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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
Bridge Luncheon Given Visitors By
 Miss Newsom

An enjoyable hospitality was exl tended yesterday afternoon by Miss Marie Newsom, when she entertained at lovely bridge luncheon at her home in honor of Miss Christine Steele of Eutaw, her house guest, and Miss Vir- ginia Almon of Pensacola, who is vis- iting Misses Mary and Evelyn Knowles.
 The guest list was confined to the members of the young college set who are leaving next week to enter school.
 The guests yesterday were Misses Christine Steele, Virginia Almon, Mary and Evelyn Knowles, Phillis Dimmick, Mary Wilkerson, Virginia Pegues, Mil dred Leonard, Mary and Dorothy Hick- man, Gertrude Clapp, Mildred Hall, Gladys Harllee and Eleanor Almgren.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
Mothers And Their Children

One Mother Says:
 I make muslin books for my children by placing several pieces of cloth the same size directly on top of one another and stitching through the center. I fold them along the line of stitching and paste in colored pictures cut from old magazines. can thus give them a fresh book frequently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

Generally, all that the youngsters come home with is college yell and a lot of half baked theories that unfit them for the life they are destined to lead.
 This is no reflection on the col leges. They would gladly turn every youth and maiden attending them into savants, but it is sadly true that you can only give to the young what they wish to take. You can lead them to the Pierian spring, but you cannot make them drink it's waters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

Her constant flow of silly and point less conversation is the label of so- ciety girl. There are, of course, some exceptions. But in all cases this same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

Men are interesting to her only as ornaments for dinner table or party. She likes to entertain and does so fre- quently. Out of these entertainments and contacts with other people she draws a fund of inane and inexhausti- ble stories strung together on thread of absurdly insignificant details. She is perhaps the worst story-teller I know. She deals excessively with the ciety girl are hers and yet she is inter- testing only to few men of her own kind, if needed she is really interesting to them at all. Possibly they are mere. ly polite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
Miss Jackson Is
 Hostess At Nah
 Jong Party

Honoring four visitors of the younger set Tuesday afternoon Miss Harriett Jackson, who is the guest of her sister, Mrs. B. A. Monaghan, entertained at a number of games of nah jong com plimenting Misses Mollie and Julia Childress, the guests of Miss Julia Bur ton, Miss Elizabeth Crabb, who is wis., ting he raunt, Mrs. Eugene Bayol, and Miss Aedlaide Torbert. who was the guest of Mrs. Charles Whelan.
 All of the young ladies live in Greens-s boro and have been delightfully."- enter, tained while visiting relatives here. After series of interesting games an ice course was served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

the flare-up of the flame of life before it is extinguished."
 There was an accusatory tone in the voice that stung the girl like whip.
 How could I come sooner when mo- body told me the truth?" she retorted T never got Lois letter until this morn- ing-and in that she did not tell me that father was in danger. Here it is 7" pulling the letter from her hand bag. See the postmark To reach me on the morning after the latter was written it should have been mailed by Il o'clock the night before. Lois knows that. She should have telegraphed to me-"
 II advised her doing so as soon as I arrived at the house." Dr. Hagen said sternly. But she told me she had written all the facts to you She seem- ed to know even then that her father was sinking
 Gro Be Continued)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
Reflections of Dorothy Dix

A College Education Cannot Work Miracles
 It Cansot Give More Tham The Student Puts Into His Work, So Before Sacrificing For Your Children, Make Sure That They Are Worth It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

More than that, at middle age people should be laying up something for their rainy day or else they are dooming themselves to the terrible fate of de- pendent old age. And so when they impoverish themselves by sending their children to college they have made the supreme sacrifice to their fetish.
 Sometimes the sacrifice is justified. Not often. Sometimes girl or boy does make the best of the advantages offered her or him and does find in a college education the tools with which to carve out a career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

Nearly all boys and girls want to go to college because it is the thing to do. They are interested in college sports and college clothes, and want to be able to talk about their fraternities and so- rorities, and their college larks. But very few of them have any serious yearning for study.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
We Women
Society Girls

Society GtrlS
 nNE of my readers asks me to tell her just what some 'society
 girls" are like.
 have in mind society girl who vividly illustrates the characteristics of a great many of them. This one happens to be very unattractive. Her lack of beauty provides a nexcellent background for her other short comings. Like most society girls she is very un- fortunate in that she has wealth. She has rubbed only finger-tips with the realities of life and as consequence she is one of the most uninteresting girls I know,
 The world would call her "a nice girl" To me she is very nice girl. I like her in spite of the shallowness of her talk and the narrowness of her point of view. I pity her because she has not tasted of the fruits of ra. tional life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
WOMAN writes me a letter 1T | which she says:

"Is a college education a neces- sity or a luxury for poor people of ..l:r.uv ;utall;-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

To take ink spots out of paper A good way is to pour just enough wa ter over one teaspoonful of chlorinated lime to cover it. Moisten a piece of old linen with this mixture and pat the stain. Do not rub. Let paper dry and if necessary, apply mixture again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
MISSES MATTISON ENTERTAINS FOR MISS JACKSON


 Misses Mildred and Addilee Mattison entertained Thursday at bridge lunch con in honor of Miss Lillian Jackson, who is leaving next week for college. Early fall flowers were used in the liv-: ing room and dining room, and later in the evening an ice course was served to 12 guests.
 Chopped sweet pepper and caviar as a sandwich filling? The combira- tion makes a tasty picnic-sandwich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

And don't forget that the boys and girls who are not students are wasting their time at college and acquiring idle habits that will be their bane through life.
 After all, college education is a good deal like an automobile. It is fine for those who need it, who want it and who can afford it and know how to use it. But it isn't worth sacrificing a whole fam fly in order to bestow it on pampered child.
 DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

cook and does the homework, al- though it is too. much for her strength and her age. She wears her clothes until they are thread bare. Father takes on more work and grows more and more hump shouldered and shabby looking day by day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
PRINCESS BEATRICE

Both the daughter and the mother of a queen-this is the distinction of H. R. H. Princess Beatrice Mary Vic toria Feodora, the youngest of the chil- dren of the late Queen Victoria, and mother of Queen Victoria of Spain. The princess was born April 14, 1857, and married Prince Henry of Batten- berg in 1858. He died on board q British vessel of war in 1898 while en route home from an expedition to Ashantee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

Therefore, before poor parents make the heroic sacrifice of them selves involved in sending their children to college, it is a wise thing to make a careful appraisal of the said children and try to ascertain whether their boys and girls will get enough out of college to make it pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

If John and Mary are intellectual, if they are hungry for culture. if they have some definite ideal to which they are straining, if they are ambitious, it is one thing. If John is just the ordi- nary, practical, common-sense sort of a boy, and Mary is a pretty girl whose only talent is for combing her hair and knowing how to wear her clothes, and the chief object of both of them is to have a good time, why, that's another story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05

(To Be Continnedl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-05
Hearts Of Ta0o
CHAPTER 224

CHAPTER PA <TTOW is dad?" Marian demand SH ed, clutching Dr. Hagen by
 the arm. Then, as the physi-
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

Yearly order Rates Upon Application Count ( woTds 10 lins-
 ls iinss to an inch Minimum Space, lines
 Minimum Book Charge ss cents
 No Ad Accepted After F, N. Tor Classified Psss on same Day
 Ads Accepted ossi the Tslsphons toI ef customsfs Call sih and Ask for "Nant Aa" opsfs'e'
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
ALLIANCE ABROAD
 A SERIOUS THREAT
Gen. Harbord Takes Slap at
 PacifStS in Speech

Cautauqua, N. r.. Aug. ci.-"Giants are stirring restlessly in their slum- hers and may be dreaming dreams" warned Major General James c. Har- bord. former deputy chief of staff of the army today in urging armament for defense only, non-partisan, con- sistent foreign policy and cooperation with other nations of the world for disarmament.
 He was speaking on disarmament and security" at the institute on in- ternational relations.
 General Harbord declared that Rus sia and Germany would not remain content to be excluded from the Far East and that ''our unhappy manner of doing the thing we had right to do may have lost Us the warm friend- ship of Japan" He pointed out that an alliance of the three nations is not an impossibility and if German-Rus- sian-C -Chinese-Japanese combination came about, it would be serious for the world.
 Criticises Pacifists
 He criticised those church leaders who urge Christians not to take part in any war, saying that this doctrine seeking to align the church against national defense by war logically leads to the formation Of clerical laity party. He added: If the extreme religious pacifists were really desirous of destroying our independence they could hardly advocate more effec- tive plan."
 He continued:
 What would German Russian Chinese Japanese combination do to the plan, of the world? What could withstand a union of white, yellow and brown gathered from the Rhine to the China sea, and what is there in,pos- sible or even unlikely in such an al- liance?
 With all the Latin American states in the League of Nations, can we maintain the Monroe Doctrine with these countries south of us carrying their disputes before that political or ganization for settlement?
 "These are some of the things that should be considered by those who are moved by the plea for disarmament
 Weakness Encourages Stronger
 American armaments have never been a real factor in either the cau-
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

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 1923 Hudson sedan, ' pass. 1923 Hudson coach, pas. 1929 Buick sedan, pass. 1922 Buick touring, s pass. 1923 Buick touring, 5 pass. 1920 Buick touring. 5 pass. 1923 studebaker touring. 1922 studebaker touring, pAsa- 1921 studebaker touring, 2 pass. 1924 Ford coupe. , pass. 1929 Durant sedan, pass. 1923 Maxwell coupe. pass. 1924 Maxwell touring. 5 pass. 1923 Maxwell touring, s pas. 1923 Maxwell sport touxtnr. s pash 1929 Maxwell touring. pass. 1917 Buick tourDg. $100 takes tG MANY OTHERS EASY TERMS HoNEYMAN AUTO SALES
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New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
City Advertisement
INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS

The City of New Britain, Conn, acting through its committee on School Accommodation of the School Board will receive bids for the con- struction of an addition to the smaliey school on Talcott street.
 All bidders shall, as an evidence Of good faith, enclose with their sealed bid, a certified check or bid bond for a sum equal to per cent of their bid, made payable to the Committee on School Accommodations Said check or bond to be held in escrow by the | chairman of the committee until the contracts have been awarded, when said checks or bonds shall be returned to their authors.
 Failure on the part of the success full bidder to properly execute a con- tract for the work in question and to deliver bond as hereinafter provided, shall forfeit said check or bid bond, and it shall become property of, and shall be paid to the said committee, to whom it is made payable; the whole amount, or such portion as necessary, to be used by said committee to make up the differences between the bid of the defaulting bidder, and that of the next lowest bidder; the balance, If any, of the same shall be returned to it's author.
 The contractor to whom this work is awarded shall within ten (10) days after signing of contract, furnish the owners with a satisfactory surety bond in a sum equal to thirty (309o) per cent of the amount of said contract price, conditioned upon the full and faithful performance of said contract.
 The committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids to award the contract to any bidder other than the lowest bidder; or to invite new pro- posals, as said committee may deem advisable for the best interest of the city.
 Sealed bids marked on the outside Proposal for Smalley Schoor' ad- dressed to MT. Joseph M. Halloran, chairman, shall be sent to the office of the Superintendent of Schools, in the Old State Normal school building, New Britain. Conn.,, not later than twelve o'clock noon, Sept. 8, 1924.
 Sealed bids will also be received under the conditions above noted, for the heating, plumbing and electrical work, each to be awarded as a sep arate contract.
 Contractors may obtain plans and specifications for the Smalley school at the office of the architect, Clarence c. Palmer, ST West Main St., New Britain. Conn.,, by making deposit of fifteen (15.0O) dollars The amount deposited will be refunded upon re- turn to the said architects of the plans and specifications in good condition.
 Committee on School
 Accommodations by
 JOSEPH M. HALLORAE,
 z. Chairman.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

satlon or prevention of war except when they have been inadequate. They have encouraged stronger powers 10 presume upon our supposed weakness. Ii is for that reason that most mill tary men who have studied history arc of the opinion that far from be- ing cause of war; adequate Ameri- can armaments would tend to quiet any international situation.
 But when it comes to the world, exclusive of the American continent, 1t must be admitted that a eompcti- tive growth Of armament breeds a feeling of international insecurity. In close contiguity there is little differ- ence between what is needed to de- fend you and that would could be used 10 intimidate yonr next door neighbor."
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
summed up hls intention.

summed up hls intention.
 Believing that extemporaneous ad- dress tends itself more to such treat ment of the issues than does pre- pared speech making, he docs not in- tend to write out his speeches in ad- vance. In fact, before leaving Evan st on yesterday he threw in the waste basket the address he had prepared for delivery at Lincoln, Nebraska Aug. 2s. on the agricultural question, and will speak extemporaneously He prepared his Augusta address in part several days ago.
 MT. Dawes trip to Maine will be interrupted for a day and half visit with his friend and business associ- ate, Walter H. Wilson of Chicago, at Westbrook, Conn. On arriving at New Haven at noon today the nomi- nee will drive to Westbrook 10 be the guest of Mir. Wilson until Friday evening"
 Although a man of means, Mfr. Dawes is not using a special train or even special car on the present trip, but only Pullman in which he re- served his space the game as other travellers
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

Two more vitamines have been dis covered by California scientists.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
MISS WEED RESIGNS;
 WILL SUPPORT LA TOILETTE
Republican Woman Leader From Nor walk Cannot Support Any of Can-
 didates, She Says.

Norwalk, Conn, Aug. 21.-Mrs. Helena Hill Weed of Wilson Point, one of the founders of the National Woman's Party, and president of the Norwalk branch of the Fairfield coun- ty league of women voters yesterday forwarded to J. Henry Roraback, chairman of the republican state cen- tral committee of Connecticut, her resignation as member of the central state committee from the 26th sena- torial district.
 Mrs. Weed said that her decision to resign as member of the central com mittee was reached after reading General Dawes notification speech. She said that she could not give support to Coolidge and Dawes or to Hiram Bingham, picked by Mir. Roraback as candidate for governor of Connecti- cut, as she believed that the election to office of these three would cramp the principles of the republican party.
 She further announced her inten- ton O. supporting LaFollette, whose platform, she said, will restore politi. cal and economic freedom. She will take the stump for LaFolette.
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New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
Ills Own Dentist

Yienns-Augus Herman furthered the interests of dental science by ty- Ing one end of a cord to his aching tooth and the other end 10 a chair. and then dropping the chair out Of the window. unseientifie police, how ever. arrested Herman for endanger- ing the lives Of people on the street below.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

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New Britain herald., 1924-08-21
Notice

Is hereby given that AntoniA Carrub- ba has sold her grocery business, lo- cated at No. Ali Myrtle street., to Domenico PalazM and Vito Girolo- moni.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

Captain William Davis. G. A, R. veteran of Rome, N. Y, who has at- tended every encampment in Al years and was on hand as usual, when the annual conclave was staged at Boston He has seen the encampments dimin- ish from 5o,o00 to 2,500.
New Britain herald., 1924-08-21

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The Washington times., 1924-05-15

Wars was the topic Of Mrs. Daniel
Shook at the meeting OF the Capitol
History Club yesterday at the home
OF Mrs. william M. Collins.
Mrs. Walter O. Wood read O paper
on Pueblo Indians and Mr.. Collins
one on Noted Indian Warriors,
followed by lantern slides showing
the warriors and various Indian
missions Mrs. Edgar b. Merritt
presided. Mrs. Clayton willard
gave her report of the annual meet
ing of the District Of Columbia
Federation
Music was furnished by Miss
Marion Mccoy, contraltist, who sang
accompanied by Mrs. James Giffen
Guests of the afternoon were Mrs
A.. X. Wins, vice president. elect Of
the District Of Columbia Federation
and Mrs. Jason Waterman, former
nlember<of the club and a past vice
president of the federation.
The next meeting Of the club viii
be held at the home Of Mrs. z. *
Foltz, Cherrydale, Va.
The Washington times., 1924-05-15
OL D SAMPLERS
! APPROPRIATE
FOR WALLS
Plenty Of Excellent Examples
Of NeedIework Before 1900
May Be Procured

Before the age Of machine-made
things, and Of attire much more con.
ventional than in many of the earlier
periods. there was. Of course, great
need Of skilled needlewomen, not only
professionally, but at home ais well,
for 1t was in the home that most
of the "finery of our forefathers
originated, and this includes the
samplers which are among the most
N1ntimate ~Of collectable old, things.
and which every collector is anxious
to%acqufre. ~
The fact that steel-needles were
uncommon and were treasured pos.
sessions not to be entrusted to every.
body, is said to, be the reason WHY
no samplers dated or positively
known to have been worked before
the middle of the eighteenth cen.
tury, are extant. Later: when in.
vention turned its attention ia
matchmaking, needles became com.
mon enough.
Very fine samplers containing
both names and dates prior to 1901
are not to be found at every turn.
1t Is only in comparatively recent
years that the value of old isainplers
az excellent decorative accessoriee
on the walls of a room In which
old pieces of furniture are placed,
was discovered. Samplers may he
mounted and framed for hanging
on; wall as picture might be
and there are; probably very few
objects in the line Of antiques that
seem so appropriate for use in
this manner for adorning the walls
OLA bedchambers
While 1t is not always an easy
matter to assign undated samplers
to their exact periods. apbroxirnate
dates may be determined without
great difficulty. The earliest ex.
annples were more ,utilitarian than
ornamental in conception. more
Ike q mere example of stitchery
Of various sorts-a leaf from the
scrapb0ok Of needlework-as 1t
The Washington times., 1924-05-15
XII KLUE PtANK
PLA|NED BY
UNDERWOOD
Senator Quotes Know Notl-
ING" Policy Of 1856 candi-
dates United on Attitude

The Kat KLur Khan promises to
become an acute political issue at
the Democratic comventioM IN Nsw
York. The supporters Of Senator
Oscar w. Underwood. Governor Al
Smith and Senator Samuel M. Raj
ston, three Of the leading cGndf-
dGtes, have made common cause for
the insertion of an G1ati-K Ian pLGlti;
IN the platform, presGgiitg a fight
which may conceiUGbLv have IN
important and spectacular bearing
on the nomination.
COM ismsiMg his intention OF
fighting for an Gnti-KIGn plank,
Senator Underwood, In the folIOC-
ing article, explains his VieiOs on
the Khan:
BY SENATOR o. w. UNDERWOOD,
written FOR International News Service.
(COpyrIRht 1924, by International
News Eervice.) a
Ithaye always. shaped my course
politically in accordance with the
fundamental principles of the De.
mocratic party and believe in, the
faith that was enuMciated in the
beginning by Jefferson and his FOL.
lowers. ~
The Khan. Is a secret organiza,
ton functioning in politics.
In my judgment, no government
can exist and be free that does ite
business behind closed doors. We
can only have honest. pure and
Just government when It Is con,
Quoted in the open.
Quotes Old Attitude.
The Democratic party has fought
against control by class and cIar
since the beginning and clearly
enunciated Its principles in its fight
against the Know Nc thing'' party
In 1856, when II said:
That the foundation Of THU
union of states having been laid in
and its prosperity. expansion and
The Washington times., 1924-05-15

pre,eminent example in free gov.
'eFnan1eht tBdnt eupbA ! Sntl1 freedom
in matters Of religious Government
and no respect OF person I'M regard
TO rank or place Of birth, no party
can Justly be deemed national, con-
stitutional, or In accordance with
American principles, which bases
its exclusive organization upon re-.
ligious opinions and accidental
birthplace.
Still True Today. =
And hence 4 political crusade in
the nineteenth. century. and in the
Uniter States of America, against
Catholic and foreign born. IL
neither justified BY the history or
the future prospects Of the country
nor in unison with the spirit 81
federation and enlarged freedom
which peculiarly distinguishes the
American system Of popular govern.
ment."
That statement has always truly
expressed the faith OF those who be.
lieved in the fundamental principles
Of the Democratic party. It lis lust
as true today as 1t was when It was
first announced more than sixty
years ago.