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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

II always put my housekeeping
before everything else" l heard a
woman say virtuously. the other
day. And I thought To myself, Then
yom1I be sorry, some day"
There are two things that should
come before gcod housekeeping:
those we love. ! have recently writ
ten upon putting health before
housekeeping, no | shall not repeat
myself on that subject. But I do
not think I have ever before pub
iished my idcas about the mistake of
putting mere things before people.
Have you ever heard busy house
keeper mother say 10 her child: Run
along and play, dear: Mother has no
time for you now7' on course you
have. We all have. Sometimes the
work she is doing is really of ma
ture that cannot he laid aside for a
noment--but oftener IL is the kind Of
work that might be dropped for
minute or two while Mother takes
her child into her hap. and listens TO
it's little troubles or answers it's
eager questions or does some little
thing for IL that will make II happy
for hours. Although the Mother is
working to make home for the
child. yet she, hasn't time TO make the
child happy in that house,
Then there's the wife question OF
being game" to go somewhere on
short notice with her husband.
Come on--let's go out in the woods
FOR supper tonight" suggests John
impulsively. running into the kitchen
where Mary is canning. But Mary
looks up with a forbidding frown
and replies, Il can't ] want to get
thesc closed preserve jars ali
labelled and stored tonight so that
can have a clear kitchen 20 work
in tomorrow" In other words she
takes the joy out o. life" She puts
her mere housekeeping duties before
the happiness of a owed one. And
yet she is working primarily 10 make
happy home for him
And let us not forget Mother and
Grandma, in our campaign against
our housekeeping selfishness--and IL
is just selisbness, and nothing else
that makes US put our household
duties before the pleasure OF others
il is hard for us to drop a thing in
which we have become Interested
and 70 fly off somewhere or take up
some other work in which someone
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
GIRLS! LEMONS
WHITEN SKIN AND
BLEACH FRECKLES

to bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White. which any drug store
will supply fo- few cents, shake well.
and you have a quarter pint OF harm
less and delightful lemon bleach
Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion
into the face, neck, arms and hands
each day. then shortly note the beauty
and whiteness Of your skin.
Famous stage beauties use this
lemon lotion TO bleach and bring that
soft. clear. rosy-white complexion, al
40 as a freckle. sunburn, and tan
bleach because il doesn't irritate.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

| the collar OF my doublet, and raised me
| from the ground. Hanging limp, and
apparently sensriess, | put him quite
| off his guard.
STAND upr' he cried. Stomach of
the Pope' Have come 80 far only to
take dead man backg"
| While he was trying TO make me stand,
! | suddenly gathered all my energy into
my right arm and gave him quick blow
in the pit Of the stomach. With n fearful
howl, he let me go and fell upon his
knees. A blow in the face then made him
drop as limp as had pretended to be;
and | resumed my fight, this time at a
more lcisurely pace.
And now all my physical powers
seemed TO he leaving me. Pains rsckcd
my head, and seemed at one time to
freeze and burn all over, at another time
To freeze in one part and burn IN another.
ached in my muscles, my bones, my
stomach At every step, felt that IT was
vastly difficult to take another, that IT
would be ineffably sweet to sink down
upon the earth and rest. Yet | knew
that one taste of that sweetness meant
death, and was determined not to losr
life that had been saved from
so great peril by so grea
effort. Despite all the soldiers at their
command, the King of France and the
Duke of Guise should not have their will
with me. At last. | know not how far
from Paris,--I came TO an mn. There
were still few crowns in my pocket.
Forgetting the danger from which had
fled, not thinking that it might overtake
me here, feeling only the need of imme
date shelter and rest, | pounded on the
door until | got admittance. | have
never had any but the vagucst recollcc-
ton of nv installation at that inn, so
near to insensibility | WAS when | fell
against its door | have a dim memory
of having exchanged a few words with
u sleepy, stolid host; of being glad of the
darkness OF the night ,for IL prevented
him from noticing my wet, frozen, be
grimcd bedraggled, half-dead condition;
Of nv bargaining for the sole occupancy
of room; of his leading me up winding
stairway to a chamber; of my plunging
from the threshold to the bed as soon as
the door was opened. | slept for several
hours. When | awoke, it was about
noon. and was very hungry and thirsty
NV clothes had dried upon me, and |
essayed to put them into fairly pre-
sentable condition. | found within my
doublet the four letters, which had been
FIRST soaked and then stiffened. The now
useless one addressed to The Abbot Fou-
Ion, | destroyed; then | went down TO
the kitchen, and saw, with relief, that
it was empty. ate and drank hurriedly
but ravenously. Again the fear of cap
ture, the impulse to put Paris further
and further behind, awoke in me l.
bought peasants cap from the land
lord. telling him that the wind had blown
my hat into the river the previous aight
and sct forth 1t was my intention to,
walk to La Tournoire, that my money
might last Afoot | could the better
turn from the road and conceal myself Ia
woods or fields, at any intimation of pur-
suit At La Tournoire, would newly
equip myself with clothes, weapons,
horse and money; and thence | would
ride to Ansers, and finally away, south
wand, to Nerac.
(To be continued
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

Choosing not to follow the left bank OF
the Seine, which WAS unknown territory
a. me. ! turned southcas. ward, in the
hope of finding the road by which had
cntcred Paris. To reach this, l had but
to traverse the fauhourg st. Germalnc,
along the hne Of the wall OF Paris had
already gone some distance long the
outer edge of the moat, with the sleeping
iougourg on my right, when | heard,
bchInd me, the sound of men trnading a
bridge. looked back The bridge was
that which crossed the moat from the
Tour dc Nesle.
Had the guards at last discovered my
way of eluding pursuit, and was l now
being sought outside the W llsf IL ap-
pcarcd So, for, after crossing the moat,
the troop divided into two bodies, one
~ which wen. toward the left bank below
the chain. where had landed, while the
other came along the moat after me
| began TO run The moon came out.
again
Look he is there Z" cried one of my
puraiers | heard their footsteps on the
frozen earth, they, 90, were running.
ku ! had the advantage in one respect
J had no weapons 90 impede me. The
coming out Of the moon did not throw
me INTO despair: l. only increased my de
termination to- make good the escape
| had carried ~ far Though nature.
herself. became the ally Of the Hing OF
France and the Duke of Guise against
me. ! would. elude them. | was hlled
with hate and resolution.
Suddenly, as | ran, IT occurred to me
that | was fool to keep 80 near the
fortitications, for, at any of the gates,
guards might emerge, alarmed by the
shouts of my pursuers' and even as |
though this. | looked ahead and saw
= number Of halbcrdiers coming from
the Porte ST Germalne My situation
was now as IL had been on the quay, with
this disadvantage, that ! Was seen by
my enemies, and this advantage, that
| had way of retreat open on my right;
and turned and sped along street OF
the Faubourg 1t. Germainc, towards the
couatry
II matters not how many pursue you.
II YOU can run faster and longer than the
best of them all. Gradually, as | went,
painting and plunging, onward, needless
of every obstacle, | increased the dis
tance between me and the cries behind.
Soon | was out of the faubourg. but
| did not stop. | do not know what
NtnA tNtAs saw htAas NNat'
@puthward, or what village | presently
went through, save that it was silent
and asleep. ! came upon good road, at
hast. and followed il, still running though
a pain in my side warned me that soon !
must halt. All my hunters had aban-
doned the chase now but one. Every
time l half turned for backward look,
I saw this one coming after me. He hsd
dropped his weapons. and so had enabled
himself 30 keep up the chase. Not being
weakened by a previous swim III he
Seine, he was IN bctter form than |, and
! knew that he would catch me in tune.
And what them He was large fellow
but since the struggle must come, would
better let II come ere should be utterly
exhausted. SO | pretended to stagger
and hirch forward, and presently came
10 my knees and then prone upon the
ground. With a grunt of triumph, the
man rushed up to me, caught me be ]
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
FAIRY MAkE-BRLIEYE.

There was once upon a time little
fairy who helped all children make
believe things. and 1 expect that same
little fairy is about today If people
would only give il a chance.
This particular little Fairy Make
believe, crept through the keyhole of
the door 20 a house where there lived
two poor children, named Mary and
Johnny. and they were trying hard 10
play at make-believe, for there was
no food in the pantry or fuel for the
stove.
Their mother had 10 work all day
and Mary and Johnny wanted 10 make
her think they were happy when she
came home at night, so they talked
about the nice dinner they were hav-
ing and how warm it was in the room,
and how beautiful were the pictures on
the walls
OF course there wasn't any of II
really there. but as Mary said, 1T
makes IL easier when mother comes
home 10 look happy when you make
believe all day that everything is nice
and comfortable.
So the little Fairy Make-believe
Crept right into their hearts and made
them SO interested in pretending that
they forgot their troubles and then
the fairy did more. for while they
were asleep that night she ran to the
home OF her old friend Jack Frost and
asked his help.
She did not ask him not to make it
colder by coming down from his home
up in the Northland. She asked him
90 come that very night and paint on
the windows Of the house in which the
children live all the lovely pictures he
could before morning.
Then she ran to another home
whore the people had plenty and to
spare. and this sly little fairy crept
trto their hearts and nestled so close
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

The other day man. whose marriage
hes degenerated into an endurance test
for the sake of his children, said that he
would rather cut his tongue out than
ask any sort OF favor from his wife.
That is where YOU make mistake, :
said a wise old woman friend TO whom
he had been telling his troubles: ''you
are throwing your one chance of saving
your marriage from lasting failure by
your false pride. Because your wife is
slf-oentered, and selfish, and of her own
volition shows you none OF the appre-
citation, or consideration that are your
| due, you ask nothing of her.
Il understand and sympathize with
how YOU feel You have taken what YOU
| consider to be the only dignified attitude
under the circumstances But believe me
son, dignity has no place in the family
circle. That is the place where the stoop-
to-conquer stuff does its great and per-
feet work. and it is folly for you to stand
aside, and grow morbid dwelling upon
what your wife should do. The thing for
you to do is to get busy and make her
do what she ought to do
"Your wife is like a lot of other
women. She has An undeveloped matri-
monial conscience. She has never really
considered her duty TO YOU, nor what
YOU have right To expect of her And
that is mostly your fault, because YOU
have never thrown any responsibility
on her. You have never demanded any
thing of her. You have never made her
sacrifice anything for you. You have
never made her feel, even, that she was
absolutely necessary to you.
''Of course, you did ell of this from
the highest and noblest of motives You
wanted to be good husband and TO save
your wife from every crumpled rose leaf
under her forty mattresses of ease, and it
seemed to you that such tenderness, and
chIvalry must win an answering tender
ness and consideration. 1t rarely does,
SON Unselfshness breeds selhshness
Gentleness seems to foster brutality in
others. In all my long life have not
known more than one or two cases of
an ideal husband, or wife, who didn't
have a devil for a mate.
"In matrimony, as elsewhere, people
treat you as you demand to be treated.
and so if YOU stand aside and give, and
give to your wife. and ask nothing of
her, she will take it all without thanks,
and without even realizing what pig
she is being
The way to do this is to force her to a
fair divide. Make her sacrifice herself
for YOU, Make her suffer for you. Make
her feel Der responsibility for your happi-
ness. Make her feel that she is necessary
to you That will put you again on the
map as man, and she will get interested
in you, and fall in love with you anew
For the more woman does for a man,
the more she loves him.
"You know that it is one of the ele- |
nentary principles of human psychology !
hat we hate the people to whom we are
inder obligations, but we love those |
IN whom we bestow favors The surest |
way to make an enemy is to make per- |
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

YOU as YOU want 10 be treated, don't
give her up until you have at least tried
10 make her feel that you need her,
that you need her love and her help. Ask
for what YOU want Teach her that
truly il is more blessed to give than TO
receive
Don't wreck your life on pride and
dumbness, rs - many men and women
do"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
WHY?
why Does a Boys Voice "Break n
Copyright, 1920 by
Wheeler Syndlce e te, Inc.

N"J P"VN DO! fVVt DTFah
One OF the striking differences be-
tween the sexes is the fact that the
vocal chords or the voice box of the
male enlarges comparatively sud
denly, when the boy is about Ia or Is
years Of age. while that of the female
grows gradually along with the rest
Of her body. Boys voices, therefore,
break" or suddenly alter their pitch.
while those Of girls are not subject
90 this peculiarity.
This difference in development is
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
pimars Writes Attorney General.

At the office Of Attorney General
Townsend yesterday a postal
vas received from Carmen DfNars,
formerly a member of the police force.
who is now in Naples. italy. Diaars
in q brief message written on the
card said Naples is a wonderful city.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

never have minute 10 give 70 our
dear ONES.
There Nov I hope every house,
keeper who has read this, will go
right out and take her entire family
20 the circusi
Tomorrow--A Sunday Might Tea-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
It's n VIII o. The Iixn

II you have any doubts az 10 how
far the dollar goes, try chasing it in
this Weather.--Atlanta Constitution.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05

An Inquiries Addressed TO Miss Kirk
man In care of tho ''Kmcss~t House.
keeping" department will be ansse cred
~ these columns In their turn. This
requires considerable time. however.
owing to the great number received
80 II personsi or quicker reply 10
desired. a stamped and sslf-sddr~s~sh
snvsiope must be enclosed With tns
Questiony-rrbe Esditow.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
THE SANDMAN STORY

BY Abbie Phillips Walker
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-05
DIGNITY HAS NO PLACE
thee Your Partner i'm Her
See This

pyright 1891 by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
A DANCE FoR THE

SAKE OF THE BOYS"
 The society editor received a let. ter yesterday that made her feel just like something ought 10 be done.
 It sort of got next" with that old. old appeal that only the war days called out--for 1t asked aid for some people who are mighty fine and dear to Birmingham, and to these little United States of Ameri- ca. The letter said in brief that somebody was forgetting there lad been such things as big. brave, manly soldiers. who used to bring the tears to our eyes and the hur- rahs to our lips, spite of everything.
 But maybe you'd like to read the letter--and, after that. you might sort of wish to slide around to the dance at the Civic club and slip in to show where your heart Is.
 The letter tells that the dance will be given by the Womans auxil- iary of the American Legion; that it will be held September 23, and that the money realized will be used for the general benefit of the ex- service men, especially the disabled ones-those who almost died for you and us and America.
 Here goes-and if you haven't got a lump in your throat afterwards itll be sort of strange. or because maybe you're good at "suppressing."
 Says the message.
 During the war, everyone was eager to do something for the serv- Ice men. Nothing was too good for them; We sacrificed, So that they might have everything in our power to give them. And each of us, in our hearts. vowed that when the war was over we should be very. very hO. hell for us. We would always see that they had just what they needed
 After the war was over, the American Legion was organized then the Women's auxiliary. Those organizations are as one-working for the good of the ex-service men especially the disabled ones. The Women's auxiliary mothers the men stationed in the various hospitl lls here in town-just as each of us said we'd do-after the war. They fur nish the men with refreshments. smokes reading matter and enter tainment. And on Friday, Septcm- Der 23, at the Civic club, they are going to have a dance the proceeds of which will be used for the benefit of the ex-service men. A prominent dance orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion, and a minia- tur9 refreshment parlor is to be erected in the music room Nothing IS being overlooked to make the dance big success. The auxiliary. Is expecting the people to remember the vows they made during the war and respond en masse.
 Tickets may be had at American Legion headquarters. second story Jefferson County Bank building; Greenwood cafe, or from any meni- Der of the organization.
 EDNA LIvLEY."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
COUNTY COMMITTEES
 SOON TO HE NAMED

Mrs. J. R. Hornady reported yes- terday that very soon the county committees for the selections of the county queens can be announced She and Mrs. Chappell Cory and Mrs. h. J. Haley, who is chairman of the county queen committee for the semi-cenr tennial, are working very hard to get the lists complete, so that everything will be in readiness for the voting to take place from October to Octo- Der 12.
 Talk about politics and presidential elections, the elections in the coun- ties of Alabama concerning who are the prettiest girls and the ones who will be chosen to meet the President will make such affairs seem like am ateur happenings.
 For real spirit will dominate the elections, and after they are all over, then will the counties back their queens up with loyalty that no other candidates ever have possibly known before.
 For hear what Mrs. Hornady has to say:
 Already our committee IS receiV- ing letters saying that actual innus- tries and cotton mills are to close TOT the semi-centennial, and one county
  nIete. entire musical band will ac- company their queen"
 Still other counties say that money is no object. and that their fioa,s which will drive through Birmins ham shall be as beautiful as they can be made. For no expense IS eo be spared. and they want to know where the most elaborate decorators five, and if they are willing to worh overtime.
 They don't put it in exactly those words-maybe-but that's their zen eraF idea.
 The queen nominees Tn many eoun t,es-oodIes of them-are already be- ing mentioned, and all of them are sweet and pretty. It is not possipie for every county to have the sane voting plans. but all will vote dur'ns the same dates of October D to lz'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
MRS. COWHERD TO BE SOLOIsT
 NEXT WEEK

Next Tuesday afternoon, at the re- ception on the premier day of the Alabama Art league at the Little Gallery" in the Watts building, Mrs. Holly Cowherd, Birmingham sweet singer of songs, will be the soloist, her accompanist being Mrs. Alma Wallace Randall.
 Mrs Cowherds presence on any programme is always an attraction and her group of songs on next Tuesdays programme. which begins at 4:30 o'clock, is anticipated with great pleasure by music and art lovers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18
ALABAMA KING HANLEY
 AT LAKE SUNAPEE

News has just been received in Bir- mingham of one of the citys former girls-Alabama King, who now is Mrs. c. Monroe Hanley. This season she has been spending the summer at beautiful Lake Sunapee, N. H., and has been there since June 20, where she has a cottage. With her have been nephew, Richard Randolph, Jr., whq spent the summer, and her own little son.
 Richard Randolph has returned to Alabama and has gone on to the unl . versity at Tuscaloosa, where he IS in his second year. Mrs. Hanley's s son returned with him, and will spend the winter in the Magic City with Mrs. T. A. Murphree. Mrs Han ley will also visit Birmingham in December. being Mrs. Murphree' guest. Many friends will be glad to hear from Mrs Hanley and to know of her whereabouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18

asked to renew their subscriptions before September 26. Says she:
 You should join the Music Study club
 Because the club is a power for great good in the city.
 Because the club is backing the auditorium with Sl,000 subscrip- tion.
 Because the club is bringing Flor ence Easton, the Metropolitan's best soprano.
 Because the club is bringing Mishel Piastro, the Russian violinist, and Auer's greatest pupil
 Because the club is bringing Jo- seph Lhevinne, the Russian pianist
 Because the club is bringing four artists to be announced later.
 Because the club is supporting chorus of 75 Voices.
 Because the club is to have study meetings every two weeks.
 Because the club always stands