The age-herald., 1900-10-16

business VIII increase
 Young persons will court or marry and
 will be much inclined to pleasure and com 1 pany..
 "A child born on this day will be lucky 1 in whatever it undertakes and will save ] money; if female rather fortunate in I marriage"
 1 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies Tor Wednesday. October r, 1900:
 Great uncertainty prevails
 Thou will quarrel and get to law, and ] thy affairs will cost thee much anxiety; in thy domestic circle thou wilt have great
 heavy and unexpected expenses, and will
 quarrel with or suffer through females
 Young persons wilt be very careful of their acquaintances.'
 "A child born on this day will be in con tinued trouble with women and will waste
 it's money thereon; if a female, she will | marry unhappily.'
 "The shirt-waist man will be seen every
 where next season. remarked F. L. Rauh Cincinnati travelling salesman of shirts. And the net-waist woman?' Can never be too numerous, heaven bless her, and we shall see much of her next summer" answered the shirt man. MT Rauh, like the travellers for all the
 great shirt and clothing houses generally. is now booking orders for the spring and
 summer trade of 1901.
 We have all sorts of qualities and colors
 in mems shirt-waists; and retail prices will
 range next season from a dollar and
 quarter up, running generally at $1.25, $l50, $175 and s2.o0. My sales have been so far Ia nd chi rtifa aOtici-
 pate an immense demand for mems shirt
 waists next spring and summer
 Amongst the many samples which MT.
 Rauh was showing at Snyders yesterday
 afternoon, and which he permitted some of
 MT Snyder's customers to see, were some
 particularly handsome garments; one in
 broad brick-red and white stripes being especially handsome. These shirt-wasts
 for men are made precisely like womens
 shirt-waists are said to be, by men who
 have seen womens waists without women
 in them. Not all men have had that privi-
 lege. The mems garments are about four
 inches longer than the bosom proper, and
 about that distance from the bottom hem is quarter-inch lace inside a band sewed
 on at either edge and extending all around the waist.
 MT. Rauh explained that a man would
 put on his trousers and pass his suspend
 CTS up and over his undershirt. He would then put on his shirt-waist which would conceal the suspenders, or galluses, if you please, and pulling the shirt-waist down closely, as to fit the back and shoulders properly, he would draay the lace tightly about his waist, pull the puff down over the hand of his trousers, and-therc
 he'd be. Nothing simpler, to be sure
 Maj. Joseph w. Hardie gave out the
 pleasing information yesterday that Sena-
 tor Morgan and the Misses Morgan will arrive in Birmingham tomorrow to be the
 guests of Major and Mrs. Hardie at their
 residence on the South Highlands. The Senator and the Misses Morgan will re- main here a fortnight. Major Hardie and Senator Morgan have been intimate per- sonal friends for more than forty years,
 having been young men together in Tal-
 ladega and in Selma.
 The oldest and most exclusive woman's
 club in the South is the famous club at
 Richmond, Va, and it recently gave re-
 newed evidence of its enlightenment by do- ing itself the honor of entertaining one of lHe IlOSt eHliHtnI Ol Aft6TlcdI DI1cSlS. "The Rev. pr. D. J Stafford. the elo- quent priest of Washington, is the most popular orator and lecturer in our part of the country" said a Washington man yes terday. He is easily America's foremost | lecturer the plays of Shakespeare His Hamlet lecture has been delivered more than twenty times in Washington during the past five or six years and it has never failed to draw crowded house. This sea-
 son his lecture on Macbeth is making d great hit. Many critics speak of it his finest effort. He delivered it in Richmond
 before large and cultured audience and
 SO delighted with it were the literary set that he has been asked to repeat it. Dur ing his visit to Richmond Dr. Stafford was entertained at .informal reception ten l dered him by the Woman's Club composed | of Nirginia's most exclusive society. Dr. | Stafford made a short but most felicitous l address in which he paid a beautiful trib- l ute, not only to women, but to women's | clubs Father Stafford is a very busy man. | He is in constant demand in the large cities of the East, but I understand that he will make limited tour through the South this season. If he comes to Bir-
 mingham, no one who appreciates oratory
 of the highest art, can afford to miss hear ing him..
 This country may not have a perma- rent standing army of 100000, but the little army of 25,0OO or 26,OO0 the URited States | maintained prior to the Spanish war was entirely inadequate a nucleus or skele
 ton." said army officer of ten years l experience. No matter which party wins
 next month, the reorganized army will call
 for not less than 6c,oOo men. If we hold | on to the Philippines an army of 100000 | would be not too large Without the Phil l ippines we could get along with 60000. l Twenty years ago, when comparatively few soldiers were needed for the coast de- lenses, the little army of 25,0O0 seems to l have been sufficient, but If the country
 could employ 25,000 regulars twenty years l ago, it is readily seen that many more are l l-J he toll ohn Ina