The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-26
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

der. He wanted my advise in regard to the postal department, and asked if did not approve Of his views on the labor question. while clock on the wall licked off the seconds and the other narber stin fingered without. wondered If new customer would never come. and I cursed the drawing voice that came to my ears from the street, mingling with the silky tones of my friend, the lunatic A half hour must have passed away in this sus- pense, although I thought 1t was much longer, when man came in and took his seat in the opposite chair Immediately my talkative barber became silent, powdered my face, brushed my hair and after q few preliminary hourishes bowed me out of the chair Without waiting to pay him l made break for the door. When safely outside I beekoned the other barber and told him that his partner was insane. I did not stay to see what happened. but afterwards heard that the unfortunate man was put in an eastern asylum and died there"
 Poets and other persons of sentiment have long recognized that when Q woman begins to grow fat she loses much of her power to inspire romances. no matter how romantic she feels. In fact it is often the case that the more avoidupois a woman acquires the more sentimental she be- comes, although she finds it much mora difficult to find handsome prince with whom to share her affections That the fat woman is handicapped in winning the admiration of man has again been demon- strated by the plight of a Pennsylvania wife who charges her husband with cruel ty and neglect alleging that his affection has grown cold because she has grown fat. She states that she weighed only 122 pounds when she married. but now she tips the scales at 262 That is a rather stiff figure and when a woman doubles her weight a fond husband can hardly be blamed for eyeing her with suspicion, al- though he would hardly be justified in kicking her about the house. as the Penn sylvania man Is charged with doing.
 It is remarkable how soon some fat women can lose their attraction for tho opposite sex. Nearly all fat women arc sweet tempered, so they say, and arc anxious for someone to love them, but the average young man prefers girl who is not too heavy when he gets ready to give away his heart. Fat girls nearly al- ways make fine wives, too, and were 1t not for the fact that the youth of this land has some distorted ideas in regard to female loveliness. she would have her willowy sister badly distanced in the matrimonial handicap.
 The good burghers of Nnremburg start ed riot in the Apollo theatre Of that German town recently because the man. Using purposes. It seems that the manager had been over to this country where he imbibed some American ideas, and during the ntermission advertisements of gum on the curtain by means of a magic lan- tern. When the art-loving burgers realized the insult that was being offered to their play house they rose up and began to throw things. The advertising man and his lantern escaped. but he was taught a lesson that he will not forget. What a pity 1t is that respect for the dignity of art is not equally as strong in this couI- try where audiences in theatres not only read advertisements of chewing gum on the curtains of their theatres without protest, but chew that dainty with grea. gusto during the progress of per- formance. P. C.