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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

has always cursed and used vile lan- guage toward me when he was in a rage, but I never thought much of it until about a year ago, as he has many good quali- ties. He allows me all the money I need. I am privi- legged to go about a good deal and have my friends visit me, and he is awfully good to my rela- tives, especially my mother.
 Rut lately I have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Dorothy Dix's Letter Boz
Shall She Divorce Her Husband After TaOenty- tive Yeors?-The Young Wite Whose Husband Is Too Tired To Go Out-HoaU Soon liter The Proposal Should Engagement Ring Be Given?

HEAR MISS DIX-I was married at D eighteen years of age, and am now past forty. My husband is twelve years older than am, and we have been mar ried for nearly twenty-five years.
 My husband has a bad temper. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

One Mother Says:
 After every holiday I give to the children all the greeting cards we have received, and with these they start couple of scrap books for the children in the hospital. By each Christmas these books are gay with suggestions of many holi- days, and are always greatly ap- preciated by the little invalids.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

proposition until you are past fifty Moreover, remember this:
 We all have to balance accounts with those with whom we live, as they do with us. for we all have our faults as we'll as our virtues, and a wife may we'll forgive almost any thing in a husband who has been kind and good and liberal to her, and awful good to her mother"
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-I have been married to a man seven years who has no bad habits and who loves his home. But when he comes home it is nothing but eat his dinner and then go to sleep. When I complain he tells me that he cannot help it. as he is out in the open air all day, and when he comes in he is tired and the warmth makes him drow- sy. Yet, if I say that will go and pay some friend visit, or perhaps go to the the moving pictures, he gets very ieal- ous and nasty, and when I complain about the late hours his business brings him home he tells me l should be thankful to have enough to eat. But when he fights with me, the next half hour he comes and kisses me, and I know he is sorry. I am only twenty five and I am lonesome, and I don't know what to do. What would yo do?
 A BROKEN-HEARTED WIFE.
 Answer: Well, my dear, if I didn't have anything worse than that to break my heart over I'd try to plaster up what I thought were the cracks in it with a little common sense, and I would consider myself very lucky woman.
 Suppose your husband didn't stay at home at night, and instead of his fall ing calmly asleep on the couch after dinner, where you can have your eyes on him. he was out running around after some bobbed-haired girl? Suppose instead of working late at good job, he didn't have any job at all, and you didn't know where the money was com ing from to buy the next meal?
 Then, indeed, you might find your self broken-h hearted wife; but you have no right to when you are married to an honest. hard-working man, whose only fault is that. he is worn out at night and doesn't want to gad around.
 Of course, a woman should have plenty of amusement, but why not get it in the daytime? Surely there is time enough to visit your friends, and play bridge, and go to the movies and the matinees while your husband is off at his work, so that you might spend your evenings at home. And if you would put in some of those eve- nings improving your mind by read ing you would find that they would pass quickly enough. There's no company equal to good book. Also, q good book is the sovereign cure for morbidness. which is what ails you, 0 lady with the make-believe broken heart! DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-What is the correct length of time for a young man to give his fance an engagement ring after he has proposed and been accepted?
 l.. E. R.
 Answer: Pronto. Right away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

For instance, she may have kuar- rel with one of whom she is very fond. Unless that young man gives in and comes around to her ideas and way of thinking that young man will never see her again. Olga will not meet him half way. He must come all the way to her, admit she is right and do so with grace and humility and charm.
 Particularly, he must do it with charm. or else Olga will flare up and the young man will flare up and every thing will be over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Some people say what Olga needs is a good beating that her one-way manner is merely stubborness; that no girl who will not give in to others at least part of the time must be at heart either ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

One day man will come along who will impress upon her that other peo-a pie have rights in this world besides herself and she will change into a do-. cile type.
 But now she is type.
 She is The One Way Girl, L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

thought of all the mean things my hus- band has said to mo during my married life, and it seems as if l do not love him any more. I am thinking of get ting q divorce, although he begs me not to and promises never to talk to me that way again. and, indeed, he has not done so for the last two months. What shall I do? MRS. MISERY.
 Answer: Don't think of such thing as getting divorce, dear sis ter. If you do you will find yourself far more uphappy than you are, for if you will just give Time, the mir ncle worker, chance, it will smooth out all your difficulties and make the last lap of your matrimonial journey the best part of it.
 Try to believe what is the truth, that your troubles are largely imaginary. Your idea that you have ceased loving your husband is just a hallucination, and the day will come when you will smile at his blusterings. just as you used to do, and not think more seri- ously of them than you did in the past. Don't do anything rash now that will make it impossible for you to go back to a placid, contented domestic life with a husband who really loves you and who is good provider, even if he does go into tantrums. Don't throw away your good home during fit of nerves.
 From forty to fifty is the danger ous age with women. It is the time when there is a last flareup of TO- nance in them. when even staid mothers of families often indulge in compromising flirtations with boys young enough to be their sons or go mad over jazzing and tea hounds and lounge lizards.
 It is a time when a woman's imagination runs riot, and she is nor bid and fanciful; when she magnifies trifles, and takes dark and pessi- mistic view of all about her. It is the time when she rakes among the ashes of the past for vain regrets, and adds up the sum of her husbands faults and shortcomings. >
 And it is the time, alas, when she does many foolish things that she spends the balance of her life repenting, when she has swung back to normal.
 So go slow, sister, on the divorce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
We Women
By BETTY BRAINERo

nLGA has her own ideas about V things and her ideas, she insists, are the best ideas so far as she is con cerned. She has no objection to other people having ideas. She doesn't even mind if they have lots of them, or what they are. But when she is involved Olga's ideas and nobody else's will do.
 She is type.
 ihe is the One-Way Girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Olga's fur must be rubbed just one way. That way, of course, is her way She can be led to the water and when she ia led she will drink. But drag her to the water and she will be as stubborn as a mule.
 This is especially true of her dealings with young men-with young men who are fond of her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Answer: Pronto. Right away. Immediately. Some men have the engagement ring in their pockets when they pop the question, but this looks as if they were a bit too sure that the girl could be had for the asking, and
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tremely selfish or suffering from delu. sions of grandeur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Olga has flnred up, and some of her friends have resigned themselves to be- ing through. But in time they come back, and this has strengthened the pillars upon which Olga's philosophy rests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Dear Miss Dix-What is the correct length of time for a young man to give his fiance an engagement ring after he has proposed and been accepted?
 l.. E, R,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

An automatic stop has been invented to halt cotton mill bobbin when a de- sired amount of yarn has been wound on it and prevent waste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Of English invention is an electri- cally operated stethoscope with which abnormal noises in machinery can be detected from distant points.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
MANS STORY IS DOUBTED
CLAIMS THAT UNNAMED MEXI- CAN KILLED WOMAN QUES-
 TONED

PUEBLO, April 2-An unnamed Mexican implicated in the confession of Fred Panssen yesterday following his arrest here in connection with the finding of the body of Mrs. Bella Jan sen his wife in a trunk at Ogden, last month, remained today the only ap- parently unknown element in the trunk murder.
 Jansen, who calmly confessed the details of the murder to the police, saying he had employed the Mexican to kill his wife because he feared she would kill him, paying the Mexican $50 to do the work, was arrested in taxicab near here yesterday morn ing.
 In his confession Jansen said his wife had been killed while she was kneeling in prayer in their Denver home. He denied an actual part in the killing, but admitted making prepara- tions, even to letting the Mexican in- to the house and pushing the trunk into the room for the Mexican to use in boxing up the body. Jansen declar- ed, however, that he did not see the body and that he was not in the room when his wife was slain.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
McAdoo's Manager Denies Ku Klux Klan Had Effect
 on Election in Georgia

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2 - David Ladd Rockwell, campaign mana ger for William c. McAdoo say that it was absurd to attribute the McAdoo landslide in Georgia to the influence of the Ku Klux Klan.
 MT. McAdoo's victory was so over whelming, he declared, that no single element brought it about. As for the Ku Klux Klan the position of MT. Me Adoo was not in doubt A heckler in the crowd at Macon Ga, asked Mr. McAdoo what his attitude was toward the K. K. K
 There were cries of ''put him out," but MT. McAdoo insisted that nobody shoIld be put out of any of his meet ings simply for asking question. He then proceeded to make answer: 'I stand four-square with respect to this and every other order on the immut- able guarantee of liberty contained in the first amendment of the constitu- tion of the United States, that is for the freedom of religious worship, free dom of speech, freedom of the press and the right of peaceful assembly," He pointed out that the people of Am erica were against intolerance. His answer was met with an outburst of cheers and applause.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
White House Becomes
 World Tennis Capital

WASHINGTON, D C., April l. The White House became for a while today the worlds tennis capitol, with President Coolidge making the first draw for the international Davis cup matches from the bowl of the trophy itself, and the diplomatic representa- tives and the competing nations fol- lowing him in most impressive cer- emony.
 Players and figures of world inn portance in tennis affairs also gather ed, including Dwight F. Davis, donor of the cup and assistant secretary of war, officials of the United States ten his association and former members of the American Davis cup teams.
 Besides the United States, defender of the cup, the contenders include Eng land, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, India, Ireland, Switzerland, Rumania, and Italy in the European zone, Australia, Japan, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and China iii the American zone and tentatively Austria and Hun gary.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
SPECIAL COURT FOR
 SHRINE CONVENTION
KANSAS CITY TO SWEAR IN BIG CORPS OF SPECIAL POLICE
 TO PRESERVE ORDER

KANSAS CITY, April 2-Throngs 2 of Shriners who will come June for their 1924 convention, will be handled by Shrine court, composed of ex- perienced policemen, who will be sworn in by the municipal police de- partment as special police during the convention.
 Major Charles Edwards, a former chief cf police, is to be Shrine provost commander. He will be assisted by c. A. Vassar, another former Kansas City police chief, and scores of Shrin- CTS from visiting temples will be mem- ebrs of the provost guald.
 Tie provist guard VIII mall among the crowd-1OO,OOO visitors are expect ed Shine officers say, and prevent all trouble. If the occasion demands the provost guardsmen will act as police men i'll any disturbance involving the visitors. Besides police authority the guard will have authority to take the fez from any noble guilty 0. miscon- duct.
 There will be no delay ir handling cases, Major Edwards sid. A night court will be held to dispose of cases as they are brought to the attention of the police.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Aged Petitioner Wants Ban on Gambling and
 Booze Sold on Streets

DENVER, April 2-Swept away in flood and missing since 1862, the minute book of the Denver City Coun- cil, containing official minutes of the city for 1860 and 1861 has been dis covered by a bookdealer in New York and returned to the city's archives.
 An excerpt of notes of meeting of the City Council on October 8, 1860, when Denver had a population of ap- proximately 2,OO0 contains a petition which reads:
 "To the Legislative Council of the City of Denver:
 "We, the merchants doing business on Blake street, petition your honor able body to prohibit from the streets and sidewalks, all gambling and sell ing of liquor.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Krupps Ottain Spanish Plant to Manufacture
 Locomotives and Ships

BARCELONA, April 2-Spain's old est engineering works, La MarquiSta Terrestremy Maritima, together with the well-knoWn Cardena DockyardS. have been acquired by Messrs Krupp, the famous German engineering and armaments firm.
 The La Marquista Works was estab- lished in 1855 and is situated in Bar celona alongside the port. The works employs 900 men and has a capital of approximately $5,OOO,0OO.
 Under the new order, Krupp's will supply the technical staff and Spanish banks will find the necessary capitol for the proposed extensions of the works and the dockyards.
 Krupp's will place immediately large orders for construction work which cannot be undertaken in Germany un- der the terms of the Versailles Treaty. They will also build steamers here for the German-South American lines and construct locomotives fer the Spanj. | railways.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
FAKE LIQUOR IS COSTLY
FORMULA FOR SECRET PROCESS
 SOLD FOR $1,OOO.

SEATTLE, April 2-Detailed work ings of huge international business in the manufacture of fake liquor, with headquarters in Seattle, main office in Canada and local representative who paid $1,0O0 each for district rights to a secret formula for rectifying and aging raw liquor by an electrical pro- cess, were uncovered yesterday by pro- hibition agents.
 A purported written contract be- tween the Seattle representatives, whose territory extends 100 miles from this city and F. H. Malcolm, a professional distiller and rectifier, of Vancouver, B. C., were seized, together with equipment for faking standard brands of whiskey and gin.
 The agents found several bottles of "clairoid" which, according to the label is a preparation for extracting all poisonous and deleterious matter from all liquid substances" An aluminium plate, with attachments, which was found, was used, according to the 1000 formula, for carbonizing the impuri- ties in raw alcohol and giving the eff feet of ten years aging in wood.
 Several bottles of synthetic liquors purporting to be and closely resemb- ling popular brands, were found in the room of c. B. Porter, whose name was signed to the contract. A feature of the fake liquors, which closely initiate the genuine, is that some of them are put up in non-refillable bottles.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Husband and Wife
 Fight Pistol Duel

BALTIMORE, Apr 2-Mr. and Mrs. Walter Albers of Baltimore fought a pistol duel in the street while groups of school children were passing. Al bers was standing behind his automo- bile in front of his house when Mrs. Albers fired at him from a window in the house. Mrs. Albers fired four shots and Albers returned the fire, each without injury to the other: When his wife had emptied her pistol Albers jumped into his car in which two bull lets had lodged, and drove away. The duel began with dispute in the house. Mrs. Albers ran into another room and got pistol and Albers armed himself and ran down the steps, making stra- getic retreat. As he came into view in the street below Mrs. Albers went to a window on the second floor, open ed it, and started shooting. It got to be a pretty lively dispute. Now both are under arrest.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Spring Styles Show
 Much Shorter Skirts

PARIS, April 1-Spring styles show tendency to shorten the skirts, in some cases to as much as eighteen inches from the floor. Generally the garments fall to a point four or five inches above the ankles. Most of the models being taken back by Ameri- can buyers are sort of compromise ten to twelve inches from the floor For day wear the skirt remains uni formly short less abbreviated than in 1920 but departure from year ago Some of the hosiery creations provide startling effects, especially one design called the "onion skin." Buttons fea- ture the tailored suit, coat and dress. In many cases the buttons are purely decorative.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Pope's Health Not
 Failing Says Dispatch

ROME, April 2-The statement 5y q London newspaper that the pOpe's health was causing considerable uneas- mess and that he WIS reported suffer ing from arterioscle osis, was re:aiv- ed With surprise.
 His health is of the best and he Is daily undertaking rev work. Yester- day he received numerous cardinals and rrelates in private audience and later granted a public reception to several hundred pil grims On Sunday l.e deliy cred long address to 400 mem bers of the St. Invent society.
 Reports of the ill-ha .lth of Pope Plus were refuted today by the pontiff n an energetic statement.
 'I have got to die sooneI or later," weil-known functinrary quotes his holiness as saying. "Whlt passes my compre ension is wily people are so anxi' us to make it so dreadfully soon.
 lf, say frankly that I know no rease why it shoull be in the near future. I have perhaps never felt bet ter or more energst.c than Just now."
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California Is Panicky;;
 Hope for Rain Blasted,
 and Drouth Is Serious

SAN FRANCISCO, April With a long succession of c'oudless days as the only answer to it's somewhat pam icky hopes for rain, California is fac ing one of the most serious drought situations in it's history, according to statement today by c. H. Wilson, of ficial government forecaster. Califor- nia has seen dryer winter seasons than the present, but the demand on water reserves was not nearly so great as it will be during the coming spring and summer. The movement of cattle out of Southern California to Northern pasture, is already under way, while the Northern part of the state itself is on the ragged edge, according to Wilson.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Portland Priest Held
 For Reckless Driving

PORTLAND, April 2-The Rev. Fr. Cassian Niebauer, pastor of St. Jos eph's Catholic church, was held under $25O bail today on a charge of reckless driving when he reported to the police an incident which occurred yesterday when an automobile he was driving ran upon the curb of a downtown street and hit Mrs. Jeanette Good man, 83, mother of Jules Eckert Good man playwright.
 Father Niebauer drove away after the accident and explained his action today to the police by saying that he became frightened by the gathering crowd. Mrs. Goodman was reported re- covering today from slight injuries.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Mixed Marriages Turn
 Out Unsatisfactory

LONDON, April 1-The increasing numbers of marriages between Eng fish girls and men of foreign nation ality is viewed with some alarm by the authorities.
 These mixed marriages mostly take place in registrars offices, but many occur in churches. "We are still bound by law to marry them, " said regis trar, land all we can do is to point out to the bride the seriousness of the marriage and give her some idea of the customs prevailing in the country to which the man belongs. From my experience not one in ten of these mar riages turn out happily"
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02

Fleet Cannery Vessels
 Sail for the Northland

SEATTLE Apr. 2-Six cannery yes sels with crews and supplies for the canneries, sailed yesterday for Alaska. The Victoria, with 200 aboard, headed by R. J. Nicols, superintendent for the Harris & Companys False Pass can nery, led off, followed by the North western Fisheries Company, J. D. Pet CTS; Libby, McNeilI and Libby with the motorship Libb Maine, for westward canneries.
 The steamships Jefferson and Cordo- va left for southeastern and south western Alaska canneries, and the steamship Brookdale left for Dutch Harbor and Alaska Peninsula points.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Indictments Obtained by
 Threats Is Charged

CHICAGO, April 2-John Thomp- son, St. Louis and Chicago contractor jointly indicted with Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former veterans bureau di- rector, charged today in sworn state ment in the federal court that the in- dictments voted by the grand jury had been obtained by "subterfuge," mis- representation, false pretenses, duress and threats"
 The statement was submitted in sup port of motion by Thompson's coun- sel to quash the indictment against him. An order was sought to re- strain the use of books and papers be- longing to Thompson as evidence.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
General Ludendorf
 Acquitted of Treason

MUNICH, Bavaria, Apr. 2-General Ludendorff, one of the most prominent of the generals in the army of the late Kaiser, was acquitted today of the charge of treason for his part in the unsuccessful revolt here in November, by Adolph Hitler.
 Former Police Chief Poehner was sentenced to serve five years in prison.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
If Shoes are Shined On Sunday Wearer Will
 Be Haled Into Court

JERSEY CITY, Apr. 2-Names of persons who get their shoes shined, or buy ice cream, delicatessen food, news papers, drinks or anything else here on Sunday will be taken by the police for violation of the Sunday blue laws, according to orders issued by Chief of Police Battersby yesterday. H. C.. Gilson, attorney for the Society for the Prevention of Crime and the Promo tion of Morals, when informed of the new orders, said that the society would take action "to end the farce
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
Pittsburg Saloons Have
 Had Abatement Notices

PITTSBURG, April 2-Proprietors of practically every saloon and cafe in Pittsburg, several hundred in num- ber, were served abatement notices yes terday, ordering them to stop selling liquor and to remove bars, fixtures, swinging doors and curtains under penalty of being cited for contempt of court.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-02
U. 5. Frost Warning
 Points Be Established

YAKIMA, Apr 2-Forty frost warn ing points will be established in the Yakima Valley by E. s. Ellison, gov ernment specialist, here to take charge of the work. Extremely open weather for this season is bringing fruit buds into blossom, with consequent unusual danger from frost.