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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

Dear Miss Dix-1 am a girl 21 years old. deeply in love with a fine young man who has a good job, and we wish very much to be married. But my fath- CT refuses his consent. His only reason is that he and my fiance's father had quarrel several years ago. This has developed into regular feud, so that our meetings have to be secret. But our mothers are in favor of the match and have promised to help us all they can.
 | My father will not hear to my marry ing Dick, and says it is my duty to obey him in everything, and that my own ln- clinations in the affair do not matter at all. Dicks father takes the same atti- tude. Have these two headstrong old men the right to stand in the way of our happiness? UNDECIDED. Answer-Certainly they have not. The Montague and Capulet business be- longs to the medieval ages or the movies. It has no place in modern American life.
 So just laugh at your fathers obsolete ideas and go along and get | married. They will get tired of grouching around after a while and be glad and thankful that you did not let them wreck, your lives.
 If father knows that his daugh- ter is thinking of marrying a man who is a drunkard, or immoral, or a gambler, or who is just shiftless and lazy and unable to make her decent living, then he is justified in moving heaven and earth to keep her from marrying him. But l be- lieve that those four things are the only legitimate objections that par ents have right to bring forward in opposing a match.
 Difference in religion, difference in social position, lack of riches on the mans part, are no reasons for keeping two young hearts apart.
 A man and woman who love each oth- CT can still hold hands and climb diff ferent paths to God, and too many men rise from the workbench to the presi- dents chair, and from $20 a week tc millionaires to make any hustling young fellow ineligible.
 Marriage is the most personal thing on earth It is absolutely matter of individual taste, and even parents have mighty little right to meddle in it. Certainly no father has a right to let his silly anger keep his daughter from marrying a man she loves just because he doesn't happen to like the mans father. DOROTHY DIX. Dear Miss Dix-Can a girl become properly acquainted with a man with out a proper introduction? What does a man think of a girl who flirts!
 PEGGY.
 Answer-Of course, it is highly desirable that a girl should be in troduced formally to a man, but sometimes that is an impossibility. She has to use her own common sense in the matter.
 She need not be as punctilious as the lady who, when drowning, refused to be saved by a man to whom she had not been introduced. Neither should she pick up acquaintances on the street or accept invitations from men of whom she knows absolutely nothing.
 If by flirting you mean making eyes at men and doing things to attract their attention, why, men think that the girl who does that is no better than she should be, and that they do not have to treat her with any respect, because she de- serves none.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MISS BOWERS HONOREE AT LUNCHEON

Miss Fanny Bowers, bride-elect of this month, will be complimented this afternoon when Miss Helen Mae Lin thicum is entertaining with luncheon at the Southern club, including among the guests the members of the Ham mond- Bowers wedding party and a few friends of the honoree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MISS MORGAN'S BAND TO HAVE BAZAR TODAY

Miss Lucille Morgan's band of the Highlands Methodist church will hold their annual buffet luncheon and ba- gar today at 1 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Elliott Williams on Essex Road.
 Mrs. Morris ~Faunce, Mrs. l.. A. Brooks, Mrs. Alfred McCarty, Mrs. Ralph Smallman and Mrs. T. V. Ma gurder are in charge of the bazaar.
 1.-The coffee table will be in charge of Mrs. William Houseal, Mrs. Tram Ses- sions and Mrs. Tom Mayberry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

She is a type.
 She is the Superior Girl.
 Sophia walks into a restaurant and demands the best table. If they don't know who she is, she tells them, and she does it in such a grandiloquent way that the obsequious head waiter apolo- gizes for not having recognized her the moment she entered the door. Slse is then surfeited with attentions and serV- ice.
 She delights in ordering out-of-season dishes. What" she disdainfully asks, you have no alligator pears! knew we should have gone to the Cafe de Luxe" The Cafe de Luxe is the most expensive place in town. Sophia sell dom goes there, but she speaks of 1t so frequently one would think she was habitue.
 If asked to go to a theater she is cer- tain to express q desire to see the play it is hardest to get seats for. She talks way up in the clouds.
 When Sophia is out with beau, one would think she had never heard ot street car or any other public convey ance. She halls taxi and woe betide the young man who objects. My dear she exclaims, you wouldn't have me walk in my best shoes" If street car is suggested she scorpfully says she wouldn't ride with the common peo- pie who are forced to patronize such things.
 One time Sophia met Stefansson, the arctic explorer. All her girl friends were very thrilled. In speaking of it ever afterwards Sophia always told what an impression she made on him. She had nothing to say about his achievements. It was all about what he said about her. As matter of fact he probably didn't say anything.
 The trouble with Sophia is that she is attractive enough for men tO put up with her vagaries, al-
 th0ugl it is noticeable that after
 a sht Y time her boy friends drift ava @tuio d9y bhb Win meet maI ~i'b Visf .,It c2tev 70 her and vii iiyt Cd hes getting back to
 ca, aNd tO ~eaLizc il tt there are
 Ot '-r inTls.r bairFs besides her | g.
 ',ae E q tyne.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

and if he cared enough for her to take the chance of reforming her! How would his friends look upon him for do- ing this? If they censure him, why should they blame him more than woman who married rounder! What chance of success would such a union have? lNIEhEo1ED'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

Answer-The woman who mar ries a man to reform him, or the man who marries a woman to re- form her takes a foolhardy risk and nearly always wreck their own lives without benefiting the errlng one. for there is something funda- mentally wrong and weak with any one who needs to be reformed, and the man and woman who will not go straight because their own sense of honor, and honesty, and high prin- ciple demands it of themselves, IS not likely to do so for the sake of any mere husband or wife. There is no moral surgery by whlch we can implantJ Jbackbones in the spine less, and while there is so much good matrimonial timber going to waste, it seems foolish to select rotten plank upon which to build your house of happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MRS. MOSS TO
 HONOR MISS ETTER

Honoring Miss Cora Moss Etter of Warrior, Ala, who will become the bride of MT. Robert N. Bell Tuesday Mrs. c. l.. Moss is entertaining with q luncheon at the Southern club today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
We Women

SOPHIA, THE SUPERIOR GIRL THE most important person in the
 whole world to Sophia is herself
 She not only thinks it but she ad- mits it openly. She elevates her eye brows and books down on the world from great heights.
 She is type.
 She is the Superior Girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
MISS LYNCH TO
 HONOR MRS. M'DONAID

Miss Hattie Lynch will be hostess this afternoon, entertaining with an in formal bridge party at her home compli- menting a November bride, Mrs. E. P. Mcdonald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

HEAR MISS DIX-I have heard of many women who married men to
 reform them, but I do not know
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

So that's that. I don't think that many people give woman credit for marrying a drunkard, or a gambler, or roue, to reform him. They think she is a fool. And they think that man who marries a fallen woman or a drunken woman to reform her is an even greater fool, because the woman who strays off the straight and narrow path goes deeper into the pot than a man does, and is far harder to rescue. Also she finds it far more difficult to come back than man does, because the world judges her more severely and punishes her more cruelty than it does an erring man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
Dorothy Dix's Letter Bo*

Can There Be Amy Happiness for tue Mam Who
 Marries Womma to Reform Her? Has Father the Right to Prevent Ills Daughters Marriage Through His OUn Silly Anger!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

If by flirting you mean making eyes at men and doing things to attract their attention, why, men think that the girl who does that is no better than she should be, and that they do not have to treat her with any respect, because she de- serves none.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

As to whether a man is justified in marrying a woman of the under world, that depends on two things: First, on the character of the woman, and, second, how ardently she longs for the clean things of life, how sincere is her repentance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

and they just naturally had to fight with somebody. After you are grown up you can't go around picking fights with the public and your friends and you have to fall back on the person you are married to, as he's always handy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

There are plenty of women who, in the folly of their youth, through ignor- ance, through misplaced love or under the stress of some great temptation have taken the wrong step and been forced into a life they loathed. They are never harlots at heart. They loathe their calling, and if given a helping hand would be only too glad to climb back into responsibility. But there are other women, sensual by nature, whose every fiber is immoral. They are not amenable to any good influence, and no man in the world can reform them.
 Furthermore, before a man mar
 ries woman to reform her he
 should be very certain that his love
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

She need not be as punctilious as tho lady who, when drowning, refused tc be saved by man to whom she had not been introduced. Neither should sht pick up acquaintances on the street ol accept invitations from men of whom she knows absolutely nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

Answer-Of course. it is highly desirable that a girl should be in- troduced formally to man, but sometimes that is an impossibility. She has to use her own common sense in the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

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Evening star., 1924-05-08
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF RADIO EACH DAY
BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA,
Radio Editor of Popular Science Monthly
AL Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited

% switchpoint of switch IL and the
end of the winding marked As with
the number 46 switchpeint of switch
IL. The A tstationary plates) ter
minal of condenser 8, the B terminal
of fixed condenser % and the P ter
minal of socket % are then connect
ed together. The B trotary plates)
terminal of condenser 8 is then con-
II and with one of the rotor leads.
The other rotor lead is connected
with binding post 81. 1t is not i'm
portant to see which rotor lead is
used in either case as long as the
rotor is able to turn through at least
1s0 degrees. 1t is not advisable to
use the so-called 1S0-degree couplers
in this circuit.
Then connect the beginning. o end.
of winding Il with the terminal of
condenser 8. In some cases, depend
ing on how the coil 12 is wound, you
may find it necessary to reverse the
connections to the ends of coil IL. If
you do not get very good results from
the set, try reversing these connec-
tions. All that is necessary is to
disconnect the zero COZ end of the
winding from the terminal of con-
denser and the end CAS- turn) of the
winding from the number 46 switch
point of switch II.
Then connect the 0 end of winding
IL with the number 46 switchpoint
of switch II and the number 46 end
of the winding with the A terminal
Of condenser 9. You are then ready
to try the set with coil 12 reversed.
You can now wind around coil 5,
four turns of Ne. % S. C. C. or D. s. C.
wire spaced one-quarter inch apart.
The top end of the winding is con-
nected with binding post 2, while the
bottom end should be connected with
binding post 3. The B terminal of
rheosat 10 is connected with F2 ter
minal of socket %. The terminal of
rheostat IA is connected with the F2
terminal of socket 25. The termi-
nal of rheostat Is is connected with
the F2 terminal of socket 2s. The
B terminal of rheostat 6 is connected
with the F2 terminal of socket 80.
The instructions for wiring the set
and explanation of the general
method of tuning the set will be con-
cluded in tomorrow's article.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
RADIO REACHES OUT.
TO LONELIEST PLACE
Isolated Hawaiian Leper Colony Is
Entertained by Program
From KDKA.

The great amount of enjoyment
that radio broadcasting has brought
to those isolated from the rest of the
world is clearly shown in a eemmuni-
cation just received at Westinghouse
station KDKA. from the Kalaupapa
leper settlement on the Island of
Molokai, Hawaii, said to be the lone
liest place in the world.
Recently under the personal super
vision of r. l.. Cooke, superintendent
of the wireless department of the
Mutual Telephone Company of Homo
lulu, two radio receivers were in
stalled in the leper colony
The very first time the sets we're
placed in operation, xxx westing-
house repeating station at Hastings,
Neb.. was received repeating KDKA's
program. Then a. few minutes later
kDkA was picked direct
There are about 500 people in the
Molokai leper settlement. About 400
were present for the first radio night
The leper colony is located on a
long. narrow point of land surround
ed on three sides by the ocean and
backed up by steep cliffs 400 feet
high which are practically unclimb-
able
There are only two ways of en-
trance. by sea or over the steep
mountains. down a narrow trail that
seems to drop right out from under
the cliffs. The two radio receiving
sets were packed down this trail
In the future these afflicted people
outcast from the remainder of the
human race will at least hear from
the outside world through the me-
dium of the radio wave. Radio broad :
casting has again proved itself the
marvel of the present century.
Evening star., 1924-05-08
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

with three stellar attractions and
a number of other features, WRC will
.syve its ether clientele tonight with
an unusual program which is destin-
ID to take rank among the best that
have come from the studio OF the
pa, road station. The chief attrac-
rio cIude the Loos brothers, who
have lred a great success with
.beir Jazz numbers at the Tivoli
srbeater; Eileen Van Biene, popular
star from the original cast of May
time" and Pete Macias' L'Aisien Or
,,h.stra. which made its radio pre-
..,,.re at WRC Tuesday night.
The Loes brothers will be heafa IN
~angs of their own composition. one
Sarad entitled "Broadcasting Mama,
hurleseue on the popular indoor
snart of listening-i in. Miss Van Biene
ss.esIi sing several selections, while the
I'Aiglon Orchestra VIII PICK nun 1ide
FsI song recital by Lucian Marsh.
s.r;tone, and Elizabeth Dayton,
nrsno: dance music by the Better
ole Orchestra a talk, by ", ,,asIa. "a, Sga.
Srade Association, on the adventure
~ Cannon Ball" Baker, who drove
Seross the country in the dead OF
,1;nter, establishing transcon-
Trental record for the trip, and the
rIjfiary features. Mr.. Marsh, man
eger Of the Washington Country
cSnh has seldom been heard in
nnhIic, but is known to have q pleas
ing repertory. Miss Dayton, who VIII
5oin him in the recital, is a singer
af the younger set and has been
heard frequently from local staueas.
Asa ecntr<sution to Music week.
Evening star., 1924-05-08

ed-ridden for several weeks. fret
ul, impatient man, he says his final
'ecovery is all due to the radio receiv-
ng set which his associates on the
Georgetown faculty presented to him
% help "cheer him up" 1t did, DR..
Moran has blossomed forth as full
dedged radio fan, one of the species
who spends his few idle hours in try
ing to tune in on Havana. Nome or
other long-distance stations
DIR. John Feete was selected to
make the presentation on behalf of
his associates and was inspired" TO
do SO as follows: ITO John Moran,
champion night watcher. To one who
has listened to the birth into the
world of thousands of new noises, we,
some of yeur old-time students and
old friends. send you this evidence
of q newly born noise-catcher. SO that,
for yeu at least:
The night shall BE- hlled with music
And tho phones that infest the day
Shall fold up THAR wires to antennAe
And broadcast from W. G. A.
"And we do this as slight evil
dence of the genuine affection and
lore and gratitude which we all feet
and shall always feel for you, rs
teacher. physician Aad friend"
Evening star., 1924-05-08
D'ouucdst managers Nightmare
Comes to End When Alarm Rings
Haunted BY Ambitions, Near Publicity Seekers
] and " hat Not, He Wakes Up to Find Al
Terrible Dream, But Yet Reality.

down -trodden men we have had our
eyes opened. and am sure that I
echo the sentiment of the entire So
ciety when ! say that they are net
sufficiently i'll treated to suit US.
1T happens so often" she CEN
tinued. when good souls like our
selves attempt to assist some one OF.
some group of society, that they take
a yard If you give them an inch.
Was there ever such beautiful
himself just as the telephone bell
rang.
Some More TroubIe.
This is MIR. Hunter" the veice an
nounced, "and I will not require the
time l requested for the lecture I
wished to make on the habits of the
wild butterflies of the Congo. ! have
been attacked by q vicious horse fly,
and will be laid up for several days.
And, oh yes" the explorer added, II
had meant to say that in thinking
the matter over I had quite decided
that there is not sufficient interest in
wild butterflies to broadcast lecture
of this kind anyhow"
The broadcast manager reached for
the stenographer's smelling salts. but
instead his hands closed upon
letter.
It was his lucky day. so why not
play il out, he thought, tearing open
the misSive without a single misg1N-
ing. He was q changed man. He
knew it, and he sighed a comfortable
sigh as he realized that never again
would he stand in awe Of those let
ters from fans who wanted jazz when
you booked lecture and the Phil
harmonic when the program called
for jazz: who declared the announcer
said good night with the infection
in the wrong place when he raised
his voice on the last word and the
a giving
too much attention to the first syl-
liable.
Here's Letter.
The letter ran true to the evenings
form. 1t read:
6Dear Sir:
IT have listened to all the stations
in the United States and several in
by far the best that We have ever
heard
Your announcements are clear and
distinct and the character of your
programs places them on a. level with
the best entertainments that are Of
fered the American public. There
is not one single suggestion that
could be offered to improve your
entertainments that would not re-
fleet discredit upon the person who
offered the suggestion. The quail
ity OF your output is as near per
tens of thousands of people in this
section of the country have signed
a letter to this effect. which I am
forwarding under separate cover"
Its tho Millennium.
It's the millennium. the broadcaster
guessed, or probably some kind of
FLU" but at any rate it's wonderful
but don't believe it can last.
you've got the air" came the
voice of the man on the order. we're
ready for your announcement" But
the events of the day had been too
much for the man who tried in vain
to answer the call of duty. He
realized that somewhere near him
bell was ringing and a white faced
man was standing solicitiously near,
but he could not move. Gradually
the mist began to clear and as the
eyes of the broadcaster became ae-
cuStomed to the returning light the
white face of his friend slowly as
sumed the shape OF an alarm clock
'u wild animation and he woke up.