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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
New Method of
 Reducing Fat

news item from abroad informs us that the American method of producing a slim, trim figure is meeting with aston ishing success. This system. which has made such a wonderful impression over there, must be the Marmola Prescription Tablet method of reducing fat. It is safe to say that we have nothing better for this purpose in this country. Anything that will reduce the excess flesh steadily and easily without injury to the stomach the causing of wrinkles, the help of ex- ercising or dieting, or interference with ones meals is a mighty important and useful addition to civilizations necessities Just such a catalogue of good results fol- low the use of these pleasant, harmless and economical little fat redueers. We say economical because Marmola Prescription Tablets (made in accordance with the fa- nous Marn,ola Prescription) can be ob- tained of any druggist the world over or from the Marmola Company. 4612 Wood ward Ave, Detroit, Mich. for one dollar a case, which is a decidedly economical price. considering the number of tablets each case contains. They are harmless-- Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19

time refreshingly novel. MT Taylor Is not a professional historian but he has made an important contribu ton to historiography His studies are not amateurish-they display careful preparation and acute insight. The chapter on the Pitts is certain to evoke surprise and opposition, but historical facts, as l interpret them. back MT. Taylor here as elsewhere.' ,
 ''CHIVALRY"
 By James Branch Cabell, Robert N,
 Mcbride & Co, Publishers. No 2
 West Sixteenth Street, New York
 City.
 "Chivalry." or, as it is subtitled, the Dizain des Reines, is composed of a series of tales, unified in theme and dealing with an all-important choice in the life of a person, who, by his or her code, is directly respon- sible to God for the outcome of the decision. It is this responsibility which MT. Cabell has elsewhere in dicated to be the keynote of the chivalrous attitude, an attitude of which the entire book is in reality, a study. t W
 The tales are told ostensiblys by that extremely venerable person and worshipful man. Nicolas de Caen, to whom also has been attributed the authorship of the original text of Domnei.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
If Ruptured 7
 Try This Free
Apply It to Any Rupture, Old os Recent, Large or Small, and Yen Are on the Road That Has
 Convinced Thousands
Sent Free to Prove This

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 send for this free trial. Even if your rupture doesn't bother you what is the use of wearing supports all your lifei Why suffer this nuisance? Why run the risk of sangrene and such dangers from . small and innocent little rupture. the kind that has thrown thousands on the operating table? host of and women are daily running such risk just because thelrl ruptures do not hurt nor prevent tney1 from getting around. Write at once for tn NJ free trial, as it is certainly a wonderf,ls thing and has aided in the cure of rupturey that were as big as mans two fists. Try and write at once. using the coupon beloSr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
.Leea Gor,
Let's Go"
 Isn't that s nice suggestion7 ssRr4 rz h ere 2.t rnn nak

Let's Go"
 Isn't that nice suggestion7
 .sBut whereT' you ask.
 csrtainly-that's easy too-because an you've got to do is merely to drop in when the Volunteer Relief as soeiation girls have their big party next Friday and Saturday round at the Jefferson-and find out!
 Of course I know--and I might be induced to tell you-but that would be telling tales out of school and I never have done that-have your
 Any way-'Iets Go" is going to be the very most fun of anything you ever heard of with 40 lovely young people in the cast dancing and sing ing and pirouetting about the big stage at the Jefferson, just like pro fessionals" if you please.
 Let's see; oh no mean Let's Go" and find out who's doing all this who the man behind the gun is in all this tea-party and also the woman tor right beside the man, MT. F, Y. Gosden. who has come all the way from an engagement in South Dakota. where he put on a wonderful show for the American Legion, stands Mrs R. R. Stotlar, chairman of the Let's Go" party-and these two nice young folk are going to let you see one of the cleverest, breeziest. incest, shows that yeu've ever had the pleasure Or witnessing.
 You remember Mir Gosden-of course; he Is the young man who came down to Birmingham last April to put on the "Shriner's Minstrels," which was such a, huge success and hos going to put on equally as at tractfve show for the Volunteer Relief Associa you and me-a much better show because you see this enc Is for giris-(and mighty pretty, attractive girls too)-and you know girls do inspire lot more en- thusSasm than a lot of boys-now honest intun-don't they7
 NIT. 6oSden. or course, as you knoW Is professional "Setter-up" of shows and speaking of a "getter-up" re- minds me of very cunning story:
 It's about little boy. who one day. was sitting before the fire and rumi- mating about his future plans when he suddenly turned to his mother and said to her quite wistfuIly.
 Mother, when get grown up, which am I going to be, a picture taking man. Methodist preacher CT a telegraph pole putter-upperr
 But back to MT. Godsden, because he's the Heading man" in this story. Do you know him7
 Well. if you do. there's no use telling you that he is young and handsome and blond, with blue eyes and pink complexion, and he's just as ''Beau BrummeIl-ish" and nice as he can be.
 When you look at him you wonder why he didn't go on the stage and play 'the gentleman vamp" or some thing. because, believe me. he could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
Sunday Morning Breakfast

sacrificing mother-at hand to save it's life.
 Then, Father, WIG have had too much rain this spring. anyway. The greens at the club are morass and the tennis courts are mud puddlss. There is no way known to the weather department or to science 70 bring on a shower with certainty ex- cept to send Sunday school into the woods and let all the little girls wear white straw hats with red ribbons on them. in which the colors will run. Rain is then as inevitable as the set of nut picks in a collec- tion of wedding presents.
 "rhe only man I was ever en- gagged to- except five or six, l met at Sunday school picnic and every time I go to one l get to thinking ried and l always come home and present to one of their four children and so picnics cost me money as well as mental agony and -"
 T guess Mir. Young would donate the ice cream said her father, med itatively.
 And I can get some ropes for the tug of war out at the club where we used them last summer" added Fred
 Lucy, your coffee is cold, dear" admonished her mother.
 '1 get about as much sonsiderat ation here as a bungalow apron does in the wash-tub," exclaimed the girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
HAVE DARK HAIR
 AND LOOK YOUNG Nobody can Tell when you Darken Gray, Faded Hair
 with Sage Tea


 Grandmother kept her hair beau tifully darkened, glossy and attrac- tive with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance. this simple mixture was ap- piled with wonderful effect. By ark ing at any drug store for "Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound" you will get a large bottle of this old time recipe, improved by the addi- ton of other ingredients. all ready to use, at very little cost. This sim- pie mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the hair.
 A well-known downtown druggist says everybody uses wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound now because it darkens So naturally and evenly that nobody can tell 1t has been sp- plied-.it's so easy to use. too. You simply dampen a comb or soft brush and draw it through your hair. talk ing one strand at a time. By morn ing the gray hair disappears; after another application or two, it is re- stored to it's natural color and looks glossy, soft and beAutifuA-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
Officers of Chinese Nauy Would Go Arms
 Farley One Better
By A,sociated Press

Peking, February 1S.-Officers of the Chinese navy. have proposed to go the Washington armament con ference one. better by scrapping the entire Chinese navy and selling it to pay their salaries which are in ar rears.
 The Chinese navy consisted in 1920 of six protected cruisers, three de- stroyers. eight torpedo boats, three torpedo gunboats, four gunboats and a considerable number of river gun boats None of these, however. were under control of the southern Chi nese government located at Canton.
 The Chinese officers proposed also that all battleships. and cruisers should be scrapped
 The Chinese press asserts that it is in the interest of their salaries. rather than of the peace of the world that the Chinese naval off cers proposed this drastic step
 As in the case of many governme nt departments of China at the present time, salaries for many back months are due the officials and personnel of the navy, and the conference of offi- cers was called to consider ways and means of forcing the ministry of finance to allocate to the ministry of marine sufficient money to make, up these deficits,
 Feeling that sale of all naval prop erty and abolition of the navy was the surest way of obtaining the ne- cessary funds. the officers decided to .ot this proposition before the peo- pie.
 lheir alternative. in case this scheme failed to meet with approval, was that officials who had i'l ga''v withheld their pay from them be made personally responsibi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

melt Collins, Alfred Mccarthy, Will liam Kennon, Mason billiard. Rowan oden. Charley Webb, George Bonnell Allen Drennen, Jessie Mae Perkins Tom Durham. Rolla Perkins, Jor- dan Prince. Mary Eliza Beck, Tom Mcclure. and a wonderful quarte; composed of Dan Walker, Edwin Cook. James Cochran and Herberi Bush to be known as 'the Foai Roses"
 Can you wait-for the party?
 know you can't-for it's all SD roseate hued-so young, and so op- timistic-that it makes you fec young all over again yourself t9 hear about it-and then besides just stop and think of the motiv. back of it all.
 Here they are-these splendid young women who compose the melns bershIp of the Volunteer Relief asst ciation-who are working their fin- ger nails off to get up funds tC help somebody elsel N
 Isn't that wonderful and sweet ans unselfish7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19

"a man who writes such 8 book is a public benefactor; it radiates hu- nor and charm"
 The story is one of the sunny side of small town which is always in- teresting and especially so when told as Joseph c. Lincoln has told it in "Galusha the Magnificent
 The critics are unanimous In pro- claiming this Mir. Idncoln's best story and among the comments made about the book none Is more complimentary than that made by the New York Times critic, who says:
 "The story is a wholesome, cheer fui American yarn that will be read with equal pleasure by the Down Easter or the Out Wester, by any one of the great American public to whom Yankee wit and ways savor of home"
 The, best critic, however, of Ga lusha the Magnificent will be your self when you have read and thor oughiy enjoyed the book.
 ROMAN HOLLAND" (Fhe Man and His work). By Stefan
 zweig, (with Portraits and Illus
 trations). Thomas seltzer, Pub
 fishers, New York City.
 This is the first biography in Eng fish ever written of the great French writer, Romain Roland.
 In this volume Stefan zweig has written brilliant, exhaustive life ot the famous French writer and a critical study of his work by one of the leading dramatists, novelists and poets of Europe, the author of Emile Verhaeren." MT. zweig is a close friend of Roland, and She in- teresting life of the great French man is here portrayed with the sure hand of an artist and of one who knows his facts first hand. The book is published simultaneously in five languages. It is the most compre- hersive work that has so far ap- peared on Romain Roland, and is one of the most important and de- lightful biographies of recent years.
 YOU
 By Madeline Marx. Thomas Seltzer,
 Publishers, New York City
 Is romantic love possible in our world today? This is the theme of You
 It has the same verve, the same electrical quality and the same grip
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
How Soldier
 Dispersed Attacks

For two years my stomach trou- ble was very bad my doctor had to inject morphine on several occasions when I was stricken with these at Jacks. Since taking bottles of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy have been entirely we'll and am serving in the artillery, having been pro- nounced in perfect health by govern ment physicians" It is a simple. harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intes- tinal tract and allays the inflamma- ton which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ail- ments, including appendicitis One dose will convince or money re- funded At all druggists-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19

Group of talented young peo- pie who will take part in the Volunteer Relief association's play, Lets Go." Upper row, left to right: Mrs. Emmett Col lins, Miss Mary Elizabeth Gald- well, Miss Jordan Prince. Center row, left to right: Miss Mary Ida Wood; MT. F. F. Gosden of Chi cago, who is directing the play; Mrs. Leon c. Bradley. Lower row, left to right: Mrs. R. R. Stotlar, chairman, and Miss Elise Sparrow.-Photos by the Steph- enson studio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19


 The lesson is brought home to all of us every single blessed day of our lives-that happiness comes from within: We can only be happy by making somebody else happy. Happi- ness is a state of mind-a beautiful garden, where there is growing good deeds and charitable acts for others eliminating self-and stretching forth our hands to throw beam of sunshine into the lives of little sick, suffering children: poor starving men and women; unfortunates-who ho have seen the seamy side of life while we are going on-on-on- never knowing the rough places DOT the misery and the privations tia [ they know.
 Truly. when you stop to think about it the Volunteer Relief asst citation with it's splendid record oi never having turned down any worthy charity which has come to it's doors. deserves the support e. everybody in this big city; when yoa think Of Daddy Armstrong, the Volunteer Relief association's very own policeman who comes to them and tells them about little children who haven't the proper shoes anI clothing so that they can go to school and Sunday school; of Broth CT Bryan" who tells them of sickness and suffering and to whom they send their checks; of the Mercy home and their assistance there; of the Christi mas tree at the Hillman hospital for the little sick babies; of their part in the Doll bazaar for the Children's < hospital Of the myriads of other kind acts and deeds and sweet serv. ices that they perform-well-ther no use for me to tell you any mo about these fine young women-na : trons--debuntantes, subdebs. " , compose the Volunteer Relief asF citation, for you know about them ] well as l do. l.
 They are going to give you N chance now-not only to contrib ua to their exchequer this year, but they are, going to give you a good time while you are contributing, sn get busy and get your places fea next Friday and Saturdays party < the Jefferson, for the word is "I-.t , Co.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
LIFTS COP

if he wanted to-and that's no joke.
 And he's just as clever ss he can be; has moro ~pep' in a minute than you can possibly imagine 1e people having, and what he doesn't know about getting up amateur shows in a professional way-is not worth putting down on a postage stamp.
 Mir Gosden, since he was here last April, has put on between 4o and 50 amateur performances for Shrin- CTS, American Legionnaires, welfare organizations and all sorts of things. and now he's back in Birmingham with zip and bang and a boom de-ray," and he's going to put on the incest party for the Volunteer Relief association that you ever heard of
 But then, as I said before, these are girls, and girls do count, you know.
 -I don't know why the impression prevails that an amateur perform ance must necessarily be amusing; that such queer things happen and that our friends aren't just as clever as professionals and in Let's Go we are going to show our audi ences that they arc.
 Perhaps the fact that those we associate with every day step down and out of their own personality into a character part-and with makeup on and all sorts of stage settings they appear different, but with the talent have to work with here-mu- sica1 and histrionic-I don't see that there is any reason why our play should not be the hugest success that has ever been seen in this town.
 q made a big jump from Aber- deem, s. D.. to come here for the Volunteer Relief association, Mir. Gasden declared, -and when 1 left there a week ago the thermometer was twenty 1.-two degrees below zero and it was so cold that fellow found himself almost frozen on his way t. rehearsals and everywhere else he went
 'I put on a wonderful show there for the American Legion and it was great pleasure te me, because my affiliations are with them. because they are such splendid men and did such valient work during the war. My service to my country was in the navy during the late World war, and know all about the hard ships that flesh was heir to during that time.
 Last June I put on show for the Eiks in Atlanta, and we played to 10000 people in the big audito- rum there, where they give grand opera It was the most stupendous success, so much so that this year I am to go back there in June and put on a show which will play for week, including Saturday matinee.
 "Joe Bren yrote Let's Co.," said
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19

on the problems that agitate mod ern women as Mme. Marks first novel and 1t is an interesting story. too.
 You" is an international event. It is appearing simultaneously in practically all European languages. ln France, where 1t was published 'a short time ago, 1t has already sold more copies than the great sensa- ton. Woman" and was received with acclaim by the leading critics.
 THE MAKING. OF A MANI (Letters from Father to His Son
 at SchooD. By Joseph H. Appel.
 Thomas seItxer. Publishers. No 5
 West Fiftieth Street, New York
 City.
 Here's the book you're looking for especially fathers and mothers who have wanted to write really help ful letters to their boys and girls away at school. This father did just that-wrote to his son. in story form and in language and thought that a boy or girl of 16 to 20 can compre- kend, answering the eternal why's" why do l have to go to school, why Gu maVe to study so hard, why do | have to do this. and why can't I do that, etc. When concluded, the boy said; Why don't you publish the letters in book form-they will help other boys?r
 The author is business man, one of the heads in one of the leading commercial houses of the country His book offers a valuable guide to the growing generation in matters pertaining to practical life and the sri4 u-h all normal youth has to grapple.
 THE LINE OF LOVE- By James Branch Cabell Robert N.
 McBride & Co. Publishers, New
 York City.
 "The Line of Love" is a series of episodes-a revised version of one of Cabell's first books, with "The Wedding Jest" and "Porcelain Cups" which were not included in the first edition '.The Wedding Jest" is a bit of perfection. There is little masterpiece hidden away in this vol tune called Love Letters of Fall staff" It gives us Sir Jack in quite another role than that which he plays in Shakespeare.
 There is the usual characteristic in- troduction by H. l.. Mencken, the bouncer in the American Pantheon. Mencken' opinion or CapeH IS worth quoting: "He knows where red noun should be and where a peacock blue verb. and where an adjective as darkly purple as grape. You may like his story and you may not like it.. but if you don't like the way he tells it, then there is something wrong with your ears.'
 None is pessimistic about Amer ican literature when one sees Gabell and Mencken arm in arm--Aladdin going to lunch with Guy Hawkes.
 "The Line. of Love" is of the inn memorial stuffs of beauty wisdom and mirth woven on the loom of 26 letters
 MODERN ENGLISH STATESMEN By G. R. Stirling Taylor. Robert N.
 Mcbride & Co.,. Publishers, New
 York City.
 Modern English Statesmen" by G. R. Stirling Taylor, is according to Carlton H. H. Hayes. "a drastic revaluation of six of the leading fig ures in English statecraft during modern times: Oliver Cromwell. Rob ert Walpole, the Pitts, Edmund Burke and Disraeli.
 'In each instance the portrait is easily recognizable but at the sasns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
THE POSE

Erom Judge.
 Your picture of the infant Hercu- les strangling the serpent is very good. But how did you ever get a mcdel?"
 My kid gave me the idea the day he got tangled up with the hose on his mothers vacuum cleaner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
.-THE BRIARY- -BUSH'

By Floyd Dell. Alfred A. knopf.
 Publishers, New York City.
 This notable new novel by one of the chief among the young American realists is the story of a modern marriage in which two rebellious young lovers try to keep their mu-