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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01
STORY IN DREAM

Rosaline Mason, who wrote The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson that has just been published by the Frederick A. Stokes company, is daughter ot the David Mason, who was professor of literature at Edinburgh university when Stevenson was enrolled as a stu dent there. The Masson and Stevenson families were on terms of the greatest intimacy in the early days.
 Miss Mason tells, as other biog- raphers have done before, how, ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," in some ways the most extraordinary of all Steven son tales, grew out of a dream. When Stevenson was living at Bournemouth in 1885 his publishers had been urging him to write shilling shocker." One night Mrs. Stevenson was awakened by cries of horror. and when she wakened her husband it was to be asked indig- nantly why she had done so, for rI was dreaming a fine bogey tale" He was dreaming the full details, and she had wakened him at the first transforma- tion scene, writes Arthur Maurice, in the New York Herald.
 The following morning Dr. Thomas Bodley Scott, Stevensons physician and friend, was greeted by Louis with the words: I've got my shiliings shocker" He was writing it already at fever heat. The first draft, ready in few days. was criticized in detail in writing-this was their custom-by Mrs. R. l.. Stevenson. Louis had drawn Jekyll as bad nature and Hyde as only disguise of this na- ture, and Mrs. Stevenson's criticism was to the effect that the tale was real ly an allegory, whereas he had made of lit story, another "Markeim." Ste venson saw the point and acted on her to prevent his yielding to the tempta- tion of using it instead of wholly re- writing the tale. In three days it was rewritten.
 "Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde was the story that made Stevenson. But it was slow in starting. A little too late for the Christmas trade of 1885, it was withdrawn till January, 1886. At first it was not regarded with any particu- lar favor by the book sellers, and the first thing that heralded its success was when a review appeared in the London Times on January 9. The shilling shocker" received another mo- tice-a sermon was preached in St. Paul cathedral with "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as the text. As a result the book was quoted from a hundred other pulpits. Forty thousand copies were sold in few months and an American edition was supplemented by pirated copies, and thus the American sands more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01

Van Raalte's 3. but { ion silk gloves of first quality, In plain . and fancy trim. mings in as. sortnent of col. Ors. Values in tho lot up to $1.48.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01
DOMESTIC DAYS
By ROY L. M'cARDELL


 You'd never guess whom I met to- day." asked Mrs. Jarr, and without waiting for an answer she continued, "The Biffingtons! They're going to Florida
 Nlr. Jarr did not appear to be at all interested in the information.
 "I think you might answer person when she speaks to you" said Mrs. Jarr with shade of irascibility in her voice.
 But what should I have said. my dear?" replied Mr. Jarr. T don't know the Biffingtons.
 You know them well enough, if you'd admit it, said Mrs. Jarr. Don't you remember when they lived in the next apartment to ours and we thought they got along so nicely together and were such quiet people? His mother lived there with them"
 "If his mother or her mother lived with them they did not get along nice ly together. n0 matter how quiet they were," ventured Mrs Jarr.
 T don't like to hear you speak that way" said Mrs. Jarr. You cant say that my mother ever made trouble be- tween us. When she was told we were engaged she cried bitterly. And she afterward said she didn't think it for the best, especially as Mir. Dingling, the young man who was doing so well as a contractor at the time, was pay ing me such marked attention. Mann ma always said he would make a very good husband. he was always so quiet. But I wouldn't listen.''
 "Listen to your wooer or your mother:" inquired Mir. Jarr.
 "To neither of them," replied Mrs. Jarr. "However' this with little sigh--''its tpn late now. And, as l was saying about The Biffingtons-don' t you remembr, the night we heard a smack on the @ace across the airshaft and heard Mir. Ellington crying out and then Mrs. Biffington's voice say ing. I couldn't help it, mother; he called you liar"
 Was that the Ellington biffing?" asked Mir. Jarr.
 You needn't be sarcastic" said Mrs. Jarr. II notice you do not take me ev- anywhere with you. as Mir. Ellington does his wife. But l wouldn't be guided by these Biffingtons, anyway. There's always something suspicious about couple who are always seen so lovingly together like that
 Everybody knows that he drinks terribly every chance he gets, and she flirts outrageously, and he knows it."
 'So he watches her and she watches him." asked Mir. Jarr.
 "Of course replied Mrs. Jarr. Everybody knows that. Neither trusts the other. You'll generally find that those people who are always to- Gether that way are hound together more by distrust than love-
 Correct you are" said Mir Jarr. ''and as l do not need any watching. being a steady old simp. you will not mind if l go out and drop into Sol's cigar store a bitE'
 She said she minded it very much, and it was her desire for him to stick around and get acquainted with his children.
 So, instead of dropping, he stuck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01
s.. ":' .:... u. ... Dorothy Die ';; S;;: E:
Although There's No Set Rule For Popping The Cues. tion Here Aye Some Pointers: Choose A Romantic Setting, Never Propose When The Girl Is Gay And Successful, And Never Pro-
 pose By Letter

A young man wants me to tell him how to propose to girl whom he wishes to marry.
 Lord. son l cant do that. Popping the question is one of the things that every man has to do for himself, and what he says depends upon the time, the place and the girl. There is no set formula for making the fatal speech. Nor do the words that man uses matter. The only requisites are that they be spontaneous, somthing that bubbles up from his soul, real heart stuff, or else no girl will listen to it.
 Of course, there was a time when courtship was conducted according to Hoyle. In those days a suitor first asked father for his daughters hand in marriage, and. this having been granted, fell upon his knees before his lady love, and taking her lily white hand in his, said: "Adored Clarissa, will you be mine? I swear by all the gods, etc, etc., etc
 Even as late as the early sixties enamored swains still quoted poetry and took Byron and Tom Moore for guidance. But in these jazzy days they do it differently, and between a fox trot and a two-step Tom casually re- marks to Maisie: Say, kid, you look good to me. My flivver is at the door. Let's beat it to the parson and joyride through life together. What say?
 And Maisie says, "Surest thing, you know" And all's well that ends well.
 For it doesn't matter what you say. It is just the way you say it. Except for the high-faluting and impractical tips offered by novels, the stage and io ohc ,tol, r- ance for the youth who wishes to sell himself as matrimonial proposition to n girl. For the one thing that no man ever tells is what he said when he asked his wife to marry him, and the secret woman carries with her to the grave are the words her husband used when he popped the question to her.
 Probably this is because the man knows he bungIed the situatoin, and that, after spending weeks thinking up lovely, soulful speeches, when the time came, he swallowed his Adams apple hard two or three times and gulped out a bald request, unembellished by any flower of rhetoric or poetry.
 Certainly the reason why the woman doesn't tell is because she cannot bear t8. even remember her disappointment over the shattering of the dream of sher life. Ever since she was a school girl she has looked forward to her one great moment when the man she loved would ask her to be his in high TO- .mantic phrase, and say things to her that she could treasure in her heart as slong as she lived. And then when he proposes to her, as if he were asking for second helping of pie, it makes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01
WHITE MICE LEARN

White mice have been taught the meaning of the dinner bell. What is more, they have been able to transmit some sense of it's significance to their offspring so that they may be more easily taIIkht to jump for the table when the bell rings. The experiments are told of in an article to appear in the next is sue of Science, by Prof. Ivan r. Paw low, the distinguished Russian physi- ologiSt who visited this country this summer. They are important in that they testify on a much disputed point in practical eugenics, whether or not acquired ability may be inherited.
 The first generation of white mice re- quired 300 lessons before they realized that the ringing of an electric bell meant that dinner was ready. After that they quickly trottcd to the feeding place when they heard it tinkle. Their children caught on to the trick after only 100 lessons, while their offspring in turn learned after only 30. The fifth gener- alOn had apparently so well inherited the tendency to obey that impulse" that after only five trials they were ready and waiting for the mousy equiv, alent of boarding house hash immed- ately after the bell rang.
 Professor Pawlow says he hopes fu- ture generations will know the meaning of an electric bell just as surely as a newborn chick knows the meaning of l fragment of grain, In the case of the chick. the instinct. which he terms a conditioned reflex" is inherited. These recent experiments and others which have convinced the professor that all i,,,, toned reflexes' are used by him as the basis for the opinion not only that such instinct" may he acquired and in. herited, but that their study belongs to physiology rather than to psychology. A study of the physiology of the brain is. he asserts, the best way to knOwl- a1ra of the lava of the s,,hianfiva Na.arlH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01

her want to say, "No," no matter how much she loves and wants him.
 It is a matter of record that when man asks a woman to marry him and she accepts she invariably throws her self into his arms and weeps on his breast. The man thinks she is shed- ding tears of joy because he has come across at last, but such is not the case. She is crying as if her heart would break because of the way he popped the question and trampled her fairy story under his number ten brogues.
 No. I cant tell vol how to propose to a girl, son, but 1 can give you one valuable pointer, that that is to choose the psychological moment in which to do it if you want to win out.
 Most men are singularly insensible to the effect that environment and her moods have upon woman, and the result that many a lover gets, the nit ten instead of the glad hand. is just because he didn't have sense enough to know when and where ot speak and when to keep silent.
 Given moonlight night with the waves breaking on the seashore-or long ride in smooth-golng car, through the woods at twilight-or a secluded corner behind the palms Tn conservatory with the music pulslng Tn the distance-or a quiet evening to- gether before an open flre-and any woman will incline her ear to love talk. and say "Yes" if she has any affection at all for the man who asks her to marry him.
 But let the same man pop the ques- A. h in ha rnId fhp day across a beefsteak -and-onion din ner, or while they are lodging auto mobiles on the street, or on crowded train. and the woman will say "NO' every time out of sheer exasperation at his lack of tact, and at his being such a bull in the china shop, unless she feels certain that she can't live without him and that this is the last call he will ever give her to the dining car.
 Never propose to a woman when she is gay and joyous and at the top of her success. Then she is sufficient unto herself and her thoughts are not of love and home, but of further pleas ures and triumphs. Wait until Lady Luck turns her back upon her and she is needing sympathy and consola- tion and a good strong prop upon which to lean. Then press your suit, as fortune tellers say.
 Finally, don't propose by letter. It IS a cowardly subterfuge that every wom- an resents.
 The sum of all is, son. that you can say it in any old way. And if the girl loves you, it goes, and if she doesn't, no eloquence avails. And that's all there is to it. DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01
FAMOUS WOMEN
ALICE HAGAN RICE

The author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was born in Shelby vile, Ky, January II. 1870. The hook that made her famous was that given to the world g years ago.
 It can safely he said that few first novels of any writer of either sex has ever scored so great bit as the creation Npf Alice Hagan Rice did.
 The daughter of Samuel and Sallie Hagan. it was as Alice Hagan that she began her career as writer. Her book. issued in 1900, took the reading public by storm, and if was q cele- brated authoress that was led to the Young Rice. himself an author of note. Mrs. Rice has since then written esv- eral other successful novels
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-01

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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
Wasting Dollars

Progressive politicians are carrying
opposition to Sheriff Mason rather
far when they bithely charge Canyon
county taxpayers for expenses OF a
trip to St. Anthony on business that
Mr.. Mason might have handled with
Oout extra cost. Letting the taxpayer
foot bill jus; because a political
machine doesn't like an office holder
is rather rough on Mr.. Citizen.
OF course an unnecessary trip to
St. Anthony will not bankrupt Can
yon county But it is not the amount
involved. This fact that il was a
needless expenditure OF money is the
point which should arouse the ire OF
every Canyon county citizen. Ger
tainly good government dictates that
men above such petty, peanut politics
be removed from Office.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
One Man Party

II every there was 4 machine con-
;rolled party, it is the national Pro-
gressive party. And that machine
is personifed in one person, its can
didate for president, Senator La Fol-
lette.
La Toilette nominated himself. He
wrote the party platform upon which
he is to run. He wrote the keynote
address. He dictated the vice presi-
dental nominee, Senator Wheeler OF
Montana, man whose war record is
almost as bad as that OF La Toilette.
In short, La Toilette is it. He
should be satisfied with everything
in connection with his campaign be-
cause La Toilette is the Progressive
party and the campaign. Only one
way acn he and will he be dsappoint
ed. And that will be in the number
OF votes he gets.
The Wisconsin senator seems to
have overlooked the fact that this is
a republic ant not an autocracy
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25

be able to publish the TACT that every
drop OF water which could have been
stored last fall, winter and spring
in the Arrow Rock reservoir was
permitted to flow down the river 10
waste.
Persons who have investigated re-
ports to- the contrary knew this TO
be a fact months ago. But malicious
rumors to the contrary have been
freely circulated and have poisoned
the public mind against officials in
charge.
1t would have indeed been unfor-
tunate had such a loss been permitted
this year. above all years. But con-
hdence in the way the big storage
system has been handled should re-
turn now that the story OF waste has
been branded as false and all facts
relative to the matter given to the
public
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
No Basis for Criticism

A stcamroler is a political ma
chine used without Justification if
you happen to be a member OF the
minority party. Congressman French
remarked at the Caldwell 'Kiwanis
club meeting last Thursday. But a
steamroller. for the majority. is sim
ply wholesouled response to the cla-
NOR of public opinion. he said.
The point should make clear to
The Nampa Free Press why Con-
gresham Addison T. Smith took the
course he did with the house irri-
CATION committee and the fact find
ers' reclamation relief bill Mr.. Smith
had a majority of his committee with
him in favor of the bill. He could
have used stcamroller tactics to hur-
ry the measure onto the floor. That
, course was recommended to him by
Mr.. Magee, representing 20 western
projects.
But Congressman Smith. more FAM
iliar with the acute situation in the
house so far as probability of favor
able action on a relief measure is
concerned. hesitated to take that
course. He was confronted with ex-
IRENE opposition from minority mem
bers OF his committee. notably the
opposition OF Congressman Raker.
Democrat OF California. Mr.. Smith
believed that diplomatic methods. Civ
ing the opposition every opportunity
10 be heard. would be more effective
than stcamroler and Mr.. Magee ag-
rees that the course was probably the
wise one.
lnsinuations by the Free Press
that Mr.. Smith did not use every
energy to press the bill are based
on false premises The wrong Mr. |
Smith and can only serve to discred-
it the west and the work that west
erncrs have done in congress for rec
lan.ation.
We might also call attention OF |
The Free Press to the fact that a
little investigation of dates nigh.
avoid further inaccuracies. II was
the senate, not the house committee.
which so long declined to hold hear
ings on the bill.
II The Free Press proposes to
.ase its entire opposition to Mr.. Smith
'or reelection on his fight for rec
amat;on relief. Mr.. Smith is assured
IF his seat this fall by the largcs,
plurality he has ever polled
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25

and prevents any vote. rather thar
endure the discomfort OF thinking out
which candidate TO vote for.
II the last suggested reason Is cor
rect. November should show a sur
orising increase over previous years
in percentage OF votes cast. Ii Is
rue that there is no such issue before
the public this year as, for instance.
in 1896; there is no such sharp dill
ierentiation between the platforms OF
the two major parties as might cause
such an increase in votes. But there
is the radio; millions listened with alb
sorbing interest TO the proceedings at
Cleveland and New York to whom.
hitherto, a convention was merely an
incident in the days news. Those mil
lions have ben educated at first hand
They know what il is all about"
They heard the statesmen, the poll
'icians and the "wheel horses of the
great parties talk. And then. follow
ing a universal human curiosity, they
turned to the newspapers the next
lay to read again what they had
listened to the night before,
If, as is believed. a record vote is
BOILED this ovember. the reason may
be found in that witch fundamental
10 all citizenship: edrcationl
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25

bones. small body capacity, early
mol,er. yellow skin. shanks, vent
beak and ear-lobes. and general con
dition poor.
The good layers were chosen for
possessing the following points OF
superiority:
Red comb. full and waxy. flexible
pelvic bones. good body capacity. late
molter. pale skin. shanks. vent, beak.
and ear-lobes, and general condition
good
At the end of ten days il was
found that the culls required as much
feed and care as the good layers, but
fell far below them in egg production.
One flock numbered 24l good hens
and l5S culls. Thirty-three per cent
of the good hens produced during the
ten-day test. laying 7oo eggs.
-
l0.4 per cent OF the culls produced
during the ten days. laying los eggs
In another flock 100 hens were
classified as layers and ninety eight
IS culls.
The production of the layers dur
ng the test averaged 500. with = tot
II Ola eggs.
The culls laid l0+ eggs. only 100
yer cent producing during the ten
lay period
The great profit in CULTS was
most conclusively demonstrated with
third flock in which the culls ex-
eedd the good hens. 353 being class |
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
Current Comment

The Republican ticket IS the cnoice
OF the party. The conventions duties
were merely ministerial and the dele
gates dare not do otherwise than they
did. They were bossed-by the peo-
pie. The other ticket mas a good
man in it by accident and compro-
mise after bitter fighting over spoils,
not principles. Davis was envolved
by a condition in the convention.
Coolidge was evolved by demand
from the voters.-Kingsion. (N.Y0
Freeman.
II Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson should return to life and
meet some OF the gentlemen now
parading around as Jeffersonian and
Jackson;an Democrats. they'd organ
ize a third party.-Columbis Record.
The Democratic convention has
furnished a splendid illustration OF
how not to do it.-Providence Jour
nal
Was it 4 stampede Tor Davis or
a stampede for home '-Boston Trans
cript.
\ Progressive paper publishes a
cartoon showing balloon way up |
in the air. representing high taxes
made by the Republicans and Demo-
,rats and on the ground a Progress
'ive shooting the balloon full OF
ioles. 1t very clearly has no refer
ence to Canyon Couniy.-Nampa
leader Herald.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
Will They Remember ?

"Thunders OF silence greeted La
Toilette every day for two years while
he was doing his utmost to lose the
World War OF America and the Al
lies. During the war, not one news
paper in America mentioned his name.
Things he did and said would have
set the ordinary citizen to a federal
prison.
The Tribune does not believe that
American people will forget such
things. The Tribune cannot believe
that American people will place the
stamp OF approval on La Follette's
war record by voting for him this
fall.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-07-25
They Won't Vote

A compilation OF statistics by Col
lier's shows that:
In 1896. 80 per cent OF voters cas-
ballots.
In 1900, 70 per cent.
In 1908, Go per cent.
In 1912, % per cent.
In 1920, less than so per cent.
What will be the showing in 1924
Reasons for the steadily decreasing
interest OF the electorate in their right
and duty to vote are as varied as
their sources. The increase OF the
vote through woman suffrage, the dis
satisfaction OF voters with the alleged
decadenoe OF parties and the supposed
fact that one party is much like an
other. too great an increase DIN for
eign born. population are all suggest
ed.
A fourth, which has some appeal to
logic to recommend it is the failure
OF the electorate TO understand what
il is all about" In other words, the
completely OF the problems involved
makes 4 choice OF candidate or party
30 difficult that the mental laziness
which is apparently an inherent part
II the majority OF minds takes charge