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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
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EnsIey Store Nearing Com pIetion - Boys Enjoy
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The AgeHerald maintains special bureau in Ensley for handling corre- spondence and advertising, Avenue E and Seventeenth street; Clyde w. En- ms, representative, phone Ensley 626. For subscriptions, call Circulation dc psrtment. Main 490O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
New Business Firms

The Weaver Humphries Automobile l1 company, which has bought out the Simpson Motor company, is new ut-of-town firm that will open for business in Bessemer, and will be To- ca.ed on Third avenue between Eigh- tesnth and Nineteenth streets. The Maddox Morgan company is another new firm, an automobile company, which will be located on Third avenue also. These firms secured thelr places of business from George II. Stevenson Real Estate company to- day. and will be ready for opening within few days
 The Baraca ball team, which has scored number of victories rom other teams recently, has issued a challenge to any team Of amat teIr standing in the state to play game of ball. They especially desire to engage with the Tuscaloosa team, CT with the Alabama Power company team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
CnsmnnnIitnn CIlIh

The Cosmopolitan club was de- ilightfully entertained at it's recent meeting by Mrs. E. P, Durette at her home on Fifth avenue. Quantities
 of garden flowers in pink and white artistically arranged throughout the reception rooms were used in the decorations for the party.
 Tables for the games of forty-two were placed on the porch, and the club prize, hand embroidered pillow cases. was won by Mrs Bryan Cow
 an. and the guest prize. stationery, was awarded to Mrs. A. D. Maddox.
 Delightful refreshments were Iserved following the games. Those whom Mrs. Durette included in her hospitality were Mesdames Walter Gwin, Fay Randall Arthur Key holds, E. D. Couch, Joseph Kalten-
 bach, F. S, Fitzgerald, c. H. Bum
 gardner, Joe Burgin. Fred Bruns, Virgil Harwel L. M. Barnett and Misses Lila Moorer. Annie Brill and
 Kathryn Maddox
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10

Mrs. Herbert Batts was hostess to the Wednesday Bridge club al It's last meeting, entertaining at her hom9t which was attractiVely deco rate@Hor the occasion in quantities of pffnS and white asters and ferns. Mrs. John Eagan and Mrs. W. O.. HodgNins were awarded the prizes, cut glass bud vases.
 A two-course luncheon was served after the games and those who en- joyed the occasion were: Mesdames Mac Batson. Cook, F. Randall, J. C. Pope. S. w. Wright. Bruce Snider, Lee Chambers, J. H. Blue. " II. Ragsdale, Guy Wilson, l.. W. Allen Peyton McIGniry, E. Deshazo M C. Ragsdale. Jr,, and Misses Eileen and Lizzie Scott.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10
Personals


 William Heillier will leave Mon- day for Washington and Lee univer- sity, where he will resume his stud ies.
 Mrs. Charles Rodenburg and Miss Helen Rodenburg returned yester- day from a sojourn in Charleston and Sullivan's island and a few days visit in Atlanta
 Mrs. J. c. Houston and Miss Julia Houston returned yesterday from SulliNn's island, where they have spend @he past six weeks.
 Mr%and Mrs. A. K. Williamson and Misses Virginia Williamson re- turned Friday from Mobile and other points. making the trip in their automobile.
 Mrs. S. F.. Grout will leave Tues day for Dyersburg, Tenn. where she will visit relatives for some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-10

Special values in school blouses. Good because they are Tom Sawyer blouses. Made of good quality per cale or blue chambray. Fast colors, all sizes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03

w 'n NO nss sD'; ~ns, the s@s
try in which one may soJourn.
Thus, the South Seas, in particular the Island
Of Tahiti, not, after all, dreamers para
disc, but land even as other lands, Where
one must win his daily bread by the sweat
OF his brow.
OF this we are informed by the correspond
ent of the Associated Press at Papeete, capt.
tai Of Tahiti, who draws disappointing pic
ture of the fate encountered by emlgrants to
the Society Islands, seeking that lovely para
disepictured by writer's for years past, from
Robert Louis Stevenson to Frederick Brlen
In their enchanting narratives Tahiti and
its neighbor islands are painted as troplc
Edens where the wicked cease from trou-
bling and the weary are at rest" Blue skies
and sunshine, palm trees signing in the Pa
cific trade winds, white duck and hula hula
dancers, highballs on the club Veranda and
tat cocoanuts dropping into ones lap while
he lazeS the days dWaN--~thS is the mirage
that has beckone1 the vcuturer southwark
from smoky cities and the .trudgery OF work.
But what does he tjnu.---this seeker after
romance and ease? Let the correspondent
answer. Recent arrivals III Tahiti, he says,
armed with a few dollars and copies OF
white Shadows of the SoN;h Seas" are met
by natives who refuse to sell the lands they
consider beQueathed to them as trust. In
rare cases. where the purchase is made, the
price would stagger a Georgia farmer. And
once one has his cocoauut plantation, it is
not matter Of easy reaping, for it takes
twelve years of arduous and painstaking eff
fort to bring grove into tUil bearing. In
the meantime he must live, and Tahiti, at
last reports, has no board OF public charities
and is not furnishing free food and drink to
the starving stranger.
Should he decide to stop this side of the
Society Islands in the pleasant land of hulas
and ukuleles, the picture is even more dis
appointing, for here Yankee Ell HTgy has trans
formed the sandy beaches and tropical forests
into scenes more becoming New England
factory town. A recent visitor to Honolulu
writes that one cannot find even full-blood-
ed Hawaiian on Hawaii, let alone freedom
from work. The Hawaiians are dying race
and their carefree, happy-go-lucky life has
been pushed aside by busy wharVes and
docks, giant cranes swinging against the sap
phire Skies steam. whistles drowning out the
strains of Farewell to Thee" and iail in
stead of soft spot in the sun for beach
bombers and other vagrants
Truly. if this latest material descrptI,, Of
tropic isles be TRUE, the seeker after co tent
ment will find more to his choice on a South
Georgia farm than he will in Tahiti, and he
who would go a-gypsying had best do it Vi
cariously in the quiet Of his library.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03
A HORSESHOE PITCHING PRESDENT-By Frederic J. Haskn

America had barely heard of Russia, regard
ed Main street as the best place this side of
Heaven, and gave to all foreigners a rich
and condescending pity. Can America be led
back to the sweet and placid contentment,
the beautiful faitl- and ignorance of the ear
ly horseshoe pitching days?
Game of Quoits
But it must be added that horseshoe pitch
ing has, to certain extent, kept up with
the times. The game of quoits, properly So
called, is .ort of urbanized horseshoe pitch
ing, in which iron rings, especially made for
the purpose, are used This is interna-
tional game and has it's tournaments and
champions.
Horseshoe pitching proper, as far as we
can learn, is a purely American game Should
you desire to take it up, in order to get
your mind in tune with the administration,
we here give a brief summary of the rules
as promulgated by no less an authority than
the Grand League of American Horseshoe
Pitchers 1t is decreed by this organization
that the pegs shall be SO II feet apart. Each
of them must be 80 inches long and must
project inches above the ground, and the
pegs should incline toward each other to
the extent of one inch from the perpendicu-
lar. Yellow lay dug up to the depth of six
inches, and wet enough to prevent a shoe
from slipping or bouncing, should surround
the peg on all sides The pitchers box in
cludes all of the territory for three feet ON
either side of the pegs and six feet behind
it. The shoes which are pitched must be not
more than IA inches long, ga inches
wide and 31a inches between the heel
caulks, and each shoe must weigh not more
than two pounds ounces. In a frst-class
game, unless the shoe lies within six inches
of the peg it does not count anything. The
closest shoe counts one point, and if both
shoes are closer than either of the oppon-
ents shoes, it counts two points. ringer
counts five points if your shoe lands right
side up and three point if it turns over. Of
course, a ringer does not count if your OPP
ponent knocks it off the peg.
The friends of the game claim that it is
the friendliest contest possible. They say
that men who play quoits together never
have any serious disputes. They also say that
the exercise it affords is excellent, especial
ly for elderly men. The bending to pick up
the shoes is especially salubrious. 1t can be
played by all ages and both sexes, and any
where that you can find fifty or sixty feet of
level ground. At the same time, high de-
gree of skill is possible. If you can pitch a
shoe weighing over two pounds and make it
ring stake nearly forty feet away, you
have good nerves and a good eye The horse
shoe pitcher in the White House is said to
have both
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DORO THY DIX
THE CURE-ALL

a GIRL of nineteen has just been tried for
II the murder of a man with whom she
played about and had what she called
"a big time" The girl justified herself by say
ing that she was a baby vamp, and just
ouldn't help vamping men,"
"Humph," commented middle-aged WOm-
IN, 81 could cure her of vamping. I'd give
ler six months of scrubbing floors, six months
of the cook-stove, three months of dish wash
ing, and three months Of intensive sock darn
ng She wouldn't be a vamp after this
ourse.''
She wouldn't and there wouldn't be so
many baby vamps roaming about, seeking
whom they may devour, if every mother saw
to it that their daughters took a good precau-
tionary dose of housework every day. For
here is nothing more Statutory for the mortal,
as we'll as the physical system, than making
beds and sweeping floors and cooking.
There lis no more altruistic thing in the
world than making a home. 1t sobers and
enobles one. Nobody ever heard of a light
minded cook, or the girl who did the family
farming not being able to make her eyes be-
have. The maiden who keep her room spick
and span, and spotless, is in no danger of
bespattering her spiritual garments with the
mud OF the streets.
There is no doubt that what we used to
call "E, on MS work. is a fine remedy for
all that ails the modern girl, and it is a
eat pity that mothers have not enough
apply it. If they had, they would save them
selves many bitter tears, and many a way
ward girl from going to destruction.
|, The trouble with mothers is that their
love and tenderness crowd out their common
sense and judgment. They are so anxious
to save their girls from all the cares and bur-
dens of life, that they fail to realize that a
girls mind and hands must be employed
some way, and that if they not filled with
worthy employment they will find I'M
worthy one.
Every one of US could name hundred
eases in which a poor mother slaves, morn
-, noon and night in the kitchen, while her
daughters CAD the streets; where mothers
toll at the sewing machine making their
daughters pretty clothes, while the girls
keep dates at the drug stores, or make eyes
at strange men on the street,. where s~Oth-
ers are literal slaves in order that their
daughters may be free to go to the movies
and dance halls.
1t would save these girls if they had to
take turns with mother at the cookstOve, and
the washtub, and the sewing machine. If
Mamie knew she had to go home and get din
ner for father and the boys, she wouldn't
have so much time to engage in persiflage
with the soda fountain clerk or pick UP some
good-looking strange man with rowing eye
for just such little, idle purposeless flappers
as she is.
All young people are full Of energy, they
are restless. they must have something to do
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03
ONE WAY TO PAY DEBT TO
AMERICA
Bv DR.. Frlnk Crane

Mr. Albert j. Beveridge, one time United
States senator from Indiana, author of a
Life of Marshall and public speaker of
ability in an address, delivered on Washing
toms Birthday, made suggestion about the
paying of war debts, which is worth think
ing on.
1t is, in suLstance, that Great Britain and
France settle their Indebtedness to the
United States, at least in part, by ceding to
us their possessions which lie close to our
borders.
Great Britain owns most of that chain of
islands which guard the Gulf of Mexico, also
the Bermudas ard a small slice of Central
America called British Honduras.
France has also some fragmentary Ameri-
can possessions
None of these holdings are of any particu-
lar value to either Britain or France, ex-
cept for use as bases of attack, contingency
all parties would like to eliminate
We loaned to Great Britain during the
war, according to Mr. Beveridge, some 81
5OO,OOO,OOO, all but one-eighteenth of which
she re-Ioaned to her allies, loaning also. to
them as much again as we loaned her.
All this money was poured into the gen
eral pot to keep the fires of democracy boil
ing. 1t was part of the price the world had
to pay for the old order of national rivalry
and military preparedness, of which Ger
many was the foremost shining light.
Out of the war, however, Great Britain
got the most extensive territorial gains in
the history f conquest. All the other lead
ing nations at war with Germany extended
their territory, all but the United States.
If by some such arran ament as that sug-
gested here, we could reduce the irritation
naturally consequent upon great and long
standing debt, and balance the outlying pos
sessions of tn two parties concerned a lit
tie more in accord with geography and the
nature of things, . might help
Particularly France, just now in acute fl
nanciaI straits, would be immensely relieved
if the vast sum of her obligations could be
reduced, and at the same time her pride could
be spared the humiliation of accepting any
donation from us.
AS long as we are rearranging the map of
the world, as a consequence Of the war, why
not straighten it out further in the Interests
of general harmony?
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Crane.)
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Prigg;sh "Progress;ves"
n FEW YORK CITY appears to be passing
| VI through an epidemic which is not IN

VI through an epidemic which is not I'M
common to cities everywhere-the
passion of certain mistaken enthusiasts for
changing the names of old streets and
squares.
First they wanted to abolish the Bowery
and replace it with a number. Next they
considered Fifth avenue too prosiac for such
a famous street and proposed variety of
foWery Applications, ranging from Joffre
Boulevard to Allied Alley. Some dry expert
in social service advocated improving Black
wells Island to Welfare Island. And now
Mayor Hylan proposes that Herald Square
be changed to Roosevelt Square.
New York belongs to all America, and the
rest of the country feels a common interest
in New York streets and their names. Should
movement be launched to change the name
of Broadway every American to whom, in
at least one stage of his life, Broadway sum-
med up the metropolitan lure, would feel
distaste and sinking of the heart that this
thing might accomplished.
Likewise in the names of other famous
streets and spots of New York there is the
same endearment felt by other Americans
equally Nth New Workers. To cast Fifth
avenue, Herald Square, the BoWery, Black
wells Island, Coney Island Riverside
| Drive into oblivion by remaining them would
| be to kill memories and dim romance
| throughout the United States. st. Peters
| burg has not boosted the same glamor since
| 1t became PetrOgrad, ana 1t wa the simple
! change of name, rather than red revolution.
| that did it. Fifth avenue is known the
world over There is a magic in the name.
Were it rechristened it would take years to
invest Joffre Boulevard with the same WITCH
cry of attraction.
AS matter of fact, charges in names sell
! dom accomplish their object. AS rose
would smell as sweet were it called cab
bage, so will the reputation of a city or a
S eet be made no matter what it is labeled.
| Fifth avenue can never be numerically prosy
| so long IS it remains Fifth avenue. The
Bowery may wax respectable and still be the
| BOwery. Welfare Island sounds disgustingly
priggsh. And surely New York can find a
new street or square with which to honor
! Colonel Roosevelt without wipng out that
Herald Square which has it's own deserved
place in history. y
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and to think about and it passes comprehen-
sion why mothers do not face this fact, and
-ee t.. if the children are not given the right
thing to do, they will do the wrong thing.
The most disastrous fallacy in the world is
hat which has taught us that work is mis-
fortune to women. For ages every mother s
desire has been to protect her daughter from
any care or labor, and every mans ambition
has been to have his wife do nothing but sit
on silk cushion and feed upon strawberries,
sugar and cream" We have pitied the wom-
an who has to do her own houseWork and
shed tears of sympathy over the poor, unfor-
tunate working girl who has to earn her own
living. We have even talked about the temp
tations that beset the woman who had to
work out in the world, and thought how nice
and safe the girl was who had nothing to
do but stay at home and. go in society.
Nothing could be further from the truth
than our attitude toward women and work.
In reality, idleness is more disastrous for
women than it is for men. 1t was woman,
with nothing to do but kill time, who first
started trouble in the world, and Satan is
still finding work for such of her daughters
as have empty hands. Eve seems to haze
become worthy and estimable woman as
soon as she was put to work, and had plenty
to do raising Cain and Abel.
If YOU will look the world over, you will
find that the neurotic, complaining, whining,
disgruntled, dissatisfied women, are idle
women. You will find out that the women
have decided that the men to whom they
are married are not their affinities, are idle
women. You will find that the women who
betray their husbands, and neglect their chill
dren, and get into scandals, are idle women.
The women whose hands and minds are &C.
,upied every minute of the day; the women
who have purpose and who are working fol-
some definite end; the women whose souls
are filled with the satisfying knowledge that
they are of some use in the world, are toe
busy to vivsect their emotions, and worry
over imaginary ailments, and too filled with
a sense of their own obligations to dishonor
them.
The idea that it is unfortunate for wom-
an to have to work is the real explanation
of why so many girls go wrong. 1t is the
mother of all harlotry, because it teaches a
girl to try to get what she wants by grating
it out of men. Every girl wants pretty
clothes, she wants good times, she wants the
things that money buys, and she must either
work for them if she is poor girl, or work
some man for them. And if she works the
man for them she must pay his price.
Women know this, if girls don't. They
know that work is woman's best friend.
It's the best known remedy for ill-health,
and nerves, and an anodyne for grief, and a
specific for vamping. For the girl who knows
how to work. and isn't afraid of work, doesn't
have to vamp.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndicate,
Inc)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03
OUIPS AND QUIDDITlES

The other day stranger entered bank
and asked to borrow S.. He was told that
the bank did not lend such small sums,
But" he went on, lending money is your
business, isn't it," The banker admitted that
it was. "Well, l have good security" said
the stranger land | want to borrow S."
Finally the .nker, half fl ON fatigue and
half from amused curiosity, agreed to make
the loan. When the note was all drawn and
the interest of So cents paid, the stranger
drew from his pocket $4,000 worth of gov
eminent bonds and handed them over as
security. Before the banker could express his
establishment the stranger said: "Now, this
is something like. Over at the other bank
they wanted me to pay $40 just for safety
deposit box to keep these things in
An Englishman entered a cab and instruct
ed the driver to take him to his resiG ence
near the cemetery. On dismounting he gave
the cabby his exact legal fare.
The cabby looked at the coins and said,
pointing to the horse "'Dye see that 'oss
with the short tail?"
yes said the man, rather puzzled, what
of it,"
ooh, nothing, only I 'opes as the next
time you're brought here it will be by
black 'oss with long tall
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-03
The P7uck;ng Of Eyebrows
kkT HE girls are continually pluckin

<kTH HE girls are continually plucking
their eyebrows that they may be
thin and long
That, sweet reader, was not written in
the twentieth century by an observer of
modern fashions, as one might suppose;
but is quoted from an article by the elder
D'Israei, published in 1920.
The particular girls he had in mind
were the women of China, and the essay
was a treatise on the peculiar and barbaric
fashions prevailing in heather lands.
In the same breath with eyebroW-pluck-
ing in China, he described how the women
of Greenland colored their faces blue and
yellow; how the grand danes of India ap-
piled red paint to the cheeks; and how the
Persian debutante broke her nose in order
to give it the proper acquiline contour.
One can imagine that the ladies of
D'Israeli's ay smiled in shocked amuse-
ment at the customs Of their savag> sisters.
thanking their lucky stars that fashion did
not condemn them to such atrocities
Who among them would have believed
that, one hundred years later, their de-
scendants would have followed in the foot
steps of the Chinese and taken to eyebrow
plucking practically unanimously? Also,
that face-painting, as practical in India,
would becomeFa recognized part of almost
every womans toilette?
If this much of DIsraelis essay has
come to pass, may it not be that other
heather rites of fashion he described will
shortly be in good usage? Can we expect
retty face with blue and yellow and that
nosebreakfng will be advertised by our best
beauty parlors? Let us hope not! Yet
the very thought, knowing what we do of
bobbed hair, rouge and eyebrows, is grew
somely prophetic.
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rHE AT1ANTA TR1.wEEKLY JoURNA1.

with the location of their share a secret
locked in their breasts? Who knows how
many scrawled memoranda were left with
pals who likewise died violent and sudden
deaths? Who shall say that, where palm
trees wave on sandy shores and the Carib-
bean rolls blue beneath tropic suns, the
Jungle soil does not still cover mouldy chests
crammed with pirate gold?
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