Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-26

new" or "old" according to their tastes. These things they are willing to leave to the inevitable arbitration of coming time. But one thing is certain: relief must come speedily to our sex in one direction or the entire foundations of church, home and state will be undermined hopelessy. The fiat has gone forth; the demand is now made in our behalf! The national government must give us, and give quickly, bureau of mental indications, or, like the fabric of a dream, all the sweetness of American homelife may be destroyed by cyclonc upheayals, since Mir Harrison, in the fullness of his young and tender emotions, has told why he loves Mrs. Dimmick. Other men are talk ing on the courage of their convictions, and ere long will enforce this reason of MT Harrison upon an unoffending family. Encouraged by his example, they will in- sist upon silence, while they indulge in ceaseless ruminations. The crisis is se rious, and calls for immediate relief in the form of this mental bureau The wo- men must have all the necessary flags, stamps and printed indications, so that the peace of the family may be preserved daily We must learn, with the govern ment's assistance, the difference be- tween thoughts and sulks, and we must know when the attacks are to be expect ed, so that we can find some port of safe ty, some cyclone pit, as it were, even if it is in the form of a club-a woman's club, mind you. If the lawmakers will give us all necessary information, and as these lawmakers are men, they must know the signs of the times, as to the in- dicatons of upheavals in the recesses of masculine minds, we can prepare for the disturbance. MT. Harrison's romance will bring this additional expense upon the nation, for this mental weather bu- reau we must have, but it has opened way to happier times to many poor woman who has found life miserable be- cause her husband insisted upon think ing every time she wanted to talk. One of the most remarkable conditions which pertains to the state of matrimony is the capacity for constant and absorbing thought it brings to the most frivolous men. Now is the time of our deliverance at hand. A mental bureau bill must be presented to the national lawmakers, and all necessary flags and paraphernalia must be furnished obtuSe women who never know when their husbands are thinking save by the overwhelming st- lence that rewards their efforts towards loquacity. Mrs. Dimmick will be en- shrined in our hearts as a benefactor if her sphinx-like proclivities shall be the cause in any way of relieving the weight of oppressive silence that surrounds many a wife with unremitting conver- sational tendencies.
 
 
 site to keep the minor matters of life straight; no matter what fads possess humanity with Vigor and earneStneSS; no matter what fashion finds it's way into our daily existence, or what new notions penetrate the brains of men and women, one thing remains unchanged, and that thing is human love, in all lands and with all peoples, every age and condition. as experience teaches us Poets have sung of the divine sentiment since the days that the first idyl was written of the TO- nance, that had it's beginning amid the fragrance of 1Iden's bowers. All along the pathways trod by the nations of the earth since time began are stories of human affection that will not die so long as men and women live. Sometimes these romances are found amid the mys- tic gloom of the faraway orient; some times beneath the tender shadows of the olive trees that grew nigh unto the sea of Galilee; sometimes amid the eternal snoWs of arctic regions, and sometimes in the fair lands where the hawthorne hedges bloom and the rose and the or ange blossoms shed their perfume. But the land and the time are of no moment, neither is the language of the tongue which tells the Sweetest Story Ever Told" for the telling is always the same, and the ear and heart catch the faintest whisper of this old, old story without re- gard to the language of the teller. Some times no words are used in the making of these epochs in human. history; per haps in the flash of sympathetic eyes one soul has looked into another and found peace and the sweetness of faith and trust These things have gone on since the origin of our mundane sphere, and will so continue, until Hike scroll the heavens are rolled away" War or peace make no changes in its inevitable cycles; fashions and fads disturb not it's immu- ta ble laws. There may be the new woman and the new man; but 1t is always and ever the same old love. Women may wish to vote and to hold ofiice-instead of holding their tongues-but above all smaller aspirations is the desire for the true and holy love, which will make life complete with its divine fulfillment. Pow CT and place have their alluring fascina- ton for all men, yet in the mad. ambi- tious rush for the goal of their aspira- tions the whisper of their hearts! is heard above the applause of multitudes. And my friends, as long as this old world of ours, heavy with the burden of centuries, whizzes through space we need not fear for mans ultimate good; his heart will hold him right. for it will per adventure throb with love for some good woman, who will keep him close to his God.
 The discussion of the carriage matter referred to in my columns has been very general among the young ladies and gen tlemen of Birmingham during the past week The indictment weather has per haps prevented the young ladies from taking positive stand on this question and refusing to allow their beaux to go to this unnecessary expense on their ac- count. The young gentlemen have re- ceived the proposed reformation with the most unmistakable indications of pleas ure, and anxiously await the action of the young ladies in the premises. As can be readily appreciated. the change must be inaugurated by the girls and their