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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

money or ner OWH, or who is self-sup- porting, to break away from her fam ily and set up her own establishment.
 This d es Il o t mean, as it would have done in former times, that the young woman has quarreled with her parents, or that she wants to lead a wild life. free of any chaperonage or restraint. On the contrary. t h e girl bachelor establish ron1ko ora oIn0St pI-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
PARTY FROCKs FOR THE
 SCHOOI, GIRL. W

The newest party frocks for the girl still in the schoolroom are delightfully."- simple as befits her years, but exquis- itely coIorful as befits her mood. They are of silk or chiffon in the vivid shades so smart this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

ways the pink of pro ,,.. priety and the girl herself on affection ate terms with her people.
 This new and curious situation was recently explained by girl who, when asked why she had flown the home nest' said:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

To test an oven in which cake is to be baked, place piece of white paper in the oven. If too hot, the paper will blacken or burn up. If it is a del
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

Raised bread Nould not begin to brown until it has been in the oven lO or 15 minutes. It should be baked an hour and be a rich brown at the end of that time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

One of the stock grievances of mothers is that their daughters take no interest in the home and do not help them with the housewOrk. Any girl will reply that the only way you can help mother is by being an abject slave and doing things ex- actly as she wants them done, with out ever daring to use bit of ini- tiative of your own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

should be clowly lowered to allow the cooking to be done slowly. Keep a piece of asbestos to place between a dish and the hottest part of the oven when there is danger of burning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

And, remembering this, it is odd that, if mother wants to keep her daughter at home, she isn't willing to concede her little authority and freedom instead of expecting to keep her an humbled and contented subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

The girls don't dress as mother wants them to dress. The girls don't dance as mother wants them to dance. The girls are interested in things that mother isn't interested in. Above all, the girls want to put their finger in the house. keeping pie and mother simply won't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

A maiden lady of 60 once told me that she had done the cooking for her fam fly for more than forty years, and that never once had she got a meal without her mother standing over her and tell ing her every move to make and just how much coffee to put in the coffee pot.
 When it comes to running her house, every woman is a jealous Turk, who can bear no rival near the throne. Not even her own daughter. And this is natural and right. A woman's home is her world. She has made it by the work of her hands, and 1t is her privilege to be the queen and supreme in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

Gilt frames can be cleaned with the
 white of egg gently rubbed on with camel's hair brush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
NEW COLORS
ATTRACTIVE AND CONVENIENT

icate brown, the oven is right for pas try; should it turn dark yellow, cakes
 may be baked and if only light yellow, sponge cake or biscuits may be put in at nncR.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

your cake from sticking to the pain, also save it from burning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
Reflections of Dorothy Di.
Many A Gut E1uter MaTr1es Ur MoOes AaOGy From Home Im Order To Have 4 Place Of Her Osvm To Fir Up Im Her Owm Way-Mothers Should Concede DaMgbter Satisfying Authority

TT IS not very uncommon, in these
 days of youthful emancipation and
 feminine freedom. for a girl who has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
My NeighborSays

When baking meats the oven should be very hot at first and then the heat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

of Toms Mr. Howard, rush to greet him, arranging that we dine with them. The tall, willowy blonde, cold as the snowy outofdoors, proved not his daugh
 ter as she looked but his wife. In her recognized keen rival in cothes which promised the best kind of excitement for me, and my we-filed trunk did float before my mind very good friend indeed
 Her fetching sheathgown of black and white satin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

Why women should have this cosmic urge toward monogrammed tidies and enameled kitchen cabinets, ,and alumni mum pots and pans, nobody knows. It simply exists, and no normal woman can behold display of household linens without a thrill that she never gets from any other sight on earth.
 This is one of the things that every woman knows. More than that, every woman remembers how she, too, longed for a place of her own, where she could have her own little do-funnies, and tie ribbon bows on the chairs or leave them off as she pleased, and make a cake without having somebody tell her how to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

When you hear q mother talking about having an undutiful daugh- ter, or how ungrateful girls are, you will nearly always find out that it is simply because the girl isn't an understudy of what the mother was in her youth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

There is a sex repulsion as well as a sex attraction, and the very qualities that draw mother and son together raise a barrier between mother and daughter.
 Ninety-nine tiuees out of hun dred mother loves her sons better than she does her daughters, and gets far more pleasure out of their society. This is largely because her sons interests and hers do not clash. She does not expect them to conform their tastes and actions to her standards nor do they med dle with her affairs.
 With her daughters, it is far diff ferent. They are women, even as she is a woman, with feminine in- terests and opinions. They do femi- nine things and have feminine in- stincts, and these collide with moth er's at every step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

If a woman was a butterfly and a belle, she can't forgive her daughter for being a student who loathes society. Nor can a mother who was a serious-minded highbrow in her youth repress her means of despair over daughter who prefers ball to lecture on the "The- ory of Relativity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

patton surpassed only by my eagerness to impress the guests did make to look my bes selecting a becoming frock of chiffon velvet with tiered skirt and a large shaded at hip and shoulder.
 Very proud of my pearls and my flexible bracelet set with 37 diamonds. No sooner did we enter the palatial dining room than did business acquaintance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

So spake this youthful. feminine Solo mon, and she enunciated a great truth, for there is no greater fallacy than the traditional belief that there is pe- culiar bond of sympathy and under standing between mothers and daugh- ters that makes them inherently con genial, and that mother is dying to have daughter help her keep house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

Curiously enough, this desire to be the autocrat of a home is the dominent passion in every feminine breast. And this desire to set up her own household gods is the com polling motive that drives thousands of women into matrimony. They are not particularly in love with the man they marry. The men do not represent their ideals to them. They hate to give up their freedom, but the men supply the homes of their own that they could not other wise attain, and so the wedding bells continue to ring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

pour few drops of ammonia into the pan after filling it with warm water. A bottle of ammonia should always be kept near the sink for this purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

If you will line your tin with wax paper after greasing it, it will prevent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

stand for it, and so there is a constant conflict between them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

To wash a greasy iron or tin pan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29
Tod avs Thought
By REy, KENNETH OWENS
"I will go up the land of unwalled vi
 lages." s."-Ezekiel 3S-11.

T will go up the land of unwalled vh-
 lages."-Ezekiel 38-11. Oh where is all this world of ours. Is there a village still unwalled? Where virtues grow like simple flowers. And things are really what they're
 called.
 For selfishness and greed and gold Are triple walls that hem us in An! Let me settle when I am old Before the fire in some old inn, Surrounded by a village wall,
 Where kindness and faith not dim Have torn away each narrow wall, And people toll for love of Him.
 NEW COLORS
 The very newest fashion note for re- sort costumes is pastel or natural tones. Paris is sponsoring these tints for the Riviera and America has adapted them for southern modes.
 ATTRACTIVE AND CONVENIENT Whether she is a woman of many so- cial engagements or busy professional woman, she will welcome a little note hook of antelope leather in shades of tan, green, fuchsia or black. with dec orative monogram in gold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

TT WAS back in '9l, down on the \ old farm in Russell County, Ala, Times were very hard; we had nothing to eat but sweet potatoes and were too proud to take them to school for lunch. The other children in the neighborhood were better off than us, and all had their lunch, and dinner baskets well filled.
 -.
 On one occasion, Ancy and me at recess strolled off to ourselves to escape the em- barrassment of having nothing to eat. As the dinner bell rang, Ancy rubbed his stom- ach, remarking, Dat means dinner to dem. but to DO Ancy it means jist l2 o'clockl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-29

WHEN the doctor prescribes fluid w diet" the average woman natural
 ly thinks of gruels. broths and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05

tested and found to contain 1900 white corpuscles per .centimeter. At noon twenty-four hours later, Dr. Wyncoop's blood was again tested and found to contain 13,9oo white cor puscles."
 Dr. Wyncoop's own conclusion is as follows: "There is absolutely no dam ger or harm in the injection. And I wish every doctor would try it on ten or twelve patients instead of writing prescriptions to be put in the stomach. We all agree that the way to fight disease is by the white corpuscles. If an army of these can be increased right away, there are so many more good soldiers in the fight" To be sure, the layman is not competent judge of this particular process, but the layman is convinced that the\ earn est and patient efforts of those work ing in laboratories, hospitals and else where seeking cures for human ills cannot fail and have not failed to contribute much to human health and to the conquest of disease. 5fE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
POLITICS COSTS MONEY

With the very gratifying building record of nearly twelve million dollars to Biriningham's credit for 1923, the city building inspector predicts that operations in this industry for 1924 will reach fifteen million dollars, mak- ing due allowances for politics. In other words, the more than ordinary national political activities during the year will interfere with progress in this, as in other business enterprises. The 1928 building record was highly creditable and indicated strong faith of the people in the community's op- portunities for expansion and enrich ment. This, despite high costs for ma terials and construction. Under nor nal conditions without surplus of
 litics the record might run several
 ion dollars higher; but the buga-
 of politics will act as an obstruc-
 and retarding influence.
 he uncertainty as to Democratic
 a Republican administration should ave no material effect upon com munity progress. The foundation and all the elements are here for develop ment. The opportunities will not be removed whatever the results of the presidential election, and regardless of the outcome in congressional, state and local contests. Yet, surplus of politics creates uncertainty and delay 1, in preparations for future plans, so that business as whole suffers ac- cordingly.
 Even in a restricted local field of industry the effects of extraordinary political activity are figured in ad- vance as a discount, and as retarding development in one specific industry several million dollars. When this con- dition is considered in its application to all kinds of business throughout the country, the American people may have some idea of the monster burden which quadrennial political activity imposes on them. It means hundreds of millions in tax which is largely 8 loss. because very large percentage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
ON APPOINTMENTS
 OF THE JUDICIARY
Baltimore Sun)

The announcement from Wasn- ington that in making appoint rnents to the federal judiciary MT. Coolidge will not allow himself to be influenced by politics or politi- cal considerations will be received with unqualified qualification by everybody but the politicians. There is nothing worse than par tisan or political judge; nothing which is really more dangerous to the stability of government or the peace of society. A judge who is A partisan is, in fact, a direct contradiction in terms. Few things have done as much to im- pair respect for the bench as men who have made it the instrument tality for the advancement of par ty or class interests. MT. Coolidge is on high and safe moral ground when he gives notice that he will observe 8 principle that ought to be sacred, but which has been too frequently violated. If he ad- heres firmly to his announced pol icy, he will have done much to help to throw off one of the most deadly of the tentacles of the devil-fish of politics.
 We hope he will go.even further. Why should he appoint only Re- publicans to the bench when va cancies occur? Why should he not appoint absolutely the best men, regardless of party? Is there any place where the principle of merit is more important than in the ju- dicial office?
 [ If he wants a precedent he can find 1t in the example of one of his predecessors, who is now a member of the United States su- preme court. MT. Taft. though politically Pharisee of the Phari- sees in party matters, retained his sense of impartiality in more than one case when judges were to be appointed. He made Mir. White. a Democrat. cheif justice of the highest federal tribunal, and he showed himself anxious generally to preserve the fair name of the judiciary. MT. Coolidge, in this particular, might very we'll take MT. Taft as a model.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
THE BEST WAYS TO READ NEWSPAPERS
By Thonsas |. Masssn

One of the very greatest mis- takes Is to assume that because newspapers are rapidly put to- gether and printed they must nec- essarily contain poor material. As a matter of fact practically all of tine best writing and and a very large part of the best literature appear in newspapers. The best writers. more and more, prefer to write for the newspapers, because the response Is immediate. Also, spontaniety, which Is a very large factor in writing, is more common in newspapers so as to get the best out of it. I have tried every method, some of which are as fol- lows: ,s 9
 1. Read all the headlines first, and then so hack and read what you like.
 ?. Read the editorial pages first, and then the departments you like, after which go over tho news.
 8. Begin at the beginning and read every article through which interests you, no matter how many pages you turn over.
 4. Read only one page at a.time, and then pick up the continued stories on successive pages as you come to them.
 5. Jump through and read only what catches your eye, then throw away the paper.
 These are only a very few of the various ways to read a paper. After many years experimenting. and constant drifting. I give the following seven rules as kind of general survey of this most im- portant function, which everybody engages in, without any desire to impose my views on anybody:
 1. is better to read one paper thoroughly than to skim num- Der of them.
 2. It is better to set aside a regular part of one day than to snatch at a paper. For this req son, it may be better to delay the reading. or to keep the paper un- til evening. I have tried this the last thing at night and find 1t has been a great help.
 8. Always read carefully the ut- terances or quoted = opinion of every public man. Usually papers give only important utterances. and these are likely to be from authorities in special fields.
 1. Do not skim the editorials. This is unfair to the writers. What editorials you select to read. read through carefully. It will pay you to do this.
 s. Read all headlines very care- fully-do not sulp them. Great care is usually taken in writing them. They deserve to be studied.
 6. If you are in a hurry at the time, and see something you want to read, but haven't time to. check it with a pencil. This will call it to your attention later.
 2. Never leave a newspaper be- hind you. You will generally wish you hadn't, because someone will always ask you if you saw some- thing in it which you now want to look at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
ROAD BUILDING
 THROUGH TESTS
: Mobile News-Item)

Road building is no longer a question of felling trees and driv- ing oxen back and forth across the cleared ground until lane is opened for traffic. Nor is 1t g matter of blowing and scraping only. The highway building of today has come near. to meeting the need for permanent roads, cre- ated by motor vehicles, because 1t has reached the laboratory stage of experimentation. Guesswork is a thing of the past. It is now known, through test, what kinds of material and what manner of building best withstand the strain of heavy traffic., Communities with the, best highways are the ones which have profited by tests made to determine types of roads affording the highest degree of permanence. s .,. {.
 The New York Evening Post, in an article describing the progress in road building, has this to say of the national effort to standardize highway constructions:
 f"The' three most notable examples of the test road, which is just what the name implies-a road built of varying materials \ and then tested to destruction" in a comparatively short time by rum ming abnormally heavy traffic over it-are the Bates test roads in H. linois. the Pittsburg (Cal.) test road, and the highway. experiment station at Arlington, Va, conduct ed by the United States bureau of public roads, which is division of the department of agriculture. These three notable experiments have been watched carefully by skilled engineers with precision instruments, and every failure of any type of pavement has. been studied with the greatest possible care. The results observed have been tabuiated and then the prob lem has been to get this informa- tion into the hands of the builders of roads widely scattered through out the country. In this term road builders" are included the duly elected or appointed repre- -sentatives of the public, the engin- eers who supervise the work, the contractors who do the actual con- struction, and the makers of the machinery which is necessary for the work"
 The results of these and other tests are accessible to all who have road building in charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
RAISING AN ARMY. OVERNIGHT

The function of the white corpus cles in combating bacterial and germ diseases has been accepted for some time. It has been discovered that these corpuscles multiply in the pres ence of microcosmic enemies in the blood and actually engulf them, hence their name "phagocyteS" or devouring cells. Those individuals who appear immune to certain dis eases are regarded as having plenty of anti-bodies, which gives them what is known biologically as high "op- sonic index," or resistance to disease. Any means whereby these white cor puscles may be increased in number is regarded by most biologists as con- ducive to immunity. That principle underlies the injection of serums, whereby the production of anti-bodies is stimulated by the introduction of specific clements, sometimes mild forms of the disease itself.
 Along this line experimenters have been working for long time, and many valuable discoveries have been made, some of them happened on by chance, and some the result of pa- tient testing of hypotheses. One of the most recent experiments is that conducted for many years by" Dr. Daniel Wyncoop of Babylon, Long IslaAd,4 and Dr. F. S. Kelly, patholo- gist of the Lexington Hospital, New York. Dr.. Wyncoop announces that he has proved absolutely" that sal icylate of mercury may be injected into the gluteal muscles to increase the white corpuscles by one hundred per cent. The discoverer holds that by this means incipient tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and other dis eases might be checked and cured. The value of the specific, if it proves a success, will lie in the rapidity with which the results are obtained. For example, in experiments upon Dr. Wyncoop himself, the following is re- lated "At noon Sunday he was given an injection of one grain of the mer- cury. At that time bis blood was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
A CHRISTMAS SIGNAL

: The Birmingham Age-Herald's recently purchased home. in which the newspaper plant is now in pro- cess of installation, was made a signal tower in honor of Christ mas, and in a novel and striking way, by the illumination on Christ mas Eve of sufficient rooms open ing on the facade to outline a gi- gantic cross of light, which was visible for many miles away and was the subject of much favorable comment. The building has twen- ty-seven stories, being the loftiest office building in the South. In making the cross the lighting of forty-four rooms was used, the upright arm of the cross having a height of sixteen stories, and the cross-arm stretching the full width of the building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-05
THE MENACE OF FIRE.TRAPs

The following from the Huntsville Times treats of a situation that is duplicated in many other communities, whether the building be hospital or some other public institution: "We drove by the frame fire-trap local hos pital again today, as we do almost daily, and we were fired more than ever with the determination to help create that public sentiment which will exert itself and give to Greater Huntsville and this section the kind of hospital it should and must have. Let's not p1'ocrastinate until helpless pa- tients are cremated in the present structure before we are moved to
 A recent disastrous fire in a Chi cago sanitarium proved that the structure was fire-trap. Not long ago fire in school building in South Carolina resulted in the death of many children. Time and again, accounts of terrible tragedies from carelessness and neglect of duty by public authori- ties are published in the newspapers but, unfortunately, the warnings are ignored in most communities. There is an old saying about the uselessness of locking the stable door after the colt is stolen. The suggestion is .di- rectly applicable to situations all over the country wherein a little fore thought. and precaution by public au- thorities would save many lives and avoid great suffering, before it is too late to make amends. Sympathy in such cases which is worth. anything is that which finds expression in prac- tical precautions against disaster.