pounds.
He looked at the food before him
and at the engaging Miss Thorne OPP
posite.
"Eati Eat!" she urged. you haven't
touched a thing"
Eat" repeated Mr.. Perkins. as if
he had never heard the word before.
L shall never eat again."
Never eat again? Why?"
Because I am sick"
"Sick? With what?"
with love of you. Bertha, will you
marry me? 1 know that is a weighty
question for you to consider"
NO" laughed Miss Thorne: sit is a
question of weight"
And she kissed his fat forehead.
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndtcate.)
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
Women and CIothes.-2.
By DOROTHY DIX
Werid's Highest Paid woman Writer,

Women and CIothes.-2.
A woman in a sloppy, soiled wrap
per, with her hair in curl papers, Will
get into fights and say unrefined and
unladylike things that she would be
utterly incapable of doing and saying
if she had on her best frock, and her
hair marcelled. The reason the break
fast table, instead of the dinner table.
is the scene OF most family spats is
because women wear kimonos to
breakfast and dress up for dinner.
If I were a married man l should
make profound study of the psyche
logical effect of clothes on women
and great would be my reward there
for. 1 should, for instance, always
insist upon my wife wearing some
thing pink or red, or light blue in the
evening, and should not fail to COM
pliment her on how beautiful she
looked in it. In that way 1 should
assure myself of a cheerful and smil-
ing wife to meet me and a pleasant
evening at home, because a woman
simply can't whine and complain in
gay little frock in which she has just
been told she is looking her best.
And when 1 had to speak to my wife
about the high cost OF living, and call
her attention to the price of the
butchers meat, 1 should never, never
never do it when she had on Mother
Hubbard wrapper and flip-pity-flop
slippers. In that garb she would feel
free to remind me of the money
dropped in a poker game or spent on
my own pet extravaganza, and she
might even go SO far as to throw into
my teeth the rich man she might
have married if she had not been
fool enough to tie up with me.
No, I should wait to discuss house
hold economics with my wife until
she had on a business like, street
suit, which would incline her to rea-
sonableness and to take a matter of
fact view of the subject. For women
in tailor-mades don't have Mysteries.
nor express themselves after the man
ner of fishwives. 1t simply isn't done.
And when 1 find my wife getting
peevish, and acquiring nerves, L
should not waste money on doctors.
l would diagnose the case myself, and
prescribe a new hat and the cure
would be accomplished. A becoming
hat will do more to alter a woman's
point of view and make her see life
a. a different angle than any other
one single thing, while as for tonic,
a smart frock will put more pep and
ginger into a woman than all the iron
and strychnine and phosphates in the
universe.
Above all, when had to 'fess up to
my sins, I'd choose the moment when
wiley had on a soft clinging white
gown, for I'd know that every woman
feels that she's half an angel when
she Is dressed in white, and that she
automatically wears with it a soft,
benign and forgfving state of mind.
Believe me, it's a wise man who
studies the Significance of his wife's
clothes.
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LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
>.
BY LEE PAPE 4
THE KNIGHT AND HIS FAITH
FILL STEED.

THE KNIGHT AND HIS FAITH
FILL sTEED.
A Play.
Scene. olden times
Knight. (Riding along on his
faithful steed looking for a lady in
disdress to rescue out of it, Its a
fine day. all rite. Its a fine day and
I'm a fine night with X. Joak. Well
I bin riding Ground heer for about a
week now. and / must say 1 don't see
eny more ladies in disdress than wat
there was knights. If I don't see one
soon darn if 1 don't bIeeve Ill stop
being knight and go to werk Hark,
what do 1 see? A lady IN distress
leening frum the top of yon tower
with her bewtifill hair hanging down.
DDS gerzooks, to the rescue!
Gle gallops over to beet the band
on his faithful steed).
Knight. Heer L come! Herrayl
Herray,
Lady with her hairing hanging
G., he sertenly must appreciate him
self.
Knight Crying his faithful steed
to the bottom of the tower and start
ing to cline up to the top) I'm glad
she's got her hair hanging down. that's
the kind 1 drather rescue than all the
other kinds put together. Maybe its
best becouse I'm use to rescuing those
kind.
Lady with her hair hanging down.
Hay. who invited you?
knight. I have came to rescue YOU
I'm knight and / don't need 70 be in
yited. o..
Lady with her hair hanging down.
And don't need to be rescued, either.
think its too bad IL a lady cant come
up to the top of her tower to dry her
hair without some funny looking
knight climbing up and scraping all
the plaster off with his armor
knight. Well. amt you in distress?
Lady with her hair hanging down.
Sutch a ideerl
Knight. Not eny?
Lady with her hair hanging down.
should say not. got enuff trubbIes
without being in disdress
Knight. Good night without a H.
| (Climes down and rides away on his
faithful steed looking diskusted.l
Lady with her hair hanging down.
| Hee hee.
| The End.
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Standing by the
Window
By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS

I have often stood and watched the
passing of a fraction of the activity
and movement of the world ouside-
from a window inside.
Much of the knowledge which we
all possess comes from our window
opinions as we catch sparks from the
Everything crowd of men and things.
Standing in front OF the window OF
your heart and Of your brain. you
see the things which you desire to
change. or rebuild. or-master. And
the inspiration spurs you on.
But did II ever occur to you that
the only way whereby you may be en-
abled to add service and inspiration
is to-join that very crowd which you
so calmly watch pass by2
WaRh and think-and store ideas
and suggestions which you believe ca
pabie of being re-moulded into some
thing better-but take your place in
the line. pull your share Of the load.
give with your cheer and presence
that which every doing crowd must
have.
It is very well to retrospect-but
never to retroGRADE.
Speak the tongue of a man-tho a
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It's a Tough Life.


A gentleman by the name of Skibbs
went out to skate on a pond near his
home in Massa chusetts the other day.
He sat down on a tree unk and ad-
justed his skates and make a mad
dash for grand skid across the pond.
Mr.. Skibbs was going ~ the calen-
dar only, and he neglected to note
that the water in the pond had not
been frozen. 1t has been an open
winter. When Mr.. Skibbs had been
dragged out of the mud at the bottom
of the pond and returned to his family
almost half alive he resolved in future,
whether the calendar says January or
June, to do his skating at the o. K.
Roller rink downtown.
Remus J. Purdy, an eminent scien-
fist at Hog Ford, XII, was experiment.
ing the other day on a process of
making good corn whisky out of gaso-
line and saltpeter. So far as he knew
nobody had ever invented a satisfac-
tory substitute for whisky, and he
expected to make a fortune out of it.
Mr.. Purdy had just taken a drink of
his invention and struck a match to
light his pipe. The funeral was held
from what remained of the house.
Mexican Rob an Editor."-Head-
line.
Those Mexicans were always great
for wasting time.
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THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BARBARA DECIDES NOT TO BE
JEALOUS OF BLANCHE ORION.
CHAPTER Xxx.

CHAPTER Xxx.
When Neil came home the next at
ternoon I asked him some questions
about the business upon which he was
engaged with the two men who were
our guests the night before. At break
fast he had been absolutely unap-
proaehable.
What do you want to know? You
wouldn't understand if I tried to tell
you" The same answer he invariab bly,
gave me. But had a reply for him,
this time.
Mr.. Frederick didn't seem to think
me SO dumb He talked OF the oil
wells to me. and told me great deal
about them because he saw I was in
terested. If I can understand him.
think 1 could you, dear. when care
so much more because it is you"
"Oh, l want to sell some shares in
prospective wells. That is ALL"
Are they good wells?,
| money to find out"
And that was what Mr.. Frederick
meant when he talked about being
open and above board wasn't it!
Not to take money without the people
knowing just what it was to be used
| for?"
| ct thought Frederick was game
he's a regular old woman. But hs
| doesn't nave all the say. not by a Ions
shot. I'll put the thing thru in spite
of him. Now for PHYS sake don't ask
any more questions. Do give a man q
| little peace in his own home" And
as he so often did now when annoyed
he opened the cellarette and took 8
| drink.
1 said no more. 1t would only make
| him drink more. Besides he was toe
clever, too crafty to give me the true
reasons for anything he did If HI
thought 1 would disapprove.
1 spoke of Blanche Orion. and re
marked I thought she looked very
stunning the night before. I would
say nothing derogatory even of hel
| clothes.
Clearly, Neil was not anxious to tall
| of her, and in reply he only said:
Blanche is always stunning"
us she happy with her husband
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COME FIT TO THE TASK.

COME FIT TO THE TASK.
Come fit to the task, with an eye that can
see
The goal in the distance whatever it be.
Have your brain at its keenest, your
strength at its best,
And your glad spirit eager to get at the
test.
Be ready for service, not weary and glum-
Too worn out to battle the trials that
come.
But, with eyes bright and shining, to duty
advance.
You can conquer by giving yourself a fair
chance.
Don't burn out your strength in life's
Too many have gone down to- failure that
way.
Don't think you can sit up too late in the
night
And come to your toll at the top of your
might.
Don't think that your work doesn't call
for your best
Or that yours is goal you can reach
without rest.
Neither glory nor fortune await you off
there
If unto yourself you are always unfair
The hand that's unsteady, the eye that is
blurred
And the strength that resents when to ac-
ton it's stirred,
Are ever the victims of failure and fear,
They are lost when the problems per-
picking appear.
And the men who succeed are the clear
Drained and true
Who are ready for all that life gives them
to do.
For, the most that success Of man ever
asks
Is that he shall be ready and fit for It's
tasks.
Copyright 1919 by Edgar A Guest
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DINNER STORIES

Frank was a young colored giant, and
he was serving the United States in the
capacity of a stevedore. Anvils were
being unloaded at a port in France,
and all the huskies on the ship were
carrying anvils from ship to shore.
The other workers were content to
carry one anvil at a time. Frank was
in a hurry to unload the ship. SO he
took one under each arm. He made
several trips. At last his foot slipped,
and he fell from the gang-plank into
the water. He had an anvil under
each arm.
No heed was paid to him for a few
minutes. Frank continued to tread
water and shout for a rope. At length
he cried. "Fo' de good Lawd's sake,
trow me a rope. boss. Fo' eff yo-all
doan row me a rope in er minnit Abs
sho' goin' ter drop one of desc yere
anvils."
Senator Cha mberlain was talking
about a war profiteer-
II don't say the mans dishonest" he
concluded but 1 do say he's got a
very low moral standard.
He was playing bridge in Red
Cross tournament the other night. His
partner, a bishops wife. left the call
TO him. and he made 1t diamonds, but
when he put his hand down It was
found to contain Only two diamonds
both low cards.
What on earth induced you to &c
diamonds on such a hand as that p the
bishops wife asked
Didn't you twaddle your diamond
ring. ma'am,' said the profiteer."
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MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

81 don't think them suited to one
another"
"If he's such an invalid she may
have a chance to try it second time,
l hoped 20 draw Neil out.
81 hope she'll get someone who IS
worthy of her If she does"
When one is in love. as 1 was with
Neil, intuition seizes quickly upon
the slightest thing. His use of the
word worthy" had seemed strange as
applied to Blanche Orion.
'Isn't Mr.. Orion a good MANI"
Hes a stupid ass
''Why-Nei1 Forbesi what a way to
talk of him. ] meant isn't he good
morally. and isn't he square in bust
ness?"
"Yes, guess he is both. But a
clever woman like Blanche orion
wants more than goodness in a man.
She wants to be entertained, amused.
interested. 1t is a crime for her to
live with that man."
How long have you known her,
Neil?"
II met her right after she married
Orton-about four years ago."
l asked no more questions. but
couldn't help wondering If. had she
been free when he met her, he would
have married her? 1t was foolish to
make myself miserable over such a
thing, and determinedly I put it from
me. He had not married Blanche.
and he had married me. 1t would not
be because / did not try 10 hold him
by every means in my power IL she.
or any other woman, took him away
from me.
Blanche Orion had boosted that she
always got what she wanted, always
mad her own way in life, in the big as
well as in the little things. But sure
ly there was a limit to her desires.
She was flirt-that everyone knew;
but probably that was all it amounted
to. just filtration with Neil and
others because she was bored by a in
valid husband. / would not be jealous
1t Is surprising how much one can
accomplish even in such things II they
love. and IL they do not give up to
useless repining and unhealthy
| emotion. So at this time 1t was only
| by spells that my jealousy asserted
itself. But that other misgiving-that
| uneasiness concerning Neil himself
grew upon me in spite of all my en-
dedvors to Danish it,
(Tomorrow - Barbara Visits Neiis
New Offices)
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By Kris. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl
twenty years of age and am very at
tractive. My life had been one of per-
feet happiness until not long ago
when sorrow came to our home.
About two years ago l began going
with a prominent young man. We
seemed to love each other very dearly,
but alas we drifted apart, without
cause L guess.
Since then my mother seems to
think there is no other for me. When
any of the most respectable young
men call me for dates l have to re-
fuse on account of her. 1 am not al
lowed to entertain any other in my
own home, and then when 1 don't
have a date she laughs at me and
says, You can't have a date any more
none of the boys will go with YOU"
When my girl friends call for me she
tells them 1 am not at home.
1 have had a lot of good positions
offered me that I would willingly ac-
cept, but she says she would come
after me, and 1 know she would. I
was in my senior year at school when
she made me quit. You can't reason
with her. 1 have tried it and she isn't
the reasoning kind. People have said
that they don't see how 1 can stand
it, and 1 am not going to any longer.
Can you blame me?
Can you give me some answer to
this? THANK YOU
90 not YOU IL SOu were
not so young, 1 would advise you to
leave your mother and to go where
you could have more freedom and
friends If you accepted a position.
your mother could not compel you to
return to her. She might go after
you, but the law is on your side and
she could not make you live with her
again.
There are many dangers for a girl
of your age who starts out alone in
search of happiness. You may think
that you would not be tempted by any
thing bad, but association with girls
who live away from home would prob
ably have its effect on you in time. If
you do leave home. live with some
good private family. Do not by any
means consider boarding house life.
Perhaps If your mother knew you
intended to leave she would be more
considerate of you. Have plain talk
with her and let her know you are not
going to stand her unkindness any
/ longer
Dear Mrs. Thompson: When girl
and boy are walking together. which
one should carry the umbrella?
VICTORIA,
The boy should carry the umbrella
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thousand voices seek to drown your
utterance. There always comes a time
when the crowd must give place to
courtliness of character
As you stand by your window
thinking. looking, eyolving-bear in
mind thai Christ was nailed to a tree
on Calvary, that John Brown entered
Immortality from the scafford, that
Garrison was dragged thru a great
city's streets, that Wendell Phillipss
greatest speeches were Missed. that
Lincoln, at the time of his greatest
triumphs, lived in a mire of abuse
that everything of worth and endur-
ance has to be bought with the sweat
of your soul!
Yes. these things are true. But
also, out from the window, thru which
you look, you may see the swaying of
the wind, the sweeping of the silent
sun. as it touches its light and warmth
across buildings, trees. flowers, foot
paths-and peoples hearts,
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Temporizing with the Bolshevih,
not to say coddling them, is bearing
fruit. Dispatches indicate that the
Hungarian reds have Joined hands
with those of Russia and together
they have declared war on the en-
tente. And this takes place while the
league of nations. which is to bring
peace to the whole world, is in proc
ess of formation in Paris. Greater
than all other problems facing the
peace congress is that of what to do
about the Bolsheviki. The matter is
serious because both England and
France are full of them. The United
States may yet find it advisable to
bring home her army and her states
men and leave Europe to work out
her own salvation. The situation ap-
pears TO be getting out of hand. Ger
man influence doubtless is at the bot
tom of the Hungarian uprising, in the
same way that it is responsible for the
situation in Russia. Probably the
most serious mistake the allies have
made was in not giving the Huns a
thoro whipping while they were at it
No armistice should have been entered
into. Nothing short of unconditional
surrender should have been accepted
There appears to be no end to the
mischief worked by President Wilson
fourteen points. He has made the
mistake of trying to direct European
politics on American lines.