The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-23
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

"a MoNG other features that have
WI tended to make the Nan Patter-
son trial more than usually inter-
esting to certain class of newspaper
readers has been the presence of a real
live earl from England who has been
conspicuous at the sessions of court for
the last few days. This parsonage who
has taken such a lively interest in the
case Is none other than the Earl of suf-
folk, whose chief claim to greatness seems
to be that he Is the fianee of Miss Daisy
Letter For the whole of the last day
which the earl spent in New York he
occupied seat by the side of Judge Da-
Wis, who is the presiding Judge. Now 1t
Is quite likely that time hung heavily on
the hands of the earl while in New York
and he probably had nothing else to do"
but his attendance on the trial was not
a. all necessary, while the fact that he
Joined the curious and morbid crowd
that thronged the courtroom to hear the
details of the show girls amour, even
though he was the honored guest, as it
were, does not rebound either to his
intelligence or to his IDEAS of propriety
Since the earl Is not a student of law he
could have employed his time to greater
advantage In some other way and he
would have created a much better i'm
preston on his visit to America If he
had confined himself to the clubs and
the theatres instead of associating his
name with the Nan Patterson trial and
having his picture published in the yellow
papers as one of the courts most in
terested spectators.
Among the various hogs" who are to
be forgiven at this season of peace and
good will on earth, the "go-out- between
the-acts- at-the-theatre hog should not
be included. Those imbeeiles who insist
on ploughing their way to the aisles over
the feet and laps of people who occu-
ry the intervening seats every time the
curtain goes down ought to be suppress
ed. Not only do they lacerate toes, jab
their elbows into the eyes of inoffend-
| ing people and annoy every one within
reach. but they tread upon the skirts
of women and make an unseem1y racket
that is characteristic of nearly all ami
mails when moving about Then just as
the curtain goes up for another act and
when the comedian begins one of his
brightest lines or the prima donna looks
her sweetest, here come these gentry
back again, reeldng with cigarette and
cigar smoke and exhaling a strong odor
of liquid refreshments, to upset a dozen
or more people who have settled them
selves comfortably to enjoy the perform
ance. Forgive the end-seat hog and the
elevator hog but deny mercy to theatre
'porkers."
| This Is indeed the age when It pays to
advertise Although the aphorism is trite
1t applies not only to the business world
blu to the whole world in general. The
statesman who does not advertise re-
mains a statesman without an office; the
divine who does not keep his name before
the public does not get called to afflu-
ent parishes; the lawyer, the doctor, the
poet, the novelist and the painter-al
must look carefully after their publicity
bureaus or come to grief on the shores
of financial adversely. The man who
sells fish and the hardware merchant are
not the only persons who must depend
on a liberal display of printers ink. AS
q matter of fact the actor, the writer