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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Fate Plays Some
Franks With Us AlIg

Once upon a time there were
two girls.
One of them vowed she should
go upon the stage and have hel
name in electric lights on Broad
way; while the other declared she
would become missionary.
1t was the past week that one of
them came to Birmingham for a
little visit-and she has been the ac-
tual missionary she said she would
be for % years!
But the other-well, she's Mrs
Ned McDavid, and, Std of having
her name in Broadway bulbs, she
has been seeing it in coal black
letters in magazines and newspa-
pers. For she is a writer.
And there you are! And that's
life.
The missionary who returned
and we all know her ancestry and
her relatives-was Miss Mary
Minor Tarrant. She is away on
furlough for several months from
Somehow, China, where she is head
of the largest Methodist mission
school of that city.
She came to Birmingham to
speak under the auspices of Meth
odist Missions.
1t was the first time she and Mrs.
McDavid--who were intimates in
childhood-had seen each other
since they were girls and Miss Tar
rant had spent winter here.
Her first two years in the Orient,
Miss Tarrant was in Pekin.
Between reminiscing, accepting
Birmingham party invitations and
making addresses, Miss Tarrant had
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
You Get a Chance
ON BOX of, Mystery

Tickets to the big gathering have
been printed in the form Of invita-
tions and
Right at the door, gnawing Gu
riosity will begin to agitate the
minds Of the guests.
For each visitor is to be given
number which constitutes a
chance to an eerie looking "box Of
mystery" which later will be given
to someone holding the lucky num-
Der when an exciting drawing is
held.
You are allowed to take the box
home with you and open it in Sc
cret corner.
Nothing in it like Pandora's Of
ferings-and no jumping snake
marked Raspberry Jam" like I
opened very enthusiastically at a
bridge party one time lately while
former sufferers warily rested the
game to watch me, and took regu-
lar rain-check time off to indulge
in what 1 thought was wicked and
unseemly laughter.
l am certainly bitter to the
point of satisfaction. If there's any,
thing to bite at, Pm as good as a
campfire mosquito. Never sus-
picious-always interested and
helpful-never spoil the laugh nor
\ mar the perfect effect, nor any
thing.
l even had a spoon ready to try
the raspberry jam.
The party is to be from 1 to 8
o'clock.
No one seems to know whether
there will be guides present with
megaphones to shout out the names
of countries and climates through
which the feasting travellers are
passing.
But needn't worry. You won't
get lost. If you should, there'll be
determined rescuing parties bent on
seeing you injected and elected into
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

the offices of Mrs. j. NJ. Broadly,
very broad-minded woman who
keeps very much in touch with live
things of the day, and who had
learned something of Mr.. banners
labors sometime ago.
The mission Mr.. Danner repre-
sents is interdenominational, and
operates in most all of the oriental
countries. It's energies are eX-
pended toward the suppression and
alienation of leprosy, and now
with the discovery of chulmoogra
oil, number Of cases have been
dismissed as cured.
A grove of the plant which fur
nishes this oil is now being grown
in the Philippines, the first plants
utilized having been found in
Siam.
The speaker will tell of leprosy
in the United States and among US
as we'll as in foreign Landslide
nature of the disease and precau-
tons that should be taken against
it. A very gripping part of the talk
will concern the leper home at Carr
vile, La, which has lately been
bought by the government for a
federal hospital for cases of lep-
rosy from all over Uncle Sam S
liberty land. There are about 1000
lepers now in our country.
Mr.. banners speech will be heard
from ~ to l o'clock Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

appeared with the collections of pic
lures produced by others of our
own Alabama artists.
Just to get a glimpse Of Mrs.
Luke's last portrait canvas, hun
dreds of visitors went to the gal
lery last week-and sweet were
their expressions of kindness and
love and praise for the picture. and
for her who made it exist from
dull flat canvas.
Their words must have made Mrs.
Luke so glad, could she have heard
and known
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
DIR. Dam1ler Noted
Visitor TO Be Here

A famous man is coming to B.r-
mingham to talk to its people about
a very interesting subject.
He's Mr.. William NJ. Banner, sec
rotary to the American Mission for
Lepers.
His address will be the outstand-
ing feature Of the Biru:ngham Fed
GRAFTON Of Missionary Societies,
which Is to be held this Tuesday
from II a. m. to l p. NJ. at the
First Methodist church, the public
being hidden.
Mr.. Banner was obtained through
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
You Cover Ground
at This Affair

You see, there are to be seven
tables-one in rose, one in nastur-
tium, one in jade, one in Japanese
style, another with blue birds, a
Hollandaise table-and one in dear
old America.
You will pass from country to
country, taking several thousand
miles at step, SO, before you start,
Mrs. Angus Taylor, retiring pres
ident of the Axis Club, is bound to
see you get cup of tea to stimu-
late you for your ambitious jour
ney. She will serve at Uncle Sans
table-Mrs. Erie Pettus, the newly
elected president, being with her to
pass along the sweets to all those
who crave sugar whether they need
it or not.
The gowns will be so pretty
and Mrs. w. J. Adams, in charge of
music, has arranged for fan-tan,
Dutch and Japanese melodies to fit
the various features.
At the American table, the god
dess of liberty will be shown run
ming wild and carrying on with her
ID original states set all around
her.
At the Bluebird table, there'll
be little girls dressed as cute as any
woodland songsters. At the Dutch
table, demure little Holland misses
will assist-and there'll be wind
mills and dykes that never get be-
yond control.
Mrs. White will be gowned in
black lace, with trimmings of jet.
This is her list of women and girls
and children she has asked to pre-
side at the seven-feast tables and
to assist in entertaining:
Mrs. Angus Taylor, Mrs. Jack
Bowron, Mrs. W. I. Grub, Mrs.
Erie Pettus, Mrs. Willard Wheeler,
Mrs. Leo Oberdorfer, Mrs. John
Mayer, Mrs. Coleman Blach, Mrs.
Donald Wood, Mrs. Jack Adams,
Mrs. M. Newfield, Mignon Hall
hope don't spill any soup-Mrs.
Mansfield Lathem, Mrs. Ed Hy-
dinger, Mrs. F. G. Alexander, Mrs.
A. W. B. johnson, Mrs. w. S.
Pritchard, Mrs. J. H. Eddy, Mrs.
William Oberhelman, Mrs. John
Antwine, Mrs. William Baldwin,
Mrs. Holland Fletcher, Mrs. Hubert
Scruggs, Mrs. Jack Embry, Mrs.
S. F. league, Mrs. Frank Simon,
Mrs. Herman Rich, Mrs. Mayo Hol-
loway, Mrs. E. M. E.~y, Mrs. Jack
Walton, Mrs. Frank Kelley, Mrs.
James Reynolds, Mrs. George Har-
ris, Mrs. James D. Monroe, Mrs.
w. S. Neville, Mrs. Joseph Weir,
Mrs. Ruth Rothrock, Mrs. S. C.
Beck, Mrs. Thomas w. Flatley,
Mrs. D. E. McLendon, Mrs. C. P.
Lichty, Mrs. Ed Brown, Mrs. W. R.
Mcneil, Miss Mabel Roy Leedy,
Mrs. Dan Hogan, Mrs. Leonard
Barker, Miss Mary O'Brien, Mrs.
Charles Sharp, Mrs. L. A. McCor-
mack, Miss Kate Rothrock, Mrs.
Karl Landgi ebe, Miss Rosalie Bap-
fist, Miss Lillian Wood, Mrs. ]. H.
Trebbing, Mrs. Lloyd Josselyn, Mrs.
Charles Simmons, Mrs. Ben M.
Chandler Trebbing.
These little tots will be living
flowers: Elizabeth Walton, forget
me-not; Mary McGough, morning
glory; Dorothy May Dorman, sweet
pea; Margaret Ann Dorman, lily-of-
the-valley. And these the Dutch
girls: Mary Carney and Eugenia
Linnehan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Men Now Are Invited
To Axis Club Party

About l o'clock Tuesday if you
happen to see 10 or IL automobiles
piled up anywhere and folks crawl
ing out from under them between
the wheels
Or you view a kitty-cat round
ing curve at airplane speed, spit
ting fire and every hair standing
stiff with the awful fright she had
Of almost getting run over by q
swarm of rainbow taxicabs and
autos headed south, and getting
there
Or you happen to catch sighS Of
a Highland avenue car and you
view such a coliseum of people
hanging all over the sides and back,
and riding the cow-catcher, till it
looks like the jitneys had all gone
to goody-
Well, you can figure it's on
with everybody determined not to
10 a minute behind time.
What's on?
The party!
It's Mrs. Frank J. Whites "Feast
of the Seven Tables" and trip
around the world-all for dollar
bill-and all for the benefit of the
Axis club auditorium only about
$4,000 distant-with the money,
or awful trouble, bound to come
around these Birmingham diggings
The affair is the big-dipper event
of this week.
This the first you've heard about
it?
For goodness sake!
The event was first planned to
be woman's afternoon party; and
everything was all right so long as
Mrs. White stuck strictly to the
foreign travel idea.
But the moment she announced
something about putting on feast
at seven tables" it was more than
masculine soul could stand.
There came a wailing like locust
time and hungry chorus of men S
voices all down through Jones val
ley and along the red-ore atmos-
phere:
What! A feast? And we not
invited? This is grand old world
we DON'T think! Well help build
the Axis auditorium if we can eat
Otherwise strictly mop
After which the little anvil
chorus became a great blacksmith
ing commotion.
At which Mrs. White, most un-
derstandin' of mortals, fastened 70
issue this proclamation:
Husbands Of Axians-would-
be husbands-and all men in gen.
eral will be welcomed at the big
public party. Those wishing to take
the foreign tour will please come
prepared by bringing a husky slice
of acute imagination along,
"Others desiring to take the side
trip to King Tut's tomb need fear
no evil results. An official curse
remover and bug-tamer has been
appointed-one who can quell even
a horsefly by looking him between
the eyebrows.
"Come one-come alp
The announcement was enthu-
siastically received,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Doves Know All
About New Reelection

From Nice-over the blue seas
comes this cunning little rhyme
from Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt, who is
there for a springtirne tour.
One of the events of her trip is
visit to a clinic of the world
famed Coue, whose doctrine is to
make the world better by mental
suggestion.
Said a little red pigeon to q
little pink dove:
81 am ill-what would you have
me do, my love?"
Said the little pink dove to the
little red pigeon:
"Why don't you try the new re-
ligion--
"Coue-Coue Couew
Mrs. Nesbitt is having a wonder
full trip, Mr., Nesbitt being also
abroad. The two will return to-
gether.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Tribute Paid to
One Come Away

The dead pass on-leaving so
bereft those who loved them.
Yet, if they have done good
work, how every moment present
are they in someone's thoughts and
heart; what power they still hold
for mortals by their influence
wooing the living to more decided
efforts.
This is illustrated in our
program of affairs this week,
when the Little Art Gallery makes
the last finished portrait painted
by Mrs. John Wallace Luke the
feature of the Alabama Artists
exhibit.
1t is given the place of honor,
and hung where no one can fail
the pleasure of viewing and study
ing it.
The portrait is that of lovely
Mrs. Richard Johnston, made dur
ing the last year of Mrs. Luke
life, and representing a task of six
months effort.
For the artist, suffering from a
malady of several years standing,
was i'll all the while Mrs. Johnston
was going to the gallery three times
week. She would not give up,
however, but merely would stop a
| little time to rest and go back and
take up her brushes again. Mrs.
Luke painted an hour at each of
these sittings.
The portrait, done in impression
istic style, represents the culmi-
nation of a lifetime of study, and
broader course of painting which
Mrs. Luke completed abroad a
short time before her sudden
death.
For she had won the European
scholarship offered by the Phil
adelphia Art Institute and had fin
ished the course in foreign coun-
tries last summer.
Mrs. Luke's death took from Bir-
mingham a woman who was vitality
interested in more and better art
for this city, and one whose dearest
wish was to see an art gallery es-
tablished here.
She died when she was just
ready to do greater work than that
which for some years had brought
her such splendid recognition in art
circles over the country.
Talking with Mrs. Luke a short
time ago, she had said to me, to
Mrs. Johnston and to others:
81 have studied now for 20 years
and in many ways, it's been at
great sacrifice. Of course, I will
never stop studying=but l will
not have to study so hare. But now
oh, think of the JOY of that
should, by rights, have 90 long
years in which can just paintw
And she had started out upon this
happy program, having built herself
new home where an exactly ideal
studio was the outstanding feature
of the upstairs. 1t is mentioned as
so delightful thing how, in all
| her work, Mrs. Luke never lacked
sympathy or encouragement from
her husband.
The picture of Mrs. Johnston was
completed by the artist-and just
! some other flowers and little things
she loved. Then further orders had
| come in-and other portraits were
upon her easels-not finished
when the sudden gentle knock came
upon the door, silent messengers
were without, bearing the not-to-be
denied call. And very softly Mrs.
Luke slipped away to do those
greater tasks and larger samplers
set for her somewhere, in different
realms, out there.
Mrs. Johnston's portrait had
been much admired when it was
shown at the exhibition Of Indepen-
dent Artists last summer. The past
week was the first time it has ever
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

Association, put on at Norfolk,
Va. He is a good player, and has
captured numerous trophies and
medals in days past.
From that Virginia town, the
two will proceed to Richmond,
thence to Washington-and prob
ably to New York City before re-
turning home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
.,--.~URT SHOWS AUSTRIAN
:. : FINANCES NOW HEALTHY

IENNA, No9. 49, IN a report
issded in Vienna, DR.. Zilamermann
Sums up the following features as
evidence Of satisfactory progress
towards the restoration OF Aus.
trias finances:
The deficit OF the budget has
been reduced 760 billion kroaen in
six months. the nation savings
have been increased from 80 to 4U0
billions in the past twelve months
the controller Has been fequiIea
to advance $40 billions less Tor the
half year than the fl Ids III. nand
allowed Of; unemployment has de-
creased Sd per cent compared vita
february..
The report goes on TO say, The
credit Of the county has been lnlly
restored, the Rronen has been
stabilized, foreign capital is flowing
III and Austrian capital stored
abroad is returning, the circula-
ton is covered to the extent OF %
per cent BY gold reserves of the
National Bank and production is in
creasing."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
GFPN'E POET LOSES
HIS CHALET IN ITALY
Italian Government VIII Not
Return Property Conf.scat-
sd During War

Berlin, Nov. 7. Ludwig
Fulda, the German poet ana drama
tist, builo himself Il little chalet
fifteen years ago in the Tyroleaa
Alps, at Carezza, ne-r Bozen.
" hen thc Italian government took
over that part OF Austria the as
SCISSORS placed valuation CT AS
0O0 lira ca Fulda's property and
advised him that he would be al
lowed to retain the place and CON
tinue his literary work in peace.
But the poet was recently advis-
cd that the Italian state will eX-
propriate his home as the Italian
officials now say all Of his furnish
ings and belongings, together with
the house, are worth more thar
$4,000 Ira, and that - German is
allowed to retain properly which
exceeds that figure in value. Fulda
was expelled from his home and
not even permitted to remove his
personal belongings.
While Fulda h&s written many
plays and novels, he is known
chiefly for his rendition Of Shake
speare's sonnets into German with
such skill chat they became as
Popular with Germans as the
5hakespearean plays are.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
RUSSIANS FIND HAPPY
HOMES IN BELGRADE.

BEL GRADE, Jugoslavia, Nov, )
By Associated Pfess) No
icwcr thsa 10000 Russians ia.
Guiding q great number OF men
ana women Of the bes, type, are
today Ending re-aga III Belgrade
FROM the 4isors OF the Soviet
rceim They evidently prefer to
take men chances of voluntary
exile, than risk return to Russia
no matter what fair promises are
held out from that country.
1t is not unusual to see a Rus
sian who once graced drawing
room dong manual labor in Bel.
grade, and dong il with win
and efficiently.
Gen. Wrangel, the head Of The
late white Army is living at
Now Sad, near Belgrade, and he
and his companions are on short
ratiOns.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to rea-
son why 1T is that 50 many produces
that are extensively advertised, I'll
at once drops out of sight ana are
soon forgotten? The reason Is PLAN
the article did not fullil tie
promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a med
ieine. A medical preparation tnat
has real curative value almost sells
itself, as like an cndtea. chan
system the remedy is recommend
Cd bv those who have been bene%
fitted, to those who are in need of
it
A prominent druggists says
"Take for example DR.. Kilmer.a
Swamp Root, a preparation | have
sold for many years and Yer
hesitate to recommend, for in al
most every case it shows eXcellcnt
results, rs mary OF my customar@
testify. No other kidney remedg
has so larp sale.
According 20 sworn statement
and verified testimony of thoa
sands VINO haqc used the prepara-
don, the success Of Dr.. Kilni2r'a
swamp 90. is due to the fact,
SO many people claim, that it fu!-
fills almost every wish in ovcs-
coming kidney, liver and bladdet
ailments, cor:ecJs urinary troc
bles and neutralizcs the uric acid
which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bot-
tie of Sw1mp-Root by Parcel
Post. Address Dir. Kilmer x Co,
BinGhamton, n w., and enclose
ten cents; also mention this paper
Large and medium size bottles u
sale &t all crug stores.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
TURKEYS GIVING. 0uT?.
PtRISH VERY THOUGHT
G-c4,.ia Edito. taictu-es situa-
tioa If Thanksgiving Bird
Bgcc1res Extinct


h1LANTA, Nov. 1T is in
deco 4 g.oony picture drawn b.
re pec.-ss Gca M@o aay thac the
lpallnsgvmg TREY IS becoming
extinct, says =. /. K iney, inem-
ser the Georgia PrisoA ConmN.
ion and editor G: the Dawson, ia.
News.
"Aach development would~ 81
nothing less tnan 2 disaster Lta
tami. ications would be 50 envelop-
ing and extensive as to constitute l.,
calamity. AS IA :; Kaleidoscope.
there reveals before the minds eye
the passing Of other things along
with Mr.. and Mrs. Gobblar. There
flashes the delectable cranberry
sauce. The dressing, too, and the
gravy. Il orrible thought! Also re-
vealfng tantelizingly before it pass
es with the rest the pumpkin pie.
"0f what use would the autumn
be if Thanksgiving should fail TO
maintain itself as q day Of feastinH
rs veil as enc OF grateful reflcc
ton? The harvest moon would lose
mu ehot its alluliag beauty, Indian
aumnler wolld pass without a
though going Beyond it to the time
Wen feativo boards would creak
and grown surrounded by smiling
faces and good appetites. The
frost on the pumpkin would cease
to m7f1 ! ut it meant for such Il
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
FLOYD COUNTY DECREASES
IN BIRTHS AND DEATHS

ROME, Npv. II. The depart
ment Of beeith has announced that
both TIE birth anG seath rate IN
El29d county was sowel for the
soaen Of October than for the
sanss month last year Statistics
chow shat last year the births itl,
ne month we're 80 and the deaths
81 compared to 81 births U.d a
deaths Tor October this yesr. This
Is q marked decrease and nothin
Sut the bare figures was announced.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13

9fo0es county negroes are return
ing from the north and settling
down in their former places here.
Five on six came IN last week from
Pennsylvania with their pockets
pretty we'll filled with money they
had earned. They said they were
anxious to get back to south Geor-
gia in time for the care-grindiness
season.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
KY FORCED PRINCE
TO ASH FOX SiuGnr-o

BGll.At EST, Nov. 13.~ tGy A.
ISOLATED Press fae late e..-s-a!-
peror Kall Of Austria did not have
enough money 20 buy cigarettes
wnc ne was making MS anal AZ
tempt to regain the Hungarian
,-loAe, according to an anonymous
atmy officer who was member OF
kall's suite and recently has pub
lished his memoirs. When the de-
posed emperor was making the ut
tempt he was forced to ask rnem-
bers OF his suite 1or cigarettes
and other Injuries.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
MANY NEGROES RETURN
FROM NORTHERN STATES

QulTMAN, Nov -. Many
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
BRITISH HOP GROWERS
WORK AGAINST IMPORT

LONDON, Nov. British hop
growers are working together to
revent the Importation Of hops.
It seems 100000 hundred weight
# foreign hops came into the
wears, and if this amount had been
country during the last three
years, and if this amount had been
grown locally = would have giy,
or employment to 10000 men at
As ahillings a week
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
DIR sTULL Will ADDRESS
CHEMICAL SOCIETY

SAVANNAH, Nov 10. The
American chemical society VIA
have the pleasure Of q lecture by
Dr.. r. r. Stull, assistant general
industrial agent for the Central Of
Georgia railroad at q meeting soon
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13

He will address the body on the
subject The uses in the srts Of
Georgia Kaolin and Bauxitc, TIE
Savannah section Of the American
Chemical Society has d large en-
rollment and is one of the most ac-
tive and enthusiastic IN the South
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-13
VIC ';tDr'T CO OVER HERE

Iondon-Hc was standing IN q
pool Of wine. And right beside his
automobile, at that. The constable
WHO happened along decided he was
intoxicated Followed charge NJ
dfiqinH vhilc drunk Bat the fe.
low hid a GOOD abb. he mad
{l.i nel coming down stairway
I'll 4 vim bolt os ct broken. Yes,
.4rc csu,+ believed II