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The Washington times., 1923-03-24
REALToR DIRECTORS
70 MEET At CHICAGO

4 meeting Of the board OF dIrec-
Tors and advisory board Of the Ma
fional Association Of Real Estate
Boards win be held In Chicago Fri
dav and Saturday, April IL and IA.
AZ this session the business affairs
az the national association viii be
considered. Reports viii be received
from the cI1airmeH of standing and
anecfal committees. The chairmen Of
the seven divisions Of the national
association will also report on the
progress which they have made with
regard to their respective divisions
The Washington times., 1923-03-24
Some Selected Home Buys


One of the attractive homes in the city Unusual design
Four bedrooms and baths Open for inspection
every day. =.
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,SEcoDD fLOoR PLAN
.SeR<k ~ HIr1


stairs. This arrangement allows
three large bed rooms and q bath.
All OF the rooms are light and airy.
plenty OF large windows properly
placed insures this.
The exterior of the house leaves
nothing to be desired. The lcnE
eloping roof that extends down over
the porch gives pleasing cottage
effect. while. the broad dormer al
lows d fun second floor.
The simple detail Of the porch
and cornices, the well-proportiOneo
windows and the broad brick chin.
ney: all lend strong character Inas
no amount Of gingerbread WOuio
give, -, -
sDecifications of this house may Pe
obtained for q nominal sum from
the Building Editor. Refer g
! House Asa.
The Washington times., 1923-03-24
CERTIFICATE FRAMES
TO BE MAILED THIS WEEK

Sample frames for realtor certifi.
rates will be mailed to all boards Of
The National Association of Real Es.
tate Boards next week. The officers
OF the local boards will arrange to
purchase frames similar to the sam.
DIE sent in quantity.
Arrangements have been made by
Ahe national association with a Chi.
Gago firm for the manufacture of
these frames. Display of the real
tor certificates in these frames will
add greatly to their effectiveness
The Washington times., 1923-03-24
Realtors ease Home.

Increased volume 81 business 81
the National Association ok Real
Estate Boards has necessitated the
coYnnaodious roOn1e m the Con-
sunlers' building adjoining the pres
ent offices have been rented and
viii be occupied by the association.
on April r
The Washington times., 1923-03-24

duringsflne past three month";. Plans
for the Cleveland convention, Tune
27-3O. viii 81 discussed. IN calling
this rIaeeting, President EpDich has
urged upon ali officers and directors
the importance 81 attending,
The Washington times., 1923-03-24
REAL DWELLING
BUILT Of
stone
Comfort and Warmth Created
Through These Type
Residences.

Comfort, warmth and hospitality
are associated with. really well
designed house, especially when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
|Ys2:'U};gR NAE ' MfSis MI.fI'isSiissI,:|a;s1YOIJ I'isis
By HELEN KENDALL A HOLIDAY AT HOME

Poor Nan! Cooped up in that hot city apartment all summer long. How sorry l am for her. Even if her beloved Ned couldn't getaway, I should think she might have gone where it was cool, but she wouldn't think of leaving him, even for sin gie hour ] suppose we must run up and see her while we are here for day. but I simply dread all her dis comfort Poor Nan" ~.A
 So sighed Cousin Isabel en route from the mountains to the seashore and stopping in the city only long enough to buy the latest bathing outfit. So she and Aunt Belle got into a taxi and drove to the tall apartment house where Nan and Ned lived on the top floor They sighed with pity all the way. Imagine their surprise, then, when the one maid ushered them into a cool, airy living room, hung in the softest of blue greens which suggested the ocean waves and the distant mountains, the open window. She was garbed in flowing, diaphanous film of sea-green silk. By her side was book trough filled with gailly jack eted summer novels, and on the broad wicker arm of her chair was long drink" of lime-gre deliciousness with the tinkle of lee in it. A breeze came in the despised apartment win dow, and from the room beyond the hum of an electric fan could be heard.
 Cousin Nan rose up with delight to greet her relatives.
 You poor dears!" she exclaimed. '"Trotting about the city in hot weather like this-and travelling, too. l don't see how you stand 1t. Can't you stay overnight and get really comfortable? We have the coolest apartment in town, with an electric fan at every angle, and Ned makes the best cold drinks in the world. can't bear to think of you in a stuffy parlor car or sleeper. And we have the uuietest, most celicious meals so different from q crowded hotel dining room. No? You really must go tonight? Oh, you poor dears."
 On the way to the station in the taxicab, Aunt Belle and Cousin Isa- bel avoided each others eyes for awhile, then they broke down and laughed.
 After all" they admitted. "the summer holiday is state of mind, isn't it?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
THE LOVE CAM. A CITY
 ROMANCE BY VIRGINIA TRgRE wEBswIR
CHAPTER 1O0


 When he had paid the bill and the pair went out into the sunshine, Winifred regretted the second drink. Her head began to ache and the glare hurt her eyes.
 The cab that had brought them to the restaurant was waiting for them. Rankin glanced at his watch.
 T did not know it was so late!' he exclaimed. Will you think me ter ribly rude if l drive around by the station and send you on home in the cab? l do not want to lose my train. l left my bag in the station this noon."
 Certainly I do not mind" she as- sured him. At heart she was re- lieved that he was not to accompany her back to the hotel. She did not care to have her guardian see her drive up to the steps with the young reformer. Moreover, her head aohed, and she did not want to make eXpla- nations just now.
 Neither of the occupants talked much on their way to the station. Here Rankin alighted and had brief conversation with the driver. q have paid him for everything including your trip back to the hotei so do not give him a cent" he told Winifred "Understand?"
 "Yesn she replied. Donald himself could not do things more handsomely than did this poor chap. You are very kind" she added.
 She tried to smile in spite of her headache, which was increasing every minute.
 She was pale. Rankin took her hand in his and looked at her anX- iously.
 T hope you are not over-tired,~ ~ he said. DO not wait here any longer. Go back to your hotel and get a little nap. I shall not forgive myself if I have wearied you too much"
 You have not" she insisted. "I think, however, that I will follow your suggestion. Thank you for a lovely time. Good-bye!"
 May I call soon?' he asked as he released her hand.
 Yes indeed" she murmured.
 She leaned back and closed her eyes as the cab bore her away. How i'll she felt. and how the blood ham mered In her ears If she could only get a little nap! She hoped there would be nobody she knew on the front porch when she reached her destination.
 She opened her eyes when, at the end of five minutes, the cab stopped She was surprised to find herself al- ready at the hotel.
 Before the driver could alight, the door of the cab was opened by a man.
 It was Donald Muir.
 (TO Be ContinuedD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
MOTERS SHOULD KNOW
Bv DIR. CHARLOTTE c. '


 Children feel the intense heat of summer more than adults, and as the days grow warmer every mother looks longingly forward to the pros pect of a few weeks, perhaps even occasional days, at the seashore or in the country, where she can have a much needed rest and change while the children are given the bene- fits of natures beautiful gifts-fresh air, sunshine, cool ozone laden freezes; and where, far from the madding crowd, the entire family is enabled to get a renewed grip on life's forces, for there Is nothing so devastlng as the endless grind of city life with it's incessant beating upon the nerve centers.
 Many mothers cannot afford an en- tire month out of town; cannot even take the family for week end. To these I advise daily airings in the parks, where there are many shady hooks and bowers from which you can select one to be peculiarly your own. A baby carriage or little go- cart vii hold all equipment required for comfort plus simple lunch and baby's feelings. To insure some peaceful hours it is a good plan to rope off a space sufficient for a little playground to which the chill dren must confine themselves. They will then need less careful watch ing. The sensible mother will arise an hour earlier, get her house in or der, and be off with the babies in the cool of the day; returning by sun down, they will be ready for bed, and-pleasureably fatigued, sleep soundly the night through.
 An occasional outing on the water will vary the monotony of a summer that must be spent at home. Many of these water trips are remarkably cheap; within the city limits there are numerous water resorts that are only crowded on holidays and Sun days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Wishing Pebble away from her and the Wishing Stick away from Rag gedy Andy.
 That's all she thought about as she hoped upon her flying broom and flew from the great yellow pop corn" clouds.
 T know where they are." the little old Witch howled to herself. They are hiding in the deep. deep woods and they do not know that my flying broom is a magic broom and will take me right where they are hid ing"
 This was quite true, for the Rag gedys and little Ned Gnome did not magical.
 And even if they had known It. they would have forgotten 1t when they found the chocolate ice cream mud puddle and started eating the
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chocolate ice cream.

chocolate ice cream.
 Suddenly the little old Witch flew to them, "Ha, ha, hal" she laughed You thought 1 couldn't find you didn't you? Now you shall not escape this tlme!" And she reached to catch hold of Rageedy Andy's arm. The little old Witch couldn't fool Rag gedy Andy again! He knew that if she once touched him, it would not be easy to jerk away, so before she could catch Raggedy Andy, he gave the little old Witch such a push, he tumbled her right over backwards into the chocolate ice cream mud puddle. Wow! It's cold" the little old Witch howled as she splashed about trying to get to the land again, Little Ned Gnome cried, quick! l know where to hide! and before the Witch knew it. the three friends were running away through the deep, deep woods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
MORE THAN EIGHT MILLION PACKAGES OF BLACK AND WHITE
 ARE SOLD YEARLY
Sale Each Year Growing by Leaps and Bounds, Is of Tremendous lmpor-
 tance to Women

Although placed on sale only few years ago, such complexion neces sites as Black and Whitet Cleansing and Peroxide Cream, as well as many others, are now outselling most of the older and better known articles, and for no other reason than their unusual merit, uniform quality toilet articles say that they have never and popular prices.
 Many druggists and dealers who sell seen the equal of Black and White Beauty Creations for solving the skin and com plexion porblem for old as well as young women who had never before been able to find the right method of caring for their skin.
 A few years ago Black and White beau ty creations were unknown. Today they are selling at the rate of more than twenty thousand packages day on every one of the 365 days in the year, or total of more than eight million packages year.
 From the biggest stores in the large cities, to the smallest crossroads coun- try store miles away from even a railroad Black and White beauty creations are being sold in ever-increasing quantities. with the result that the manufacturers have been forced to move into larger quarters three different times during the last four years. Even the present plants, which occupy total floor space of 105,- 900 square feet, are taxed to full capacity in the effort to keep up with orders re- ceived every day from all parts of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
Warns Against the Too-Hand some Man

lamented Anna Held. he cant make his eyes behave.
 No one, male or female, who has large, soulful orbs can keep a come- hither look out of them when an other of the opposite sex Is around Nor can any man or woman with lovely teeth and a Cupid's bow mouth refrain from smiling the tender little smile that Is an invitation to senti- mental dalliance.
 Especially no man. possessed Of charms. can keep from using them He doesn't mean any harm by his philandering. In fact, he intends it kindly, just giving the poor things a treat by permitting them to admire him at close range, but it takes wife with more philosophy than most women possess to view the spectacle of her good-looking husbands af fairs with perfect calmness.
 too -good-looking husband is to be avoided because beauty invariably makes it's possessor self-centered and selfish and arrogant. Perhaps this is because, in reality, we all put physi- cal pulchritude above all other gifts and worship it more blindly than we do any other talent. Thus we pam per and spoil the beauty
 In every family 1t Is the best looking one who is set apart and worshiped by the others. It Is the handsome son who must go to college, not the one with the most brains. It Is the handsome prodigal for whom the fatted calf is killed when he oc- casionally comes back to strike the old man for more funds. not the son who has stayed at home and helped make the business. It Is the girl with the pretty hands who Is never allowed to put them in dishwater or ruin them by yielding a broom. It is tha nrettv dauphter who gets all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

away out over the ocean, or until they met lot of other clouds, and pumped together into a storm. In that case, the little old Witch would have come down to the earth again in a lot of rain, for pop corn" clouds are not bouncy in a storm.
 So, when the little old Witch quit bouncing from her fall to the cloud below she found her flying broom right near her.
 "Ha. ha, ha!' she chuckled to her seTf, They threw my flying broom down to me, so now I can hop right on it and fly after them!" You would have thought the little old Witch would have been so glad to get her flying broom she would not have thought or bothering the Raggedys again; but she was a mean little old Witch and all she thought about was getting the Raggedys so that she could take Raggedy Annls magical
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have beautiful characters rather than beautiful faces and forms.

Most women are a trifle enVious of their sisters who are married to what we call distinguished men. They need not be. Poor Jane Car lyle wrote down in blood what the wife of a genius has to endure and every wife of a public man or hfr man of affairs knows that she is sort of a wife by proxy and that what her husband Is really welded to is his career.
 In matrimony there Is great peace and happiness in mediocrity' and the wise woman picks out for husband a man who is so much less good-looking than she Is that beauty, and she keeps him from get ting rich enough to make it worth while for the vamps to take him away from her.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Finally. 1t is a hazardous experience for a woman to marry very nand- some man unless she also is in the bIue-ribbon class of good-lookers Otherwise she has to go through the world rretending not to hear the in- vidious comparison that misses about her
 Good heavens, did you see his wife? What in the world do you suppose made such a handsome man marry a woman that looks like that" So it goes, and the husbands beauty turns a searchlight on the wife that exaggerates her every fault of line and coloring thousandfold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
MUSICAL GIRL

The story of the Pied Piper is out-rivalcd today by the ukulele girl. Wherever you hear a faint little "tum tum tum" you will find a pretty girl in the center of a group of young men, She may be siging an Irish melody, or the latest coon song, but as she picks out her own accompaniment and fills the air with music she attracts her own crowd. She may be on the beach, or her own yeranda, but wherever she is, and whatever she is playing catches the mascline ear.
 And the same story is true with any girl who can play musical in strument. The victrola and the player piano turn out q certain amount of canned music, but the girl who plays 9 piano, the violin, guitar, or even the popular ul;ulele, never sits alone
 There is always a charm about music and the girl who renders it. The girl who can sit down at a piano and ripple off Chopins~ waltzes, a Lit from Brahms and then burst forth with a lively foX-trot catches Cupids attention at once and holds it. All that is sentimental and poetical Tn mascline nature is brought to the surface when soft, musical tones is- sue from a piano or violin.
 Wont you please play that again?" asks the very young man or the bald headed bachelor, and then Cupid starts to work at once.
 No wonder then that the uIulele girl at the beach or on hike is so popular. In a crowd there is no way Of establishing such good fellowship and comradeship as by singing. The girl who can play and get the crowd started certainly deserves to be pop 1 ular She does not have to be par ticularly pretty or stylish. She has personality all her own. Then, too, there is always the man who plays CT sings. Many friendships have been formed because a girl and man like 10 play duets or because the girl plays for the man to sing.
 Young people do not always form friendships with an idea of marriage and the girl and man neighbors who can play and sing find that they are most cungenial in a platonic way Many lonely evenings and holidays 1 may be filled in which would other wise have to be spent alone or read | ing.
 But, of course, it Is that Please play that again." followed by q . dreamy WistfUl expression which the average girl wishes to hear after she has played something that she her . self likes extremely well. In playinS for the man she likes or admires she puts a certain amount of expression and feeling into her music, and when he responds to her mood and appre- ciates her effort she is pleased. Music is one of the oldest keys to tho masculine heart. From the days of In the GIoaming" down to " es. We Have No Bananas there has been a charm about music. The girl who renders it basks in llmellgAt shed straight from Cupid's love lamp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
There's Safety
 In Mediocrity
Dorothy Die
Greek Gods Make Poor Husbands-Handsome Is As
 Handsome Does, In Matrimony

A woman Is suing her husband for divorce because he Is too handsome She says that the first time she gazed upon his moving plcture-hero pro file, his Greek-god figure and his japanned hair, she fell madly in love with him and marked him for her own. Unfortunately, she finds that many other women are similarly affected by him, and she is so tired Of trying to stand off an army of ri Vals that she is ready to quit and call 1t a matrimonial day.
 Naturally. Of course. What did the poor creature expect? That her own sex would be stricken blind, that the star that had shone for the multitude would be content to twinkle in little domestic their beauty behind a wedding veil, nor Is there any record of even the most jealous wife being able to lock a husband up safely at home.
 No woman is such plunger In the marriage gamble as she who picks opt conspicuously handsome man on whom to place her bet. She takes long shot at happiness that loses cut ninety-nine times out of hun dred.
 There arc many reasons for this. me flrSt Is khat she reVerSes the natural crder of things. She becomes the admirer instead of the admired, and sooner or later that is bound to get upon the nerves of any wife. No woman wants to be forever telling a man how nice and slim he Is, and what a noble brow he has got. and how she loves the way his hair grows on his forehead.
 That's the kind of thing that every woman perishes to have some man say to her, and when she has to be the purveyor of compliments instead of the recipient of them, she Is going to come to hate the fatal beauty that lured her to her doom.
 But she can't cut out the sweet and soft talk. She Is bound to keep on with the palaver, for well she knows that every woman her husband meets is telling him what a living picture he Is, and that the only way she can keep him is by concocting a home brew flattery that has more potent knock -out drops than that concocted by the ladies whom he takes in to dinner and dances with at parties and who take his dictation in of iices.
 Another reason why the very
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

DELEGATE TO NATIONAL CONVENTION

Carlisle who recently went a representative from Rap pa chapter to the national convention of the Apna Dea Pi sorority which Boston. En route home Miss Car
 sle stopped in Asheve N G. to visit her sister, where she will stay for the remainder of the VacaonPhoto by Turner Studio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Do not throw away the fat left after frying bacon. This Is excel lent for frying fish and potatoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Add teaspoon lemon juice to the water in which rice Is boiled. It will make the rice white and give a pleas ing flavor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
BEAUTY AND HEAL l
nr nR- LILLIAN WHITNF

r. V. S. R-Your mistake lie using hot water This relaxes v skin, and although you use water afterward, it fails to con the cutiele enough to counteract effect of the heat. hence your F gape To improve the comple no matter what it's character, cle your skin with meal mixture sale in any large department or q store). Take about one tablespd ful of the meal, add enough t water to make paste. Apply the finger tips, rubbing it in ded| After a while remove the paste N tepid water, followed by repeI cool waters. This method of cleI ing the pores is good in all cases pimples and blackheads. The pa when allowed to dry upon the s' acts as powerful astringent' re ing the pores and tightening skin. It Is really a mask treatm resulting in beautiful, smo transparency.
 The fat will not shutter when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26
DOROTHY DIX.

Intended for milking machines is a valve attachment that automatically closes against the entrance of nm purities should the device be dtscon- ncctcd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

A Berlin scientist is the inventor of an instrument to measure every Nprotuberance and depression in their heads to study the abilities of per Aons.
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the good clothes. Anything is good enough for poor, plain Martha.
 so the woman who wants a husband whose chief joy in life will be dress ing her up and making her his show window, and who will go through life wondering how he ever happened to get such living picture, Is wise to pick out the ugliest man of her acquaintance.
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Beauty and the beast is well enough when woman is the beauty, but it is tragedy when the man is the beauty and the woman is the ugly one. No. Handsome is as handsome does in a husband, and the desirable husbands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Because crossbars of electric motor rCtors sometimes become loose, a Wis consin man has designed rotor winding made from a single piece of suitably shaped copper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-26

Another reason why the very handsome man Is poor matrimonial risk is because he would be super human If he were not flirtatious. He may really be very much In love with his wife, and in his heart truly faithful to her, but, like the late
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If she marries a handsome man he will have the first call on the family clothes budget, and there won't be much left for her when he gets through. Nor will he waste much time trying to make things pleasant for her. He will consider that her mission in life is to make the way smooth for him. That's what his mother and sisters and other women teach a handsome man to expect ot a wife.