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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
UNUSUAL EVENING COAT

Quite the Ioveliest evening coat of the season is made of lowered cretonne with the background between the roses completely covered with fine stitchery of gold thread Each flower and leaf is further embelished with colored beads. and the effect is truly gorgeous. The coat is lined with taupe velvet which shows on the outside where the revers turn back, and the collar and cuffs are of taupe fox,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
MISS DUNCAN WEDS MIR. ETCHSON

Mfr. and Mrs. Harry Burns announce the marriage of their sister, Miss Eliza beth Watts Duncan, to MT. John E.. Etchsen, Jr., of Richmond, -Va.,, the wedding having occurred Saturday at noon at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Burns, the Rev. Dr. H. R. Hendricks performing the ceremony in the pres ence of relatives and a few intimate friends. ~
 After short wedding trip MT. and Mrs. Etchson. will be at home in Bir- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Answer: I think you did the fine and altruistic thing. You could not have taken your happiness at the price of a half-demented old woman's life. Also I think that if you had married her son she would have nagged you to destruction.
 Perhaps the woman who thinks herself so good will some day be- come a Christian herself and see what a wicked thing she is doing in destroying the happiness of two young people in order to try to force her own ideas upon them, and ow un-Christ like is her attitude, how unlike Him who said even to the Magdalene, Neither do I con- demn thee." DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
HEAR MISS DIX-Has a wife a D right to open her husbands let ters and read them?
 MRS. R. W. A.

Answer 1: Ger t a i n l y not. Neither has a husband a right to open and read his wife's letters without her ex- press permission. For either hus- band or wife to open the others letters is a viola of the ethics of good taste and an exhibition of prying curiosity an insult to the one whose mail has been tam ~n~AI .kI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
MIR. RAMSEY TO BE
 HOST AT BARBECUE

MT. Erskine Ramsey will be host this evening when he will entertain a number of his friends at his home on Piedmont celebrating his birthday ami versary with an old-fashioned barbecue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Married people often think that they are under no obligation to observe the decencies of life with each other, or to respect each others privacy and in- diviluality. Never was there a greater mistake. Just because husbands and wives are thrown into the intimate con- tact of daily life; just because they are so much in each others power, it is the more necessary for them to use ev- cry courtesy and nice observance to- ward each other, if they are to keep any illusions whatever regarding each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
BOLERO FROCKS

Nothing could be nicer for the little school girl than a dress that has a cir cular skirt of plaid, a little straight blouse of cream linen, and a gay little bolero of the plaid wool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
SMOKED PEARL, EARRINGS

The woman who could not wear the long earrings will rejoice in the new button ones of smoked pearl These earrings are. very large and effective looking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

So real delicacy of feeling would prompt husbands and wives not to ask to see the letters that are writ ten to their mates. Certainly, a man or woman who can't be trusted to get letter is so poor and miserable creature that he or she is not worth watching, nor is any system. of espionage successful. If hus- band or wife desires to carry on compromising correspondence with any one there are plenty of ways to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

This man has given you taste of his quality. He has shown you that he has no care for your happiness or pleas ure, and that he is utterly selfish. If man treats his sweetheart that way when he is courting her he will display those qualities intensified a thousand times when he is married. If he never takes you anywhere now nor gives=you good time, be sure that he will think that cooking and washing are amuse- ment enough for you after marriage and you will never again see another picture or show unless somebody else takes you.
 If he is selfish enough to go to the theater alone now, he will have all the good clothes and step out alone after marriage and leave you alone with the babies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

there can be no greater help to such a one than the love of a good woman. believe that marriage has helped many such cases. We learn only about the failures" a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
MISS WILLIAMS TO HONOR MVSS RRAnV

Miss Lucille Williams will be host ess of this evening when she will en- certain with bridge party at her home as a courtesy to her visitor, Miss Dor othy Bradley, of New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
We Women
Poor Man


 MOT long ago l wrote an article in IN which I advised a girl not to
 marry a periodic drinker and hope now writes me his views on this old and much discussed question.
 "I can speak with feeling" he writes, land from experience. I have been a periodic drinker. I am very much in love with the most wonderful girl in the world. We have had many argu- ments over my drinking and my past failures to keep promises not to drink. "The girl in my case holds that each of such failures is additional proof that I do not really love her. I have no argument against her logic but know this is not true. The tortures of the damned are nothing to what l have gone through on each of these occasions of failure, and she tells me she has suf- fered fully as much. Most of my tor ture has been over the thought that l have exceeded the limits of her patience and have lost her. Knowing all this, why should have taken such a chance
 HI tell you. Few men who have fought John BarleycOrn have had the courage to admit they were licked before they started. After ono of my losing battles I would admit the fact but always with the mental reservations that when I was well and strong again I could take one or two drinks and not take third. On few occasions have done this but these few skirmisheS were always merely pre- Iiminaries to a big battle later on. know now that I cannot take an other drink. knew this before, but am not now holding out any secret hope to myself that I may be able to drink like . gentle man later on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

catch of the town, whom I was dying to Haunt before the other girls.
 "So would beg you to meet Eph- riam at the door and tell him that I had an awful toothache or pneumonia or loss of memory-but would you? can hear those very words to this day, 'Philomena,' you would say, I am surprised that you should even think of such a thing! After the way I have brought you up to have respect for the truth and to realize that a white fib is just as sinful as a regular lie, it cer- tainly is discouraging to realize that you have so little moral sense. No, al- ways keep your word and go through with thing when you have deliberately started it. If you do not care to re- ceive this young man you should use your intelligence and decline on the spot. You will simply have to tell l Ingao Pullbaek that you are otherwise engaged and let him ask you some other day. Let me hear no more about this nstAnd thefgoId sit for three hours with Ephriam Smythe trying to keep my mind on the conversation while l medically wondered whether Inago Pull back was taking Susie or Henrietta or some other of my dear enemies
 "You made me suffer and I don't know, being a modest person, whether the results have justified it! Yet let Hepatica but wrinkle her fair brow and say oh, dear, how she wishes she hadn't been in such an idiot as to tell Fredie she'd dance with him tonight, because she is perfectly sure that Hendricks B. Button is going to call up and ask her to go on that spiffy party up north and immediately you have a bright idea. Let me fix that for you, Hepa- tica,' you offer breathlessly. When Fredie comes I'll go to the door and ex- plain-let me see; I have it! Your best college chum wired she is passing through town and must see you at the depot where she changes trains He'll understand that you simply couldn' t get out of a thing like that!"
 "Oh, pooh p the visiting grSndmoth- CT said, defiantly. Tt isn't that you are a bit worried about her! You're just jealous-and anyhow, the cases aren't at. all similar and it is very diff ferent altogether! Let Hepatica and me alone!
 T wash my hands of both of you !' declared the frivolous matron. Both of you are worse than each other and, believe me, that's the very worst I can say about either of youw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

A mans wife has no right to know many of the private affairs of his sis ter's and brothers that they might like to consult him about, nor has hus- band any right to hear every detail of the troubles of his wife's family that they tell her in their letters. Both men and women have old friends who write them things that are intended for the friends eyes alone, not for the callous and critical reading of strangers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

My problem now is to convince the girl that the present reformation is sin cere and permanent. She says that my previous remorseful promises were just as sincere and not at all permanent. And again I cannot answer her logic.
 "The act of walking is series of in terrupted falls. The physical cripple has moretrouble with each step than has the well man: The habitual or periodic drinker is a mental cripple who needs help and sympathy. l believe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Lifelike motion is given to q new toy horse upon which a child can ride by mounting ,he front one of its wheels slightly off center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

A letter is an intensely personal thing, intended just for the one to whom it is written, and neither husband nor wife should feel that that he or she has a right to super wise the others correspondence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Answer: I certainly do not. Of all the husbands in the category of men whom it is dangerous to marry, the very worst is the tight wad. An Open-handed rounder, or even a drunkard, is less aggravat- ing life partner than one who doles out the pennies and who always asks his wife what she did with the quarter he gave her week before last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Dear Miss Dix-I have just broken my engagement on account of the fol- lowing situation: Jacks mother is ex- tremely devoted to her son. Also, she is fanatically religious, and she has always been upset over our engagement merely because l am not affiliated with any church. For two years the obsession has been gathering momentum, and she has finally become a nervous wreck over worrying about the matter, until lately the doctors have decided that for us to marry would either mean death or mental Arrangements for the old lady. When this was put before me by my em- barrassed sweetheart I saw no alter native but to free him and put an end to the misery l was causing
 We still love each other-perhaps more than ever-and can only trust in God to work a change of some sort in the situation, so that some day we may find ourselves free to marry l feel sure of Jacks love-he was terribly cut up over the realization that there was no other way, out than to call it off, yet I don't want to be fatuously credulous. What do you think? M. P. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23

Married couples soon get on each
 others nerves if they never grant
 each other any liberty, and if each
 has to render an account to the
 other for every thought and word
 and furnish an alibi for every hour
 of the day and night. You cannot
 make a prisOnhouse of matrimony
 and expect either a man or wom-
 an to love it. The things thatCount
 in marriage are the little things,
 the appreciation, the word of
 thanks, the free granting of each
 to the other of some personal life
 of his or her own on which the
 other does not intrude-the right to
 gratify a fad, to go into a room
 and shut the door and be alone, to
 have ones own individual clothes
 and toilet articles that no one else
 uses, to get ones letters unopened.
 Believe me, many a marriage that goes on the rocks could have been saved by husband or a wife respecting the privacy of the other. For familiarity not only breeds distrust. it is the mother of hatred. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-I am young girl of twenty years of age, and for two years I have been going with a young man. He is a very nice chap, we'll educated and has good position. He comes to my house every week, but he has never taken me to any place of amusement or spent any money on me. He even goes to the theater and movies by himself all the time. This man wants to marry me. Do you think would be happy with him? ANXIOUS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-23
Dorothy Dix's Letter Boz
4 Hedrt- To-Heart Talk To Husbands And Wives
 Openimg Each Others Mail-Shal She Marry Her TightaUad Sa0eetheart?-Gm Who Broke Engagement Because. Of Fimamces Mother

And your miser husband will make your life a burden to you because he will always be snooping around the icechest and the garbage can, demanding to know why you didn't peel the potatoes a little thinner and why you threw away a bread crust. And on the days when the bills come in you will be terri fled of your life, he will raise such ructions over them.
 Don't marry stingy man, for the man who has paddock on his pocket before marriage will keep his purse in steel safe after mar riage, and you will never be able to jimmy into it. DOROTHY DIX.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04
kDe1,1!
10y 10Y
Uncle John

The joy of renderin' service
to our patient Teller men has
met with Gods approval sence-
it amt no tellin' when! So, |
greet the August mornin' with
rejuvenated pluck, an devote my
artist-energy to raisin' garden
truck.
l reckon there is millions in
the hole that reaches Oil-but,
a Teller sleeps lots sounder as a
tiller of the soil,-there's too
blame many debts to spool"
that amt been struck,-Pd
ruther handle credits as l hoe
my garden truck.
With everything around me
fairly leapin' to my taste, and
with appetite so capable that
nothin' goes to waste-if that
amt life's completeness, then l
reckon / am stuck-but, / can't
take time to argy, when I'm
raisin' garden truck!
If we foller out our ruthers-
then our life is like a song,-the
cabbage plant and onion sett
don't treat Teller wrong,-then
the crispy, crinlily lettuce-an'
the sweet corn in the shuck-we
can't ignore the dividends from
raisin' garden truck!
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04
ALL WORN OUT7
So Was Mr.. Bolton Who Tells His
Experience

Are YOU tired all the time; worn
out night and day? Does your back
ache as if it. would break? Do you
suffer dizziness, headaches, rheu-
matte twinges or distressing urinary
disorders? You have good cause,
then, to be alarmed about your kid
neys. Do as many folks in this locality
recommend. Use Doan's Pills - a
stimulant diuretic to ting kidneys
This typical case is convincing
T. w. Bolton, S. PARK Ave, Triton,
Ga, says: AZ used to get backache
whenever caught cold for colds seem
ed to settle on my Kidneys. My rest
was disturbed at>nigHt because I had
to get up to pass the kidney secre-
tons. Headaches were frequent and
often had dizzy spells. l used Doan's
Pills and soon all these symptoms
left"
Price 60c at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for a kidney remedy - gel
Doan's Pills-the same that Mr.. Boil
ton had. Foster ilburn Co., Mfrs
Buffalo, N. Y. adv
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04
A DELIGHTFUL ROW

my wife had sugered from stom-
ach and liver trouble for many years
and had taken medicine enough to
sink ship; so when Brought home
bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Rem
edy, on the advice Of my employer,
she refused to take it. Her liver
trouble hadn't helpef her disposition
any. We had big row, but she
took it the next week Her ailments
have all disappeared. 1t is simple,
harmless preparation that removes the
catarrhal mucous from the intestinal
tract and allays. the Inflammation
which causes practically all stomach,
liver and intestinal ailments, including
appendicitis. One dose will convince
or money refunded. - Denmark and
National Drug Cos, and leading drug
gists everywhere adv
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

Dear Miss Flo:
When arranging dinner table, on
what side of the plate should the nap
kin be placed. (2) Is it good form to
place the napkin on the plate'
Thank you M ,.
The napkin should be placed to the
left of the plate when arranging the
table. (2) In some cases it IS placed
on the plate. but it is considered bet
ter form to place it to the left OF the
plate.
Dear Miss Flo: When guest ar
rives at dinner party after the other
guests are seated. is it necessary tor
the hostess to rise? GU Should she IN
reduce the late-corner to the other
guests? Thank you. II. II:
If the guest is lady. she rises, and
conducts her to her place. If it is
gentleman, she bows and smiles. but
does not rise. She accepts his excuse
| for being tardy with a smile and a
word of welcome. (2) All introduce
tons are postponed until the guests
have left the dinner table.
Dear Miss Flo: Should club sand
witch be taken in the hand or cut with
knife? (2) When pickles are served
without pickle fork. should they be
taken with the fingers or with fork.
co When eating them, should they be
eaten with the fingers or cut and eat
en- with the fork +. u
"a A club sandwich should be eaten
with knife and fork. (2) Pickles
should be taken with fork. (3) When
eating pickles they should be cut and
eaten with fork.
Dear Miss Flo: When one is max
ling an introduction, and can not re-
member the name of the person, what
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04
NOTICE PRIMARY ELECTION

By the authority vested in the ex-
ecutive committee of the city of
Fitzgerald, by the Charter of the city,
a primary election is hereby called by
said committee to be held on October
8th 1924, for the nomination of four
members of the city council, one from
each ward, and one member of the
City Water, Light and Bond Commits
sion.
The registration books will close at
600 p. m, September 81, 1924. Candi&
dates for either of the offices, to be
nominated, must file their names with
the undersigned secretary f9r the Ex-
ecutive Committee and pay the en-
trance fee as per the attached schedule
on or before 600 lp m, September 81,
1924. the same day registration books
close.
The election to be hf1d under the
Australian Ballot System. Polls to
open at ZOO a. m. ~1d close at 600
p. m.
Schedule of Fees for Candidates
Alderman $lO:O0
Member w. L. and B. Com. 1900
A. H Denmark. Chairman
S. G. Pryor, Jr, Sec.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

Dear Miss Flo:
Should young lady wear mourn
ing for her fance? (2) Should the
wedding presents be returned! ~
When an engagement is broken
should the engagement ring be re-
turned?
Thank you. u. u
A young lady does not wear mourn
ing for her fiance as general thing:
However, if he died on the eve OF
the wedding it is permissible. If the
date of the wedding had not been
announced, it is not good form to
wear mourning (2) The wedding
presents should be returned with an
explanation and thanks. 60 The en-
gagement ring should always be re-
turned.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

BLONDE BESS OPINES
Harmony in dress is to be desired,
but the freckled girl in a polka dot
dress leading a coach dog | just saw,
rather overdid it
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

Dear Miss Flo: When one is max
ing an introduction, and can not re-
member the name of the person, what
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04
shiek in sight.
shiek in sight.
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| TO AMBITIOUS YOUTH
Hush, little mustarhe,
Don't you Try.
You'll get in the coffee
By and by.

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|VINDICATED
Young Hubby: Sorry, dear, that
could not get you on the phone last
evening. went to stag party
Young Thing: Oh, that's where voc
were. | wondered what made you stag
ger so when you came in.
SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN
Teacher: Willie, what's wrong with
this sentence-The horse and COW is
in the field.
Willie: The cow and horse is in the
| fie1d-because ladies should always be
mentioned first.
lPURDY'S PHILOS
Manv men | know love themselves
so much that it's wonder to me more
wives don't sue EN- for alienation OF
acections.
FATHER KNOWS ..
Phoud Father: Yes'ir. when thot 1T
tie fellow o mine grows up ne IS go
! ing to be doctor.
! Yesman: How do Won know whot a
l6-vear-old child will be when ne
grows up? 49,, ,l
Proud Father: Easy! Why the 9th
er day / left him alone in the library
and would you believe the remoV-
ed the appendix from every book OH
the first shelf.
S;mnkins, So you've cured your
wife of the antique craze. Ell. Tell me-
How did you do it?
Smart. Easiest thing ever-l gave
her a 1908 model automobile Tor hei
Liberal LEN AGAIN
Severe Daddy: No, sir-my dauSh-
ter can never be yours ).
Su;tor GOSH know that l don
want a daughter-l want a Wlfe.
PICKING HIS FRIENDS
Mother: Frankie-stop using sucil
frankie: Well-Shakespeare uses IT.
Mother: Then you stop running
around with such boy.
Doctor Are you sure you are e;spe-
cially careful to keep this disease from
spreading to your other children!
Mrs. Blank: III, yes. indeed, doctor;
| bought sanitary drinking cup ana
I'm making every last one OF them
use it.
STILL ACTIVE -.
Phillip; understand your new girls
father is retired millionaire.
George: Well-He's a millionaire,
all right guess but last night, at
Ieaset-he wasn't retired when l start
I'd to bid Name goodnight
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-04

TRUR KID 7 ) HT1ILOo
Many men | know love themselves
50 much that it's a wonder to me more
wives don't sue EN- for alienation OF
acections.