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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
Christmas Has Come and Gone

Although Christmas Day has come and some, and it-fs yet d few days before the little pink New Year dim- pied and smiling comes tripping in, know of no better time nor place to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year than right here and now.
 The Merry Christmas greeting goes out to each and every one with the added benediction of Tiny finn $ Christmas prayer, God bless you all.
 1his means you and you and you, my dear friends and readers, wno day after day and week after week, and month after month and year after year help me with your kind ness and your consideration of my stories, and l couldn't begin to tell you if 1 tried a thousand years how much l appreciate all you've done to help me and make-"Dolly Dalrym- pie"
 Honest to goodness, I just couldn't get along without you. Every now and then you send me a letter--some- times I know who the writer is, sometimes I don't-but all the same, love to get your sweet words of ap- proval and encouragement and some- times when the little old typewriter just almost refuses to budge another inch, when it looks as if I'd written story about every single blessed thing underneath the shining sun, and that I just can't write another line, along comes some sweet en- couraging friend with a little missive to me, "boosting'' me up and making me "try. try, again." ever so much harder, ever so much more sincerely.
 Sometimes l think that I'll do like they say the preachers do-just turn the barrel of sermons upside down and begin all over again. and try them out once more-and if my readers were all Methodists and l were like a Methodist preacher, just stationed in Birmingham for four years, and then moving on somewhere else, why, might be able to get away with that stunt like they do, but alas, I'm afraid I'm like the poor always with you.' and no chance to get rid of me
 Sermons are seldom remembered longer than the hour, unless it is an unusually wonderful sermon, and so with my Dolly stories. In fact, don't suppose there are 10 people with us tonight who can recall what I wrote about this time last year, but l know, because I keep a 'Dolly Dalrymple Scrap Book" and can just turn the leaves back and read and read, just what stories were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
By DOLLY DAL.RYMPLE

mas, with time to enjoy what we did not get time Sunday and a chance to write a number Of our thank you notes.
 Personally, I never expect to grow too old to enjoy Christmas; at any rate, hope that this may not prove to be the case. l agree with those people who think that the day is best kept where there are children in the family; that 1t is their day first of all; but we can't keep our children small foreveS and Christmasses will come and go just the same, whether they are little or big, so we had bet ter learn to keep young in heart. and thus never grow too old to enjoy the holiday.
 If you are particular, however. about having children to make your day the happier. there are always plenty of children to be found, and it does not take a great deal to make child happy Just now the world seems very full of trouble. It is a natural result, I suppose, of the years of turmoil and warfare. IL makes one sad. nevertheless. to know that many of the sufferers are little children. They had nothing to do with the causes. but are miserable from the effects.
 When we look at our own children well fed, properly clothed. educated and cared for, can we picture them as living under conditions exactly the reverse? No. l am sure that we can not; yet but for the grace of God. they might be in the pitifu condition that is the fate of so many children in Europe.
 By next Sunday the new year will have opened only a few hours old. to be sure. but Sunday will again be the day How much we all hope the ,new year holds for us some happi- ness. We cant imagine that in Father Times pack there are bundles of sorrow as we'll and why should we think of that, at any rate? It is only human to hope for happiness and to long for 1t,
 As we grow older, and gain by eX- perience we realize that most of our real happiness lies within. We can make ourselves happy or unhappy. and other people happy or miserable by the way we live and act. There are three ways open to us according to John Oxeuham's beautiful poem, a high way, a low way and a middle way. Let us try in 1922 to mglte the best choice
 But to every man there openeth
 A high way and low.
 And every man decideth
 The way his soul shall go"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
THE CHINESE POETS

From "Translating Poetry" by Wit
 ter Bynner. in Asia Magazine.
 "To understand the circumstances of mortality" says a writer in The Nation, ito know what such being as man can expect, and then to con- template such knowledge-that Is as near as art can get to any steadi- ness of joy.", And that Is where Tang poetry had arrived a thousand years ago. The Tang poets do not fool themselves with illusion but seeing things as they are, find beauty in them-and thereby bring the high, the deep, the everlasting, into sim pie, easy touch with the immediate. They are masters of momentous min utiae. the small Nings that make the big. They know and record the im- mense patience of beauty. There Is sadness in that patience, but 1t is an honest, a hearty, an even relish able sadness. One feels that they had sent their souls out through al the intricacies that are now con fusing this western generation through all the ways of experience and imagination, and had then re- called them to the pure elemental truths, had received them again, peacefully cleansed of Illusion and restlessness, and content in the final simple beauty of their own dooryards. To be sure, they knew where to place their dooryards. But so might we, if we would.
 was fortunate enough to spend three months on a Chinese mountain top, with a poet and his family, In the kind of retirement the old fel- lows loved and wrote about over looking a landscape the like of which I had never seen from any dwelling on earth. There were Sung moun- tain paintings glimmering from our peak all the way to the Himalayas there were tremendous rainbows, sometimes leaving bright section in the heart of a towering white cloud after the rest of the bow had faded. . there were countless bamboos glis- tening after brief showers; there were the cicadas, 10000 Chinese ac- tors on one note at top pitch; there were the waterfalls along our paths; there were slow changes of incred ible mist, spell-binding the dawns and the twilights; there was always, below us, the vast plain-ripple l with hills varied with purpose shad ows of cloud. veined with jadeg green ricefields; and there were remote sill yer gleams of river and lake and even of sea-the whole level eastward horizon seeming often the actual ocean and our mountain the brow of the earlh. It is no wonder that became imbued with the spirit of tho poets who had lived in just such piaces-with the huge and thought full patience of China: the kind of patience that is wisdom; the Kind os wisdom that Is submersion of one s self and it's little ways in the large and peaceful distances of nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

T understand now why so many people praise Tanlac as I have tried it myself and 1t certainly Is a won- derful medicine" said Mrs. Della Kunze. s5s Lill Ave-. Chicago, valued employe of the Boston Department Store:
 T eat with so much sest and en- joyment now that my family really joke me about it. A short time ago, however. I had absolutely no appe- tite and was eating so little that I was losing weight and strength every day and l suffered so much that I was on the brink of a breakdown.
 There are absolutely no words that can express my delight at the re- markable and immediate results I ob- tained from Tanlac. It benefited me in every way. Instead of being de- pressed and melancholy and tired and worn out I am full of life and energy and cheerful and happy all the time I've gained 12 pounds in weight, too."
 Tan1ac is sold in Birmingham by the Eugene Jacobs Drug Store-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
Ole Miss, sunbody askt CT F fien' uv Mine yisfddy Whut he got fer his ti'I Boy fer Christmas an he Sed, Nde Doctor Bless de LaWd.

written this time last year and the year before, and the years before that
 Any way my good friends and readers, whatever I've done and what, ever l shall do in the future, you are' responsible for the best things that 1 call my own for without your con fidence and your generous approval, Dolly Dalrymple could never hav2 gotten anywhere.
 In the meantime, have you ever no- ticed the dull thud which always comes right after all big holidays? A regular slump, as 1t were, and with the strain of anticipation removed, we feel tired in body and mind. and the latter weariness very often af- fleets our dispositions. Indeed, too many of us work so hard 10 get ready for Christmas that we have but little reserve will left to enjoy 1t. How ever. Christmas this year, falling on Sunday. let us hope that we have not experienced that usual day after feeling, but on the contrary have been able to put In an extra Christ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
MORE TRUTH
 THAN POETRY
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

THE MAN OF LIFE UPRIGHT
 tAfter Francis Bacon) The man of life upright.
 Who knows not how to shirls, And finds his chief delight
 In unremitting work, Who holds that those who quit.
 Before it's quitting time Deliberately commit
 An economic crime. That man may think his deeds
 Deserve the worlds acclam. And that the life he leads
 Will bring him widespread fame; 1; But that's his big mistake;
 The while he tolls, poor chap. The world it's head will shake
 And say, "The guys a sap" Tine man who is not lax
 Though rought may be his role, Who pays his income tax
 With gladness in his soul, Who cares not for himself
 Who serves not selfish ends, And freely lends his pelf
 To all his needy friends, That man might hope to find
 Mid rude and warning men A tranquil peace of mind
 Beyond our earthly ken, But let's talk common sense
 For since the world began There's been no evidence
 Of any such a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

Several successful raids, in a west ern city, by elusive automobile ban dits who, in each case, after hurling brick through a store display win dow, grabbed thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, led to the pro- duction of means of protection. It consists of bullet-proof steel cur tain. which drops automatically be- hind the display window. the instant the glass is broken. The appliance, which Is described and illustrated in the Popular Mechanics Magazine, can be operated in, connection with an alarm bell system and also to protect bank tellers' cages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
DOCS IN THE CANADIAN NORTH

Describing Journey though the heart of northern Canada, Hawthorne Daniel. in the Worlds Work, refers as follows to the dogs at Fort Smith, Northwest Territories:
 Dogs are the outstanding feature O. the northern trading posts. eHuskfes they are called, and interesting ani- mals they are-half wild. unaccus- toned to kindness, and always hum Rry. To pet husky is Co risk los ing a hand. for they are often ha1t wolf, and their slashing teeth are dangerous. But they know the mean tu,S of a suddenly upraised arm, and slink away at the sight of a club directed at them.
 real husky seldom barks. but at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
PLAN VIGOROUS PROSECUTION
By Associated Pre-

New York. December 2e.-vigorous prosecution of liquor smuggling cases, consideration of which will be resumed in the federal courts of Mem phis, Tenn, next month, is planned by the department of justice, William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of in stated tonight. MT. Burns said he would go to Memphis early in January to look over the situation and see the pending cases through. He intended. he declared, to have every person involved prosecuted. He had not yet decided what day he would start south, he said.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
PACT IS RATIFIED
By Associated Press

cording to official advices from Gaute- mala, received here today. the na- tional assembly has ratified "in prin- ciple" the pact providing for the ere ation of Central American union. Senor Marcel Prem, distinguished lawyer, was named delegate to the convention, which will meet in Feb ruary at Tegucigalpa. Honduras. the dispatch said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
BIC CHRTsTMAs TBNDE

carrollton. December 2s.-( (special) Notwithstanding the fact that rain fell throughout Christmas Eve. the merchants of this place report an ex cellent trade their sales comparing favorably with the preceding year and in some instances surpassed that of a year ago. While several of the merchants carried a heavy stock ot Christmas goods. they succeeded in clearing their counters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
AS YOU SPELL. YOU REAP

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
 note from the fellow to the boss:
 Dear Sir: I have decided to get another job unless you rage my sal ary"
 The reply:
 T have decided to accede to your request and rage your salary, which will allow you to start on your new job right away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
Daily Menu

BREAKFAST
 Malaga Grapes Fried Scrapple Popovers
 Coffee
 LUNCHEON Crowned Pot Roast Hash Rolls Sweet Cider Prune Whip Custard Sauce
 DINNER
 Oyster Soup Veal Loaf Brussel Sprouts Baker Potatoes Coffee Caramel Custards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

Resolutions of thrift are promptly abandoned as soon as you look at the post Christmas mail. Copyright, 1921, by the Bell Syndi-
 cate, Inc.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
cotfee Caramel c,ustard

OUIfNe CHfhWeI CuNfHfU
 Caramelize half cupful of sugar and add gradually to two cupfuls each of hot coffee and scalded milk. As soon as the caramel Is dissolved pour the mixture onto four eggs that have been beaten with half a cupful of additional sugar. stir in half a teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoon ful of vanilla extract and pour into greased custard cups. Set in a pan of hot water and bake in moder- ata oven nntil set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

Zinc and copper salts may be eff cient in destroying weeds shortly after germlnation, tests made at Sa- venac nursery, Haugan, Mont. indl- cate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
Random Notes

Miss Elizabeth Wilson. who has spent the upast three weeks in New York, has returned.
 
 Mrs. w E. Rouse Is spending sey- eral weeks in Dothan with her par ents. Mr. and Mrs Faircleth.
 Mir spotswod Grant is spending the holidays with relatives in Rich mond, Va.
 Miss sarah Orms of Atlanta will arrive today to spend q short time with Miss Virginia Foster
 Miss Harriet Louise Seofield of Lacrosse, Wis, Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Truman Morrison, and Mir. Morrison.
 Mr and Mrs. Howard Holmes and children are spending several days with relatives in Selma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
NEWLON'S BLOOD AND RHEUMATIC REMEDY

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 Cures have been reported in thousands of chronic cases of Rheumatism. Erysipe- las, Liver Complaint, Bladder and Kidney Troubles, and is backed by our iron-clad guarantee to show satisfactory results or money refunded.
 It is composed of many rare ingredients, including ounce of Iodide of Potas- sium and can be obtained at most drug stores, or mailed direct. Each bottle con tains 16 ounces. 128 doses or AZ days treatment. If you want good health, pure blood; if your system needs cleaning, try this remarkable constitutional Remedy. Our guarantee Is your safety. NEWLON CHEMICAL COMPANY, KANSAS CITY. MO.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

tiated Is trimmed in this way and is made with a kimono waist and plain, ga thered skirt.
 The ladies' dress is cut in sizes 3G to 42 inches bust measure. Size 36 requires three and one-eighth yards of 36-ineh material with five eishths yard of 40-iuch contrasting and eight and one-half yards of ruff fling. Price, 15 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
VERBAL CHANGE
NO uSE

It Is not right of self f-determination but of elf-extermination that tho Irish die-hards appear to desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
GEOLOGICAL METAMoRPHosIs

More eggs have been sold in Chi cago than have been laid in the coun- try. The hens, apparently. have turned bears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
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 Y t2sc94sssS1o ts94sSo..~

The Age Herald mas arranged with leading fashion designers of New York to furnish it's readers a daily fashion and pattern service. All pat terms will be seam making and guar anteed to fit perfectly. Safe delivery of every pattern ordered Is also guar anteed You should order patterns a little in advance of the time you will need them, ds stock Is not kept in Birmingham, but all orders will be forwarded to the pattern department in New York for attnutiou
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
WINDOWS BANDIT-PROOF

The next story: "Old Man Coyot Watches the Deer.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

Ladies Dress.-Ruffling is a popu- lar method of trimming this season. and always lends a youthful touch to any dress The dainty frock illus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27
THE MENACE OF
 BLOOD INFECTIONS

Is source of continual danger and dis couragement to those affected with blood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

Who needs a warning proves he's wise, And guards himself against surprise.
 Mrs. Lightfoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-27

written this time last year and the
 year before, and the years before
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
v. HAMMOND TO
SEE MAROONSAND
CARDINALS SCRAP

West Hammond will see its first
football game Sunday. when the Ma
rooms OF that city tackle the fast Gary
Cardinals at the West Hammond base
ball park
The Cardinals have a wonderful
team composed Of graduates from both
Emerson and Froebel high schools and
are coached by one If the best foot
ball mentors in Gary The team has
played three games and has won two,
losing one % the strong Indiana Har-
Dor Eagles who ran up score Of -.
Although outweighed thirty pounds
to a man in their clash With the Eagles
they performed brilliantly holding
their heavy opponents when in scoring
distance. The Maroon eleven lost their
opening game Sunday TO he Whiting
Friars ~ 1880. All Of tue Friar points
were made III the first quarter After
that they played the nome team Off
their feet both were unable "a cross
the opponents goal with numerous
glaring faults brought TO light in it's
defeat by Whiting last sunday Coach
Ebert OF the Maroons put the squad
through griiling practice session
yesterday to get in shape for the com
ing Cardinal game.
Poor tackling especially in the open
field and failure of tho front line tc
hold enabled the Friars to put over
their only scores OF the game in the
first quarter Coach Ebert eoncentrat-
ed his efforts on correcting those faults
first.
Scrimmage took up most Of tho prac-
tice session, and Ebert showed the
line men how to play their position t.
prevent the Cardinals III Gary from
breaking through sunday The front
line Was alos instructed in breaking
holes in the opposing line Sc the back
field men can get through. and 10 OUT
charging their opponents. The line
showed considerable Improvement at
the end Of the practice session
Coach Ebert has some wonderful
material and with few more stars to
he added IN Sundays game the team
ought 70 fight on even terms with the
Steel city eleven.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
HAMMOND To
PLAY CANTON
NEXT SUNDAY
Doc YOung'S Team In Excellent
Trim For Cracking Hard
Nut


When Hammond's professional foot
ball team goes To Canton, O.. Sunday
for a game with the famous Bull Dogs
a crowd Of 10000 fans will be on hand
to see Ink Williams, the local star,
who was a sensation at Buffalo.
one critic az a Buffalo paper ac
claims williams as "the greatest foot
ball player Of the age" The colored
athlete who starred with Brown Uni
versity IN 1920. is described by an
other New York paper having the
speed of an antelope and The strength
Of q tiger.
The papers at Buffalo admit their
team was lucky to win and that the
~ to score does not represent the
comparative strength of the clubs
With Oliphant the famous army play
e. and an An-American lineup Buffalo
could not bulge the Hammond line bur
won because DR.. Young's backheld got
the worst OF the breaks and could not
keep UP with its own line.
To quote one Buffalo paper TT is
perhaps just as Wen for the Buffalo
Al-American football team that il did
not draw Hammond for It's first game
instead of McKeesport- Without OH
plant and Scott yesterdays game
might have had a different ending"
"Hammond's dusky star Ink VII
liams. : the greatest thing ever seen
hereabouts in football toys said
other paper Nothing got around his
end throughout the game. lie drop
ped Oliphant dead in his tracks and
even intercepted plays on the other
end Of the line. He Is creased lightn-
ing,
DR.. Young win strengthen his back
feld for the game at Canton. he is
negotiating for Chick Harley. former
Ohio state star. and Ben Durr Penn
sylvania University halfback, is on his
way from South Dakota. due here to-
morrow.
Dick King was in great shape for
the game Sunday and shared the praise
~ the Buffalo papers with Wallie
Hess. Hammona's own. and knopp.
DR.. Young received a wire from can
ton today saying that on the strength
~ Iammonds reputation and the
praise OF the football Critics Of Buffalo
the advance sale was big for Sundays
game lie also receive a telegram
from Brickley New York City. for
game at the Polo grounds in Novem
Der
Every football FAN knows that #
Isn't losing a game that counts as how
YOU lose IL said Young today IF
you set the worst Of the breaks and
put up a hard fight you may have the
admiration Of the fans even If YOU
lose But We don't intend to lose
again.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
FAMOUS JOCKEY
OF so YEARS AGO,
IN POOR HOUSE

NEW YORK, oct. 6.-Joe Fuller IA
nous as a jockey q half century ago.
today was on Blackweil's island. a
pauper. although he earned approxi-
mately 100000 in his racing days
Fuller now a. gave himself up ~ a
member Of the police narcotic squad
yesterday and asked that he be sent
to the island 10 be cured of the drug
habit
Fuller did most OF his riding IN Cni-
caso and on california tracks for
Lucky" Baldwin. Phn and Mike
DIV yer. John r. Madden, and Hugh No
l.eughlin He attributed his downfall
to morphine administered to relieve
hi matter ne had been INJURED in q
steeplechase race on California traces,
in 1900.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
CASH OR TIME = YOU DECIDE

The mechanic abong welcome here the business
professional Your dealings confidential and dgned You
regardless of price and
will be arranged
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
Buy the Family Car Now for the
Beautiful Autumn Days

When the leaves arc turning from green
to gold out on the beautiful white
roads through the woods the tang
of Fall in the all the wife and the
Riddles all tucked up in knit jackets
and scarfs-a lunch at some wayside
inn a cup OF bot coffee and the sand
wiches the wife prepared that Is the
life on a Sunday afternoon. Home
tired and happy the fresh air adds
red cheeks to the youngsters dimples
and puts new light in the mothers
eye. Yes, it IS all possible with car
and car is possible at our prices
and terms.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-10-06
Dennis O'Keefe Matched
For Bout With Michael

Dennis 0 Keefe, SoutL Chicago wei
teFweight. and Jimmy Michael. hard
hitting local boxer. have been matched
TO meet in the main event OF the box
ing show to be staged by the Naval
post or the American Legion aboard
the L. s. S. Commodore Oh the night NJ
Oct. 81. Phil Collins. athletic director
Of the post announced the main event
will be supported by three SIX round