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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-05
GIRL SCOUTS HOLD
BIG RALLY

Today is red letter day for Bir-
mingham Girl Scouts as the big rally
they have been working toward for
the past several weeks is to take place
this morning at 1890, the place of
meeting being the parish house of the
Church of the Advent.
Rallies, which are meets where all
the troops of the district come togeth-
er-sometimes for just good time and
sometimes for a bit of scout instruc-
tion-are held every few months and
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Reflections of Dorothy Dis
The Father Who Persistently Discourages HIS
Children-ShaU She Marry A Foreigner Against
Her Parents Wishes-The Poor Young Man
Who Is Attracted BIZ A Girl Of Lurayiant Tastes

DEAR Miss Dix-What do you think
of father who is always ling his
children that they have no sense, and
will never amount to anything? In
spite of his discouraging remarks, his
daughter, who had to listen to his
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Mothers And
Their Children

One Mother Says:
My little girl loves to collect
things, so l encourage her to gather
up stray buttons dropped about the
house, and made a box to hold
them, called 1.-The button bank"
When the bank has ten buttons in
it l pay her a nickel, which she
puts into her regular little bank.
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My Neighbor Says

In making tea, allow one tea
spoonful for each person and one
''for the pot" Allow one table,
spoon of coffee for each person and
one "for the pot"
Take care to cook fish well. for
it is both unpalatable and unwhole-
some when UNDERGONE. Fish should
always be served for invalids hot.
Cold salmon may be occasionally
given to invalids, but it is better il
wrapped in buttered paper and very
lightly broiled.
Bedspreads which have grown
shabby may give long and valuable
service as sounding cloths for the
dining table.
To roast beef, allow 20 minutes
for the pound.
For a small family it is handy to
have a pail of mixed pice-crust flour.
Mix flour, lard and salt together
and keep in a covered dish. When
little is needed for a pie, mix with
water as usual. 1t will keep several
weeks in covered dish.
Flower pot stains can be re-
moved from the window stills by rub
bling with fine wood ashes and rims
ing with clear water.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-05
JOINT HOSTESSES TO
HONOR VISITOR

Miss Mary Schroeder and Miss Jean
Arnold will be hostesses this afternoon
when they are entertaining with a box
party complimenting Miss Janet Vogt
of Milwaukee, the guest of Miss Dale
Oliver.
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MISS RUSHTON TO
CAMPI INTENT. MISS VNGT

Miss Elizabeth Rushton is entertain
ing today at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frank Rushton, with
a luncheon complimenting Miss Janet
Vogt, the guest of Miss Dale Oliver.
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS
TO HAVE PROGRAM
The Woman's Relief Corps of Post
No. 1, auxiliary to the Grand Army of
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Powder Blue For Evening Wear
A window filled with evening gowns
of powder blue emphasizes the charm
of this color for wear after dark. Some
of the gowns are developed in blue and
silver tinsel brocade.
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International marriages are nearly
always unhappy when an American
girl has to go to her husbands coun.
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Hearts, Desire
BY MARY BELL

columns in which. were listed the wants
in domestic lines.
Slowly she stuffed the apparently in
Vulnerable advertisements. At last she
read:
WANTED: Cultured woman to care
for small boy and direct affairs of a
household of three. Residence upstate.
Rupert Ransome, Hotel Gilmore, New
York"
Hastily tearing 1t out of the page,
the looked no further. "I'm surely
capable of filling that position" she
told herself, as she thought of days
when she had cared for her sisters chill
dren. That was some years before the
lure of the land Of sunshine had done
it's work. Now both brothers and sis
tiers had gone west and as all were busy
people, with business and family cares
on their shoulders, they did not have
much in common with Joan. They did
not know how recklessly she had been
spending the small. legacy her father
had left her, and she would never go to
them or ask their help when things
ceased to run smoothly with her.
Trucking the nd carefully into her
pocketbook, Joan once more concen-
trated on the closing sentences of her
novel. An hour later she gathered
up all the sheets together and hastily
retired, realizing she must be up early
il she would look for work.
Ito be continuedl.
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PRINCES PROTEGE IN KITCHEN
Bombay University Graduate Fitting
( Himself to Run Royal. Household

Bombay University Graduate Fitting
Himself to Run Royal Household
F..S. Kale, son of high government
official in India, graduate of the Uni
versity of Bombay. master of seven
lnguages and protege Of the mahara-
jah of Baroda, is at work as a helper in
the pastry kitchen of New York
hotel, it was learned recently. He is on
a 4 year tour of the world, spending
several months in each of the leading
hotels of the countries which he visits.
The purpose of the trip, ON which he
o being sent by his highness, the maha-
rajah, is to fit him to take over the
complete management Of the household
of the, prince, who is reputed to be the
wealthiest of all the native princes of
India.
Kale has already spent almost three
years in preparation. He has studied
in hotels in London, Paris, Lausanne
Switzerland. and 'Montreux, Switzer-
land.
Is The young mans place on the staff
of the hotel was arranged by his high
ness himself when he was guest at
the hotel before the war. Kale will
spend another month in the hotel
kitchens, thea he will go upstairs to
learn the restaurant and dining room
part of the business. After that he will
spend two months studying the mana
gerial end.
From New York Kale will go to
Japan and China and early in 1926 will
enter upon his new position in India
New York Times.
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matador stuck the sword into the bull
with no effect, the crowd begans boot
ing and kissing the poor man, and final
ly saw loaves of bread, empty wine
bottles and everything they could lay
their hands on. being hurled at him.
He finally killed the bull and left the
field, not gloriously, but at least not
disgraoed. But he came back in the
next fight, with a. white coat replacing
his torn one and his laeerated hand,
fought through to the end.
There was only one brilliant fighter
who moved the crowd to enthusiasm
the one who aped Belmonte. For him,
after his first fight (which was really
beautifully, the crowd rose to real
heights, and / got the thrill l have had
on reading Of the famous matad0rs
bowling in the arena. With the others
that romantic thrill was lacking.
must confess that there is something
lacking in me evidently possessed by the
Spaniards. cannot say really want
to see another fight and l cannot say
that believe it to be sport in the
sense that like to think Of sport. 1t is
brutal and bloody and my feeling is that
would like to see the courage, grace,
uuu SpOEtSlnuHSulp O1fIuc IOrcduOEB uSCu
in real sport.
1t seemed to me so many times that
the bull would rather have left the
arena--that the poor beast not only
had no idea what it was all about, but
didn't really want to fight. OF course,
l realize that that is perhaps senti-
mentality, and that the bull would kill
the first chance he got. But just the
same it is not brains pitted against
brains. 1t is many against one, and
though many matadors are hurt and a
few are killed, the outcome of the fight
is SO practically assured; the bull, big
and powerful and brutal though he is,
seems so lone against so many, that to
me there is little fun in watching any
after the novelty of the first one has
passed.
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row and the next day. You learn to
cook before you go back to Charley. Be
sides, he's terribly mad-says you
needn't come home at all if you don't
come at once, and / told him that he
was nothing but a nervous jumping jack
ON account of his poor stomach"
Dare go Aunt Snsan?" asked Eue.
dare you not go?" 'cOuntered Aunt
Susan.
For six hours or more a day Sue
tciled in flat, rosy-cheeked Aunt Do
lores' kitchen. She cooked, she baked
nnd she brewed, asking questions by
the hundred throwing out spoiled
patches and starting all over again i;
but never did she withdraw an anxious
"Dare 1 60 Aunt Susany" asked Sue.
eye from the window overlooking the will
low--bordered have to see whether
the rheumatic maiIcarrier had raised
the flag on the r, +. d.. box. He did
twice and Sue flew down the path, q
mere blur of red on the landscape, only
to discover once Q tax bill for Aunt
storer for Aunt Susan.
On the fourteenth day Susan packed
her grip. She must go back. Even
though Charley did not want her, It
would be some consolation to be in the
same city that he was.
But Aunt Dolores stopped her.
"Your fried chicken isn't up to mine
yet and anybody could atold didn't
make those rig biscuits last night. And
your potatoes might a been fluffier.
You bide on bit till you learn how
to cook food that'll meet mans Heart"
Nine weeks from the day she left
Sue returned. To what2 she wondered
with a sinking heart. If her aunts had
lost Charley to her!
The apartment was dark and smelly,
as though no one had been in it for
months. There was no food on hand
so Sue crept forlornly down to the
Ideal for a cup of tea and toast The
Ideal boasted of doing its cooking for
the world to see. What the world, in
Guiding Sue, saw tonight was a blond
giant handling steaks and French
friends in fashion to have the deft-
lest housewife envious.
Sue was unable to stop looking at
the handsome giant, and, at last, I'M
der the magnetism of her eyes, he
turned and looked at her. Then he
deftly slipped the finished steak on a
waiting platter, ducked under the 'di-
yiding rope and had both Of Sues
calloused little hands in his one great
hand.
My darling sukey sue!" he whis-
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TO be found pointing to the place.
And that is why, when, turning a
bend in the road Mckety split, the
wooden hobby horse jumped smack dab
into a mud puddle and stayed there.
Cant you move?' Raggedy Ann
asked the wooden hobby horse, when
he stopped.
"Nope!" the wooden hobby horse re-
piled. 81 can't move q single foot ~
Then we must get down and lift the
hobby horse out. of the mud puddle !''
the little Captain said as he jumped to
his knees in the mud pudle.
well! I'll declared" he cried when
his feet went "splawsh r, "It's as cold
as ice y But he lifted the hobby horse,
Raggedys and all and carried. them to
the side of the mud puddle. "We will
hurry on just as soon as I wipe the
mud from my shoes!n the Captain said.
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he wasn't to be. found. No one knew
where he was. No one remembered hav-
ing seen him that day. The fact is
Sammy had taken il into his head to
40 over to the Old Pasture that day.
30 Peter visited the Old Orchard and
the Green Forest in. vain. At last he
had to give IL up. Night was coming
ON and sammy Jay would be Of no use
then, for he sleeps at night. Peter
would have to wait until the next day.
Meanwhile he worried about Old Mr..
Toad. He knew that Mr.. Toad does
not like the hot sun. In fact it makes
him quite ill.,. Jolly bright Mr.. Sun
had been shining his very brightest NIL
that day.
1T must have been awfully hot down
In that pit" thought Peter. Poor Old
Mr.. Toad must have suffered great
deal. And he must be hungry. How
ever will he get anything to eat down
there? am afraid that IL he has to
spend ano1her day down there 1t will
quite finish him. Why COULDN'T Sam
n,y Jay have been around when he was
wanted?" Peter was actually beginning
to feel that 1t was really Sammy's fault
when of course 1t wasn't anything sof
the kind. Anyway. as soon as I've
had a bite to eat ri run over. to the
garden and tell Mr.. Toad that l have
been trying my very best to do some
thing for him. ] Hope he hasn't suf-
Eered very much. ] hope I'm utmost
afraid to 70 see." You know Peter is
very tender-hearted.
So Peter ate hurried meal and
shortly after jolly, round, red Mfr. Sun
l,aa srox1a "a HAL hahsud the purn1e Hills
Peter started to see how Old Mr.. Tond
was feeling after that long hot day Mt
the. bottom Of that great hole.
Next story: Peter Rabbit Doesn't
Txwnwv What TIA Think
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Little Stories For Bedtime
Peter Rabbit Worries Ahout Old Mfr.
Toad ".

Peter Rabbit Worries About ord Mfr.
Toad
WTHEN Peter Rabbit finally bade
W. Old Mr.. Toad good plight and
left him there at the bottom OF
The great pit which Farmer Browns
Boy had dug in cornereof his garden
and into which Old Mr.. Toad had fal
len, he went straight home 70 the dear
old Brier Patch to think. As a true
Cuaady lie felt that he just had to
do something to help Old Mr.. Toad out
of his trouble. He remembered how
Old Mr.. Toad had journeyed clear over
to the Old Brier Patch that time when
he was made so i'll BY eating poisoned
cabbage leaves. It was no journey at
all for Peter, but Il was very much OF
a journey for Old Mr.. Toad and he hea
come, out Of the goodness Of his heart,
to try to help Peter. Now Old Mr..
Toad himself was In trouble and Peter
wanted to repay that kindness BY help
ing him. q
] But how could he hclpy That was
the question that Peter turned over and
over in his mind as he sat In his favorite
place in the dear Old Brier Patch. II
seemed TO him that Old Mr.. Toad was
IN about as bad fix ~ II was pvssible
to be in. Mr.. Toad couldn't climb.
Even IL he could It wouldn't have done
him any good in that place. Happy
Jack Squirrel himself couldn't climb
out of that, hole because the sides were
30 straight and were wholly Of sand,
which would give way when any one
tried to climb. So far AZ Peter could
zee Old Mr.. Toad was q helpless pris-
ener.
Thinking is hard work. Peter Rab-
bit says SO. Perhaps that u because
Peter never does great deal of real
thinking. He Is very apt to do things
without thinking and this IL one reason
he is forever getting into scrapes. II
be did o little more real thinking he
wouldn't get into trouble 30 often. But
now he was doing some real thinking
all on account of Old Mr.. Toad ana yet
it didn't help bit az he could zee.
He just couldn't think Of any one who
could get Old Mr.. Toad out of that pit
unless 1t was Farmer Browns Boy. He
could do it. He could do anything. AT
least, that il the way 1t seemed to Peter.
But how could he let Farmer Browns
Boy know Of Old Mr.. Toad's trouble ,
All of Peters thinking always ended
right there. There was no way Of let
ting Farmer Browns Boy know unless
Peter hoped straight up In the air in
excitement He could find Sammy jay
and get him to go over to that pit In
the garden and scream until Farmer
Browns Boy should come to see what
such fuss was about.
Without wasting another minute, OF
started Peter to hunt for sammy Jay.
Now Sammy Jay is one of those people
always sure to be- around when not
wanted, but now that he was wanted
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pered. "Tve a notion to kiss you, any
way |" 80,
Charley! wish you would" she
whispered.
''I would quick enough. exceDt
don't want you being kissed by cook
in public" he said. "Sue, can cook
a man-sized meal now all right, and
you'll get strong on some of the good
things I'll hand out to you. made
UP my mind that lack Of a cook wasn't
going to break UP our home, so i
learned evenings after office hours"
'.Oh, Charley, so did IT. laughed Sue
Historically. "AVhat il there are too
many cooks in our home now?'
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Years ago when o. Henry wrote a
story about shop girl who had builded
for herself a romance about Lord Kich'
ener-the country loved that story, they
saw no snobbery in the little shop girls
worship at a shrine above her reach.
1t seemed in those days most natural
| That she should have set up a romantic
ideal, to lift her dreams above the drab-
ness of life.
Yet today when debutantes and shop
girls devour eagerly every word that is
written about the Prince and crowd and
cOntrive to catch a glimpse of him
they are severely arranged for being I'm
democratic, socially ambitious or snob-
Dish.
These ugly words do not describe the
eager interest of the matrons and
maids-a little handful perhaps act
! from such motives but not the ma
jority. If the Heir Apparent to the
| British throne was crosseyed, had a
receeding chin ana wore i'll fitting
clothes, there would be little necessity
for the papers to carry more than a
paragraph or two about his daily do
| ings. We women would care little
about what hour he awakes, whom he
dances with or the color of his ties.
But the boyish Prince Charming of
the engaging personality is figure that
lends itself to romance. And it is ro-
nance that we need in our lives. So
if the flapper and the trump, the maid
end the matron can find in the glamour
that surrounds this, young prince bit
Of stuff that dreams are made of let
them dream and romance.
Better to weave fancies about an un-
attainaBle prince than a too easily OBJ
tainable' movie star.
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By Branner

"EIa, Ina, In p Raggedy Ann and Rag
gedy Andy laughed. Just you taste it,
Captain ~ they replied. And yOn will
see just how good this mud puddle is y
The little Captain did not wish to
try it at first, but after awhile he took
some of the mud upon the end of his
finger and tasted 1t, then wide smile
spread over his round kindly face and
he laughed: why! 1t isn't a mud
puddle at alp he cried. mo wonder
you both cried, wheel! It's chocolate
ice cream4!' And he not only scooped
up handful for himself, but he found
u big leaf from tree and scooped up
a lot Of the lovely chocolate ice cream
for the magical hobby horse.
And, with such fine treat as this
before them, the Raggedys and the little
fat Captain and the hobby horse forgot
all about the fierce Brigands.
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II do not wish to get mud ali over the
pice hobby horse !"
So the Captain pulled some grass and
wiped the mud from his shoes, while
Raggedy. Ann aud Raggedy Andy
cleaned the wooden feet of the hobby
horse.
The moment the Raggedys started to
wipe the mud from the feet of the hobby
horse, they gave a cry of delight.
Wheel they both yelled together.
why do you Raggedys cry 'whee? 4"
the Captain asked.
Instead of ansyering,' the Raggedys
ran to the mud puddle and scooped up
handful of the mud and began eating
it.
my goodness, gracious, Raggedy Ann
ard Raggedy Ann" the little Captain
cried. you must be very, very hungry
to eat mud from a mud puddle y
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13
PATIENCE A.FRMININE.v VIRTUE
Centuries Of Experience Have Taught
!. Woman TO Wait Unperturbed

Centuries Of Experience Have Taught
{. Woman to Wait Unperturbed
Have you ever watched man, wait
ing for a train or waiting his turn for
on audience with an office chief or
waiting at his tailor's until the filter
is ready to try on a new suit? In nine
cases out of ten his whole attitude be-
trays an impotence which, wher the
psychological moment is long delayed,
often reaches the point of evaporation.
Such occasions always remind me of
a story Of Louis XIV, the grand mon
arch, who exclaimed when some court
official failed to respond instantly to
the royal summons. II really believe l
am being kept, waiting!" And though
the average plain man does not express
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WINNIE WINkLE
,A0vexiiMses
~ Of =
KaeAAedy
skulN
~~eAxNA 80
'Ko99e@
sAnAN

The magical wood
en- hobby horse car
ried the Raggedys
and the little fat
Captain upon his
back lickety split
through the woods
for he knew that as
soon as it became
daylight , the fierce
Brigande would dis
cover that the Rag.
gedys and the Cap
tain had escaped and
would follow them.
So t h e wooden
hobby horse jumped
as fast and as far
as he could and ran
until his wooden feet
went "Lickety-click"
over the. stones and
hard. dirt.
The Raggedys and
the little fat Captain
knew that the treas.
ure upon the island
was hidden upon
Watch Tower Hill
and the Brigands
also knew this too.
for they had taken
the map away from
the Captain, but
none of our friends
or. the Brigands
knew where Watch
Tower Hill" was, for
there were 30 signs
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FAaHI0N NOTES

Hats of almond green velour are
trimmed with autumn leaves. A huge
cluster of purple and white violets holds
in place the folds of a frock of black
lace. while gold embroideryAin an eccles-
iastical design appears as the decoration
on a draped beret Of purple velvet.
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has three periods
with no wait be-
tween. There are
three bulgers who
announce the start
and finish of each
period. First ap-
pear the picadors
and toreadors, then
the toreadors who
stick long spears into
the bull, and finally
the matador who
must kill the bull.
All matadors are
also toreadors, but
not vice versa. Cen
TIh AZ knrao darc
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"Ameriicanized"
Washing and Ironing
Is the most wonderful
service you ever saw.

We take the full family wash
ing you've been giving to your
washerwoman or having done
on the premises and launder and
iron every piece perfectly clean
for a price really no more than
it costs the washerwoman way.
Try "Americanized' family
washing and. ironing one week
it will prove it's 6wn case.
p. S. Send the dry cleaning
down with the family wash. :
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l have an idea, however, that the
pendulum is beginning to swing back
again-that' the vogue for stark reality
Is OH the wane. Youth and romance
have always gone hand in hand-they
are natural companions and l believe
they are beginning to miss each other.
l rather think, despite the severe judg-
ments of the press, that it is not snob-
hery at all but the need of romance
that has fired the Imagination of the
public and awakened its interest in the
Prince of Wales. t..
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What Every
Housekeeper
Wants

Is a clean, convenient
and cheap method of
doing the. family wash
ing.
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his hatred of being kept waiting in
words, at heart most of them feel just
like the imperious French king.
Women, on the other hand, having
been kept waiting since the world be-
gan, has learned divine patience which
is her own secret. She rarely fidgsts
when the train is late, or even when the
person she expects. to meet is ages be-
hind the hour of the appointment. I'm
less love keeps the man in question up
to time, she usually accepts his perfume
tory apology with smile. Even now,
when so many women work, no man
will admit that her time has anything
like the value of that of member of his
own sex.-Margaret Gordon in the Lon
don Chronicle. fpN
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We Women
The NaAd Of Romance

THERE is little enough romance in
the world today. Another change
that the aftermath of war has
brought about. The younger generation
SCOTS at romance. It's pride lie
in seeing things as they are," a some
what dreary occupation
There are few romantic novels and
few romantic plays. /. We want realism
and the uglier it is the "realef" we be-
lieve it to be.