The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

blaze, but why the White House servants should be adorned with medals and sashes galore is hard to see. He might look pretty but he would also look ridic ulous. After all. what is more dignified and impressive than the simple garb of an American citizen?
 Now and then we have impressed upon Us the heroism of physicians who risk their lives to combat contagious disease. Too often they die unhonored and unsung. but this is largely a result of their num- bers and the obscurity which too often envelopes them. We had an instance at point when yellow fever first broke out in the two Laredos. Able practitioners immediately set about to. stamp out the disease with no thought of the danger they were mourning. An unusually sad ease is that of Dr. L. O. Rood, of Des Moines, Ia. While treating a child who was dying of lockjaw Dr. Rood accidently innoculated himself with tetanus germs and now he is waiting feverishly for a week to pass in order to find out whether suspense can readily be imagined. So oi1GH pHysicldllS nave a Ia0llly to sider. but even this falls to make them hesitate. It has been said that our American universities and colleges are turning out too many doctors of medicine. but it is noticeable that they all seem to make living. man will hurriedly send for doctor in his extremity but he will think matters over before consulting a lawyer.
 Attention has been called to the pre- valence of accidents among ships of war when maneuvering. It seems that our vessels are not the only ones damaged and English sailors also make blunders. When ship runs on hidden reef in A midnight fog it is bad enough for the reputation of her pilot but when ves- sels collide in open water some one cer- tainly needs a little schooling in marine affairs. Of course our sailors are the finest in the world, even f a great many are foreigners. but there ought to be enough room in the Atlantic for our fleet to get about without making dents in the shoreline.
 COnRfdlulateS itself that the abolition of pompous man. ners has opened a pleasanter era for the country. There is no doubt that there was a little too much lowing low and courts seying in the olden time but it did no harm. A product of the new epoch which the Tribune halls with such evident de- light is the man who shoves women aside af fI,a o1, H. faces at every opportunity. and forgets his hat. Of-course in this hurly burly day he is too busy to look after little ameni- ties of life and the worker who has ap- propriated a desirable seat is too much absorbed in business matters to get up for a tired woman with bundles. If he did he would be the object of curious stares. Yet there is happy medium be- tween the old pompousness and the pres ent churlishness that is desired by man or a woman who wishes to make the lives of others pleasant. PoIiteness al- ways brings its reward-witness the bell boy
 Many large cities in the country are agi- tated over the question of night noises By these is not meant the yowls of stray ing felines, but the shouts of early morn ing revelers and all that rumble and roar and shriek of a bustlng town that cannot cease but must continue through the hours of the night when most peoplG are slumbering. It is these very slum berers who are raising a disturbance They object to being startled out of pleasant dream by the internal screech of devil whistle or the clang of factory bells. Then again it has become css. tomary to utilize the night for working on streets and unfortunate persons resid- ing nearby are allowed scant repose
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