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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
Listening In On Foe

much about any Of the lot, though" h"I contend" said the girl firmly "that any man who cannot find some pleasant people in a crowd like that is snippy, and that's all there is to it Some girl there ought to have Eiven him real good lesson and taken him down a bit"
 "When you don't care whoop about people they can't take you down." said the young man with decision.
 He must be terribly conceited."
 "I always get lost when begin to argue with you"
 II am not arguing. am just stating fact"
 Tn doing 50 you are losing sight ol the young man I was telling you about" ss -
 Young man? What young man And was he nice~
 ''I have seen better myself"
 Isn't that just like a man! You say that we girls never say anything good about other girls, and yet, when you get the chance to say pleasant things about a man. friend you slam him. Are you going to Letty's dance Thursday?"
 If you'll let me take you"
 
 fun," said the girl. "I'll be glad to go with you"
 Splendid p. said the shy young man. 'I hope we'll have pleasant evening, don't youY
 "Yes. indeed,' said the girl. "I don't like going to parties in the rain. Didn't interrupt you when. you were telling me about your friend?" GGOh fp op;aI Aha vorI0n v,oan 0V1ioG1v You want to hear about him, after all, do you?"
 "OnIy if you'll tell me who he is," declared the girl. Otherwise it's like hearing a compliment from a ghost or something"
 If I told the strict truth" sighed the shy young man, q think I'd say he is a dub; but, honest to goodness, he thinks you. are the very incest girl who ever drew the breath of life. He thinks you are the prettiest-"
 ''Oh, spare me, please, laug ghed the girl. "I want to hear about the man, not about myself"
 "Oh, suppose so! You have heard how lovely you are from so many fel- lows that it is an old story"
 "I want to hear about this friend of yours. What does he look like?"
 He's tall," began the shy young man, land he has cowlick."
 "F'or goodness sake!' laughed the girl. "You certainly are generous 1! All you can say in praise of a man is that he is, tall and has hair that sticks up! I never in my life heard of such thing as that! I suppose if you won't tell me decently what he looks like I'll have to ask you pOint-blank who he is."
 ''Do you think you really want to know? asked the shy young man. "Or are you just jOshing me again"
 T don't see how could be 'joshing' you, as you call it." said the girl with dignity. "It can't make very much difference to you whether or not am pleased at what your mysterious friend thinks of me, so why get cross?"
 Honest, I'm not the least bit cross" |" cried the shy young man. You see, this fellow who thinks you're so great, you know, who knows you're the best ever, well, it's only me; that's all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
Miss s Liviington Hostess At ,
 Luncheon

Miss Aida Livington entertained Wednesday at the home of her parents Dr. and Mrs. James Livington, with a Nah Jong luncheon, having as the in spiration for this affair two charming young visitors, Miss Marian Barrow of Columbia, Tenn, the guest of Miss Oliver Perkins, and Miss Mary Eliza beth Bashinsky of Troy, the guest of MT. and Mrs. Leo Bashinsky.
 Included in this courtesy to these muchly entertained visitors were Miss Marian. Barrow, Miss Oliver Perkins Miss Mary Elizabeth Bashinsky, Miss Elizabeth Crabbe, Miss Elizabeth Mack. ey, Miss Martha Ketchum, Miss .Kathe- rine Moore and Miss Lila Stanley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
SWIMMING PANTY AT LODGE FOR VISITORS

Linger Longer Lodge, which has been the scene of so many enjoyable affairs this spring and summer, will again be used by little Miss Sarah Turpin Sat urday afternoon, when she wih--enter- tain with a swimming party in honor of two visitors, Mary Golden Bonny- man and James Bonnyman, Jr., of Gin cinati, who are, with their mother, the guests of Mrs. John Bonnyman on Cliff Road. ..
 The children will motor out early in the afternoon, enjoy a swim and serve a picnic lunch, returning home in the moonlight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
MISSES MII.NER TO ENTERTAIN AT BUFFET SUPPER

Misses Gustrine and Mary Clair Mil her are entertaining Friday evening with an informal buffet supper at the Country Club complimenting several at. tractive visitors among the sub-debs set Miss Evelyn Landon of Cleveland, the Guest of Miss Alexandra London; Miss Anne Brazelton. of Washington, D. C., the guest of Miss Matilda Hood Miss Kitty Schreiner of San Antonio, Tex, visiting Miss Mary Hansef Shook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

had constant trou- ble with my wife about her mania for going to see moving pictures. She goes almost every afternoon and night, and neglects her children, her home and me. She never prepares us good meals, or keeps the house tidy, or mends the children's clothes. Lately she has told me that she was tired of me and the children, and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

So hard is the job of the step- mother, so meager it's rewards, that the wonder is that any wo- man is ever fool enough to under take it or angel enough to make a success of it. When she does there is no tribute great enough to lay at her feet, and the Lord will find no jewel bright enough for her crown in the hereafter.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
MRS. HUNT TO COMPLIMENT HISS RRAZET TON

Mrs. Russell Hunt has extended in- yitations to a matinee tea which she is giving Saturday afternoon honoring her niece, Miss Anne Brazelton, who is the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. George Troupe Brazelton of Washington, D. C., formerly of Birmingham. Miss Brazel- ton arrives today accompanying home from Holton Arms Miss Matilda Hood whose house guest she will be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
Mysterious Admirer
k<TMET a lot of people last 8
 SS mer up at the hotel," decla

.1ITMET a lot of people last sum mer up at the hotel," declared
 the shy young man. Some of them were very pleasant. and some weren't"
 five been to places like that" said the girl with a laugh. Tt sometimes happens the persons one meets are nice and sometimes they are not"
 T think you are making little fun of me-" sighed the young man. But anyhow, there was one chap there who thought an awful lot of you.'
 That was very good of him." said the girl,
 .ssYou know perfectly well that every body who knows you thinks you are nice" said the young man.
 "I am grateful for that, too," said the girl. Were there other nice peo- pie up there?"
 T didn't say this fellow was nice," said the young man. "Yes, the others were all right, suppose. This fellow I was telling you about didn't care
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
MRS. BONNYMAN TO GIVE CHILDREN'S PARTY

Mary Golden Bonnyman and James Bonnyman, Jr., the two attractive chil- dren of Mrs. James Bonnyman of Gin oinnati, will be the honor guests Friday afternoon, when Mrs. John Bonnyman, whom they are visiting, will be hostess at children's party. Several affairs of which this is the first, are being planned for these two small visitors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

The step-mother has all that the real mother has to bear, without this paneca for its trials. Also she fails in the mothers reward, because the step-children always look upon her with suspicion. They resent her authority, and never feel for her the affection they would have had for their own mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

souls through correspondence as through conversation.
 When you write a letter you merely express your thoughts and ideas, and opinions, and tastes on paper instead of through talk. And it may we'll be- since letters are written deliberately and thoughtfully, that a man and wo. man will give each other a clearer pie ture of their real natures than they would if they were face to face. However, there are two objec- tions that might be raised. The first is that we are rather apt to
 pose in our letters, and to represent ourselves as being more heroic and
 more romantic than we are. Wo- men are especially addicted to this, and their letter slop over with
 sentimentaity that they are far from feeling.
 l mean by this that they exaggerate their emotions. They express eternal devotion; swear they are dying of lone Illness and longing to see you, just. be- cause it sounds grand and high-faluting and poetic. So I should discount by half any letters from lady.
 Another danger of falling in love
 with a ready letter writer is that
 the individual may have a lot of uh-
 pleasant personal peculiarities that
 he or she doesn't send by mail, but
 which would get unbearably on
 your nerves if you were brought
 into personal contact with them.
 Suppose your correspondent was never-ending talker, a human phono- graph you could not shut off! Sup pose she had a little nervous cough Suppose she sniffed or sputtered when she talked Suppose her table man. ners were not beyond reproach! Sup pose a thousand little things that might jar you if you saw them, but that are eliminated in letter!
 would certainly risk the price
 of railroad ticket to go and give
 any lady the once over with whom
 I imagined myself falling in love
 before l took the fatal leap. For
 marriage isn't a long-distance af-
 fair. Matrimony is lived in close
 quarters, and you want to be sure
 about the kind of a life-partner
 yon are getting.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix: Don't you think there should be a Step-Mother's Day? Don't you think that step-mother who gives another woman's children more love and care in many cases than their real mother would have given them should have a little share in the re- spect shown for mothers?
 A good step-mother is the greatest martyr that the world knows. No one can conceive of the sacrifice that such a position calls for unless she has been a much-abused step-mother. May the Lord help theml
 HEARTBROKEN STEPMOTHER.
 Answer:
 A good step-mother, a woman who takes motherless little children
 to her breast and gives them the
 love and tenderness of real moth- CT is the noblest creature that
 lives, and no honor is too great to
 pay her.
 When God sends a woman a child he sends with it the love that makes her blind to it's faults, deaf to it's noise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

HEAR MISS DIX: I am a mar D ried man with four children, who
 range from twelve to three years ,f age, and to whom I am much devot- d. For the last twelve years I have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

In addition, the step-mother must have the tact of diplomat to deal with her husband and offset the machina- tions of the childrens mothers people who openly or covertly set them in rebellion against her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
1IRS. MGAVOCK TO ENTERTAIN E0R MRS R0NNYMAN

Mrs. R. J. McGayock will entertain Saturday evening at the Country Club tn honor of Mrs. James Bonnyman the Mouse guest of Mrs. John Bonnyman, of Cincinnati, who is the feted guest of Mrs. John Bonnyman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
Mothers And Their Children
The Most Helful latitude

One Mother Says:
 No matter how worried may be inwardly about q feYerIsh child, try not to irritate or frighten a little one by too much feeling of head and pulse and fussy questioning. There is much in the power of suggestion, and quiet, hopeful attitude on the part of the mother tends to sOOthe the child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Answer:
 I should think that it would be a good idea to take your wife at her word, and for you to take your children and leave her to enjoy her favorite diversion unmolested. It would not take her long to get her fill of it, because she would find that while a five-reel scenario may be feast of reason and a flow of soul, it has no bodily sustenance in it. And when "The End" is flashed on the screen she will long for roast beef and potatoes, and a comfortable home in which to spend her night and gather up fresh eH- ergy for the next days picture bat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

and that gives her a patience that is not fretted into fiddle strings by the inexhaustible demands made upon it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Answer:
 Why not? Surely it is just as possible for people to reveal their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Evidently your wife has overlooked the fact that you can't live on moving pictures alone, and that only the we'll fed and comfortable are in a frame of mind to enjoy the vicarious loves and hates and adventures of imaginary be- roes and heroines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Once or twice a week it does any hard working mother of a family good to drop into the neighborhood picture show and see a film that entertains and amuses her, and gives her something pleasant and new to think of as she goes about her work. But when she goes every day and spends the time that should, be devoted to taking care of her children and her home on a sort of romantic orgy she turns the, amusement into avfce, of which she should be cured by drastic measures if she will not listen to reason. DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

was rid of us so that she would have nothing to interfere with her going to the pictures as often as she desired. What should I do? A. NJ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
Dorothy Di1's Letter Boz

Whdt Can Be Done With c Wife Who Has the 'Movie Ma11id?" Can Love Come Through the MaI? Am Idea for "Step-lNothers Day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Dear Miss Dix: I met a young lady and was in her company just one eve ming. Since then we have been corre- spending with each other. Do you think it possible for two people to know each other and fall in love with each other through their letters? I am afraid I am doing this very thing, though I also feel that do not know her yet. TOM.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

It is a pity for a woman to make such bad use of such a good thing as the moving pictures are, because, taken in reason, they are one of the most valuable assets of modern life, and do more than anything else to break the monotony' of domestic life and take the curse off housework.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

Nothing will cure her of being a movie fan so quickly as becoming a starving outcast herself, and hav- ing a few personal adventures in trying to make her own bread and butter, to say nothing of paying for her own motion-picture tickets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26
DOROTHY DIX.

Answer:
 A good step-mother, a woman who takes motherless little children to her breast and gives them the love and tenderness of a real moth- CT is the noblest creature that lives, and no honor is too great to pay her.
 When God sends A woman n chiI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-26

souls through correspondence as through conversation.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17

The BPW Club members are max
ing plans for a very delightful dane
ing party in Grange Hall next Mon
day night. Decorations suitable to
the occasion and season are being ar
ranged for and Oddy's Special Six
will furnish music for the dancing.
The public is urged to participate in
this affair.
Mrs. Sewall Curtis gave very de-
lightful birthday party Monday after
noon at her home on East Front st.
in honor of little Miss Phyllis Bar
stow. The house decorations were
yellow and white and the fayors were
tiny yellow baskets filled with Easter
eggs. A birthday cake was the
browning feature of the occasion.
Tuesday afternoon the ladies of the
First Philathea Glass of the Federal
ed Church held an Easter sale in the
Federated Church parlors. Fancy
work, aprons and food were on sale.
The committees in charge of the sale
included Mrs. T. Z. Thomson and Mrs.
K. B. Steward, fancy work; Mrs.
Lottie Griffin and Mrs. John Dugas,
aprons and Mrs Agnes Dunbar and
Mrs. Emma Martin. food. An ex-
ecutive board meeting of the class
was held Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Philo Steward on Bap-
fist Hill.
The following bowlers in the Show
hogan Mercantile League will leave
today for Boston where they will COM
pete in the Worlds Championship
Bowling Tournament, being held this
week at the Arena in Boston: Jack
Harrison, Leon w. Smiley. John
Lewis, Sewall Curtis, Leon Fox and
Henry Ivers of Waterville. Miss
Clara NJ. Libby of the local ladies
bowling team, will also go to Boston
at this time. The Skowhegan men
will bowl Saturday night at 10 o'clock
in three string match, Saturday be-
ing Maine Day at the tournament.
5000 bowlers will participate in this
event.
Among the lovliest of spring parties
was the auction-bridge given Tuesday
afternoon i'll Library Parlors by Mrs.
Edward A. Parker and Miss Leila F.
Fairbrother. There were fourteen
tables and the rooms We're exceed
ingly attractive with Easter colors
carried out in flowers, including mas
turtiums, pinks, verbenas, jonquils
sunshine and hyacinths. The color
ings of yellow and white with touches
of lavendar were admirably blended.
window bouquets adding much to the
interior arrangements. Prizes were
won by Mrs. Annie p. Hackett, first;
Mrs. Leslie II. Goldsmith, second and
Mrs. Charles Folsom-Jones, consola-
ton. Easter ices, cakes and punch
were served at refreshment time. Out
of town guests were Mrs. H. H.
Haines of Madison, Mrs. Everett Saw
yer of North Arson, Mrs. C. r. Mars
ton, Mrs B. r. Steward of Waterville
and Mrs. William Philbrick, who is
here for a few weeks before a trip
abroad.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17
Skntulrrgatt Gnral Nrlua

The annual supper and meeting of
Sorosis will be held in Library Par
lors next Monday evening.
DR.. A. B. Borden returned Tuesday
to the State Hospital in Augusta
where he will receive treatment for
a time.
Mrs. Sylvia S. Arnold has gone to
Somerville, Mass, where she will re-
side for the present with her son, G.
Walter Snow.
Miss Dorothy Day and Miss Alice
r. Parker arranged children's party
for the teachers last evening in the
Municipal Court Room which was
much enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Fowler and
Walter Fowler Jr. of Hamilton, Mass.
are house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
A. Lindsay Mr.. Fowler being a broth
er of Mrs. Lindsay.
There will be whist party in Con-
vent Hall next Thursday evening un-
der the auspices of the st. John the
Baptist Society, as a benefit for the
Catholic Church debt.
The Working League will meet
Monday afternoon next April 81 at
the Federated church parlors. A
full attendance is desired as bust
ness matters are to be considered.
The 1924 baseball team of Skowhe-
gan high school will have the first
game of the season next Saturday
afternoon at 2.30 at Fairview Park.
They will cross bats with the team
from Good Will high
Miss Fern Akeley went to Portland
Saturday with her cousin, Mrs. Ruth
Leeman to spend the week end. Mrs.
Leeman and little daughter have been
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Akeley on West Front street.
The regular meeting of Eunice
Farnsworth Chapter, D. A. R. has
been postponed one week and will be
held on Monday afternoon, April 28th
at the home of Mrs. e. F. Danforth on
Norridgewock avenue.
Victor Wrenn, a student at the New
England Conservatory of Music in
Boston, was in town Saturday call
ing on friends. He was ON his way
to Madison where he participated in
concert Tuesday night.
There will be a Sunrise meeting for
the young people of the Federated pa
IRISH next Sunday morning in the
church parlors at 100 o'clock To-
morrow friday evening there will
be a good Friday service in the church
to which everyone is cordially invit-
ed.
The death of Marie Jean Corvette,
aged one year, four months and six
days, occurred about noon Sunday.
She was the daughter of Elmer and
Alice (Gardiner) Corvette. There
are three other children in the fam
lily. Burial was at Calvery Cemetery
Tuesday afternoon
Erlon Mullen has completed his
studies at Skowhegan high school
leaving Sunday for Boston and later
will go to Newport, r. l., having en-
listed in the navy. He will be in
training for severa. months before
going on ship board. pat" as he
has been Familiarity known was
junior in high school and prominent
in athletics. His mother is Mrs. Lena
Mullen, teacher in the Fairfield
schools.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17
SkOWHEGAN OPERA HOUSE
Program Week OF April 21st

MONDAY-ALL STAR
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THE RULING PASSION
let to High School on
this day
SATURDAY
REX BEACH'S PRODUCTION
THE SPOILERS"
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-17

,,,S fillmorris, a student at Har-
Iba Id" School. came the last Of
4 = week TO visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
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The annual supper and meeting of
Sorosis will be held in Library Par
Tors next Monday evening.
Evening star., 1924-08-13


retary of the now defunct legation.
sent to Seoul, Korea, and from there
went to ST. Petersburg, where he was
a f1edgIing under the late Ethan AL
len Hitchcock, some time Secretary
of the Interior, then Ambassador to
the Car. He was for three years
confidential secretary to the late John
Hay when that statesman and au-
thor was Ambassador to Great Brit
ain, and so highly did Col. Hay re-
gard Mr. Morgans services that he
asked for his transfer to the State
Department when the Ambassador
came to act as President Mckinley's
premier on the resignation of Judge
William +. Day.
1t was in this interval that Wash
ington knew Mr.. Morgan best, though
he had often been at the Capital for
lengthy visits. He is a native of
Aurora. n. Y. the home town of Fra
AIbertuS and his cult, and he was al
ways bookish in tendency. He grad
uated from Harvard in 1890 and then
took postgraduate course in the
University of Berlin. He was for
three years an assistant professor OF
history at Harvard before he decided
that his life work was to be diplo-
macy For many years Mr.. Morgan
was the eminent example of how high
career" is possible in the foreign
service of the United States, despite
the handicaps placed by politics. But
recently he has enjoyed eminent COM
pany in Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassa-
dor to Rome, who is also a trained
professional diplomat and not a poll
tician. and sill more lately by Will
liam Philips, who is another career"
Evening star., 1924-08-13

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