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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

dawn of civilization had it's especial grace and dignity in architecture. He has applied the classic and the enduring to the new in a way that will give Bir- mingham a famous show place"
 Beautifying Community
 To those who know the life of George B. Ward, "Vestavia," this modern yer sion of an ancient Roman temple seems to suggest the apex of career filled with effort toward beautifying a com munity. MT. Ward has watched Bir- mingham grow from a small town with out lights or pavement into city of classic buildings, beautiful homes and picturesque boulevards. He is erecting historic building with views on each side, views of that which his industry and appreciation of the beautiful has helped to achieve, for he has not only served himself by acquiring great fi- nancial success; but he held public of flee with unselfishness and with keen appreciation of Birmingham's brilliant future, and it was through his version and foresight that park sites were ac- quired for the benefit of future citizens and that plans were made for City Beautiful.
 The new beauty spot on Shades Noun tain. which is called Vestavia, in rec ognition of it's similarity in design to the ancient Temple of Vesta. is the eli max of his City Beautiful theory.
 Within few weeks Vestavia will be completed. The scaffolding which surrounds the 20 columns encircling the building will be removed and it's classic lines will be revealed. But it is inter- esting meanwhile to recall the manner of it's origin. When Mir. Ward pur- chased % acres of ground, circular in shape, on the remote mountain peak above Birmingham he had not dreamed a future home there. But soon there after he visited the Old World with the view to erecting a house appropriate to the needs of bachelor, as a summer home.
 Visited Scene In Rome
 He knew the history of the Temple of Vesta and visited the old scene of the
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Modelled After Ancient Temple Of Vesta In
 Imperial Rome

IIT HERE is perhaps no more beau Se tiful view in the world than the
 picture that meets ones eyes from the lofty spot on which stands MT. George Wards lovely new home. 'Ves- tavia.'" This was the tribute to Bir- beauty and to the wisdom of a Birmingham citizen in choosing this site as paid by Adele Clark, noted Virginia painter and distinguished social and civic worker. Miss Clark was -res gently visitor to the structure which Mir. Ward is building on one of the enchanting spots at the peak of Shades Mountain. !
 saTo my mind the most striking fea- ture of this unique residence" she con tinued, twill be its historical signifi- canoe. His/was a happy and appro- Fpriate idea, when one considers Bir- minghan's youth, to link the modern with the far past. From streets adorn- ed with the modern in architecture, one looks upward to see the simple and lofty beauty of an ancient temple tow ering above; and one remembers that while modern ideals are splendid the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26
Art Club To Resume Its
 Rehearsals

The Choral Art club, which gave what critics declared to be in many re- spects the most artistic concert ever given in this city, when it presented its program of unaccompanied choruses at the Little theater early in the summer, will resume its rehearsals next Tuesday night with membership twice as large as last season with prospects of many more voices yet to be added, according to announcement made by Carlton P. Smith, president. The full plans will not be announced till the meeting on Tuesday, and MT. Smith says great surprise is in store for the people of Birmingham when the magnitude of these plans are revealed. Ferdinand Dunkley, who has had the honor of be- ing proclaimed the south's foremost musician and composer, will again di- rect the club, and that in itself is a guarantee that new high levels will be reached and that the Choral Art club mixed chorus will be a source of pride not only to Birmingham, but to the whole state. ". Lawrence Meteyarde will be associated with Mir. Dunkley in the work of training and directing the chorus. Mir. Meteyarde achieved fame in his native country as choral di- rector, and Birmingham is fortunate in acquiring another experienced director. The 'semi-chorus will be in charge of Mir. Meteyarde, and this will be one of the features of the Choral Art clubs program. Such cooperation as this be. tween Mir. Dunkley and Mir. Meteyarde is one of the hopeful signs of progress in musical circles. It is time for the days of rivalry, petty jealousies and un- productive competition to come to an end and all pull together for the ad- vancement of music in Birmingham, Mr. Smith says. Application for member ship in the club may be made to Mir Smith at his office, 2025 First avenue or to Mir. Dunkley, 1912 Fourteenth avenue, south,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26
Pieriian Club To Study American
 w filters

Year books for the various clubs in Birmingham have been compiled dur i, ing the dull summer months and activi- ties of the clubs will begin in October.
 The Pierian clubs interesting course ], of study for 1024-25 will be "Our Con temporaries, American Writers of To- day" And an appropos quota tion has been put in the year book, Mot Good for one Humor but for all Moods, Not for an age but for all time.",.
 The. first study meeting of the year will be held October 10rwith Mrs. Chap pell Corp and the subject is poetry ::
 God, how beautiful your world is!
 Sometimes it seems to nne
 should do something noble Some deed you'd love to
 Truly show my thanks"
 From poetry the novelists is taken up with several meetings given to this study. The short story with local cele- brities, Edgar Valentine Smith, Octavus Roy Cohen and Antoiinette Sparks uni versity prize story are discussed.
 X Biography, humorists. the drama and newspapers completed this course of study. -
 Mrs. D. E. McLendon is president of tHc CiuD Witu tuc lOuOWNS OlllCcrS Vice President, Mrs. A. D. Smith secre- tary, Mrs. V. M. Randolph, treasurer, Mrs. O. B. Sparks; Critics, Miss Lu Abbe Chambless parliamentarian, Mrs. Chappell Cory ;. reporter, Mrs. J. T. McPherson; honorary president, Mrs. Idyl King Sorsby.
 The program committee is composed of Mrs. E. J. Robinson, Mrs. H. E. Wellington and Mrs. Roberts Gull pepper.
 The membership of the club is as fol lows: Mrs. J. D. Bancroft, Mrs. w. o. Bass, Mrs. P. P. Burns, Mrs. Chappell Cory, Mrs. J. 0. Dawson, Miss Lu Abbe Chambless, Mrs. T. E. Huey, Miss Nell Ellis, Mrs. Alice Johnson, Mrs. Sumter Lea, Mrs. D. E. McLendon, Mrs. J. T. McPherson, Mrs. Robert Morris, Mrs. J. H. Cornwell, Mrs. Roberta Culpepper, Mrs. E. J. Robin son, Mrs. V. M. Randolph, Mrs. Bruce Robertson, Mrs. A. D. Smith, Mrs. O. B. Sparks, Mrs. J. c. Stivender, Mrs. H. E. Wellington, Mrs. Victor Weiberg.
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she didn't do, because she couldn't bear to be separated from me. I have never had a girl friend because my mother was so afraid I would care more for some girl than I did for her that she separted me as much as possible from other girls.
 Now am twenty one, and she keeps all men away from me 6s effectually as if I were shut up in a harem. No young man is ever encouraged to come to see me or made welcome at the house, and if one shows me any at- tention elsewhere mother attaches her. self to my other side, and stays until she drives the youth away.
 Mother says that the idea of my mar rying just breaks her heart, and she will never give me up, but am fed up on mother love and want some kind of a change. What can l do?
 DAUGHTER.
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the mother wno loves her children so we'll that she tries to absorb their every thought and never lets them out of her sight is worse. I am the victim of one of these overly de- voted mothers She has kept me right in her pocket all of my life. I have never been allowed to go off to school or pay a visit, or do anything that
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Random, Notes

Mrs. George Connors and Miss Jose phine Connors left Tuesday for New York, where Miss ,Connors will enter the Spence school.
 
 Miss Eugenia Woodward, Miss Mar tee Woodward and Miss Ann Wood ward are in New York City for stay before Miss Martee Woodward resumes her studies at Pennington, Conn.,, and Miss Ann Woodward enters Fox-Croft school at Middleburg, Wa.
 o%
 Mir. and Mrs. Alex R. Dearborn, Jr. of Houston, Tex, have @amed their in. fant son Alex R. III. . Miss Carrie G. Schwarz is visiting friends and relatives in Chicago and Minneapolis.
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MRS. DENT ENTERTAINS AT MT1STGAT,

Al MOOICftA
 An enjoyable occasion, compliment ing two visitors, was a musical We'd nesday evening, given by Mrs. l.. H. Dent in honor of Mrs. E. H. Bean and Mrs. Mary Bean of Los Angeles, Cal, who are guests of Mrs. William D. Fon- vile.
 A delightful musical program was rendered during the evening and en- joyed by twelve friends if the hostess and honorees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26
THE POMPOM HAT

Two huge cut-feather pompoms con- stitute the only trimming on a smart tailored hat of brown felt. They are placed well toward the back on the right side.
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D EAR DOROTHY DIX-People are
 always blaming the mother who
 neglects her children. Believe me,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

Katherine never starts off sen- tence with I think" or "It seems to be-. She always says, "I know" or Il am sure. She is free with her ad-
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vice. "I told yeu so" and 'If you had listened to me" are common express sions with her.
 She never made a mistake in her whole life. She admits it herself.
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That those chimneys with the ground glass edge at the top are not so likely to break, as this edge allows more room for expansion?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

MORE DESK SETS
 Decidedly new and most attractive are desk sets of colored rhoire covered with mica. The effect is that of a highly polished leather and the sets are very easily cleaned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

She is a type.
 She is The Girl Who Knows It All.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26
Dorothy Dis's Letter BOs

The Young Girl Who Is the Victim of Seltish Mother Love-Is It Foir to Charm Auoay c Mam From Another Girl?-The Wite Whose Husband Is Besieged By c Young VGmp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

NEW C0LORS FOR FALL
 Bois de rose, deep bottle green, and the rich purple and gold of the direct roire period are among the shades ex- tensively used in the new fashions.
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We Women

Katherine, The Girl Who Knows It All TRY to tell Katherine something and
 she anticipates what you are go-
 ing to say and interrupts with her version of the story before the words are out of your mouth. c
 She won't take anything from any body. She never gives anyone credit for knowing anything except herself.
 She is a type.
 She is The Girl Who Knows It All.
 The family physician has a terrible time with Katherine. She always puts her judgment up against his and is sure she knows better what to do than he does. If she is i'll the doctor lets her think he is following her advice but if one of her family is i'll Katherine is sent on a visit to some relative or friend so that there will be no inter- ference withthe doctors instructions.
 One time katherine's friends con cocted fire that was supposed to have taken place in a small store. They started telling Katherine about it. In her usual cocksure way she picked up window panes crashed in from the fire and how valiantly the firemeh worked.
 One of the crowd suggested taking an automobile ride. They went past the scene of the supposed fire. When Kath- crime saw there had been no fire she was on the others. Could they pin her down to admitting she always thought she knew everything? Not a bit of it She knew all the time they were 'spoofing" her so she went them one better !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

Any man may mistake liking for love and not know the difference until he meets some girl who sets his pulses thrilling, who fires his fancy, and whom he knows al- most at sight for his mate. This is no fault of his or the girls. It is just nature, and under such condi- tions it would be criminal to all concerned for \the man to go on and marry the first girl.
 The matter of loving or not lov- ing is not in our hands. It lies on the knees of the gods and all we can do is to take what they send.
 DOROTHY DIX. .
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about cutting the other girl out, for a man who can be won away from his allegiance cares but little for the girl he forsakes. If he really loves her, he is vamp proof.
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DAUGHTER.

Answer: Your only salvation is to free yourself from the tender arms that are choking you to death. And that is the hardest thing in the world to- do. We can fight those who are our enemies and give back blow for blow to those who hate us and despitefully use us, but it takes superhuman courage to break away from the clinging hands of those who love human courage to break away from the clinging hands of those who love us. Yet often love is crueler than hate and those who would die for us slay us.
 We glorify mother love, but often it is a selfish passion that puts the qualification of itself above the good of the child.
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Dear Miss Dix-Some months ago met a very nice young man, who has been coming to see me and showing me good deal of attention ever since, al though he also goes to see another girl with whom he has been keeping com pany for three years. Do you think that if he cared for this other girl he would be wasting time on me! would not like to interfere between them. but 1 like this man very much. What do you think about it? ROSE.
 Answer: All is fair iK@eve and
 war, Rose, and until mah is mar
 ried he is fair game. You need not
 have any twii.scs of conscience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-26

It often happens that man thinks he is in love with girl, but when he gets to know her better finds that her charm disappears for him like mist in the sunshine. He may find that she has characteristics that are obnoxious tastes that'are antagonistic and she may even come to bore him.
 Under such conditions a marriage would be fatal mistake and bring hap piness to neither.
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But for heavens sake don't let your mad jealousy cause you to do such a crazy thing as to kill the woman. You wouldn't make your. self happier by staining your hands with blood and disgracing your child by becoming a murderess. Your poor, weak, infatuated hus- band isn't worth it, Besides, if you will just be patient and wait, he'll come home. That sort always do.
 DOROTHY DIX.
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There are plenty of other cases like yours, Daughter, in which a mother denies a child all association with com panions of its own. age in order that she may monopolize its society.
 All of us know mothers who have kept their children from marrying, who have kept them from love and home-building and the joys of fatherhood and mother hood because they could not bear to see themselves superseded in their children s lives by husbands and wives and babies. All of us know mothers who insist on living with their married children when they know that they are wrecking the peace of their homes, because they can not bear to be separated even block or two from them. And all of us know mothers who have wrecked their chil- dren's lives by keeping them at home and preventing them from following the careers for which nature destined them.
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There is only one way to deal with a selfish mother, Daughter. You have to fight selfishness with selfishness and look out for your own welfare and happiness. It is not right for the old parasitic vine to wrap itself so closely around the oak that it stunts its growth and kills it. DOROTHY DIX.
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Any man can protect himself against a woman if he so desires. He has only to tell the police that a woman is an moving him and they will lock her up. And, as a matter of fact, no woman pursues a man long unless he encour- ages her.
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Dear Dorothy Dix-What shall do: : I have a husband and a child which dearly love, but there is a girl who runs after my husband. He can't go anywhere that she doesn't follow him. He cannot, go off on business trip for a day that he doesn't find her on the train when he is coming back. He tells me that he doesn't care for her and tries to avoid her, but he cannot help her following him. feel like shooting her down like dog and have worried over it so that it makes me sick. My husband goes wild when I tell him that I am going to leave him and says that he will kill himself if do. What shall I do? WORRIED.
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Answer Why, I think your best plan would be to call your hus- bands bluff. Take your baby and go away, and break up his home for bit. If he really loves you, and means to run straight, he will get rid of the girl.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27
CARS RECOVERED
Stolen Autos Returned To Los Az
geles Owners

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April &c.
Motor vehicle thieves are having ha1
shedding in this section through a: q
operative campaign in which the cit
county and state authorities have uni
ed forces with the theft bureau Of u
Automobile Club of Southern Calif0
MIA. Thefts at this time of the yes
usually are particularly numerous,
crooks who have been wintering amid
the orange groves are returning to thel
summer haunts in the east, and thei
first act ordinarily is to steal hig
class car in which to make the joui
ney.
Recent rapid recoveries of sever
cars that were we'll on their way towar
the Atlantic coast and the failing Z
the thieves has served to slow up til
activities-of the light-fingered tribe.
During the firstathree months of TIL
year in Los Angeles there were 1,4a
cars stolen, of which 956 were recoi
cred, or approximately two-thirds. Th
average of recoveries is growing highs
under the influence of The intensive CT
operative campaign against motd
thieves.
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Type az RE4R-EMo CONSTRUCTION
IN JEt51CHzOADUE SZ4HEN6YA
= ZLISE NztzICHEMEZ QSES ne
PROPELLER S1z4EZ

that causes this ,torque. If it were
possible for the rear wheels to be firm
ly fixed in the ground and the engine
started and the gears be put in mesh,
it is apparent that the ring gear, being
would act, as the sun or stationary
wheel in a planetary transmission. In
other words it would remain stationary
while the pinion in revolving would
tend to roll its way around the ring
gear. If. the engine were powerful
enough to continue this rolling against
theAweight of the car. it is obvious that
it would rotate the entire vehicle about
the rear axle until it was checked by
contact with the ground.
Of course, in actual practice the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27
WARM WEATHER
HARD ON TIRES
Met ormack Brothers Note
Marked Business
Increase -

The warm weathsf sof the past. two
weeks has brought To- light many tire
troubles which had been unnoticed by
the Birmingham motorists during the
cooler weather of winter and spring
Tt is a we'll known fact that weak
tire will often run without trouble dur
ing cool weather, whereas the same
tire would not stand up at all under
the heavy strain of summer driving over
hot roads. Blowouts and punctures
are far more common occurrence in
summer than in winter and this fact
results in the sale of tires sbeing much
heavier during; the spring and summer
months. s
I Mccormack Brothers Motor company
distributors for the well known Fire
stone lineyof tires, have already noticed
a marked increase in the volume of
/ their tire business this spring. There
seems to be no limit to. the popularity
of the Firestone tire as its users con-
tinue to increase in numbers, although
it is already perhaps the most widely
used and best known pake of tire in
the world. The popularity of the Fire
stone tire is we'll deserved and Nc
Cormack rothers Motor. company has
done much to increase its popularity
ny feHueTlilS pr0iHpl. anu elIlcleuI SerN-
ice in connection with the sale of Fire
stones. ST.
The Firestone factory has never pro-
,duced cheap tire. but their enormous
volume of business has enabled them
to produce one, Of the best tires made
in the Firestone. at "a moderate price.
Roy Kay, tire department manager at
Mccormack Brothers. says that the
market for such q tire as the Fire
stone is increasing rapidly, as motor
car owners have long since learned that
it pays to buy the best in tires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27
CHANNEHT TUNNEL

All Technical Problems Solved, Paris
Newspaper Says
In recapitGlating the situation with
regard to the channel tunnel, the Paris
newspaper Excelsior observes that in
the present British government the
scheme has 21- partisans, says the Con-
tinental Edition of the London Mail.
Mr.. Ramsay Macdonald, replying, on
February 49, to question by Niscount
CuZon, said that before taking the
channel tunnel into consideration with
regard to the solution of unemployment,
there were certain difficulties to be re-
solved. Notwithstanding this, the Brit
ish committee for the tunnel has strong
hopes, says Excelsior, of making pro-
gress very shortly, with the support of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27

asked hundred people to name the
most popular character in the works of
Thackeray, would not ninety-nine an
swer, almost instantaneousiy, "Bebecca
Shatp?" Vain to point out to them that
she was designing young woman of
doubtful morals, and that the fond if
tiresome. Amelia should really be pre-
ferred to her.
Possibly John Smith Is not really in
asa figure. either Of drama
or romance. The French have taught
us that unless there be contest of
wills" there is no drama. We can build
neither books nor plays upon laudable
observance of the Ten Copmandments !;
and only when one of these commando
ments is broken does the reader take in
terest. ia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-27
PUEBLO TASTE m LITERATURE


ASk8G cWHbWDko ONHH6 CtoL3 AtBz1kcttfupEC8.
Good Ones Forgotten, Writer Says
The. evil that men do lives after
them"-the good is frequenfly sold by
the publishers as '.remifder.i' It Il
remarkable fact that naughtiness en-
dures in literature where mere conven-
tional virtue too often fails to achieve
a second edition, writes Max Pember-
ton in the Continental Edition of the
London Mail.
Ask the average man for the names
Of the historic women he remembers
most readily and out he will come with
Cleopatra, Catherine. of Russia and
possibly Messalins. He might remem-
Der Ursula or Cecilia if you recalled
the, names to him; but queens would
certainly suggest an Anne Boleyn
rather than an Eleanor, Catherine 7di
Medici in lieu Of an isabella. Thus
faughtiness leaps to the memory when
the brain must be racked for virtue.
II we turn to the classics, witness to
this Immortality is even more note
worthy.
The greatest of all adventure poems,
the works of one homer are fiil III
wlckedness of men ana not alien from
the weaknesses, paraonable 81; 5other-
wise, of the .char1h4bg women who
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ing carries with it the brake 1inkage,
which is attached to it. Consequently
unless the brake is designed to compen-
safe for this torque reaction, it is apt
to cause the brakes to come into action.
In some cases when the brakes are ap-
piled this torque reaction is enough to
cause violent seizing of the brakes.
Again flexure Of the rear springs is
sometimes enough to cause the brakes
to apply themselves. In some instances
when the brakes are applied lightly in
going over rough road, the fleSing of
the spring causes an increase in the APP
plication of the brakes and then a. de-
crease. which results in chattering in
the rear axle assembly