The age-herald., 1900-11-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this
 day, Monday, November 5, 1900:
 "Travel, seek work and deal before
 noon"
 sickness, disappointment and hereaveS ment threaten thee: in thy business thy
 will have an unsettled and harassing year;
 keep thy money safe and avoid specula- tion."
 "A child born on this day will suffer with sorrow and bereavement; in it's business 1t
 will fail; it will succeed best in employ"
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for
 Tuesday, November 6, 1900:
 Avoid superiors and keep myself quiet" 'Ye who are in employ, beware; those
 in business will find difficulty i'll keeping it | together
 Young women will have offers of mar riage.'
 "A child born on this day will be gen. l orally unfortunate, whether in employ or
 in business for itself"
 |
 Are people nowadays photographed as numerously and frequently as formerly?
 Does every household still possess one or l more photograph albums, has the all | bum gone the way of the memory string" and the "splatter' pictures and other fads 1 peculiar to girls and young women a dozen years ago? Does every young woman re- | ceve photographs from her admirers and | keep them to look at occasionally or to 1 frfghten mice from the cellar or the gar | ret? Do young men ever offer their photo | graphs unasked to young women? Do | young women ever in any circumstances | give their photographs to men, even If | men should absent-mindedly ask for the l ''picters"?
 The proper answer to these questions is | probably "no." But that is mere conjec- ture, which young men and young women | are competent to affirm or deny for them 1 selves individually Sentimentalism has perhaps gone long way when 1t develops photographs; for the act of sitting for a. | photograph is always more or less embar-
 rassing. You feel just a little bit guilty, and you fear that if you be discovered you are lost. in a way.
 Still photographs are extremely interest
 ing in general terms, and if there is a ten | dency for them to go "out of fashion," it | is to be frankly deplored for the most pre- | cious treasure of many true soul in the | world is the portrait of some loved one dead or gone away; or, worst of all, gone O photographs are always the best; dressed up ones are the worst | The picture of a man In even- 1 ing dress never fails to give you that tired feeling" and you would like to send | the "original' a dose of pills or liver | pad-but liver pads certainly have gone | out of fashion. Dressed up women in | pictures are all right; women are all right I ..l. IfI-C1T HA fN.a
 seen. Oh, woman, woman, woman-But | that's all right. | No more O that Hal
 l An thou loves me!'
 l Most women are mighty particular about l their photographs if they have any; wouldn't lose one and know it to fall into | the possession of anybody but a close per-
 sonal friend for anything in the world! Sin | gularly enough, that sort of thing causes
 refined woman exquisite mental torture. | To her it is positively mournful; and as- | suredly no self-respecting man would keep | in his possession, without her consent,
 the photograph of any woman whose iden- 1 tity he knew. He would send 1t directly
 to her, or if he was in doubt, he'd send it | to the newspaper offices, like folk send | keys they find in the street!
 l Words of a nature that would be l quite terrible to the unco guid were | yesterday afternoon spoken by busi- | ness man of fortune, whose wealth l enables him to travel whenever and wherever his inclination leads him. This man of success. with his wife and little
 son, went for a long walk in the wonder | fully brilliant and bracng weather. The l rirp of ba rtx Iad trN
 North Birmingham, where they rested for | a short time in the splendid park. They were fatigued and much in need of re- | freshment; but nothing was to be had ex- | cept some dry bread and spring water | "It is remarkable that the self-respecting
 and legally independent people of this l country suffer a few narrow minded and | bgoted howlers to deprive them of common | human liberty" this man said. Here | am I, with my wife and little boy, tired
 and thirsty and hungry, miles from home. | Yet ignorant intolerance forbids a glass | of beer and a piece of cheese! This park l is beautiful, but intolerance would make | it a milk -and-mush 'Sawbuth' school l ground, and bar it to all enlightened and | freedom loving men and women. You | might visit any similar resort in the most | benighted district of all Europe, and you | would fare better there than you could in | the city of Birmingham even, not to men | ton the beautiful but dismal and neglect | ed pleasure resorts in the suburbs, like l this park, for example. There is a man l here who sells somethng-the Lord knows 1 what-but it is a wonder that he Is arrest ed for breaking the Sawbuth' the rev
 enue laws. Every little village in effete.' | imperial 'down-trodden' Europe provides | for the harmless pleasures of the people; | but in free Birmingham we are ruled by ,, intolerance. Go into any park in Germany, i say, on a bright Sunday afternoon, and
 you will seated around little tables | sturdy, earnest pious fathers with their /; families, and all the members of each
 family taking sips of beer out of big | mug, and listening to grand music from | regimental bands! That's human liberty