Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-01

keep the fool in King Lear" but let us eliminate the fool critics from the press.
 There is no estimating the value of the good work that the Young Mems Chris tian association Is doing in Birmingham. The leading men Of the city are actively engaged in the work.
 The Salvation Army is preparing to in- augurate a campaign among the negroes in the south, and will doubtless gam many recruits The negro loves the blare of the trumpet, the waving or banners and the gay uniform. He loves all the pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war, except the fighting.
 Voltaire said: Men never have any ideas until they have boards, and women have neither" If Voltaire intended to convey the thought that women were less lovely because they had no ideas, he was wrong A woman with ideas is as much summed by men as a woman with a beard Men appreciate in woman quail ties much more precious than cold, mat ter-of-fact ideas A woman to be atten- tive to a man must possess susceptibility sentiment, sympathy, purity, poetical in stinets vivaeity and a love for the beau tiful. A man can find ideas among other men, but not the qualities possessed by the true woman.
 landlady of good taste in things culi- nary served dinner yesterday in which an oyster stew was the first course When her guests had finished the oysters, eel cry, etc., they had no desire for thesfoast beef, potatoes, etc., which constituted the usual bill of. fare. If salad, or cold ham, or something of that sort, had followed the oysters the dinner would have been completer. A well-rounded dinner IS as much work of art as a finished paint ing. Dining is poetry, with its equal measure and melody. Each dish should be a complement to every other dish. The taste displayed in the selection of appro- priate edibles is no less refined than the taste which appreciates poem or painting.
 visitor to the canebrake says that bicycle riding is all the rage. The level, smooth roads, stretching for miles through the cotton fields, make an ideal course for the wheel. The young ladies, especially, are infatuated with the sport. Each one has wheel, and many or them have fine wheels that they received as present from young man. The custom of presenting a lady with bicycle Is very generally observed among the young men. The young gallants of the cane brake have no theatre tickets to buy, no expensive balls and banquets and they can afford to make an expensive present. The Ladies of Charity of St. Pauls Catholic church will give an entertain ment at St. Paul's hall Thursday, No vember 5, 1896. Music and recitations; also lecture on Rome, illustrated by beautiful stereopticon views of the Eter- nal City.
 MT. W. H. Milspaugh and wife of Sel- ma are the guests of Mr and Mrs. B. J. McCrossin.
 Miss Flora Black returned yesterday from Nashville.
 MT. and Mrs. Max Blach will leave to- day for the north to be absent about two months.
 MT. Sam Blach of Blach & Sons. leaves for Nashville today on a business trip. Miss Theresa Rich passed through the city from Tuskaloosa yesterday on her way home to Nashville, Tenn.
 
 Miss May Loveman of Nashville, Tenn, passed through the city yesterday from Tuskaloosa on her way home. q get very tired while shopping" re- marked Birmingham matron, but 1t Is not so tiresome walking as it is trying to make $10 buy what $2O will buy. It will tire anybody to try to make their wants fit within their income" MT. Jesse Yeates, the popular hotel clerk, has returned to Birmingham
 The Edgewood Literary club met last week with Mrs George A. Blinn, Jr., and held an interesting meeting. It meets this week with Mrs. Arthur Adams.
 The members of the two literary socie- ties of Howard college held social meet ing last night. and listened to several eloquent speeches.
 The professors recital at the Birming- ham Conservatory of Music yesterday ar ternoon was largely attended and much enjoyed.
 Prof. Charles Washburn of Cincinnati arrived yesterday afternoon and will en- fer upon his duties this week as one of the faculty of the Conservatory of Music He has a splendid baritone voice. He IS expected to sing in St. Marys choir this morning..
 The circus has grown with the growth of population. It is now three circuses in one. It is so large that all of 1t can't be taken in. Circus-goers would prefer to take it on the installment plan The circus has outgrown the clown No man can be heard by 10000 people spread over several acres The clown is now suc- ceeded by number of clowns, and they attempt to make fun by their actlons' and not by words. This disappearance of the joking clown is in the interest or modesty, for some of his jokes were or questionable taste. The circus is cleaner and more modest. and the objections heretofore urged on the ground ol mor- ality are not now heard. And thenmor- alists are not so straight-laced as they once were. The circus has its good points; if teaches a love for the brute creation, for it is impossible to see the trained ami, mals and witness their intelligence ana note the care given them without liking them more. It is study in natural his tory. for 1t has many strange animals not seen elsewhere. It brings amusement and instruction to many people who need 1t, and gives them something to talk about fora year.
 The State Herald acknowledges receipt of the following: "Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Berk request your presence at the mar riagp of Miss Belle Weinfiield and MT. Morris Berk. Tuesday evening, Novem- Der 10, 1896, at o'clock, Hotel Marlbor- ough. Broadway, Thirty-sxth street en- trance. New York" The groom-elect is