The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-24
ALD winter Is reported to be on his J way to the east, and will soon
 extend his chilling wand over the

NY way 10 the east, and Will soon
 extend hls chilling wand over the land. Let him eomel Who cares, even If new overcoat has to be purchased and coal bills are a factor to be reckoned with? It is all very well for the poets to sing of shady dels and blooming valleys where a mortal can repose at ease during the summer time, and every one will agree that baseball games do much to make life more pleasant, but for solid comfort that reconciles a man to stay a while longer here below. that warns the flores of his heart and makes him think that after all life is not so bad, what is more worthy of rhymers best efforts than cozy room somewhere not too expensively fur nished, but containing a book or two. your dressing gown and your smoking utensils, an easy chair before the grate in which a 1 fire is cracking merrlly, and a book in your hand, while the snow whirls In the outer darkness and the winds sing the re- frain to your thoughts? Even the sumptu- ous St. Regis could not bring you truer happiness. The more luxuriously inclined may extoll the advantages of steam heat, but steam heat precludes the enjoyment
 
 over the embers. spreading before your eyes crimson curtain upon which you can paint thousand fancies. To him who is blessed with such a retreat clustering winter brings no terrors, for when weary or theatre, club or social gaiety he can al- ways return to the solace of his lares and penates. to smoke, to read and to dream idly until bed time. This is a bachelors paradise. Some say 1t can be improved by the addition of a Peggy" a Polly" or Dolly" but don't ask the bachelor.
 The recent visit of George Ade to Pres ident Roosevelt at Oyster Bay has awak- ened widespread discussion in the land. Every one is anxious to know what they said, what they talked about. and whether MT. Ade was really after material for a new comic opera or was merely 'joshing'' Mir. Roosevelt on the possibility that he may be elected President in November and may then have one or two good filings" to pass around to his friends There was a time not very long ago when MT. Ade was not known by MT. Roose- welt or the great majority of the Ameri- can people from Adams paleozoic house cat, but he Is famous now and has made enough money to be farmer. It seems that Mir. Ade was rather late in getting down to Oyster Bay. If he had tarried much longer he would have missed the President entirely No doubt it was a feast of reason when these two worthies met. MT. Roosevelt is also an author of ] repute, and while his books could hardly rank with Fables in Slang" still he knows a thing or two about tn craft The prophecy of Prof. Louis Wuarin of the University of Geneva. made recently at the International Congress of Arts and Science at St. Louis, that the skyscraper is doomed Is apt to cause a ripple of in- terest in this country, where the sky scraper has attained it's greatest develop ment. Professor Wuarin says that high buildings are detrimental to health. are unsanitary and will ultimately disappear, but those we now have are substantially constructed, and they will probably re- main with us for some time to come. The limit of the skyscraper has probably been reached, although some dreamers do not think so, but whether 1t will disappear from the land altogether is a doubtful