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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
Social Calendar

The Woman's Republican League will meet at the Exis club, 1619 Eigth avenue, north, Thursday, o'clock. Re publican men and women are invited to this meeting.
 z The monthly meeting of the execu- tibe board of the Jefferson County League of Women Voters will be held Tuesday at 1py m., in the private dining room. of the Hillman hotel.
 The Daughters of the British Empire will meet Thursday at the Blue Triangle Z club room at :45 p. m.
 Circles of the w. M. s., of the First Baptist church will meet this week as
 Circle No. 3 Tuesday at 8 p. m., with Mrs. W. F, Lehman, Norwood boule-
 Circle No. 4 Tuesday, with Mrs. ]. P. Knapp, 34O1 Norwood boulevard.
 Circle No. [ Business Women's cir cle) Tuesday at 6:15 at the church. Supper will be served and Mrs. ". c. James, president of the W. M. U., of the Southern Baptist convention, will speak to the members.
 Circle No. 6 will meet Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the church.
 The Woman's Missionary society of the Fountain Heights Methodist church will have an all-day meeting Wedhes- day, February 27, beginning at 10 q. m., at the home of Mrs. John|B. Bethea, 1418 Twelfth Court, north. A review of the book 'Child and American Flu. ture," will be given by several ladies, Lunch will be served and all the la. dies are invited.
 The sewing committee of the Junior league will meet Tuesday with Mrs. E T. Brown. 90S Twentieth street, south A full attendance is requested.
 The Birmingham chapter, 11S, o. E S., will have a special meeting Febru- ary %, when the men will have charge of the meeting. All Eastern Stars are invited.
 The Graded union will meet Wednes day at 10 a. m., in the Sunday school room of the First Methodist church.
 The Eleanor Hord club will meet Tuesday at ? 80 p. n., with Mrs. Ken meth Cooper, 2O4 Second street, West End.
 The Psychology Study club, whose programs represent educational and in terlectual phases of psychology, will devote the next two meetings to '"Ter tium Organum' by Ouspensky. ..M Mrs Sumpter Bethea will introduce the sub ject. The members are urged to meel at 2711 Hanover Circls Tuesday anorra ing at II O'Clock. Mss &,f
 The Current Topic club will meet Friday, February 29, at p. m., with Mrs. Harry Arnold, 1347 Thirty-first street, north, Norwood.
 Kamram .Caldron, No. 25, Daugh ters of Mokanna, will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening at 7:2 o'clock, at the Masonic temple.
 The women of the Altar society oi West End Catholic church will give an oyster supper at the convent audi torium Friday to 9 p. m. The pub lie is cordially invited to attend.
 St. Paul's School Improvement asso citation will meet Tuesday afternoon al 5 o'clock at the convent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
FARMER BROWNS BOY GOES
 A-SPYING

Now when Mrs. Quack told Peter Rabbit that no one but Jerry Musk rat, and Paddy the Beaver. and Bus ter Bear, and he himself knew the se- cret of where MT. and Mrs. Quack had gone to she was mistaken. Some one else knew, and that some one was the very last person in the world that Mrs. Quack thought of as being smart enough to find out. And if Mrs. Quack had known that he knew she would have been quite upset. It was Farmer Browns Boy.
 It had come about in this way Farmer Browns boy had paid daily visit to the Smiling Pool ever since the morning he had hidden among the alder bushes and seen Mir. and Mrs. Quack. Sometimes he had gone in the morning, but not another glimpse had he of either MT. or Mrs. Quack. He had even tramped down the Laughing Brook clear to the Big River without seeing sign of either of them. Had it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
My Neighbor Says:

If two teaspoons of cold water are added to egg Whites before beating to froth for frosting, they will not fall.
 Ito stiffen malines, use solu- tion of gum arabic. Try l tea spoonful of powdered gum in 1 pint of hot water, let it cool and dip the maline in it. Dry, and if not stiff enough dip again. Press with warm iron while damp.
 If the kitchen oilcloth looks shabby, as it does when the colors begin to wear off, it may be made to look equal to new by being treated in the following manner: Use brown paint-four or five cans will cover large floor. choose a time when the kitchen can be closed for. two days. Coat the oil cloth carefully and when thoroughly dry give it good pol ishing with furniture cream.
 To clean knife handles TO any bone, article use salt and lemon juice. First rub the article we'll with the lemon juice and then with the salt. This will remove stains and grease spots.
 A lump of sugar added to starch will keep clothes from sticking to the irons, but there should always be a piece of beeswax sewed in the top of an old stocking on which to rub the latter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
Harmless Means
 of Reducing Fat

Many fat people fear ordinary means for reducing their weight. Here iS an ex- traordinary method. Extraordinary be- cause while perfectly harmless no dieting or exercise aie necessary. Marmola Pre- scription Tablets are made exactly in &C., cordance with the famous Marmola Pre- l scription. You reduce steadily and easily, with no III effects. Procure them from your druggist at one dollar for n box or send price direct to the MArmola Company 1s12 Woodward Avenue. Detroit. Mich l Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

In signals for wind and weather a red flag with e black center indicates | red flag of marked violence is ex- pected; blue flag indicates rain or snow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
4 Personal Representative-
 Miss Avis Gray direct from Dorothy Cray
N~sA~t%'@"t

Miss Gray is we'll qualified through her intimate knowl edge of the Dorothy Gray methods and preparation and what she knoaos they will do for Birmingham women, to give you authoritative advice and prescribe the proper Dorothy Gray preparations and treatments. She awaits your visit and the opportunity of placing her experience and knowledge at your disposal-n sec tion devoted to Toilet Articles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

:. Greeks once stamped the image of an OK on a piece of leather and the image had thence the current value of the animal represented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
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Clothes will not freeze to tho line when hung out in cold weather if little salt is added to the water in which they are rinsed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

of it before. I wonder if you will nest up there"
 Next story@ Farmer Browns Boy Visits Paddy's Pond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

YVES, YOUR AGE is written in the line of Your Throat
 but do despair for it Is scientific fact that the muscles be made firm by cold applications and the and preparations My Scutural Plating Process makes firm loose and relaxed muscles reduces tooat der ch turns upward the dropping of the mou
 thereby lifting the whole contour and making you look younger Nos>sd>1 &&1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

Farmer Browns Boy chuckled 'that settles it," said he. Those ducks are somewhere around"
 not been for that hurt wing of Mir. Quack's he would have felt sure that they had gone on their way to their usual home in the far northland, but remembering that wing, he knew they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

Dorothy Gras Book TELLS HOW thin face be pumpa chin be rducdarge skin
 bright eradicated-a skin be made shades ghethat drop under the how to increase lose weight Firm muscles indicate youth! your The Story of Doro y Gray was written yo
 Ask for your copy at Toilet Goods Section
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spend some time with their sister, Mrs Joseph E. Brown-Atlanta Journal.
 { Mrs. W. A. Blount of Pensa cola, Fla.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
R. |. S. HAD WRITER'S CRAMP
Yet Robert Lewis Stevenson's Lahorl.
Gus Copying Of Manuscripts Kept
Him Alive.

All StevenSon's creative work was
done IN the morning, though in those
days before typewriters an author had
an interminahle amount of writing to
do that was merely copying, and in
volved no mental effort.
The writer's of today never have
"scrivener's cramp," which pursued X.
l.. S. all mis- life, and which caused
him often to hold his pen between his
second and third fingers when the in
dex finger was useless.
His preference was for white, ruled
foolscap paper chosen because 1t ap-
proximated in his writing to Corn
hill page" of five hundred words. His
first essays had been taken by the
Cornhil Magazine, and its page estab.
lished for him a measure of computa-
ton. He calculated the length Of all
his work in "Cornhill pages long after
he had ceased all connection with the
magazine itself, and indeed as long as
he lived.
think he found rewriting a very
soothing pastime, and would not have
thanked anybody for mechanical
shortcut; 1t was an equivalent and a
much pleasanter one Fl i" the knitting
and bead stringing that doctors now.
adays so often enforce on their pa
tents; and it had the agreeable quail
ity that he could pause as long as he
liked over a word or phrase that was
not quite to his liking. and polish end
lessly.
Those who criticize r. L. S. for his
excessive particularly are mistaken In
their judgment. 1t was this rewriting
and polishing that helped TO keep him
alive.-Lloyd Osbourne in Scribner's
Magazine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
STEEL AND IRON CoRRoSIOE
Engineers Find No Appreciable Differ
ence Between Metals When Used
in Steam Boilers.

Iron and steel are almost equally re-
sistant to the effects of corroding in
fluences. AS far back as 1881 the en-
gineer- surveyors of Lloyds investigated
no less than LOO marine steel boil
ers In actual use and found it impossi-
BILE to distinguish between them and
the iron boilers, so far as liability to
corrosion was concerned.
In 1891 81 of the leading America
and British shipbuilders We're asked
for their opinion on the subject. Seven
held steel to be more corrodible rhan
iron, eight held the opposite view,
eight were uncertain. and fourteen
could report no difference between the
two metals. In 1921 a careful examina-
ton of 50 samples of pipes from hot
water systems in New York city re-
vealed no appreciate difference be-
tween iron and steel. Last year an in
vestigation of 81 samples of wrought
iron that had seen much service
showed that the mean depth OF the
pittings was 0.094 inches, whereas the
pittings in 81 steel samples showed
a mean depth of 0.0093.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
Snakes Cannot Charm.

The principal venomous snakes In
this country are rattiesnakes. vipers,
copperheads and moccasins. Veno-
nous snakes have teeth on their up
per palate, not on the upper jaw. On
each side of the upper jaw two hollow
Notwithstanding fangs have poison
glands at their base, and pressure OH
the fangs causes an emission of the
poison. The fangs are shed at regular
ntervals-pushed out by incipieni
fangs.
Capt. Reginald Haselden, an expert
on medieval manuscripts and trainer
Of snakes on the side, says snakes pos
sess no charming power. Re believes,
however, that the staring lidless eyes
Of snakes may autosuggestivety put q
person into sort of hynotic trance.
1t seems to have been conclusiyely
established that the number of rattles
on a rattlesnake's tail have nothing to
do with the age of the snake.-Detroit
News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
W. c. I. u. COLUMN
The Late President Harding On
Prohibition Enforcement

There can be no issue in this land
paramount to the enforcement OF
law.
do not see how any citizen VINO
cherishes the protection of law in or
ganized society may feel himself
secure when he himself is the cx-
ample of contempt for law.
am convinced that they are q
small, and a greatly mistaken min
ority who believe the eighteenth
Amendment will ever be repealed.
Details of enforcement doubtless
will be changed as experiences die
tates. Further, am convinced that
whatever changes may be made viii
represent the sincere purpose cf eff
fective enforcement rather than
modification Of the general policy.
The issue is fast coming to be
recognized, not as an issue between
vets and drys, not a question between
those who believe in prohibition and
those who do not, not a contention
between those who want to drink ana
those who do mott is fast being
raised above all that, to reco snition
as an issue of whether the laws Of
this country can be and will be en-
forced.
So far as the Federal government
is concerned, and | am very sure also,
so far as concerns the very great
majority of the state governments
and the local governments, i All be
enforced.
A gratifying, indeed it may fairly
be said, an amazing progress has
been made in the last few years to-
ward the better enforcement.
For myself, | am confident that we
are passing now through the mcst
difficult stage of this matter, and
that as time passes there will be mere
and more willing acceptance by au-
thorities everywhere of the unaltcr-
aDie OollgdIioli VI law eHAoA NS'ii -i1t'
The country and the nation will not
permit the law of the land to ne
made a byword.
Ours must be law abiding re-
public and reverence and obedience
must spring from the influential and
the leaders among men, as well as
obedience from the humber citizens,
else the temple will collapse.
Whatever satisfaction there may
be in indulgence, whatever objection
there is to the so-called invasion of
personal liberty, neither counts when
the Supremacy of law and the sta
bility of our institutions are men
aced."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
REGARDING THE TELEPHONE

Chicago, with a population about
the same as that of Paris, has three
and half times as many telephones
as the French capital.
The net increase during 1921 in the
number of telephones in the United
States exceeded the total number of
telephones in use in Belgium, Italy,
Greece, Norway, Portugal and Rus
STA combined.
The telephone system of France,
which is owned and operated by the
government, has only 1,494,611 miles
of telephone wire, as compared with
100000 miles of telephone wire in
the United States.
There are more than 100000 tele-
phones and 100000 miles of tele-
phone wire in service in the State of
Illinois, alone This wire would be
sufficient to encircle the earth at the
equator 10S times.
The total telephone wire in use
throughout the world amounted, Gil
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
OLD CUSTOMS STILL IN U.s.
Certain Articles Must Be Presentce
to the King of England 40
In Ancient Days.

We (the people Of Eng.anj) pTiGe
ourselves that we are governed by a
constitutional sovereign and that the
old heresy of the divine right CT kings
to govern wrongly has been exploded
and is not likely to be, set up again.
Yet occasionally we are reminded OF
an incident or custom which carries
us back to the days OF feudalism.
For instance, the feudal quit rent
for plot of land in Shropshire, grant
ed to the city of London in 1911 by
King John. 1t consists OF new
Ratchet, a new billbook and two fag-
COTS. These articles must be presented
to the king every year by the city cor
poration, and it is a fact that the two
faggots are solemnly chopped in pieces
by the city solicitor at the law courts
N the presence of various high OFF,
Gals The Chips together with
Ratchet and billbook, are handed to
the kings remembrance.
This ceremony is preceded by an,
other OF similar, character, for six
horseshoes and sixty-one nails are
handed 10 the kings representative.
They represent the rent for the plot
of ground now occupied by the law
courts. This plot was occupied at one
time by farrier, whose duty it was
to shoe the horses of the knights who
fought in the tournaments held close
at hand.
King Georges feudal status is even
more marked in the Channel islands.
When the sovereign visited Guernsey
some time ago the seigneurs kne't
before him..
They placed their hands between his
and recited the oath of homage in Nor
man French, while the king, reading
from a card held by the queen, con-
firmed each seigneur in his privileges.
The holder of one fief was a woman
who, for the land she held, presented
the king with pair of golden spurs
London Bits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

AUCTTON.-On We'd, Mar II, |
will sell at public auction: 8O-acre
farm, good buildings and water; 3
horses, 81 high grade Holstein cows
(tuberculin tested; sow, 80. White
Leghorn chickens; a big assortment
of farm machinery; some hay, sill
age; 40 cords of wood, and some
household goods. The farm machin-
ery includes corn binder, grain bind
er, mower, hay rake, drill, drag, corn
planter, sulky and walking cultivat-
crs, manure spreader, De La Vale
separator, gas engine, buggy, cutter,
bob sleighs, wagon, wagon box, wag-
on and rack, work harnesses and
single harness. Also 1920 Buick
IS" in good condition. On the NelS
Dahlquist farm Az miles Sc of Rive
Falls, mile E Of Randall school.
Sale will start at I o'clock. NEAL
TAYLOR, owner; r. w. Reynoid i,
auctioneer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
Not Her Hubby,

The woman had just lost her hus-
band and had gone to summer hotel
to rest. She often dreamed of her
husband and she would sometimes get
ND in the middle of the night to see
IL he wasn't walking about. Any lit
tie disturbance caused her to be
frightened. One night mysterious
raps were heared on the wall of the
summer hotel.
"Great goodness" cried the fright
ened woman in room ID. II wonder
IL that could be my departed hus-
band?"
"No," growled the. man in room
IA. "lt's the people on the other floors
killing mosquitoes with their slippers =
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

the latest date for which figures s.re
available, to 56,918,064 miles Oh
this, about 500, or 34,O00,o0O miles
were in the United States of Amer
lea, where the telephone has reached
higher development.
Twenty years ago, John J. Carly
had but recently invented the 'bridg-
ing bell'' making party lines practi-
cable.
Twenty years ago, the limit of tele-
phone transmission by underground
cable was 10 mines-from New York
City to Newark, N. j.
Twenty years ago, there were less
than 100000 telephones in the Bell
System. Now there are more than
100000 Bell-owned and connected
telephones in the system.
Twenty years ago there We're only
few schools for telephone switch
board operators, the first having been
started by the New York Telephone
Company in 1902.
Twenty years ago the Bell Tele-
phone Systems total milage amount
ed to 3,95S,S91 miles. Today there
are 34,523,842 miles of wire. At the
beginning of 1904 the toll line mileage
was 975,702 miles. 1t has now in
creased to 4,569,256 miles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
Proverbs.

No matter where you stir a blaze
the world will come to warm its hands.
"The snakes can't find q drunken
fisherman to bite" says The NWhitsett
Courier, "and that's why there are so
many live snakes now"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

GARAGE FOR SALE-Garage,
with auto repair and blacksmith shop
in connection for sale; twenty
thousand dollar business annually.
Located in Spring Valley, Wis, on
State Highway 70. Would consider
town dwelling property in Grade.
Reason for selling, poor health. J. p.
kahut, Spring Valley, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
NOTICE!

All announcements of Socials,
Sales, Feeds, ETC., at which a
charge is made for admission
or for goods will be classified as
advertising, and will be publish
ed at the following rate:
Per line per week 10c
Minimum charge pr. adv. Csc
I'm paragraph count 6 words
to line).
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
News From the Settlement.

Nothin' dom since my last letter
The weather was so bad people
couldn't get out TO raise Cain.
We hear tell of widow lady that
came by parcel post. Queer things
happen in these times.
Yesterday a mule pulled an auto
mobile out of the mud and then kicked
1t to pieces
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

For Sale-140 bu. hand-pic'lci
yellow corn; also 20 pnrebred sir'le
comb White Leghorn cockerels.
Harry Mortimer, Route 5, River Falls,
Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

N0TICE-The person who took a
pair of skis from the fremont Block
is requested to return them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06
NOTICE
auctioneer

Sewing--I will either go out by the
day, or take sewing at home. Mrs.
W. HI. Smith. Phone 233.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-03-06

When in need OF anything in the
line of printed work, remember we
can satisfy you.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-08
5000 rs SOUGHT
FOR BOY. SCOUTS
Camp O'Rear In Walker County
To Be Completed

JASPER, Ala, May Tin an inter
view with Charles. r.. Virgins, vice.
president of the Walker county coun-
ell of the Black Warrior district today.
he said that it is the desire of the COM
mittee IN this drive to raise So. 900 in
Walker county to aid the boy scout
movement The indications are that
Jasper will raise its quota Of 81 900
when the work is completed
. It has been reported that Cordoya
has easily raised its quota and that
Dora viii have no trouble in providing
its quota when the work is finished
1t appears that there is about $4,000 in
sight and if the workers under the di-
reet10n OF Chairman Douglas Leak re-
spond according to his expecta tions the
1000 win be raised.
It will be necessary to finish the con.
struetion Of Camp O'Rear at cost of
$500 BY July /, in order to meet. the
clause an the deed which provides that
this amount of improvements shall be
placed on this camp site before the
titles are left completely in the Black
warrior council. About $500 to
SLIGO in improvements have already
been made.
Nr~A.Ar-s W hFo1cht--heV. u. d. Ian
iels, the new pastor of the local Chris
tian church, viii preach his initial SER
mon IN Jasper next Sunday.
New Street Ready--One stretch of a
new street in Dora known as Com
merce avenue, is about ready for traffic
and the other is being rushed to COM
pletion and it will be the only avenue
through the town when the paving on
railroad is commenced.