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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
The Chemists Shop

<WTHAT do you think?" cried the Ss w conventional minded woman
 in despair. q went into big dkug store downtown today to get some tooth paste and the gentlemanly clerk tried to sell me some timed plum pud- ding! In drug store! It did seem so funny !" H r ."Oh, I don't know" said the man who was resigned to almost everything because he had seen so much for so long. "You don't realize what an oblig- ing affair one of our drug stores IS, trying, as it were, to surround you with every luxury. fully expect be- fore I die to find American drug stores dispensing marriage licences, collins, beefsteaks and shampoos.
 "No matter how hard and fast the druggist works he never is able to keep up with the outrageous demands of the populace. Just as he fancies he has shown great acumen and ambition in setting up show case of buttons and hooks and eyes somebody. blows in and demands canary birds, Nelectric light bulbs or a carpet sweeper.
 "I tell you the English people treat the drug store in the proper manner. 1HG uruSSlSI lSuL H uAu6SAoI oI oAA' He is a chemist, thank you, and he runs a chemists shop and coming in for prescription is something the same as having an audience at court and is approached in the same fashion.
 ''This was forcibly brought to my at tention when I first attempted to- pa tronize a drug store in Canada. The hotel clerk had assured me that yes, there was a chemists shop right out side, sir Outside I went and walked up and down the sidewalk. Nothing came to view but an unbroken expanse of hotel granite with the first floor windows above my head. It was a large hotel and after I had walked down one side of it, walked down another.
 If there was a drug store present it was most efficiently camouflaged. Just as ' was about to give up saw highly polished and moderately lighted window with things in it which led me to suspect that the clerk had told the truth. But there seemed to be no door leading within. A detective working twenty-four hours at his job could have found no entrance.
 "Re-entering the hotel I found myself in a totally wrong corridor, walked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
Listening h On Foe

blindly and naturally came to the door leading to the chemists shop, which was in a sort of blind alley within.
 "It was a small shop in immaculate order and a curious silence reigned. Wherever I looked I viewed drugs and medical supplies. Standing in rigid or der on the g1ittering shelves, these bot ties of drugs loomed ominously. A chill crept over me, and I sneezed, where upon, with a slight frown on his face as pale, distinguished gentleman stepped out from behind something, glass re- tort in his hand. I don't know whether he precisely had on evening clothes but the effect was the same. He appeared slightly annoyed at my inopportune in- trusion. 1-er-I want this prescrip- tion filled 1 got out. And can l have it in hurry as r."
 tenance as he lifted my bottle from the Just as soon as I have completed the prescription upon which I am en- gagged he said in low polished tones, :. shall be able to attend to yours
 'He faded away behind whatever he had emerged from and once more was left in the deathly stiffness of that mortuary spot. I was just as comfort able and at ease as though were alone in morgue at midnight.
 After hours ard hours he came out, took another hour to tie up what he had been achieving and then he re- tired ,xfth my order. More hours passed and the silence was even silenter. There wasn't a cigar lighter in sight and l didn't dare strike a match. There was nothing to look at but medicine. He tied up my bottle just as thoroughly as though about to ship it 1000 miles and be bowed me out with the cour- teousk kindness one uses toward the awkward and the humble. I recovered consciousness a little later in my room, hopping my dazzed brow and breathing hard. But-"N
 "I'd rather mix plum buildings with the quinine," declared the conventional minded woman. Why, that doesn't sound at all like a drugstore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
Prayer Service For World Peace
 To Be Held

Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men," will be the keynote of the prayer serv- ice for World peace, to be held on Tues day, November II. at Il a. m., at the First Baptist church by the county W. c. T. U. and the Jefferson County League of Women Voters in celebration of Armistice Day.
 All men and women who regard war as the greatest and most un- necessary evil in the world, and who wish, on the day set apart as sacred to the memory of those who died in the great war that humanity might live, to send up their applications that there shall be no more war, are invited to come to this service.
 Prof. George Hamrick will give beautiful organ prelude and prayers will be led by Dr. W. R. Hendrix of the Highlands Methodist church. A reading will be given by Mrs. Jerome Vandiver, and Prof. Allen G. Loehr will talk briefly ons"World Peace" Vocal music will be furnished by pupils of Prof. Ferdinand Dunkley. The service will last less than an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
Pupils To Give a Recital Today
 Cable Hall

The following pupils of the Birming- ham Conservatory of Music will appear in recital Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock in- Cable hall:
 Marching (Blake), Jesselle Holley. {. Cry Baby (Maxim), Angeline Howell. A Close Chase (Blake), Annie Lynd Huff.
 Story by the Mouse (Lynes), Mary Louise Fell.
 The Bugle Call Iyles), Ann Moss.
 The Big Clock (Blake), Lolita Hodges. yt>
 The Cello (Blake), Elinor Kidd. Minuet (Beethoven), Elna Sessions. Gondoliera (Rheinhold), Evelyn Dobbs.
 Butterfly (Rheinhold), Louise Steen.
 Tweelle dunn and Tweedle dee tLynes),. Dorothy Inscho.
 The North Wind Doth Blow (Swift) Virginia Eagles.
 To Wild Rose (MacDowell), Mary Mason.
 To Water Lily IMacDowell), Sara Cunningham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
My NeighborSays

Lettuce washed thoroughly in cold water and placed in a granite paY with a tight cover or in paper bag with the top folded over tightly, will remain crisp and fresh for several days and always be ready when needed.
 When sugaring doughnuts and crullers, put them in bag with the sugar, and shake well. This Is a saving in sugar and covers the dough- nuts or crullers evenly.
 When buying sirloin of beef avoid the end piece, for it has a larger DOT tion of bone on the upper side and the meat is inferior to the center cut.
 Sometimes towels become gray and dingy looking. Treat them in this manner and they will become white and clear again: Place them in kettle and cover them with cold water, add the juice of lemon and shavings of good white soap. Place them on the back of the stove and allow the whole to come gradually to a boil. If very much soiled the process may have to be repeated.
 Potatoes pared in the morning and soaked in cold water till noon taste very much bettet. You will find a good deal of starch, that makes po- tatoes pasty at this time of year will soak out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

sence does it's perfect work, and
 you can break off an engagement
 by parting a couple. Often giving
 them overdoses of each others so-
 ciety will do the trick. A little
 judicious ridicule is generally ef- fective. But the one sure way to
 make a match is to forbid boy
 and girl to see each other and to keep nagging them about each other. DOROTHY DIX. Dear Miss Dix-I am a girl of nine teen, and am in love with. two gentle men. One is dental student, and the other is a theological student. Which shall I marry? BERTHA.
 Answer: Depends on which you want saved, your teeth or your soul. It is pity you don't live where polyandry exists, so that you could have both. Surely, Bertha, you do not consider that you are much in love with either when you can't tell which of two men you care for the most, and when you are willing to let their professions decide the matter! In your particular case, however, l should say that your chances of happi. ness would be greater with the dentist than the preacher, as you might not care for the obligations imposed upon the wife of a clergyman, whereas the dentists wife has no handicaps un- less she is jealous of the lady patients.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

Answer: It is unfortunate that the poets and novelists have set an almost impossible idealistic and romantic standard for gauging love. According to them, lover must be afflicted with chilis and thrills, and hectic fevers. He or she must tremble atthe sound Of an approaching footstep, and De ready to commit suicide at the mere thought of being parted from the beloved one. Now, no really mem - tally balanced person ever experl- ences all of these symptoms.
 He or she finds placid peace and hap riness in another's presence; finds con ren;ality in another's society, but there is no wild rapture, no especial thrills and so he and she doubt that it IS love that he or she feels, whereas 1t IS IT reality the quiet, steadfast love tha' ,utlastsaa hundred tempests of passion
 There are many ways in which a woman can test her feelings to- wards A man. One is to determine whether she likes him better pres ent or absent. If she thinks Of hlm more tenderly when he is away than when he is with her, it shows that he is not really sympathetic and congenial, and she likes him more than she loves him. If, on the other hand, she believes herself in love with him when he is with her, and doubts her love when he IS away, it indicates that he has physical fascination for her only. She does not love him with a love that lasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

while she liked me better than any other man she knew, she did not know whether she loved me enough to marry me or not.
 She still seems un- able to decide this question, which is vitally important to me. Can you tell any method by
 which she may de termine her real sentiments concern ing me? J. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
A Leftover Dish

Left-overs may be made into whole some and tempting dishes for the chill dren's luncheon. Part of yesterday 8 roast may be diced or minced, little of the gravy added-and parsley or onion, as the children prefer-and served on rounds of tost. Or it may be cut into thick slices and broiled a few moments so that 1t is slightly Drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
We Women
Wives On The Installment Plan

Wives On The InstalIment Plan
 WIVES on the installment plan !! w The idea has distinct possibil-
 ities. It is practical, too, ac- cording to a dispatch from South Africa. The natives in Pondoland have tried it out and the only drawback seems to be that the wives are some times turned back in lieu of purchase money. That is, after all, common occurrence in the installment system the seller takes that risk.
 z The plan seems ideal for the pur. chaser, the usual matrimonial risk be- ing absent. Of course, we women would not approve of the privilege if it were exclusively masculine. A question of economics is involved. If the custom were introduced here there is no req son why business women should not in- vest in husbands on the installment plan. It would do away with the eternal question as to whether business and career can be managed together.
 It seems to me to be feasible plan to try out. If it failed, let the install ment lapse and the husband would re- vert without any further trouble. A much simpler and quieter method than u1tOECC. At AulSht tSAtN " P1OAAOSN longer and possibly happier marriages. People seldom seem to feel that ques- tion of pride is involved in divorce. But to be returned as unsatisfactory or not worth the money, would be another matter. Through pride alone, the pur chased partner would probably make a sincere effort to prove up to standard. Anyone would dislike being labeled a bad buy. Putting it, as the >Pondoland natives have, on a strictly business basis, that is what it amounts to when a partner is returned. W
 From the point of view of the buyer tho business basis might well promote better marriages. Admitting that they might return the goods they would probably make considerable effort to avoid having to do this. In all likeli- hood it would necessitate an uncom- fortable argument with the seller.
 If, on the other hand, the partner was satisfactory Eut the payments could not be met, there again pride would step in. It would be so unpleasant, for a man to have it known in the Busi- ness world that he had an excellent wife but was falling behind in the install ments on her. It would be much more damaging in a business way than that hollow technicality, divorce on grounds of non-support."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
FULTON-NORRIS WEDDING ANNOUNCED

WEDDING ANNOUNCED
 The following announcements have been received by friends:
 Mir. and Mrs. William Spiers Morris announce the marriage of their daugh- ter, Elizabeth Sue, to Mir. Hobart Cecil Fulton, on Tuesday, October 21, 1924. Birmingham, Ala.
 At home 22S Choccolocco street, Ox- ford, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
Dorothy Dix's Letter Boz

Four Tests for c Girps Love-How Can Mother Wishing to Break Match Weam Her
 Som> Asvay From the Girl?-ShaU She Marry the Dentist or the Minister for Her Happiness?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
OVERHEARD

An old lady being shown round Rochester cathedral by one of the verg- CTS, arrived at a tablet in the nave in memory of Charles Dickens.
 "Oh," she said, 'I never knew that Dickens was killed here."
 He wasn't, madam" replied the verger, but why do you ask?"
 "Why, it says This tablet was erect ed by his executors '"-London Morn- ing Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

YOUTH TURNS TO PLAIDS
 For a girl of schoolgirl age there is an exceedingly smart frock of flannel in huge green and white plaids.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

D EAR MISS DIX-Something like two months ago I asked girl to
 marry me, and she replied that,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

TRIMMINGS OF WILDCAT
 A collar and wide cuffs of wildcat trim a suit of black kasha worn over a dress of beige kasha touched with black.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

PARIS USES FEATHERS Recently imported from Paris are eve ming wraps of metal brocade bordered with wide bands of ostrich in two toned effects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

Another way a girl can test her love is by trying to determine her own re- actions to mans conversation. Any woman can listen on forever while man tells her how much he loves her and how wonderful she is, but if she begins to be bored when he switches the conversation to himself and com mences to monologue about his own in terests, then she merely likes him. It takes love to make woman want to hear everything a man thinks about himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

DINNER TO BE GIVEN JUDGE SAMUELS
 The Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El are entertaining with a dinner this eve ming at the Tutwiler at p. m., honor ing Judge David Samuels of Shreve- port, Louisiana.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08
THE OBSOLETE OPERA GLASS

People no longer take opera glasses to the theater." -
 For the reason," suggested Miss Cheyenne, "that so many of the shows are sufficiently embarrassing at a distance to prevent any wish for a nearer view"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

Perhaps these pointers may be of value to your lady love in reading her own heart. After all, the line between liking and loving is very thin one, and there are no more satisfactory mar riages than those in which perfect friendship exists between a husband and wife. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix-My son is in fatuated with a young girl who is not settled at all in her ways, and when my daughters try to tell her the seri- ousness of marriage she throws up her hands and answers that she doesn't want to hear all that. Please advise me the best way to part them before 1t is too late. ANXIOUS MOTHER.
 Answer: It is a serious matter
 to break off a marriage, and a
 mother might well hesitate to in-
 terfere unless she has some better
 reason than merely that a young
 girl is gay and frivolous, and
 doesn't want to regard matrimony
 from the duty standpoint instead of
 the romantic.
 You see, husband or wife is as
 absolutely a matter of taste as
 whether you like onions, or pink IS
 more becoming than blue to you
 or not. Therefore, the kind of a
 girl whom mother would pick out
 for a wife for her son may be the
 very one who would drive him to
 drink, while the girl of whom moth-
 CT disapproves might fill every
 need of his soul and body.
 Nor can any human being tell be- forehand what sort of wife girl will make. We have all seen flighty, flibberty- jibberty hoydens settle down into the most domestic of wives and mothers. We have seen girls who were wildly extravagant with papa's money become tightwads with her own, and we have also seen domestic girls who had got enough domesticity and who refused to go in the kitchen after mar riage, and we've seen prim little Puri- tans turn into flirtatious flapper wives. So, inasmuch as those who marry have to live together, it is a pretty good idea to leave it to the victims to select their own poison.
 As for breaking off a match. tia
 only successful tactics are diplO-
 matic ones, and the use of them depends upon the personality of
 the individuals. Sometimes ab-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

Still another test of love is when a girl begins to feel motherly toward a man, and worried about whether he gets the proper food, and puts on dry shoes when he gets his feet wet. That shows that in her heart she regards him as her property.
 But the acid test of love is when a girl prefers spending an evening at home with a man to having him take her out somewhere. That is indisputable evidence that she has picked him out for a fireside com panion for life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-08

As for breaking off a match. ths only successful tactics are diplo- matic ones, and the use of them
 depends upon the personality of the individuals. Sometimes ab-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Cooidges Entertain
Number Of Guests
On MaYfIoWer

The President and Mrs. Caol
idge entertained On the yacht
MayfioWer today during ~
cruise dawn the Potomac river.
The guests included Senator
and Mrs. George Wharton
Pepper of Pennsylvania, Com
gresham B. H. Smell Of New
York, chairman House Rules
Committee, and Mrs. Smell;
Congressman and Mrs. Will R.
Wood of Indiana, Congressman
and Mrs. L. T. McFadden of
Pennsylvania, Congressman
and Mrs. Everette Sanders Of
Indiana, Chief Justice Arthur
p. Rugg, of Massachusetts SUI
preme court, and Mrs. Rugg;
Commissioner Blair Of Internal
Revenue and Mrs. ID. II. Blair;
Mr.. and Mrs. William M. But
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan But
Ter, Fl. Wendell Endicott, Of
Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
B. Noyes, Of Washington; Ray
mond Robbins, Of Illinois.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26

Attorney General Daugherty'
who has followed the precedent
followed by other prospective naval
oil reserve inquiry witnesses and
has gone to Florida, was manager
for the Harding forces In the last
Republican convention and IL ac-
cordingly regarded as having had
knowledge Of the arrangements for
Mr.. Falls appointment, II any
sloch arrangement were at this
time made. Rumors about them
have long been current.
It IL now definitely charged that
various blocks Of votes in the con-
yention were transferred to the
Harding column only after acsur-
ances had been given by sonle-
body as to a satisfactory appoint
ment when the time should come
for naming q Secretary Ut the In
Among the votes were notably
noIao from western oil districts,
and IL n now openly asserted that
these votes were added TO the
Harding forces by some Harding
leader who took upon himself the
responsibility Of making . prom.
ise to the effect that the next
Secretary, Of the Interior would be
satisfactory from the oil stand
point.
to ask him II he knew OF any such
GcOntinnsa On PAse 2. Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
7iran Johnson Attacks oil Leases
Ford Called To Give
Shoals Bid Data
To Congress

Henry Ford or one % his
representatives must come to
Washington Monday or Tues
day to explain in detail the
Ford bid for the Muscle Shoals
nitrate and power project, the
House Military Affairs COM
mites decided today. Notih-
cation was sent to Ford ct De-
troit by Chairman Kahn.
Hearings on the various bids
win continue until Wednesday,
when legislation for the sale OF
the property win be drafted.
The committee today heard
Mayor Richard v. Taylor, of
Mobile, Ala, who opposed the
Ford bid, and urged the lees-
ing. Of the property to the As
ISOLATED Southern Power COM
panies, who offer to operate
the nitrate and power plants
fifty years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
fI[|PI|tlI BAND
1t tackled BY
MILITIA
colorums Charged Upon After
Being Bombarded by Cruiser
Sacramento. +

MANILA, Jan. 36.-After a bonn
hardment by the cruiser Sacramento
of.the entrenched Colorums, a fanati.
cal Filipino organization at Soccoro
on Bucas Island, Colonel Bowers
and one hundred Of the constabulary
landed and charged the natives ul-
der q barrage fire laid down by the
war vessel.
Because Of difficulty Of defepse
and re-embarkation In case Of bad
weather, Colonel Bowers ordered the
town burned and returned to the
Sacramento with his men. One con.
stabuiary man was killed. The 'ex-
tent Of the Colorums' casualties are
" burned having been found in the
town.
Plans 20 Out Them Off.
Colonel Bowers intends establish.
ing q temporary station at Consola-
cion, thus cutting off the fanatics
from Siragao Island, where their
depredations started with the STAY
ing Of nineteen constabulary men.
A base will be established at Dapa
from which point attachments can
easily cover northern Siragao, where
several colorum bands are reported
causing trouble.
A third company Of the constabu-
larry will establish a station at PIANO.
saingan to prevent the fanatics from
crossing to the mainland Of Min
danao.
Colonel Bowers reported to head
quarters here that It was unadvis-
able to attempt to penetrate the
interior Of the island.
Wood In Conference. q
Governor General Wood IL IN con-
ference with the constabulary staff.
Reports Of trouble were received
today from Binalbagin sugar cen.
trail. where Filipinos armed with
bolos invaded the plant. Manager
Charles Kocher was attacked but
with the aid of by-standers he
fought off his assailants.
The American managers Of the
sugar central were DISCHARGED by
the Filipino directors who recently
took over the property, but, accord
ing to reports received here, Super
intendent Carmichael and his staff
refused to accept dismissal and con-
tinued to operate the plant with the
Filipino planters In an angry mood.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Failures Fewer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2e.--Buslneas
failures for the week ending Jan.
iary ~ number 491, which com
p0res with SIS last week, sos in
the like week Of 1928, ga In 1922,
40 In 1921 and 1O4 IN 1920, 40.
cording to Bradstreet'e.