davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

to go into tantrums and be permitted
fits of temper, the business would
not get very far.
while l want every man to have
spirit and backbone, yet these at
tributes are often confused with mere
bursts of so-called injury that Is
nothing but conceit in the end.
Anyhow, the man who cannot
stand the gaff had better get out OF
the business and let somebody else
take his place who has stamina to
stand things"
There is considerable food for
thought in what this man says. No
man ever did get anywhere that was
not able at times to grin and bear"
In truth. that is the stuff of W..
real success is made.
In the words of Hume: He is
happy whose circumstances suit his
temper. but he Is more excellent
can suit his temper to any circum-
stances
There is the sum and substance OF
1t. 1t is the Observation-Disclosures, the
Willingness to overlook things, that
shows the makeup of real man.
Charming Charley. who forever
thinks some one is stepping on his
toes and he must reprimand him for
it, always remains Charming Charley
and nothing more.
1t is the same case with women.
Many a woman in business wants
men to treat her as il she were back
In the sixties, when woman was the
center of the home only.
The truth is, she is today in the
commercial arena and has chosen
side-by-side work with man ana
therefore must meet with some OF
his trials and vicissitudes. While we
would condemn man who cannot
be polite to woman and treat her
with respect as he would treat his
mother, no matter how much we are
in the life of commerce, yet there is
such thing rs feeling too lad
for any real commercial use !. =
resolves itself into fitness of Il
You must conform with the
ronment In which you find you.
in the workaday world and wns
knows but the very best time of life
is had right there.
At least contentment can be sought
Oscar Wilde puts IL Well: Content
ment lies not in the enjoyment OF
ease-a life of luxury--but comes
only to him that labors and over
comes-to him that performs the
task in hand and reaps the atistac-
ton of work we'll done.'
Temper is the enemy of content
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

me great deal, so that we'll get
these words correct" she added. Il
suppose many of the longer words
are words you do not meet in school
and so you do not know they are
wrongly pronunced Read on, now.
and let's see how many more we
can find that have been crooked in
your mind.
You'd rather have mother catch
them than to use them som ewhere
else and be laughed at, wouldn't
ycu?"
And Jane agreed that she would
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

every day until 1t wasn't any fun
playing with him at ALL And the
other creatures who lived near u.s.
soon found out that the Geewhilker,
instead of playing nice and sharing
his toys with others, was very stingy
and selfish SO they quit playing
with him too. So, when the Gee
whiliker grew up, you may know
that no one liked him very Welt
For hoV can anyone like another
who is stingy. and SELFISH"
no. sir" Betsy Bonnet String
said. No one likes a stinGy child.
nor do they like that person when
he grows up"
Indeed. they do not" the Too
ack quee said For You know. if a
child is stngy and selfish with his
playmates. he does not injure them
as much as he does himself. for
selfishness crowds out so much hap
piress, it is very hard for even a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09
Dead Rival
Should Be
Best Friend of
Wife No. 2

than the boy. The boys love is a
thing of cobwebs. of dreams and
fancies, of mist and moonshine, that
perishes at the first strain of reality.
or that weaNes itself around the next
pretty face. But the mature mans
love is made of sterner stuff. He
knows what he wants, and when he
has found the one woman who sat
isfies his needs, his heart cleaves to
her and he loves her with a passion
of which no boy is capable
The woman who marries a widow
err. and who bemoans her fate be-
cause she is his second choice, may
comfort herself with the thought
that the second wife is very often
far more beloved than the first wife
was. The first wife represents the
mans immature taste and judgment
lie picked her out when all that he
sought in wife was a living picture
and good dancing partner.
Bitter experience taught him that
a man wants many things in a wife
besides beauty, and that you dance
very little in matrimony. You have
only to look at the ill-assorted
middle-aged couples that you know
to recognize that their husbands and
wives were the selection of children.
and that they were the last people
second choice.
Not many of us maintain a choco-
late cream appetite through life, nor
has the poor chocolate cream which
has palled on our palate the ability
to turn itself into the caviar that
our sophisticated appetites crave.
Therefore, the woman, who is sec
ond choice should burn joss sticks
hnF
ashes on her head. for she may be
very sure that whatever her man
admires and desires in woman, she
is 1t, and that he Is never going to
get tired of her or change.
That widowers make the best hus-
bands is a matter SO we'll known that
1T is needless to call any womans
attention to it. There are many rea-
sons why the man who has been mar
ried before should be a preferred
matrimonial risk, the chief one being
that he is broken to double harness
Matrimony has for him none of
that horrible shock that a man ex-
first time that it costs money to run
home. and that Paris frocks do not
grow like chicken feathers on a
woman's back. and that even the
most angelic wives have tempers and
temperament and have to be ham
died with gloves.
The widower is almost always n
good provider and diplomatic in
dealing with his wife. He treats her
with a tenderness and consideration
that few men show their first wives
because he remembers conscience
stricken moments in which he bent
over a woman's coffin and thought
of how he had defaulted on his vow
to love and cherish her.
For these and a hundred other
reasons no woman has right to be
jealous of her husbands first wife.
Rather SHOULD she look upon her as
her best friend
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

II the flower of the month is to
be especially emphasized. have a low
bowl or basket of loosely arranged
daisies in center of table and radi-
ating from this have single rows of
daisies lying flatly on the table and
attach the place cards at the ends.
These can be appropriated by the
guests and worn as daisy chains.
wreaths or girdles during the festivi-
ties
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09
APRIL BIRTHDAY

Each month of the year has rep
resentatiVe flower and it IS nice TO
use this in the decorative schene' es-
pccially if it is birthday party.
Tile excellent reproductions OF
flowers to be had now make 1t pos
sible To have a prefusion of bios
SONS although fresh flowers are un-
ohtainahle. Even the paper flowers
that can be made at home lend them
selves nicely to this purpose, espe-
ciallv if attached to real twigs and
branches.
If tile Easter lilies are preferred
the hostess will find the paper lilies
good substitutes for the fresh bios
SONS which arc high priced. The
Easter lily is simple in construction.
Given pattern and the materials
the average woman with a little care
will readily reproduce this blossom
so perfectly that the decorations for
her April party may be lavish and
beautiful and the expense nominal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

Croesus was the King Of Lydia in
Asia Minor and his wealth in landed
property has been estimated to have
been $s,333,330.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09
Your Home and You
READING ALOUD
BY HELEN KENDALL


The day was rainy and little Jane
who had been wandering dlscon-
solately about the house, wanted to
know what in the world she could
do.
Read aloud to me while 1 sew
suggested her mother, idly
Jane was flattered and pleased.
She brought a magazine from the
library table and started In.
David Smith looked dubbiously
at his sister, Ellen, who was star
ring sobberly back at him." she
read blithely. He felt that he had
been mizzled--''
Jane" Her mother dropped needle
and cloth and gasped. why, that's
David, dear-not David. And that
word is du-bious--not dubious,
dear"
Il always call 1t dubious when
I'm reading to myself" said Jane.
We'll, but you mustn't. And what
was that next? Oh, yes, it is
staring darling, and the next word
is so-berly. You said sobberly. What
on earth was that last word--let me
see the book
be mis- sled. James mother sup
pressed smile and set her daughter
straight.
is that the way you pronounce all
these words when you are reading
to yourself?" she inquired, aghast
We'll, then, after this / think I'll
have TO get You to read aloud to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09
WINNIE WINKLE
Adventures
~ Of =
'Kas44eAy
Ada
<%eAnA 80
||Ka99o4y
eAaAY

liza gSedy Ann an q
Ra ggedy Andy and
Betsy Bonnet String
were very glad that
the Too ack quee
invited them into
his house TO have
dinner, for after
the exciting tim c
they had had with
the bottle imp anG
I h e Geewhiliker
they were very
hungry.
You are a cousin
to the Geewhiliker
aren't you?" Bets,
B o n n e t S trim
asked the Too ack
Quee.
Yes" the To,
ack quee replied
But l never speak.
TO him. You see
when we wer.
quite small, the
Geewhiliker@ and J
used to play to.
gether, he wanted
all the TOYS to plae
with, and wanted
the largest piece O
cake and candy am
ev e r y t hing like
that"
He was very
very selfish" Rag
gedy Andy said.
Indeed, he was.
the Too aek que,
replied. And Ii,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-09

But the sober. second love often is
as much stronger than the boys ro-
mantle love as the man is stronger
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
DEVICES.
REJECTED BY
j. s. NAVY
Inventions Designed to Protect
Ships From Submarines
Contained on List.
BY CosmOpoIitaD News Service

just what were the forty-fiv
world war inventions of Thomas
A. Edison, which he is reported to
have said the Navy Department
pigeonholed because they were de-
vised by him, civilian?
The Naval Consulting board, a
wartime organization, was called
into being by Josephus Daniels,
then Secetary of the Navy, who
placed Edison at the head Of it as
president. It's membership was
taken from eleven of the largest
engineering societies Of the coun-
try.
In January, 1917, Edison was
asked by Secretary Daniels to come
to the aid of the country by devot-
ing himself to the study and sug-
gestion of such ideas and inven-
tons as might seem to Edison to
be useful If the United States should
become involved in the war with
the Central Powers, so says the
Report of the Naval Consulting
Board of the United States" a
public document printed by the
Here is the list of Edison's in
ventions, as appears in that pub
LEGATION: Listening apparatus to en-
able merchant ships to hear sound
of torpedo as soon as fired from
submarine; quick turning of ships
by means of sea anchors-huge
canvas bags lowered from the
sterns of ships, filled with water to
veer the ships from their course;
strategic plans for saving cargo
boats from submarines; collision
mats for sides of vessels, to be
lowered to cover holes made by
collisions; taking merchant ships
out of mined harbors; camouflaging
ships and burning anthracite coal;
coast submarine buoy patrol; car
ing lights for conveys; smudging
skyline; obstructing torpedoes with
nets; underwater searchlight; oleum
cloud shells; high speed signaling
with searchlights; water-penetrat-
ing projectile-enter water without
ricochet; observing periscopes in
silhouette; steamship decoys: zig
tagging ships of not less than ten
knots speed; reducing rolling of
warships; obtaining nitrogen from
air; stability Of submerged subma-
rines; hydrogen detector for sub
marines; induction balance for sub
marine detection; protecting OBJ
servers from smokestack gas; tur-
bine head for projectile; mining
Zeebrugge harbor - suggested
scheme: mirror reflector system for
warships; device for lookout men;
binding submarines and smudging
periscopes: extinguishing fires in
coal bunkers; direction finder for
hostile airplanes; sound ranging;
Improvement of telephone system
in ships; extension ladder for spot
ting top-observation top; reacting
shell-to insure bursting of shrap-
mel; night telescope; smudging peri
scopes; freeing range finder from
spray; preserving submarine and
other guns from rust; design OF
smoke producing proJectlle for
inoh c1nn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
MAN
ART STUDENT,
W|NSPOST
Son of Late General Estopinal
Is Completing Course in
Washington School.

Leonidas Bernard Estopinal.
United States vocational. student,
son Of the late Gen. Albert Estopinal,
former member of Congress and one
time lieutenant governor of Louisi-
ana, will complete his institutional
training at the Washington School of
Art on March 1.
Estopinal has been specializing in
portraiture work and he has been
offered post on the ant staff Of
the New Orleans Times-Picayune
He plans to go to the Southern city
the first week in March.
During the war EstopinaI served
as a private in the marine corps.
He is former student of George
town University and a graduate Of
the Jefferson Military College Of
Mississippi.
The. young mans father was lieu
tenant governor of Louisiana from
1900 to 1904. In 1907 he was elected
to Congress where he served until
his death in 1919. During the war
the father was ranking member of
the House Committee on Naval At
fairs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
GIRL IS
VICTIM Of
FLAMES
Caroline Robinson Moncure
Dies From Burns Sustained
While Praying.

Caroline Robinson Moncure, eleven
year-old daughter of Mrs. Caroline
p. Moncure, of King street, Alex
andria, is dead at her home today.
Kneeling to pray by an open fire
place on Saturday night, the child's
nightdress was ignited by flying
spark and the garment fell quick
prey to the flames. Mrs. Moncure
and a colored house servant, answer
ing the little girls cries. smothered
the flames with a blanket, both
burning their arms in the attempt.
DIR. Llewellyn Powell found that
the child had inhaled the flames and
was suffering from severe shock.
First hopes for recovery vanished
yesterday.
Caroline's father was William A.
Moncure, real estate purchasing
agent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
who was killed in railroad acct
dent a number of years ago. The
Moncures are members of a promi-
nent Virginia family.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
MRS. EDITH M. SHAW IS
GIVEN ABSOLUTE DIVORCE

Mrs. Edith M. Shaw was yeSter-
day awarded an introductory de-
cree for absolute divorce from Pvt.
Floyd E. Shaw, stationed at Car
Isle Barracks, Pa.
The decree was signed by JUS
tice Siddons in Equity Court. It
appeared from the wife's petition
that the defendant had three dis
tinct homes. The couple were mar
ried May 10, 1919 and separated in
September of that year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
Y. NJ. c. A. DRIVE
FOR $4,000
OVER TOP
Quota Is Exceeded by 500,
It Is Announced, as Cam
paign Closes.

The campaign of the Y. NJ. c. A.
for $4,000 has gone over the top
by 5000, it was announced yester-
day when the drive came to a
close.
Yesterday was the big day, 50, 1856
being pledged. The team captained
by William A. Rawlings took first
honors turning in SLABS. Others
whose teams turned in large
amounts were j. M. Cherry, $3.50:
w. c. Hanson, 1918; C. E. Crane,
$50; c. Fl. Harrington, 5000; Major
Guy Withersand, 1901 and J. l..
Wi1met, 1925.
e. H. DeGroot, jr., chairman of
the campaign committee, was pre-
sented with a set of books for his
work.
The drive workers were organized
into a permanent committee to
meet during the year for get-to-
gether purposes, and will -nsintain
the organization intact 50 as to
take up the campaign next year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
STORED COAL IN PARLOR
TO SAVE 1T FROM THEFT

wILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Feb. Il.
Police, called to the home Of
Alfred Cakes, to quiet disturb
ance, found more than two tons
of coal stored in the parlor of
the home, while the OBJECTS of
their quest, three intoxicated men,
were found in another room.
Cakes told the police that he
had bought the coal several weeks
ago, but had been compelled to
store 1t as he did to prevent
thefts such as he had experienced
before.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
SMITH COMMITTEES DEATH
SENTENCE FOR PELUSO

ALBANY, Feb. IA. - Governor
Smith has committed the death SEN
tence of Saverio PelusO, Long Is
land City murderer, and denied elem
ency to two other murderers, Alric
J. Westling and Joseph Zampelli,
who are to die in the electric chair
at Sing Sing tomorrow night.
Peluso's sentence was committed
to life Imprisonment, the governor
said, on the unanimous recommen-
dation of the judges of the court of
appeals, who declared they believed
Peluso was not properly represented
at his trial. Attorney Robert J.
Barry, of the Bronx, was counsel for
PeluSo.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-14
INJURED IN HAMMOCK,
WOMAN WANTS $4,000

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y, Feb. IA
Miss Hattie J. Hagar. of New
York, has brought suit for O,OOO
damages against Mrs. May Heron,
who has a summer boarding house
at HasbrOuck, Sullivan county.
She says she suffered severe in
juries when a hammock in which
she was sitting broke
The defendant asserts the ham.
mock was left by another bOarder
and that she is therefore not re-
sponSibls 6or the accident.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
Gardner and Larkin

All records broken this morn
ing. A. R. Gardner threw out
his chest and said 81 was at
work at 6 o'clock this morning,
and it was well that l was for
there stood Gene Larkin waiting
to announce a cent cut in the
price of gasoline"
There must be some salts
faction to be the first to give out
such welcome news and the first
to receive same.
Gardner says that if Gene will
continue this every morning he
will find the editor on the job.
Come on now Gene this puts it
up to you. Let's have a gas war
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
BUY IT IN BULK

The same goods you buy in
package form come much cheap
er in bulk. We are headquart-
ers for bulk goods.
Buy our bulk coffee, we get
it fresh each week, put it up in
one pound air tight bags and it
is delivered to you in perfect
condition. It's the best we can
buy and you save the price Of
the fancy, high-priced litho-
graphed can which you must
throw away.
Macaroni, Citrus Powder, Spa
ghetti, Soap Chips, etc, are all
money savers if bought from US
in bulk.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
MORE ABOUT FLIES

We have been somewhat dis
appointed in the number of flies
received this summer We fully
expected to have two big coffee
drums full by this time and we
have only about two-thirds OF
one drum and the contest closes
September 1st.
Just a few more days left to
get that 10 cents per ounce for
your flies. Bring them in we
pay perfectly good cash for per-
fectly good flies. A good Ely is
a dead one.
Last call for flies, contest
closes September LIST. Open the
traps, bring in the flies we pay
10 cents per ounce, it's a big
price and there has been bump
er crop. No chance to kick on
the fly business this year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
MORE FEED

Just unloaded a mixed car OF
Sperry's feed this week. If you
want the best in feeds that your
money will buy, come to us. Our
feeds are real feeds.
The Kennewick mill turns out
good feed and we are proud to
be selling upwards to 35 tons of
this feed every month.
The Sperry mill sure has the
right dope on poultry feeds and
our business in this line is aver
aging 20 tons month.
You can't go wrong by feed
ing our feeds, they are right in
detail. Both mills money back
their feeds to us and we money
back them to you. More than
that we pay you for the time
you may lose while giving us a
chance at your business.
Buy "BIG X" Kennewick
feeds or buy Sperry's feeds they
will prove profitable.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
See the Big Melon

Mr.. Yoshino, brought US in a
mamouth watermelon, it's as
long as a sack of flour, come IN
and look it over, make a guess on
the weight of it. We will give
this fine melon away Saturday
evening to the one guessing
nearest to the correct weight.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
ROTTON EGGS

Who threw those eggs? That
is what we want to know.
Gee Whiz! but the eggs have
been fierce lately. Most every
shipment we send out when cam
died shows a large percentage of
rotten eggs. This is one big
factor on keeping prices OF eggs
down, as all we or any other firm
can pay must be based upon the
net receipts.
Be careful with your eggs,
gather them often, bring them
to town as often as possible.
The better the eggs the better
the price.
Some say why don't you can
die them here and pay accord
ingly, this entails additional ex-
pense as we would be obliged to
hire extra help, which of course,
would have to be paid for out OF
the egg money.
It's as broad as its is long.
You can help materially by
furnishing the stores with no.
thing but standard fresh eggs.
We and the other business
firms of town are willing to
trade dollars with you on your
eggs, none are looking to make
any profit to speak of. Our
firm for one, has neither the
, time, money, nor inclination to
take a loss on eggs. Bring good
eggs to the market and the price
will be correspondingly good
Think of it this way, if you bring
us bum eggs, will you take bum
checks or bum groceries fol
them? No, you expect first.
class merchandise or good money
and insist on getting it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
BaIoons--Rubber Bands--MeIons

We are selling watermelon
for 5 cents, Vibber-G Clifford is
giving away balloons, also note
that they offer rubber bands for
sale which they claim to be fine
for shooting paperwads in school
and we will give you the paper
to make the wads.
Come in kids, buy 5 cent
melon and 5 cents worth of rub
Der bands, get one of Kits free
balloons, blow up and have a reg
ular time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
sperry,s Sure Milk

One of our customers has been
feeding mill feed to his cows,
recently he started with Sperry's
"Sure Milk" and says it has just
added $1.OO per week to his
cream check. If you would like
to talk to some of the Sure Milk
users we will give you their
names on request.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
Gloves

So many calls come to us
every day from the fruit ware
houses for canvass gloves that
we put in a small stock.
Have both sizes, ladies' and
mems. Some with fleece
inside and some with fleece out
side.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
Home, Sweet Home

Little Ruth was sent to school
for the first time and the teach
er asked her what her fathers
name was,
Daddy" she answered.
Yes, DEAR" said the teacher
smiling, ''but what does your
mamma call him?"
"She don't call him nuthin' 80
Ruth answered earnestly. "She
likes him."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23
CASH

oh! that cash, that wonderful cash
That stuff that's SO hard to obtain,
We must have cash on every delivery
That's why we are asking again.
mat you please pay George at delivery time,
he Will bring your cash to the store,
For if we continue to sell at the nr;ces we .s,,
we must have your cash to buy more.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-23

Advice to husbands: When
you forget what your wife told
you to bring home you can gen.
orally escape trouble by buying
both thread and hairnets.