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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-12-20
BASKET BALL IS
NEXT ATHLETIC
SPORT ON BOARDS
Game OF Season December ~
With Wendell.

The high school basket ball season
viii be opened here ThursAay night
OF next week with q game between
thu Wildcats and the quintet from
Wendell. The initial contest Is
scheduled 20 commence promptly at
1880 o'clock. according 70 Coach
Denman whose forces have been busy
this week with a series OF interclass
games
The class tournament Is bringing
out several new and strong candl-
dates for both the boys and girls
first teams. On Monday the fresh
man girls won from the sophomeFes
By a score OF N 10 3. Anna Griggs
and Hazel williamson forwards were
the stars OF the game.
The faculty vs.. Eighth grade game
was a surprise and a walk-away. for
the stiff-iointed pedagogues won as
10 10.
The tournament continues all
week ending Friday night AZ 1880
O'Clock with the final contests.
The schedules for the two teams In
the south central district league this
winter are a. follows.
Boys 1924 Basket Rail Schedule
Dec. a. Wendell at Filler
Jan. A. Holllater az Filler
Jan. II. Twin Falls az Twin Falls
Jan Is. Hollister az HOLSTER.
tTentatiyeD
Jan 25 Bnhl az Filler.
Feb. ! Burnley at Filler.
Feb g. Kimberly at Kimberly.
Feb. s. Bull az Bull
Feb. 1 g. Kimberly nt Filler
Feb %. Twin Falls az Filler.
Feb 20 sub-District Tournament
Mar T. District Tournament.
Girls 1924 Basket Ball Schedule
Jan. 4. HOLSTER az Filler (Ten- /
tafiveD
Jan. H. Twin Falls At Twin Falls
Jan. IS. fOpenl
Jan. %. Buhl az Filler
Feb. lOpenl
Feb. g. Kimberly at Kimberly
Feb. 8. Bull a. Bull.
Feb. To- Kimberly az Filler.
Feb. %. Twin Falls az Filler.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-12-20
THE LIVE DOLL

ELVES-Jack stephens. Eddie Mus
grave, Wayne Hunter, Gerald
Peck. Billy Young. Willard Stat
ter, Lester Abel, Billy Bunce, Rob
orr Dear Cnrl AIillar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
FaUorite Recipes
 of Famous Men
HOLWORTHY HALL CHarOId b. Porter, AuthOr) CAROLINA CASSEROLE

First, fry a chicken-somebody else can tell you how to do that, if necessary. for all I know about it is that it must be fried. It appears, however, properly dissected, on platter with large mound of boiled wild rice. buttered, in the middle. On the roof of the mound of rice is a flock of white cherries, which am informed are canned.
 With this dish there are always sweet potatoes as follows: You take some sweet potatoes, in their raw and innocent state, and slice some of them in a casserole. Treat this layer with brown sugar, salt and bit of butter On top of that, layer of apples sliced thin, with a sprinkling of brown sugar, butter and einna- mon. Then another layer of potatoes, another of apples, and so on until the casserole is full. Then bake until everything is soft b1t not squshy. Before serving cut a lot of marsh- mallows in the middle-put them on top of evrything else, enough to cover the whole top-put the casserole back in the oven until the marshmallows are brown and puffy. Serve this dish in the originl package. You can't get the contents out of the casserole neatly.
 It is understood and agreed that I accept no responsibility for any poisoning or indigestion which may arise from the use of these prescrip tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

room and made to stand out as an entity by itself with all the sur roundings that it needs. to bring out it's own charm.
 The trouble with most amateur picture hangers is that they just hang the picture. Given a wall and some pictures. they spread around thee latter with no concern for any thing else in the near vicinity. It is this careless procedure that kills the picture idea, for anyone with ar tistic perceptions seeing pictures scattered thus heartlessly about can only suffer the reaction of wishing that all pictures. without any ex- captions, be banished from the world altogether.
 Treat your picturas more kindly. Study out the probyAm of finding where they are goilsg to show to their very best adva5 age. See that the light is good. tkt the framing harmonizes with the colorings and character of the rest af your room, place them where they will make a composition with the furniture and the wall covering and any wall or naments that may surround them Try hanging them to the moulding with decorative cords-perhaps si- yer or gold cords if your decorations will stand that touch, or you can make the cords any color that Is evident in your draperies and fix ings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
 INFAMOUS NI N MEN
THE MOTHER OF MARK TWAIN

THE MOTHER OF MARK TWAIN
 The merest glance at the early life of Mark Twain suffices to show from which side of his family the greatest of all American humorists inherited the qualities that made him what he was. His mother, Jane Hampton, was woman, who through all the vicissitudes of a hard life, in any condition, under all cir cumstances, maintained sense of humor as keen as knife and as strong as Gibraltar.
 Between Samuel Langhorne Glenn ems, which was the humorist's real name and his mother, existed the strongest tie that can exist between two people-that of similarity in dis position. Mrs. Clemens, it is defi- nitely known, was the original of Aunt Sally" in the famous Tom Sawyer" She was. according to one who knew her well, 'an outspoken keen witted charitable woman with a heart full of pity"
 Particularly, it is said. she loved dumb animals, refusing even to kill fly, and punishing the cats for catching mice. She could, however heartedness, be firm with her chii- in spite of her exaggerated tender dren when necessary.
 She understood her son Sam com pletely. and was never fooled by his tendency to elaborate and embroider his accounts of the days happenings Once a neighbor, shocked at the ob- vious prevarication in one of Sams tales, said to his mother:
 T hope you don't believe all that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
ONE R1cK ADAY
THE MAGIC ENVELOPES

Take two square pieces of paper of the same size and fold them both alike, so that they will hold small coin securely. One side of each should be left open much like the flap of an envelope.
 Now paste the backs of the two squares together and the apparatus is ready.
 Secretly place coin say a half dollar in one side. Now borrow quarter from the audience and place it into the empty envelope.
 The performer, muttering few magic words. states that he will in- crease the quarter into a half dollar He swings the paper in the air, and, while doing this. turns it so that the side which contains the half dollar is uppermost. This he then displays with a great flourish. This move ment, reversed, will restore the quarter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
Your Home and You
THE SCISSORS RACK.
By HELEN KENDALL

Where are those big library shears, does anybody know? I had them in the den last night2"
 Father spoke. Nobody knew Mother offered her long sewing scissors, Bobby brought his little blunt ones. and Peg said he could have her little embroidery "stork' scissors if she could find them.
 In nearly every family there is a contsant hunt for the scissors. There should be-and theoretically there are-enough scissors in the house so that each pair could stay where it belonged; but someway nothing travels around house so busily as a good sharp pair of scissors. no matter how many pairs there are Somewhere"
 The solution for this problem lies, 1 believe, in a sort of central scs- sors-rack," handily located, and large enough to accommodate every size of shears and scissors, except perhaps the little personal manicure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
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DREAMS OF MERMAIDS AND
 STRANGE CREATURES

Now and then come strange visions into your sleep, visions of mer- maids.
 ". =. who bind their hair
 With seaweed set with pearls :" and of other unearthly creatures, and we are puzzled and perplexed, for they remind us of nothing that may in any way be connected with our everyday lives. Such dreams can mean only one thing: Unexpected events are certain to happen. So manifold are these shapes that it is impossible for us to tell you of All the forms that stare and glare, Some so fierce and some so fair Some with snakes where men have
 hair,
 Some in the water, some in the air.
 Women who dream of such will find their deepest emotions sudden ly aroused. their old habits changed, their former ties broken and their hearts set adrift in sea of wild doubts and desires If they are with a man while the dream adventure oc- CUTS, with man will occure the ad- venture in their lives. To married women, such visions spell greater danger than to maids, and to widows they signify another marriage and usually one which is not likely to turn out happily. By observing the hour at which your dream occurs whether it seemed day, or night, early morn or eve. you can easily determine when the great event will enter your life. For instance: if everything seems dark as the strange shape appears to you, you will know that during the night hours of some day not far distant you will begin the new and startling period in your existence. If the strange visitor seems to pursue you and you appear to flee from him, you will soon re- gret ever having engaged in the ad- venture; but if you seem indifferent to it's presence, merely amazed, or interested, then the ending of it all will be happy. If the creature touches you, then the event will oc- cur within the month. and the less distinctly you see it, the further off is the time of the happening. If you see water while the dream progresses trip will inevitably be connected with the development.
 Men who have such dreams will sustain foolish losses = through gambling, through silly love af- fair, through law suit brought about by recklessness or unfair deal ing on their part.
 It is written that dreams of this sort mean great happiness in only one instance: if they come to women who are about to become mothers or to young brides. Very old people who perceive strange creatures in their dreams, especially mermaids or other uncanny water dwellers, will be forced to assume burdens of which they thought themselves free for the rest of their lives.
 O O O
 Answers to Dream Questions.
 Mary R.-To see big clock means that, in a little while something will come into your life that will make you wait impatiently for an impor- tant development and you will have to be patient many weary days be- fore the event occurs. If, however you hear the clock strike, the eX- pected will occur with almost un- believable speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

scissors that are for individual use
 In the home where saw this idea worned out, the scissors-rack was a square board covered with dark blue felt into which were screwed some brass screw hooks. Here hung the long, narrow shears beloved of father for clipping things from the paper, and Indispensable to mother when it came to cutting out gar ments Here, too, were the medium scissors of two sizes, for the dozen- and-one cutting tasks around the house, a pair of small scissors that the children were allowed to use, and a pair of very small. exceedingly sharp ones for an occasional bit of household surgery.
 This, however, was a comon family rack. Each person had scissors sacred to his or her own room, and the kitchen boasted several pairs for cutting lettuce and similar op- eraticns. Mother kept her beauti- full garden shears in hidden spot. and had one pair tied to the frame work of her sewing machine. The scissors on the rack on the wall of the little telephone room, how ever, were common property. and the user was under bond to put them back after using.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
FACTORY METHODS IN THE HO u S E H OL D
By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK Household Expert, Author "II0use-
 hold Engineering." etc.

"A schedule, Not for me. l don't want my house to be factory. l want it To be a home"-this from Mrs Brown when you suggest that one of the points most stressed in the modern industrial plant is the use of the "schedule9 in work.
 And that's it-most women can't bear the thought of making plans ahead, of doing the same thing at the same time each day} and yet, of course. it is just these women who become "flustered," tired out" never finish work and who con stantly complain of the injustice and never endingness of housework, while they point eagerly to work in factory or office run on an eight-hour day.
 Any schedule is only plan based on some approximate time duration. Seen at it's best in railway manage ment, the schedule idea is just as applicable to homework as to any other field where one task must be done after another. The schedule in homework will depend on the size of the house. the number in the family, the amount of help, the hours of meals, and many other factors. There is not one ideal" schedule, but every housewife and worker can easily make one to fit her family, her con ditions
 A simple, popular slogan for the housewife might be: "Plan your work, then work your plan" for that is all any schedule can do. But these must be some plan, Without a plan, schedule of work, the house. wife sails aimlessly on her house keeping sea, now deflected from her course by this Interruption now completely swamped by that other unexpected work-the 'schedule is to Ter what the compass is to a mari neri
 And it's really easy to make one up-just try it. First set down on paper all the usual work of every day; next on a separate sheet list the special tasks of the week, such as gathering laundry, weekly marketing, special silver or other cleaning. Now try and dovetail the daily and special work, using a different page for each day, Monday" Tuesday, etc.
 Then try to follow them out as you have planned them. If it has been a good plan on paper it should work out in practice, but you will probably have to change some details.
 The best schedule will cover these points:
 Semi weekly marketing.
 Hours of meals and how long they take to prepare.
 Special cleaning, daily brushing child says" Smiling, Mrs. Clemens replied:
 "Oh mo- I discount 90 per cent of it. The rest is pure gold"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
Try Remarks on Your Piano; Pass Them Along # Likable

of making a hit with MT. A if you remind him of that very interesting subject he was talking of the last time you met. Mrs. A won't exactly hate you if you tell her you envy her that artistic house of hers, and little Miss A will think you're the sweetest thing if you remember the blue dress and the pink rose buds she wore to a certain ball. Even John A will grant that you have got lot of sense for a woman if you can recall that he is the cap tain of his branch of Boy Scouts.
 You know how you like to have lit tie gracious things said to you. It pleases you, if you have been sick when any one asks about your ill- ness. It comforts you. if you have sorrow, to have a word of sympa- thy from your friends. It adds to your joy and your success to have a shower of congratulations from your ! acquaintances.
 We are all built alike. daughter. Human vanity is the touch of na- ture that makes the whole world kin, and you needn't be afraid that you will go amiss if you inquire into the symptoms of any near-in- valid, or tell any one who sorrows that his, or her grief, Is your grief, or throw a few bouquets at anybody who has just had some good luck befall them.
 You know how intelligent you think people are who listen to you, as to the words of an oracle. You know what judgment you think they have if they agree with you in your opinions. You know what artistic taste you consider they have if they compliment your new dress, and ask you where you got your hat, and what interior decorator did your rooms. You know what sense of humor you consider they possess if they laugh at your jokes. Every mothers son and daughter of us all fall for the same bunk We admire the people who admire us. We think none so discerning and with such rare judgment as those who appreciate us. None are so en- tertaining as those who sing our praises, and to find the thing that pleases and flatters 99 people out of 100 you have only to say the thing that would please and flatter you Furthermore, to avoid saying the things you should not say, consider
 
 over when people say them to you ] The tactless remark that calls at tention to some defect that you fond | ly believed you had camouflaged. The brutal joke about your age, or your poverty, or your false teeth, or your joke, or something else that turns you into a figure of fun. The cruel candor that lays all your lit tie subterfuges bare. The witty sarcasm that stabs like knife. The rude speech that is like a bludgeon 1 blow.
 Avoid these lest you be hated, even as you hate those whose jawbone is like the jawbone of the ass that slew thousands.
 The recipe for being an entertain ing talker is very simple. You have only to say to others what you would like them to say to you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
By DOROTHY DIX

A young girl complains that she is dummy in society. She says she never knows what to say to people, and she wants to know if there is any school of conversation wherein she can be taught the fine art of small talk.
 Shoo, daughter, there isn't any difficulty in knowing what to say to people. Just think of what you would like to have people say to you. and hand it right out, smoking hot on the platter to them. This Is an infalliable rule that always works, and if you will follow it you will soon get the reputation of be- ing a spellbinder.
 If you will reflect, you will rec ognize that the individuals who bore you to tears are those who mono logue along by the hour about them selves. their achievements, their au- tomobiles, their houses, their chill dren and their other possessions. You remember how often you have felt that human endurance could stand no more, and that you would be obliged to scream aloud in your agony if you had to hear another detail of Mrs. As major operations. or what kind of line MT. B used for fishing for tarpon, or what Mrs. C's sisters cousins aunt's maid did or the bright thing little Johnny said, or the cute thing little Sally pulled.
 Therefore as nobody is so tedious and tiresome to you as those who talk about their own personal af- fairs, do you refrain from making yourself the subject of your own dis course. No other human being on earth. except your own mother, is in- terested in your personal experiences, therefore clamp the soft pedal down good and tight on your egotism if you want to be persona grata in so ciety.
 On the other hand if you desire to be considered brilliant conversa- tionalist all that you have to do is to acquire the knack of starting peo- pie off to talking about themselves. There isn't a man in the world who wouldn't rather repeat to you comic supplement joke himself than listen to Irwin Cobb's best story. There dsn't a man who doesn't get more thrills out of relating how he got R puncture on a bad road on a dark night than he would in hearing the tale of a world adventurer.
 There isn't a woman who wouldn't rather tell about what she said to her husband, and what he said to her. than to listen to the most elo- quent speech ever made. There isn't a mother who doesn't think that the most important piece of news of the day is her son making the football team or her daughter getting en- gagged.
 So if you want to be considered witty and wise, and fascinating talker, all you have to do is to touch the button that starts people dis coursing about themselves. They will do the rest.
 You know how it pleases you for somebody to remember your little personal pecularities. It makes you feel as if you had Individuality, some quality that lifted you above the mob. Other people feel exactly the A~me way about it.
 ThcNs> ire, you can be very sure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

tifully carried out in the decoration of home, as well as in the contests and ice course.
 Among those present at this lovely party were Mrs. R. c. Adcock, Mrs. J. T. Beasley, Mrs. J. W. Brown, Mrs. W. R, Brown, Mrs. H. c. Bryant, Mrs. A. c. Bruce, Mrs. s. NJ Carroll, Mrs. A. l.. Conwell, Mrs. w A. Castleberry, Mrs. Tom Collins, Mrs. Ira DeMent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
Maxinns of Modern Maid
By MARGUERITE MoOERs
 MARSHALL

The original sensitive plants are any woman's man friends. If she utters even the most impersonal criticism of masculine stupidity or fatuousness, they turn large, hurt eyes on her and ask, in grieving ac- cents. to which of them she is re- ferring
 If there's one thing which make the tired business girl realize anew the joys of self-supporting independ- ence, it's the dependent, supported damsels who are simply gloating at her these days from the Palm Beach pictures.
 The trouble is that when a man spends lot of money on his wife she can never be quite sure whether he is proving his love or whether he is proving a cGnscience-stricken alibi for it.
 Now that bobbed hair is no longer the fashion, we are told that employ CTS have decided to tolerate it. The mind of man does move, even as the well known snail.
 Before girl offers sarcastic com ment on the women of fcrty five who are trying to look a young thirty-two, she might as well realize that when she gets to be forty five she probably will be engaged in the same hopeless struggle. The more a childless woman sees of the whole -hearted admiration with which parents regard the annoyingly obstreperous acts cf their offspring the better she likes her dog.
 
 There exists a limit to the assur- ance of even the most conceited woman. She can never be quite cer- tain for more than five minutes at a time that her hat is on straight.
 When they're trying to call on his aunt in Brooklyn and roam around for. two hours because the young hus- band doesn't know the way and his wife can't persuade him to admit ig- norance and ask cop, that's when tho honeymoon ends.
 What no American man can under stand is that the sentiment on the valentine he sends her might bright en every other day before and after February IA if he'd ever give senti- ment 8 chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
HOME DECORATION

You hear all sorts of aspersions cast at pictures. They are said to be taboo by some decorators. But, as a matter of fact, picture IS love- ly thing when it is rightly hung, given it's proper place In relation to the rest of the decoration In the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21
Dry Wash, 7c Lb.

It IS the reliable, clean and cheap way to handle the family washing. Send all the clothes down.
 -Evervthing is washed sanitarily clean and r r-tuTned dry. unstarched and soft, so you can wear the things without any ironing. All the flatwork is finished ironed pretty and smooth, ready for use.
 Call your lucky number and Dry Wash" everything this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

Jr.. Mrs. J. B. Fuqua. Mrs. G. H. Freeman, Mrs. A. Furrer, Mrs. C. NJ. French. Mrs. A. B Gresham. Mrs. J. L. Gaudin, Mrs. Olin Horton, Mrs. Roy Jones, Mrs. R. M. Crumb, Mrs. H. F. Garfield, Mrs. F. J. McCauley, Mrs. c. A. Littler, Mrs. L. A. Vest
 brook, Mrs E. c. Lackey, Mrs. L. $. McGnnis, Mrs. H. c. McGinnis, Mrs. A. C. Montgomery, Mrs. W. M. Nor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

gan. Mrs Wilson Mullinax, Mrs. D. R. Morrison. Mrs. T. D. Moss, Mrs. F. E. Pennington, Mrs. w, E. Richardson, Mrs, L. J, Scarboro, Mrs. Fulton Sielbinder, Mrs. Walter Thomas, Mrs. J. .. Woodward. Mrs. J. S Wheeler, Mrs. o. A. Wiltsie, Mrs. J. K. Will lamson, Mrs. W. F. Wyre.
 Mrs. A c. Montgomery is president of the class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-21

On Wednesday afternoon the Young Matrons class of the Walker Mem- orial Sunday school were delightfully."- entertained at a Valentine party re- gently at the home of Mrs. W. E. Richardson, Arlington Place. with Mrs. H. c. McGinnis, Mrs. J. c. Wood ward and Mrs. Wilson Mullinax as joint hostesses.
 Valentine suggestions were beau-