The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-07

JUST now the Sunday papers, theat-
f0D rical magazines and fashion pa
- pers are devoting much space to
spring styles in bathing suits. While the
artistic impression created by a bathing
suit depends largely on the kind of girl
who fills it. there is no denying the fact
that all the bathing suits and all the
girls look unusually well in print this
year. Perhaps this arises from the fact
that only the pretty girls are. pictured,
or perchanee the subject is one that in
spires artists to creations such as are
seldom found In flesh and blood. At any
rate the subject is a live one just at
present and will continue to be so until
the chill winds of autumn drive the sum-
mer girl to the city ball room. It Is
rather hard for a mere man to tell wheth-
er styles in bathing suits have changed
much since last season, but 1t is comfort
ing to note that there is no intention OF
making them any larger. It is believed
that the girls will appear to as great ad-
vantage this season as ever before and
there will be an excuse for sea serpents
to pay frequent visits to seashore resorts
In order to study the landscape effects
supplied by the American girl. Mems
bathing suits are of little moment but
they still possess the ability to make any
man but a real Apollo look hideous, and
there will be the usual number of fat
bathers this season.
T11dCa Il e
ILL.,. showed good judgment and a wise
discernment when he advised the grad
uating class of the Paris, ILL.,, high school
to pick their wives from the rising gen
Grafton of the southern states The south
will agree with him In this matter as a
unit and there Is no reason why the
southern girls should dispute his state
ment that the white population Of the
south is the purest of our American civil
lization. There Is less of the foreign ele-
ment In the south than perhaps any other
part of the country and youths from ILL.,
nois 'would do well to inspect our matri-
monial market before taking options.
A Baltimore surgeon has devised a
novel method of uniting broken bones,
which consists of nothing more or less
than silver bolts which hold the bones
together without danger of rupture until
the knitting process is advanced beyond
the danger point. When the surgeons
get so they can supply a man with brains
who has them not, and can furnish non
dyspeptic stomachs to order the world will
require but little more from their skill
bulletins are received nearly every day
which state that the Georgia peach will
soon be upon us in all its lucious sweet
ness. While 1t would no doubt be possi-
bic to live during the summer without
the Georgia peach no one really wants to
do it, for the Georgia peach is a real
philanthropist that does much to tighten
the cares of life and taken in conjunction
with pure Jersey cream is ABOUT as fine
as anything that ever graced the board
of thunderhurling Jove.
scientist of more than the usual
amount of precocity has just discovered
that electricity may be substituted for
sleep. Instead of throwing away seven
or eight hours In bed every night all that
person need do is to- take a heavy
charge of electricity which is admins
atus. He has a binding sensation, fol-