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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24

What a pretty thing Birmingham will have this yearl
 All over the streets of Birmingham. singers whose hearts are warm with the love of humanity, will go from door to door, singing in the name of charity.
 They call themselves the Christmas Carolers of Birmingham. and the funds that they collect will so for the support of the Mercy Home, that oozy spot of Birmingham, where more than hundred orphans are be- ing reared to young manhood and young womanhood with the love of Mother Ramsay and other kind wom- en to make them happy.
 Boy Scouts to Help
 The Boy Scouts will assist these Christmas oarolers, and before the latter sing at windows where lights and candles are burning, the Scouts will give their regular assembly call This will inform the householders that the Carolers are about to sing.
 There are 30 groups of such sing CTS which will participate. all of which are competing to gather the largest collections from generous, warm-hearted Birminghammers who love little forlorn children.
 The custom of singing by Carolers is widespread all over the United States, sometimes as much as $5,000 having been collected in one evening.
 Miss Sara Mallam is the beautiful instigator of this movement in Bir- mingham. which has been put on two Christmases previous 10 this season.
 Those to Sing
 Of course you want to know who will participate in this unselfish task and who, in this manner. will also become merry entertainers for you this holiday season.
 Here you are, naming chairmen and singers, and the beats they will take. Your street Is probably in the list.
 W. H. Maxim is chairman of sing CTS to start on Norwood boulevard. both sides, from Thirtieth street to Thirty-six street, o'clock. Singers: Mrs. ". D. Saunders. Mrs. Harris Saunders, Mrs. T. S. Page. Miss Mary Kinney. Miss Elise Kinney, Miss Mabel Fahey Steele Black.
 Mrs. T. A. Duncan, chairman of singers to start at 5:30 o'clock from Avenue l and Twentieth street to Mountain, on west side of street, thence back on east side to Five Points. From Five Points up Eleventh and Rose to Eula street. Down Eula street to MaBnOllAt thence on twenty first street to Quinlan, on back to Twentieth street on Quinlan. Singers Mrs. F. l.. Morris, Mrs. G. F. Smith. Mrs. Tlngley, Mrs. McGlathery, Miss Elizabeth Saunders, Miss Mary Huck- ster, Miss Elizabeth Collins, Miss Vir- ginia Collins, Miss Evelyn Collins, Miss Dorothy Frank. Miss Ruth Tingley, Miss Katherine Bratton, Miss Jane Bratton and Miss Mabel Harper.
 Kenneth Smith, chairman. of sing CTS, Fountain Heights, to start at 6;30 o'clock. Ray Schultz, vice chair man. Singers: Mrs. Cliff King, Mrs. Winston Davis, Miss Stella May Orr. Miss Gertrude Frickhoeffer, Miss Hilda Dixon, Miss Gertrude Dixon. Miss Margaret Lee. Miss Jeanette Templeton, Miss Aleen Broom, Miss Frances Paris, Miss Dorothy Shultz R. H. Mcintosh, Ralph B. Carkuff, Walter McNeil John Porter. This same group will also cover Norwood from Twenty ninth street to Thirty
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nightly Shakespeare and the Pierian clubs, held at the Southern club.
 The next meeting will be Jan- uary 8.
 Among the interesting features the organization considers are such things as How to keep food bills dow nand health conditions up;" Value of milk as diet;" Diet to munity as a whole:
 The chemistry of food is taken up, the kitchen being laboratory.
 It has not been possible to get a complete list of members, but the following constitute the majority of women carrying on such splendid household educational studies which cannot help be of benefit to the com munity as a whole.
 Mrs. w. E. Bohannon, Mrs. P. F. Burns, Mrs. J. c. Stivender. Mrs. T.. M. Cottrell Mrs. J. c. Dawson, Mrs. T. R. Eagles, Mrs. W. N. Griffin, Mrs. ]. R. Hendricks, Mrs. S. A. Ives, Mrs. L. A. Keene, Mrs. W. c. Mitcham, Mrs. W. F. Motion, Mrs. W. E. Pres- colt, Mrs. S. J. Pulliam, Mrs. M. E. Moore, Mrs. Scudder Ryall, Mrs. c. P. Underwood, Mrs. w. J. Waldrop, Mrs. Olive DeLaunay, Mrs. E. N. Wheeler, Mrs. George Williams and Mrs. J. D. Heacock.
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Perry. Miss Sidney Brewer, Mrs. Jesse Flynn. Mrs. Fred Wildsmith, MT. Zach c. West, MT, G. W. Bridges, and others.
 Starting at 7.so p. m. from 7s1e First avenue. Woodlawn. on First avenue from Seventh third to Sixty ninth streets, and intersection streets. two blocks north and south of First avenue. Mrs Ed Hardin, chairman. Singers: Miss Nell Hodges, Miss Wilma Hodges, Miss Mary Elizabeth Crull, Miss Frances Weaver, Mrs. r. L. Taylor. Mir. Ed Hardin. Paul E. Taylor, cornetist.
 East Lake, from Methodist church. working west to Seventh-seventh street. Edmonds Newman, director. Sunday school choir of East Lake Methodist church will be singers.
 The Independent Presbyterian church choir, under O. Gordon Brick son, will go to both jails after their service at the Lyric and thence to the Tutwiler, Motion. Empire and Hilman hotels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
JOSEPHINE CCNNORS

Solon Jacobs, and attends Smith col lege at Northampton, Mass; Fran cis Crockard is the son of Mir. and Mrs. Frank Crockard, and is at Yale university. He will be delightful host at small Christmas dinner at the Country club. Alfred M. Shook, son of MT. and Mrs. J. Warner Shook, attends school in Washington. James W. Mcqueen, Jr., is in college at the University of Alabama. Billie Jemi- son and Robert Jemison III. are both at Hill college, at Pottstown, Pa. They are the splendid sons of MT. and Mrs. Robert Jemison, Jr.; Miss Jose ephine Connors is studying at Ogontz college, Rydal, Pa.-Photos of Jemi- son boys and of Miss Connors by J. F. Knox; photo of James Mcqueen by the Stephenson Studio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
BUFFET LUNCHEON FOR SELMA VISITOR

A lovely buffet luncheon party of the week will be that given by Miss
 Virginia Alexander for Miss Mary Minge Graham of Selma, who is her guest for the holidays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-24
MRS. ERsWELL's CHRISTMAS
 PARTY FOR GRANDDAUGHTER

Mrs. Catherine Ersweil will give a lovely Christmas party for her little granddaughter, Catherine Erswell Humphrey, on Friday, December 2s.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-07-21

fight, stood still and waited in white
toward her.
A COW pony, wheeled as on a dol
lar, jumped to an instant gallOp. The
man riding it was the one who had
warned her back to the car. Horse and
ladino pounded over the ground toward
her. Each stride brought them closer
to each other as they converged toward
the sand spit. 1t came to her with a
gust of panicky despair that they
would collide on the very spot where
she stood. Yet she did not run.
The rider, lifting his bronco forward
at full speed, won by a fraction of a
second. He guided in such way as
to bring his horse between her and the
steer. Without slackening his pace
in the least as he swept past, the man
stopped low, caught the girl beneath
the armpits, and swung her in front
of him to the back of the horse. The
steer pounded past so close behind
that one of its horns grazed the tail Of
the COW pony. -
1t was a superb piece of horseman-
ship, perfectly timed, as perfectly exc
cuted.
The girl lay GREATNESS in the arms
of the man, her heart beating against
his, her face buried in his shoulder.
She was dazed, half fainting from the
reaction of her fear. The next she
remembered clearly was being lowered
into the arms of her father.
He held her tight, his face tortured
with emotion. She was the very light
of his soul, and she had shaved death
by a hairs breadth. A miracle had
saved her, but he would never forget
the terror that had gripped him.
The girl Struggled closer to him, her
arms round his neck.
A young man descended from the
car, handsome, trim, and well got up.
He had been tailored by the best mans
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Trees Grandeur and Beauty Seem to
Have Impressed Each Ancient
Race In Turn.

The ancient races, struck with the
noble aspect of the oak, have in all
ages enveloped 1t in the clouds of their
legends and carried 1t back to the re-
hottest antiquity. OF this class was
the holm oak, which In the days of
Pliny still existed near Rome, on the
trunk of which was an Etruscan In
scription in letters of brass stating
that before the existence of the Eternal
city 1t was already the object of popu-
lar yeneration. The Roman naturalist
also asserts that In the enyirons Of
Heracles, in the kingdom of Pontus,
there was a tradition that two oaks
which overshadowed the altar of Jupi-
ter Stragius had been planted by Her
cules. The origin of certain trees Is
lost In even remote antiquity.
The imposing terror of the Her
cynian forest has deeply impressed all
those who have described Germany,
and Pliny and Tacitus especially. The
aged oaks of fits somber wales. where
wandered the elk and the aurochs, es-
pecially aroused the admiration of the
Roman historian. "The majestic gran
deur Of the oak in this forest" he says.
"surpasses all Imaginable belief; this
tree has never been touched with the
ak; 1t Is contemporary with the crea-
ton of the world and appears to be the
symbol Of Immortality
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CHAPTER !
A Street Twelve Miles Iona.

A Street Twelve Miles Long.
81 like yore outfit" Red Hollister
grumbled. you're nice boys, and good
to yore mothers-what few of you ain'l
wore their gray hairs to the grave
with yore frolicsome ways. You know
yore business and you got a good
cook. But I'm darned if I like this
thing Of two meals day, one at a
quarte~ to twelve at night and the
other quarter past twelve, also and
likewise at night"
Reds grumbling was a pretense. He
would not have been anywhere else for
twice the pay. This was what he lived
for.
Johnnie Green, commonly known as
"the Runt," helped himself to another
flank steak. He was not much of a
cow-hand, but when it came to eating
Johnnie was always conscientiously on
the job.
"These here New Workers must be
awful hardy" he ventured, apropos of
nothing. Seems like they're night
birds for fair. Never do go to led, far
as can make out. They tramp the
streets all day and dance at them cab
by-rets all night. My feet would be
all wore out"
STAGE Wallis grfnned. $50 would my
pocketbook. I've heard tell how fell
low can pay as high as four or five
dollars for an eat at them places"
Clay Lindsay laughed. "You boys
know lot about New York, just about
as much as / do. I've read that a
guy can drop hundred dollars night
in a cabaret If he has friend or two
along, and never make a ripple on
Broadway"
well, / read there's a street there
twelve miles long. If fellow started
at one end of that street with thirst
he'd sure be salivated before he
reached the other end Of It," STAGE
said with grin.
wonder If fellow could get job
there. They wouldn't be no use for a
puncher, reckon" Slim drawled.
"Betcha Clay could get a job
all right" answered Johnnie Green
promptly. "He'd be top hand any,
where, Clay would"
Johnnie was the lost dog Of the
B-in-a-Box ranch. 1t was his nature to
follow somebody and lick hi. hand
whenever it was permitted. The some
body he followed was Clay Lindsay.
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Johnnie was his slave, the echo Of his
opinions, the booster of his merits.
he asked no greater happiness than to
trail in the wake of his friend and get
kind word occasionally.
The Runt had chosen as his Admir-
able Crichton most engaging youth.
1t never had been hard for any girl
to look at Clay Lindsay. His sun
tanned good looks, the warmth of his
gay smile, the poise and the easy stride
of him, made Lindsay marked man
even in a country where men of splen-
did physique were no exception.
His eyes now were watching the leap
of the fire glow. The talk of New York
had carried him back to night on the
roundup three years before. He was
thinking about slim girl standing on
sand spit with wild steer rushing
toward her, of her warm, slender body
lying in his arms for five immortal
seconds, of her dark, shy eyes shining
out of the dusk at him like live Goals.
He remembered-and it hurt him to
recall it-how his wounded pride had
dashed out in resentment of the patron
age of these New Ycrkers. The young
er man had insulted him, but he knew
in his heart now that the girls father
had meant nothin:;; of the kind. OF
course the girl had forgotten him long
since.
Question is, could you land job
in New York If you wanted one," ex-
planned STAGE to the dreamer.
"If it's neck meat or nothin' a fell
low can most always get somethin' to
do" said Lindsay In the gentle voice
he used. The vague impulses of many
days crystalized suddenly into a reso-
luton. anyhow I'm goin' to try. Soon
as the rodeo is over I'm goin' to hit
the trail for the big town."
''Tucson?" interpreted Johnnie dubi-
ously.
New York"
The bow-legged little puncher looked
at his friend and gasped.
Clay flashed on him the warm smile
that endeared him to all his friends.
I'm goin' to ride down Broadway and
shoot up the town, Johnnie. Want to
come alongT
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name was Kitty Mason, that she was
an orphan, and that she was on her
way to New York to study at a school
for moving picture actresses.
Il sent my photograph and the man.
ager wrote back tat my face was one
hundred per cent perfect for the
movies" the girl explained. 1t was
clear that she was expecting to be
manufactured into a film star in
week or two.
After they had finished eating, the
range-rider turned in at the smoking
compartment and enjoyed a cigar. HI
fell into casual talk with an army Off
Ger who had served in the Southwest,
and it was three hours later when he
returned to his own seat in the car.
A hard-faced man in suit of checks
more than shade too loud was sit
ting in the section beside the girl from
Brush. He was making talk in an as
sured, familiar way, and the girl was
listening to him shyly ana yet eagerly.
The man was variation of type
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green pulp that had recently been a
treasury note.
The father stammered his thanks to
the rescuer of the girl. 81 Cont know
what can ever do to let you know
| /. L. l don't know how can ever
pay you for saving ;"
Forget it," snapped the brown man
CURLY. He was an even-tempered
youth, as genial and friendly as half
grown pup, but just now the word
pay" irritated him as red rae does
sulky bull.
IF there's anything at all can do
for you"
mot thing"
The NeS Yorker felt that he was
not expressing himself at all happily
What he wanted was to show this
young fellow that he had put him un-
der lifelong obligation he could new
er hope to wipe out.
IF you ever come to. New York"
Pm not liable to go there. / don't
belong there any more than you do
here. Better drift back to Tucson,
the trail for town prontO before you
bump into more trouble"
The rider swung round his pony and
cantered back to the beef herd.
He left behind him much-annoyed
clubman, a perplexed and distressed
father, and a girl both hurt and in
dignant at his brusque rejection of her
fathers friendly advances. The episode
of the fifty-dollar bill had taken place
entirely under cover. The man who
had given the note and the one who
had refused to accept it were the only
ones who knew of it. The girl saw
only that this splendid horseman who
had snatched her from under the very
feet of the ladino had shown a boor-
ish discourtesy. The SAVIOR had gone
out of her adventure. Her heart was
sick with disappointment and indigna-
ton.
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Rules Laid Down by Old Masters.

A Brazilian art scholar asserts he
has discovered how the old masters of
painting and sculpture worked He
has taken the pictures and shown, by
drawing lines and angles on them,
how the artists gave their compost
tons strictly mathematical founda-
lions. Ancient Egyptian artists had
rule of proportions based on the
length of the middle finger, the dis
lance Of which was contained nine
teen times In the length of the whole
body. Greek artists adopted these
proportions until 1t was established
that the face must be a tenth part
and the head an eighth part of the
total height Of the body. The face
was divided into three equal parts
from the roots of the hair to the root
OF the nose; from the root of the nose
to its point, and from the end Of the
nose to the chin.
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CHAPTER II
Clay Appoints Himself chapero

Clay Appoints Himself chaperon.
AS he travelled east Clay began to
slough the outward marks of his call
ing. He gave his spurs to Johnnie be-
fore he left the ranch. At Tucson he
shed his chaps and left them in care
of friend at the Longhorn corral.
The six-gun with which he had shot
rattlesnakes he packed into his suit
case at Ell Paso. His wide-rimmed felt
hat flew off while the head beneath it
was stuck out of a window of the
coach somewhere south of Denver. Be
fore he passed under the Welcome
arch in that city the silk kerchief had
been removed from his brown neck
and retired to the hip pocket which
formerly held his forty-tive.
The young cattleman began to flatter
himself that nobody could now tell
he was wild man from the hills who
had never been curried. He might
have spared himself the Illusion. The
lightness of his stride, the breadth of
the weil-packed shoulders, the frank
ness of the steady eyes, all advertised
him as Son of Arizona.
1t was just before noon at one of the
small plains towns east of Denver that
a girl got on the train and was taken
by the porter to section back of Clay
Lindsay. The man from Arizona no
ticed that she was refreshingly pretty
in an unsophisticated way.
A little later he had a chance to
confirm this judgment, for the dining
car manager seated her opposite him
at table for two. When Clay handed
her the menu card she murmured
THANK you'll" with a rush Of color to
her cheeks and looked helplessly at
the list In her hand. Quite plainly she
was taking her first long journey.
The cow puncher helped her fill the
order card. She put herself entirely In
his hands and was willing to eat what
ever he suggested unbiased by prefer
ences of her own.
She was a round, soft, little person
with constant limitations of a child
hood not long outgrown. During the
course Of lunch she conf1ded that her
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BACK TO NATURE AND THE SIMPLE LIFE


The sappng of the wind against the tent awakened Beatrice
She could hear soughng gently through the branches the ue
oaks. an outfang discovered Clay missing.
Her quesing glance found him busy the mesquite fire
upon whh he cooking breakfast She matched him about
supple and light and strong and her heart lifted with sheer
of the mate she had chosen
And she amazingly radany happy What did motor
sppers Paris gons attcrP They the trappings
that stressed her slavery Here She moued beside her mate wthou
fear doubt world Wondu Eye to ye they spoke the
truth each other after the fashion Of brave simple souls
Glowng from the ice-cod bath of waer from mountain
stream she stepped down the slope into slant sunshine
Clay He looked from the fire ard waued spoon gay at her
For he too ocnd the Which stood ptoe the misty
mountain tops They had hills spend their honey
alone together and life spoke to him accents whoy joyous
Hyya-ai Ride him. Cowboy This is a cowboy with
English In Arizona cattlepuncher who
brings in New And saythe
he has! And the girl he wins!
end the Isn't right to
tell No ALL 1t please the ladies' who
read the end Beside, story; IT'S
action, action, tionl who that doesn't come
out
glimpse principal the hero, the
and the Arizona
New York of humans
is the
cythe simple life
life be safe sober And this pleases
a of
The author? Why other than William Macleod Rane.
of half adozen stirring that
and like.
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outfitter In New York. Nobody on
Broadway could order a dinner better
than he. The latest dances he could do
perfectly. He had the reputation of
knowing exactly the best thing to say
on every occasion. Now he proceeded
to say it.
"Corking bit Of riding-never saw
better. I'll give you my hand on that.
my man."
The cowpuncher found a bunch of
manicured fingers In his rough, brown
paw. He found something else, for
after the pink nand had gone there
remained fifty-dollar bill. He looked
at it helplessly for a moment; then,
beneath the brown outdoor tan, nush
Of anger beat into his face. Without
word he leaned forward and pressed
the note into the mouth of the bronco.
The buckskin knew it's master for a
very good friend. If he gave 1t some
thing to eat-well, there was no harm
In trying 1t once The buckskin
chewed placidly for a few seconds, de-
cided that this was a practical joke,
and elected from its mouth a Shiny
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MANY LEGENDS OF THE OAK

in Itself, is not dangerous; tendency
can be overcome If we are interested
in overcoming it. But many people,
not realizing what is the matter with
their minds, let lazy thinking habits
develop unchecked. The slipshod mind
has always an excuse ready. 1t says,
I'm too tired to work now. What 1
need is thorough rest to fit me for
thinking. Tomorrow shall be able to
do this work easily" Sometimes the
excuse is genuine, but we must be on
our guard to see that the tired feeling
really means overwork. We must be
on the lookout for the idle brain that
complains of being exhausted.
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again. The hard lump left my side and
I feel splendid in all ways. know of
many women it has helped, Mrs. G.
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