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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
Copyright, 1924, by E. M. Bertram)
 Beyond Their Ken

HOUR MEN were camped far back in the Black Range mountains,
 New Mexico, late in November. They were twenty miles form the near est cow-puncher's hut, the last outpost of civilization, and sixty miles from the nearest town. They had packed in on burrow train which was engaged to come after them two weeks later.N
 "Eef I see snow come pietty soon, come back queek," the Mexican driv- CT had said. before departing. He Heal- ized better than they the chances they were taking of being showed in. The four young men had been fast friends ever. since they had drifted to- gether in training camp in 1917. To- getherl they had gone through the big adventure in France. Belleau Wood, Soissons and Chateau Thierry each held vivid memories for this quartet.
 The first days hunt, after the camp had been put in order, yielded two nice bucks, and the vast forest about them that night re-echoed the merri- ment of the jolly hours spent about the camp fire.
 But when morning came one of their number was not able to be out. In- stead of being the first to get up as usual, he stayed in his bunk and showed signs of appendicitis. He had had pre- vious attacks and knew what the trouble was. The hard tramp the day before had brought on the present l trouble.
 "All of you go on for your hunt to- day; I'll be all right by myself" de- clared the sick man, while the pinch of | l. Co o1s nI h
 "Not on your life, old top," asserted our game today, and besides would like to have good game of pinochle when we can get around to it"
 By noon the unfortunate Holly was in an agony of pain. His distressed comrades stood about, helpless to give him even temporary rilief. They had once been hardened to the cries of men dying on the battlefields, but away out here in this vast solitude with buddy like Holly grooming from sheer suffer ing it was different.
 In this state of distress they did moi notice the gathering of storm clouds until the rising wind whipped snow flakes into their faces. With this warning the boys became aware of their approaching danger and set to work to gather in wood. They were camped or the sunny side of the creek and soon ac' cumulated huge pile of wood near the door. As the red flames of the camp fire licked up the offerings piled upon it they saw that it would be necessary to gather in still more. So they con tinued to work until they had small mountain of dry logs and pitchy pine knots.
 By this time the snow was whirlinl about them furiously and rapidly cover ing the ground. When the wind wal doing it's best to whip away their little tent, they could hear it bowling it
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Saturday Recital ToHav,y;e Lovely.
 Program

The following pupils of the Birming- ham Conservatory of Music will play !, iii recital Saturday afternoon, at l o'clock at Gable hall:
 Rain is Coming (Blake), Evelyn Calhoun. sct The Chase (Blake), Emily Elizabeth Wood.
 Lullaby (Diller and Quaile), Ger trude Scotch.
 The Cello (Blake), Elinor Kidd. Procession in the Forest (Blake), Mary Elizabeth: Stamper.
 Ding Dong. Bell (spaulding), Elaine Gale.
 March of Toy Soldier (Lynes), Mary Louise Dearing.
 Drolleries (von Wilp), Martha Wat kins Coffee. -i
 Youth and Joy ,(Schytte),. Elizabeth Ashe. -... The Witches Revel (schytte), Eve lyn Strickland. a
 Allegro (Mozart), Dorsey Harris White. Mary Singleton.
 Merry Farmer (Schumann), Teresa iCatanzano.
 Uncle Remus (MacDowell), Grace Norris. @
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Reddy kept on running, and all the time he kept trying to remember where that old hollow log was. He was so tired that he felt almost ready to drop. Bowser was almost at his heels now. He didn't have to use his wonderful nose now in order to follow Reddy, for Reddy was right in plain sight, and Bow ser felt sure that the long chase would soon be over, and that never again would Reddy Fox come snooping around Farmer Browns henyard.
 Just ahead of Reddy was great pile of fallen trees called a wtndfau. Some time or other terrible windstorm had swept through this part of the Green Forest and torn those trees up by the roots and thrown them in great tangled pile. At the sight of that wind- fall Reddy's heart leaped with new hope. It came over him that 1t was in the middle of that tangle that he had once discovered that hollow log. With Bowser at his very beels be clipped in at a little opening under that great pile, and Rowser after him. A minute later something happened that sent Reddy flying out one way quite forgetful of the fact that he was tired and Bowser the Hound was running another way with his tail between his legs and yeip- ing with fright.
 Next Story-A Broken Nap.
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ENGLISH VILLAGES

Houses of every kind and age, there is the Crown and Porcupine public house, black and white, with overhang- ing upper floor; MT. Soames, the butch CTS, of brick and timber and blue shut ters which he is at that moment taking down; Wakeling's, the general shop, ot blue and red brick in patterns, with good sash windows above and two jolly bow-windows below, full of sweet jars and hats and calicoes and boots and cheese and postcards and bluebottle flies. Miss Cracknell's, now the post of flee, is of hard gray Hints, with purple clematis climbing over 1t up to the orange-lichened red roof.
 Set a little back is tfe vicarage, and in the other direction are two lines ot higgledy -piggledy houses, like yokels just caught by a color-sergeant-tall boys, stout boys, silly boys, and bright ones, none of them in line, and facing every way but the right one. But they have been standing so ever so many centuries. Now and then new ones are built; there is the postmah's and the carriers house down the road, built in jubilee year, when the red granite toun- tain with Ever Glorious" on one side anu NlCUOrld IlcSIud uI IhC VIAOA ""' put up instead of the old wooden trough in Bridge Lane. But they are not no ticeable. The houses and the gaffers and the school children seem to have changed only as the flowers, change in the little gardens-the same, yet differ ent each year.
 Villages like this lie along every road in every valley, by each rivulet in Eng land. In different parts of the country their appearance may change, owing tc different conditions of growth ana building material. Thus, in Wiltshire there is a glorious orange-gray stone which is 50 tempting to carve and tc trim smooth that each cottage is as carefully bnilt and as beautiful as a church. On there are the old brick villages of Norfolk and Suffolk. There the church is often as large as all the houses put together, having been built five hundred years.-Christopher Illus sey in Open Air.
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Illinois Central System Shows How Government
 Ownership Would Increase Taxes

undoubtedly increasing of paid by everyone dse taxation only federal taxation put
  taxation the they
  the the country sections where the ra no" pay ion of the total property
 with operating of million dollars gear amounting $33O9566O6 Of this large governments TOT the enterprises Iowa. 56o in taxes taxation the remaining or
 
 
 be Take the schools: Last 44 per cent 9t the public public education 3000O On the basis for the entire country the CS $1OOOO0OOO of public schools SIS O4s7s taxes in din9 s15 in Indiana 91O in Kentucky o % 9 S5s sS5 in Arkansas $2 Minnesota, $9O1860 in $722o4 in the states which the all the railroads Illinois, including the hotGn than $2aOoOOOO in taxes taxpayer who informed about the result countries would favor change railroads voted of such Italy has promptly owned railroads last
  interest financial
  In 
 of this privately $SOO relieve the burden the other taxpayers Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited -
 President Illinois Central System.
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"A Bridge Party | For Miss
 Farley

Miss Evelyn Farley, who will be- come the bride of MT. Joseph Clowd Eunice Stockdell entertained with a bridge party at her home in Norwood.
 Fall flowers decorated the house fin the yellow shades and the tally cards were suggestive of Halloween. Only the intimate friends of the honoree were included in this courtesy.
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Ny NeighborSa

The burners in gas stoves and ovens often get choked up with grease. To remedy this remove all the burners and place them in boli- CT full of suds (after the washing IS done) and add a good handful or soda. Boil the burners an hour or so, then dry thoroughly and replace them in the stove. This process re- peated every few weeks will save both gas and time in cooking.
 If soup has been made too salty add a few slices of raw potato and cook five minutes longer. The potato will absorb the salt. ..
 In making cake or. creaming but ter and sugar for hard sauce always add a tablespoonful of boiling water. This greatly lessens the work, pro- duces a fine creamy mixture and makes the cake more moist.
 The bureau drawer may be made to open noiselessly and easily by rubbing it with common soap.
 The best way to clean an invalids room is to rub the carpet all over with a cloth wrung out ot ammonia diluted with little warm water, rinsing and turning the cloth as the dust and dirt collect upon 1t. Change the water frequently. This IS far better than sweeping and raises an unpleasant dust in the room.
 When finely chopped nuts are needed for cake, salads or sand wiches run the nuts through the mincing machine. r
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Stories For Bedtime, By
 Burgess

DEDDY FOX was beginning to be m worried. Somehow Bowser the
 Hound seemed to be wiser, very much wiser, in the ways of foxes than he used to be. Reddy had tried all the old tricks with which he had once been able to fool Bowser, and they had failed. Bowser had been smart enough to see through them, and all that Red dy had gained by them was a few min utes of rest each time.~ He had needed those brief rests. A long, lazy summer had not put him in the best of cond1- tion for long, hard run. He was too fat. A little later, after he had had to work off some of that fat by hunt ing for food, he would not mind such a run. In fact, he would rather enjoy it. He would be in the best of running condition and able to run for hours without distress.
 But now he couldn't. You see, for months he had been able to get plenty to eat without much trouble, and so his muscles were what is called soft That means that because they had not been used very much they soon grew tired. And then, too, he lost his breath easily. You know how 1t is when you run for long time without feeling It. but if you have not been doing any run ming and then try it you lose your breath very soon and grow very tired It was just so with Reddy.
 It was because of this he had tried that mean trick of leading Bowser tc the hiding place of Lightfoot the Deer He had hoped that Bowser would chase Lightfoot. But Bowser had been taught that he must never chase Light foot, and so Reddy's trick had failed and he was forced to run again with Bowser following, making the Green Forest ring with his great voice as he eagerly followed Reddy's tracks witt his wonderful nose.
 Farther and farther into the Green Forest Reddy ran, and with every pass ing minute Bowser was gaining. Fol the first time since he was young and had much to learn Reddy was really afraid of Bowser the Hound. For 6 long time he had felt so sure he was smart enough to feel Bowser whenever he pleased that now his tricks haC failed his wits seemed to fail him.
 If I could only have time to think, he panted. "Tm getting so tired thai I can't think at all, and pretty soon won't be able to run at all. Oh, dear what shall do? I've got to do some thing pretty quick or it will be too late I wish now I had gone home even i by so doing I would have shown tha dog where I live. But it is too lat now. He would catch me before could get there. I've just got to dt something to fool him here in the Greer Fofest. or else find a hole I can ge into and he can't. It seems to me I re member seeing an old hollow log ovel here somewhere, but I've forgotten jus where. Oh, dear, why does a fellow forget? Forgetting is a dreadful thin, sometimes. Let me think! Let m' thinkw
 To have heard him you would hav thought that some one was preventing him from thinking. In a way, I sup pose some one was, and that one wal Rowser the hound. Bowser had go Reddy so frightened that he couldn' think as he usually does. All the tint
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Social Calendar

The Sunday school department Of New Prospect church, Chalkville. will give a benefit chicken supper Saturday, November 1, at the church. Everyone invited.
 The annual luncheon of the Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood will be given at the temple on November 8. For reser- yations call Mrs. l.. A. Beck. Main 4916.
 A. The many friends of Miss Mary Ap. bolt will be glad to learn that sne~0 convalescing from a serious illness.
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THE CLERGYMANs FAREwELL

A village clergyman, on the eve of his depature to take up the post of chaplain to some prison, opened his farewell ser. mon by saying that he was going to make another and less tangible depars ture. He was going to reserve his text till the end.
 "AIl these years," he proceeded, you have taken little interest in the par1sks in the services, and, fear, none In me. As you know, have reluctantly accept. ed the post of a prison chaplain. And now for my text: I go to prepare 8 place for you."-"The Sands of Time" by Walter Sichel.
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accordingly. For the last two years I have had heavy losses and my in come now is only $3,00O a year, but we are living just as extravagantly now as we did when we had more
 money. I have tried in every way
 to get my wife to be more economical but she will not stand for cutting down expenses, so she spends more thon oon nov for
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than l can pay for. have pied with her to go easy and help me to get back to my standard, but she just goes or spending and spending. I am utterly discouraged, but with all my wife's faults I love her still, so please advise me what to do and how to control her
 UNHAPPY ONE.
 Answer: If had some magic remedy by which the extravaganza of spendthrift wives, could be con- trolled the grateful husbands of the country would build me
 monument as high as the skies. But, alas, l have no such pam acea for one of the greatest troubles of domestic life. know of no way to stop an extravagant woman's spending except to stop her credit, for such a woman is deaf to reason and blind to re-. suits, and she has no more heart and sympathy than stone.
 When you see a woman plungint recklessly down the road to run, drag ging her husband and children dowI into the pit with her; she is crazy. Sh' does not realize the nature and qualit! of her acts, as the legal definition O insanity says. She is mad with the Jus of things. She can no more resist thu temptation of the thing she wants thar the sot can resist his carvings fol liquor.
 So you see women buying, buying buying finery that they know they cannot pay for, living in houses tha they cannot afford, running up bill wherever they can get little credit knowing that the crash is bound t come sooner or later and they will b. penniless, and foodless, and shelterless Insane! Insane! Insanei
 Such women are utterly selfish.
 In order to gratify their own pas
 sion for display and luxuries they
 are willing to work their husbands
 to death and to bring their children 10 penury and want, and l believe that they should be dealt with as
 ruthlessly as they deal with others. 54I believe that when a man has tried in vain to appeal to his wife's affection for him, her common sense and her honesty, to keep
 their expenditures well within their income and she refueses, that he should call the law to his pro- lection and make it impossible for her to run up any more bills. And so far from this reflecting ol the man, everybody would have nor respect for him for having enough back bone to refuse to let a woman ruil him. And especially would he be ad mired by the merchants, who would b saved many thousands of dollars ol bad accounts every year.
 But the real way to control an extra vagant wife is to prevent her ecquirin spending complex.
 If every man would deal fairly
 and intelligently with his wife on
 the money question there would be
 mighty few wives who are wasters
 and spenders. Every young hus-
 band should sit down in his honey
 moon flat and explain to his wife just how much he is making. He
 should budget their expenses and
 help her to keep her budget
 straight, give her a fair personal
 allowance and hold her to the
 schedule thus made out. If he did
 he would keep her from ever ac-
 quiring the vice that has wrecked
 as many homes as drink.
 DOROTHY DIX.
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THE INFERENCE

Lord Halsbury, the-lawyer, who after. ward became Lord High Chancellor ,of England, gained great reputation at the bar as a topnotch cross-examiner.
 'sDo you drink?" he inquired, blandiy' of an over-dressed, horsey-looking indi- yidual who was the chief prop of the defense at an Old Bailey trial.
 sThat's my business !" was the retort.
 "Any other?" asked Lord Halsbury, who was then MT. Harding Giffard, with swell-affected politeness.-"Dra- matic Days at the Old Bailey" by Charles Kingston.
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THE sELFPOsSEssED PRINCE

Bernard Shaw, as everyone knows, IS self-possessed to the verge of being in- human. In letter to friend he once Illustrated the fact that he never cried over split milk by likening himself to an Indian prince whose favorite wife, when banqueting with him, caught him and was burnt to ashes before she could be extinguished. The Indian prince took in the situation at once and faced it in thoroughly Shavian manner. Sweep up your missus," be said to his
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HEAR DOROTHY DIX-When I D was first married I had an in
 come of S10.0OO a year and lived
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RELIEF

Her-I can't marry you.
 Him (downcast) t)-Why not? q was married last week" "Oh!" (joyously) q was afraid you dfdn't love me."-Georgia Yellow Racket.
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believe that she can have an inno- cent conversation with another man will make his wife utterly
 miserable, DOROTHY DIX.
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weeping staff, "and bring in the roast pheasant v'-Passing Show, London.
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 love a girl and yet not tell her? Does a man call on a girl and take her out several times a week and spend his hard-earned money on her if he does rot love her?
 My friend has such young man calling on her, and she doubts his love because, while he makes love to her in a beautiful, appealing way with his eyes and by his attentions, never does a word of love escape from his lips. He does not even hint of his love. Now, this young man is not bashful, and she does not understand his silence in re- gard to his affection for her. Don't you think she should be content with the "actions-speak-loude r-than-words" test? All women know that words of love from men mean nothing at all-they are just bits of wind not binding and soon forgotten. What is your opinion?
 LEAP YEAR MAID.
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Answer: Of course, most love- making is just hot air, and must be underwritten with a proposal of marriage to make it of any real value. But, on the other hand, up by a 'Will-you-be-mine?" prop osition are mighty apt to be with out intention.
 I do not believe that any man who is in love with woman ever refrains from telling her so, unless there is some weighty reason of honor why he should keep silent. Certainly no man ever "lets conceal. ment, like worm in the bud, prey on his damask cheek" when he is wooing a maiden. Then he puts the loud pedal on the soft talk and goes to it for all he is worth.
 should say that any young man who looked unutterable things and acted in a loverlike manner, but who studiously refrained from making sentimental speeches, was a foxy gentleman who had no
 matrimonial Intentions whatever, but was simply playing safe.
 Least said, soonest mended, in af fairs of the heart, and when he get. tired of the little platonic Irritation h, will just look surprised that the gir put the wrong interpretation upon hi. conduct, and he will have no love tall to take back, no broken vows to recant
 For a man to go to see a girl
 and take her out means nothing
 except that he finds her an agree
 able companion. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-I have been engaged for the last ten months to man whs is very jealous. Several weeks ago al old friend of mine made purely friend ly call upon me. When I told my fiance about this he became very angry and, although I have asked him tt come to see me, he simply ignores me What can l do? MARY. Answer: Let him go, and thank
 God that you found out what kind
 of a narrow, unreasonable, suspici-
 ous creature he is before you mar
 ried him, instead of afterward.
 Any man who hasn't enough intelli- gence to distinguish between an
 old friend and lover, and who
 doesn't trust woman enough to
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Dorothy Dix's Letter Boz

Is There Amy Way To Curb Am Entravagamt Wje Who WiU Not Stop Spending?-Cam A Man Love 4 Girl And Yet Not TeU Her?
 HoW To I'reat The Too-JealoMs Fiance
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Next Story-A Broken Nap.
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than I can pay for. l have pied With her to go easy and help me to get back to my standard, but she just goes on spending and spending. I am utterly discouraged, but with all my wife's faults love her still, so please advise me what to do and how to control her
 UNHAPPY ONE.
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The bureau drawer may be made to open noiselessly and easily by rubbing it with common soap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

When finely chopped nuts are needed for cake, salads or sand wiches run the nuts through the mincinC machine. F
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For man to go to see a girl and take her out means nothing except that he finds her an agree able companion. ',
 DOROTHY DIX
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Certainly no man ever "lets conceal ment, like a worm in the bud, prey on his damask cheek" when he is wooing a maiden. Then he puts the loud pedal on the soft talk and goes to it for all he is worth
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-02
Aerial is Protection

DO acrials attract lightning"
thereby increasing the danger that
buildings will he struck during the
summer months?
This Is question frequently asked
and indicates real but crOundless
fear. A properly installed aerial In
stead Of being a danger to p building
* an added protection. even better. IN
fact. than lightning rod according
to many radio experts
This installation, however, must
include a proper grounding Of the
aerial, either through an antenna
grounding switch or lightning
arrestor properly grounded The
arrcster Is required nv fire insurance
underwriters regulations The switch
is optional but recommended.
Static electricity, Of which liEhtn-
ing is type, is present in the air in
great amounts during the summer,
= negative charge may exist In the
air above a building. or other spot.
a positive charge may exist in the
earth directly beneath. When these
become strong enough. tho dir be-
tween is broken down and then q
lightning fash" results.
But when pathway. such Ms an
aerial, is provided between these two
charges they quietly pass up and
down this aerial and icing opposite
charges Of electricity. they meet and
neutralize each other. No lightning
flash" can therefore result. ....