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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04
CAHEEN-U -ULLMAN
 ENGAGEMENT

| The engagement of Miss Rhonie Ullman of Richmond. Va. and Mr. Ju- Han Caheen was announced today. MT. Caheen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Caheen. are now in Richmond attend ing the festivities in connection with the betrothal. and will rsmain there several days.
 young business men of Birmingham. He Is popular in society circles. being Ia member of the Phoenix club. the Athletic and other organizations. and the announcement of his engagement to, an attractive young woman of the historic city of Richmond b pleasAnt news to wide coterie of friends.
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CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING

Ex-Chancellor and Mrs. A. Fl. Ben-
 ners quietly celebrated their golden wedding at their home on Huntsville
 avenue Wednesday with a dinner and informal reception in the afternoon. The table was centered with bride roses and camelias in a handsome bowl. which had been used at the marriage of Mrs. Benners and at that l. of her mother.
 Many friends called during the aft ernoon. and many messages of con- Igratulation were received.
 Chancellor and Mrs. Benners num- ber their friends by the score, and
 many charming courtesies were shown
 them during the day.
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CHILDERS-NORBY
 WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT

The following announcements 1avo been received by friends: MT. and Mrs. Albertus Curless an-
 nounce the marriage of their daugh- ter. Joyce Virginia Norby, to MT. Paul Houston Childers on Monday, January sl. 1921. Birmingham. Ala. At home after February l5. Anniston. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04

The Pierian club will meet with Mrs. Sumter Lea, Jr.. February II, instead
 of with Mrs. Robert Morris, as previ. ously announced.
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MRS. TUCKER sOLOIsT

Mrs. Hayse Tucker will sing Satur- day at 1 o'clock at the Southern club, with the orchestra, under the direction of Emile Levy. Following is the pro- gramme:
 Overture, Hungarian Lustspiep (Keler Bela).
 "Sparklets" (Miles).
 Eleanor" (Albers).
 Vocal solo, selected Mrs. Hayse Tucker.
 "valse Danseuse" (Miles).
 "A Garden Dance" (vergas). Vocal solo, selected, Mrs. Hayse Tucker.
 Bowl of Pansies" (Reynard). At Sunset" (Brewer).
 Dancing Leaves" (Miles).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04
What Uniformity in Cranulation Means in Flour

Every woman knows that it is necessary to have the pieces of potato of equal size to insure thoroughly uniform cooking The same principle applies to flour. The granulation must be absolutely uniform to in- sure uniformity in baking otherwise the best results are impossible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04
MIR. DUNKLEY'S.
 ORGAN RECITAL

A special request programme will be given by Ferdinand Dunkley at his organ recital Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Church of the Advent
 and an offering will be taken for the European relief fund. These recitals
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MRS. FANNIE o.
 ROBINSON ALLEN

No visitor to Birmingham for many days has been more cordially welcomed than Mrs. Fannie o. Robinson Allen of Shreveport, La, who has been the guest of her brother. MT. Gordon Robinson for the past few days.
 Mrs. Allen~i is remembered as one o1 the most charming and lovely women who ever lived in Birmingham, and heI beautiful voice, which for many years regaled the large congregations at the First Baptist church, gave inestimable pleasure to her hundreds of admirers. Mrs. Allen has spent the winter in New York, where her daughter, Olivia Allen, is studying voice with Genaro Curci, the brother of Galli-Curci's ex- husband, from whom the great diva herself took lessons.
 Mrs. Allen Is the 'impressario" oi Shreveport, her concerts there attract ing auditors from large territory She will present Tetrazzini in Shrevepor' on March 3 and a number of other ar lists during the spring season.
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DINNER PARTY

Mrs. A. A. Adams. IT,. will be host at the dinner dance at the Country club
 Saturday evening, entertaining party of guests in compliment to Miss Lillian
 Lanier of Anna. H.. an attractive visi- | tor in Birmingham
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CLUB POSTPONED

noon at o'clock at her home on i201 Virginia avenue, south.
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MRS. CAIRNS LUNCHEON

Mrs. T. c. Cairns was hostess at a luncheon at her home on St. Charles
 street Wednesday, experimenting Mrs. James Downeys guest. Mrs. A. C. Chamberlain, of Plainfield.
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he guest of friends and relatives.

the guest of friends and relatives. | Miss Alice Wall has returned from
 Tuscaloosa, where she was the guest of
 Miss Madge Price for several days.
 MT. l.. S. Sevier is spending few days in Memphis
 Mrs J. D. Maddox has returned to her home in Easonville after spending some time here.
 Mrs. Jonas Schwab has returned from New York, after spending several weeks. Mrs. Annie Lankford of Tuscaloosa has
 been called to this city by the illness or her mother.
 MT. John Kirk arrived yesterday from Tuscaloosa to enter Howard college Mrs. George w. Hughes and Mrs. Annie ] Jones and Mrs. Page Sloss motored to
 Tuscaloosa yesterday. Mrs Hughes Will visit her daughter, Miss Cornelia Hughes, who is student at the University. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Joycrofters will meet today at 2:3O o'clock with Mrs. T. s. Neville. lI2o Fifteenth avenue, south, on account or
 the illness of Mrs. Thomas Morgan. The Culture club will meet with Mrs ]. Ellis Beal 1426 Thirty-first street, north at 2 o'clock. today L'tude dArt club will meet today with
 Mrs Duncan on Ash street Clionon club will meet February Il with
 Mrs. F. J. Cole.
 The Edgewood club will meet today
 with Mrs. J. R. Mcqueen, 1920 St. Charles
 street, at o'clock. The Birmingham chapter 11S, o. E. s. will hold it's regular meeting this ait ernoon at the Masonic temple All mem bers of the order are welcome.
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LUNCHEON FOR
 MRS. CHAMBERLAIN

Mrs. J. T. Monroe win entertain at a
 luncheon tomorrow for Mrs. H. c. Chamberlain of Plainsfield. N. J., the guest of Mrs. James Downey.
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MRS. JACKSON HOSTESS

The Qut Vtve club VIII be tho guest Of Mrs. c. Wallace Jackson this alter
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L'tude dArt club will meet today with
 Mrs. Duncan on Ash street.
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The Edgewood club will meet today with Mrs. J. R. Mcqueen 1920 St. Charles street, at o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04

Clionon club will meet February il with Mrs F J. Cole.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Joycrofters will meet today at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. T. s. Neville, lI2o Fifteenth avenue, south, on account of the illness of Mrs. Thomas Morgan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04

The Birmingham chapter 11s 0. E. S., will hold it's regular meeting this a1t- ernoon at the Masonic temple. All mem bers of the order are welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04

The Culture club will meet with Mrs J. Ellis Beal, 1426 Thirty-first street
 north at 2 o'clock today.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

and depend upon frightening other
feathered creatures by seeming to be
very fierce. Last spring mother
robin was seen to give three worms
to q sparrow that few straight at
her as if to snatch them. The mother
was searching some freshly turned
earth in the garden. and in a few
ulnutes pulled out a big, pink worm
nd started to fly back to her wait
ing young ones in the nest. The spar
row had been following her closely,
so when the mother opened her
mouth to defend herself the worm
dropped out and was quickly snapped
up by the smaller bird, which then
carried it to small bush where the
tiny sparrows were also waiting for
their dinner.
Three times the mother robin dis
covered nice worms, but the mother
sparrow flew directly at her head
and forced her to drop them. The
clever sparrow was waiting for the
mother robin when she tried for a
fourth worm, and would have seized
this one if something dreadful had
not happened. In her excitement at
the idea Of getting another free din
ner for her little ones the sparrow
did not notice the approach of a
big hawk. Just as she made dash
at the mother robin the hawk sud-
| denly swooped down and seized the
sparrow in its sharp talons, so this
thieving bird mother had to pay
dearly for the three worms she had
J stolen. The little robins had their
dinner Of nice worms at last, but the
baby sparrows never saw their
mother any more.
The English sparrows are such
hardy birds that they never migrate
to a warmer climate during winter,
The only migrating they do is to
fly into the cities and towns, where
they can find more to eat. With the
coming of the first warm days of
spring they begin to scatter out into
the country to find plenty Of buds
and blossoms, while later on they
get into the grain fields and cause
the farmers much worry. Never be
cruel to these dappev little birds, but
don't encourage them to make a bat
tleground Of your lawn or walks
if you want regular visits from mora
Useful and beautiful kinds Of feath-
cred friVndA
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Translated by William l.. Mcpherson
Copyright, 1891, The NoaO York Tribune I,sc.)

the countryside at the end Of two
lonely roads. 1t was the sacred goal
to reach which she had traversed
the whole Of France. And as she
recognized the last turns before the
worm-eaten gate which one had to
open to go in among the dead the
inquietude which had tormented her
all the way from Toulouse became
almost insupportable.
In what condition, after two years.
was she going to find her husbands
grave, which she meyer allowed any
one but herself to touch?
On her previous visits she had
known in advance everything that
was going to happen. Already there
were fixed habitudes between her
and her dead. After the first tu-
mults Of arrival, before even think
ing or praying, she began to set
things in order in that strange
house-the home of our physical
personality after our moral person
ality has quit US to go elsewhere or
to disappear into nothingness. And
since those whom we have loved turn
to dust, we must lavish on a little
earth and the plants which flower
in 1t all the affection which re-
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

mains for them in our aching hearts,
Alter trimming the grave the lit
Tie widow knelt down over it. Then
came another rite. In a low tone.
like that in which we saw "Our
Father" she told the sleeper all that
had happened to her in the past
year, and all that she had thought.
Next she told him about events
which would have interested him if
he had been alive, but which he
didn't know about because no one
but herself ever came to talk to him.
Only few trembling steps were
still to be taken. She pushed at the
gate. The little boy clung to her
skirts. A thick layer of dead leaves,
accumulated inside, blocked her en-
trance.
In the hour or more in which she
had been walking with her son be-
tween the autumn fields her eyes
had fallen everywhere on dead
leaves, with their violent colors, imi-
tating blood. Suddenly she felt the
terrible significance and scope of the
news she was bringing to her hus-
band. She was to tell him all about
the war. What horror, suffering,
tears and blood she carried with her
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AS antiquated and out-of-date as
the decaying tombs Of this apah-
doned burying ground.
"If he had been here in 1914" sne
thought, she would have gone to tns
front with the others. He wouldh =
have died. He would have been
killed. And to think that he mas
never had even the faintest inkling
of the war!"
The hearts Of the heroes glittereo
on the branches of the brier ouSn'
How many women at that very mo-
ment were weeping for soldiers
fallen on the field Of honor!
The little widow felt that her gr'el
was out of season, far away. Amos.
unbecoming. She looked at the chl"
whom she had never loved. ne
standing there beside her, was con-
temporary. He contained the nys'
terry of the future. The war and u
consequences-he would never kno"
anything but them. It was for hiih'
for his generation, that everytnins
was happening.
The young mother sobbed conV"'
sively. She opened her arms RAG
ing the grave of the husband wnon.
the war had separated from here,
that dead man whom the war mao
now killed over again---for the nfs'|
time since she had brought him ll''
the world she gave her son A's'
Of love.
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The English Sparrow Pest

W. E MAY admire the live'i-
w ness Of the little sparrows,
but they have driven away so
many Of our really beautiful and
useful birds that we can't exactly
like them. And the old Nursery
rhyme, where the question Is asked:
"Who killed Cock Robin?" Is well
answered IN these words: ~, said
the sparrow, with my bow and arrow
II killed Cock Robin!" Though
quite small, the sparrow is a most
quarrelsome creature, and seems to
delight in annoying other birds. It
also destroys much valuable grain,
fruit buds, blossoms and even the
fruit itself.
Because our sparrows were
brought from England, we usually
call them English sparrows, but they
are the same birds that give trouble
all over Europe and parts of Asia
and Africa. The fact that they
were thought to be eaters of harm
9ul insects caused some New York
people to bring some back with them
after a trip to England. This big
mistake has cost us millions and
millions of dollars every year since,
: and should be good lesson to re-
member. Even after they drive off
We other more useful birds the sper-
tows begin to quarrel among them
selves, and maybe you have noticed
how noisy flock of them are as
they hop about. Treir voices have
no song, loud chirping being as
much as they can do, while their
members are so great that the com,
5ined chirps sound very harsh. The
English sparrow has been in our
country for only about seventy
years, but there are now more OF
them than any other of the native
birds.
However, we must give the spar
rows credit for being very smart.
They are quick to take the hint that
they are not wanted when their
nests are torn down in the hope Of
driving them away, something which
many other destructive birds are
slow to do.
Their loud chirps and quick darts
are a terror to gentle birds, such as
the robin. &o4 they are great buffers
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
Fl ERE Arpad, the Hungarian ruler of 1000 gears ago. is
shown protecting the provinces ceded parq to
Ukrainia and partly to Czecho-Slouakia

known fact that in the streets Of
Budapest passersby are held up and
robbed at night by armed officers
of the Horthy army The paper
then continues:
"Best of the four statues is the
one called the South. 1t shows
muscular workingman, in his right
hand a sword, in his left shield.
His face expresses perplexity and
wonderment-why on earth is he
made to carry these unaccustomed
implements? Most likely the sculp-
tor did not originally equip him
at all with sword and shield; it was
the terror detachments of the army
that compelled the artist to supply
the poor, honest laborer with their
own murderous instruments. Next
to the workman stands a sensible
looking peasant woman, holding
sickle. 1t is just possible that the
grim determination on the faces OF
the two Southerners signifies that
they are resolved to repel an In
vasion of the Eorthy bandits with
force of arms, if necessary"
This again alludes 20 the attitude
Of the inhabitants of the south
Hungarian city of PEGS (Flnf-
kirchen). This town was occupied
in 1918 by the Serbians. The Treaty
of Trianon has ordered its return
to Hungary, but the population, al
though purely Magyar, asked the
Serbian government not to with
draw the army of occupation, as
they prefer remaining under the
democratic Jugo-Slav rule to being
delivered to the tender mercies OF
Horthy's terrorists.
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meant to represent one Of the Slovak
soldiers Of Prince Francis Rakoczy.
who, in the first decade Of the
eighteenth century, rebelled against
the Emperor Leopold and concluded
an alliance with Louis XIV of
France. There is a little hitch in
the symbolism, however, for Ra-
koczy really was champion of free
dom against imperial oppression and
was beloved by the common people,
whereas in the last fifty years the
Magyar government was genuinely
and deservedly hated by the Slovaks
for its oppressive and Magyarizing
rule.
The South is represented by a
giant Magyar peasant with drawn
sword, shielding a German woman.
This is intended to express the joint
protest of the Magyar and German
population of southern Hungary
against Jugo-Slav rule. The sheaf
at the feet of the Magyar reminds
Of the fact that Hungary's richest
wheat growing area, the south, has
been torn off the country's body.
The East, representing Transylva-
MIA, shows the figure of Arpad, the
Magyar chieftain who, according to
the legend, one thousand years ago
led the Magyar tribes across the
Carpathians into the Danubian
plain. Arpad, wearing chain mail
and a spiked helmet with an eagles
wing, supports a fainting male fig
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06

In the folds Of her black costume!
1t seemed to her that those pur-
pied leaves through which she had
ploughed and which now prevented
her from opening the gate were so
many bleeding hearts-hearts of
dead heroes which hindered her visit.
She finally got the gate open
Across the disorder of the little GEM
etery, almost running wild under
the twisted and silent apple trees,
she saw the grave-the only grave
that interested her. The brier bush
overrunning it, grown enormously,
had produced hundreds of big ber
ries, evidence of the intensified vigor
of plants no longer cultivated. And
more even than the dead leaves, these
berries of coral made her think of
the hearts of heroes.
The young woman drew near.
dragging the be- after her. She
forgot the order Of the rites. She
kneeled first, stammering helplessly.
She wanted to talk, to tell him everv-
thing. But the war, the great war,
choked her utterance. One couldn't
tell about such a war. To compre-
hend it the listener must himself
have lived it.
All at once she understood. Her
precious dead had been superan-
nuated by all the events which had
happened since August 2, 1914. He
was ona OF the before-the-war dead
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THE LOSS of the North to Czecho-Souckia illustrated
By this statue By S5gmaumd Strobl The vonan is Hun
gary being supported By q Slovak aUa7vior

anon merely in order to gain time
for the reorganization Of our
army" ADMIRAL Horthy, regent of
the Hungarian state, declared last
February, and the same idea per-
vades all the announcements of
political and military leaders as we'll
as all phases Of public life.
Hatred Of the victorious Czecho-
Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs and Rumanians
is being preached not only in Hun
gary proper but also in the "lost
provinces" where hundreds of Mag
var agents spread the doctrine of
Hungarian irredentism." The term
itself is borrowed from the Italian
movement to liberate fellow nation
ais from the Austrian yoke. The
Magyar government, which pleads
extreme poverty when it is a ques-
ton of reparation payments or social
and educational improvement, spends
uncounted millions on the army and
for "irredentist" propaganda. 1t has
been proved that the Horthy govern
ment. which claims European SYM
pathy on the ground that it is anti
Bolshevik, is financing Bolshevik
propaganda in Slovakia and Tran
sylvania. The Magyar militarists
calculate that in case of Bolshevistic
outbreaks in the neighbor countries
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The other was dead. It was a post
humous child. Its pale presence
evoked no memories Of the dead days
of happiness. 1t had come too late.
1t didn't even resemble the father.
If it had resembled him she would
have adored it.
Wasn't it perversity of fate
that the husband she loved had died
in far-off Normandy? He had been
transferred to small government
post there just as his health began
to fail. Nevertheless, he had been
so drawn to the country about the
little city where. he breathed his last
that he wished to be buried nowhere
else. He had selected little rural
cemetery which particularly ap-
pealed to him. For this modest func
tionary was a poet of the romantic
type, a lover Of music, of verse and
of nature--a man of great suscepti-
bility and charm.
The young widow now opened her
blue eyes wide to pick up the guide
marks in the autumn landscape.
She still showed the strain of her in
terminable journey. But that very
WEAKNESS, what passionate JOY
she found in it!
Her feverish gait, impeded some
what by the boys short step, now
brought her near the little Norman
burial ground hidden in 9 fold of
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ure. This statue signifies a protest
against Rumanian rule in Transyl-
vanja.
A Helmeted Warrior

VanJas
A Helmeted Warrior
Another helmeted Magyar war
rior, carrying a tremendous sword,
signifies the West, ceded to Austria
and Czecho-Slovakia The Magyar
leans defiantly on the defeated fig
ure representing these two states
and apparently caught in the act of
carrying away the Hungarian crown.
This hints at the city of Pressburg,
now incorporated in Czecho-Slo-
vakia, which has for period served
as the coronation city of the Hun
garian realm.
The Becsi Magyar Ujsag vienna
Hungarian Gazette), a daily news
paper conducted in Vienna by
bourgeois Liberal refugees, who fled
there from the bloody persecution
of the Horthy government, COM
ments satirically on the four statues,
saying among other things that the
heroic figures of the Magyar war
riors are painfully reminiscent of
the pseudo-monumental Teuton
demigods of modern German official
sculpture. Speaking of the statue
synlbolizing the West, the paper
says:
'The grim-faced Magyar warrior
in this group carries naked sword.
After midnight, when Liberty
Square is totally deserted, he prob
ably administers with it stab or
two into the poor dying Austrian,
and then robs him of his last
crown"
This is an allusion to the well
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Hungary will be given mandate"
to march in and "restore order'' in
Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania.
One Of the latest manifestations
of this Magyar irredentism occurred
recently at Budapest, when four
statues, representing the lost prov
inces, were unveiled amid great
pomp and circumstance. To bring
home to the American reader the real
purport of this demonstration let US
assume that four statues, represent
ing Alsace-Lorraine, Posen, West
Prussia and the overseas colonies
would be unveiled at Berlin under
the auspices of the German govern
ment. An act of this order would
be regarded everywhere as a gross
breach of faith and a menace of
European tranquility. But the in
tricacies Of the Hungarian situation
are still insufficiently understood and
appreciated in western Europe and
the United States, so the Hungarian
government, as the phrase goes,
"gets away with it"--at least, it
hopes so. Public opinion in Czecho-
Slovakia, Rumania and Jugo-Slavia
the countries most Immediately
concerned-knows better, and the de-
velopments at Budapest are COM
mented upon with great anxiety by
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TT WAS tranquil day in autumn

y
stractedly along a country road,
holding by the hand her little son.
Like her, he. was dressed in black,
and, like her, depressed and silent.
The two Of them, in their mourning
garb, added touch of human desc
lation to the desoletions of the wan
ing year.
Up to the outbreak of the war this
inconsolable widow had come each
fall to visit the grave of her hus-
band, dead for seven years, stricken
in the fullness Of his youth and the
fullness of his love.
That annual pilgrimage involved
long and expensive journey. After
her widowhood she had rejoined her
parents in the south of France. Her
husbands death had brought her. to
the verge Of despair. l. had also
left her in straitened circum-
stances. The war had added to her
burdens. What patient economies
had been necessary to make this
years visit possible!
The child she was dragging by
the hand along the country road
she had dragged that way, meta
phorically speaking, from the be-
ginning. She had never loved it.,
That was the second drama Of her
life. She had deep-seated grudge
against II 4os being alive whils