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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
Social Calendar

Reservations for the last perform
ance of the Little Theatre may be OBJ
tanned at hte Little Theatre building
| Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sat
lffday, but will not be taken over the
| phone.
The members of General Sumter
chapter, d. A. R., who wish to take
part in the Memorial Day parade, May
30, and will furnish cars, please notify
Mrs: Fred J. Sheppard, Main 583-J, or
write her at 1924 Eleventh. avenue,
south. All who will take part with or
without cars, will please be at the Five
Points Methodist church at l o'clock.
Those who haven't cars will be pro-
vided for.
Captain Perry Smith, chairman of
transportation for the Memorial Day
parade May 80, asks all who can fur
nish cars for the parade, call him at
Main 1922.
The Writers club will have their
final meeting of the club year Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Hill
man hotel. "a
The members of the Parish Improve
ment association will give a dinner and
supper from II to 2 O'Clock and from
to z 80 in the class rooms Of Our
Lady of Sorrows. Saturday.
DIR. w. e. Gay, traveller and lee
turer, will give a lecture on India,
It's Customs and People," Thursday at
3 p. m. at the Calvary Baptist church.
The lecture will be given under aus
pieces of the T. e. L. class Of the church.
Everyone is invited, and it is an
nounced that there will be no collec-
ton. ~-s
DR.. and Mrs. G, E. Murphy are at
tending the convention of the Ameri-
can Laryngological, Pathological and
biological society in st. Louis, Mo-,
this week, and will return to Bir-
mingham June 8.
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Pageant From
Butterfly ToBe
resented

The physical training department of
the louie Compton seminary will pre-
sent a pageant from Madame Butter
fly" Friday evening, May 80, at the
Phillips auditorium at S:f5 o'clock.
Miss Dorothy Brown assisted in ar
ranging the pageant from Puccinis
lovely opera. The costuming Of this
attractive display will be Under the di-
-rection of Miss Salina Perry.
The principal characters of the play
will be interpreted by Miss Libby Nor
row as Madame Butterfly :, Miss
Frances Jenkins, as Lieutenant Pink
erton; Miss Virginia jefferson Ambas-
sador Sharpley; Miss Martha Media
Wis, Suzuki, and Miss Emily Smith as
Goro.
Another notable feature will be the
musical program in which a number of
the pupils of Mrs. Carol Wilson Fos-
ter will contribute their talent.
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dead baby; but / have seen Mrs. A.
when she thought she was alone, bit
terly crying and hugging her baby's
shoes to her breast
Now, Mrs. A. is plain looking wo
man herself and her husband is a hand
some man, but he has never been known
to look at another woman and has
eyes only for his wife. Mrs. A does
all of her own work, and the minute
you come into her home you feel cheered
and rested. Do you think that it is
disgraceful of Mrs. A. to laugh and be
cheerful in spite of the fact that she
recently lost her baby?
Answer:
No, indeed, l do not condemn
Mrs. A. l think she is a courage
Gus woman, and a wise one, to
realize that she must live for the
living and not for the dead
You may be very AUre that her heart
is bleeding from a wound that will
never heal, but she knows that tears
will not bring back her lost babe, and
so she forces a smile to her lips and
tries to make her home cheerful and
attractive for those who are still left
in it.
Grief can /be the most morbid
and selfish thing in the world. A
woman can 80 absorb herself in her
sorrow forfher dead child that she
will neglect other living ones. She
can make her house such house
of mourning that her children will
flee from it as from a tomb. She
can let her grief build a wall be-
tween her and her husband.
l have known women who did
this. l have known women who
took pride in never getting over
a death. They nursed their grief
I and toasted like ghouls upon their
dead. They withdrew from society.
They kept their house darkened and
never allowed any merriment- in
it. They dressed in black with
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NEAR DOOTHY DIX: 1 have
IL neighbor, Mrs. A., who has six
children. Not long ago one of
her babies died. Another neighbor,
Mrs. B., went to see Mrs. A., and was
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greatly scandallzed
because when Mr..
A. came home from
work his wife met
him with a smile,
and was gay and
cheerful. Mrs. i.
said that Mrs. A.
positively flirted
with her hus-
band. Mrs. B.
thinks that this in
dictates that Mrs.
A. is a heartless
woman who has
none of a mothers
natural feelings for
her children, and
that she does not
mourn over her
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As for how your friend manages to
keep a little home together and herself
and her child looking tidy, ask the
needle that she sews with late into the
night making their clothes; ask the
wash tub and the electric iron at
which she tolls to keep her baby clean
and her own frugal wardrobe spick and
span. Ask the basement stores where
she hunts for bargains and the cheap
grocers where she buys her food. And
ask her brave little saddened spirit,
which knows every denial of pleasure,
and of real comfort, of restaurant meals
and little treats, that she may keep up
appearances.
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MISS HODGES TO APPEAR IN
CONCERT AT CHURCH

Miss Sarah Hodges will give COM
cert at the Norwood Methodist church
on Friday evening, June 6, under the
auspices of the Missionary society. :
Miss Hodges is spending the summer
months with her parents after a win
ter'ss tudy in New York She formally
lived in Birmingham, being a pupil of
Miss Clara Harper Steele and her s
friends are anticipating with a great
deal of pleasure hearing her sing. I
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MISS KENNEDY is
HON0RED AT BRIDGE

One of the courtesies arranged for
Miss Mabel Kennedy, who is to be mar
ried soon, is a bridge party which will
be given by Miss Marguerite Reynolds
at her home in the Linwood apartments,
The guests will be limited to members
of the bridal party.
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LUNCHEON HONORING
MIR AND MRS. MITCHELL

Mr.. George Jackson entertained at a
luncheon Tuesday in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Mitchell, whose wedding
was an event of May 25. Those pres
emit were Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell. Mr..
and Mrs. Truitt Weaver, Miss Myrtle
Evans and Mr.. Jackson.
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MISS TAkDY TO BE HOS
TESS FOR MISC LEE

An interesting pre-nuptial courtesy
to be extended popular bride-elect will
be tea Saturday afternoon to be given
by Miss Annie Tardy at her home.
This will be one'Of a number of com.
pliments arranged for this attractive
young woman, prior to her marriage
Monday evening. ~
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MISS GRAVES TO
GIVE RECITAL

Miss Pauline Graves will be presented
Thursday evening in the recital in the
muisc room of Louilie Compton semi
nary, to which friends of the young art
list and the school are cordially invited.
Miss Graves is pupil of Mrs. Carol
Wilson Foster and win present an inter-
esting program.
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paid as the men who work beside
them, yet the girls are. nearly al
ways better dressed than the men
and have a little money saved up
for a rainy day. have been told
that there are more women de-
positors than men in the savings
banks.
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adroit and skillful, but hattery
should be applied so artistically
that it merely seems a just appre-
citation instead of jolly. Any man
will eat out of your hand as long
as you feed him on sweetmeats.
Men loathe the frank woman who
tells them of their faults. No man
wants a woman to be honest with
him. He merely wants her to have
an honest admiration for him.
DOROTHY DIX.
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MRS. BRICE A HOSTESS
OF THE DAY

Honoring Miss Annie Lee, there will
be two hostesses entertaining today.
Mrs. H. A. Brice will be a hostess at
morning bridge party in the after
noon. Mrs. A. T. McWayne will be
hostess at a box party at the Jefferson.
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Dorothy Dis's Letter Box

Should We Grieve For Our Dead or Try to Smile
and Work For the Living?-The 19-Year-Od
Mother Who Performs Miracles of Ecomomy-Do
Men Prefer the Frank Girl or the FLotterer?
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DIR. MITCHELL AND MISS NEIGH.
BORIS QUIETLY MARRIED

Miss Florence Neighbors of this city
and DR.. r. L. Florence of Warrior
were quietly married Sunday at noon
at the home of DIR. and Mrs. H. S,
Florence on Eleventh avenue, south, the
Rev. John G. Lowery performing the
ceremony in the presence of relatives
and a few intimate friends.
For the occasion the bride was attired
for travelling in suit of navy blue,
her flowers being corsage bouquet OF
sweet peas. Immediately following the
ceremony wedding breakfast was
served, after which DR.. Mitchell and his
bride left for trip to Washington, D.
q, Atlantic City and New York. On
their return they will be at home in
Warrior.
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Most American men are practical
men, with their feet on the ground.
When it comes to endearments,
they are like Mr.. Barrie, who says
he has to always wrap his legs
around the table before he can
make one of his characters in a
story say darling"
Men like flatterers when they are
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long, SOmDre crepe wells. ana
they always brought further dis
aster upon their heads.
For men have philosophy enough to
take life as it comes and to accept the
inevitable and make the best of it.
They put their sorrows behind them
and want to take part in the ordinary
distractions of life. No man wants to
come home to wife who is sodden
with crying and to a darkened house.
Nor will young people who crave gayety
stay in a home which is sailed down
with tears.
So the women who have made a
cult of their sorrows are invariably
left alone with them, while their
husbands and children find merrier
companionship outside.
Any weakling can sit down and
cry, but it takes a strong, brave
woman to lay her baby to rest in
its tiny bed in the graveyard and to
go back home and carry on with
smile for the sake of her hus-
band and children.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Dorothy Dix: I have been
keeping company with young lady
nineteen years of age. She is an or
phan, and also a widow with her baby
girl. As l am considerably older than
she is, l have always reverenced her
because of her love for her baby, for
since her husbands death she has been
both mother and father to the child.
She dresses well, but not flashy; and
her baby always looks like million
aires child. She is a stenographer in
one of the railroad offices, but still l
cannot understand how she can keep
up a home, pay an elderly lady for
caring for her house and baby and look
as well as she does, and am wonder
ing if you can help me solve the prob
lem My mother says that it is be-
cause she is a good manager, and
would make a good wife for any old
bachelor. What do you say?
MR.. NOBODY.
Answer:
/ should say that your mother was
right, Mr.. Nobody. Women can be
either the greatest spenders or the
closest economists on earth. They can
throw money away as if it grew on
trees, or they can nurse a dime until
it grows the size of a dollar.
When it comes to getting the
value out of money. women can
knock men for goal, and every
thrifty housewife performs miracles
of financiering that entitle her to
be secretary of the treasury. On
the same amount of money on
which a man looks shabby and ill
dressed, and which only gives him
a dreary hall bedroom and meals
at hashery, girl will look like
a fashion plate and establish some
sort of little. home of her own.
Few working women are as well
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Piano Recitals
By Pupils OF
Miss FIanlin

Miss Lowela Hanlin will present a
number Of her piano pupils in a series
Of recitals, the first to be given at Ca
BILE hall Friday evening, May 80, at
S:15 o'clock and the second on June 6.
The juvenile program for Fridays
performance is as follows:
'.Sleepytimep (James Mattinglyl,
Eula Mae Ethridge; .Grahdfather's
Clock" (Florence Maxim), Betty Jones;
Flower Girl Waltz" blanche Math-
ews), Marion Finch (; from sThe Thou
sand and One Nights" (Reinecke).
Dance of the Gnats" (Schytte), Me-
Marjorie Holiner; Happy Meadow
Lark" (Cesana}, woodland Shadows"
(Anthony), Georgia Everett; General
Bum Bum" (Poldini), "Moonlit Sea"
Hannah Smith), Merrill Ethridge
Pixies (Katherine Davis), Cardinal
Red Bird" (Mumma), Elsie Faircloth !.
"Drolleries" (Von Wilm), Dixie" tEmt
met-Weber), Herbert Maulitz; Sou
venir" (Drdla), 'Tarentelle" (Reger),
Frances Parks, Dance of the Shadows
(Coppee), Justine Keith "Dragonfly"
(Grant-Schaefer), Martha Sparks:
"Valse Russo" (Tchakoff), GRANGE
Finch; Sunset" (Torjussen), "Taren-
telle" (Lomas), Fannie Elaine Levy );
Twilight" (Grant-Schaefer) Joyous
Moments" Wilson G.. SMITH, Irene
Ellis.
The jniors and collegiates will give
this program Friday evening, June 6 !:
'Marche Militaire" (Schubert) ), Mr.
j. M. Ball, Or: "Chanson D'Amour''
(Rhode), "Impromptu" (Harris), Mrs
j. d. SAMSON; "Serenade" (Schubert), 4
.Toccatt," (Celi), Miss Katherine
Vaughan; la Fileuse'' (Raff), Miss
Mabel Churchill; "Kamenio Qstrow"
(Rubenstein), Miss Lille Marjorie
Ozmer; "Polonaise inS A" (ChopinJ
Miss Velma Fallon; "Thome from I'm
finished Symphony" (Schubert- Fishery,
"Valse Arabesque'' (Lackl Miss Kath-
crime Byrum; "Troika en- Traineaux"
(Tschaikowsky) Miss Mary Carter
"Mazurka in B Minor" (Chopin),
Sparks" (Moszkowski), Miss Dorothy
Moore McNutt; 1.-THE Lark" (Glinka-
Balikerew), Miss Helen Louise Shehee
Louisiana" (Cyril Scott), Shadow
Dance" (MacDowell), Miss Marjorie
Scruggs3 Concert Valse" (MacDowell),
Miss Lila Mae Cantey. ~
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Answer:
If by "slushy" you mean the senti-
mental, gushing girl, who is always
stopping over with romance and soul
full thoughts, l should say NO" /
think men are embarrassed by the girl
who writes them high-faluting, poetical
letters to which they do not know
how to reply, and who goes into hys.
terics with jou every time they come
to see her or pay her any little atten-
tim
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Any girl of nineteen who shout
ders the burden of taking care of
her baby instead of putting it in an
asylum; who works night and day
to support it, and who turns a
brave and smiling face on the
world and asks neither for help
nor pity is brave soldier, Mr..
Nobody, and any old bachelor
would be lucky to get her for
wife. DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Miss Dix: Kindly settle an
argument for us and tell us whether
men like the slushy girl, or the flat
terer, or the frank, modest girl?
BLUE EYES.
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long, sombre crepe wells. And
they always brought further dis
aster upon their heads.
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AnSWeT
should say that your mother was
right, Mr.. Nobody. Women can be
either the greatest spenders or the
closest economists on earth. They can
throw money away as if it grew on
trees, or they can nurse a dime until
it grows the size of dollar.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
Get Loans From "Aunf',

In Paris and other big French cities
the pawnbroker is called my aunt"
In France one needn't blush in doing
business with the pawnbroker, for he
is the state; that Is. the government
conducts the pawnbnRklng business. 1t
does It very well, tOON If am to be-
lieye the testimony Of some Americans
who have traded" with my Aunt"
while awaiting delayed remittances
from home. "My Aunt" has had a
good years business. She does little
business nowadays with the working
man, for he Is always in work. The
center Of poverty has moved. II Is the
white-collar brigade which, unable to
make both ends meet, resorts to my
Aunt" Oddly enough, MY Aunt's'
shop in Paris is on "the Hill Of Piety."
Not a mlsprint for pity.--A B. L., In
World Traveller Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
Gbe Screen
At The Strand, Smyrna

Friday and Saturday - "Hoodman
Blind"-In every city and among all
classes, in villages and countryside,
the subject of divorce has come to be
one under common discussion. Some
argue on behalf of the law which
gives unhappy mortals their freedom,
while others take the position that
"what God hath joined together, let
no man put asunder." But nearly all
agree that the most general cause of
the divorce evil, if evil it be, is due
to misunderstanding. "Hoodman
Blind is the story of faithful wife
who was misunderstood. Subtle viii
liany finds way to place her in the
wrong light before her husband. He
leaves her and allows himself to slip
down into the slime of doubt. But
understanding comes like a great
white light and they are reunited.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
At the New Dover Opera House

Today and Thursday-"DOn't Call
1t LOve"-'Wives! Be unusualv Such
advice is offered women of the world
by no less a parsonage than William
deMille, who sends this startling mes
sage through his latest production,
Don't Call 1t Love-" "Wives! Be
unusual!" To the average spirited
American man, nothing is more tiring
than mOnotony, according to the
theme of Don't Call 1t Love-" 1t is
therefore necessary that a woman, if
she would continue to hold the inter
est of her husband after marriage, be
different.
Friday and Saturday-"You never
know your luck" says Maurice Flynn,
who has an important supporting role
in the Victor Fleming Paramount
production, "Code of the Sea-" Just
before production on this picture was
started, Flynn returned from a vaca-
tion of two months in Bermuda. Then
he chanced to meet Victor Fleming.
81 want you for Code of the Sea- de-
clared the director. "We leave to-
morrow for San Francisco to film
water scenes that will take two weeks
Be ready"
Monday and Tuesday-Jackie Coog-
an, whose second picture under his
Metro contract, "a Boy of Flanders, y
came by his genius for acting natural
ly enough, for he was born while his
father and mother were resting after
a long vaudeville tour.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
Light and Dark Stars

Two hundred millions of millions Of
miles away is a star called .Algol 1t
is the second brightest star In the con-
stellatiOn of Persegs and It has the
curious habit Of varying In brightness
at regular intervals.
After much research we know now
that Agol consists Of two stars-ene
bright, the other dark. says London
Tit-Bits. They are each about a mil
lion miles in diameter and about two
million miles apart. They revolve
around one another and when the dark
star is between US and the bright one
the light we receive from the latter d.
minishes.
There are several other stars Of the
AlgOl type, and it is simply through
our researches that we are aware that
there exist in the heavens dark stars
stars which give no light at all and
are in themselves totally invisible.
How many there may be we do not
know, for 1t is only by their eclipsing
bright stars that we can recognize
them at all.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
Spices in Demand in
Early Days of History

The tantalizing flavor and piQuant
qualities Of spices have made them
sought after from the earliest days of
mankind, and an adjunct to civilization
at all periods.
In the early days of history spices
were worth fabulous sums, owing TO
the difficulty Of obtaining them and
the high cost Of transportation.
When Alaric the Goth conquered
Rome In 410 A. D., says the New York
World, he asked as a ransom 5000
pounds of pepper, then worth more
than its weight in gold.
The first organization Of dealers, il
is said, was the fraternity Of pepper
ers," and It was in the Fourteenth
century that the name was changed
to the guild of grOcers," which de-
picted on its coat of arms six cloves.
Venice at its height traded in spices
to the amount of S1O,OOO,OO0 annually,
and it We'd with Portugal in securing
cargoes from far eastern ports. Colum-
bus was bound for the spices Of the
East when he CHANGED upon a new
continent, and Vasco da Cana, the
famous sea fighter, made one Of his
most important voyages to secure a
cargo Of pepper, cinnamon and ginger
from India.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
ForefhouRhf

The small boy entered the shoe
makers shop, and, unwrapping q
small parcel, produced a size IL shoe,
very much the worse for wear.
The shoemaker took 1t from him,
and, after looking at it, asked:
"Well, what do you want me to do
with this? 1t doesn't want men1ing,
does it?"
YES" said the boy: that's fathers
slipper, and there's a nail sticking up
in 1t. I want you to put it right be-
fore he notices IT,"
you're a kind little boy" said the
old man, beaming. you must be
fond of your father"
"'Tain't that quite" replied the
small boy calmly. 'You see, the
nails sticking right through the sole,
and this is the slipper father spanks
me with"
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
ALluaYs q Gamble

The uncertainty Of the cotton market
is illustrated by the following conver-
sation overheard between two negroes
in a Texas town:
George displaying a roll Of bills)-
See here, SSnl, Abs been on de boahd
dis mornin'.
Sam-Ah sees. But you won't have
It tomorrah You can't never tell about
dis cotton market. It's liable to go up
or it's liable to do down, or it's liable
to Auctuate Outlook Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1924-07-02
OPEN BIDS FOR MORE HIGHWAY
WORK DOWN IN DELAWARE
ONE is FOR A ROAD FROM THE
BOULEVARD TO BOWERS BEACH
Another is For a Road From Milford
to the Brick Granery, Part of the
Milford, Milton, RehObOth Stretch

y
Milford, Milton, RehObOth Stretch
At the opening of bids at Dover
Wednesday afternoon by the State
Highway Department for three road
contracts, one Road Grader and a
strip of sidewalk at Farnhurst, the
following were the bidders and bids:
Strip of Sidewalk at Farnhurst,
.25 miles, $500 square feet of side
walk pavement; Donnet & Fountain,
Wilmington, Del, $1755; George &
Lynch, Dover, $247O; F. Geviezei &
Son, Wilmington, Del, S2372.50; Her
cules Bridge Construction Co., Della
ware City, $1486.87; Cement Products
Co., $2128.75; J. A. Bader & Co.,
Wilmington, $2645.5O.
Contract CK-19, Bowers Beach
Road, 3.48 miles: Highway Engineer
ing and Construction Co., Selbyville,
Del, $136,61O; Albert H. Mcdowell,
Elsmere, Del, $151, POP; Sherman &
Rhodes, Smyrna, Del, $199, ,434.5O;
Stewart & Donahue, Wilmington, Del,
S140,090; Sutton Construction Co., &
Dalton Bros, Philadelphia, S143,410;
William Eisenberg, Camden, N. j.,
$137,989.
Contract CK-23, Whiteleysburg-
Hollandsville, $50 miles, Broad Greek
Construction Co., Elkton, Md, $145,-
001; Alfred H. Mcdowell, Elsmere,
Del, S152,O93; Sherman & Rhodes,
Smyrna, Del, $135,474; Sutton Con-
struction Co., Philadelphia, $146,398;
Van Auken & Robbins, NY, S137,520.
Contract CS-32 ,Milford-Brick Gran
ary, 1888 miles, R. L. Bonham Co.,
BridgetOn, N. j., S134,600; Highway
Engineering & Construction Co., Sell
byville, Del, $131, 1880; Sherman &
Rhodes, Smyrna, $133,8OO; Stewart G.
Donahue, Wilmington, Del, $135,082;
Sutton Construction Co., & Dalton
Bros, Philadelphia, $141,226;. Van
Auken & Robbins Co., N. Y, $780,
762.50; VIM. Eisenberg, Camden, NJ
S137, ,790.50; Roberts Paving Co., Re-
hoboth, Del, $141,525.
Announcement was made that q
small contract on the north road from
Dover to Little Creek and another
small contract would be given out
witA42 the next two weeks.