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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
Little Theater Comment In
 Exchange

The Mobile Register has an interest ing comment of the plans for the Bir- mingham Little Theater, which fol. lows: s
 l see where the Little Theater of Birmingham is busy casting its open ing three-act play. It is a very clever and amusing play that had long run in New York, "Rollo's Wild Oats," by Claire Hummer. We might try it our selves down here some time.
 Birmingham is progressing rapidly with her Little Theater, which makes us pat ourselves on our backs, because they got the idea from us.
 Speaking of things theatrical, I hear we have some good road shows coming down here this winter. Good things in the concert line are also promised us, so we can look forward to an interest ing season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
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the window openings. She goes through so much making them shorter if they are new and letting them out if they have shrunk in the wash, widening them out with ruffles if too narrow and cut ting 'em off if too generous in width, pthat she vows never again.
 '.Why, just after we had moved and settled in our present abode the firm wanted to send me to New York at an increase in salary and I had to turn it down because my wife refused to go. She explained that she never could be happy away from here, but I overheard her telling some one about the perfectly foolish thing I had wanted her to do move away when she had just the week before got all the window curtains finally made up and tied back and was nearly dead from the toll. The idea And by that time they had sent an- other man!
 There really is something malign about window curtains. There never yet was one that fitted. When windows are being made three yards long all cur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

flowers were brides roses and valley lilies.
 A reception followed the ceremony at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. NJ. Bright. The handsome Bright home was beautifully decorated through out with quantities of ferns and astors. A buffet luncheon was served to the bridal party and few friends.
 Dr. and Mrs. Gladney left at mid night for Savannah, Ga., where they went by steamer to New York.
 Mrs. Gladney's travelling costume was suit of battleship grey tricotine made with a long coat worn with blouse of kings blue crepe. She wore a small hat of the same shade. Mrs. Gladney was reared in Cullman and enjoyed an un- usual popularity during her young lady hood, and leaves a host of friends who regret that her marriage will take her to Philadelphia to reside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
Many Curtains

NHdHS OuEtdhtS
 LLHEHHE mental processes of women" :" " began the Sunset Park man
 clambering up on the bns next to his friend from Greenlawn, remain an Egyptian tomb mystery, to me! I told Imogene that I knew man who would pay us $5,O00 more for our house than we had been soaked and she said certainly not, just after she had got all the curtains for the. upstairs made and fitted What did I think she wanted to do all that work for and then have to move some place where there would be nine windows instead of eight, and three inches longer at that! Didn't I have any sense P .45s
 You should have tackled her before she made the curtains" the Greenlawn man told him. "Any man with sense knows that while a woman may be per suaded to move after the plumbing has all been changed and refitted, the plas- tering done over and three partitions altered, there is nothing yet discovered which will induce her to leave the house fter she has got curtains adjusted to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

My nuSDunu lS not a lazy man. He is not afraid of work, but he just doesn't seem able to get a start at anything. or earn enough to make us independent.
 I have never been cross with him in all the years of our marriage, as I love him with all my heart and soul. We have no chil- dren. Could you give me some ad- vice on what l should do, as l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
NEW MEMBERS FOR LINGER LONGER LODGE

Linger Longer lodge has lately added
 the following to its membership, rolls i:
 Mir Warren H. Roberts, MT. Richard A, Walker, Mir. William T. Lathem, Mir. Roscoe R. Baxter, Mir. William Luke Trice, Dr. R. H. Drake.i MT. Aus tin Cane, Dr. NJ. Garfield, Dr. Charles H. Smith, Dr. NJ. E. Morland, Miss Beatrice Mitchell, Miss Anne Beddow, MT. Charles E. Porter, Jr., Mir. Matt 0. Smith, Mir. Harry k. Gelatt, Judge Alvin NJ. Douglas, Judge John A. Den son, Mir. Fred s. Chisolm, Mir. Paul A. Freer, MT. Louis A. Kane. Mir. Alex w. Tyler, Mir. Roy H. Golf, Mir. John D. Poole, Maj. w. A. Harden bergh, Mir. A. H. Kressler and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
.Gladney Bright Wedding Occurs
 In Cullman

The new Methodist church of Gull man was the scene of a brilliant gath ering' Saturday evening, September 13, the occasion being the wedding of Miss Sue Odelle Bright and Dr. Clifford Gladney of Philadelphia, Pa.
 The altar before which the marriage vows were spoken was outlined with southern smilax and clematis and bank cd with a profusion of palms and ferns. White tapers burned in antique brass candelabra behind the altar and also across the choir rail. Preceding the ceremony Mrs. $. o. Kimbrough of Birmingham sang "UntiP' and Mrs. G. w. Bledsoe of Cullman sang 'There Let Me Rest"
 Promptly at 80 Mrs. Walter Pear son began the wedding march from Lohengrin. The ushers, Messrs. Will Bright, Wave Scott and James South, entered, followed by the bridesmaids, who came singly down opposite aisles. Miss Anna Katherine Arnold of Bir- mingham. wearing a dress of apricot faille trimmed in lace and ostrich |; Miss Katherine Allen of Hickory, N. C.. wearing a dress of peacock blue bro- cade trimmed in fur with a sash of rose satin; Miss France Hancock of At lanta, wearing a dress of orchid geor- gette trimmed in lace and metallic rib bon; Miss Cleste Bailey of Faunsdale, Ala, wearing a dress of apple green georgette trimmed in lace and gold rib bon. The bridesmaids carried French baskets of orchid, pink and white as tors. Mrs. Winfield Leeth, matron of honor, also entered alone. She wore a dress of rose charmouse beaded in crys- tai and carried a large sheaf of orchid astors. Miss Meg Norris of Sharon, Pa, maid of honor, also entered alone. Her dress of Dolly Warden georgette was made straight lined and her flow CTS a French basket of astors. Fol lowing the bridesmaids came the grooms- men, Messrs. Will Pearson, Clyde Brown, Kellet Bright, brother of the bride, and Larvin Kelley. The cere- mony was performed by MT. $. O.. Kimbrough of Birmingham, for many years an intimate friend of the family.
 Preceding the bride was Mary Grace Orr the little flower gifl. She was a dainty little figure in pink organdie, carrying a tiny basket from which she scattered rose petals. Master Willie Pearson, ring bearer. wore suit of white satin and carried the ring in a large white astor. Dr. Gladney had for his best man MT. Clark Griffith of Hanceville, Ala.
 They came from the vestry room and met the bride at the altar. who entered with her father, Mir. Jim Bright. Of a decided blonde type, the bride was never more lovely than on this occasion. Her wedding dress was of white char mouse, heavily beaded in crystal and made straight lined. Her veile of tulle was worn cornet fashion with a ban deau of orange blossoms and was lor- dered with band of real lace. Her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
COMMITTEES OF LINGER LONGER LODGE

Mir. Carr Mccormack, president of Linger Longer Lodge, announces the following chairman for the various standing committees of the organization during his incumbency:
 Constitution and bylaws EFT. Rice; tennis, Lewis NJ. CollinsS finance, R. DuPont Thompson; trap shooting, T. K. Lee; pool improvements, George c. Walter; telephones, Fred s. Chisolm fox hunting, Herman l.. Farley dances, Walter NJ. Henderson; audit ing, John F. Andrews; house commit tee, Richard M. Johnson new building, William Leslie Welton; horseshoe tournament, James w. Taylor; noun tain members, Carlton P. Smith; land scape, Walter School; - rifle and re- yolver, Capt. Charles M. Hurt; legal James J. Jackson; golf, Charles w, Hall; New Years annual ball, Verne c. Foster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
"SeUenteen'

HEAR MISS DIX: I have never D had a home of my own. Ever
 since I have been married have been knocking about between my family and my husbands all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
MISS ROWLEY TO HONOR MRS. CHAPMAN

Miss Daisy Rowley will entertain with an informal luncheon Thursday, honoring her house guest, Mrs. Rather inc Hopkins Chapman of Selma, who is spending a few days in Birmingham en route home after attending the Writers conclave in Florence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

It is useless to tell you this, poor little, worried anxious wife, because on have found it all out through sad ex- perience. For no woman drinks so deeply of the bitter cup of humiliation as the girl who marries a man who cannot give her home of her own, and who has to come back to live upon her parents, and be "pOor-Maryd' by her mother and her prosperous sisters.
 She knows that no matter how sorry her father and mother are for her they regard her as a bur den, and resent having to feed an able-bodied young man. She knows what it is to have to wear other peoples old clothes. And, bitterest of all, she knows that she has
 married man who is a weakling, who cannot do a mans part in the world and take care of his own. And that knowledge sears a wO- mans very soul.
 But having married this ne'er-dO-well type of man, what is his wife to do: Leave him? Cold, worldly wisdom would say "yes," but it often happens that the man to whom nature has de- nied the hard qualities that make man a success, has given him all the tender, lovable graces that make him adorable. Furthermore, such a man often calls out in a woman not only the wife love, but the mother love as well the pitying, all-fOrgiving love that mother gives to an afflicted chile, and she could no more forsake him than she could leave a little lame child who must always have somebody to lean on.
 The only thing that a woman can do under such circumstances is to recognize the fact that her hus- band can never support the family, and that she must do it. There is no need for her to lead a life of horrible dependence. She can take stock of her own abilities and quail ities, decide on the thing she wants to do. Then she can learn to do it we'll enough to make a success of it. if she will. Fortunately, every avenue Of employment is open to women now, and when a man can't give his wife a home she can give him one, and, at least, provide one for herself!
 This is the sure way out of your trouble, Anxious Wife.
 DOROTHY DIX. Dear Dorothy Dix: I am mar ried man, A years old, and am madly in love with a young girl of IF. She is also, madly iY love with me. What would you advise me to do?
 D. J. s. Answer:
 would advise, you to act the part of an honorable man toward the two women whose happiness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Answer:
 Of course, it is easy enough to tell you that no woman should be foolish enough to marry man who is not able to give her home i, of her own, and assure her of a decent support. The young couple that starts out by spOnging its board on other people takes the sure road to misery. The bread of dependence is bitter, whether 1t is doled out by the girls family or the mans family.
 To be successful a marriage must have something in it besides love and romance and billing and cooing. It must have independence. The home must stand on its own feet. The family must be able to look after itself and not be pen sioners on others, and unless a man and woman are ssif-supporting, and can provide for the children they may bring into the world, it is a crime for them to get married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

lies in your hands, which means to keep away from the 17-year-old girl, and conquer your passion for her, and do your duty toward the wo- man whom only two or three years ago you swore to love and cherish as long as you lived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Evidently you are man of tickle nature and passing fancies. for you must have thought that you loved the girl you asked to be your wife. If you tired of her so quickly and so easily, you need be under no apprehension that you will die of broken heart if you give up this little flapper. This love, too, will pass away, for there will always be other roses in the rosebud garden of girls and fresh supply of charmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Answer:
 No. He is tired of you. A man never gives up a girl as long as he is interested in her.
 And there is no way to kindle dead ashes or revive a mans in terest in you after he has lost his fancy for you. DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

tains on the market will be found to measure two yards and half. And vice versa. When special company calls the curtains are invariably down be- ing done up and the room looking like sin, my wife says. When you do get them up nobody comes until they are once more showing grimy and draggled, obtruding themselves in defiance of all other furnishings, giving the other wo- men leave to murmur things about what a wretched housekeeper you are. When curtains become old fashioned they simply won't wear out and if you particularly like them they melt to pieces like April snow in the sunshine.
 'I never could see any sense in win dow curtains anyhow. The only time I use them is when want to rubber out of the window at my neighbors without their seeing me, and then suppose they notice that somebody is breathing hard behind the curtain and jiggling it visibly, so it's no use after all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
Dorothy Dix's Letter Box

How Can Wife Get Home ot Her OaOm # Her Husband Cammot P1ovide It?-Advice to the Married Men Who Fell I1o Love With "Seventeen" = Is It Possible to Revive Love?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
ATLANTA COMMENT ON ALEX ANDER-BULLOCK ENGAGEMENT

The following comment in the At lanta Journal on the announcement Of the engagement of Miss Martha F0ute Alexander of Atlanta to MT. Ellis Way Bullock of Birmingham will be of in- terest
 The engagement of Miss Martha Foute Alexander and Mir. Ellis Way Bullock of Birmingham, announced to- day, will be of cordial interest, not only here in Atlanta, but to a wide circle of friends in Chattanooga, Tenn, where the bride-to-be formerly resided, and in Eastman, Ga., the home of Mir. | Bullock. Since coming to Atlanta to | reside the bride-elect has been q popu- lar member of the younger college set, having been sponsor of Georgla Teen R. o. T. C., also sponsor for the Tech Mems Bible class of All Saints church during the past year.
 She is descended from a long line of distinguished southern families, and on her maternal side is related to the Hammonds of Virginia, the Towards 1 of Maryland, the Nashs and Broyles | of Virginia and Georgia. Her mother was Miss Mattie Baker and her grand mother was Miss Martha Foute Of Greenville, Tenn, a belle of the GUS 1; her uncle, Robert Chester Foute, graduate of Annapolis, was captain Ot | the Merrimac in the Confederate navy. On her paternal side she is the grand daughter of Capt. William Thomas Alexander of Chattanooga, and the late Jennie Frank Alexander of Jackson vile, Ala. Captain Alexander IS grandson of Capt. Robert Alexander Of Mecklenburg county, North Caronna' an officer in Graham's famous regl- ment which participated in the battle of Guilford courthouse during the Key olutionary war. Captain Alexander IS an ex-commander of N. $. forrest camp of U. c. V. in Chattanooga.
 MT. Bullock is the son of the late Ellis Way Bullock and Mrs. Estelle Bishop Bullock of Eastman, Ga, and his family has been socially prominent in South Georgia for several genera tions. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech of the class of '23, and in his senior year was assistant student CO., l ordinator. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical En. gineers and the American Institute Of | Electrical engineers. Upon his gradua- tion he was stationed at Brooks Field, Texas, and is a lieutenant in the air service, R. o. T. O., attached to the One Hundred and Sixth observation squadron in Birmingham. During the war Mir. Bullock served three years in the navy, making several trips overseas. At present he occupies an important position with the Dixie Construction company of Birmingham, Ala, and he will take his bride to that city to re- side.
 Many pre-nuptial cOurtesies have been planned for the bride-to-be. The plans for the wedding will be announc- ed later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

reled, he just stopped coming. Do yo, think he still loves me?
 WORRIED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Especially is the man bound, because he picked out the woman. He made the proposition to her. He urged her to sign on the dotted line. And he got her to give up good home to accept it and forego her opportunities to en- ter into better partnerships, to cast in her lot with him.
 This makes him doubly welcher if he doesn't stand to his part of the bar gain so long as the wife has not de- faulted on hers.
 As for the little girl of 17 that you are inveigling into dubious affair with married man, have heart, D. J. S. You know the blight that it will be on her life. You know that you have nothing fine and honorable that you can offer her, and that no girl comes out of an affair with married man with clean skirts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

This girl is so young. A child. So ignorant of life and the world. So easily befooled. So impression able. Have pity on her. and leave her alone. She doesn't know what love is, the sort of love that lasts. She would forget yop in three weeks if you would go away, and if you really do love her, you will go and save her from herself. Be- lieve me, D. J. S., no good comes from cradle-snatching, nor will you find any happiness in leading the double life. DOROTHY DIX,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

I believe in divorce, but only for just cause. l do not believe that any woman should have to live with a man who is brutal to her, who insults her and abuses her, or who works her like slave without pay. Nor do I think that any man should have to live with a wife who is a virago or slattern, or who refuses to make him com fortable home, or who is running him by extravaganza. But just be- cause a man and woman lose their taste for each other, and think that they would like a change is no more reason for breaking a mar riage contract than it would be for breaking any other binding con- tract-because they happened to change their minds about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Dear Dorothy Dix: am in love with a boy with whom kept company for several years. but now he never comes to see me. We never quar-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

want a home of my very own yer! adly?
 A VERY ANXIOUS WIFE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

"But women are devoted to them. The more curtains they can get at window the better satisfied they are. They multiply their troubles and re- joice in them. If Mrs. Peache has just thin glass curtainss Mrs. Pare goes her one better with glass curtains and long ones too, and then Mrs. Prunes goes up in the attic, robs Aunt Amanda's trunk and puts up velvet valance over her long curtains and her glass curtains and the minute Mrs. Grapes sees the valance she comes forth triumphantly with glass curtains, long curtains, va lance and side drapes of double velvet and whenever any of the Grapes family wish to see out of doors they have just as much work to get to the outer layer as old King Tut would have had ex- cavating his own tomb from the inside out!
 "So you mustn't get too sore at Imo- gene for queering your sale on their account"
 "Oh, can find something else to get mad at her about, I suppose" admitted the Sunset Park man. Maybe the man was joking about buying it anyhow But I had to blame it on somebody I'm going to invent a window with per manent curtains painted right on t '!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Answer:
 would advise, you to act the part of an honorable man toward the two women whose happiness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

Dear Dorothy Dix: I am a mar ried man, "A years old, and am madly in love with young girl of IF. She is also. madly iH love with me. What would you advise me to do?
 D. J. s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16

This is the sure way out of you trouble, Anxious Wife.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-05
SEN. LA TOILETTE
 JOINS IN THE RACE
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tContinued from Page One) best hope of dealing effectively with monopoly.
 "The government should be the peo- ple's ally instead of an active agent of the enemy.
 q shall submit my name as an in- dependent candidate for president in every state of the union,' said Senator LaFollette. T am candidate on the basis of my public record"
 He added that the Wisconsin platform would be the basis of his campaign.
 No Time To Organize
 Turning to the third party question, LaFollette said that "such movements are born after, not during, campaigns" He said there would not be time to or sanize such party before next cleo tion.
 Herman Wills next offered resolu- tion for nomination by exclamation. Morris Hillquist, New York socialist, opposed it as premature" MT. Hill quist said the national convention would make the nomination tomorrow and blended for the regular order.
 Chairman Johnston upheld point of order that, in the absence of report from the credentials committee, the con- vention was not organized and could not act. The point was made by Judge Jacob Panken of the New York munich pal court This stopped the attempt to nominate LaFollette today.
 The convention adjourned at 5 :4J D. m. until 9 80 a. m. tomorrow.
 Keynote Sounded
 Extolling Senator Robert NJ. LaFol- lette after ridiculing the republican
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-05
TWO WITHDRAW
Cox And RaIstOn Give Up Fight For
 Nomination

Nomination
 MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, July An another hectic session. the democratic national convention today saw the withdrawal of RalstOn and Cox from the race, failed, as usual, to make much prog ress toward a nominee and developed semblance of unanimity % only one subject-that it wanted to adjuorn for dinner.
 Accordingly, it did adjourn the aft ernoon session to reassemble at 8 80 o'clock.
 Meantime, however, the McAdoo forces had by the exercise of their one third veto power defeated a proposal that candidates be invited to exhibit themselves to the convention tonight and speak. Then the McAdoo forces defeated a proposal that Governor Smith have the opportunity to speak.
 On the first proposal of the Smith forces and the anti-McAdoo coalition, which was in favor of the resolution proposed by General Cole of Massa- chusetts, failed to poll a necessary two thirds majority, and therefore lost it. On the proposal to invite Governor Smith to speak, however, the anti-Alc. Adoo coalition, including the Smith forces, although they failed to command a twO-thirds to put it through, did poll more than a majority; and it was the first occasion on which any faction had boiled a majority of the convention on