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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

Therefore, Suzanne, as you value your happiness don't marry the man who is always getting on your nerves and rousng your fighting blood Pick out some youth who is tuned up in your own key
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
TO PRESERVE CRACKED EGGS

An egg which has accidentally been cracked may be preserved by pasting it with a strip of paper wet with some of the white of the egg. Also, to keep yolks of eggs from drying, keep covered with cold water.
 A. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

oil l-and-water natures not to try to blend by matrimony. They are never really mated though they may be married for fifty years. Nature, which cares only for the good of the race, and not at all for the in dividual, has ordained the law of the attraction of opposites, but we yield to it at our peril, for those whom we love and whose society never pals rron us are those with whom we arc congratulations who think and feel as we do, and have the same taste and habits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
JAw-RREAKERs

It was vogue with playwrights of the early part of the eighteenth cen tury to get laugh by the invention of jaw breaking names. For instance, Henry Carey, author of God Save the King" and Sally in Our Alley" wrote a burlesque called "Chronon- hotonthologos." In this burlesque two of the leading character were 'Aldiborontephoscophornio" and Rig dumfunnidos." On reading or hear ing these names one was supposed to be convulsed with laughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
IF YOU HAVE A DESK. IS IT KEPT IN ORDER?
Method Of Arranging Papers In-
 dicates Business Ability

You can invariably size up a busi- ness person" declares shrewd busi- ness analyist, by the appearance of his desk, The way he arranges papers, files, letters, what Is on or off his desk, indicates the type of worker he is.'
 I quote this statement because it has worked out so truly in my ex- perience. In no way do you reveal your habits and your business ten dencies so strongly as in the appear ance of your desk-both inside and out.
 Have you ever met business man or woman who sits at desk hidden behind a mountain of papers, files, clares that he likes to have every thing where he can lay his hands anything to eat until we get very, very hungry"
 Are you hungry now, little Ned Gnome?" Raggedy Ann asked
 Yes, indeed, Raggedy Ann," little Ned Gnome replied. a.
 Then you shall have the nice cho- coIate candy I have in my apron pocket" Raggedy Ann said.
 Little Ned Gnome wanted Raggedy Ann to have the nice chocolate candy ,but Raggedy Ann said, No, little Ned Gnome, Raggedy Andy and I can go for years and years with out eating because we are only rag dolls, but you need something to eat"
 So little Ned Gnome ate the cho- colate candy and felt very much happier.
 Maybe something will happen so that We can escape from the two lit- tie old witches" little Ned Gnome said
 "Oh, no. little Ned Gnome," Wanda Witch howled through the closet key hole, you shall never, never escape now that we have you stuffed in the closet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

US is especially high-tempered We get along amiably with other people, but we seem to antagonize each other at every turn. What sort of home will we make if. we marry? I cannot bear to think of life of continual strife-of misunder- standings and reproaches and apolo- gies and making upl
 cTTZ NNI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
ICE PICK HOLDER

Take window shade bracket the one that is not slotted. Screw same on moulding near ice box and put ice pick through hole and you have a good holder H. J. V.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

You know there are people who just rub us the wrong way, just as there are people whose presence is soothing and agreeable to us. Why this Is, we do not know. It simply is one of the facts of nature that there are men and women whose every act irritates us, no matter how blameless they are. and whom we instinctively oppose no matter which side of a question they take.
 Strangely enough, this natural an- tagonism often exists side by side with love. You see it often between mothers and daughters, and sisters and brothers who fight the Kilkenny cats yet will make any sacrifice for each other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

This is particularly true as re- gards husband and wives. No hus- band and wife are happy who are always scrapping, nor is the family circle that is place of perpetual ar guments and pickering any ones ideal of a home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

But 1t does not make for happiness and peaceful home, and the only sensible thing for such people is not to try to live together.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

ing a baby. What do you think of 1t? Is it safe thing to do?
 LONELY WOMAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

]. should certainly advise you, Suz- annie, to think long and earnestly be- fore you marry a man who is tenn permentally antagonistic to you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
DoDoTHY DIX.

Dear Dorothy Dix-I am engaged to a young man with whom am very much in love, and I know he loves me, but we quarrel continually and about most trival things. Neither of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

Therefore, I think the children of selfish parents are Justified in living their own lives, regardless of the fathers and mothers who have never cherished them. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix: I am a childless woman and I am thinking of adont-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

Every department enters into this sale heart and soul.
 Every department manager is going to make an almost super-human effort to dis pose of his present stock, regardless of the losses. There will be no such thing as profit during this sale. We have but one goal-one motive-and that is to dispose of our present stocks. We are willing to pay our customers to help us by giving them most sensational bargains.
 PLEASE REMEMBER-Th Sale be- gins Friday morning. Some of the lots may be limited in quantity and will sell out in hurry. So our advice is-COME EARLY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

Answer: I think that in adopting child you will do an act by which ycu will acquire merit hereafter and bring yourself great happiness in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

Surely there can be no nobles, sweeter, more womanly thing for a woman to do than to take some for lorn, helpless little creature and give it the warm atmosphere of a real home and the haven of a mothers breast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19

No woman has a duty to any man whC mistreats her. He absolves her from that at the very first word of abuse, and if more women had the courage to leave tyrannical men it would work a reformation in the manners of husbands and fathers.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
Woodstock, Virginia, Friday, March %, 1923.
ChirOpractic---Third Principle

Thus far we have studied the first
and second principles of chiropractic
science. The first principle declares
that the cause of disease is within the
body. The second principle goes a
step farther and declares that disease
has its basis in disorder of the ner-
vous system. Now the question natur-
ally ariSes-what causes disorders of
ciple gives the answer to this question
II is the accepted major principle Of
rchirOpractic that dispLacem.ents of rerte-
brae are the cause Of disease.
The spine is the central supporting
column of the body. All other parts
are arranged around it in certain
definite order On the top of the
column rests the weight of the head,
to the sides are attached the ribs,
which in turn support the arms; while
the, base of the column is wedged be-
tween the hip bones, which transmit
the weight of the body to the lower
limbs. The backbone or spine consists
of a series of small bones called the
vertebrae, which are placed one upon
the other SO as to form a column eX-
tending from the skull to the hips
Twenty-six individual vertebrae sep
arated from each other by tough elias
tic cartilage and held IN position by
very strong ligaments, make up the
structure of the human spine. In this
way the spine is built up of series of
joints, each joint having a very limited
range of motion.
Also, the backbone encloses the
spinal cord which is attached to the
brain and is really an extension of the
brain downward. Branching out from
the spinal cord are thirty-one pairs of
nerves, which pass thru small open
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
APPARENTLY QUITE IN ORDER
English Actors Witty introduction of
TWO New Acquaintance
Placed Correctly.

Every book of "reminiscences pub
lished nowadays which contains any
thing about the theater has at least
one anecdote about the late Sir Her
bert Tree. The author of 1.-THE Nine
teen Hundreds" who writes under
the pseudOnym Reginald Auberon, re-
tails one of Sir Herbert's spontaneous
flashes to carry on the tradition. Ac-
companied by Lady Tree, he had gone
down to the Palace theater to re
hearse a sketch. GAS he wandered
about the unfamiliar stage, feeling
very bored and looking like a fish out
Of water, a couple of 'knockabout'
comedians who had just finished their
turn approached him. We'll met, Sir
Erbr exclaimed the first one, slap
ping him heartily on the back. Glad
to welcome you 'erep ooh, delighted
murmured Tree, vaguely. This is my
mate. AIRY continued the other
0ecEoning to his partner. PLEASED
to meet you declared the second
comedian, delivering an equally vigor-
US slap on Trees shoulder. Welcome
to the 'alls. The missus showing with
you? With a magnificent gesture.
Tree signaled to his wife. Maud he
said. allow me to introduce my new
friends. Lady Tree-the Two
Smacksr"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23

ings in the joints of the spine. These
nerves, together with twelve pairs Of
nerves within the skull, control direct
ly or indirectly the activities OF all or
ganS and tissues of the body.
Now we are beginning to see that the
spine is a most important structure.
Occupying central position, it ulti-
mately feels the effect of every shock
or jar the body receives. Now, it fire.
quently happens that the spine meets
with more shock than it can readily
absorb or with more strain than it can
successfully resist. The result is a
slight displacement of vertebrae, which
in turn produces more or less pressure
on the nerves where they pass thru
the openings in the joints Of the spine.
This pressure irritates the nerves and
prevents the normal passage OF nerve
energy, and-as we have learned be
fore-where any part of the body fails
to receive its normal amount of nerve
energy its resistance goes down and
that part becomes susceptible to dis
ease. If the nerves controlling the
activity of the kidneys are affected the
kidneys become susceptible to disease;
ii the nerves controlling the activity of
the lungs are affected the lungs be-
come liable to disease; and so with the
other organs of the body Thus we
see that displacementS Of vertebrae
result in disorder of the nervous sys-
tenn and are therefore declared 10 be
the cause of disease.
w. S. LINEWEAVER
Chiropractor
145 S. Main st. Woodstock, Va.
HOURS 2 pm. TO 4 p. m. Mon day,
Wednesday and Friday.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
Something TO
Think Ab0ut
OILERS ISLAND
By F. II. WALKER

IF YOU are resolved to continue
l. your search for Idlers' island, con-
trary to the advice of the experienced,
and those disconnected souls out at
the elbow who have spent the best
years of their lives in its quest, you
may set it down as an unassailable
fact that you are doomed to sorrowful
disappointment.
The youth who dreams of this nlys-
tic place, forgetful of his duties to
his parents and his employers, while
he is fitting up his phantom ship to
sail away in pursuit of perpetual
pleasure is heading straight to a land
of sorrow and desolation, which he
will find in the meridian Of life, when
his sky is turning gray and the icy
winds Of winter nip his shivering body
and freeze up his last remaining en-
ergy
There is only one event at this time
of his existence which really aston
ishes and startles him out of his self
imposed impoverishment, and that is,
he cannot build himself up again to
hopeful manhood.
He is pushed and jostled on the
streets and takes it as a matter of no
consequence; he is stunned by old
friends who pass him with a sheer,
but there is not enough fire in his
blood to kindle resentment; he is mis-
cradle and lonely, but so dull in sensi-
t. I
He may sometimes try to brace
himself up as a sudden ray of hope
momentarily flashes across his dark
ened mind, but the effort proves too
much for him.
The background of his subconsciOus
self is still covered with dream pic
lures of Idlers' island. blurred by cob
webs and out Of harmony with the
colorful scenes around him, and his
present physical and mental lassitude
When he was twenty-five he was
lazy, careless, wasteful and IMPROVE
dent, with friends everywhere delight
ed to help him spend his Inheritance;
now that he is five and forty, he is
destitute and alone left to drift sea-
ward with the ebbing tide.
Oh! that he could warn the hot
headed youths of today of their folly
But he cannot. He is despised and
summed; ragged, hungry, gaunt and
cold, all because in his earlier days
he refused to work, so that he might
have time to search for Idler's island,
where now he Is imprisoned for lifel
%. 1923. by Mcclure Newspaper syndieate.)
Perfect Platonic Friendship.
The friendship between the great
artist, Michelangelo, and the Roman
nOblewoman, Vittoria Colonna, is one
of the worlds most illustrious exam
pies of platonic friendship, says Oliver
Barton In the Mentor Magazine. When
they first met, Vittoria Colonna was
forty-six and Michelangelo sixty. She
became the greatest influence in the
life of the fiery genius. They were
accustomed to meet outside of the
church of San Silviestro, and discuss
painting and life. The gist of these
dialogues was set down by another
artist and later published as Michel.
angeles dialogues on Painting"
After withdrawing to the cloister the
Marquessa Colonna continued to COM
municate with the master. A book
OF her sonnets was always with him.
She died in 1547, but until his death
he remained as devoted to her mem.
DRY as he had been to her in life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
Uncommon
Sense s s5 BLAKE
FAST BUT SURE

a SUCCESSFUL business man said
Ia recently that the old rule Of SLOW
but sure" no longer applied in indus
try.
"A man." he said, ''to succeed today
must not only do good work, but do
it rapidly"
This IS true in almost every bust
ness And because it is true prepar-
alton for business career is far more
difficult than it ever has been.
You can learn to work rapidly and
accurately as well, but to do SO you
must train very intensively.
1t is easy enough to make quick de
cisions. It is possible to make correct
decisions But no man who does not
know his business down to the last
detail can make correct decisions rap
idly.
Industry is running at top speed.
There is no time to be wasted.
The executive who requires a week
to make up his mind about a change
in his plant will not hold his job very
long.
Important decisions are made al
most on the instant But they are
never made on the instant and made
right unless a man can carry in his
mind all the data on which to base
them.
Bigger jobs, with bigger salaries
and greater responsibility are await
ing the young men now training for
them.
But none Of them viii ever be at
tanned without the utmost skill and
the most profound knowledge of the
business that is to be followed.
The work of the technical schools
is harder than ever before, because
there is more to teach. and more that
must be mastered clear down to the
ground.
If you expect to be one of the build
ers Of the nation pick out the business
you want to follow, and learn all there
is to know about it.
Then when you are called upon to
use your judgment you can use It
swiftly, and not go wrong.
Don't ever try to judge rapidly or
to work rapidly unless you know ex.
actly what you are doing. Such judg
ment will result in a costly mistake,
and one costly mistake will end your
career as an executive-iust one single
mistake.
nv Tobn Tlalza
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
First American Tannery.

In 1890 the first tannery in America
was built in Virginia. A second one
was established few years later at
Lynn, Mass. The tanning industry was
well represented among the early set
tiers of Massachusetts, for 1t is re-
corded that no fewer than 81 tanners
had come over to the new colony be-
fore 1850. Their labors were in great
demand Skins accumulated so rapid
ly that in 1910 it was found necessary
to pass a law 'that every hide and
skin should be dried before it corrupts,
and sent where they may be tanned
and dressed" The tanning industry
also received encouragement through.
out the colonies by many laws for
bidding the expectation of untanned
leather. Tanneries fioufished every
where, and by 1910 their annual out
put was worth 20 million dollars.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
THE GREAT
EVENT
BY DOUGLAS MALLOCH

INTO each life shall come some great
= Event,
Obliterating all that was before
And making all that comes incense
quent,
The measure of our life forever
more.
Some episode our whole career In
clines,
Some hour of sweetness so surpass-
ing all
1t is the truth in all life's faulty lines,
In all the songs of birds the per-
feet call.
And so that song has summoned even
me;
!, who had been busy with so many
things,
The small concerns that seemed so
great to be,
I have been lifted up on sudden
wings.
The night is fair that once was dark
and drear,
The day is joyous that was full of
care;
The clouds are gone, the sun, the
stars, appear,
And now the world is beauty every
where.
Some alchemy transfgures all the
earth,
Toll now Is pleasure, once a weary
round;
New friends draw near, the old have
greater worth,
The wealth of human hearts my
heart has found.
Now merrily l climb the hard ascent,
But now the grass is green, the sky
is blue; -
Into each life shall come some great
Event,
And, in my own, that great Event
was You.
g. 1923. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
indian Legend of Rattlesnake.

A Texan reports killing a rattle
snake in west Texas that measured
eight feet and had "a rattles and a
button. But in the winter of 1868 80,
when the Kansas volunteer regiment
Joined General Sheridan's command,
the rowing soldiers discovered, in
Wichita mountains, den Of rattle
snakes which tops the record.
After the soldiers had taken their
souvenirs and had thrown a number
of the reptiles into the creek and
brush, 15S were counted. Several.
without their heads and tails, meas
ured eight feet and were six inches
In diameter. The sum total was esti-
mated at 200.
AS usual, the Indians claimed that
the den was a medicine" den. An
aged Arapahoe chief had entered it,
to die, and had turned into a monster
dlamond-hack, the father of all the
snakes In that country.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23

English Clay Pits.

Golders Green in London derives its
name, 1t is said, from the fact that
''gaulters,' or clayworkers. could OBJ
tain good material for waffle daub-
ing. There are numerous instances
where the word golden" or "golten,"
is used in connection with clay work
ing. A "Golten Way" in Suffolk led
to some clay deposits of excellent
quality for building purposes. The
name is akin, therefore, to the "cIay
PITS between Ealing and Brentford,
where the medieval builders in West
Middlesex obtained building material.
These pits were subsequently used as
burial pits in the Great plague.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
Sing Deeds of Light Tenders.

The hardships endured by light
keepers have inspired the pens of
some of our best writer's. Robert
Louis Stevenson, in sketching the life
of his grandfather, Robert Stevenson,
a distinguished Scotch lighthouse en-
gineer, gives some entertaining pen
pictures Of their lot.
The first lighthousekeeper In this
country, George Worthylake, at Bos-
ton light, whose first years salary
was so pounds, was drowned with
his wife and daughter Oh November
3, 1718, and this incident, was the In
spiration for ballad, the Lighthouse
Tragedy" written by Benjamin Frank
lin, then. boy of thirteen. In his
autobiography he tells US that his
brother induced him to print and sell
copies of this ballad on the streets
of Boston, and that 1t sold wonder
fully" the event being recent and
"having made a great noise" No
copy Of this ballad seems to have been
preserved, but the author admits II
vas ~wretched stuff"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
Excellent stand Of Alfalfa on a South
Dakota Farm.

fall and winter when the hours of
daylight are shorter the seedlings OF
these various groups develop charac-
teristic differences in height, erect
ness and branching.
AS a result of the discovery of the
eject of the length of day on the per-
Torrance of alfalfa plants, the ability
of this crop to endure cold will not be
the only factor to be considered in Sc
ecting varieties for the parts of the
country with rigorous winters. The
number of hours of daylight will have
something to do with their selection.
In the Southwest. Peruvian alfalfa
starts earlier in the spring, and keeps
going later in the fall than other va
rieties 1t is able to make better
growth during short days than other
llfalfas, and is not particularly bene-
fted by long periods of daylight, bat
the plants suffer considerable winter
injury this far north. Northern vari-
cites. on the other hand do not adapt
themselves to the short days of Ari-
IONA. This shows why varieties Of
one section, even though they may be
hardy enough, cannot be used success
fully in some other localities.
Not Suitable in North.
If you buy Argentine seed you can
be sure that it is not suitable IN the
north. 1t should be grown at least
40 farther north than Kansas seed.
Large quantities of seed are being i'm
ported from the Argentine; in fact
most of the imported alfalfa now
comes from that country. From July
/, 1922, to January 10, 1923, approx
mately 6.320,000 pounds were received
pounds from other countries
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-23
MEN In CONFEDERATE ARMY
Destruction of Records Has Made 1t
Impossible to Ascertain Definitely
the Exact Number.

The estimate of 100000 as the to-
tai of the Confederate army for the
four years of the war does not seem
excessive or unreasonable as repre-
senting the military strength of the s.
100000 white population of the Con-
federate states, aided by the 100000
population of the sympathizing border
states, and with an Industrial army Of
100000 slaves, A B. Casselman
writes in Current History Magazine.
The Southern estimate, or legend" as
it has been aptly termed, of 100000,
has always seemed disproportionate.
This estimate is Of uncertain origin,
and is not derived from any official
source. 1t did not originate during the
war, but after the war had ended,
when the Confederates had lost their
records and were without official data
on which to support their assertions.
No official summary purporting to
show the total number can be found In
the official records. The captured rolls
are incomplete and fragmentary. As
that approximately 1000 names are
missing from the captured rolls of a
single regiment, the Sixtieth North
Carolina. Rev. DR. McKim, an ex-Con-
federate officer and a writer on this
subject, quotes a letter received by
him from Col. Walter G. Taylor, Cen
eral Lees adiutant general, saying:
81 regret to have to say that I know
Of no reliable data in support Of any
precise number, and nave always
realized that it must ever be largely
matter of conjecture on our side"
In the absence of complete official
records, the question still remains
largely a matter of conjecture. Neither
the Confederate idea of 100000 nor
any later estimate can be accepted as
final or as even approximately accu-
rate.