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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-13
By DOLLY DALRYM NIPPLE

If the Maine law goes into effect,
 bachelors are exempt who have pro-
 posed three times or more to the same
 or different ladies' jubilantly asserted
 the Man.
 Well, l can only speak for us down
 here, not knowing the men in Maine,"
 said the Girl, but one thing is very certain, that it Is a mighty poor sort of unprogressive man down in these parts who hasn't proposed to at least three girls before he is 21, unless, per- haps he was snapped up and married by the first girl he asked" There are lots of bachelors of my acquaintance who would consider the tax cheap in comparison to having to pay for dressmakers. bonnet makers; shoe bills, silk stockings and from at- tending bridge parties and hooking up dresses and making the fires in tho stove when the cook failed to arrive," said the Mere Man.
 T do not doubt that there are some who have succeeded in remaining l bachelors who glory in their wicked ness and who would not tempt the au- 1 thorities into thinking that they had ever even tried" said the Girl. But, of course, these are Alabama bachelors and not those in Maine, that I refer 1 to-"
 But, in that case, the fund would 1 have to be applied elsewhere, for there are no spinsters in our state, of course" said the Man, courteously. linen l suggest that it be made into | a fund for the maintenance of a much
 more to be pitied class-the worthy 1 widows. who have endured the trials
 and tribulations of welded life and still live to tell the story" said the
 girl.
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rangement," promptly asserted the Man.
 You don't?" said the woman in ques- tion. Well, I'll point it out to you. It makes it absolutely impossible for any woman to accept the conditions. First, becahse none ever reaches the age of 10 until she is past so, and secondly, breathes there woman with soul so dead that would admit that she had never received an offer of marriage? wot not"
 That is very foolish idea that woinen have" said the Mere Man. "It is no disgrace to be a spinster. or bach elor maid. as the modernists put it''
 Certainly not" retorted the Clever Girl. But all of them feel that way, just the same Why, I actually heard of a poor maiden lady recently who on her dying bed assembled all her family, including the children, who had hated her cordially. and being propped up with pillows and things, announced; ITO all whom it may concern: Be it known that could have married if had chosen. I had the offers, but I re- mianed single from choice. See that this is put on my tombstone"
 And she fell back and passed away.
 q can scarcely believe such a thing" said the Mere Man, sadly.
 "The single standard ladies, as term
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In the throes of one of the most heated discussions I have heard for many days, I came upon a couple of very clever people the other day. man and a maid, who were delving into pol itlcs religion, and matrimony. a tri- ology of subjects, that frighten the cleverest of us, one at time, not to speak of them collectively.
 The Mere Man had just said:
 'The idea of pensioning spinsters, which the state of Maine inaugurated some time ago, is one of the most en- frightened crusades of this decade"
 Sounds like voice from a former administration" said the Girl, "savor- ing as it does largely of Roosevelt reform measure, althoughff that au- gust person had had anything to do with it. the defect which is so appar- ent in the bill would never have been put through by the legislature"
 And what is that defect?" asked the Mere Man, who discovered that he was up against brains and opinions tucked snugly away in that one little head.
 Why, the bill as proposed is that a tax shall be imposed upon unmarried men of 30 years and upward for the benefit of spinsters of 40 years and over, who have never received a reason able offer of marriage"
 T certainly see no defect in that ar-
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enough to hold out steadfastly to the end. while others who are weaker, after long siege, succumb and marry the wrong person and would be much better off as carefree spinster who could accept amicably the pension sug- gested."
 "They would, If they had any sense." said the Girl, indignantly
 If they had any sense they wouldn't be women" to quote our friend MT. George Cohan,' said the Man. triumph antly.
 T wouldn't have your nasty dispo- sition for anything" said the Girl, seeing that she was being leased. 'I suppose. of course, you thought the idea of the Maine legislature offering $1O0 to a spinster in lieu of a hus- band was far below their value, didn't you, seeing you have such good opinion of your sex?" Legislature men are curious cat tie. the world oyer." said the Man. Even down here in Alabama we have some queer ones" They'd never make a law like that down here," said the Girl, loyalty They'd probably just send the hun dred to the poor lady, which would bt enough to buy Mary Jane gown which might. perchance. lure the fancy of some rowing and dscontented bachelor and shortly thereafter he might never have to pay the tax
 again."
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that the two famous and wonderful dia-
 monds stolen from the Sultan's sash,
 would probably be smuggled into this
 country. it set it's machinery quickly to
 work.
 agent chosen, and San Antonio selected
 as the likeliest place in which to earth
 the smuggling plot. Napier's task was
 hard one, but with consummate skill
 he picked up clue after clue from insg-
 nificant happenings, duplicating Chinese
 and Mexicans, q retired American army
 officer, and an international spy. All
 are linked with the two diamonds, which
 are supposed to be concealed in a can of opium bearing a Chinese label. This is a secret service story of the unsensatlonal and altogether plausible sort. Its methods are those of subtlety
 and finesse rather than of coercion or force. It has, moreover, it's romance. service man can hope to escape the ten der emotion; and it only adds to the zest of the story that such jealous public servant should be torn between love and duty. But the heroine was charming enough to turn almost any agents head, even though her father was mixed up in a smuggling plot, and she herself a suspect However, the story ends to Ma piers complete satisfaction and the
 readers as we'll
 THE LA CHANGE MINE MYSTERY" By S. Carleton. Frontispece by George
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"GLAMOUR."
 By w. B. Maxwell, The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis
 w. B. Maxwell, the English novelist, author of "The Devils Garden" and other books which have had wide popu- larity, has committed" a masterpiece in his newest story Glamour" A man in middle life happily married, wealthy, famous, with hosts of friends and in a position to enjoy life thoroughly, sud- denly comes under the spell of woman he had loved as young man and who continued to remain to him the unat- tainable delight" The glamour Of things unattainable which may either establish a high vision for a man or may lure him to his doom, is touched on by Maxwell after this fashion:
 "Ie walked slowly, sauntering up one street and down another, in no hurry to get home, with nothing to go home for, and as he strolled along he thought of all the beautiful girls and women dancing, whispering, or looking with quick bright glances for the only per
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son that mattered-the person who would come looking for them. Recollections of his youth vaguely stirred him-recollec- tions of youth 1n the abstract also. How strange it is-that time when girls are ethereal, wonderful instead of just be- ing jolly, healthy young creatures, ad, mirable and pleasing, but with no more power to move you emotionally than a lot of young sheep or calves skipping round you in a meadow; when you al- most faint at the sight of one particular girl in her party frock; when you go seeking. seeking to find her. only to touch her hand, catch a smile, or gain the smallest little secret sign of approval. It is just the glamour of youth; before love and the ideas belonging to love have taken material Or solid form.
 Then. like hot memory adolescent
 unworthy thoughts came back to him He drove them away easily; they had never troubled him long. And he thought again of glamour-the glamour that grown men can create for themselves out of their own imaginations, out ot
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THE EYE OF ZEITOON" 7 Talbot Mundy. The Bobbs- Merrill

By Talbot Mundy. The Bobbs-M Merrill
 Co.,, Publishers, Indianapolis
 Mystery" adventure" romance characterize the interesting novel, "The Eye of Zeitoon," by Talbot Mundy Mr Mundy has written this, his latest story, with all the masterly skill of a true maker of tales and with an insight into the hearts of his characters that makes the reader love them all-from Monty the unsurpassed, to the devilish but delight ful Maga.
 Other adventure novels" by Talbot Mundy are "King-of the Khyber Ri- fles,' "The Winds of the World, "Hira Singh "Rung Ho!" Romances of ln- dia'
 Talbot Mundy's stories of India have made him famous. They carry the reader completely away from the every day world of American civilization and into a vast new world (that is in reality an old, old world) where adventure anu romance awaits him at every turn.
 "The Eye of Ztitoon" is a particularly thrilling adventure story. It tells of a little nation of people living in an i'm pregnable mountain fortress of 'Zeitoon, and about their leader and king who is known as 'rhe Eye of Zeitoon." In vivid pen pictures readers follow the story of the Armenian people, thrill at their courage in battles with the Turk, and feel as though they too, were talk ing part in the story as are the Amer jeans and English who are characters in the authors plot.
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w. Gage Little, Brown & Co.,, Pub.
 fishers, Boston.
 Nick Stretton relieved his growing dis. content with his uncomfortable life as part owner and manager of an isolated gold mine up in the Canadian woods by conJuring up a mental picture of his ideal dream girl. Under pressure of unusual weariness and ennui, one cold and dreary night. he decided to chuck the Job" return to civilization where his dream girl must be waiting somewhere, and live normal mans life. When To! be- side the fire of the mine house living room, when he entered, sat his dream girl, l,-personified and adorable.
 The how of her coming was easily explained, but the why led Into a maze of mystery that entangled Paulette her. self and Stretton, his partner Dudley and Dudley's sister Frances in danger. GUS adventures Life at La Chance speed. fly became a hazard of life and death- death from beasts as well as men, and the mine. at first merely & tentative venture, revealed itself as possessing such possibilities of wealth that il aroused all the passions of interruptions and desperate men, The ends they sought were obvious, but their methods were strange and terrifying.
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"I.ENIN''

"LENlN'
 (The Man and His Work), by Albert
 Rhys Williams; and the Impress
 sions" of Col. Raymond Robins and
 Arthur Ransome. Scott & Seltzer,
 publishers. No. West Fiftieth street
 New York city.
 This is. the first authentic biography of Lenin and the first account of him in action since his accession to power.
 The three authors tell their story from first hand information. They knew Lenfn intimately and have talked with him frequently since his rise Nto power Colonel Robins was the com mander of the American Red Cross mission in Russia, and his relations with Lenin were of an official char acter.
 Hitherto Lenin has remained mys- terious personality. Here for the first time we meet with the real Lenin. Lloyd George says Bolshevism may be efficient He made this astonishing admission on February 10 and added that Europe cannot be restored with out putting Russia, with all her strength and resources into circula- tion."
 Europe has been trying to save Rus sia from herself and has failed. Now the question is: Can Russia turn from revolution to production promptly enough to save Europe? Business men everywhere are seek ing light on this question now that the order to lift the blockade has opened the opportunity for trade with Russia; and already the tone of the metropolitan press has changed from bitter antagonism 10 frank inquiry fx.t .s.F. ,a.g.fft tn ma a or
 It all depends on Lenin. Is he just little upstart" a lawless agitator, self-seeking and ruthless dictator, as some have said?
 Or is he a statesman, "a man of most extraordinary ability" as MT Frank Vanderlp describes him2 Wouldn't you like to talk with men who know him? Or, if you can't do that. why not read what MT. Williams, Colonel Robins and Mir Ransome have to say about him? They were in touch with him for many months. Albert Rhys Williams, an American and a socialist. who lived through ten critical months with Lenn. tells this significant incident among score of others:
 "A delegation of workingmen came to Lenin asking him if he could decree the naturalization of their factory.
 Yes. said Lenln' plcKlng up blank form, t is a very simple thing, my parf of it. But before l sign this blank, I must ask you a few ques- tions. First. do you know where to get raw materials for your factory. Do you understand the keeping of ac- counts and have you worked out method for keeping up productionY And finally. may l ask whether you have found a market in which to sell your products?'
 ITO all these questions the working men answered No.
 "'Well comrades said the premier. don't you think you are not ready to take over your factory now. Go back home and work over these matters. You will find 1t hard; you will make many blunde-s but you will learn Then come back in a few months and
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the poetry they have read, the pictures they have seen, the songs they have heard, and, above all, from that innate unreasonde longing for something bet ter than the common order of things, for the supreme gift the unattainable joy. How strong it had been upon him-that kind of glamour-in the days when, fol- lowing Diana, he had wanted to go to houses like the one with the gates and the perron, because he would meet her there.
 At home. sitting lonely in his room he still thought of the past. The in stinct that makes one weave fancies about ordinary facts and give transcen- dent qualities to ordinary people is, he thought perhaps usefully ordained by nature to satisfy the other instinct that craves for the unattainable delight. But I behind it all lies the cruel truth. There is something better, finer, that we might i nave had and yet always miss. It mus, | be so.'
 | The novel Glamour is more than the setting forth and solution of vital prob | lem; it is an interesting human docu- ment-the story of men and women who
 have counterparts all over the world
 document which will be read and re-
 read because the people who read it will | see a parallel problem in their own life
 or the life of some one in their com
 munity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-13
HILLS OF HANo

By Samuel Merwin. The BObbs-Merriil
 Company, Publishers. Indianapolis.
 When MT. Merwin was in China dozen years ago he experienced a. number of the incidents and met several of the char acters that make the Hills of Han so ab- sorbinsiy realistic. But the drama-and the story is essentially dramatc-came to him only recently when the vivid pie lures and the stirring events had. by time and distance. assumed their true colors and their rightful proportions.
 Whoever has read Mir. Merwin's earlier stories of the China coast will welcome the knowledge that in this new novel he has returned to the land of ancient won der.
 The China Mir Merwin knows Is the China teeming with life shrouded in mys- tery, silent, subtle. with portentous un- dercurrents, now and again rising to the surface and threatening the honorable political and social structure Into this surcharged, superdramatic at- mosphere. Mir. Merwin invites his read CTS, disclosing to them in his opening pages a perfect familiarity, and arous'ng in them complete interest in what is to come.
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bad as crazy people or thieves. Take the man who wears whiskers, or red neckties, or quotes Neitzche, or main
 tains always forbidding superiority
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the tea-room, the right people find each other in the end, several million dollars hover invitingly around in the back ground and it is quite apparent that Miss Kelley had as good a time writ ing her story as the reader has in read ing it. Outside Inn is the place to dine. It's more than a restaurant it's an institution.
 Nancy is humanitarian and an ad- vocate of the balanced ration theory. She wants to run an efficiency tea-room, to give suffering humanity not only what it desires but what it requires, and give it in the best possible style at the best possible price. She wants to study her patrons to the end that the anemic shop girl may have blood-making lunches. and the red-faced, heavy-necked man about town dinners that he can di- gest without effort or exercise.
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Professor Binder of New York Uni. versty estimates that the United States has resources to provide foI 25o, 900, 900 inhabitants.
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By Ethel Nj. Kelley. The Bobbs-Merri1i Company Publishers. Indiana polls.
 "Outside Inn Is new and up to the minute, 1t is bright and amusing, the dialogue sparkles like the silverware in
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we can take up the nationalizing of your factory"
 PARLIAMENT AND REVOLUTION By J. Ramsay Mac donald Scott } Seltzer, publishers, New York city This book, Parliament and Revolu- tion," by J. Ramsay Macdonald, is the first scientific and entirely unbiased argument against bolshevism in favor of democratic representative govern ment by majorities. The force of Mac donalds logic goes home and the more surely, because 1t is the req soned conviction of a man of un- doubted integrity and unimpeachable moral courage. The publishers believe that this book Is as important con tribution for our day as was the es- say on Liberty" by John Stuart Mill for his time. At any rate. the cause of democracy as against dictatorship has found it's ablest advocate so far in Ramsay Macdonald, and it's best perhaps classical, expression in his book, Parliament and Revoluuon' The publishers feel confident that it will be welcomed by all friends of democracy.
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THE CHINESE LABEL" By J. Frank Davis. Illustrations by Ralph r. Coleman Little. Brown & Co, Publishers, Boston.
 When the United States treasury de- partment learned from secret sources
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we can take up the nationalizing O
 your factory"
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The daily morning oasis., 1920-03-06
C0NSTAN1|N0PLE Creates 4 CATCH
DEMOCRATS TRY WILSON
MY MOTHER

BY Sallie Roberts, Nogales, Arizona,
Age 13 Years.
written for THE AMERICAN
PENMAN, Reprinted by Request).
She's sweet, and she's old fashioned
With her hair done up in back.
She wears such, RUSTY dresses,
Such stiff silk and so black.
She has string of lovely pearls,
They're shiny and so white
So is her hair. And Oh! her eyes
Are twinkly and star bright.
The prettiest gray eyes in our town,
With eyebrows perfect arched.
Her cuffs are fixed just nice and right
Her collar stiffly starched.
She tells me (and her smile tells 'not)
"I'm coming fifty-four;"
But-let me whisper, very loud,
She's-oh-'bout ten years more!
q guess she heard us p How am I
To judge twixt eyes and tongue?
/ know, no matter what she says,
My Mothers very young.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-03-06
7 He GREATEST
PLAGUE IN ALL
HISTORY NOW
THREATENS
STARVING NATIONS RAvAGED
BY TYPHUS. WHICH THREAT
EMS TO SPREAD ALL OVER
THE WORLD
UNITED Press Service)


WASHINGTON, March g. Ac-
cording to government advices all
Americans in Siberia have been esa-
eentrated in Vladivostok.
In urging extension of food relief
by the United Staes grain corporation
to Poland, Austria and Armenia, ad-
dressing the House Rules Committee
today, William A. Cassel, a State De-
partment official, made the statement
embodied in the preceding paragraph,
supporting his assertion by reading
from State Department reports ex-
cerpts showing that Bolsheviki are
causing plague of typhus in Poland
which, unless soon checked, he said
will threaten the entire world with
the greatest plague in history.
Mr.. Cassell told of starvation con-
ditions in Austria, and he said that in
Vienna children are keeping alive on
one meal daily.
Representative Johnson of South
Dakota suggested that the sum OF
twenty-five million dollars now being
collected for the Anti-Saloon League
to be used in pushing prohibition
might be used to better advantage in
foreign relief rather instead of try.
ing to make the world dry.
The daily morning oasis., 1920-03-06
WATER DOES NOT COUNT

The first issue of the Southern
Pacific Bulletin to appear following
the return of the roads to private
control, contain 80 pages of inspira-
tional and informative matter, much
of it illustrated.
The growth of the Sacramento
General Shops from a small plant
located in swamp to busy city
with a monthly payroll of $4,000
is entertainly described. There are
also articles on the development of
the apprentice school systems, the
new wharfage facilities at Oakland.
a necessity for heavy loading in an
ticipation of heavy spring move
ment and full account of the re-
of the various depart
ments.
The Bulletin is read by approx
mately fifty thousand employees and
has many contributors.