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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
abrics Making Am eric an
 F ashions
By Jane Faulkner

"American fabrics are the finest i'll the world. For sheer beauty, variety and wearing qualities they cannot be purpassed"
 Mrs. Harriet Edwards Fayes, fashion and fabric expert, who has just re- turned from Europe, thus sums up her answer to the question, What is America contributing to the great art of creating women's clothes?'
 .sThe slogan, American fashions for 5American women,' which you hear so often these days, expresses something k which is no longer dream she says.
 America has created these lovely fabrics which are, after all. the mate rials with which the style designers have to work, and so it follows that the fashions inspired by American K fabrics have acquired distinct per sonality.
 T wonder if the American woman fully realizes she unused, what n | world of beautiful clothes is within her grasp? With these marvellous ma terials she can now evolve clothes that would have cost fortune ten years ago, when the word imported left no argument.
 Now don't mistake me-" she went on, mo one wants to detract from the praise that is due the superb beauty of imported brocades, and hand loomed fabrics. These have the soul and the rough poetry of the European peasantry woven into them. I am speaking of American material suitable for the wearable everyday dress. Witt the ioveliness of such fabrics at her command the American woman need not look beyond her own shores for smartness."
 Mrs. Fayes doesn't belong to that large school of Do as I say and not as I do.'' For at that moment she was wearing stunning black frock plaided ilr white, made of material which she purchased before she left for Europe three years ago. Il had the length of stuff tuckedt away in my trunk" she laughed. ''and- when ii was made up in Paris the comments it called forth were very interesting to me. The style, as you see, is simple enough. It was always the material that came in for praise"
 And then Mrs. Fayes passed along q blow to the humorists who harp on tne way our glrlS- UiOcK the traIt1C when there is mirror in the elevator or chewing gum machine.
 'The American woman isn't vain, J she said. "She doesn't look in the mirror as much as she ought. When some genius invents a full length triple mirror that will fold up and fit under the day-bed, and sell for five dollars, another milestone in the ere sting of ideal American fashions will have been passed
 Our women will discover many Characteristic things about themselves and the discovery will Influence styles in no small way. Nine out of ten French women have long triple mirror in their rooms and they know every line reflected in it.
 Now, the American woman rarely makes use of a triple mirror except when she is in a shop trying on new gowns: To see her figure reflected in full-length mirror every day in the week, would be certain to develop her fine sense of line and eventually characteristic American styles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
WOMANsS .DAILY MAGAZINE

How foolish such men are. They only heap up for those who remain a storehouse of dislike. As general thing they are actually spending their heirs money. If they would only say it with actions and give it to young people at time when they need it most instead of talking about it, they would not only create cheer and the spirit of gladness in those that should love them, but they, thus would be able to see the fruits of their actions. Perhaps the most unpardonable thing is for parents not to keep their prong ises to children--to keep on telling them what they will do for them and then promptly forget it and not follow it up with action.
 It is bad example for children because they will in later life say it with words only. On the other hand, If q child knows that whatever the parent says will come to pass, his faith is strengthened and the spirit of integrity becomes a part of him--so that when he, in turn, promises any. thing to his associates he follows it up with fulfilment.
 If it were simmered down, the big gest thing in life is to make ones word as good as his bond-saying it with actions. If you don't believe it, go into the highways and byways of life and you will find that the men at the top who are, trusted and worth while are the men on whose word you can depend at any time-under any circ1mstances.
 What the world needs more than anything else is the person who does less talking and more performing in the general scheme of things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
Man s Actions More Than
 w or d s
By sophie Irene Ioeb

"The words that man used up in promising would fill a book. He said this, that and the other thing about what he was going to do, but he never did it.v This is the plaint of a woman who is now separated from her husband who kept saying it with words but never with actions. <!
 And for that matter,n she con tinued, 'he never even said it with flowers, and if he had I would have had to paysf for them. And that is how many men get away with it, year after year. promising" she added bit terly. @
 In this particular case the woman had been d first class stenographer before she was married, and she took her husband for, better or for worse, and found him very bad indeed. He just wouldn't work as long as she had a steady job and she never left her position from the time she was married because always she had his promise that he, was going to do it all, and she would at last get some home life. But she soon found that she had a parasite on her hands whose chief asset was making pleasing prom iSes-
 This is the kind of men that usually whisper. sweet riothings in the ears of young women on moonlight summer night when the winter is long way off.
 This woman is fortunate in that she has no children and she can live s'on her own" instead of on soothing syrup of words But the tragedy really begins when such a couple love children and the woman has to hold on for the sake of the little ones, and be good listener as to what he will do when opportunity comes his way.
 know of another family wherein the father was stingy Scrooge. He kept promising his children what he would do for them when a certain business deal transpired, but he al- ways had no excuse and kept hoard ing the money until they actually be- gan to hate him for his broken prom ises.
 When he died, several years were consumed in court actions to establish the rights of those who should have been the beneficiaries under his will, instead of leaving beautiful mem- ory, this father left baneful one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
TODAY'S SHORT STORY

serting the key in the rusty lock she entered room which proved to be & kitchen. The room was low, the floor consisted of flag stones worn smooth by many footsteps. A large old-fashioned fireplace had been sealed up and a stove had been set up before it. The stove was rusty but looked serviceable. There were an ancient table and two. chairs. After a nasty glance around, Kath- crime went on into another room. This was also furnished with few pieces of old furniture, chief of which was an old homemade lounge. On the floor was a well-worn rag carpet and there was the counterpart of the fireplace in the kitchen, only this one had been bricked up. Back of this room was small bedroom which had an old four-poster bed and an ancient high boy. Everything was covered with gray dust and the corners of the rooms were festooned with cobwebs. The house seemed to consist of three rooms downstairs and an attic which was reached by narrow stairway. To one not accustomed to dingy boarding house and the confines of a hall bed room the place would have looked ut terly desolate, but to Katherine it was a place of refuge. Dirty, musty and uncared for though it was it still was link in the past to the lonely girl.
 Going out into the yard, Katherine was picking her way gingerly through the lank grass and weed-choked paths when she espied a patch of glossy leaves, among which were hidden small, bright red berries. Stopping down she plucked a handful and carrying it to her face buried her nose in the fra grant mass. Wintergreens! How we'll she remembered the small boxes of these red berries which Grandmother Brent used to send her when she was child. And how grandmother. used to call the little place Pyrola Place. These berries seemed almost to con- vey message and an invitation to come and abide for while to Kath- erine.
 Going out to the road where the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09

man waited in the jitney, Katherine told him that she had decided that she would spend the night in the house but that he might come for her on the following morning.
 Katherine had decided that she could be very comfortable sleeping on the old couch for one night at least and her lunch would be all the food she would need. She broke up some old sticks and built fire in the fireplace, she dusted the old couch and put the pillows to air and finally drawing up an old rocker before the fireplace was soon lost in pleasant dreams. A short time later she was surprised to find two pleasant looking women carrying a large basket covered with a white cloth be- tween them.
 How are you, neighbour" one of the women asked. MT. Pike stopped at my house on his way back to town and said that we had neighbors for one night in the old Brent house. We looked out and saw smoke coming out of the chimney and mother and I were so glad that we just packed up a basket of eats and came over to take supper with you. My, it did seem good to see life in this old place. I tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09

The old Witch thought by saying this, the Raggedys would come back into the room again, but the Raggedys could not be fooled so easily. Instead, Raggedy Ann caught little Rags puppy dog in her arms.
 "Here!" You come back immed- iately" the old Witch screamed, but it was too late. Raggedy Ann had already jumped.
 Then the mean old Witch made a grab for Raggedy Andy, but he just laughed like this, "Ha, ~ha, ha, hee, hee!' and jumped just in time to escape the clutch of old Witch Wig gins.
 Good bye, mean old Witch Wig gins!" Raggedy Andy shouted as he turned over and over in his drop to the ground.
 Raggedy Andy hit the ground with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
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If it had not been for little Rags pup py dog, the Raggedys would not have been able to get the magic books from benea tn the pillow of old Witch Wiggins.
 Old Witch Wiggins h ad been sleeping very soundly a n d was snoring ever so loudly, but whenever Raggedy Ann had tried to roll the Witch's head from her pillow, the old Witch had mumbled in her sleep.
 So little Rags had thought of q scheme, which enabled the Raggedys to get the two invisible Magical B ok & w i t h o u [ awakening the mean cross old Witch. So, taking the two invisi- ble Magic books, the Raggedys and little Rags puppy deg rar from the Witch's bet room nd climbed upon t h e window sill.
 The Witch's hous, was built at the tol of a great oak tre, and the window sil was a great distance from the ground, but the Raggedys knew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
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very loud thump. It really was>the sound of the two invisible books hit ting the ground which made so much noise but old Witch Wiggins did not know this. Instead she said, Aha v he has been busticated, I'll bet, so will run down the rope ladder and catch all of them, just as easy as pie" And out the door she ran and down the rope ladder she scrambled, but when she went to where the Rag gedys had hit the ground she could not find them anywhere, "As soon as it gets daylight, shall come down here and find them somewhere about" she said to herself.
 IN And while the Reggedys ran away through the woods, the old Witch climbed back up the rope ladder and went to bed again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09

it would not hurt them to fall this great distance, for they and little Rags puppy dog were made out of cloth and were stuffed with nice clean white cotton. So, when they would fall, or jump from great height, all they would do, would be to bounce.
 Raggedy Andy unlatched the. win dow easements and was just about to count "One for the money, two for the show, three to make ready and here she goes!" when he heard scuf- fling from the Witch's bed room.
 "As!" the mean /old creatu howled as she came running out of the bed room, T thought it was too strange to be a dream; But I shall catch you, for if you jump from the window, you will be smashed to smithereens when you hit the ground below!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
MApAME pE IN sUzE

Henerietta Coligny de la Suze wat the daughter of Marechai de Coligny, She was born in 1913, and was one os the most admired poetesses of her day Nothing. however. could exceed the want of order in which this gifted woman lived, nor aher apathetic negli- gence of her affairs
 One morning, at 8 o'clock, her house. hold goods were seized for debt. She was not up, and she begged the officer on duty to allow her to sleep few tlours lon1er, as she had been up lats the night before. He granted her re. quest and took seat in the ante-room. She slept comfortably until 10, when she arose, dressed herself for dinner party, walked in to the officer, thank ed and complimented him for his po- iliteness and cooly added: T leave you master of everything" She and her husband lived very unhappily, and it was said of her that she changed her faith, becoming a Roman Catholic, so that she might not meet her husband in the other world. sstH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09
Child Should Be
 Honest In All School Work
By EMILE HOFFMAN

Anne was to go 70 r1e movies with two of her schoolmates. but there was that French translation. She could manage to skin over her sother as signed lessons, hut the French paper just had to be handed in next morning. She could not do it that afternoon be- cause rehearsal for a school pageant kept her occupied until she had to rush was ended it was dinner time. Y K The combined circumstances put Anne not only in highly nervous state, but in a decidedly disagreeable mood.
 The distracted mother, whose sym pathy exceeded her discretion, sug- gested that perhaps Dotty had finished her translation and would help her out. Anne rushed to the telephone and q few minutes later her accommodating chum appeared with the desired aid. The relieved Anne hastily copied the lesson and the girls started for the eve nings pleasure in high spirits.
 After they left the mother remarked {: "Anne gets so nervous over her school work. She has too much to do and I'm glad Dotty came to her rescue to- night" Of course, this mother did not realize the serious consequences of her suggestion.
 One of the most important matters to. teach your children when they enter school is to be honest in their school work. Impress upon them that copy ing the work of others is not only dis honest, but despicable. Strongly ad- monish them that dishonest work will never benefit them and make them un- derstand that they are not only cheat ing their instructors but they are cheating themselves. InAfact, they are. defeating the very purpose for which they are working. x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-09

Delicate Hand-painted Scarf A long white crepe de, chine scari has hand-naintsd motifs in pale blus and black.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11

IT. Of persons who enjoy any income
and will give them feeling of re-
sponsibIllty for governmental activi-
ties which they do not have when
they pay taxes indirectly.
,. That tangible property be tax
ed by the jurisdiction where it is
located, because 1t there receives
protection and other governmental
services.
). That business carried on for
profit should be taxed on it's profits
for the benefits it receives.
!, That other sources of revenue
such as fees, special assessments, in
heritancc taxes, and the like, be con-
tinued as n part of the revenue sys-
ten.
This national tax association com
mittec, and indeed all specialists in
taxation, favor the abandonment Of
the personal property tax because of
the inability OF any tax organization
10 collect this tax ar,i OF the in us
tice which is involved in the taxes
collected on this basis. tbs report
further points out the Importance Of
establishing Il competent admimiStra-
ton Of the revenue system through II
state tax cOmmlSS!cn.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
MRS, HAMLETT SAYS
RELIEF PERMANENT

gasoline and keeping it immersed for
three hours at 4 temperature OF
1922 degrees Fahrenheit. If sulphur
is present, the strip will be discol-
urcd .or corrodcd, and the sample IS
rejected sulphur compounds have a
dcleteriOls, effect on, brass and cop
per parts lof :the ,tafburctor, and
when the products 'pf combustion
combine with moisture, an acid is
formed which dan,'tgcsf Che engine
and mufflcr Z .gITF
The distillatiop test is used to dc
tcrminc the volatility of the gas
oine. This prcscrhes maximum
temperatures ut which minimum
amounts of the sample must be dis
titled over. or voiatiliZed. The END
point, xhich is the temperature ne
ccSsary to distill all Of the sample.
must not be more than. l3T degrees
Fahrenheit
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
DENIES LOAN
ON OIL STOCK
WASF0R r 0. P.
Lawyer for Former Head Of
WavS and Means Commit
tee TeStiiicS

Washington, April 1l.-(By the A.
PD-~Rctnrning to- its inquiry as to
possible oil company contributions
To national roliticn! campaign funds
tn" Senate OIL committee today
sought information about Il $4,000, 600
Ioan made by the Chase National
Bank Of New York in 1919 to William
Royce Thompson, formerly chairman
Of the ways aud means committee OF
the Republican national committee.
Declaring his client was too i'll to
appear. William Wallace Jr., attor-
ncy for Thompson, testified that the
S!.0OO,GOO loan was secured by so, l54
shares of SINCLAIR Oil stock but in
sisted it had nothing to do with the
campaign funds.
He said Thompson had no part in
RcpuE lican financing until after the
1920 campaign and that the Chase
bank loan was repaid in full in 1919.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
ELKS TO GREET
NATIONAL HEAD
J.. G. Mcfarland Will Make
StOp-Over in Mandan

Many Bismarck Elks will meet
Northern Pacific Train No. here
tomorrow and go to Mandan where
Il short stop-over will be made by
!. G. Mcfarland of WatertoOn,
South Dakota, grand exalted ruler
of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. Others will motor to
Mandan.
Mr. Mcfarland will be accompanied
by Grand Secretary Fred Robinson
and others in the official party. The
Mcfarland party will be guests of
honor at a luncheon Saturday noon
in Mandan, during the afternoon a
reception and smoker will be held in
the lodge hall, sightseeing trip
conducted and in the evening an
Elks banquet will be held in the
Lewis and Clark hotel at which Mr.
Mcfarland will make an address.
Several Dickinson Elks as well as
Bismarck Elks will be in Mandan to
greet their exalted ruler. Mr.. Nc
Garland spoke in Fargo last night.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
Snow Falls
In Fargo Today

Fargo, April ia light snow
started to fall here late this morning
and continued in increasing intensity
early this afternoon.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11

inois which each have over 100000
taxable personal incomes and have
only registered about to l in
favor of reduction.
South Dakota is the only state
In the Union that registered a neg
ativc vote.
1t Is of interest that the entire
New England and Middle Atlantic
section of the. country, comprised
mainly of manufacturing centers,
should be overwhelmingly in favor
of the Mellon Plan while the West
North Central farming district is
only tepid in its favor.
Most of the southern states with
relatively few income tax payers
registered a vigorous affirmative.
The poll and maps would seem
to indicate that when the people
are voting on tax reduction they
think in terms not Of politics but
peck etbook.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
Egg Grading Law
Was Effective
On April l

Many do not know that a new Fed
eral law regarding the grading of
eggs became effective April l. This
law provides penalty for producers
or dealers who offer eggs for sale
that are not fresh and wholesome.
Number one eggs must be clean,
full and weigh As pounds to the
crate of thirty dozen; shell must be
clean and sound; air cell localized,
well defined, one fourth inch depth
or less: yolk visible; white firm and
clear and germ must show no de-
Nvclopments.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11
lNTERURBAN
CO. BLAMED
Lax Operating Methods Held
Cause For Accident

Washington, April 11.-Lax oper-
ating practices on the Union Trac-
ton Company's lines were blamed
Ingalls,, Indiana, which resulted in
the death of Is and injury to SO
persons, in report today to the
Bureau of Safety of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The accident was a head-on COLI
sion between two interurban cars on
Il single track line where trains are
operated by time tables, train orders
and an automatic bloc system.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11

Tanlac is for sale by all good drug
gists. Accept no substitute. Over
40 Million bottles sold.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-11

and the car averaged Is miles to the
gallon declared Mr.. Baird.
IF the average cost of running
car is ten cents per mile, the amount
spent on automobile travel in North
Dakota during 1923 was slightly in
excess of the total income from the
wheat crop of the state.
A new state oil law became effect
i've July l, 1923, which has been very
satisfactory in operation, according
to Mr.. Baird. Oil companies are re-
qured to submit samples to the state
oil department for tests before UNI
loading and offering for sale.
There have been a goodly number
of reflections of cars of gasoline ship
ped into North Dakota since that
time, is the statement in the re-
port, but the question has been
handled with as little loss or incon-
venience to our state oil dealers as
possible, it being in nearly all in
stances a case of mistaken rather
than of wilfully wrong interpreta-
ton of the intent of the require
ments of the new law.
Amusing Incidents
In the enforcement of the North
Dakota law some amusing and en-
tightening things have occurred. On
one rejection the question came up
IN regard to an especially poor grade
of gasoline as to where the rcship-
ment should be made. A represent
tative of the company said, oh, ship
1t over into Minnesota. If it is too
poor for them, Iowa will take it, IT
is understood Iowa eventually recciv-
ed the product.
The state law requires that the
gasoline shall come up to certain
standards in regard to color, absence
of sulphur and volatility. The test
for sulphur consists of inserting a
fresh copper strip in the sample OF