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include a study of child welfare, civics, anti ntl-tuberculosis. public health. American citizenship legisla- tive, social and industrial. Mrs. Ma lone will discuss literature, kinder garten, scholarship. library exten- sion and home economies. A drive and tea at the Country club will conclude the program.
 Wednesday evening at Morgan hall an illustrated lecture on American Sculpture" will be delivered by Lora do Taft, himself a sculpture of inter- national fame, and this lecture Is the main feature of the entire weeks pro- gram. MT. Tafts engagement here was made through the efforts of the federation president. Mrs. Brevard Jones, of Montgomery. The univer- sity Glee club. under the direction of Tom Garner, will also be on the even- ing's program.
 Memorial Hour
 Dr. l.. o. Dawson will deliver the invocation Thursday morning and re- port of resolution committee and executive reports will be heard. Al noon, memorial hour will be observed with Mrs. J. F. Hooper presiding.
 Thursday afternoon Mrs P. P. Claxton Is to address the meeting on international Aspects of Woman hood" and at 1 o'clock the federa- tion luncheon will be held. In the afternoon reports are to be made and the hostess clubs will entertain fed eration and guests at an art exhibit, Smith hall. university, and at the same hour there will be a reception to the delegates by the university.
 General Federation Evening" will consume Thursday afternoon, and Friday morning following invocation by Father Lenahan, will be final busl- ness and adjournment.
 The entire program will be inter- spersed with musical numbers rem dered by Mrs. Edgar H. Phifer, Mrs H. N. Eddins, Mrs. James Rice, Mrs. T. H. Hargrove, Mrs. J. A. Anderson, Mrs. Haynes Tucker, Irving GuEins, Thomas Foster, Mrs B. w. Cabel and the University Gle club.
 Local committees for the conven- tion follow:
 General chairman, Mrs. T homas Hill; welcoming committee-Mrs. Bat tie Searcy and Mrs. Edgar Clarkson; publicity-Mrs. Harvey Searcy; music Mrs. K. l.. Pritchett; badges-Mrs. J. c. Maxwell; pages-Mrs. Ben Cabel; entertainment-Mrs Sam Cla bough. Mrs. George Searcy; hospital ity-Mrs. George J. Davis; informa- tion-Mrs. Aston Fitts art exhibit- Mrs. Washington Moody; decorations Miss Annalee Fitts.
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DEPEws FIRST LAW CASE

From Leaves from My Autobio-
 graphy," by Cnauncey NJ Depew, In
 Scribners.
 I was admitted to the bar in 1858. and immediately opened an office in the village. My first client was prosperous farmer who wanted an opinion on rather complicated ques- tion. I prepared the case with great care. He asked me what my fee was, and told him s5. He said; "A dollar and seventy five is enough for a young lawyer like you" Subsequent ly he submitted the case to one of the most eminent lawyers in New York, who came to the same conclu- sion and charged him $500. On ac- count of this gentleman's national reputation the farmer thought that fee was very reasonable. In subse- quent years I have received several very large fetainers, but none of them gave so much satisfaction as that SITS, which I had actually earned after having been so long dependent on my father.
 After some years of private practice Commodore Vanderbilt sent for me and offerod the attorneyship for the New York and Harlem railroad. l had just then been nominated and confirmed United States minister to Japan. The al pointment was a com plete surprise to me, as I was not an applicant for any federal position. The salary was $7.5O0 and an outfit of S9,000. The commodore's offer of the attorneyship for the Harlem railroad was far less than the salary as min ister. When l said this to the com modore, he remarked: "Railroads are the career for young man; there is nothing in politics. Don't be damned fool" That decided me, ana on the 1st of January, 1921, I rounded out 55 years in the railway service of this corporation and it's allied lines
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Chicago. That Mary Garden spot ot opera can afford to be no less open and generous to the happy chance of plucking stars out of street corners. Maestro Mary herself came to fame through such circumstance in Paris, and she is not one to forget IL
 Tt was at Madame Sybil Sander sons that Monsieur Albert Carre, di- rector of the Opera Comique, first heard Miss Garden sing" tells Mrs. Robinson-Duff, her teacher. Tt was quite auhazard that they met there and curiously enough, she accom- panied herself at the paino and sang the gavotte from Manon' and Annie Laurie the same song with which she had won my heart and admira- tion some years previous. Monsieur Carre at once recognized the great possibilities of this young woman and on the spot engaged her for two years to sing leading roles at the Opera Comique.
 That was the year that Charpen- tier brought out his Louise the lead ing role of which was created by Madameoiselle Rioton. The opera gripped at the very hearts of the Parisians, and standing room only was the daily bulletin at the Com ique. At the end of the second act one night Mademoiselle Rioton announced her inability to continue the repre- sentatlon. . Whereupon Monsieur Carre stepped before the footlights, announced the illness of the prima donna, and said that Miss Mary Gar den. a young debutante, would finish the opera. That night Mary Garden sang herself Into the hearts of the Parision public. The next morning Paris awoke to the knowledge that a new star had arisen, and Mary Gar den found herself heralded as a great artist"
 So what made Mary Garden the singer famous has made Mary Garden the impresario grateful. She had taken a number of western girls, still in the flapper class of opeartic art. and trained them to be little Mary Gardens. one and all, In looks and voice, droop of the shoulder, sweep of the train.
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April Planting

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 Mir. Mcvay has prepared an ag- ricultural and horticultural all endar for April applicable to Bir- mingham and surrounding terri tory.
 Vegetable Garden.-First half of month. Plant irish potatoes. Bed sweet potatoes for slips, sow eEE plant, pepper and tomato for pants to set later. Plant freely of beets, carrots. cabbage. early corn, lettuce, mustard. persnips. parsley, onions radish spinach. Swiss chard. turnIps and English peas.
 Second half of month.--Plant sQuashes. Set out early tomato, all sorts beans, cucumberS. melons, okra, pumpkins and pepper. egg plant and sweet po- tatoes.
 Field Crops.-First hals of month. Sow Burt oats, bea-dless barley, clovers. grasses, early corn. rape, spring setcheE etc.
 Second half of montns~-Plan: cotton, peanuts. velvet ard soy beans, broom corn, chufas, sor- gbums, millets, field corn, early COW peas and set out sweet po- tatoes.
 OTchar6.-SprayIn must be at- tended to If fruit free of diseases and orms are expected. Get all data and materials from your local seedsman Be prepared to fight the inexorable march of myriads of injurious insectA seek ing tc devour every sort ot crop. Ferlilize all nursery stock II set- ting o1t, the extra labor and ex- Lonse will pay big dividends.
 Flower Garden.-Set out sum mer and fall Towering bulbs and roots, such as gladiolus. tube roses, dahlias, caladiums, and cannas. Roses may still be put out and all sorts of shrubbery. Lawn grass may be planted.
 Last half of month.--Practtcal- ly all flower seed may now be planted in the open ground. par ticularly the hardy annuas. such as alyssum, asters. baisoms, cal- endula. calliopsis. cocks comb. centaurea cosmos, California pop py, enphorbia, four o'clock, for get-me-not, geranium. heliotrope. annual hollyhocks. lantana, lark spur, nasturtiums. pansies, petu- nias, phlox. peoples. portulaca. snap dragon, salvia sunflower sweet peas. verbena, vinca and zinnia. In addition 70 these many others including climbers. hardy perennials. etc.. may be safely planted.
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EUery Color Of Rainbow to
 Be Seen in Easter Parade
 Along Fifth Auenue Today

New York. April fS.-Mr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker tonight were laying out their togs for the Easter parade on the avenue--Fifth avenue. of course.
 Father wasn't worrying about his costume. It would be just the usual cutaway and topper, with the addi- ton of spotless necktie and per haps something new in the way of g walking stick.
 But mother was frankly just little nervous. Style makers have been cutting funny capers this sea son and she wasn't quite sure wheth- CT her new tailor made would be the rightest of right things or that she had selected the correct color for her bonnet.
 Fashion experts, when asked what would be the predominati1.s shade on the avenue shrugged their shoul- ders if they were Parisian or nut tered T dunno" if they were Amer ican. All in all, they were inclined to think the famous old thorough fare was going to look like a rain bow.
 Judging by shop windows, 1t is going to be the gayest, brightest, most multi-colored procession New York ever has known. Canary. pur- pie and vermillion; periwinkle blue mimosa yellow and jade green-all were on display and the frocks were as gay as the chapeaux.
 And If there were variety in color there certainly was variety In cut No two modistes seemed to agree on the correct length for skirts, and the stockings-well, "gorgeous' semed the word to describe them.
 Footwear, too. had way ot breaking away from the happy mein and indeed 1t seemed a bit doubtful breaking away from the happy mein at all There were the staid old "ties behind the glass, and in with them variety of slippers and san dals slashed like the jackets of the galants In the days of the cavaliers Robert-Robert Hatfield-doorman at giant department store for 4: years, was frankly disgusted. Rob ert, who incidentally never has left his post in 2S years except one day when he was i'll and who admits he's a bit of critic on miladys apparel contends that style is dead.
 In between whiles, when he was not opening the door of limousine Robert consented to give his opin- ions Occasionally he would harh back to the days when some society
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fancy sort, and last season she rooted 27 cuttings which grew into fine blooming plants and she now has a fine lot of roots to set out. An immensely large number of plants, both hard and soft wooded. may be successfully rooted. It is a profitable pastime 10 experiment.
 Q. I want to plant out lot of Palma Christi. Would you advise plants or can l grow from Seed. Mrs. H., Meridian. Miss.
 A. The Castor oil plant IS not easily transplanted and seed only are recommended. The growth from seed is very rapid. The soil should be very fertile and plants should be no closer than four feet apart. The best effect Is produced from planting number of varieties mixed. The large seeded type known as zanzibariensis bear the most decorative foliage. Q. want to plant Chrysanthe- nuns. not the large florists kind, but the old fashion sort. What variety do I want? Mrs. B.. Mobile. A. What you want to plant is seed of summer or early blooming garden sorts: carinatum and coronarium types, which are to be had in various colors, both single and double. Sow seed now in open ground and if de- sirable transplant later to where wanted. Plants do best eight to twelve inches apart.
 Q. Some Of my cabbage set out in January are going to seed. Can do anything to stop this? Mrs. R.. Eufaula.
 A. This is caused by setting out too old or large plants. Nothing can ha dnna 4r something else.
 Q. I have a fine cherry tree that has bad wound on the trunk near the ground What is the best way to mend this? H. A.
 A. Chisel out the worst decay, wash out with carbolic soap or sterilize with some suitable disinfec- | tant diluted to the proper strength Take pure cement with d little sand add water to make up to the right consistency, fill wound firmly band with cloth until 1t sets up, then re- move. The place will soon overgrow A similar treatment is valuable to save any tree from decay. O. When is the proper time to plant Brussels Sprouts? R. A. Sow seed like cabbage or col lards in June to be transplanted in August. Cultivate for fall heads. Q. Is there a variety of saIvia that grows bushy. l saw some fine bushy plants last fall growing in pots? Mrs. D., Jasper.
 Salvia is made to branch and form fine, bushy plant when given proper distance and carefully pruned. Cut ting away the top causes branching and the branches in turn may be pruned. The cut branches, when young and tender are easily rooted and make fine plants.
 c. am anxious to grow both cantaloups and watermelons. but seem to fail every year on account
 of vines turning yellow ano die
 before full maturity of crop. Please | suggest help. L., Cordova. A. This condition generally re-
 suits from improper methods of pre- parations, overcrowding and made quate cultivation when vines are i young. Soil must be deeply and
 thoroughly prepared and unless soil be very fertile, commercial fertilizers
 must be liberally used. The greatest
 essential is frequent workings, when the plants are young. Vines must not
 be stunted through baked conditions | of soil.
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Alabama Federation of
 Wonen'S Clubs to Meet
 Ln Tuscaloosa Tuesday
More Than $50 Delegates Expected Attend Services in University City-Lecture by Lorado Taft to Be
 Feature of Annual Convention

Tuscaloosa. April 15.-(Speciai)- of women's clubs will begin to ar rive in this city Monday to participate in the twenty-seventh annual con- vention of this organization, conven- ing here April 1S-21. At least S5C delegates are expected and their com ing is anticipated with pleasure by the hostess clubs, composed of the Up Date and Quakers, as well as the Tuscaloosa citizens in general.
 An exceptionally interesting pro- gram has been prepared by Mrs. Brev- ard Jones' Mrs. John Tilley, Mrs Edna Shiras Blair. Mrs Bibb Graves and Mrs. G. G. Brownell, consisting of the most vital topics of the day, which will include discussion of Mo ton Pictures" Needs of State In- stitutions," the 'Federation's Needs, '' and other like subjects.
 Beginning on Monday evening the executive board will meet at the Me Lester hotel for business session Tuesday morning a council meeting Is to be held in the First Methodist Sunday school rooms which will be general headquarters during the con- vention. Tuesday afternoon this 4ANtNAIB WAAl D6 Optli lO tuG puDnC.
 At the formal opening Tuesday evening, Mrs. Brevard Jones and Mrs. Thomas J. Hill will preside and the ball will be started rolling with a violin solo by Mrs. Ben Cabel and Invocation by pr. James A. Duncan.
 Dr. George IF. Denny is to deliver the address of welcome on behalf of the city and of the university; on behalf of the clubs, Mrs. Washington Moody. Mrs. Bibb Graves will make the rsponse.
 Mrs. Jones To Speak
 Address of the president will be delivered by Mrs. J. B. Jones and she will be followed by Mrs. c. c. White 1y, general federation chairman, Later an informal reception will be partici- pated in by all delegates and hos tesses.
 Following the invocation delivered by Dr. Lang, Wednesday morning will be heard the report of various committees. report of credential com niittee, presidents report and an- nouncement of convention eommft- tees. Adjournment at noon for the Writers luncheon.
 At 2:30 o'clock section meetings will be held including the following: Art, Miss Margaret McAdory; music. Mrs. J. W. Adams; Writers, Mrs. B.. H. Craig; citizenship, Mrs. Dupont Thompson; education, Mrs. A. Y. Ma lone. Mrs. Thompson's section will
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III Attend Federation.
PernOnnIs.


 MT. and Mrs. Henry Adams have returned from their wedding trip to Florida and are the guests of rela- tiyes until the first of May when they will take possession of their attractive apartment in the Orlean apartments.
 Miss Opal Ashmore, of Florence, is the attractive guest of Miss Imogene Maxwell.
 Miss Mable Baker, of Selma, is visiting Mrs. Horace Van De Vcort at Woodward. having been delegate to the Alabama Educational associa- tion in Birmingham this week. Mrs. W. T. Warlick who attended the Alabama Library association con- vention in Florence this week as a delegate from the Bessemer Carnegie library has returned home
 Mrs. J. E. McAdory returned home Saturday from Birmingham where she attended the A. E. A. conven- tion,
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little disorder. mine guard was shot in Wastmoreland county early today and seriously wounded and three women were before an alder man at Uniontown charged with dis orderly conduct at a mine near that place yesterday. Interest centered on a mass meeting of miners to be held in Connellsviile tomorrow and union leaders predicted 1t would mark an important development in the strike while oprators said the high tide of the union advance had been reached
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Preparing Flower Beds

Most Flowering plants need a fer tile soil but strange to say there are some which produce their finest
 bloom in a comparatively poor soil. Thorough preparation, however, IS essential with all flowers. Many varieties produce but little root. pen citrate to shallow depths and are severely dealt with when hot, dry weather ensues. Root development is the thing to be encouraged with all plants, and nothing contributes more to this than the physical condi- tion of the bottom layers of the soil. A porous condition of the soil is a vital attribute in encouraging root growth in all Towering plants. Such soils suffer less from dry, hot con ditions because capillary attraction draws the moisture up from the sub soil, SO the roots can have the bene- fit of it. The liberal use of sand and vegetable matter, mixed thorough ly with the natural soil to the depth of eight to twelve inches, will usu- ally accomplish the desired results.
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DEATHS

Thomas V. Boardman--News has been received in Birmingham of the death of Thomas Volney Boardman, a former resident of Birmingham. which occurred in Baltimore on April 10. He is survived sby his wife, who, before her marriage, was Miss Maria Randolph of Greens boro; three daughters, Mrs. Curtis C. Mcdonnell of Washington. Miss Bland Randolph Boardman, Miss Margaret Boardman, and son, Thomas " Boardman, Jr., of Balti- more. MT. Boardman had many friends in Birmingham, where his family lived some years ago, and his beautiful voice added greatly to the musical life of the city. Flu neral services were conducted Tn Baltimore by Bishop Murray, also a former resident of Birmingham, and the interment was in Rock Creek cemetery, Washington.
 Mrs. ollie Kirkpatrick, 75, died at ( o'clock yesterday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M l.. Downs, 1909 Twelfth street south. Funeral services will be held at o'clock this afternoon from the residence. Pallbearers are E. T. Drake. Charles Halter, Dr. Sims George Bender Henry McCowan and John L. Wise. Burial will be in Elmwood, Ridout in charge. Be- sides her daughter. Mrs. Kirkpat- rick leaves two brothers. John Dean of Phoenix, Ariz., and Julius Dean of Carrolton, Ky.
 Thomas volney Boardman-A former resident of Birmingham, died in Baltimore on April 10. according to news received by friends here. He Is survived by his widow, three daughters. Mrs. Curtis c. McDon- nell of Washington, Miss Bland Randolph Boardman, Miss Margaret Boardman. and one son. Thomas V. Boardman, Jr. Funeral services were held in Baltimore by the Right Rev Bishop Murray, also former resident of Birmingham. Burial was in Rock Creek cemetery, Wash ington.
 Hugh Triton, 10. died at the family residence, 1907 Forty sixth street. north, at o'clock Saturday morn- i. ing. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Johns.
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The Age-Herald maintains special rep resentatives in Bessemer for handling correspondence, advertising and sub scriptiOns. Mrs. l.. D. McCollum, corrc- spondent, receives news items; phone Bessemer 1O72. H. E. Walker, Realty building, manager of circulation.
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hppeareu were pldyeu entirely rom memory. The use of a Steinway Grand piano added to the evenings pleasure.
 VIII Attend Federation.
 A number of Bessemer women will attend the state federation in Tusca- loosa beginning on Tuesday, as dele gates and as officers and chafrmen of committees.
 Among those who will attend will be Mrs. L. D. McCullum, chairman of Second district. to which the Besse- mer clubs belong. and Mrs. K. l.. Huey, who is a member of the nomi- hating committee, Mrs. G. B. Hol- lingsworth, who will appear in the federation recital, Mrs. Norman Thompson. who is also. on this pro- gram, Mrs. A. D. Sturdivant, chair man of Music for Second district, Mrs. Annie Glenn Grove, chairman of Second district Civic committee, Mrs. w. W. Hollingsworth, Mrs. Arthur Reynolds, Miss Maud Buck, Mrs. A. D. Goynton, and Mrs. J. c. Keigley.
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
By GEORGE B. M'vAY. SIR.

 of their gardening Mr. Mcvny has behind him 32 seedan practical trial ground gardener and in Brmin
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Lunfer Matrons, Club
Recital Splendid succes.

A beautiful and artistic event was the recital given by the Grove School of Music last night at the high school auditorium when number Of pu- pills appeared in program which showed skilled training in technique and tempo.
 The stage was decorated in pro- fusion of pink roses and snowballs and the numbers in which the pupils
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matron he had just assisted to aiight had been little girl whom he had lifted to the sidewalk in his arms.
 Asserting impressively that never since the time when shoppers used to roll up to him in their barouches behind spanking teams and the first gas buggies stopped jerki1y before him, had he seen such a fragrant disregard of sartariaI conventions, Robert gave his solemn conclusion: There Is no such thing as style now. It's nothing but taste. Some thing has happened and whoever 1t was who once said what woman should wear must be looking for a job. Maybe It's the flapper. Maybe it's the flapper's mother. Whatever 1t Is, 1t Is a mystery.
 "Women this year are wearing ex- actly what they please. Look at 'em Paris talks of long skirts. They, don't seem very long. do they? They say colors are not exactly fashion able. Did you ever see so much color on this street before. No. style Is dead. If a woman wanted to wear purple, she does; If she likes black, she wears it. If she likes short sleeves, she forgets the long ones. If you go on the avenue tomorrow. take 1t from me. you'll see as many different varieties of rigs as you will see different women.
 :'Standing here every day for the past few years I've seen change coming Now it's here. Once there was some one the women called they who sat behind the scenes and dictated what the fashion was. Last year the women began to revolt. Now the revolt is here"
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CHANGE FOR oPERATIC FAME

CHANGE FOR oPERATIC FAME
 Gilbert w. Gabriel, in Leslie's Weekly.
 Mir. Gatti-Casazza has agreed time voices here in America. But he has likewise insisted. and rightly, that the Metropolitan cannot be turned into a training school. The worlds richest opera audiences have right to demand finished performances from artists in the prime of their art. Nevertheless, Mir. Gatti-Casazza Is always eager to hear and judge new voices. The scouts of the Metro politan, official and unofficial. go everywhere, hear quite everything, here and abroad. There are constan, streams of additions going on in the darkened house. Anyone with any respectable sort of proof of vocal training and experience has right to be heard. the management feels.
 The tale is no different out in
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Enster Egg Hunt

! EHEttr EEE Ifuut
 Forty children of the Robertstown Presbyterian Mission on Twenty fourth street enjoyed a delightful Easter Egg hunt Saturday afternoon at the mission.
 Games and searching for eggs furnished the amusement with sim pie exercises of readings by Evelyn Winburn and Francis Pitts. Ice crean. and cake were served. Miss Mamie Joe Reid and Mrs. Winburn were in charge of the festivities.