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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
Dorothy Die
If You Are Going To Bestow Gift Lend A Hand, For give Fault Or Offer Criticism, Do It Graciousy And So Will You Be Beloved

you what you were going to do with it, or saying a word about youthful folly? And when misfortune came your way, can you ever forget those who helped you, not so much with money as with sympathy and under standing-who did not make you feel that you were down-and- outer in whom they were bestowing aims, but as a brother and sister who had stumbled on the hard road, and to whom they were just reaching out a sustaining hand?
 And it is graciousness that takes the acid out of criticism. There are people who can say anything they please to us. Others whose slightest word of fault-finding we resent. It is all in the way they do 1t.
 There's a deal of difference in hav- ing woman say to you: Say, Sally, am your best friend, and l am telling you this for your own good, but don't you know that people are laughing at you because you make yourself a figure of fun wearing tlapper clothes that are too young four your granddaughter? Why don't you get you some decent middleaged clothes?"
 And having another woman say: My dear, of course you have such personality you can carry off any thing, but you look so beautiful in dark blues, and browns, and blacks, and soft grays made with .ong lines that you ought never to wear any, thing else. After all, age has more distinction than youth if 1t dresses properly"
 But 1t is in the family circle that graciousness has its perfect work. Every husband and wife are bound to clash sometimes in their opinions. One or the other has to give in, and the trouble is that the one who does give in so seldom does it graciously.
 Haven't you seen men at parties to which their wives had dragged them against their wills. who gloomed throughout the whole evening :? Haven't you known wives who for gave their husbands for some wrong he had done. and then nagged him about it the balance of their lives?
 Haven't you known wives who ruined their husbands business by refusing to adapt themselves to the l1ace which they lived, and who never got acquainted or made any friends in d town in which they lived for 20 years?
 They did their duty, but they did not wreathe it about With gracious ness, and SO it. was dust and ashes. For that is what life is without graciousnes. A dead, flavorless thing just dust and ashes in our teeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
l. LIFE $ CLUB EVENTS < FASHIONS

dencies. The American woman doesn't yet quite know herself and doesn't take time to study herself she takes the edict of Paris or the clever saleswoman who makes her buy what she suggests.
 It Is illustrated every day in the shops. I'm sure it has happened to you as it has to me. Let us say you want dark serge travelling suit and you think you know the type that suits you. You ask for it and in few moments the sales woman appears with four or five suits of every color and type but that which you requested. You remonstrate and looking at you with disspproving eye she informs you that these are the chic suits and what everyone is wearing. You may If you have courage and are persis- tent, make her understand that that fact does not interest you and finally succeed in getting what you origin ally asked for or you may weakly take what she offers you. I'm afraid the latter is what too often happens. One reason for this, I think, is that we are all too hurried over here to take the time to argue or even sufficient time to give the impor- tant choice of suit or dress the attention it deserves.
 
 only interested in selling you a cos tune, she is intensely interested in selling you just the costume appro- priate to your uses. Before she will show you anything she insists on knowing for just what purpose or oc- casions you desire it. She may then appear with a number from which you are to choose. but you may be pretty sure they will all be the type of suit or dress you want.
 O O o
 Parisiaa Buyer Has Ideas.
 All the credit for this does not go to the salesw oman, however, for she knows quite well that the Parisian has decided opinions of her own and though she may and does take help full advice she will not walk out of the shop with a green taffeta suit because 1t is the latest and most chic thing" when she has asked for 8 black garbadine.
 The saleswoman in Paris will be brutally frank with you if a dress Is not becoming and will practically re- fuse to sell it to you, for she takes infinite pride in your taking from her store only the things which look well on you and consequently help her and the store.
 Since I believe 1t possible for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
A MAIDS MAXIMS

As long as woman, discovering the beginning of double chin. ex- claims Good heavens!" and as long as a. man never even notices this sin of the flesh until it is pointed out to Eim, and even then n.urmurs, "What of it?" there1l be no such thing as sex equality.
 Why a wife grows old faster than her husband: Because he eXpialns at least once month just how 1ncom- petent she and all other women are in handling the servant problem, and all for a man! fc
 friend is a person. who says: "Now. you must come and lunch with me some time! Just call me un any day! Mind you don't put 1t off too long"
 Tho girl of yesteryear used to lose her heart. The modern girl lets hers ont on a month -to-month lease. sub- feet to cancellation at pleasure Of owner
 The flower of forgiveness grows like weed in some women's hearts, and is rooted up like weed in the hearts of others.
 Every woman wants a man to tell her the truth, but, when there arexso n any truths to tell, she doesn't see yhv he cannot stick to the charming cnes.
 A kiss shvuld always be bonus, never tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01

has stood for so many years as the shopping mecca that 1t is difficult to think of any other city competing with her. But we already have good start, for no one can deny that New ! ork is already running her very close second.
 Being a strong believer in self expr ession even in clothes, I would love to see the American woman de- Nelop distinct and individual dress just as she is individual in looks and personality. This should not be diff ficult as in my opinion she starts with great advantage over the E'renchwoman. That is that she is endowed with much more natural looks than her French cousin.
 l am not alone in this opinion. remember Holleu, the French etcher saying to me the last time he was In America that in no countrys did one see as many pretty women as here. I have also heard 1t said by many men in Paris as they watched Americans walking to their tables in some restaurant or dancing at some cabaret. l must say here, however, that one thing we have to learn from the Frenohwoman is how to walk Into a restaurant.
 ! was struck with 1t myself this year in Paris. With but few excep- tions the really pretty women one saw in the restaurants and shops were Americans. They have better features, generally better figurese, lovelier hands and certainly much prettier feet and ankles-great help i1 these days of fascinating footwear and what certain people of an older generation call immoral hosiery" We also have unquestionably a tal- ent, undeveloped 1t Is true, but unde- niably 8 talent for wearing clothes in which we arc only second to the Parisian. I should like to see us sec- ond to none.
 A little while back I said that we should give tho subject of clothes more thought and yet as I think it over 1t certainly seems we give it 8 great deal. So 4 repeate 1t would dence in our own tastes and ten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
Good Taste In Dress
WOMEN CAN HAVE A
 STYLE OF THEIR OwN--IF-
Series Of ThriceWeeky Articles By Julia Hoyt (Nrs.
 vd;o Hovt1

1e2s in Alliance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01


 Ever since that mad magnificent age of Louis XIV Paris has been the worlds arbiter of women's fashions. With the exception of the women who wear entirely the costume of their country, such as Spanish, Jap anese and Chinese, women of every country have gone to Paris to be told what they should or should not wear. The supremacy of Paris on this subject has never been ques- toned until latter years, when our own beautiful metropolitan stores have begun to press her a little. But though we are pressing her with our attractive shopping districts, what we offer In these shops are still Parisian creations. We still look to her for our ideas, and the informa- tion that a certain dress Is & Paris model or copy of one Is the high est recommendation 1t can have.
 It seems pity that the American woman who has so much individ- uality In other ways should find it necessary to go to Paris for her ideas on dress and the latest touch that makes her costume really chic. Yet I'm afraid we must acknowledge that up to now this is certainly the case.
 thinking this conviction could be changed; 1t may be that the certain little something the modistes and dressmakers of Paris have to offer which is unique, Is something that has been handed down to them from the days of Louis XIV just as others of their manners and customs have and that we will never be able to compete with them in this. Yet I can't help but feel that were we to gain 8 little more confidence in our- selves and give it a little more thought that certainly New York could quite soon become the arbiter of fashion for America, just as Paris is for France.
 O O O
 Paris Has the Tradition.
 We must not forget. however, that tradition is hard to live down. Paris
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
DOMESTIC DAYS

This night Mir. Rangle and Mir Soper and the dashing bachelor, Jack Sir- yer, were due to call and play a friendly game of ten-cent limit po- ker in the Jarr dining room--by the gracious permission of Mrs. Jarr
 Now, don't forget" whispered Mrs. Jarr when the doorbell rang, Start the conversation about Willie wanting radio set for Christmas and little Emma wanting a set of furs. If Jack Silver is not too self tsh, he certainly will say, should love to get the children these things if you'll permit me- Of course we'll murmur we couldn't think of such a thing, and then I know Willie and Emma will whimper and cry, and Jack Silver will insist"
 And forget all about it when Christmas comes," ventured Mir. Jarr.
 "Oh, no, he won't forget it." re- piled Mrs. Jarr. "A week or ten days before Christmas I'll send him a nice Christmas card and I'll write on 1t, and little Willie and little Emma also wish you a Merry Christmas That will remind him.
 By this time the visitor who had rlng the doorbell had arrived. It was not Mir. Silver, however; it was the ever affable MT. Charles Soper.
 How de do, how de do, Mrs. Jarr!' he cried. How well you're looking I must call for you in my car,' he went on, "and take you and the chill dren for a spin some of these days. Now, don't say no. And we'll run down to my little place in the coun- try-I have eight masters rooms spare bedrooms you know-and I'll have a pony and cart for the chlf- dren-don't say noi''
 At that moment MT. Rangle came in and eyed the affable MT. Soper as though he was strange bug-wh1ch TNx rlJfA m a Jack Silver, the opulent bachelor. ar rived. He was most cordial in his greeting to all present-even to MT Soper when the latter presented nls gold cigarette case containing the special cigarette made for him, ac- cording to MT soper, by the the chiet cigarette maker of the Shah of Persia
 Mrs. Jarr was in such a flutter that it was some time before she had Willie voicing his desire for a radio set for Christmas.
 "Oh, don't get him radio setl' cried Mir. Soper in alarm when Jack Silver remarked he would buy one for the boy. Radio sets-the wires on the roof-are deadly lightning conductors in a thunderstorm"
 MT. Silver in alarm withdrew his offer, although there are no thunder storms in winter. Then Mrs. Jarr mentioned that at least the gift the little girl desired was safe-a fur set.
 "Safe," exclaimed MT. Soper, ashast. Safe? No child of mine should wear furs. Furs are full or anthrax and anthrax is death!'
 Having thus cast gloom and dlsap- pointment all around him, MT. Soper remarked But I thought we were going to have a little game Of lo- cent ante You know, never gam ble. But 10-cent ante isn't gambling It's petty larceny!'
 Mrs ,Jarr. looking askance at the blighter,& led the moaning children away, and MT. Jarr conducted hls friends to the dining room, where the card game was to be held.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
FOR SCHOOL CHILD

T always had dreadful time get ting Margy to school mornings until l hit upon plan" said Mrs. B. "She would play with her toys while dress ing and dilIy-dally with her break fast, and I had to keep up an almost late.' Invariably l had to talk severely to her and she usually left for school in no amiable frame of mind. This was bad for us both, so decided to put an end to it."
 This is how she did 1t: One morn ing she refrained from admonishing Margy to hurry. When o'clocK struck the startled child sprang from her chairSia great alarm. The mother Insisted upon her finishing her break fast and then she wrote the re- quisite "excuse." which read: Dear Miss R.: Margie is entirely to blame for her tardiness. Punish her as you see fit."
 When Margy arrived later than usual for lunch and mother Inquired as to the cause, the child faltered, Miss R-- says I must stay five minutes after school at noon and ten minutes every afternoon for a week for sbeing late this morning. The wise mother did not adopt the I-told- you-so attitude. She sympathizingly said. T am very sorry you got your self in this trouble but we will not let it happen again, shall we. dear?' It seemed a harsh punishment for the offense but mild one would not have been so effectual. The child felt her disgrace very keenly as her com parions glanced at her in passing out of the schoolroom and although her detention was only a few minutes after each session it seemed great punishment to her when the entire class filed out at the usual hour of dismissal and She had to remain seated.
 The appreciative mother wrote a note of thanks to the teacher for sac- rificing 15 minutes day for a week in cooperating with her to break the child of a bad habit.
 Tardiness looked like great trans gression to Margy after that and the toilet and breakfast since then have been dispatched promptly One day the child remarked: "Mother doesn't scold me mornings any more and I go to school happy now" which proves how fortunate it was the mother Init upon a plan.' It was a good plan. {, A gift. for the home lis gift for the who.e famiy. You'll find gifts galore for the home under Christ mas Gift Suggestions" in the. Classi-. fled section. &1 t.-~--s-s..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01

Every summer New York city has a few really hot days. Then everyone wants to go to the beach, where i is almost as hot as in town. Few know that only nine miles away is z place where you are absolutely sure of getting cooled off in a jiffy. In fact, the temperature there it 67 de- grees below zero the year round and that ic cool enough fir any reasonable person. All you have to do to reach this delightful spot is to buy ar areoplane and go up about 45,000 feet, or 10000 feet above the present altitude records for planesi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
A PETROLEUM STRING

The first reference to the discovery of petroleum in America is eonta ned in a letter written in 1929 by Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, French his sionary to the Indians. He had crossed the Niagara river and made his way southward through western New York into northern PennsyI- vania, where he found spring from which oil flowed This oil was highly esteemed by the Indians for medicinal uses. The letter of the priest was published in 1632 In Sagards "Histoire de Canada"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
SOCIAL CALENDAR

The Woman's Auxiliary of the Sec ond Presbyterian church will hold it's annual bazaar and parcel post sale Frlday,. December ', from to 8 D. nl., In the basement of the church, Tenth avenue and Twelfth street The public is cordially invited to attend,
 Circle No. 4 of the Southside Bap- list church will have a pend-the day party Wednesday at the residence of Mrs. w H. Nichols, 1125 Sycamore street, with Mrs. Hale Horton, Mrs. G E. Smith and Mrs. T. A. Ander- son as hostesses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
CUT THIS OUT-IT IS WORTH
 MONEY

Send this ad and ten cents to Fo- ley & Co.,, 2SS5 Sheffield Ave, Chica go. H., writing your name and ad- dress clearly. You will receive ten cent bottle of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND for coughs, colds and hoarseness, also free sample pack ages of FOLEYfS PILLS a diiretlc stimulant for the kidneys and F0- LEY CATHART1C TABLETS for Constipation and -Biliousness. Fhese wonderful remedies have helped mil liens of people. Try them! Sold verywhere.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
FROM THE WISE
Virtue, how frail it is

virtue, HOW lfdtl IL lS-
 Friendship, how rare.-Shelley.
 If our life is clouded and the clouds have a silver lining, let us wear our clouds wrong side out, or bright side out.-Babcock.
 God sends every bird it's food, but He does not throw it into the nest Sturgeon.
 Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or regis tering wrongs-Charlotte Bronte.
 Mental prayer, when our spirits wander, Is like watch standing still because the spring is down Jeremy Taylor.
 The sickness of the body some times improves the health of the soul.-T. Berza.
 Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and powers.-Goethe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01

E A gift. for the home lis a gift for
 the who,e famify. You'll find gifts
 galore for the home under Christ
 mas Gift Suggestions" in the. Classi-. fled section. 4s-..-s--s- .s,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01

American woman to develop her own style and chic without going to Paris for them. I am going to give a few of my theories on how to go about it.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18
Pillow Lays Cable.

The pillow has been set to work lay
ing electric-light cables. A cast-steel
implement for deep blowing was
adapted for the purpose, and With a
small force of workers the pillow In
stalled 1000 feet of single. lead-coy-
cred cable In one day.
II was fitted with a clamp TO hold
the end CT the cable. and a gasoline
engine. with a drum, was hitched TO
the drawbar. The cable was pulled
along beneath the surface of the
ground by the plowshare. so that, as
the pillow proceeded the cable was laid
in the trench made.
TIL company making the experiment
attained a still better record when the
pillow was pulled by a more powerful
gasoline engine. Application OF the
device is limited to use in city parks
In suburban installations where
cable has to be strung across a large
lawn. The outfit can be hauled any
where by a small truck.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18
A FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take ia absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. Kilmcr's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard Of purity, strength
and excellence ia maintained in every bot.
tie OF Swamp-Root.
1t is scientifically compounded from
vegetable herbs.
II is not a Etimulant and is taken In
teaspoonful doses.
1t 10 not recommended for everything.
1t is natures great helper in relieving
and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder
troubles. =
A sworn statement of purity Is with
every bottle of Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root.
II you need a medicine. you should
have the best. On sale at all drug stores
in bottles of two sizes. medium and large.
However, IL you wish first TO try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer 4 Co. Binghsmton. N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure
and mention this paper.-Advertisement.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18
MELON AND CUCUMBER
SEED A PAYING CROP
Hossbud County FzrTners fset $50 60
$40 Per Acre From Land
Planted to Seed Crops

In two short years Rosebud melons
and cucumbers have made Rosebud
county famous. Their flavor, firm
ness, keeping qualities and adaptable
ity to a northern climate have created
a demand far exceeding the supply.
This year 10000 pounds OF melon and
cucumber seed will be shipped from
Rosebud county to Holland and an
other 5000 pounds of cucumber seed
to Paris, France. The demand for
northern grown seed is so great In the
state of Colorado that a ready market
can be found there for all Rosebud
melon and cucumber seed. according
to a representative of the Western
Seed & Irrigation company. who was
largely responsible for the birth of
the melon and cucumber seed industry
in this county. Next year melons and
cucumbers VIII be grown extensively
throughout Montana from Rosebud
county seed.
One hundred and eighty-six acres on
the Forsyth flat (non-irrigated) and
In the Carterville irrigation district
were planted 10 watermelons. musk
melons and cucumbers last spring and
the seed approximatIng $1,000 pounds
was at that time contracted to a Ne
braska seed company. The watermel-
ons were contracted for 17h cents
per pound, the cucumbers at 20h
cents and the muskmelons at 25 cents.
The seed OF the cucumbers and
muskmelons is said to be of an unex-
celled quality demanding the highest
market price and while the quality of
the watermelon seed lis just as good Ii
does not bring as high a price on the
market because Of the heavy competi-
ton furnished by Georgia growers.
Threshing of melons and cucumbers
for seed Is under way. The cucumbers
have proved the most profitable of the
three crops due 10 the heavy yield
and the price Of seed. Cucumber
crops yielded from 300 to coo pounds
OF seed per acre or a gross return to
the grower of 5000 10 s120 per acre.
The melons are yielding from SIS to
500 per acre.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18
MAYOR THOMSON
PRAISES TANLAC

Judge George Washington Thorn
sson. Mayor of Tarrant City. Ala. and
n of the most highly respected citi-
xens of the state. Is still another man
OF prominence and unimpeachabie In
tegrity to give his unqualified en-
dorsement to Tanlac.
Chronic indigestion brought me to
the verge of a general breakdown
three years ago and nothing seemed
to afford much relief" said Judge
Thomason. 81 could hardly eat
enough TO keep going, and became so
weak and nervous / could hardly at
tend TO my duties.
"Finaliy I started on Tanlac and six
bottles fixed me up go fine that I felt
ten years younger. and my good health
still remains with me-"
Tanlac Is sold by all good druggists.
Take no substitute. over 30 million
bottles Observation-Disclosures.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18
RAPID PROGRESS IN THE AIR
Recent Strides Made In Aeronautics
Have Been Almost Bewildering-
In Extent and Variety.

Recent progress In a%eronautics has
been almost b~ey-ildering In Its extent
and variety. The worlds speed record
To- stands at nearly 245 miles per
hour. Awe-inspiring endurance records
and a nonstop coast-to-coast flight are
likewise TO the credit of our army air
service.
Engines on full-power tests are now
expected TO run 80 hours continuous
ty. Gliders remain aloft for many hours
with nothing but air currents and the
skill of their pilots to sustain them.
Helicopters have risen vertically. how
cred over a given point, made complete
circuits in horizontal flight Airplanes
have been attached TO diriglbles while
both types of aircraft were in rapid
flight. Metal is d~lsplacing wood in the
construction of airplanes. Pilotless
planes carry out complicated evolu-
tions.=Scientifc American.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-10-18

The Bible Ii far In advance Of any
other book In the number OF Its trans
%Iatlons. for II has actually been rem
dered In whole or in part info ITO lam
guages and dialects and the end Is not
yet In sight. The translation Ia still
progressing at the rate OF n com
plete book of the Bible In a new Ian
guage every six weeks, a speed record
which has been maintained for over
twenty years.-The Mentor.