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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-14
FROM FARGO

A: c. Holt Of Fargo was q visitor
in the city over Sunday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-14

This str king frock is in Roman
Striped silk in shades OF brown, tan
and Orange. It emphasizes the
beauty of long lines by the clever
addition II braid panels finisncd
with long tassels of dark brown. An
unusual tunic effect is achieved.
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in July by auto; and Miss Stone of
jamestown will discuss the trip by
railroad. The usual vocational
luncheon or breakfast will be scsvcd
If time permits the local clubs hope
to be able to drive with their guests
to the many spots of beauty and his
toric interest in and around MaIdan
and Bismarck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
Juvenile Program At riters'
 Conclave

One of the interesting programs of the Writers Conclave was the after noon devoted to juvenile stories, songs and poems. Several Birmingham women gave original work of which the Florence News has the following &C., count:
 The Tuesday afternoon session of the Alabama Writers Conclave consisted of a juvenile program over which Mrs. Mary Inge Hoskins graciously presided. The first speaker, Mrs. Alleyn, of the Blue Pencil club, read two poems by little ten-year-old Helen, Ranschenberg. Mrs. Alleyn's talk which followed was both instructive and entertaining. Miss Maud Lindsay next charmed and delighted those present with an informal talk, stressing the need for children's ballads based on the history of the south. With characteristic charm she announced that she was of- fering a prize for the best child's bal lad on Jimmie Bean and his historic ride to Kings Mountain. The length of the ballad is limited to 64 lines.
 Cunning little folks, Dick Jones and Virginia Freeman, bot hof whom have been members of Miss Lindsay's kim dergarten sang one of Miss Lindsay's Christmas songs, accompanied by Mrs. Acker.
 Mrs. Theo Wade, of Selma Scrib- blers' club, gave an impressive paper on ''The Appeal of the Child's Story" Mrs. Wade has had successful ca reer as a teacher and Sunday school worker for several years. She also read an interesting legend in conjunc- tion with her talk.
 Mrs. Alice Allison Lide of Selma Stu dent Writers, gave some valuable hints on Juvenile Writing. She impressed the idea that children love stories deal ing with primitive life, and she also told how "fact articles" accompanying story can be made profitable return to the writer who can utilize material already in hand.
 Mrs. Mart Hood of the Birmingham Writers club gave an original reading called "The Happy Moon-Man."
 Mrs. Jesse Wright, also of Birming- ham, followed with an original story which has recently been accepted by Baptist Juvenile publication.
 Then followed several delightful poems by members of the Press and Authors club of Montgomery, Mrs. Paul Smith giving a lovely little poem which was published recently during baby week; Mrs. R. D. Mckinney s poem, "A Little Face" and Mrs. W. A. Stafford's ever popular dialect reading entitled "Mutiny."
 Mrs. W. D. Tynes of Birmingham sang one of her songs accompanied by Prof Ferdinand Dunkley.
 Several impromptu features were in- troduced during the program among which were the introduction of some distinguished guests, Mrs. Mattie Weeden, Mrs. Emmett fO'Neal, Mrs. Mary Coffee and others. The program was concluded with an informal re- ception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

square by having my friend visit me in my own house. do not intend having him stay until midnight. All l ask is that he be permitted to call for me when we attend theater or dance, but this is out of the question, as my father will not allow 1t.
 What should do? Sneak out again the way I used to and meet my friend on the sly, or find some other place to board, where I can have him call on me the way he should? JULIA.
 Answer: Certainly, Julia, I should advise you to go to live in some place where you can receive your men friends in a proper and decent manner, and where you will not be forced to lie and deceive in order to have a little innocent pleasure. You owe that much to yourself, because no man can have the same respect for a girl who has to slip out and meet him on the sly on a street corner as he does for the one who receives him in the convention-haloed precincts of her own parlor.
 But surely any father who refuses to let his daughters receive their men friends at home is a fit subject for the investigation of either an alienist or the grand jury. He must be mad, not to know what he is doing; or criminal, not to realize the results of forcing a young girl out on the streets to pick up her acquaintances there, to find her pleas ures in the street.. and to be treated as lightly as men treat girls they come to know in that sort of way.
 For when you lock a girl in a room it is a sure thing that she will climb out of the window. If you refuse to let her have company at home she will find it wherever she can, on the streets, at corner drug stores, at dance halls, at many a place that is the anteroom of hell. If you deny her a lawful good time in her youth she
 will have an unlawful good time, even if she has to sell her soul to get it. which is something for ster.l parents to think over.
 The only way fathers and mothers can protect their daughters is to en- courage them to bring their friends home, to make their companions well come at their home and make home have a home of our own. She wants to live with her people, which I can not do. In the three years we have been married we have started to keen house six times, and every time she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
Little Stories For Bedtime
(By THORNTON BURGEss)

They started in by telling him that Sooty makes his home in chimney Right then Peter asked that simple lit- tie question and discovered that he had asked poser.
 He discovered it by the sudden silence that fell. Each one seemed to be waiting for some one else to an- swer. Peter asked it over again and waited, his eyes beginning to twinkle. He suddenly suspected that the very ones who had laughed at him for his mistake about Sooty didn't know as much about their feathered neighbors as they pretended to.
 Don't all speak at once," said Peter as the silence became rather painful. You tell me, Jenny Wren," he continued. You know so much about your neighbors."
 For once Jenny Wren's lively tongue seemed to have something the matter with it. "Why-why-I suppose he builds it the same as the rest of us build our nests,' 'she stammered.
 But you all build differently" per-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
PETER ASKS A POSER.

nO YOU know what 1t means to
 N ask poser? Well, it means
 to ask something which no one can answer. Now, when Peter Rabbit said, "Will some one please tell me how under the sun Sooty builds a nest in a chimney?" he asked poser so far as his feathered friends of the Old Orchard were concerned. They had just been laughing at him and poking fun at him because he knew so little about Sooty the Swift that when he had seen him go down Farmer Browns chimney he had thought that some thing had happened to Sooty as re- suit of which he had fallen down the chimney. This had seemed to the feathered folk of the Old Orchard a great joke. Peter took it good-natured- ly and laughed, too, which was the sensible thing to do. Then the birds declared that Peter ought to know some- thing about Sooty and had started in to tell him the things he didn't know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13


 in a crotch of tree or on big branch where it cannot fall off. Goldie the Oriole fastens his to the twigs on the end of a branch and lashes it so that | it cannot come loose no matter how hard the wind blows. But if a chimney is | the same inside as it is outside there is nothing for SOoty to build on, and how can he fasten it to the side? Per haps he builds it at the very bottom. You ought to know, Welcome Robin. | I've often seen you sit on the top of Farmer Browns chimney"
 Welcome Robin stammered as badly as had Jenny Wren. "I-I- never have seen Sooty's nest,v he confessed. Then with a toss of his head he added 2: q never meddle with the affairs of my neighbors. It is none of my busi- ness how Sooty builds his nest, and I've never tried to find out. I know he builds it in that chimney, and that is enough for me. If he wants to go down in that black, dirty place he is welcome to. wouldn't go down there for the world"
 ter-chitter-chit-chit! You wouldn't because you couldn't. There isn't one of you who can go straight down in a place like that, and you know it," cried a voice right over their heads. It was the voice of Sooty him self. He had been circling around just over them and had heard all that had been said. "If they laughed at you for what you didn't know, Peter Rabbit, it is your turn to laugh now. Not one of them ever has seen my nest or knows how l build it. You asked them a poser when you asked them question, Peter, and if they are honest they will admit it. They pretended to know what they don't know at all. tell you what I'll do. invite every one of you birds to come right over to Farmer Browns chimney with me right now and come down inside and see my nest. Then you can tell Peter all about it. Come on Jenny Wren"
 But Jenny Wren suddenly remem- bered that her babies needed her. Vel come Robin had an important engage ment. Goldie the OriOle tried to slip away unseen. Chippy the Sparrow re- membered that he had had no break fast. In short, every one of the birds had an excuse and hurried away. Presently Peter found himself quite alone, with Sooty the Swift eircling overhead and laughing just as the other birds had laughed at Peter in the beginning.
 "Chitte e r-chitter-chitter-chit-chit," |" cried Sooty, racing over Peters head "I'll tell you how l build my nest, Peter, and then you'll know something that will give you the laugh on those who laughed at you and pretended to know so much.
 N NaSt Skovv-.Au AcroEaS oe 1h. At-
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Dut my 1u lucE Ou- jects to my going with him or any one else, just the way he always did before I married either time. I was never allowed to re- ceive any company in my home or to have any men call CTS. The result was that I used to meet them on the sly on the streets. That is the way I met, and married, the wrong men.
 Now l want to ..lau fns d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
Reflections of Dorothy Dix
A Special Word To Stern Parents Who WiU Not AlloaO Their Daughters To Have Men Callers.
 The Wife Who Is A Quitter-ShaU She Please Her Parents Or MGrTy Her Hedrts Choice?

has broken up and gone back to her father and mother. The last time she went, I refused to go with her, but she took our baby, which am crazy about, and went anyway. I feel that have done my duty, because did all that could to make her happy and com fortable, and to make a nice home in which our child could grow up, and now am at my wits end to know what step to take next. G. w.
 Answer: When a woman is a quitter, there isn't much chance to do anything with her, G. w. Your only hope would be in her parents so attractive that the young people want to come to it. In that way only do they have a chance to find out with whom their children are asso- ciating and to guide them in the choice of friends. In that way only can they help their girls to pick the right men for husbands.
 More than that, the background of home is great protection to girl. It throws an aura of responsibility about her, and the knowledge that she is be- ing gently, wisely, capably looked after makes men show her a deference and a consideration they never show to the girl they pick up on the streets, who has no home to which they are ever invited and no mother and father they ever meet.
 Your father is responsible for your {, two unfortunate marriages, Julia. You have suffered and profited by your hard lessen. Meet no more men on the sly, but openly and aboveboard in some respectable home.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-I am a young mar ried man and earn a good salary, enough for us to live on in comfort, but my wife is not willing for us to having the backbone and the good sense to tell their daughter that she must go back home and do her duty, and that they will not make any stacker welcome in their house. But they will never do it, because if they had been people of grit they would never have raised up the poor, weak, flabby creature your wife is.
 It is very sad to think of how many divorces could be avoided, how many homes could be saved, if mothers and fathers had the nerve and determina- tion to hold their daughters to their duty after they get marrier, and to force them to go back and try to make a success of marriage, instead of chuck ing it the first time anything goes wrong and they find out that matrimony means work and sacrifice instead of billing and cooing.
 There are times when we all feel like giving up and running up the ,urhikn flnn nf dnEonA. -..h... ...e eoAI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

that we have borne all that we can bear and have done all that we can do, and there is no more fight left in us. But if somebody or some force holds us to our task we get our sec ond wind and wrest victory out of defeat, and we get happiness and self-respect that we would never have known if we had cowardly surren- dered. And this is just as true of matrimony as it is of any other under taking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

HEAR DOROTHY DiX-I am D twenty-five years old, and have
 been married and divorced twice, but have no children. am now going with a man who is a perfect gentleman,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
Junior Society
MISS DAVIS ENTERTAINS WITH LUNCHEON PARTY

1OVNON1kyO1N kAG6A
 Miss Mildred Davis entertained re- gently at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. 0. B. Davis, in Norwood, giv- ing a luncheon party in honor of some of the girls who attended Camp Win nataska during the summer. Those in- cluded in this hospitality were Misses Hazel Pierce, Mildred Pierce, Sarah Dewberry, Pearl Elizabeth Wright and Bebe Wharton.
 MT. Paul Ausley left recently for Auburn, wheres he will attend school.
 Miss Elizabeth simms, who has been the guest of Miss Helen Fowlkes, re- turned Friday morning to her home in Talladega. Miss Mary Lebron, who has been the guest of Miss Mary Jenkins, left Tues day for her home in Wetumpka. Miss LeBron was delightfully."- entertained, while visiting in this city.
 Mir. Harry Burn, Jr., is leaving to- day for Episcopal High school in Alexanderia, Va.
 Miss Jennie Hood Hunt. has re- turned from a visit to North Carolina, where she attended Camp Merrie Woode for two months of the summer.
 Mir. Langsten McCally returned Tuesday from Camp Walton, where he has been spending the summer.
 Miss Margaret Oliver will leave soon for Baltimore, Md, where she will at tend Boucher for the winter.
 Mir. James Marbury and MT. Lee Marbury, who have been spending sev- eral weeks in AnnistOn, will return soon.
 Messrs. Butte and Walter English will leave Sunday for St. Bernard, where they will attend school for the coming term.
 Miss Edith Dommick will leave soon to attend Miss Bunnham's school in North HamtOn, Mass, for the winter. SELE.HUGHES WEDDING OF INTEREST IN PINSON
 The marriage of Miss Marcie Hughes and MT. Berlie Self, which occurred on Wednesday evening at the home of the brides parents in Pinson, will be of interest to their many friends.
 Rev.>J. L. McHugh of the Methodist Episcopal church of Clay officiated in the presence of the families and few close friends.
 Tn bride was beautiful in a beaded gray satin back crepe with accessories to match, carrying a bouquet of ferns and asters.
 Supper was served to the following : Misses TOmmie Smith, Ruby Montgom- cry, Elizabeth Martin, Jo Duggars, Clara Self, Jamie Massey, Lyda Self :; Messrs. Tom, Fred and Cecil Hughes, Floyd Nicks, Guy and Fred Self, Mir. and Mrs. J. P. Hickman, Mir. and Mrs. N. H. Self, Mir. and Mrs. Edgar Self, Mir. and Mrs. George Martin, Mir. and Mrs. J. T. Hughes, Mrs. S. NJ. Faucett.
 Mir. and Mrs. Self left immediately after the ceremony for the home of the groom's parents at Clay, for few days visit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
Lecture Begins Wednesday On
 Constitution

Dr. Harrison A. Trexler of the de- pertinent of political science of Bir- mingham-Southern college, will begin series of six free public lectures on the Constitution of the United States on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock :, at the parish house of the Church of the Advent, on the corner of Sixth avenue and Twentieth street. These talks, which will take place on the aft ernoons of September IT and 24 and October 1, 8, 15sahi22 are being given ' under the auspices of the Jefferson County League of Women Voters, hay ing been made possible through the generosity of Miss Ella Conley. They are purely educational in character
 September 17 has been chosen to in- augurate the course because it is na- tionally observed as Constitution Day." Following are the subjects to be dis cussed: September 1, What a Con- stitution Is. Those of Great Britain France and the United States Com pared; September 24, How Our Consti. tuition Was Made; October 8, Our Un- written Constitution October 15, Fed eralism Versus States Rights; October 9, Our Constitution Today.
 
 As before stated, these lectures are absolutely free. It is not necessary to take notes nor pass tests. They are opens> to men, women, boys and girls, and young people of high school age are especially invited. No registration be- forehand is required. Dr. Trexler sug- gests the following list, of books, which are in the public library, as collateral reading for those who desire to do out side reading: A. c. Mclaughlin, Confederation and Constitution" Kimball, National Government of ths United States" chs. .I-IV. Bancroft, History of the Constitution" F. A. Walker, "The Making of the Nation" Williughby and Rogers, Introduction to the Problem of Government" chas. IV-VI. Haines and Haines, Principles and Problems of Government" pp. 199- 225 Stephen Peacock, Elements of Political Science" J. W. Garner, "Introduction to Political Science" Jefferson Davis, "Rise and Fall of the Confectionery" Alex H. Stephens, "The War Between the States"
 The league has sent special invita- tion to the members of the local bar to attend. Members of the league, as we'll as all of other organizations, are urged to come and bring their friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13
MISS REYNOLDS TO
 HONOR MISS WALDROP

Miss Excell Reynolds is entertaining this afternoon with a miscellaneous shower at her home, 1402 Eighteenth street, south, honoring Miss Anna Mae Waldrop, bride-elect.7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

Which makes one think of Murray Allison's story of his young lady ac- quaintance down on Long Island, who had walked home from.Iso many motor parties that her mother gave her a road map for. Christmas. tT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

The woman who refuses to do her part in making a home when her hus- band provides the means of doing so de- faults on her part of the marriage con- tract. She is coward. She is a cheat, and her husband loses nothing when she leaves him. But when she takes the child he loves away from him she adds cruel crime to her weakness. She has no right to rob the child of its father nor to do the child the deadly wrong of making it an orphan deprived of a fathers guidance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

Answer: Marry the man you want. You are the one who has to live with the man, not your parents,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

sisted Peter. "You build yours inside box or in a hollow tree where it
 cannot fall. Welcome Robin builds his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

Dear Miss Dix-My' parents are try ing to force me to marry one man, while I love another. What shall do?
 FLORENCE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

There are times when we all feel like giving up and running up the white flag of defeat; when we feel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

But what a man can do in such a situation, I do not know. It is just one of the pitiful tragedies for which we find no solution that happen so often in this heart-break house we call life. DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

Next stOry-An Acrobat of the Air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

so you are the one who should bs pleased. The marriers should be the pickers and have their own choice.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-13

. MT. Paul Ausley left recently for Auburn, where, he will attend school.
 Miss Elizabeth Simms, who has been the guest of Miss Helen Fowlkes, re- turned Friday morning to her home in TalladeRa.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-24

tubes to be operated on common plate battery.
 Transformers.
 'rhe translormer windinGs should preferably lac tightly coupled. \ suit able design consists of 100 turns O; No 2i E. & $. wire on a tube. two inches in diameter and 2A. inches in length. comprising thc secondary, The primary should l." wound witt ahU,t ?a turns Of the same wire. on il conccntric cylindrical tube of about l@t inches ,n diameter.
 "Th" primary is wound in oppo- sit" direction to the secondary. The end Of the primary winding directly under the grid end Of tho secondary should he connected to the plate bali tcry. The other terminals follow as usual.
 "The secondary tuning condenser should have q capacity of .onn.5 mid"
 Coupling these condenScrS together involves such hard work 10 adjust each correctly in relation to the others. that this Is the most difficult part in hooking up the receiver.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-24
ASKS THAT BED.TIME
 STORIES E5 GTNS0RIN
Cbild-catng Eca"s S.,ouhi Be Dalct"a From Taics-Sparcs !it;'c Tots
 in snN Ontario.

From the land where rild Eamc Is siill plentiful has come request tp wGY. the Schenectady. x, Y radio broa,lrnsting station. that child-paiing bears be dalotcd from hcd-lime stories for thr childrrn Tn q country where hcars arc frequent sight such stories if is explained. put frar in the hnart" of children.
 Tine letter came fronl l.. J. Lcc, q rt sidcm of Ice Valley seven miles from Massey stntioh or New Ontario. Canada air. l.co is thr first settler of tho place which is named after iim. Itc is well over aotcnfg years old and has lived ai lrc Valley for thirty years
 "I want to fiIa protest writes Mir. Lee. "agiins; tho bcdtime stories for the children about eating np little boys nr wantinn 10. Remember that stuff rous 70 this uew couniry where there are bears Therc are fcw child len going Co scheol who haven't sfcn bear. Boys eight pr lrn ycars old only laugh at such stuff here but the little lots are made afraid"
New Britain herald., 1924-03-24
Ihrcc-Stacc Radio,

Farranl gave hook-up for three stages of radio, drtector and two , stages Of aullo-trcqucncy amplifica- ton and showed how rcgCneratiNe aWplication, equal in increased hoIum" to two stages of audio. may he obtained. This is done by omit ting the nulliiying resistance of the third radio stage and controlling the feed back by means uf n potontio- meter on the grid Of the same tube, Equal results may be obtained by use ot Variomcter in the plate cir cult Of the detcctOr tube. But if this is done the nullifying resistance on the third radio tube must remain.
 "ln the uso of three stages of raiio- o-trequcncy amriitication with out regeneration" Farrand says, 'it is not nee, ,ssary to take any par ticular precautions, except disposing tho transformers at right angles, and using care 10 provide for short erid leads, and that the grid lead of one tube does not run close 10 the grid lead Of another"
 Farrand's receiver has been sue