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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28


dren came an enormous elephant. A
real, live elephant, too, and he walked
along swinging his great trunk as
though to say:
IF l get sick I'll know the place
to come where there are lots of chill
dren and where everyone seems to
be jolly and having fun. Yes, I'll
know the place for me!,'
And then some of the children cried
out with joy. 'The circus The cir
Gus is here! The circus. has come to
the hospital" And sure enough,
many of the circus people and crea-
lures had come to give a little circus
show to the children.
There was the elephant, and there
were some clowns with their faces all
whitened and such costumes as they
worel
They did tricks and played jokes,
and were just as funny as they could
be- and there were some little people,
and they sat on the edges Of the chill
dren's beds and talked and told stories.
Oh, yes, the circus people gave a
splendid show to the children, for they
had said to themselves: The children
who are sick cannot come to the cir
cus-let us go to them. And they had
found out where most of the sick chill
dren were in this big city hospital
It was a very exciting day, but Ida
said she would never forget the sur
prise she had when first she saw the
elephant walk right into the ward. She
had never seen an elephant before, and
to see an elephant for the first time
is certainly something of surprise.
And that night, when all the chill
dren were sleeping soundly after the
beautiful day they had had, the Fairy
Wondrous Secrets peeped into the
ward and unwrapped many little pack
ages which she scattered about every
where.
When morning came no one knew
that Fairy Wondrous Secrets had been
visitor that night, and no one saw
the contents of the packages, nor the
packages themselves. But they en-
ioyed these packages just the same.
For the packages we're filed with
Good Luck, Good Cheer, and Good
Health Very-Soon.
1t was one of the Fairy Wondrous
Secrets most wonderful of secrets, how
she was able to do up such packages.
And Ida seemed to feel lots better.
She wrote a letter to her pretty moth
err and her clever daddy telling them
how well she felt. But she didn't
know that the Fairy Wondrous Secrets
had blown her a kiss as she was leay-
ing the ward for the Fairy Wondrous
Secrets had thought Ida was just about
all right!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
DaddysEve1aiine
FAIRY Ialgs
Nary Graharn
BE Bo q l1 g j.
IDA

Ida was i'll in the hospital. She
was not very i'll, but still she had to
be in the hospital for awhile
Ida had imagined the hospital would
be dreadful place with nothing in
1t but medicine. And when she was
told that she would have to smell
some ether which would make her go
to sleep, SO she would not feel the
doctors fixing everything right so she'd
get well fast, she had a feeling the
ether might make her feel quite sick
Some one had told her it would
But to her great surprise she enjoyed
it. Yes, actually she enjoyed it. 1t
was very sweet and quite pleasant,
and the doctors and nurses said she
was splendid the. way she took it,
and that made it so easy for her to
go to sleep quickly.
When she awoke she had bandages
on her legs but she hardly noticed
those, for the hospital was so differ
ent place from what she had i'm
agined.
In the first place it was filled with
children! Yes, there were any num-
Der of children there, and the only
grown-ups were the doctors and the
nurses except on Saturday afternoon,
when all the daddies and the mothers
came to call. Saturday was most
exciting day.
There were always presents on Sat
urday. And everyone shared their
things with each other, which made
it seem as though this could not be
hospital at all All through the
week there were so many children
with whom Ida could talk. Such good
times as they did have!
And then, one day, came a great
surprise. At first it frightened Ida,
but when she saw that everyone was
smiling and laughing she knew there
was nothing for her to be frightened
about. But you'll neverzbe able to
guess what the surprise was, so you'll
have to hear about it right away!
There, in the big ward of the hos
pital, where there were so many chill
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

1t Took the Whole Party to Wait on
Him.
the time Mr.. Bear got to the top of
the hill with Reddy Fox he knew all
about a toboggan party and he was SO
anxious to get a ride on the long sled
that he nudged and pushed everybody
to get a seat.
''Let him sit in 'front.'" said Mr..
Squirrel. "He is good and strong and
can steer. "I'll sit on his shoulder
and keep a lookout ahead for bump
ers."
Mr.. Coon was there looking very
comfortable in his winter furs, and
he said he did not mind at all sitting
on the end. IF anything happens
he thought, IT can jump off. =
Mr.. Possum said he would sit any
where, he wasn't fussy. But Mr.. Fox
was not so willing to have the front
seat taken by Mr.. Bear. "He never
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
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PLANTING PEPPERS

OLD-FASHIONED farmers in some
~ sections of the country will assure
you that if you want to have your pep
per plants do well you should have
them set out by red-headed person.
Same thing if you grow the plants
from the seed-get a red-haired per-
son to SOW the seed. Some say a
uuick-tempered, irritable person, even
if he is not red headed, will do as
we'll This is a clear case of sympa-
thetic magic applied to agriculture and
the application of sympathetic magic
TO agriculture is not only one of the
Oldest, if not the very Oldest, phases
Of the mental development of print
tive man, but is one which exists in
he form of various superstitions all
over the world today.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
MIR. BEAR WAKES UP

MIR. BEAR awoke from his nap one
AVA winter, and peeping out of his
window saw the sun shining so bright
~ he thought it must be spring.
Somehow / do not feel like get
Ing up" said he, "but if the spring is
here I must get up and set my house
In order"
When Mr.. Bear got outside he found
it was not at all springIike, but cold,
and his raggity fur coat blew about
him, making him shiver and shake.
Hello, Mr.. Bear called out Reddy
Fox, who was skidding through the
woods. what are you doing out this
time of the year? Going to our to-
Boggan party?"
Mr.. Bear had no idea at all what
toboggan party might be, but he
asked, where is it?' just as if that
were the very thing he got up for.
"Over the other side Of the woods"
replied Reddy Fox. ''You had better
hurry, for everybody wants to get the
first ride"
Mr.. Bear said he guessed he would
trot right along with Reddy Fox, be-
cause things looked so strange all
covered with snow. eff I had known
there was snow on the ground would
have stayed in bed" he said. 81
thought it was springtime. The sun
shone through the trees and there was
no snow around my house."
"Oh. you miss a lot of things sleep
ing so much" Reddy told him. "You
will get up every winter after this. /
am certain, when you find out how
much fun it is to slide down hill" By
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

He was telling his own beliefs in I'M.
stxained, rightly placed tones that pro.
nounced slowly and distinctly, not gar
bfed sounds, but well-rounded English
words.
It is of the universal habit of run
ming our words and sentences together
into one confused tumble, or squeezing
our threats until our voices must come
forth through our noses, of kissing and
splitting out our sounds, of bawling and
distorting our faces that we must be-
ware
HAVE YOU THIS HABIT?
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
HEALS RUNNING SORES

ct feel it my duty to write you let
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
Not : First class Article.

Bobby-M Mamma, did you buy me
from the stork?
Mamma-Yes, dearie; why do you
ask?
Bobby-oh, I'VE often wondered
why you DIDN'T pay a few more dollars
and pick out a little boy without
freckles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
HIGHEST and Lowest Tide.

The highest and lowest tide of the
ocean occurs on the eastern coast OF
Nova Scotia in the Bay of Fundy,
The range of the tide is so feet
that is, it rises at high tide to a
height of 25 feet above mean sea level
and at low tide drops to % feet be
low sea level.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

THAT'S RIGHT.
S h @: There's
lots of other girls
in the world be-
sides me, YOU
know.
He: Yes, but l
can't afford to
spend as much
money on all Of
them to find out
if they'll have me
as I have on you.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
A LINE O. CHEER
BY John Kendrick Bangs.
BLIND

r KNEW a SCHENECTADY Teller
i Who dwelt SO much down in
his cellar
He never knew the light ecstatic
That glorified his dusty attic.
He lived so much in thoughts of
doom he
Deemed life dungeon dark and
gloomy,
And in the darkness ever cropping
Lost all the gifts of joyous
hoping
That waited for him mid the
gIories
That flooded all the upper stories.
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pains frequently. I
was sickly for seven
years and fiaauy had
q nervous break
down following an
operation. / am a
dressmaker and mill
liner, and a lady I
work for told me Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
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pound. lam taking
it and it has made
me well and able to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
A Cornwall Tradition.

In Cornwall there is tradition
that King Arthur still lives in the
form of a raven, and that one day
he will he changed back to man
again, and all England will ring once
more with his fame.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
GOOD Manners.

Teaching children good mannera
may seem slow work at home, but
when they go to other peoples houses
"all that comes back to them"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
WOMEN! BEWARE!
REFUSE INVITATIONS
Warninel Not All Package Dyes
Are "DIamond Dyes"

Always ask for diamond Dyes" and
If you don't see the name Diamond
Dyes on the package refuse Inland
it backl
Each 15-cent package of Diamond
Dyes contains directions so simple any
woman can dye or tint skirts, dresses,
waists, sweaters, stockings, kimonos,
coats, draperies, coverings everything
new, even if she has never dyed before.
Choose any color at drug store. Refuse
substitutes
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
DDANDELION BUTTER COLOR"

A harmless vegetable butter color
used by millions for 30 years. Drug
stores and general stores sell bottles
Of 'Dandelion" for 80 cents.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

A longing for Immortality Is par
TALLY desire to see what happens
next.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
ALL WOMEN
WHO WORK
Should Know how this Worker was
Made Strong and Well by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Zahl, N. Dakota. Isl was nervous and
weak and was not regular. I also had
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Take Tablets Without Fear If You
See the Safety "Bayer Cross"

Warningl Unless you see the name
Slayer on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for % years.
Say "Bayer'' when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28
Once Each Month

Janitor-Have you enough hot air,
Mr.. Brown?
Tenant-Yes, the landlord came for
the rent this morning.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-28

The hardest work an Industrious
man can do is nothing.
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THATs RIGHT.

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Among the worlds greatest men are
many who wouldn't dare write honest
autobiographies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
NEGRO ARRESTED
 POSING AS WOMAN
Lived As Wife Of Miner At
 Searles, Ala.
(TuscalOosa Bureau)

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Sept. 24.- Masquerading as woman for the past two years and living, it is said, as wife of a negro miner at Searles negro living his name as Dinnie Lou Hill has been placed Tn the county jail after an investigation made by Deputy Sheriffs Huff and King. The charges against him is impersonating woman. He is 20 years of age and said he came to this county from his home in Philadelphia. The officers learned, however, Wednesday that his home is in Bibb county and has proven a puzzle to authorities.
 Chamber Organized-Northport a. thriving town across the Warrior from Tuscaloosa is preparing to organize a chamber of commerce and much interest is being shown in the proposed or ganization. If the chamber is organized chamber but would affiliate with it and work in the interest of both towns.
 To Study Credit Club-Directors of the Tuscaloosa merchants bureau met Tuesday evening and passed resolutions to send Miss Carrie Allen, assistant secretary to the chamber of commerce to Birmingham to study methods of the credit association of that city to be used by the credit association of this city
 Dr. Lang Speaks-Dr. Andy Lang was the principal speaker of the Rotary club meeting Monday. and read the constitution. Dr. Carl Palmer, teacher of English at the university, read sey- eral poems written by Alabamians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
The WeU-Dressed Man
By Beaunash
Different Coat And Trousers

Formality is hard to sell to Ameri- cans whose cult is comfort. They like the loungy-and-leisurely type of dress. It came in with the spread of sports, the lure of country life and the multi plication of suburban clubs. It has a firm grip upon us that will not be loosened in long time. Cross over to England and you meet men, even in humble circumstances, wearing cutaway coats and silk hats and fancy-pattern sticks. You will see rows upon rows of men at the theater impeccably turned out in full evening dress. You will glimpse gray top hats and Ascot cravats at the race-courses. You will see. correct dress worshipped as a re- ligion and practiced as a creed. You will quickly note that smart appear ance is aided and abetted by king and prince, duke and earl, because it has helped to make Great Britain great, adding lustre to her illustrious name of being the best-dressed nation on earth.
 What do you see in this country :? You see the silk hat only atop the bank CT, the bridegroom and the cab driver rounds and eke gadZooks !-and in an occasional caricature of the track-walk- ing, fur-collared actor in the un-funny funny papers. You see a man correct ly dressed in the swallowtail at an eve ming wedding, while others of us, in- correctly dressed in Tuxedo jackets, start at him as though he were a two headed calf. A certain amount of formality in clothes to refine man and his manners, for there is direct relationship between ones dress and ones department. He who Is correctly dressed lifts his hat to woman; he doesn't tip it. He sits in a chair; he doesn't slump. He gets up when a wo- man enters the room he doesn't sprawl with outstretched legs that she can trip over or not 1; he cares not.
 The black or dark-gray sack coat to- gether with striped gray worsted or cashmere trousers, pictured in the ac- sketch, is an artful com promise between formality and semi It is intended for men who regard the cutaway coat as too extreme a style. It may, in larger communities, be worn to business during autumn and winter. It may suit you, fierce or gentle reader, or it may not, but it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
|SABICHI HEADS EXCHANGE CLUBS
T. L. Bailey Of Meridian Elevated To First
 Vice Presidency

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 24.-Dr. George 0. Sabichi of Bakersfield, Cal, heretofore first vice president of the national organization of exchange clubs was today unanimously elected presi- dent by the convention in session here.
 Thomas L. Bailey, Meridian, Miss, was elected first vice president and Herbert F. Boehl, Louisville, Ky, sec ond vice president. -
 Other officers are Floyd c. Miller, Kalamazoo, Mich., third vice president !; Robert F. Nitsche, Terre Haute, Ind, treasurer; Herold M. Harter, Toledo, Ohio, secretary; reelected by acclama- tion; M. l.. M. Massengill, Fort Worth, Tex, marshall, and c. c. Merrillot, H., sentry. The following were elected members of the board of control: Dr. A. A. Jenkins, Cleveland, Ohio; J. D. Doen, Miami, Fla; and W. J. McKone, Jackson, Michigan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
PICKENS TEACHERS
 HOLD CONFERENCE
Plans For Year Studied And
 6-3-3 Plan Outlined

CARROLLTON, Ala, Sept. 24.- Special Jon Saturday, September 10, the Pickens county teachers met in a preliminary conference at Carrollton. Plans for the coming year were dis cussed and material from the depart ment of education was given out to the teachers.
 After the devotional exercises. con ducted by Brother Mccain, Mrs. Broad us and Mr. Timmons, each gave a greet ing to the teachers. MT. Barnard, prin- cipal of the Carrollton High school, dis cussed the change from the "A plan to the 6-3-3 plan of organization. At the close of this talk the teachers went to the departmental meetings.
 Mir. Spaulding principal of the Alice vile High school, was leader of the high school group. Miss Broughton, the home economics teacher of the coun- ty high school, led the group of home economics teachers, and the elementary group of teachers was led by Mrs. Broadus.
 Miss Tappan, district agent of home economies from Auburn, talked to the teachers and introduced Miss Overby, who is to be the new home demonstra- tion agent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
GAINED 40 POUNDS
 IN SIX MONTHS
Mir. C. A. Peabody, Taylor. vile, Ill.,, Took Six Bottles of Taylors Blood Medicine. He Says That His Rheuma- tism Left Him; That He Has a Good Appetite, Eats Any thing He Wants, Feels Fine, and Gained Forty Pounds in Six Months.

Taylor's Blood Medicine contains Iodide of Potash and other vegetable ingredients, such as Sarsaparilla, Dsndelion, Gentian, Wintergreen and Sassafras, which act as a fine tonic to the stomach while the Iodide of Potash absorbed by the blood destroys the poisonous acids which lead to rheumatism and paralysis. Get bot tie of Taylor's Blood Medicine today from your druggist. It win stop those headaches, backaches, pains in the fin- gers, arms and knees. It will bring back your appetite, make you gain weight if you are thin and pale. Tay- lor's Blood Medicine is purely vege- table, pleasant to take, will tone up your stomach and make you feel fine.
 Price $1.00 bottle and if you are not satisfied it helped you, after talk ing three bottles which should last you about thirty days, return the bottles to your druggist and get your money back.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-25
MINISTER PLANS
 TOPLEAD GUILTY ! AND ASK MERCY
Children Of Woman Poi soner Refuse To Believe
 Mother Is Guilty

MT. VERNON, Il1., Sept. 24.-The drama of the circuit rider who loved a miners wife, persuaded her to kill her husband, and then killed his own wife so that they might pursue their romance unhampered, moves on in a triangle formed by three southern IL inois towns.
 Mrs. Elsie Sweetin has been ordered held without bond here in the Marion county jail for the grand jury. The coroner's verdict charged that her hus. band, Milford Sweetin, ''came to his death by means of poison, wilfully and maliciously administered by his wife at the instigation of flight ill conform ity with an agreement between them. She is almost insane from worry and is in charge of her physician, Dr. S. A. Thompson of Mt. Vernon. Mrs Sweetin has retained the services of two Mt. Vernon attorneys to fight for the minimum punishment for her crime.
 Wants To Plead Guilty
 Nearly 40 miles away, in the Wash. ington county jail, held without bond on the charge of poisoning his wife, Anna, and of compliciry in the poison ing of Sweetin, is the ''posioning pas tor" Rev. Lawrence M. Flight, his calm shattered into tremulous nerv- ousness, his hope entirely vanished. He wants to plead guilty and throw him. self on the courts mercy.
 At the other point of the triangle, the two families of children, thus bereft of both parents, are trying to readjust their lives.
 Mrs. Marie Eaton, Flights oldest daughter, is in Ina, preparing to take the younger children, Mildred, Is, and Robert, 14, to her home in Tamaroa, III.
 In the Sweetin home, in the same little town of 400, Mrs. Sweetin' s brother cares for Byford, 15 Stanton, 13, and Harry Lee, s. Mrs. Sweetin has expressed a wish that they be placed in a Masonic orphanage. The Sweetins owned their own home and Sweetin had two insurance policies of $1,000 each, one of which lapsed only a few days before his death.
 Think Mother Innocent
 The children refuse to believe in their mothers guilt, and even Christopher Columbus Sweetin, father of the poisoned husband, declares that his uduSuter-lu-ldW WAS us lONdUle dS COulu be, and that he believes she never did a wrong thing until she met the min ister. The grandfather thinks that perhaps a farm would be the best home for the children.
 Over in the Salem jail, Mrs. Sweetin, her blue eyes darting back and forth under the emotional stress of her con dition, has laid the entire blame for the crime to which she has confessed on the pastor.
 T am very, very sorry for what l did" she said. "I don't know why I did it. He must have had some kind of influence over me. The pastor told me to do it, and gave me the poison" She kept repeating.
 Flight, too, doesn't know why he did it, and says that the devil must have been pulling him on.
 States Attorney Frank c. Thomp- son has indicated his intention of ask. Ing the death penalty for Flight. He has not said what penalty he intends to \ ask for Mrs. Sweetin.