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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
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MARY
SUCCEEDS
ON
MAIN STREET
By LAURA MILLER
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@. 1924. by Laura Miller

If you had some musical and mathe-
NAUTICAL ability, a family tradition of
matrimony as your only course, an
orphans f1attened purse, a horizon
bounded blythe ten souls in your
school-the two hundred in your vii
lage-and If the e-girl-who-was-
you faced all these conflicts and diff
culties, would she rail at fate, marry
the first man who asked her, or work
out career?
Norwood Baker-that masculine
sounding name proves she's a real
Southerner, you know-faced all this
and worked out a career. The chron-
tcle runs thus:
For years kept thoughts of earn
ing my livelihood to myself, to avoid
argument that girl of the aristo-
cratic Calhoun family could have only
one career. A teacher discovered a
talent for music. At the little college
OF music became discouraged by
methods all new to mel taught at
the handsome sum of thirty dollars
month"; six of it going for transporta-
ton. Meanwhile, q wealthy gentle
man, who had studied shorthand and
typewrfting, instructed me in return
for legal work.
THAT summer, / arranged to teach
Mt the State Church orphanage for
just my board and laundry. l left
home at midnight, arriving at $50 a.
M, to be told my place had been
given to a young lady the night be-
fore. Imagine my disappointment
Though / was only nineteen, / was
made cottage mother to supervise,
alone, 10 children ranging from six to
sixteen. The second week 1 had to
entertain the governors wife. Of
course everything went wrong The
world seemed topsy-turvy.
"Next, / was to become social work
er In mill village. The day I should
have commenced work the mill Office
assistant resigned. Would 1 substi-
tute temporarily? Then, for the first
time, the tide turned. The president
asked me to stay in the Office From
him, q fine executive, and the mana
ger, a detail man, l got wonderful
training. | found when it came to
figures I could eat 'em up with glee.
During the war / gloried in run
ming a construction quartermaster's
office for Uncle Sam, handling thou
sands of dollars daily. Now 1 have
another mans job as treasurer, en-
dowment fund manager and students
banker for Converse college, Spartan
burg, S. c."
Though she modestly says this final
success Is due to accident" others
credit the power of her "smiie, COM
bined with frmness and decision you
would not think of resisting"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Che.
American
/ Legion
'Sopy for This Department. Supplied nv tha
American Legion News service
WILL PROVIDE FOR
LEGION'S VISITORS

l. H. Gottlieb, buck" private dur
ing the war, will represent the largest
post OF the American Legion in St
raul' Mimi, when delegations gather
there Tor the annual convention. Colt
ileD' son or a Russian immigrant, was
erected TO his position as commander
OF St Paul post because of his work
lor the Legion, and because his com.
RACES realized his organizing ability.
On the principal post in the conven-
non city falls much detail work. From
the ranks of that post must be recruit
Ell the hard workers, the men who do
most toward entertaining their COM
RACES, the men who must be on hand
practically for "A hours a day, If nee
essary, for the success of the affair.
80 when the 1924 officers for st.
Paul post No. 8 were to BIS chosen, the
thousand members cast about to see
VINO lifted this description most accu-
RARELY. Regardless of the fact that the
members wers mostly Irish, this did
not deter them from selection of Gott-
Heb, Jew. Race had nothing to do
with this election. AS it happened,
but fifteen other Jews are members of
the post, and on the night of the cleo
tlon only five were present.
But Gottlieb has had long record
OF achievement in Legion organizing.
lie was member of the Legion
within forty-eight hours after his ar
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Out-of-Doors Camp to
House dictionaries

An out-of-doors camp to house visit
Ing Legionnaires who attend the de-
partment convention Of the Legion in
Asheville, N. O., will be established.
This is believed to be one of the first
instances that the Legion men will,
like the Grand Army of the Republic,
encamp in this manner.
1t is believed that hotel facilities
will be overtaxed during the conven-
ton and the Kiffin Rockwell post has
arranged to open huge camp, which
will require 600 tents, 1900 blankets
and 5000 cots to care for the visitors. A
small charge will be made for ac-
commodation, which will include
meals, bus tickets, and to all attrac-
lions planned for the Legionnaires
during the three-day stay.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
BEAUTY IMPORTED

Main Street is stupid. Main Street
is blind. Main Street drives out youth
and Joy and vision. So says in sub
stance the creator of a now famous
book. So say the girls who try to es-
cape from humdrum lives by escaping
to the city, each from her particular
gray corner Of her especially hateful
Main Street sort Of town.
Down in Kentucky there are some
drum gray lives there? Yes, indeed
Escape both wise and necessary if the
Kentucky mountain folk are to grow
into Americans with their fair chance
at life, liberty and pursuit Of happi-
ness? Absolutely. Urge 'em all to
move to Louisville, st. Louis or Chi
eagof By no meansl Let's bring in
stead, the best that Any Place has
discovered to these mountains and
mountain peoplel So say the inter
ested folks down there In Kentucky.
This story 10 Of a gracious woman
at what she calls her "life's sunset
period, with wonderful real lights out
over the mountains to the east and
the blue grass Of the north. There
are equally high colors in the lives of
226 mountain boys, who range from
fifteen to thirty-flvs years of age, and
from the A b @ to the eighth grade
certificate. 1t Ia pioneer work. No
woman has ever lived with these boys,
and live very thrilling Life at old
well-known Bsrea college,"
Perhaps one must have known
Laura Drake Gill Of Boston and New
York, magazine writer and one-time
college dean, personally, to sense how
much charm and richness Of fine ex-
perience she Is contributing to the
thrilling" pulsing life of Berea on
the edge Of the mountain country.
What every woman may know, Miss
Gill feels, is that no Main Street is
too isolated for the joie de vivre, as
the French CALAMITY phrase the Joy
of living, to come In, that many Of the
good community organizations are
eager to be of service, and that all
they lack is hearty invitation from
some one who wants more Of the
beauty of life imported into her town
and who will get her fellow citizens
to help distribute 1t.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Says Former Service
Mems Party Will Come

Political muddling has cost the for
mer American soldiers so much during
the last four years that the climax will
be establishing former service mems
party, according to Joseph Schwartz
a member of the American Legion in
Atlantic City. Schwartz made this
declaration in speaking before the
Lions club of that city.
'sThe time is coming when the former
service man will enter politics.
Schwartz said, "a service man doesn't
want money, but he wants soldier
DartF"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Origin of Cambridge

The origin of Cambridge university
Is obscure. 1t probably grew out of
a local educational movement during
the Twelfth century. The first of the
colleges was founded by Hugo Bishop
OF Ely In 1857. At present seventeen
colleges compose the university.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Test NeCv Explosive

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has
been tested by the bureau of mines
to determine its decorating value. It
is an explosive that may be useful in
armor-piercing shells.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Home Hur,1or

She CLOSING book)-Mercy What
a terrible creature that Minotaur wass
1t says that he used to devour yeuna
maiden at meal and then fail into
q deep Sleep"
He-Overcome by the lass-he
chewed. apprehension Tran
script.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

Our social order is safe Just in so
far as we can translate it's values into
terms Of human life. The ultimate
values are human values always; the
sanctions Of property itself are Sec
ondary; our last claim to our pos
sessions Is that we hold them for the
common good.-Basil de Selincourt.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
KerV [ihoI,,

|es5" " I'D you get that cut on your
a.. austa bit myself
M ' rn n, You couldn't bite your-
BObIln stood on a chair."-Toronto
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Origin of Uncle Sam

Ehe nickname Uncle Sam was first
b in Troy N. Y, in 1912.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

Attempts are being made to launch
airplanes from the decks of large SUBJ
marines.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

A man always tells his wife that he
doesn't care what the neighbors say
but he does.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Children Cry for "Castoria =
Harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregorc. Dops
and Soothing Syrups - No Narcotics!

Motherl Fletcher's Castoria has
been in use for over 80 years to relieve
babies and children Of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Collie and Diarrhea
allaying Feverishness arising there
from, and, by regulating the Stomach
and Bowels, aids the assimilation Of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

Some men have no use for music ex-
cept when they are permitted to play
first violin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Looks Are DeceiUing

Nell-"Old Mr.. Gotrox says he would
die for me-" Belle-"Be careful. He
may be stronger than he looks"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

The man who is gentleman only
by the grace of his tailor doesn't count
for much
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

Natural ferOcity makes fewer cruel
bile than Self-loye.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
The Old Story

Mrs. Ado you keep a second girl :?
Mrs. B.-No; we can't keep the for
ty-second.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23

No man is disguised with his job
if he has just had to hunt for it sew
eral months.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-23
Suspicious

"Why did you stop calling ON
HelenT' "Her family seemed too
glad to see me- Santa Barbara News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
MorningWe Wedding Of Miss Waldrop
 And MT. Carr

A pretty wedding which took aplace Saturday morning at 8 o'clock when Miss Annie Mae Waldrop became the bride of Mir. John B. Carr at the Third Presbyterian church, with Rev. J. A. Bryan officiating in the presence of many friends and relatives.
 Palms, ferns and white tapers were used in decorating the church and pre- ceeding the ceremony drs. Locklin Wynn sang "At Dawning" and Miss Elizabeth Colvin played the nuptial music.
 Miss Edna Louise Waldrop was her sisters maid of honor, wearing a blue dress and carried Richmond roses.
 Miss Mildred Walton, in a brown dress with sunset roses, was the brides maid.
 The bride was attractive in a gray costume with trimmings of blue and her flowers were an arm boGuet of pink roses.
 Mir. William Matthews served Mir. Carr as best man and the ushers were Mir. William Adams and Mir. Harold Little and composing the groomsmen were MT. Harry Passmore and MT. An drew Griffin.
 MT. and Mrs. Carr left for a trip to Florida after, which they will make their home in Birmingham, where both are popular members of their set.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
Delegates i's ; To Be Appointed To
 Convention

THE many school improvements of
 the state will meet this week and
 plan to send delegates to the state convention to be held in Anniston De- tober 15 and 16. The state president, Mrs. E. l.. Hayes, is eager to have the largest number possible, as much i'm portant and constructive work is being planned. She sends the following mes sage to the association
 It is not too early to begin planning to attend the state convention, which meets in Anniston during October. The program is well under way and the com mittee hopes to make it the best we have ever had. 1t is the desire of the state board that every PIT. A. in the state be represented by at least on dele gate. You are entitled to send your president and one delegate for each 25 members.
 Associations not affiliated are cordial ly invited to send visitors.
 When new officers are elected those retiring should turn over all records and literature received by them, as officers, to their successors.
 Your president desires to serve every affiliated association in Alabama, but to be able to do so there must be on file list of the officers of all local as- sociations. 9f
 September is upon us. Are we plan ming to make the coming year the great est year in the history of our organiza- ton? We should be satisfied with noth- ing less. Your success will depend large ly on how well organized you are. Have your good working committees and reg ular meetings of your council-which should consist of school principal, a member of school board, officers and chairmen of standing committees-to map out the work and attend to the de- tails of the organization business. This will leave time for helpful program for each meeting.
 A PIT. A. is a school for parents and teachers as well, and every program should be educational, should be such as will create in those who hear it de- sire to be better. parents and better teachers.
 As the years go on the mission of the Parent-Teacher association becomes ever clearer. Its two-fold task is to lay the foundation for the home, to build the living stones of character in its walls and to shelter it with a protecting roof of wise and tender love. Then must the home makers become the supporters and strengtheners of the schools and thus the united products of home and school will become the torch bearers of civili- zation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
Listening h On Foe

what it was all right when I passed it over"
 "All of which may have some bearing on your next report" said his father. And so I am glad to hear about it beforehand"
 My department is going to Sbe something fierce on my next card,' de clared Bobby cheerfully. "I'T bet me and Billy will have the lowest in all of our room, and that's going some, Stub by was the worst last time and oncet sam was so low his mother had to come to see about it. That was be- cause of him bringing a goat into the basement on Friday and forgetting it was there until Saturday, and when the janitor was cleaning up and found it. Sam said that was all my fault on account of me calling to him to go to a fire there was in the candy store, right after school, that made him up and forget the goat. So he got low in department"
 Il didn't think your teacher would be severe," said his father in sur prise.
 Sometimes she is" cried Bobby i'm patiently. Tt was all on account of Billy telling all about geysers and things in Yellowstone. He said a gey- ser is what geyses mud and there's others that roars and spits and things like that and we said it was all bunk. He up and got mad and he bet he'd show us.'
 T don't wonder" said his father, What was wrong about that?"
 Pm telling you," sighed Bobby. Well, he got mud and he turned on the hot water faucets and put the mud on stick and when the steam came rising up he threw the mud in the air. Gee, it was great! While he was stir rim. poking up the hot water to make it geyse he gave me the mud stick and l made the mud go better'n he did, though l ain't seen anything done like it in all my life. I ain't been much of anywhere, except west and to Uncle Johns place, and hunting with you If l had "a seen a real geyser maybe l wouldn't have made it go so high and hit him like that. It makes me mad to stay home such lot"
 "Him'?" repeated his father. You hit Billy?"
 'Aw shucks not" cried Bobby in despair. wouldn't have cared then. We was down in the school basement where l don't think janitors ought to be snooping around, and that old lemon came in soft like and was just in time to get lot of mud on his shirt front. Gee, he was mad. Put, land, he had ought not to be poking around with out looking where he's going, that's all. And that's how l got this here note home, to you, from teacher"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
Social Calendar

Fenelon. club members can get year books at public library.
 Llewellyn Johns chapter No. 174, O. D. S., will hold its regular meeting Friday night, September 26, at 8 o'clock in the West End hall.
 The Mother Goose club will hold their initial meeting of the year Thursday morning at II o'clock with Mrs. T. w, McCreery, 1116 Louise street. As this is the first meeting of the fall, full attendance is urged.
 Crestline School Improvement asso- citation is meeting Friday afternoon at 2 80 o'clock at the school. A large at- tendance is urged.
 Fortnightly Shakespeare club will meet Thursday morning at 10 80 o'clock with Mrs. J. G. Bass, 7123 Second ave- hue.
 Fidelta lodge No. 5 will hold their regular meeting Thursday evening at [ 80 at Fraternal hall. After the busi- ness meeting there will be heart dice party, to which the public is cordially invited.
 -
 Mrs. Chandler, president of the Music Study club, calls a meeting of that board Thursday morning at II o'clock at Cable hall. At this meeting the advisory board and district chair. man will be present and plans for the years work and the membership cam paign will be discussed.
 
 The Jefferson County Coolidge club will meet at the Chamber of Com merce Thursday afternoon at ? 80 o'clock.
 The Gibson school Parent-Teacher as- sociation will meet Thursday at ? 80 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
do this attentiveness on either side
 MARRIEI LOVERS.

Answer: Perhaps it is. It is very easy for us to get spoiled and to demand overmuch of those who give us generously. Certainly our appetite for flattery, for endear- ments, for appreciatio ton from those we love grows upon hat it feeds upon, and we cannot get enough of it.
 Without doubt, the woman who has a husband who keeps up all the little loverlike attentions that he bestowed upon her before mar riage would miss them and be hurt by the lack of them if he should suddenly cease to be loverlike more than would the woman whose husband just took her for granted, and treated her in cold and in- different manner. Just so the per son who has once been rich and used to luxury finds it harder to bear poverty than the one who has never known anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
MRS. ASHE

When General Leslie was staying with the British troops at Halifax, N. C., Colonel Tarleton and other officers held their quarters at the home of Col. Ashe, whose wife was a firm friend of liberty. Her ''beau ideal" of the hero was Col. William Washington, and, knowing this, the sarcastic Tarleton took great delight in speaking diminu- lively of this officer in her presence. In his testing way he once remarked that he, should like to have an Oppor- tunity of seeing her friend, Colonel Washington, whom he had understood to be a very small man.
 Mrs. Ashe promptly replied: "If you had looked behind you, Colonel Tarleton, at the Battle of the Cowpens, you would have had that pleasure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
KENNEDY PARENT.TEACHERS TO GIVE RECEPTION

The Kennedy school Parent-Teacher association is entertaining with a re- ception Thursday afternOno at 2 80 o'clock at the school, honoring the teachers and mothers.
 All mothers are especially invited to attend. This association is a live one and it is desired to make it more SO. There are great things in store for ev- cry parent and they are invited to join in this work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS IN WOODLAWN

The members of the. Young Peoples J. N. Killough's home in Woodlawn last Sunday afternoon, September 21, at 5 80. The meeting opened with a song, followed by sentence prayers and scripture reading. The greater part of the program consisted of talks and suggestions from the members as to what is needed to make the society grow.
 This society meets every other Sun day at 5 80 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. N. Killough in Woodlawn, and all the young people are urged to join.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25

It is easy to see how, in the stress of living, man might sometimes find it burdensome to measure up to the high standard of the perfect husband that has set. and how he sometimes wishes he could revert to the primi- tive and run roughshod over the place without regard to his wife's sensibili- ties. There are times when we get surfeited on love, and the finer senti- ments. and feel like crying out like Solomon, Feed me on apples. Stay me with flagons, for I am SICK of love"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
GIFT FOR A CHILD

Presents for the child who has every thing are always a problem which, how ever, may be solved by the gift of a most amusing clown who performs on a bar in a manner most realistic. He stands on his head, turns somersaults, and does everything that real clown would do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25

disposition ? He has a violent tenn per and surly na- ture. Worst of all, he seems to like to wound people, 8 feelings, p ar t i cu- larly the girls. and he takes a cruel revenge for even the slightest thing that any one does to him, or he thinks they do, to anger him. He admits his fault, but says that he cannot help it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25

It IS just his nature. The girl has tried to help him in vain. She, her self, is always sunny, and of a par ticularly even disposition. He is young, and the girl realizes that he might have worse faults. Still she believes that good disposition in welded life is an important factor toward insur- ing it's success, since it can turn moun- tains into mole hills by me laughter What do you think? JOY.
 Answer: The very worst fault
 that a husband can possibly have,
 bar none, is to have a mean dispo-
 sition. Personally, if 1 had to
 choose between a rounder, drunk
 ard, a shiftless ne'er-do-well, and
 man who was a model of all the
 virtues, but who had a mean dis
 position, would talk the phil
 ander, or the sot, or the loafer, ev-
 cry time in preference.
 For a man cannot always be
 chasing petticoats, nor inebriated.
 The most constitutionally tired
 man can sometimes be made to do
 a bit of work, and they all have
 times and seasons when they are
 pleasant and agreeable. But a
 mean disposition is with you every
 day and hour. You can never get away fro init. It is like a thorn
 ill the flesh, pebble in the shoe,
 that goads you to madness.
 Furthermore, a mans sin is often his weakness, and along with his faults he often possesses noblo and lovable qualities. But a mean disposition comes from a mans heart. It is born of selfishness, of arrogance, of cruelty, of jealously and spite, of every evil thing.
 The man who grouches around his home and sits up in a sullen silence for days at time, or who flies into a rage about everything that doesn't please him, and whose family walk on tiptoe for fear of offending his august ness, and who live in dread of doing or saying something that will precipitate a scene, is a grinding tyrant who could have given points to Nero and beaten him at the game.
 The man who says cruel things
 that stab his wife to the heart
 has the spirit of the wife-beater,
 and the only reason that he doesn't
 give her a black eye instel Id of
 bruised soul is because one shows and the other doesn't.
 He delights in tormenting her. He enjoys seeing her suffer, but he is too