davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-26
locals
csSsss:- - - 80.

F5r Violin lessons. Phone NO, l.
2. +. RlcCarroll and ] c. Bald
ridge we're business visitors at Boise
last Friday.
FOR RENT-Good rooms 81
week-G Gilmore Hotel. June1st2.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-26

WANTED-Work by competent
housekeeper. age %. M. P. O., Boy
572, Payette, Idaho.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1924-06-26
TRAINS DUE TO ARRIVE AND DE-
PART FROM PAYETTE, Eff
FECUVE, MAY 1, 1924

EASTBOUND-
No. fs, due 2:52 a. m.
No. SO, due TAO a. m.
No. 26, due 1857 a. m.
No. "a, due 1850 p. m.
WESTBOUND-
No. II, due $40 a. m.
No. S5, due 1855 a. IN.
No. %, due 2:4O p. n.
No. rs, due $40 D. m.
No. S, due 6;22 p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
JOINT HOSTEsSES HONOR MISS WALKER, BRIDE-ELECT

Miss Vera Cooper and Miss Roose Jackson entertained at a box party at the Lyric theatre Monday evening in honor of Miss Helen Walker, bride elect. After tue show the guests were served an ice lcourse at q downtown shop. The bride-elect's table was deco rated with pink roses and kewpies of bride and groom. Each guest wore a corsarge of pink roses and white swan sonias. The bride-elect wore cor sarge of red roses.
 Those including the party were Mrs. Louise Walker, mother of the bride elect, Mrs Chris Book and Miss Louise Book of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Charles Joiner of Atlanta, Mrs. H. L. Turney, Mrs. Victor Farmer, Mrs. Pauline Cain, Misses Helen Walker, Edna Walker, Gertrude Lyons, Ninna Jackson, Adele Sanders, Ruby Burnes, Bertha Cope land, Vera Cooper and Rose Jackson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Hostesses Named For Baby Show
 At East Lake !

Mrs. Mary A. Mix and Mrs. J. H. Wideman, co-chairmen for the better baby show being sponsored this week by the League of Women Voters and the Business and Professional Women's s club, have announced the hostess com mittees who will serve each day. From the business women the following have been named: Misses Martha Dickin- son, Ellen Wood. Rosalie Darby, Robe na Mauchline, H. Grace Delany, Floy Sexton, Lula Truss, Exa Aldridge, AL leta Jones, Mary Hayward, Mesdames Helen B. Cleveland, L. L. Jones and Mary A. Mix.
 All the members of the League of Women Voters are expected to serve on the opening day, Thursday. Those especially appointed to serve as gate committee oh Thursday are Mrs. Ru- dolph Wegalin, Mrs. Neil R. Wallace, Mrs. B. F. Tyler, Mrs. R. w. Darby, and the members of their respective teams. On Friday Miss Annie Floyd, Mrs. F. M. Thompson, Mrs. o. A. Wood, Mrs. Lon Albritton and their team workers will be in charge of the gates. Mrs. Mary J. Cain, Mrs. Bren- ton Fisk and Mrs. c. B. Beddow will serve with their workers.
 In addition to the hostess commit. tees, three troups of Girl Scouts will be on duty. On Friday, when the kiddy karnival takes place, Troop IA will be in charge, consisting of Mrs. Twining, Leager, Charlotte Andrews, Donald Andrews, Bessie Blausman, Elinor Bon- ham, Evelyn Fullforth, Annabelle and May Hall, Mary Allen Hood, Jennie Hood Hunt, Christine Smith. Frede- rika Twining, Pauline Willoughby, Mary Phillips Woolverton. The trops for the other two days will be an- nounced later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Miss Green And MT. Shelbourne
 Wed InSelna

An event of social importance was the wedding of Miss Kate Douglas Green, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. J. W. Green, and Mir. Richard Palmer Shel- bourne of Birmingham, which was sol emnized at the Shurch Street Methodist church ohf Tuesday afternoon at 5 80 o'clock.
 The brides maid of honor was her sister,. Miss Leila Green, and her ma tron of honor was Mrs. Landon Flour noy of Birmingham. The bridesmaids were Misses Mary Privett and Eugenia Wilkinson of Birmingham, and Mir. Shelbourne's best man was his brother, MT. $. l.. Shelbourne of Birmingham. The groomsmen were MT. Jack Word and Dr. E. c. Moseley of Birmingham, E. T. Townsend and Brant Shelbourne of Birmingham, and J. w. Green and Frank Hutchins of Selma.
 There were eight little ribbon bear CTS. The bride was given in marriage by her father, MT. J. W. Green, and the ceremony was performed by the brother of the bride, Rev. l.. D. Green of Mont gomery.
 After the wedding an informal recep- tion was held, when the wedding party; relatives, close friends and out-of-town guests were present. 5t
 Out-of-town visitors for the. wedding were Mir. and Mrs. w. NJ. Holt, Mrs. E. T. Townsend, Miss Mabel Denson, Mir. l.. c. Flournoy, Miss Eugenia Will kinson, MT. and Mrs. S. V. Shelbourne, all of Birmingham, and Rev. and Mrs. L. E. Green of Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Hunting The Thrill

LIT9vE been reading what some of SS the thick, sad-looking magazines
 and other publications of the kind have to say about what people want to get when they read--in other words, what they read for,'' said the little brown-eyed girl of the periodical section of the big department store. T read it because the head of the section here got an idea that it would help me to wait intelligently on customers, as she said; but I wasn't helped much-S z then.
 If I'd not had my own mind made up as to what most people like to read and what they want to get out of their reading might have believed some of the stuff struggled through in those dreary maes. g But I had. And I didn't run iacross2 single idea that hit me hard enough to make me change my mind. If I'd l, got the other stuff first 1t might have made a difference.
 But when I say "a made up my mind I'm really telling bit of a fib, for my mind was made up for me. l didn't have a thing to do with it, but just let it. My customers did all the making.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Men like jolly, good-natured, hu-
 morous women; women who see
 the amusing side of things, but
 they don't like sharp-tongued, sar-
 castle women. Therefore, if you
 wish to be popular, I earnestly ad-
 wise you to swallow your witticisms,
 even if you choke on them.
 And never, never joke with a man about any of his weaknesses. No man has funny bone that you can tickle with a little pleasantly about himself He takes himself seriously, and ex. poets woman to, do the same.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix: I am thirty-five years old, and am in love with wid over of forty-two. We were sweet. hearts and loved each other when we were young, but through a misunder standing we parted and he married an other woman. He was devoted to his wife and made good husband, but she died and left him with several chil dren. Now he wants to marry me, but my family are bitterly opposed to my doing it on account of the children and can never say enough against this man although they liked him very much un. til he wanted to marry me.
 Now, my father is old, and when he dies I will be left with nobody but my brother and his wife, and I do not wish to live with them. love this man and realize that my chances for get ting married are very nearly over. What shall do? Dfey my family and have a sweetheart again and a QOnd home of my own, or shall obey their com. mands and live a lonely life?
 LONELY 7WOFAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Miss Parker And MT. billiard w ed

A quiet but beautiful wedding which was of cordial interest took place last evening at o'clock in the parlors of the Norwood Methodist church, when Miss Amanda Eugenie Parker became the bride of MT. Mason James billiard, Jr., in the presence of only the imme- diate families. Rev. W. D. Morris of- ficiated, using the ring ceremony. At the conclusion of the vows Miss Sarah Hodges sang Prayer Perfect"
 Mrs. Clovis Pearce (Annie, Florence Parker), an only sister of the bride, was the matron of honor. She wore a lovely peach bloom taffeta dress with a hat of powder blue trimmed in pink roses, and she carried an arm bou- quet of pink roses.
 MT. T. F. Parker gave his daughter in marriage and Mir. William k. billiard, a cousin of the groom, served as best man. 1sfc
 The bride was attractive in beauti- full gown of sand colored georgette trimmed with real lace, Her hat was a polka model of horse hair in the pastel shade, and she carried shower valley lilies. She also carried a dainty
 
 used by the brides of her family for two generations, she being the eigh- teenth one to have this cherished pos session.
 Immediately after the ceremony MT. and Mrs. billiard left for Atlanta, from which place they will motor through the mountains of the Caroli- mas, Virginia and later go to New York. When they return they will be at home on Niazuma street. Mrs. Dil- lard wore for travelling. a dark blue crepe romain dress with tan hat and tan accessories.
 The bride is the younger daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Thomas Francis Parker, Sr., and has been reared in Birming- ham, where she has been popular among the younger set. She attended the Lou lie Compton seminary.
 Mir, billiard is the only son of Mir. Mason billiard, Sr., and is prominent in the social and business life of Birming- ham. He, is a graduate of the Uni versity of Alabama and a member of the $. A. B. fraternity and the various clubs of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
MISS ALEXANDER IGNORED WITH BRIDGE PARTY

Miss Virginia Alexander, who IS the guest of Mrs. w. w. Rainer in Selma, is being feted during her visit. The Selma Times-Journal has the follow ing:
 "Mesdames o. NJ. Hendricks and w. w. Rainer were hostesses on Tuesday morning when they entertained for Miss Virginia Alexander at the home of Mrs. Rainer. The honoree was presented with a box of stationery and the high score prize. vanity, was won by Miss Martha Melvon. Miss Eleanor Hooper won the low score prize, box of candy.
 "The guests were Misses Virginia Alexander, Virginia McIlwain, Mary Minge Grantham, Martha Mallory. Martha Melvin, Mary Duncan, Eliza beth Furniss, Florence Phillips, Gwen dolin Bell, Eleanor Hooper, Mary Frances Cook, Ann Pettus, Katharine Chapman, Elizabeth Reid, Katherine Morrison, Elizabeth Williams and Mrs. Reynolds Melton.
 Mrs. c. G. Tissier has issued invi- tations for bridge on Wednesday morn ing when her honor guest will be Miss Virginia Alexander of Birmingham, who is the guest of Mrs. W. w Rainer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
BIRMINGHAM PEOPLE TO ATTEND SELMA WEDDING

Mrs. c. H. Harper and son, Charles, IT,, of Birmingham, have arrived in Selma to remain until after the wedding of Miss Myrtle Mae Clarke and Mir. Clifford Smitherman on Sunday, June 15. They will be joined later by Mir. Harper.
 Other guests who will also be guests of MT. and Mrs. w. B. Zimmerman for this wedding will. be Mir. and Mrs. G. B. Zimmerman, Mir. and Mrs. E. D. Edgar of Birmingham, Mir. J. c. Harper of Memphis, MT. and, Mrs. k. $. Fluker of Thomasville, who will arrive the lat ter part of the week.-Selma Times Journal,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Listening In On Foe

After I'd been here awhile and peo- pie who patronize the mags began to get acquainted with me, they began one by one to tell me what they liked to read. Most of them were fiction read CTS, that is, they read the fiction in the magazines. Up to that time I never particularly noticed one mag from an- other, for I'd never been much of a reader. never had the time. I'd supposed that all mags had stories pretty much alike, if they were love stories, and that was about all I'd thought about it. x.
 My customers <soon frightened me up to the knowledge that there are love stories and love stories, and some of them mighty punk ones, and some of them, we'll, you know, just the right sort. Girls and women began to get acquainted with me first, and then to give me the right dope on what's what in fiction, meaning love stories mostly, of course. And then one by one man customers began to take me into their confidence and soon learned that whether it's love or adventure, or both, they all wanted about the same thing.
 ''The various customers called this thing various names. The girls and women called it thrilling and lovely and darling and honey and snuggly, and the men talked about it being a hum dinger or having a punch, or a good clinch, and the like. soon found out that for some of the girls and women to be disappointed in their love stories was almost as hard for them to bear as to be disappointed in love.
 '"They, have their pet writers, of course,. and when they bought a mag with love story by their pet and he story turned out badly, in other words, not to suit them, it was almost trag- edy. Trey'd want to come and talk to me about it, which was often embar-. rassing to me, too, because the head didn't want to see me spend too much time in idle conversation.
 Finally, at odd times, began talk ing peeps at stories I'd heard described as sweet and lovely and humdinger, and I had no trouble at all agreeing with what they'd said, and coming right to conclusion as to what people want to get when they read.
 "They like to be tickled, yes, but mostly they want that quick, warm, full swell of the heart-the thrill. The warmer and fuller the swell, the better, to be sure, but they'll be satis- fled if they get just little swell of q thrill, and if they don't get it, the story is dead one, so far as they're concerned.
 You know how your heart feels after you take a full, deep breath of fine spring air, or after you've been made terribly happy about something? Well, that's the way they want their hearts to feel when they've finished reading a story.
 Those customers who seem to en- joy reading only in their minds never tried to educate me up to taking an interest in what they like, so just out of curiosity I tried reading the kind of mags they bought-once. They made my head ache"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

HEAR MISS DIX: In recent ar- D ticle you say "The woman of
 wits cuts her throat with her own tongue? Now, I am considered witty, and what I want to know is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
INVITATIONS TO WEDDING OF

WIIDo UVNA1K5 tA1NAI lVAANs OfAVID
 The followin ginvitation has been is- sued
 ''AIr. and Mrs Charles H. Jones re- quest the honor of your presence at.the marriage of their daughter, Leila Mae, to Mir. Walter Dean Davis, on Wednes- day evening, the eighteenth of June, one thousand, nine hundred and twen- ty-four, at six o'clock at the Southside Baptist church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

whether it is a blessing or a curse, so far as men are concerned ? Shal I stifle my gift or give it free play with men? I would appreciate you T opinion.
 ADMIRER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

But your family is right in one thing. A woman who marries a. widower with children undertakes the greatest responsibility that any one can assume, and she runs terrible risk of finding misery in- stead of. the happiness she looks for. All children are troublesome and trying. All children are in- pudent, and ungrateful, and unap- precittive. All children require &easeless sacrifice and inexhausti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Answer.
 If your widower beau is good, honest man and you are willing to face the difficult role of step mother, go along and marry him in spite of your family. At your time of life you have. right to decide your own fate. You are oldeenough to have Judgment and boise and to know your own mind, and neither your father nor your brother can judge what is best for yod.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Answer:
 My dear girl, wit is like a can dle in your house of life. You can light up the edi- flee with it or you can burn it
 s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

ble apience from those about them. Mother love enables a woman to accept the situation without fal- tering, but it is a difficult thing for the woman to do who has no love for the children, yet who must put up with their badness and their unreason, who must listen to their noise and coplaints, who must sac rifice herself without even a thank you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
FRANKE.M'CARTY WEDDING ANNOUNCED

Mir. and Mrs. J. T. McCarty an. nounce the marriage of their daughter Vesta Aline, to MT. Herman A. Franke, the wedding having been solemnized June, II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

They made their own lives. They married to suit themselves. They have their own homes, and it is easy enough for them to say that you should be con tented living in other peoples houses, being a hanger-On in other peoples families and earning your own way in business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Dear Miss Dix: I am married to a man who is so jealous that he makes my life a burden to me. If my hair is freshly combed when he comes home in the afternoon, he thinks have been running around. If I stay at home, he wants to know who I am expecting. If go out, he thinks am going to meet somebody. He marks my clothes so that he can tell if have had them on. He counts the envelopes to see if I have written letter, and if any of them is gone have to account for it. He has no right to be jealous. I am good, faithful wife. What would you do if you were in my place? B. L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Dorothy Dis's Letter Boz

Shall the Women With Wits Hide Her Brilliance. Or Let It Shine?-The Widower With Children, o. the Role of Hamger-On; Which Shall the Spinster Choose?-Abo0t he Jealous Husband
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Miss Adelia Bradfield of Birmingham arrived on Tuesday to visit Mrs. Julien Smith. Miss Bradfield will be an at- tractive guest at the pan-Hellenic dance at the Town and Country club on We'd nesday evening. She will also be one of a party motoring to Marion this eve- ming to attend dance at the Hotel Ma Iion.-Selma Times-Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
MISS FORESTER SECRETARY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

During the summer months the Ala bang College Alurnae association will have Miss Laureson Forester of Doth an as executive secretary. Miss For restnr is a very successful teacher, hay iag taught in MJttsnmrry this past year.. She will carry college work this summer toward an A. B. degree along with her duties as secretary.
 Miss Forester arrived in Montevallo Friday morning to begin her work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
JOINT HOSTESSES FOR BRIDE.ELECT

Miss Marguerite Jones and Miss Elizabeth Mallory will be joint hos tesses Saturday, when the will com pliment Miss Leila Mae Jones, bride to-be, with linen shower.
 A number of other pre-nuptial hos- pitalities are being arranged for Miss Jones for next NVeek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

all depends on how carefully you handle it. There is nothing more delightful than the wit that plays like a lambent flame over dull sub jects and makes them bright and interesting, and nothing so terrible as the wit that is like a soaring fire that scorches everything it touches. To be agreeable, wit must be good-natured and laugh with us. There is vast difference between that and the cruel wit that laughs at us, and, unfortunately, not many witty people know this, and so they make enemies instead of friends and people fear them and avoid them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Miss Dorothy Ranson and Miss Dor othy Bowron returned yesterday from Anniston, where they were the guests of Miss Mary Evelyn Arnold and ex- tensively entertained during their visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

AnSWer
 I would go while the going was good. The man is insane, and you are foolish to let him ruin your life by his espionage and tyranny. DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Mir. and Mrs. Albert Johnson have returned from visit to Mir. and Mrs. Frank Johnston in Anniston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Miss Marie Spootswood of Mobile is visiting Mir. and Mrs. J. K. Lanning at the Norwood Court apartments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12
Random Notes

Miss Anne Tominson Cabel is at Tate Springs for two weeks.
 Miss Eugenie Wilerson is visiting in Selma.
 Mrs. Frank Logan Conner of Georgia is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Joe Nor man.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Holt are in Selma, where they were among the out of town guest at the Shelbourne- Green wedding.
 Mrs. George Macatee is i'll at St.. Vincents Hospital where she under went an operation for appendicitis.
 Mir. and Mrs. S. V. Shelbourne were among the out of town guests at the wedding of their son, MT. Richard Palmer ShelbourneI and Miss Kate Douglas Green in Selma Tuesday after noon.
 Miss Edna Suttle is leaving soon, for Canadian tour.
 Mrs. Frank Moore and children are visiting the formers sister, Mrs. Jim Short, in Pulaska, Tenn.
 Mrs. Ida W. Elliott of Talladega is at the Moulton for few days. V
 MT. and Mrs. i. R. Ward and their daughters, Miss Frances Ward and Mrs. Henry Jones of Greensboro have returned to their home after a visit to Mir. and Mrs. William Francis Tyler.
 
 Miss Elizabeth Mallory of Anniston is visiting Miss Marguerite Davis, and will be among the out of town guests at the wedding of Miss Leila May Jones and Mir. Walter Dean Davis, June 18th.
 Miss Dorothy Ham of Meridian, Miss, will arrive this week to be the house guest of Miss Leila May Jones.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ned McDavid and Miss Mitylene McDavid are spending two weeks at Stafford Springs, Miss.
 Mrs. Chas. T. Joiner and two lit tie daughters, Mary Virlyn and Sara Lucille, of Atlanta, Ga., are the guests of Mrs. Laura Jackson of South Park and will be one of the out of town guests at the marriage of Miss Helen Walker and Mir. Alvin Farmer.
 Mrs. G. W. Hamilton has as her guests Misses Corrine and Frances Young of Florence.
 Mir. and Mrs. Albert Johnson have returned from visit to Mir. and Mrs. Frank Johnston in Anniston.
 Miss Virginia Alexander is visiting Mrs. w. w. Rainer in Selma.
 Miss Dorothy Ranson and Miss Dor othy Bowron returned yesterday from Anniston, where they were the guests of Miss Mary Evelyn Arnold and ex- tensiveIy entertained during their visit.
 Miss Marie Spootswood of Mobile is visiting Mir. and Mrs. J. K. Lanning at the NOrwood Court apartments.
 Miss Adelia Bradfield of Birmingham arrived on Tuesday to visit Mrs. Julien Smith. Miss Bradfield will be an at- tractive guest at the pan-Hellenic dance at the Town and Country club on We'd nesday evening. She will also be one of a party motoring to Marion this eve- ming to attend a dance at the Hotel Ma Iion.-Selma Times-J Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Miss Virginia Alexander is visiting Mrs. W. w. Rainer in Selma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

If you are that kind of woman, you have this consolation that in no other field of human en- deavor can you do so much good as in mothering a lot of little half-orphaned children.
 DOROTHY DIX,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

To say things that hurt is not only cruel, but it is the cheapest form of wit. Any one can do it who is upfeeling enough not to care for the pain he or she inflicts, for all of us are more or less human jokes, and there is not one. of us who has not peculiarities that make us look like figures of fun when we are held up to derision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Consider we'll whether you have the strength to do this or not. Not many step-mothers are happy, nor are there many happy step-children. But every now and then there is a woman, big hearted, broad-minded, who really moth CTS another woman's children and whose step-children rise up and bless her name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Mrs. G. W. Hamilton has as her guests Misses Corrine and Frances Young of Florence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

This is why men don't like witty women. They realize that the woman who makes fun of one person will make fun of another, and that every one who comes near her is grist for her mill, and so they fight shy of her because their eccentricicies will furnish her next bon mot. Besides, a man always feels himself at disadvantage with a wo- man who makes sarcastic speeches. He cannot answer her back in kind witlE out failing in the deference that a gen. tleman pays womanhoOd.