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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
Mans Gambler in the Game
 of Picking Out Ideal Wife

ing the most stay-at-home household grubs, and we could mention, off hand, dozen girls who, before mar riage, seemed nothing but silly little fashion plates, who, after marriage, developed into model wives and mothers.
 We have seen a marriage turn a girl who hung her clothes up on the floor at home into neat housekeep. er..We have seen a girl who wouldn't get up to breakfast at home, arise and cook her husband. o'clock breakfast without whimper. We nave seen marriage make lazy girls industrious, and extravagant ones saving, and we have seen just the opposite of all this, and so we say you never can tell
 Generally speaking, the safest play for man to make is to marry girl who has had her fill of the pleasures of girlhood. This means pretty clothes, parties, dancing and the. sd- miration of men.
 The girl who is always longing for
 
 have them will make her husband buy them for her if she possibly can, but to the girl who has been accus- toned to Paris frocks there is no fictitious halo about name sewed in belt, or in the lining in a hat. Her happiness is not bound up in them. and she can make lark of wearing handme- downs, or making her own clothes.
 The girl who is accustomed to money is more apt to be economical than the poor girl, because the young husbands salary seems small beside her fathers income to the well-off girl, whereas it seems the purse of Fortunates to the poor girl.
 The girl who has always had to cook and do homework is fed up on domestic service. She hates it, and one of the reasons she marries is to get out of it, whereas the girl who has had no housekeeping experience yearns over her pots and pans, and regards cooking as the most fasci- hating of the fine arts.
 man who marries a country girl may be very sure that she will not be content to spend her evenings across the reading lamp from him. She will be avid for the bright lights, and the jazz, and the dancing that she has hungered for and never had. It is the girl who has danced until she is tired who stays put when she is married.
 wise man never marries a girl In her first season. He picks out ono who has sampled all the differ ent varieties of love-making, and who likes his best. It is the women wEo have never had any beaux in their youth who hunt up affinities at forty.
 The woman who has had is the one pest matrimonial bet. But the sort of wife girl will make depends on how much she loves you. If she leves you enough any girl will make a good wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

man with whom he talked was an arrant coward.
 Yet victoria-plucky Victoria, afraid of nothing-loved him! A wave of compassion for her softened Lang's heart.
 "Yes,' Sam confessed, q was afraid'
 But you were not afraid to run the risk of jail were you?" "I expected some money that a man out west owed me. It did not come So when Victoria gave me Walshs check to get cashed 1 raised it. l had to have the money that day We had made our plans to get away. was desperate. The other money did not come. But I'll get it later. I know I will"
 "Idiot! Lang exclaimed. What good will the money do you if you go to jail?"
 "Walsh would not send his daugh- whined. T meant to write him and tell him I would pay back every cent of what I took. But first l must make sure of Victoria. l tell you I'd marry her if l did have to go to jail afterward! She'd stick by me through it all!'
 There was long silence. during which Kenneth Lang did some rapid thinking. Victoria must be saved. She would never give up Travers. If she were to learn what he had done she would still hold fast to him. But she would suffer. It was cruel, un just--the innocent suffering with the guilty. But they always die!
 It might not be too late yet to save her. He. Kenneth Lang, was her friend. He had promised to stand by her.
 '"Travers," he asked suddenly, have you seen MT. Hamilton?"
 Travers started in surprise. "Yes. I saw him just now. He told me he would marry us as soon as l brought Victoria to his house. She is here, in this town"-
 " know" Lang interrupted. T have seen her. Never mind how! I have seen her-that's enough. Now listen. Do you promise solemnly to pa. back to James Walsh every cent of that money that you-stole-ycs that's the word-stLle from him?
 If not. you do not marry Victoria. Will you here and now sign a prom se to that effect? If so. will beg James Walsh to give you chance. If he will, you-and Victora-may yet be saved from the effects of your dishonesty and insanity"
 As he spoke Lang drew his flash light from one pocket. From another he took a notebook and opened it at a blank page. With his fountain pen he hastily wrote three lines on the page, then thrust the pen into Sans trembling fingers.
 sign your name" he ordered.
 (TO He COntinuedD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
Fauorite Recipes
 of Famous Men
ALBERT STEINER Portrait Painter SOLE (ALIAS FLOUNDER) HERBI-
 yORE

In the waters of our dear land the sole. king of the sea fish, does not isport-therefore the not less sue culent founder serves for this tooth- some dish.
 In Maine-in a boat-in an inlet with much sun above me, I caught the lazy founder I cleaned him on the stone steps outside my cabin washed and cooked him. He was then white and firm like marble.
 If you would feast as I did, follow these instructions:
 Prepare eight marble-like filets of founder. Dry them assiduously be- tween clean cloths. Salt and pepper them and parboil. Prepare quan tits of spinach. Beware of the grit. Many waters will do the deed. Cook the spinach in the best manner.
 If you live in the country there may spring up about your domicile, in the early dawn--on cold, moist morning g-mushrooms! If so, and not, use the telephone. One half pound of them will add flavor to your dish. Boil till tender.
 shallow earthen baking dish is required at this point. Butter the dish and make a green bed of the spinach whereon dispose of the par boiled filets. A layer of the mush- rooms ensues: layer of spinach above that. Intersperse the edifice with bits of butter, sufficient salt and pepper-and enough rich cream to moisten. Finally sprinkle finely grated cheese from Parma over the top. Deliver the dish into a hot oven-there to rest until 1t is a golden brown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
THE SEWING BASKET
RIBBON FLOWER BASKETS

Ribbon flowers have become so popular for trimming that now they are being gathered into groups and made into flower basket arrange ments.
 Baskets of flowers are being used as decoration for negliEees waere they can be combined wi-h layers of lace and chiffon and soft crepes so that they bring out the charm of the coloring of the dress and still serve their own little purpose of being most noticeable and beautiful spots of decoration.
 A basket of these little posies- they looked like spring flowers in yellow and white-was biased direct ly in front of the walslline Of a light yellow taffeta flock with It's wide puffy skirt and tigh. little bod ice. Then from underneath .he bas- ket there streamed any number os narrow ribbon ends looking as though they were veritable part of the basket arrangement. This, then, was the whole of the trimmi q g of the frock and It was most effec- tive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

Ing for something. So the two Rag gedys caught hold of hands and ran down the path until they caught up with the kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork. If you tell us what you are hunting for, kind old Doctor Lew ellen Stork, Raggedy Andy and will help you, hunt for it. We can find things very we'll, for we both have shoe button eyes!" said Raggedy Ann.
 Kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork chuckled softly and arranged his spectacles nearer his eyes, I'm look ing for presents, Raggedy Ann and RagGedy Andy" he said.
 Birthday presents, kind old Doctor Lewellen stork?" Raggedy Andy asked.
 You guessed if the first 'pop'i" kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork laughed, "Ah," he said as he poked his long bill under bush, "Hhere's the first one 1 have found today" and what do you think he pulled out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
Fly DOROTHY DIX.

young man wants to know some whether girl will make thrifty, domestic, home-staying wife or not Alas and alack, there is no sage who can answer this question! There is no way of telling what sort Of wife woman will mako until after you have married her, and then the knowledge comes too late io be of service. Matrimonial experience, like most other experience, teaches us it's lesson after the time has passed by when we could profit by it..
 You cannot tell the kind of wife a girl will make by her habits and her characteristics, because girls do not rious way of reserving themselves, and being as totally different after marriage from what they were be- fore marriage az pr. Jekyll was from MT. Hyde. Sometimes, indeed, it seems that the marriage ceremony is a sort of conjurA that metamor- phoses a woman into an entirely diff ferent being from what she was as a girl.
 This makes all of the cut-and- dried rules for picking out a good wife mere tommyrot. Of course, it sounds plausible to say if you want an economical wife to marry a poor girl who has had to count her pen nies all her life. Or if you want a wife who Is a good cook, marry girl who has always had to do housework at home. Or if you want wife who will be an Alice sit-b the-fire, marry a girl who has been brought up in the country or in some quiet community.
 All or that sounds like good, logi- cal aovlce, and many a man follows 1t to his undoing. He picks out a poor girl In order to get saving Wife, and finds out that she Is tired of squeezing nickels, and that hence- forth she proposes to throw money at the birds. He marries the do- nestle girl. and as soon as the cere- mony Is over she walks out of the Kitchen and refuses to enter it again at any price.
 He picks out fireside companion who doesn't know how to fox trot. ana the minute she is married she takes dancing lessons and goes cab aret mad.
 on the other hand, many a girl who has spent papa's money as if it grew on trees becomes the tightes or little tightwads when it comes to parting with her own money. Some or the very best cooks I have ever seen are women who had never boiled an egg until after they were married, and business women gener- ally make moro efficient and eco nomical housekeepers than home keeping girls.
 All of us have seen dozens of so- clety butterflies settle down into be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

Deed! he hasn't lost his spec. tacles. Rasgedy Ann." RagEedy Andy said, For kind old Doctor Lew eiienN Stork has his spectacles right on his nose. I mean his long bill,"
 So he has!" Raggedy Ann admit ted Then kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork has lost something. I'll bet a million dollars!'
 T believe he has," Raggedy Andy replied. Cause, see. he's pokine around in almost every clump of bushes and every hollow tree!
 l wonder what he is doing?"
 And l wonder too! said Ragsedy Ann as she got upon her wobbly rag legs and smoothed the wrinkles out of her pretty apron. Let's follow kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork and maybe we can see what he Is hunting for. Or maybe we can help him find it!"
 This pleased Raggedy Andy for he had wanted to do this as soon as he saw Doctor Lewellen Stork look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
CHAPTER lOI.

CHAPTER 1O1.
 Kenneth Lang sprang from his car and stepped into the middle of the road.
 Travers' brakes made a grinding, screeching sound as the driver threw them on suddenly and brought his automobilesto a stop.
 What the devil"-hc began.
 "Travers!" Lang called.
 As he advanced, the glaring head light full in his face, Sam swore violently, then started his engine.
 Get out of the way!" he yelled. "Or I'll run you dtwn-you''-
 But before he could say more Lang had sprung forward and was stand ing on Sam's running board.
 "Travers!" he repeated. Listen to mel
 But. with another oath, the fright ened man started his engine.
 Look out" he warned--or TIP
 Look out yourself" Kenneth ex- claimed. whipping his revolver from his pocket and pressing the cold muzzle against Travers' forehead. Turn off your engine!"
 Shivering, Sam obeyed.
 What the devil?" he began with a pitiful effort at bravado Are you crazy. Lang?"
 "No," Lang said sternly. but you are! There's no use trying to bluff 1t out. Sam! I know all about it."
 About what? About Victoria and me eloping? Well, what if you do? She told me you would not be sur- prised."
 His effort to appear unconscious of his captor's real meaning was pitiful
 Don't be fool, Sam!' Lang ad- vised. You know what I mean. You know you're a thief-that you raised a check from $100 to s1,00o. And l know it, too"
 There was a dead silence. When Sam spoke again his voice was so weak and tremulous that Lang would not have recognized 1t.
 What are you going to do with me?' he asked.
 That depends. There's Victoria, you know"
 "Yes," the quavering voice broke in-"and she'll know all this and she trusted me-believed me. I only did 1t because I loved her so much that l had to save her. It was the only way. Her father threatened to blow out my brains if I ever came there again."
 You were hardly afraid of that, were you" Kenneth asked. He tried to, keep the scornful sound from the question. He appreciated that above all his buster and show this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
~Adven1utes .f-A Ea4sedy
 ~hrK N-4,,-AnA ..A. Kaa'AeW
 ~ANAv

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy were sitting in under a clump of laurel bushes in the deep, deep woods, filled with Fairies n ev- erything; listening to the whispering of the great trees above them: when who should come walking along but old Doctor Lewellen Stork.
 Now what in the world Is kind old Doctor Lewellen Stork doing walking along in the deep, deep woods, filled with fairies n ev- erything. Raggedy Andy?"
 Raggedy A Id y whispered in his quietest raggedy whisper.
 Dear mel" Rag gedy Ann whis- pered in reply, q wonder tool Kind old Doctor Lewellen Sttrk very, very seldom walks any place except moisty Marsh, or in the trickles of the tink- ing laughing brook! Maybe he has lost !, 2. ,,,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
CLEANING THE MOP

If you use dry mop for your floors, instead of shaking it out the window or occasionally striking the handle and sometimes breaking 1t on the window sill, try using an old whisk broom to brush the dust out of it. You will find that this will separate the strands of the mop and it will last a great deal longer.
 $. c. T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
FOR COLD WEATHER

In the,s days when i. is so hard to set ccal l light the gas stove arl place four han1 irons Gver two of t1s burners. When the irons are thoro ugf ly heated turn the gas tow. T'a the nc meters res sfe- A n the kitchen and 63 in the next room.
 J, s. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
HANDY CONTAINERS

I obtain dozen hard paper qrar. cohtalLers and paint them with white ena:me.. When they are dry 1 draw ciamond with blue cr,yo1 In the middle, Inside of the diamond wr'.e the names of the contc1:s. use trerl for cereal SC $ and many Gher little things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
USE FOR BROOM HANDLES

I always saw off the handles of old brooms and to the one end I attach an implement such as they use In grocery stores for taking canned good off shelves. You can buy this implement in any hardware store at small cost. I can now get down all my canned goods without getting on chair. l.. V. R.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
FRESH AIR IN KITCHENETTE

To eliminate drafts and at the same time allow fresh air to enter my kitchenette, l have a thin board (the width of my windows and four nches high which [ it saug'v [, We sash frame. Liter frs. raising the window to allow t ta he i;rted in. The air. con'nR in between the ss s,ssy Is warned before enterplgs tlAJ rs6si
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
KITCHENETTE RINK
KEEPS BREAD FRESH

I keep my bread In an earthen pot, which keeps it soft. l also pu. in bread that has been overlooked and has dried up. Ire air In tho DO. freshens up the hari bread.
 l., l.. L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
Your Home and You
COLD COMFORT
ny HELEN KENDALL

Gosh, Nelly, you certainly know how to make a fellow comfortabler
 The young husband sat in a deep wing chair by the roaring fire in his figured dressing gown and soft Rus sian boots, and by his side was a low tabourette holding a bowl of mixed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
NEAT KITCHEN

By Keeping my scrub pail brush
 es, ammonia, cleanser and other cleaning articles in one of my sta tionary tubs. they are handy and still out of sight. A. V. T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
STEEL WOOL FOR ELECTRIC
 WASHER

coating from the soap used to form on my electric washer, and tried several things to take it off, finally tried steel wool, which worked like magic. All the coating of soap that hardened on the washer came off with no trouble whatever. E. N.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
FAMOUS WOMEN

Philla was the daughter of Anti- pator, governor of Macedon. during the absence of Alexander. She lived about 534 B. C. She was woman of remarkable powers of mind, being consulted on great affairs of state. By skilful management she prevented a turbulent army from breaking into open instruction. She married poor maidens at her own expense and op- posed the oppressors of innocent peo- pie with great rigor. She married Creterus, one of Alexander's cap tains and the favorite of the Mace donians. After his death she mar ried Demetrius l., son of Antigonus, King of Asia. She poisoned herself on hearing that Demetrius had lost his possessions in Asia, in a battle at Ipsus. 301 B. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08
0raperIes Ginehams Stockings Everything

Each 15 cent package of Diamond Dyes" contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint her old. worn. faded things to new. even if she has never dyed before. Buy Dia- mond Dyes-no other kind--then perfect home dyeing is guaranteed. Jut tell your druggist whether the s stal you wish to dye is wool or '.'N9 osa neither it Is linen. cotton. or
 ;r sods. Diamond Dyes never stle.ik pot. fade or run.-AS~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

fortable as am. Solid comfort. You've got the trick of it, all right
  Medium Brown Hair looks best Of all after a Golden Glilt Shampoo.- Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

The woman who has had is the one best matrimonial bet. But the sort of wife a girl will make depends on how much she loves you. If she lcves you enough any girl will make good wife
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-08

wise man never marries a girl in her first season. He picks out ono who has sampled all the differ ent varieties of love-making, and who likes his best. It is the women wEo have never had any beaux in their youth who hunt up affinities at forty.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-24
BOYS In
COUNTY CORN CLUB

Up to the present time fifty-four
bows have registered in the Roosevelt
County Boys Corn Club and it is be-
lieved that before the season is well
along there will be at least seventy
members in this project.
These members will represent APP
proximately three hundred and fifty
+ of high grade corr of all the
leading varieties raised in this section
of the state, for each boy is required
to plant a minimum of two acres and
some of them will plant as high as
ten acres.
T~wenty-six of the above mentioned
boys are raising this cor for feed
in connection with the Boys Sow
and Litter Club which was started
the latter part of last year. These
26 boys who were last years Boys
Corn Club members, have high grade
sows and are raising for the county
a large bunch of high class stock
that will in time be invaluable to the
county's pork production. Reports
show that these pig club boys, where
their litter has narrowed, are having
fairly good success with their young
pigs. Some boys report as high as
ten pigs saved while a few of the
boys have not been successful and
have lost practically all of their lit
ter.
1t is possible that this years Corn
Club will be followed up with a sheep
club where the project is practical
and a big inducement will be made to
get boys who have corn this fall to
get started in the sheep business on
a small scale. Practically all the
boys entered in the two clubs will
be assembled at the boys camp which
will be held at Poplar at the Indian
school campus the last week in July
and there receive further instructions
and practical demonstrations connect
ed with corn, hogs and sheep rails
ing together with a well balanced
recreational program.-D. B. Noble,
County Agent.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-24
FARMERS MAY JUDGE
MERITS OF BIG HITCH

A demonstration of the methods
of hithcing and handling big horse
teams will be given in Roosevelt
county in June, according to word
from County Agent Dan Noble, the
date set being June 8, at the County
Farm Bureau picnic, says a bulletin
from Montana State College.
In the big survey of successful
farms in North Montana last summer,
comments the bulletin, it was found
that men driving large teams were,
in most cases, making larger incomes
than the men who can handle not
more than four or six horses at a
time. The survey developed that big
horse farming has an important place
in the dry land methods of northern
Montana. On the dry farm success
train that the State College Exten-
sion Service sent through north Mon
tana this spring, the big team demon
stration was a feature. Because of
the interest in this handling OF big
teams. another demonstration tour IS
arranged for June.
At each demonstration will be the
county agent, an agricultural engi-
neer and an expert handler of big
teams. 1t is thought that this team
ster vii be Jesse J. Peek, the driver
who was with the farm success train
this spring. Different method of
hitching from eight to IL horses will
be shown, with different kinds of
harness and methods of driving the
team. There is some difference of
opinion between various farmers on
the Mailman type hitch and the
evener type, but both types will be
demonstrated and the farmer a see
which works the most efficiently.
One thing about the demonstration
of interest will be methods by which
one mar can quickly harness these
big teams, lead them from the barn,
hitch them to the implement, feed
and water them without unnecessary
loss of time. 1t will also be shown
how young colts can be broken among
the old horses in each of these big
outfits without danger of undue
trouble.
A big dynamometer will measure
the pull between various horses and
various teams in these demonstra-
tions and will measure the efficiency
of the various bitches.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-24
CORN VARIETIES WILL
BATTLE ON 3 FARMS

Pitted against one another on three
different farms, representative of
three different conditions, are sam
pies of the best corn in Roosevelt
county and Montana, battling for su-
premacy as to the best corn adapt
ed to our conditions.
These corn variety tests are being
conducted by Geo. Percy of Balm
vile, Supt. Glascock of Poplar, and
John Dorgan of Camrud, north of
Wolf Point, and it is expected that
some very valuable and interesting
information will be determined as a
result of this work. Following is a
list Of the strains and varieties that
are on test: Minnesota IS Yellow
Dent. Minnesota % White Dent, Nor
thwestern Dent. White Mixed Flint,
Yellow Flint, Mixed Flint, Dakota
White Flint, Gehu and White Flint.
Among the growers are such men
as Mr.. Vaux of Sidney, Mr.. Kerr of
Burns. Mr.. Coleman Of Aitkin. MINI.
and Mr.. Hartwick of Meredith, all
of whom have taken great pride in
their selection work, together with
the extra good growers from this
county.
Date of maturity and yield of both
fodder and corn will be the standard
of determining the supremacy and
the original growth will be looked
on to furnish the seed for the corr
that shows best.