The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-05-01

York girls show their stage favorites. I
| believe that he calls for an admiration
that is more of the brain and less of the
heart"
The New York girl laughed, and a
Baltimore girl sitting on the other side
of her inquired: why do you two girls
quarrel? New York is a nice place to
visit, and so is Boston, but only the
south is worth living in, and it is only
in the south that we girls save our
caramel money and absolutely starve
for sweets that we may buy violets to
lay at the feet of the one good actor
in the world
Both the girls eagerly asked "Sir
Henry Irving?' The Baltimore girl
looked as indignant as if she had been
accused of siding with the Spaniards
as she said, Certainly not-Mr Soth-
ern"
Just then the curtain dropped for
good, and the girls went out to drink
soda water, and 1 pondered over the
intricacies of the feminine mind and
felt that there was a certain healthful-
ness in this admiration of the actor be-
cause, after all, with a real nice girl it
is the actor and not the man that she
| admires.
By the bye, it was announced early
in the autumn that the fashionable card
was no longer to be engraved with the
written script that has so long marked
that which was correct, but that block
letters would be used Now, somebody
who pretended to know told that this
silly fad was copied from the English,
but the English people would be the
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other side is only by the army and
navy people. Do you remember when a
few social snobs proclaimed their ig-
norance by putting cockades on their
coachmen and footmen? Our English
cousins laughed until they ached when
they saw them. The cockade can be
properly worn only on the hats of the
coachmen and footmen of those who
hold the commission of the crown-that
is to say, the army, navy, house of
peers and at one time the clergy of the
established church. If you have ever
given a thought to it, you will notice
the cockade belonging to a coachman
of an admiral in the navy is little
different in shape and is worn slightly
lower than that of any other but, as
usual, on the left side. England is the
only country in the world where the
coclSade has an official significance. In
France every dirty "cocher'' who begs
in sycophantic manner for his pour
boire" will wes- on the side of his dis
| reputable looking hat an equally dis
reputable and possibly ill smelling
cockade. I never thought cockades pref
ty anyway, but things of that sort are
a matter of taste. You may admire
one thing while gush wildly over
another.
For instance, I think the loveliest
women in the world have black hair
and blue eyes. and your heart may go
out to a blond.
For instance, you think girl who
knows how to make jelly cake and car
amels will be a good housekeeper. I
doubt it, for there is difference be-
tween caramels and mutton and cake
and roast beef.
For instance. you don't blame a girl
IL she has really pretty hat for keep
ing it on her head at the theater. 1 dis
agree with you. think she ought to
have a properly arranged coiffure and
tie lace scarf over it, which can easily
be removed.
For instance, you think because so
many women have been rude to you
that you won't offer your seat in the
car to anything feminine. I disagree
with you. 1 think you are kind heart
ed fellow, and If got in and swung on
would get up and offer me a resting