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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-24

Dear Miss Dix: l have been mar ried twenty-five years. am sixty and my wife is fifty-two. We are both financially independent. During the last three years my wife has de- veloped a bad temper, which l have tried to oversome by all kinds of kind ness and love in every possible way, but she will not do anything that wish her to do. When l want to take her to the theatre, or anywhere, she invariably complains of not feeling we'll and not caring to go out. When bring little delicacies home that think will please her she will Rot even look to see what they are. She seems happy when there are visitors, but as soon as the visitors leave she begins to complain of not feeling we'll, and gets sullen. There was a time when she would look for me to come home, but now she turns away when come in and want to kiss her. What can I do to change her disposition and make her realize that she isn't acting right :?
 HOME-LOVING HUSBAND.
 Answer:
 I should say consult some good nerve specialist. Evidently some nervous
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'In bed I get rid of 'em.El Y declared
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A few drops of lemon juice added to the melted butter than you pOnr over veal kidneys will improve their flavor
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look Over Some Of These Home Owning Opportunities To-day
Legal Notice
II. eTEPHENs, AND JAMES C.
WILKES, ATTORNEYS,
N THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IN TIE GDPHEME COURT OF THE
DISTINCT OF COLUMBIA.
Holding q, District Court.
In RE: Condemnation OF land for small
parks. in square south OF 420s. square
l746, part OF square 1T43. square 3542
square east Of 4s45. and square t2s6. In
the District Of Columbia District Court
&C ORDER RIDER of CITATION AND EusL1.
oATioN.@Upcn consideration. d the
District Of Columbia flied in the above
entitled cause. and on motion of coun.
sci for the said Commissioners. IL 10.
4. D.. 1924. 6RpE DEL 3D. that the eiork
of the Court issue citations to Jacob
Earin Yett& Norman. Chevy Chase Land
Company. LILLIAN M Prince. Jacob B.
Sandeman Budd. and all other parties
Interested in the land to he condemned
herein particularly described in the
co,,s. petition to appear in this
1924, at ten o'clock. A. NJ. to answer
the said petition and to show cause,
any they have. why the prayers
Thereof nsr &. should ""I not be granted and
square l!f5, part Of square 174S. square
S642. square east of 4345. and square
1925. shown on the plat filed with the
condemned for small park areas. az
provided for in the acts of Congress
referred to in said petition. 1t is fur
tner OhDERED that a copy OF said
citation be served by the United States
Marshal for the District of Columbia
upon such owners of the land sought
70 be condemned herein, and found by
the said marshal, or his deputies,
within the District of Columbia, and
1t Is further ORDERED that ali per-
sons having any interest in these pro-
ceedings be, and they are hereby
warned and required to appear In this
Court on or before the said gath day
Of June, A. D.. 1929, TO answer the
said petition and to continue In attend
ance until the Court shall have made
It's final order ratifying and confirm
ing the award and report of the Com
missioners to be appointed by the Court
TO appraise the value of the respective
interests of all persons concerned in
the land and premises mentioned and
described in the Aforesaid petition. II
ls further ORDERED that copy Of
this order be published once In the
washington Law Reporter, the Evening
Star. the Washington Post and the
Washington Times, newspapers publish
ed in the said District, before the
said gath day of June. A. D., 1924. BY
the court: A. A. HOEHLING, Justice.
a True Copy Test: MORGAN II.
BEACH, Clerk. BY r. q. CUNNING.
HAM, Asst. Clerk. (SeaL)
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LINCOLN PARK.
Bauman s Heinzmar1,

1904 H ct. N. w. NJ. $500.
WHITE OR COLORED: 18th & Willard
SITS. NV. ~ rooms hot-water heat,
electric lights; ideal for rooming
house or can be easily be remodeled
into apartments: nice lot to alley;
space for garage: owner leaving city
will sell for first reasonable offer; no
agents. Phone Columbia 1871
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Twelve rooms and bath; one block
from Union station; now occupied by
white: less than $9,5O0. Box A-3O7,
y : :. =
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SURPRISE HOMES

SAMPLE HOME-1711 S. E.
large rooms, tile bath, buiIt-in bath
tub: screened-in sleeping porch. glassed-
in breakfast porch, h.-w. h., cleo, hard.
wood floors: light. airy basement. sta
tionary tubs. hot-water heater. Deep
back yard to wide alley. A rare bar
gain at 1880: $3.50 cash. Open and
lighted every day until p. m. Cali
Lincoln 1917. and car will be sent TO
take you out.
COOPERATIVE REALTY CO..
Manhiniefe in
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MODERN GROOM story and half
Spanish bungalow: hardwood floors
and trim throughout; built-in book
cases and kitchen cabinet: colon
nades; open fireplace; hot-water heat,
bath, large cemented cellar; screens;
garage; large lot; very cheap for
cash; terms to responsible parties.
81 900 cash and $50 month. Apply
owner. Joseph A. I;antrel. sos South
ern Building. Washington. Phone
Main 619S
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For Quick Results, List with Us
H. c. MAYNOR & Co,
1902 North Capitol st. Potomac sOsS.
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Real Estate For Sale
suburban Property For Sale !
Gentleman's
Country Estate

80 acres of highly improved land !:
high. slightly and well watered. Situa-
ted in Fairfax county. Va. on concrete
road at the intersection of five county
roads; close to school. church. store and
garage; nine miles from Washington, d.
c.: eight miles from Alexandria. Va
Improved with substantial Broom and
bath house situated in beautiful oak
grove. House has electric lights, hot
and cold water. furnace heat, and is
completely screened. :. T.
OutbuiIdings consist of modern dairy
barn for so cows. tile silo. cement dou-
bic garage, dairy house. &C.
Excellent location for clubhouse,
sanitarium or summer boarding
house.
Price for quick sale, $4,000.
Terms arranged. This. with other
choice country places adjacent to
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
so1r 1uMBERMAN's FINE EDITION

A service of great value to the South has been rendered by the Nashville South- ern Lumberman in its Christmas issue; Tn the first place, the edition IS printed entirely on special run of paper maue from a mixture of Southern pine and Southern gum pulp" This Tn ltsell 1Uonld he an achievement well worth while and strikingly Illustrative or the adaptability of Southern pulp to print naner uses, The paper is of excellent 9nalitv and takes print in clear, dis tinct impression. It proves, as did similar impression of an entire edition of The Age-Herald several years ago. that the South can in an emergency rescue the nation from any Whlte-paper shortage. It also gives tangible nope or the eventual development South oI tremendous new industry. ',
 The Lumberman lays claim to the ols- tinction of having in this volume pro duced the biggest issue of a trade paper ever published in the South. AS u happens, the size is merely colncldence' for the reading matter emnnently merIs the space given to 1t. 1t represents careful and able survey of the history 11.osent development and future possl- bilities of pulp-wo0d and paper produc- ton III the 0OuJH. 4Ie dI Cloi00 "'N e rbv men who are obviously masters of their subject To those who have re- garded the problem of our diminishing timber supply and forest conservation and replenishment as remote and more or less academic, the issue reveals present and vigorous process of solving forestry problems that is Illuminating. Forest conservation in the South is already to an extent under way in most practical manner. The Southern Lumberman has, by this edition, given that process an impetus of incalculable value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
GROWING AUTO ACCIDENTS

The injury of nineteen people Ill d series of automobile accidents III ana around Birmingham in one day agaln em- phasizes the necessity for more e11lclent enforcement of the traffic laws. Nooody believes that with proper enforcement or these laws all those casualties would oc- cur in one day. With the rapid increase of motor vehicles the need tor petter enforcement of traffic regulations IS obvious, especially in view ot the more than proportionate increase of accidents from this cause.
 Thirty-eight American cities or more than one hundred thousand populatloh showed a two per cent. reduction Tn auto, mobile fatalities in October, as compared with the previous month, and siihllar reduction as compared with the core amending month of last year. This IS taken as an encouraging indication, espe- cially as there was large traffic ln- croase during the year. There is but one exnlanation-a more intelligent handling of traffic under q more efficient en1ofce- ment of the traffic ordinances.
 Comparisons are not encouraging in Rirninpham's favor for this year, except in the number of fatalities Up to De- cember 16 of this year there were thirty ana killed in automobile accidents, as compared with forty-seven for the whole of last year. Yet for the same periods the records of injuries were S87 and aa9 raspectiyelv. 1t is reasonable to estimate +bat during the rest of this year there will be locally quite number of injuries, and nrobablv a number of deaths rom automobile accidents, particularly as a rasult of the additional traffic conges- lion and the hurry incident to the holiday season. So that the record for 1924 ", will not be better than that of 1923. That more people are not killed outright ourf af ing this year will have been a matter or the victims luck That more were m iured this year than last year indicates that there were more accidents, rnd con af seouently less effective enforcement or the traffic regulations. The estapllsh- ment me of the beacon light system in the downtown district is admittedly helpful in reducing the dangers in this sectloh ,,oh of the city. Elsewhere here is no sucn protection. This problem calls for soiu- ton,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
FRANCE WILL PAY HER DEBTS

The fundamental fact in Ambassador Jusserand's public statement regarding the French debt is that France means to pay in full her obligations to this country. As M. Jusserand so aptly put it; "The upshot of it all isSthat we mean to pay. We always have paid. We want to pay. We paid our enemies after eight years the more determined are we to pay our friends" Therefore, all talk about France seeking to evade her debts should be abandoned. The ambassadors re marks may be taken as final and reliable assurance that no evasion is contem- plated, because evasion would be so ab- solutely foreign to French policy.
 It does appear, however, that France desires moratorium. She has spent billions of francs in restoring the areas devastated by war, in order that her peo- pIe might raise food for themselves and win from the repaired industries the wherewithal to recover their financial footing. France occupies peculiar posi- ton among all the allied nations, in that her territory bore the brunt of the war attack and thus was imposed upon her an economic handicap felt by no other nation, not even the defeated Germany and Austria.
 Therefore, if V should grant to France more favorable terms than to other coun- tries, it could be defended on the basis of equity. Those who demand that no consideration be shown to France should remember that the allied nations agreed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
If | Had A Million
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

' WISH I had million dollars, you say, \ I could do so much good with it. There are so many would like to help. It would be such pleasure to relieve the suffering of this poor family, to assist that struggling young man, and to contribute generously to the church and the hospital. I know I would not be selfish as many rich people are. If l had million I would gratify my generous impulses.
 Stop right there! Your imagination is mis- leading you. If you had million dollars you would be no more liberal than you are now.
 Helpfulness does not depend on the size of your income. If you are doing nothing for others on your present income of fifty dollars month you would do the same if you had fifty thousand a month. You would be just as wrapped up in your own sweet self as you are now-and wrappeder.
 For it is we'll established fact that one's altruistic impulses decrease in force as ones wealth grows.
 The kindest, most generous, and charitable people in the world are those who have little or nothing. The best friends to the poor are the other poor.
 I have in mind now one of the most benev olent women 1 ever knew. She ls always thinking of others. She sends flowers 10 her friends upon just the right occasions, she has delicious soup sent to certain people in whom she is interested in the hospitals, she plans in various societies to help necdy children she is real trouble woman," for wherever there is trouble there is she, to hold the nervous hand, to smooth the hot brow, and to give of her full cheer and hope to them that need. She is not rich in pocket; she has the true riches of the heart, riches that moth and rust do not corrupt nor thieves break through and steal.
 And you, if you have the root of the matter in you, can be as benevolent as the most lavish millionaire. What you need is not money, it is disposition.
 For the one thing to give in this world, tho one thing that is worth while, the one thing that cheers us all up and adds ozone to the soul, is-yourself.
 The great gifts of the rich--it is doubtful if they do any good after all. I have my suspicious of them. But whoso gives himself, his time, his thoughts, his attention, his care. he is the worlds real benefactor.
 This world is so waste and empty" says Goethe, in his Wilhelm Meigter," when we figure but towns and hills and rivers in it, but to know that some one is living on with us, even in silence, this makes our empty ball peopled garden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
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The Night Before Christmas.

The Night Before Christmas. (As Cross Word Puzzler Would Write It. ) Twas a period-of-darkness l,fore Christ mas, when all through the place-of-dwelling Not creature was stirring not even rodent-in-five-letters; The garments-made-fam famous-by- Coles Phil | lips were hung by the chimney with synonym for caution
 In hopes that St. Nicholas, early presently in the near future, would be there;
 The Progeny were nestled-a all snug in their article of furniture,
 While visions of sugar plums cavorted 1; moved about gaily, in their heads.
 And female parent in her kerchief and l in my cap
 Had just settled our inte1lects for a long winter synonym-for-slumber When out on the grass plot there arose such a kind-of-disturbance
 I jumped leapt; arose quickly from the bed to perceive what was the matter.
 Away to the openings-in-a- house to admit | light and-air flew like flash, Tore open the synonym-for-blinds and threw up the sash.
 The lunar planet on tho breast of the new-fallen snow
 Gave the word-for-brilliance of midday to the objects below
 When. what to my wondering optics should similar-to-loom
 But a small, pigmy, sleigh and eight an-
 I knew in a-part-of-a-minute it must be Saint proper n ame-in -four-letters More rapid than kind of bird his coursers they approached; neared; And he whistled and yelled and the equiv alent-of-hailed them by appellation:
  Prancer! Now-of-a-Mean-Mischie Ma ture!
 "On, Comet! On, Cupid On, Donder and Blitzen!
 "To the top of the similar-to-veranda to the top of hke-a-fence-in -four-letters
 "Now dash away dash away synonym-for- nearest-exist all! !" As l drew in my head and was turning around
 Down the stone -part-of-a-house St. Nicholas came with an elastic movement.
 He was synonym-for- -attired all in fur from his head to his lower extremities
 And his garments were all soiled dirtied disfigured with he-remains-of-coal-after- has-burned.
 A package; bag; parcel of playthings he had flung on his rt-of-the-anatomy-adja- cent-to -the-kidneys
 And he looked like a canvassar; agent !, itinerant salesman just opening his pack.
 He uttered; expressed; gave voice to not a word but went synonym-for-direct to his en- ployment
 And filled all the hosiery then turned with a sudden motion, an abrupt movement,
 And laying his finger aside of his proboscis,
 And giving nod, up the part of a fire place he ascended;
 He sprang to his vehicle on runners in six letters, to his team gave a whistle,
 And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
 But heard him suddenly utter ere he drove out of sight
 Similar to joyous December 25th to all, and to all an opposite-of badnight!" !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
Watching The Parade
T,HERE came might near being lynchin
Ely JOAN PILGRIM

THERE came might near being lynching in the woods back of our place yester-
 day. Young Colly Fish, who has just opened little country store, has always been Ia lee-tle bit too free with his talk, and a lowering stranger who came in to buy sar- dimes was just a lee-tle bit too ready to take offense.
 I'll show you," said he to young Mir. Fish. Whereupon he showed him with a pitch fork handle taken from Mir. Fishs own stock, leav-
 ing the storekeeper unconscious and bleeding on the floor Then came in few slack witted nefghbors and a vast deal of talk and a few Iincoherent mutters from the reviving Mir. Fish.
 Let's string him up," said the neighbors, and when they caught the frightened fool who had made the trouble they would have done 80 except for Corporal Aleck Sands, who once belonged to the regular army. We all know Aleck Sands in the woods country that lies back of our place, None of the Sands family have ever Leen distinguished for valor or initiative or sound thinking or even that commonest of virtues, industry. The Sands family, in fact, has almost run out through the hole in the bottom, in the estimate of our populace. But Aleck said;
 "Stop." And the slack-witted neighbors who were planning to lynch Frightened man, who might even be innocent, for aught they knew, stopped There was something about Corporal Aleck that compelled obedience. He put the captured man alongside him in hls rusty Ford, and took him to the county seat and turned him over and then drove back. But when I heard about it l wanted to know more, There is something incongruous In the thought of a member of the Sands family talk Ing command of anything.
 Army training. sir" said Corporal Aleck. Il learned there that the man who takes charge is obeyed ninety-nine times out of the even number. So 1 took charge" | Just like that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
Holidays

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, When the full river of feeling overflows The happy days unclouded to their close The sudden joys that out of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires then
 dart
 Like swallows singing down each wind that blows White as the gleam of n recednG sail, White as a cloud that floats and fades in air.
 White as the whitest lily on stream, These tender memories area Fairy Tale Of some enchanted land we know not where But lovely as a landscape in q dream.
 -LpngfelloY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
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France Today,

|VI1TH religious ferment reaching ooll, :,
 w ing point and with communist and royalst agitation going beyond the bounds of more silent propaganda, France offers the world again a spectacle Of disorder compared with the active orderllness Of Ger many. It Is the age-old difference of psych- ological forces France a witty nation and Germany thoughtful one. It could be argued that between the two nations there has been careless distribution of merits. France, with her love for idealism, easily slips into the error of sort of enthusiastic abandon, while Germany, no less in idealism, is always in danger of having this idealism become mere sentimentalism. Stephan Zweig found that in France liberty had been too widely dffused with the result that chaos always loomed in the near future. It was thus in days gone by and it still pertains to present-day con ditions. Fortunately for the country, there have always been men in France who have kept clear head, It is a curious fact that Frenchmen under the stress of a crisis lose their flamboyant and sometimes even hilarious care-free spirit and become suddenly endowed with a cooness that surpassed even Anglo Saxon sangfroid. Verdun is the sublime ex- ample of this. Prophets there be a-plenty in the European press in these days who see the coming fall of the French republic at the hands of the communist royalist extremists. They forget that these extremes represent only noisy minorities who have take nadvantage of the freedom accorded them by liberal gov ernment to shout their defiance from the house-tops. The reds will never start a rev. olution in France as long as the peasants are not ranged on their side. For no revolution marches without bread. Prince Kropotkine, in his Conquest of Bread" told them that and they have the case of Russia as an ex- ample The bolshevik industrial workers would not have maintained their hold for six months if they had not been able to interest the peasants. And in France the peasants are anti-revolutionary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24

is described in the ordinance free of all cost for construction and consequential damages"
 The grade separation project is in- tended to provide permanent relief from losses to business and permanent inn provement in the public safety. The en- terprise is intended to be a community benefit safeguarding the interests of every citizen. Hence, not only the im- portance of building it right, but the further need for making it a public i'm provement apart from any speculative purpose by private interests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24

that special favors should be shown to Germany, in spite of the fact that Ger many had lain down on her contract and refused to continue payments. Surely France deserves consideration in the way of moratorium if Germany, the aggres- sor and the conquered, the cause of the whole trouble, is granted special consid- eration. Fortunately, our government from the first has refused to permit the debt question t, come to international discussion. So if we decide that Frances situation warrants special treatment, there is nothing to hinder our extend inp if