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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
RANDOM NOTES

Mrs. Ben cowherd has returned from den.
 MT and Mrs E. L. Brown of Wash ington, D. C., are spending a few days at the Tutwiler. Mrs. Brown is being cordially welcomed by her many friends, who remember her as Miss Madeline Royster, of this city.
 Mrs, Henry Fowlkes and little daugb-
 at St. Vincents hospital, are now at their home.
 Mrs. John Samuel Stark, of Troy is among the prominent women in the city to attend the convention of the third dis trict of the State Federation of Wom- ems Clubs. Miss Virginia B. Handley will leave next week for New Orleans, where she will spend the summer taking a course in the home service work of the Red Cross.
 Mrs. W. T. Christopher of Gadsden. is , visiting friends in the city. 1 MT. and Mrs John B. Rosenstihl have returned from Mobile. {, MT. Donald Thomas. of Georgia Tech spent the weekend with friends in the city.
 l Miss Christine Rogers has returned to her home in Athens, Ala. after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Cox. in Norwood 1 MT, and Mrs. Louis Wallis have named their little daughter Vernon. Mrs. Wallis will be remembered as Miss Mary Bethea
 of this city. Mrs. Henry Berkeley Watkins, of Dan vile, Va, is the guest of her sister. Mrs Henry Hidden, in Norwood. Mrs. J. r. ManlSin is at the Norwood | infirmary, where she underwent a very serious operation Tuesday 1 Mrs. James H. Kirkpatrick of New York will arrive tomorrow to attend the
 wedding of her sister, Miss Amelia :, Worthington, and to visit her father, MT. Thomas Worthington. l Mrs. George Davenport of Chatta-
 nooga, is visiting Mrs. Frank Y. Ander- son, on Sycamore street.
 Mir. Walter Worthington. of Mobile, is the guest of his father, MT. Thomas Warrington.
 | Mrs. T. H. Miller, of Selma, is visiting
 Mrs. Mary B. Wheelock at her home on Nineteenth street, south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
Andrew and Ir71ogene
Little Life Condolences the Experience of Couple, Phil osophic, Though Married
 ROE FIUKE$SON
By ROE FULKERSON

pretty little island where white ruffled petticoat of sand surrounded the green dress of the island and we would name it Already and after the crew had taken the supplies ashore we would make em all walk the plank and just you and l would go ashore and make a home
 You see it would be a place where the bread fruit grew on every tree and every other vine was a custard vine and every other shrub a fried egg plant.
 We would be free from the neces- sity of wearing stiff collars and you could sratify that lifelong desire of yours to go in swimming without any bathing suit.
 The gas man would never come around and we wouldn't have to spend a cent for car fare. We could fish all day, and we would go fishing.
 We could just sit and moon and write things on the sand with our big toes ard quarrel over who was to go up in the woods and pull dinner off the bread frui. trees.
 We wouldn't have to pay any check or tip any waiter after we Were through with our dinner nor would be have to use napkins. We would just jump into the next breaker which came ashore and come out on the other side of it well bathed and laved.
 Then we could"
 "Andrew!" interrupted Imogene, "tell me something. Which is the real you the one who talks and acts like a six year-old boy or the one who goes down. town and fights seriously for our daily bread?"
 "Cussed ff I know" said Andrew. (Which one do you like?'
 Both of themt" she said. Copyright, Twenty-first Century Press)
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6dHE play, "The Prince Chap" will
 be presented next Friday even-
 S ing at the Jefferson by the Howard College seniors under the di- rection of Miss A. Bess Clark.
 This evening it will be given at Gen. ter Aia The members of the cast will be entertained at luncheon today in Gaasaen, by Rev. and Mrs. shelburne, fcrmerly of Howard College.
 Mi. Robertson Parsons will take the lead in the part of the artist, William Peyton. MT. Parsons is a Sigma Nu and will enter Harvard for law next fall after taking his A. B. at Howard this year. He has never done any previous dramatic work and therefore his ex- celleat interpretation in the Howard play is noteworthy.
 Frances Bohanan is the nine year old Daughter of Professor and Mrs. Bohan- an of Howard. Little Frances will play the part of six-year- Claudia, the child of an artists model, and the adopted daughter of William Peyton. In this role she will distinguish her self for real dramatic ability The scene after the death of her mother gives an opportunity for the audience to see a beautiful piece of work be- tween Mir. Parsons as Peyton and Miss Frances as the motherless child.
 Between scenes, the orchestra will be supplemented by tie appearance of the Howard Male Quartet" which is already engaged for chatauqua work during the summer.
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MERCHANTS APPROVE LEGION D AY IN THE HOME APPEAL CAUSE

Interest is growing in the plan to have "American Legion" day in the SaIva- tion Army home service appeal, accord ing to c. L, Bailes, chairman of the ap. peal in Birmingham.
 Many employers of ex-soldiers Heye voluntarily offered the men one day nExt week on which to take part in the eAn- yass, and all who have been asked have agreed to the proposition.
 The local post of the American Legion has been called to meet in. the rooms of the Civic Association by the commander, Crampton Harris, so that a day which would be the most convenient might be selected to make a canvass of the city.
 On this day, which will probably be next Tuesday, the members of the legion will gather in Capitol Park, where they will be divided into teams to call on business houses in the city to secure SD scriptions to the fund
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And the Colonel Came Back

Say" began Artic Fishelle, has any body seen the colonel lately? Not that I'm anxious to see the old storyteller, but it's rather queer, heh, what?' The other members of the Necks to Nature Club admitted that it was Nobody knew it, but Colonel Harts Roetem, the object of their converse tion, had the week before dug five bottles of champagne out of the coal in the base ment, where it had been hidden by some one, and he had been living like a bar tender ever since. Hence his absence. II.
 Speaking of the weather" said Col Harta Beetem, who had just dropped in the club, thereby interrupting conver- cation on the scarcity of leather, labor. money and everything.
 'Yes, gentlemen, it has been a deuced hard, cold winter, egad. I've had my win ter flannels on for six months, an un- heard-of thing in this climate, doncha know. Reminds me of the winter I traders for fur company. Brought 5000 skins back with me-
 And would you believe it, but that winter, brr-rr! It makes me shiver to think of itl Has anybody a bottle of err something to warm a fellow up?"
 Nobody had.
 "Yes, sir, that winter was so bitterly cold that a team of dogs, Jumping a fence, stopped in mid air, frozen stiff like cakes of ice, bah Jove!
 Come, come, colonel.' said Tom Yum merly Gravity wouldn't allow that, you know"
 "Haw!' laughed the colonel. And what could gravity do about it? That was frozen still too."
 A half hours silence followed, during which the colonel found the frigid air out in the street much warmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
MRS. HARRIS IGNORED
 IN GADSDEN

Mrs. Jack Brewer entertained yester- day afternon at her home on Turren- tine avenue with a pretty bridge party in honor of Mrs. Roscoe Harris of Bir- mingham, says the Gadsden Evening Journal.
 The attractive apartments were dec orated throughout with snapdragons and roses. Mrs. E. H. Cross and Miss Ethel Cross assisted Mrs. Brewer in entertaining the guests, who were Mesdames Roscoe Harris. Roy White Perry Gum, Carl Lay, Kyle Elliott, W. A. Bellenger, C. W. Vance, w. s. Vance, s. C. Gentry Hugh Agricola, Fred Agri- cola, Edwin Goodhue, Amos Goodhue Lem Cobb, Otis Wragg, John s. Paden, Thomas Ewing, c. P. Butcher, George s Vann, Gary Jordan, Morgan Mccall, H. J. Savage, Misses Elizabeth Fox and Alice Camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
FISK -WORTHINGTON
 WEDDING PLANS

An interesting event of the month is the wedding of Miss Amelia Worth ington and MT. Brenton Kern Fisk, which will take place a St. Mary son. Highlands at o'clock on the morn ing of Saturday, May P.
 Miss Worthington will be attended by her sister, Mrs. James H. Kirkpat- rick of New York. as matron of honor, and MT. James Simpson will act as best man.
 MT. Thomas Worthington. Jr., MT. Riddle Worthington and MT Walter Warrington, brother of the bride, with MT. William Rogers, will be the ushers. The bride will be given in marriage by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
Headache Stopped
 While You Wait
Druggist Refunds Your Money While You Wait at Counter if Aspironal Does Not Re-
 lieve in Two Minutes. Ab-
 solutely Safe.

Why suffer half an hour of headache pain waiting for your stomach to digest solid tablets and powders. when Aspironal. the new Elixir, gives relief right now. Your Doctor prefers Aspironal for the reason that it is not dangerous to the heart and does not upset the stomach.
 The next time you have headache go to your nearest drug store, hand the clerk half dollar for bottle of Aspironal and tell him to serve you two teaspoonsful in a little water, With your watch in your hand count off two minutes and call for your money back, as per manufacturers guaran- tee, if you can't feel your headache fading away within the time limit. Your druggist invites and expects you to try Aspironal, go don't be bashful Everybody is doing it. Same guarantee applies to colds, coughs and neuragia.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
MOTHER GOOSE PARTY

All who know their Mother Goose" are well aware that Cinderella does not belong within it's pages, but dwells in a perfectly good fairy tale, all of her own. Yet on the occasion of the party which Miss Margaret Coleman's unit of St. Mary's church will give in Rhodes park, on May 19, she will step out of her own story book and join the fa mlliar and whimsical characters of the nursery rhymes.
 She will be represented next Wednes- day at this lovely afternoon party by Miss Mary Sloss and all children and lovers of children are invited to meet her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
MRS. LEWIS
 CLUB HOSTESS

Mrs. Robert Lewis entertained the members of the Young Matrons' Needle craft Club Tuesday afternon at a porch party at her home. A profusion of pink and white roses, which were used in derocration carried out spring like effect At the conclusion of the game of five hundred an ice course in pink and white was served.
 Among Mrs. Lewis guests were: Mrs. George Miller, Mrs. Q. P. Witte, Mrs. M. H. Hewitt, Mrs. Brand Currie Mrs. Fred Yam, Mrs. Evans Vann, Mrs, T. o. Crane, Mrs. Upchurch, Mrs. Ray mond Shores, Mrs. Zack Cheatham, Mrs. Harry Ross, Mrs. Bernie Vest. Mrs. Elmer Rhodes, Mrs. Ernest Bliss, Mrs. R. E. Lowery. Mrs. Beatty and Mrs. Crawford West
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Pi Sig Mia Psi Club will have their final meeting for the club year this even- ing at the home of Mrs. l.. A. keene.
 The J. U. G. club will meet this after noon at the home of Miss Annie Belle Franklin on Glenwood avenue.
 All mother nf N an in the firth. sixth and seventh sages of the Lakeview school who are take part in the pa- geant are asked 10 plsa SC meet the cos tune commit ees aa ths school this morn ing between ana Nsat o'clock.
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T don't know why I love you, but I do, do," sang Imogene as she sat down on the arm of Andrews chair and ruffled up his hair.
 T know he said very seriously. It's because I am so big and handsome and strcng and brave"
 ''Poofr said Imogene. You are not so terribly big, you are not so unusually strong, and as to handsome, you would only pass in large crowd; and as to brave l have my doubts. l can't imagine you an army man."
 You are right. there. honey" said Andrew. T don't believe there is enough war spirit in me to make me accept commission as corporal in the Salvation Army.
 T am strong for the navy, though. I'll tell you what I would like to have. A commission as the captain of a gravy boat! I think it would be an ideal job for me. The very first place I would sail for would be Turkey. It seems to me that this would be the proper place to sail a gravy boat.
 Then my way home I would stop at several ports, for what is the use of having a portion of turkey on gravy boat without any port?
 After leaving Turkey I think I would sail to the Sandwich Islands, because they. come in handy after port and turkey.
 T do not know where I would go next unless it would be to the Canares: you know how fond l am of music with my meals
 "Thero would never be the least need of my sailing for Hungary for you know that no captain of a gravy boat would ever look out of his hatchway with any desire to land in that country
 Then I think I would sail to some formed in the presence of only rela- t,ves and a few friends.
 Dr. and Mrs. Murray left immediate ly for a wedding trip to several of the southern cities. They will be at home in Albany after June 1.
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MRS. CROWDER TO SING
 AT SOUTHERN CLUB

Mrs. L. B. Crowder will sing Sunday al the Southern Club dinner from to s o'clock during the regular concert of the orchestra under direction of Emile Levy: Programme:
 Hungarian Dance No. 2" (Brahms). Apple Blossoms" (Roberts).
 ''Minuet" PaderewskD.
 Vocal solos, selected, Mrs. L. B. Crowder
 Simple Aveu" (Thome).
 "Fizzicato Polka" (Strauss).
 Vocal solos, selected, Mrs. l.. B. Crow der,
 La Morsaria" (Morse).
 'fLoin du Bal" (GilleD.
 First Heart Throbs" (Eilenberg).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
ARABS ANNUAL PICNIC

The Arabs Club held it's annual pie nic at Bayview this week. About twen- ty- five couples motored out, chaper oned by Mir. and Mrs. c. A. Miller. MT. and Mrs. Harry Hillhouse and MT. and Mrs. Russell. The affair proved to be most enjoyable and marked the begin ming of summer activities for this club of Ensley's popular young men.
 The Arabs were also hosts at a dance Wednesday evening at the home of MT. and Mrs, $. J. Harrell in Ems ley. An ice course was served and dancing was enjoyed until a late hour, Many delightful events have been planned blythe Arabs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
 MEETING

The last meeting of the Kennedy School Improvement Association will be held at o'clock this afternon, when officers will take place.
 The following programme will be gwen:
 Music, by first grade.
 Paper, Vocation Problems" Mrs. Weston.
 Talk on municipal playground. MT. J. Ellis Brown.
 Resume of our years work, Mrs. Yondle.
 Music, Miss Dees
 Paper, Mrs. DuBose.
 The hostesses will be Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. DeHall and Mrs. Riggs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
PACKAGE PARTY
 AND DANCE

The following invitations have been sent out:
 You and your friends are cordially invited to attend a package party and dance to be given by the Ladies' He brew Auxiliary. Wednesday evening, May 19, at s o'clock, Elks hall Eighth avenue and Nineteenth street, north, for the benefit of the Birmingham He- brew School. Each lady is requested to bring a package"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
MRS. SHOCKS. LUNCHEON

Mrs. Warner Shook entertained yesr terday afternoon at an informal tea in honor of Mrs. Walter Scott Brower, recent bride, and Mrs. Vaughan Bost wick of Philadelphia, who is visiting in the city.
 The house was made attractive with bright flowers and the tea table was adorned with spring blossoms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
PIPES O. PAN"
 POSTPONED

Owing to the recent heavy rains and the present unsettled condition of the weather, the pageant, Pipes O Pan" has been postponed, possibly until to- morrow. All holders of tickets and friends are asked to watch for further announcements
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sion, during which officers for the coming year were elected, a social hour was enjoyed. One of the pleasant features of the evening was the talk by MT. F. L. Harrup, boys secretary, OF the duties of club members. It is believed that the coming year will be the greatest in the clubs history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
MURRAY-CALDWELL
 WEDDING ANNQuNCED

,Mr. and Mrs. George Caldwell of Scottsboro, Ala, announce the mar riage of their daughter, Pearl Hamil- ton, to Dr. M. w. Murray of Albany, May 12 in Birmingham
 Owing to the recent death of the brides sister, Mrs. William Scheffer of Nashville the ceremony was per
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FOR MISS WORTHINGTON

Mrs. Charles S. Caldwell will enter tain at a luncheon tomorrow at the Tutwiler in honor of Miss Amelia Worthington, whose marriage to MT. Trenton Kern Fisk will take place next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
TO HONOR VISITOR

Mrs Henry Hiden and Miss Virginia Hiden will entertain tomorrow after noon at an informal tea, compliment ing Mrs. Henry Berkeley Watkins of Danville, Va. who is visiting in the city.
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her father, MT. Thomas Warrington, and Rev. Oscar de Wolfe Randolph will perform the ceremony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
SOCIAL AT Y M. C. A.

The Employed Boys Brotherhood of the Young Mems Christian Association held it's regular weekly meeting in it's club room last Tuesday evening, May Il, at 8 o'clock. After'a business ses-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
Need q Man CarUe
The Servant Problem Has Brought
 This Question Up.

. Now that one-maid households have become maidless households, and two maid households are fortunate if there lis a single domestic, and establishments
 that were formerly manned by some fifteen or so willing servitors are get
 ting chaotic and are on the verge of
 collapsing entirely, we all of us have to change our habits to a considerable
 extent. And we find that we can eat dinner with just as much relish when we have to hand the plates about and then hand the vegetables about as when we have a well-trained waitress to do this for us. We get used to see ing our hostess flutter back and forth between the. dining-room and the kitchen and it no longer surprises us to see host so well trained in sharing the burden of the maidless condition
 that he takes his cue at the end of
 each course and carries the plates more or less deftly into the pantry himself.
 Now, of course, most of us if we had not arrived at the pinnacle where we
 served dinner a la Russo with the meats and poultry carved in the pantry or on a side table by a sllillful butler, at least dreamed of the time when we could dispense with the old English custom of having the male head of the house at the opposite end of the table
 perform this operation himself. He shared our distaste for table carving, no doubt, and so firm were We in our prejudice in favor of the Russian serv- ice that we were a bit careless about
 training our sons to wield the carving
 knife and fork correctly
 But when one is managing with a
 single maid or with none at all, then il, becomes almost a necessity to carve at table. However, is it only a preju-
 dice of ours that makes it incumbent upon the man of the family to perform this task Women usually make better .carvers because they know about food preparation. They have reason to know which way the joint cuts best if they have assisted in preparing it and have even argued with the butcher about 1t. Why then shouldn't our daughters be trained up in the way of carving at table?
 ' In old days in England this Is how it was. And 1t is said in old memoirs that Lady Louisa Stuart had not only to invite-that is, urge and tease-her company to eat moro than human throat could conveniently swallow. but ito carve each dish that came to the table, and there were many of them. Young ladies in those days had carving masters just as they had dancing mas ,ters. Lady Mary Montague had as a girl three carving lessons a week, and so busy was she kept carving for her fathers dinners when she became a young lady that she had to eat an hour for so beforehand, for folk ate more then than they do today and small ichance there would have been for Lady Mary to get a bite if she had waited until the regular dinner hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
Old Chinese
 Enbroideries INSPIRE TRIMMING FOR EFFECTIVE NEW
 FROCKS
Paris Is Looking to China and to Egypt
 For Inspiration in Spring Styles.

When q certain New York fashion authority, who has a wide reputation for her clothes sense and her ability to tell what smart women are going to wear before they have any idea them selves, arrived a day or so ago from asked her was this: What of the Egyptian influence? Is it not going to be the big idea for the future?"
 She shrugged her shoulders in manner truly Parisian. "Oh, to be sure, there are many frocks showing the Egyptian infuence-the straight, scant lines that some of the dressmakers are featuring, the low waistline and where evening gowns are concerned a heavy metallic trimming of various sorts that gives the silhouette an undulating line. Then one sees much embroidery making use of the angular, queer look ing figures such as we see on old mummy cases and Egyptian hiero- glyphics and the Egyptian cofurs, to produce which the designers and en- broiderers have actually matched up their materials with bits of pottery and paintings in the museums. All very charming but"
 But what" they urged fearful that she would digress to the subject of the high cost of hotel living in Paris-a subject that all returned buyers have been talking about endlessly lately.
 "Only this-that in Paris now every thing Is being worn, everything has been shown. There is, for instance, tremendous vogue for the Chinese that is only beginning. I have seen stun ming frocks made entirely from a piece of Chinese embroidery. In interior decorations the French women of taste for using Chinese design to a great ex- tent-in lounge cushions, wall hang ings, table coIers-everywhere. Hats are made from pieces of Chinese em- broidery. But it is not all of real Chi nese origin. srhe clever embroiderers reproduce the effect by using the same flat, even stitch and the characteristic l D. by machine to resemble Chinese em- broidery is frequently used to give the desired Chinese touch.
 But don't imagine that all the hon ors are divided between Chinese and Egyptian fashions. The very fact that more lace Is used in French fashions | than ever before is enough to dsprove | that notion, for one never heard of an i Egyptian costume trimmed with lace and lace is almost as seldom seen in Chinese costumery.
 And tule-I never saw so much tulle and the French dressmakers seem to be able to add q cloud or an ava lanche of tulle almost anywhere in a costume to good advantage. Now don't forget" said my friend with the air of a prophet, Paris is fairly swim ming in tulle. Here in America We will soon follow suit"