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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
TODANS NSTAL.MENT

Do not ring, Lady Hilda. If you do then all my earnest efforts to avoid a scandal will be frustrated l. Give up the letter and all will be set right If you will work. with me I can arrange everything. If you work against me l must expose you"
 She stood granoly defiant, queen 1y figure, her eyes fixed upon his as if she would read his very soul. Her hand was on the bell, but she for bore to ring it
 You are trying to frighten me II is not a very manly thing, MT. Holmes to come here and browbeat wom- an You say that you know some thing What is it that you know ?''
 Pray sit down. madam You
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
Try This Over On Your Gas Stove
Steamed ChocoIa,e Puddine

SLt1Gned IhOtDIdte PuddIng
 Three tablespoons butter 2-3 cup sugar, 1 egg. ] cup milk. IA cups flour, 4 1-2 teaspoons baking powder. 1-4 teaspoon salt and 1-2 squares unsweetened chocolate melted. Creans the butter. add the sugar to it grad ually, working it in; add the egg well beaten, then the milk, stirring we'll Next add the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder and salt Last, add the melted chocolate. Butter d qupart-size pail which has a tight-fitting cover (the mould must not be filled to the top, or else the cover will be forced of-as the pud- ding rises as IL steams): now pour the batter into this pail or mould, put on the cover Git is best to tie 1t on) and put into a large kettle of boiling water. allowing the water to simmer around the mould for two hours. Serve hot with the following sauce-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
By A. Conan Doyle

which seemed to solve whole question.
 '.A discovery has just been made by the Parlsian pOlice,' said the Daily Telegraph, which haises the veil which hung round the tragic fate of MT. Eduardo Lucas. who met his d-Lh by violence Last Monday night at God dolphin street. Westminster Our readers will remember that the deceased gentleman was found stab bed in his room, and that some sus- picion attached to his valet but that the case broke down on an aIibi. Yes terday q lady, who has been known as Mmc Henri Fournaye. occupying g a small villa in the Rue Austerlitz. was reported to the authorities by her servant sas being insane
 fTo be Continued)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
POSE AND COSTUME REFLECT MENTAL
 STATUS OF WOMEN, PHYSICIAN SAYS

Wellesley, Mass, May q - The costumes conventional in the past seven years which have made the flat chest effect and sIouch so popular among women have a ruinous effect upon the posture and consequently the health of girls" said Dr. J. E. Goldthwaite in a lecture at Wellesley College.
 Costumes are deliberately planned without regard to heaEth," the doctor declared. ''The costumes are fash toned by Paris designers to suit the needs of the French coquette and to emphasize certain phyhical charac- teristics. They are copied and brought over here for unsuspectins and pure girls The French lady does not puzzle on what American girls d. When one is walking down the streets of Boston one cannot tell by dress whether the girl is true or not
 There are two things which de- signers change most with the times. They are the waist line and the feet High heels and costumes which de- mand a Corset that does not permit an erect, uueenly carriage are dan gerous.
 NO woman should neglect beauty, grace and all the elements which 6s&rg out the charms which are her right But no woman should feel like q trump who has trained herself to stand erect and wear the dre@@ which will permit it
 ..The moral and spiritual state of the mind is expressed in the carriage. It is the college woman, the educated woman, who should set an example to her other sisters But more often she is forgetfuI- We have only to go back to the Greeks and the Egyptians to prove the beauty and value of cos tunes which allow an erect queenly. posture"
 pr. Goldthwafte also made a plea for dress reform to lessen the deplor- able immortality of the present day. 'HThe future of mankind is in the hands of the college girl She may teach other girls to do with less re- straint what she does. or she may set an example of fineneSs which will help boys in colFege,'' Dr. Goldthwaite said
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

everything he held dear was taken from him.
 But Philip. Stripped of fortune and friends and good name, he may emerge from a prison with the soul of his manhood alive. He may feel e1-irnly that he's going to walk arm in arm with himself all the rest of his life and that there isn't a, chance in the world of getting away from him. self. So why not make something of that constant and foredoomed companion? Which of us ever took a, trip from which he couldn't get back-somehow? If the trains had stopped running, there might be a trolley or an auto or a bus. Failing all these, there was still the possibil- ity of walking-eVen though it were with iblistered and bleeding feet The graphical journey there's some way back.
 That's true of life and living Any one can go anywhere and come back fro T.1any7where. It's as possible to climb down from heights as it IS to everything one day may have nothing inc next He may have thrown everything away. He can But also he can get everything worthy Of the getting back again
 What you have been doesn't count for or against you except as you use it to determine what you shall be- People may condemn man or woman in terms of the past But no enc has to yield to ondemnation. Any one can crawl back along a stony path, and by his power to endure make the journey to the heights again.
 Just believe in yourself and your power to make yourself. That is to know God.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
Lesson No. 19
4 SIMPLE LITTLE FRoCK.

According to the dictates of fash ion and the highest priced inporta- Jions short kimona sleeves on little frocks are very good indeed. There is always 9, certain amount of ease and a. generally uusuudied air about the 'set'' of a kimona sleeve that add to the youthfulness of the frock Whatever the style, the armho1e should be loose enough for perfect comfort and the sleeve sufficiently ample
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
CHAPTER CCLXXX5

Jim came dashing back from 1he telephone ln high good humor-
 Got Ieanie,'' he exulted. Asked her to jump in a taxi and come over to kiss and make up. She was sur prised but game She'll be here in about , minutes
 That's splendid Jiu,'' I said heartily. "I'm so glad you're going to forgive and forget
 Gro Be Continued)
 Miss Catherine Gary of Iranistan avenue spent the weekend in New York city as the guest of relativc3.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
MAY g, 1921

edge and hem as shown in illustration No ?. To make the extension on the other edge, one might manage this strip by turning in raw edges, as shown in Illustration No. 3. oasting in place. and sewing with a single row of stitching.
 The skirt is made in one piece. The edges are joined at tfe back to a con venient depth for the opening and the vent is finished as shown in iiluStra- ton No. l.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

If the woman who does her own cooking will try wearing a bathing cap over her hair when frying doughnuts, pancakes. etc, she will find it protects from grease and odors and preserves the curl They come in many coIoTs and are quite as at ractive as the ordinary dust cap
 MRS D. N LEWIS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
 .Adenoma Subaceum.

My face is covered with small white punches called by a, doctor ''subaceous tumors' (and lately with some blackheadsl- Is there any cure for this condition? I used to have them cut out of the skin about once a year and another doctor gave me serum treatments, but the loca- ton of my present home places ei- ther on these out of my reach
 AnsWer-Your trouble is called ad- enOn1a subaceum. There is no cure except to cut them out or destroy them with an electric needle The same may be said of a, co1loid degen- oration of the skin which resembles, and is sometimes confused with, tu- InOrS of the SabaceouS glands.
 Will you kindly tell me through your columns what are the symptoms of venereaI disease?
 Answer-A stamped and se1f-ad- dressed envelope will bring you fuA information.
 All inquiries addressed to Dr. HE~ ber in care of the ..HeaIth Talks O. partment will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however, owing to the great number received So if a personal or quicker reply is desired, a stamped and Self-addreSsed envelope must bc enclosed with the question: Editor.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

The members of the Junior class of the Bridgeport High School will hold their annual Prom in the school gymnasium on Friday evening. May 2Srd Miss IsaVerne Clarkson is chair man of the social committee in charge of the affair."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23
BEAUTY CHA TS By Edna Kent Forbes
ROUND SH OULDERS

pelled to cure them by correcting this. Take two yeast cakes each day, dissolved in half glass of water spread over crackers like you would
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

do with butter, and make a paste of the yeast and apply it to the pimples, allowing it to remain for several hours, or overnight.
 All inquiries addressed to Miss Forbes in care of the ''Beatsay Chats department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however. owing to the great number. received. So if a personal or quicker reply is desired. a stamped and self-addressed envef- ope must be enclosed with the ques- tion.-EditOr
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

The Boy Scouts of America will present a novelty minstrel show on Tuesday evening at the Barnum Serv- ice Center.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

To be a good animal is the first requisite of success in Hfe-Spencef
 Only doctors can appreciate to the full how benignant has been the silent revolution how much promise of good there has been and is in those changes in the healing art which be gan about the middle of the last cen tury. Before 1850 there was in the minds of the people a great deal Of fataHsm, the nature of which is well illustrated in literature-as when the poet represented. the angel of death spreading his wings on the blast; as when a great hand was imaged reaching out from the clouds and spreading the seeds of disease and de struction upon fated peoples; as when the Wandering Jew was represented as scattering the cholera in his awful path through three continents.
 There had been- indeed, premonl- tions of the revolution I am referring to, as when a New England doctor of Enerson's time declared that if people would keep rotting vegetables out of theiE cellars during the winter
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros. Published by special arrangement with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

MENTIONS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-23

Who Occupies 8 Unique Position as g Writer on Romance and Its Problems
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
BOUQUET FROM WEST VIRGINIA

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 This morning when l sat down to breakfast, our morning paper carried the announcement in -box" that President and Mrs. Harding were presented with the days issue of The Marion, Ohio, Star, of yesterday, when they arrived in Birmingham.
 When I reached my office this morning I found on my desk copy of the above named issue of your interesting journal, and please allow me to congratulate you on the enterprise bestowed by you.
 We have subscribed for The Birmingham Age-Herald to be sent us during your semi centennial, for we are to celebrate the 50 years growth of this city, and we are getting valuable material for the event through the columns of your paper.
 May Birmingham grow during the coming 50 years as rapidly and as solidly as it has done in the past years of that number is our sn- cere wish. Very truly yours,
 H. E. MATHEWS,
 Secretary, Chamber of Commerce. Huntington, W. Va, October 27, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
NO EYE FOR BEAUTY

Crust the American boy spirit to crop out on the least proyocation," said J. J. McCurran, a local man, who admitted that lie himself was once a boy.
 q happened to be in the vicinity of the post office Friday morning when the queens parade passed. My attention was called to the fact that there seemed to be more or less excite ment behind the Mobile float which was decorated with what thought at first to be imitation tangerines growing the limbs. Apparently the small boys more observant than I, for bevy of them were trailing along behind the float tearing the branches off the truck in order to get the fruit. The tanger- ines were real.
 1t took the efforts of several of the military police and two uniformed police to break up the destruction of tile decorations. No other boy of any other nation in the world would have been so observant as those youngsters It was case of An eye for the eats was stronger than an eye for beauty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
HEAVEN AND EARTH

There are those who say heaven has lost its meaning for the people of this day and time. Our fathers dreamed and spoke of glories strange and shining, which far transcended anything that men could even imagine; glories which awaited the righteous in the days which are to come. The gates of that place were gleaming pearl, the walls were jasper, and through the golden streets angel hosts were thronging in heavenly ecs- tacy past human understanding. Beyond doubt, from the human. mind this vision of celestial loveliness is fading, and there are those who say that heaven, which lives in the faith of some, is in reality dead.
 With these l differ. Heaven has not lost its meaning. It has merely changed it. It IS entered through gates of human love rather than gates of pearl. Its walls are as bright as our faith, and as far-reaching as our sympathy. Its angel hosts go about the streets of golden deeds in no strange in- human ecstacy, but in the simple and under standable joy of duty lovingly done. Un- doubtedly heaven whose portals are love, whose limits are sympathy, whose happiness is service, shall crown with glory this life when this life is rightly lived and gloriously ended. And this brings us to the rather comforting thought that heaven is to be no revolutionary place or experience which shall render useless all we have known and set at naught all that we have been, but way of life in which the best that We have done and believed shall find the fullest possible expression.
 Since then believe that heaven is to be hYrf tha loo best, l believe that our entrance into it's glory is a gradual process. I believe the human goodness and service and sympathy and love with which we are partly sur rounded here are but the foregleams of that self-same light which shines in holy bright ness around the throne of God. I believe that day by day, if I am faithful, may be entering into the eternal joy which God has reserved for those who unfeignedly love Him; and this belief does two things for me- It brings heaven nearer to me, and lifts me nearer heaven.
 And so find myself thinking less and less of fa1-off, unknown place of blessedness, and more and more of this earth and this life which is the only path to lead me on It IS the path along which I must walk; the only way l can possibly enter heaven if I am to to enter at all, and so it is as necessary to me as is the journeys end itself. I know that if I never leave it, if never wander away to seek the vain delights which beckon from nearby wildernesses, if I love and serve and keep my heart warm and tender and true, and my sympathies God-like, I know that my death shall be mere walking out of the twilight into the splendor of end. less day.
 MIDDLETON s. FAREWELL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
SAND MOUNTAIN SENTIMENT

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 l have seen a great many letters from dif- ferent parts of the state commenting you for the editorial appearing in The Age-Herald of October 19, concerning the candidacy of Judge Brandon for governor.
 Being farmer myself, I am naturally in pretty close touch with other farmers.
 I have talked to dozens of my neighbors concerning Judge Brandon and every man to whom have talked, without single exception, is teeth and toe-nail for him.
 You are right. We, the people, are for him and we are going to make him governor.
 This being true, it seems to me the logical thing to do is to let Brandon have no oppo- sition, thus saving the state the work and himself the expense of long and bitter cam paign.
 Up here we think you are rendering the people of the state patriotic service by throw ing your powerful influence to man in whom we, the common people, believe and are not afraid to trust. Respectfully,
 w. J. STRICKLAND. Albertvle, Rt. g., October 27, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
COOPERATION IN ALABAMA

"We are delighted at the passage of the act enabling the organization of cooperative mar keting associations on business basis" said J. M. Moore, of the state department of agricul- ture. Tt was important to effective co-opera- tive marketing in Alabama that we had law giving such associations legal status as is &C., successful.
 Alabama is now in a position to organize her cotton growers and accomplish some of the beneficial results that have attended this work
 in Texas, Oklahoma and other southern states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH
10 the Editor of The Ape- -Herald:

10 the Eoltor or The Age-deraIQ:
 The President, in his Capitol park speech, gave us full credit for our wonderful progress in city building He also opened up a new view of the negro question which meets with approval by substantial southern people.
 Three weeks ago, Frank Evans in letter to The Agc-Herald called attention to the ex- travagant way in which the city commsson spending money (for political effect) on white school buildings and utterly negecting the colored school buildings, which are now disgrace to the city.
 Emmet O'Neal, the peer of any writer in the country subjects he chooses to handle gave an honest and clear approval of the Presidents speech, in Fridays Age-Herald.
 The Age-Herald's editorial, giving it's keen, but not effusive analysis of the speech, shows it's honest desire to aid the great work before the south.
 No one will accuse these three of playing republican politics.
 Heflin, Harrison and Watson, whose tongues wag in the middle, have made rnisstatements of the Presidents speech putting in his mouth sentiments he did not utter. It will take states manshp of the Underwood and Williams (Mis- sissippi) order together with the southern peo- pie to settle this matter when the three worthies forgotten. GEORGE H. ROGERS. Birmingham, October 30, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
CONSTRUCTIVE WORK KEYNOTE OF THE COTTON CONVENTION

It is tho consensus of opinion that the con- vention of the American Cotton association held in Birmingham last week accomplished more constructive work than any of it's pre- decessors This is saying much, because the association caused a 28.4 per cent reduction in acreage and further stimulated the produc- tion of other crops in 1921.
 The association began with business and business was its first consideration throughout the session. Addresses were restricted in num- Der and some were entirely omitted to study the outstanding problems that had brought these men together from 14 cotton states.
 The resolutions that were adopted ask only what other business men would feel, under similar circumstances, was their right and due. The federal reserve board was not assaed in toto because rediscount rates had been higher than the cotton producers thought reasonable. The convention confined itself in this matter more representative" membership on the fed eral reserve board.
 But what pleased the onlookng business men most was the pervading atmosphere of confi- dence Having partially solved the cotton problem through acreage control and crop diversification, the association goes forth this year to complete the work of organizing CO., operative marketing associations throughout the south so that the south will control the major supply of spot cotton in 1922 and name reasonable prices. Glowing accounts of the effects of cooperative marketing this year in Texas, California and Oklahoma have more than convinced producers that this is the final saving clause in the cotton scheme.
 A Texas delegate said: "Out our way we producers meet and talk business. Politics is barred. We ask ourselves, What shall we do next?' and then we go out and do it." This has become the spirit of the southern cotton producer evidenced by the proceed ings of the Birmingham convention.
 Acreage control and crop diversification will be continued as basic principles permanently established and now recognized as wise and beneficial. Cooperative marketing is next in order Its accomplishment means that the southern cotton producer controlling the spot market, can forget the cotton exchanges and spectators and, as one delegate exclaimed. tell them to Ego to grass"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
HANDIED FINANCES


 "No small part of the credit for the business like manner in which all the financial affairs connected with the semi-centennial have been conducted is due to the work of H. H. K. Jef- ferson vice president of the American Trust and Savings bank" said Col. P. L. Pierce, mem Der of the executive committee.
 "All the funds for the celebration have been turned over to MT Jefferson, who has served as treasurer, and he has had supervision of all bookkeeping and the making out of the checks after they had been approved by the various officials of the semi-centennial. He also served as trustee of some of the funds con- nected with the exposition and he will have charge of the refund which will be paid sub scribers
 MT Jeffedson has had an especial interest in the celebration from the fact that his father-in-law, the late Dr. 1T. F. Cheek, was pioneer citizen of Birmingham and played an important part in the early development. He was one of the first druggists and was for many years one of the most successful business men of Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-30
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE DESIRE
 OF SOME MEN TO PLAY POLITICS NOW

II T is regrettable to observe evidences of what might be termed old time Bourbon Democracy cropping out among certain south ern office holders, and asprants.
 Some of these criticise President Harding for utterances that deport absolutely with ex-
 For instance, in Alabama there is an educa- tional and property qualification which applies to both whites and blacks, and there are many black voters in this state. The president dis tinctly states in referring to equality of suf- frage that it should be "proportioned to the honest capacities and deserts of the individ- uals." In Alabama the educated one now pass on the negro's Capacities and deserts"
 Some men who have not read his remarks thoroughly and calmly are making mountain out of a. mole hill.
 President Harding is not playing politics now. There is reason for him to do so. He is the President of these United States with many knotty problems to solve. The greatest of all comes under the conference for the limitation of armament.
 Two thirds of the taxes each one of us now pay our national government goes to measures warlike. Billions of dollars go to preparations; and unless halt is called government taxes will be such a burden that business builders will have no incentive to continue.
 
 Men there were who protested against Oscar Underwood, southern democratic leader, ac- cepting appointment as member of the inter-