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The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

FOLKS THAT LIVE IN COMMUNI-
TIES where the mosquito is a sum-
mer pest and is usually the size OF a
button will welcome the hint as to the
latest "Skeeter Shoo-er." Possibly
you are not able to sleep at night
because you are bitten to death" In
spite of this, take your screen out OF
your window, leave it wide open ana
set your electric fan about six feet
inside the aperture, pointing outward.
In this way you will double the breeze
around your window. Any venture
some skeeter coming anywhere near
the draft will be drawn toward 1t
and blown out of doors. Once out, it
lacks the strength to beat its way
back against this blast of artificial
wind.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

More than 10000 women In Chile are
employed in factory work.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

Germans have to work IA days each
year to pay their taxes. In France
the taxes call for % days work.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY

Heaven is nearer than any man
knows.
So is hell
Some people figure that virtue is a
copyrighted article.
Tie dachshund has not far to fall.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

The approximate cost Of one of the
latest types of large locomotives is
from 100000 to $4,000
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

A triangle Is said to be q right tri-
angle when one Of its angles is obtuse
or greater than a right angle.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03


On an average a woman requires
1000 pounds Of food year, or 400 less
than a man requires.
The woman who Is single and get
ting on in years is generally termed
an "old maid" though the modern
type of woman prefers to be called a
bachelor girl"
Women Of the United States wear
100000 different styles Of shoes, says
William A. Durgin, chief Of the divi-
sion Of simplified practice Of the De
partment of Commerce.
Society women are an important
source Of income for the press clipping
bureaus, for they are constantly
wanting to know what is being writ
ten about their social movements, their
daughters engagements and mar
riages, and so on.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

NOW WE HAVE AN ELECTRIC
RAILWAY $500 feet beneath the sur
face in the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine, one Of the deepest mines
in the world. 1t is quite a complete
affair, this railroad, with tracks,
switches, cars and signal systems and
will be one mile and half in length
when completed. All locomotives,
compressors, pumps, ETC., will be run
by electricity generated above ground.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03
REINCARNAnONS

Polyanna peeling onions on q rainy
day.
Aladdin peddling electric fash
lights.
Job waiting for change In a depart
ment store.
P. T. Barnum buying secondhand
automobile.
General Sherman debating with q
married man on purgatory.
Old Mother Hubbard running hot
dog nursery-Chicago American.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

AN EYE LIKE A HAWK is as moth
ing to the new electrical eye," de-
vice which is being successfully used
for sorting fruits and vegetables. The
slightest discoloration in the food
stuff passing before the judicial me-
chanical eye results in its dropping
through a tray in the carrier while its
more fortunate bethern are assem-
bled elsewhere for marketing at
higher prices.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-08-03

THE LONG LIFE OF THE ELEC-
TRIO TRUCK is one Of its many mer-
it's to which users point. with just
pride. Over IT'S electric trucks that
have been in constant daily service
for over fifteen years are still being
efficiently operated in New York City,
conclusively demonstrating the truth
of their slogan: Taking the long cost
out Of short hauls."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

mutual admiration society instead of an anvil chorus. and the wives who are best loved are those who are most adept at incense burning, and who never grow weary in the good work. A man must have some woman to admire him, and if h1s wife doesn't, he hunts up some other woman who does, which is an elemental fact in masculine psychology that women do well to bear in mind.
 Being mans inspiration, which is the way women camouflage their intention of making a vertebrate man out of mush, is something that. ap- peals to the feminine love of med ding in other peoples business. But in real practice it is neither as dl- verting nor as successful as it promised to be. Putting aside the difficulties of the task and its boom erang rewards, women find that they soon lose interest in the undertaking.
 For women do not love long where they do not respect, and no woman strength to stand alone, but who has to lean on a woman, nor can she respect the man who Is Just too inert to hold his own among men.
 ITO 8 woman, just plain laziness, lack of energy, slothful self-indul- gence in case, are the unforgivable sins. She could more easily condone the breaking of all the Ten Com mandments. And when she finds out she is married to a man who is afraid of work. love flies out of the window. "don't marry shiftless man with the idea of making him over. Marry hustler who doesn't need to be made oyer,h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
RECITAL AT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC SATURDAY

The following program will be given at a recital at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music at Cable hall today at 1 p. m:
 Happy Farmer (Schumann) Doris Dearing; Thee Shoemaker 1 (Maxim), Morris Upshaw; "Ballade" | (Burgmuller), Martha Black; Rob | ins Egg (Maxim), Virginia Cowgirl; Scandinavian Dance" (Schytte), Frances Douglas; "The Waltz" l (Greig), Elizabeth Cowan; "Impor- tant Event" (Schumann), Frances Montgomery; "The Indian" (Ed-
 wards).. Floy Martin; Lullaby (Maxim), Elizabeth McGregor; "Fani- tull" (Olsen), Loudie Beck Elliott; "Ding Dong Bell" (Spaulding), Charlie Frank Raymond; "The
 Watchman's Song" tGrieg), Ernest Buchi; Sleigh Ride, lseeboecke., Evelyn. Strickland; "The Buttercup,' . Lillian Newman; Spring Mardigral' | (Whelpley), Sara Cunningham; I'm promptu" (Schytte), Helen Hardie; Melody in F'' Rubenstein), Ruth Brooks Fathers Lullaby" Gay nor), Murray Watts; Hide and Seek 1 (Schytte), Kathleen Lokey; Bobby Is Naughty" (Maxim), Margaret Walker; "The Country Band l (Blake), Kathleen Horner; Christ mas Bells" (Blake), Louise Spangler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
Junior L9ague Polo Game Al Roberts
 Field Today

The polo game between the Bir- mingham Sabers and the Governors Horse Guards of Atlanta for the benefit of the Junior League will take place this afternoon at Rob erts Field.
 Much interest Is being evidenced in this game as the funds from it will go to the furnishing of the new Junior League Children's Home.
 Miss Margaret Builder and Miss Evelyn Redd are sponsoring the Birmingham Sabers. Miss Katherine Redd and Miss Caroline Harris will wear the colors of the Horse Guards.
 During the game candy and pop corn balls will be on sale. Miss Annie Tartt Perry is the chairman of this committee and she wishes 1t known that she will call for the candy promised her if they cannot bring it themselves, if she is noti- fled.
 With these charming debutantes sponsoring the game and for such a worthy cause the match should be a success, society attending in great numbers the holiday spirit prevailing in the first holiday weather of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
THE SEWING BASKET
A SCARF OF PRINTED SILK

For the girl who loves brilliant color scarf of vividly printed silk is most appealing gift. There is nothing smarter than one of these long, rectangular scarves worn with a dark simple dress. They are so adaptable in their peculiar size that they can be worn to suit the owners fancy, either by draping about the body or wound about the throat Merely get three yards of silk of a light thin texture with an allover design in some definite pattern that you think will go nicely with the colors of your friends dresses. Then match a dominant tone in the silk with wide soft ribbon and bind the entire edge of the scarf with this. Two or three bands of ribbon can be sewed to form bands on eithe- end of the scarf or even bands of material the color of the ribbon can be hemstitched in to form real panels. The opposite of this idea can also be worked out to great ad- vantage using plain toned silk for the main portion of the scarf and binding 9Ie edges with some fig ured stuff It is best to have it hem stitched instead of merely sewing 1t on, as this gives much more at tractive finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
CARRARA MARBLE IN ART
Most Noted Sculptors Of Ancient
 Times Used The Material


 With the completion of heroIo statue of Adam. and Eve. hewn by an eminent sculptor to grace the estate of a wealthy American, what is said to be the largest block of Carrara marble ever brought into this country found expression in one of the oldest, and perhaps the most influential of the arts.
 Since Roman emperors opened the quarries more than two thousand years ago, merchant princes of the Middle Ages, monarchs and the mod ern world have fashioned then Arch itectural dreams in "Carrara" Only in Tuscany, Italy, is it now to be found in great quantities. More than 100000 tons yearly are being pro duced in the Apuan Alps, where there is a mountain of glistening stone 5000 feet high. And. despite the fact that centuries of building and art have drawn upon these snow white deposits for their uncarved beauty, the supply is little more thar touched.
 Michelangelo, whose sculptures are among the glories of the renaissance. worked in Carrara marble; Celleni used it, and, since before the birth of Christianity. the quarries have been shipping the matchless stone to all parts of the earth. It Is to be seen in the ruins of the Roman fo- rum. at the still well-preserved Arch of Constantine, and beneath the great dome of St. Peters cathedral in Rome.
 In most places where marble de- posits occur. 1t has become split up in the earth and various substances have filtered into the cracks, giving rise to the colored veins which make it unfit for statuary use. For some mysterious reason the Carrara mar bles have remained for the most part free from such disfiguring accidents In this condition the ancients found them.-Popular Mechanics. =,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
Can A W oman Make Over A Shiftless
 Man |?
A girl said the other day:

q am engaged to be married to a fine young man who has but one fault He utterly lacking in energy and initiative. He's got plenty of ability, but he has just been for years in the same position where he does just barely enough work to hold his job.
 today that you can put off until to- morrow, and he could give any Mexican points on manana, and still push him off the cactus field. He never answers a letter under three weeks, and when l am going with him anywhere he is always late com ing for me and I have to wait, and wait, and wait, until I am in red hot temper when he does arrive.
 What he needs is somebody to keep continually behind him and push and prod him into making a success of himself.'
 My Dear.p said I, don't you un- dertake the job unless you are out hunting for trouble, and have a cosmic urge for making a martyr of yourself, for, believe me, no woman ever undertakes as heart breaking a task as does the one who sets her hand to making over a man.
 Tn the first place, it can't be
 
 gotten in their deadly work before she has ever taken a shy at the task.
 When a man is porn tired the do- nothing sign is set on his forehead at birth, and no mere wife can eradicate it. though she skin him alive. Lazi ness goes to the bone.
 "Whether indolent and slothful people are the victims of the hook worm, or whether they are afflicted with some soul disease that paralyzes their energies, do not know.
 But I do know that laziness is an incurable vice, and that you can do nothing with the people to whom no achievements is worth the effort 1t costs, to whom labor is the ultimate curse of the world, and whose only desire is to loaf through life.
 That kind of a man never loves a woman we'll enough to work for her, and no wife, no matter how much of a human dynamo she is, can supply him with the power he needs to make him go-getter. Many optimistic women have assayed this impossible feat, but they all fail, for no wife can transfuse her own pep into the veins of a flabby husband, or SUD- plement his backbone with her own spinal column.
 ''As for a woman making anything of a man by trying to keep him pdChtu up dli tllllt, lildt IS dHOlHeT fallacy The only effect of wife keeping continually after her hus- band and trying to spur him on is to make him hate her.
 "she becomes thorn in the flesh. She is the outward and visible sign of the thing he loathes most. She is the nagging of his conscience. She is a. perpetual reminder of his own shame in being too weak and inert to do mans part.
 "No mans love survives having his wife tell him of his faults, or nag him about his shortcomings. A man may suspect that he cuts no i'm portant figure in the outside world, but his vanity demands that his wife shall admire him, that she shall be- lieve in him, that he shall measure up to her standard of manhood.
 Therefore, you cannot picture q man finding much comfort in the society of wife who Is a spur in his side, roweling him on to greater speed, urging him to take the haz- ardous jumps. Nor can you imagine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
SHORT sHAwL,s BEST USE

These short shawlettes, as you might call them, are reminiscent of the fashions of 1880. At that time no costume was complete without this little shoulder covering. Bouffant skirts were then fashionable and the shawl that reached to the waistline allowed the billowing skirt to have full play. In these days the shawl has no excuse but it's own exotic charm to recommend it.
 If you are of the vivid type of beauty shawl of this kind would be the most delightful sort of setting With shoulder draping of this sort it Is best to keep your dress of q neutral color so that the values of the two distinct parts of the costume will not detract from each other
 It is just possible that 90 years from now our granddaughters will be coaxing to cut grandma's em- broidered shawl into a fashionable dress of the time. That is, if grand ma herself leaves the precious article uncut until then. For this year the dress that is evolved from an em- broidered shawl is seen Frequently. | These dresses are made according to the wearer's own version of the style tendencies, and her own mo- tions of her particular charms are emphasized in the line she chooses. For instance, you may have all the | interest centered in a large scarf collar that swings over the shoulder. Or if you have pretty arms the sleeveless gown is desirable, With the character of the shawl brought out in the skirt It all depends. A shawl | gown is personality gown. Often a pincushion and a mirror will guide the making of shawl gown to suc- cess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
SOME NEW WRAPS

An interesting note has crept into the winter fashions which often are dull and severe in their dark tones and sombreness of texture. There are fresh new wraps which do not seem exactly wintery, but which are warm and cheerful in appearance. This effect is gained mostly by the unusual use of interesting materials. We do, to be sure, connect winter things in our minds with heavy woolen stuffs and with furs and vel vet, so it is pleasant surprise to coming forth in discreet examples of loveliness to charm us with their beauty.
 One wrap Is long, enveloping cape which is made altogether of ribbon. But what ribbonl Wide bands of heavy, rich moire silk looped up in innumerable loops all over the cape. The collar resembles a many-petalled flower with all it's overlapping folds of ribbon which form a huge ruff about the throat. The fastening under the chin is in ! the guise of two adorable rosettes of ribbon with very, very long stream CTS.
 The body of the wrap is of heavy golden brown crepe and the ribbon of slightly darker shades, but so faint is the differences in the tones that the whole effect succeeds in be- ing just mysterious and not at all startling The lights and shades caused by the pattern of the moire and by the overlapping of the many loops also add to the interest of the coloring. There really is so much more importance to these little de- tails than the average girl supposes that it is well worth studying them. So much of that evasive something called style depends entirely on the subtle colorings and folds of gar- ments that they should not be over looked in the search.
 The cape just described is typical of the new mode, emphasizing both the use of the ribbon and also the use of moire as decoration. Another moire cape seen recently was made on deep yoke and the many circular flounces which composed the body of the wrap were corded at their. edges to give a pagoda-like silhouette.
 The feminine lines are being more and more brought out in the models that areS continually appearing in contrast to the straight line effects of the past season and the very uni form cut has given way to various treatments. Especially we see a great swerve toward capes of differ ent lengths. They are budding from all sorts of unexpected places. Tiny, short capes find their way onto the backs of both dresses and coats and the longer ones vary in width from the close fitting to huge circular ones.
 As for trimming, fun of course is still the favorite, while collars of in- tricately corded silks run a close sec ond. Some stunning things are made of heavy broeaded silk or velvet with no fur at all on the outside, but they boast the most sumptuous of fur lin- ings or have wide bands of fur to trim a yiyidly toned silk lining
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
MISS CARTER TO
 ENTERTAIN AT TEA

Miss Kathryn Carter is entertain ing Sunday afternoon at her home on Crescent avenue with tea com plimenting her guest, Miss Jean Stanford of Camden, Ala, and Miss Kate Norwood of Salisbury, N. C.. who is visiting her father at the Tut wiler.
 The members of the school and college set home for the holidays, will be included in the invitations, numbering 200.
 Assisting Miss Carter in entertain ing will be Miss Marjorie Craig, Miss Mary McCarty, Miss Helen Al len, Miss Lillian Fearn. Mrs. Boyce Beal, Mrs. E. NJ Keith of West Bloc ton.
 Miss Elizabeth Salter and Mrs. Al Stafford are to preside at the tea table, assisted by Miss Mary Payne and Miss Lillian Butler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
Modern Ball Room Dancing, Good
 And Bad

There's nothing the matter with modern dancing-the trouble Is with the people that dance 1t, according to Anna Pavlowa, premier danseuse of the Russian Imperial ballet and probably the worlds greatest fen-in- inc exponent of artistic dancing.
 To a reporter she said recently; Dancing makes old people young, for it expresses as nothing else ever can the joy and exaltation of youth. Ut gives health to the body and it 'efevates the soul. The great trouble with modern dancing is perhaps that its real value as & stimulant of the best impulses and of religious, feel ! ing has been obscured, and it has come to be looked upon as pastime rather than an art-more as an en- tertainment than as ceremony.
 But, if 1t were danced properly, as you see it danced for the most part in the better hotels and the ball rooms where the better educated people go-it has it's advantages and it's uses, in that it revives the spirits and makes older people feel young again. But as 1t is danced in the public dance halls, you know what I mean, the cheaper dance places then it becomes a thing of vufgarity, ss any dance can if the people who dance it do not understand-do not have the education and the mentality with which to appreciate it. But jazz itself, while it has its place only in ballroom-there is nothing harmful, nothing at all, in it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
CALIFORNIAN TESTIFIES

q took your HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND and got some more for it surely did help me when l had an awful cold, and I will never be with out it,' writes Mrs. Chionister, CaJon, Cal. Be sure to get the genuine Fo- LEY'S HONEY AND TAR COM" FOUND, the best remedy on the mar ket today for the relief of coughs, colds and hoarseness. It is pleasant to take and very soothing as 1t spreads a healing coating over the inflamed surface, bringing immediate relief Contains no opiates-ingre dients printed on carton. Sold every wh here Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
MRS. CAIN HONORED
 IN SELMA

Mrs. Tom Craig was hostess We'd nesday afternoon at her apartment in the San Souci for her weekly bridge club. Guests were members of the club with 8 table of friends especially invited for Mrs. Craigs mother, Mrs. Hart, of Memphis, and her aunt, Mrs. Benson Cain. of Bir- mingham, who are her house guests. Three tables of players were present and at the conclusion of the games plate luncheon was served.-Selma- Times Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
Dorothy Die
There No More Heartbreakng And Impossible Task Than Trying To Put Backbone Into A Lazy Husband-Love And Respect Are Lost In The Attempt

man yearning to come home at night to wife who Is always asking him if he has done this, and why he hasn't done that, and throwing up to him the achievement of other men.
 "No, domestic happiness Is pred icated upon husband and wife holding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
MISSES MILNER TO ENTERTAIN AT DANCE

Misses Gustrine Milner and Miss Mary Claire Milner will be among the Christmas hostesses, entertaining the evening of December 21, at dance at the Country club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
RANDOM NOTES
Mrs. Sallie Osborne Cooper spending a few days fn Atlanta.

Mrs. sallie Osborne Cooper is spending a few days in Atlanta.
 Mrs. Benson Cain has returned from visit to Mrs. Tom Craig In Selma.
 Miss Margaret Brown will arrive today from Penn Hall to spend the holidays with her mother.
 Mir and Mrs. E. M. Cousins are leaving soon for Anniston for visit.
 Mrs. Louie Hart of Memphis is visiting her sister, Mrs. Benson Cain.
 MT. and Mrs. Willard Klelfer liar per and Willard Kleifer, Jr., of Co., lumbus. Ohio, are the guests of Mrs. Clara Harper-Steele in the Ridgley.
 Mrs. A. E. Handley is visiting her father, Mr. F. L. Bennee. in Hunts vile.
 MT Albert Wright has returned to Gadsden, after brief trip here.
 Miss Edna Jones Is the guest of MT. and Mrs. A. M. Gertin in Attalla, MT. William Daniels and MT. James Daniels have returned from trip to Rome, Ga.
 Mrs. G. T. Magee and baby are visiting MT. and Mrs. c. D. Caver in Anniston.
 Mrs. Benjamin H. Wilkins and Dee McDavid are the guests of her brother, Mir. E. R. McDavid and Mrs. MoDavid at the Richmond apart ments.
 Twenty-two thousand, one hum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
-------------~o - PARALLEL CA SE

It Is easier to make money than to keep 1t. Ths is also true of peace. James J. Montague.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

GIFTS THAT will win favor with "her" are found in the Gifts for Her. Column of the Classified Sec
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

Twenty-two thousand. one hum dred and sixty-five manl scripts have been submitted for the Box peace prize
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

Mrs. G. T. Magee and baby are visiting MT. and Mrs. c. D. Caver in Anniston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

MT. William Daniels and MT. Jame. Daniels have returned from triI to Rome, Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

MT. Albert Wright has returned to ] Gadsden, after brief trip here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-15

Miss Edna Jones Is the guest of Mir and Mrs. A. M. Gertin in Attalla.