The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-21

medium There is tendency among cer- tain wiseacres to look upon the Bible as 8 trihe out of date, and a Washington syndicate Is sending out articles, border ing almost on the saerilegious. which pur- port to deal in a semi-humorous manner with incidents recorded in the scriptures. No doubt all these improved ideas that are advanced these days anent the Bible are enough to dumfound the good old souls who have been brought up to believe that the fish really swallowed Jonah. and that the parting of the Red sea was bona fde miracle and not natural phe- romenon. These, indeed, be progressive times.
 It is announced that a fre-proof thir- teen-story hotel building will be erected on the present site of the Marlborough in New York If the projectors would make 1t twelve or fourteen stories their hotel would be all right but that thir- teenth floor is going to cause trouble. No real gambler would cut the cards on the thirteenth floor of any hotel, so that it could not be used for a gambling hall. and 1t is reasonable to suppose that the guest who objects to room IS will also object to floor 13.
 The scrubby little Christmas trees that one secs peddled about the streets in wagons recall to mind the old days when buoyant youth went out on the hills in tho biting winds and sought high and low for the coveted holly. People in town who hurry out to the gate and purchase enough arborial decorations for their homes in the same time and in the same way that they would buy turkey or brace of chickens. have no conception of real Christmas joys. Perhaps after all the city dweller is the loser and knows not the Christmas feeling that gladdens the rural heart, but he enjoys himself, nevertheless. Ills pleasures tend more to electric lights brilliant assemblages and palatal resorts, but he Is convinced that he is having good time and 1t is not wise to dispute his opinion Each to his own way of enjoying life, let the bills fall where they may. seems to be the slogan of modern pleasure seekers. Yet tine person who believes in having a good time nowadays is not @ philosopher; he is more apt to be a sensuaist, for the age of genuine Epecureans has passed A woman out in Omaha is suing for divorce from two men in the same peti- tion Omaha is reckoned a very good place for dissolving matrimonial contracts but good form would seem to demand one divorce at time
 Already the fame of Mrs. Chadwick appears to be on the wane, so tickle is that populace which reads newspapers and feeds upon yellow journals If the case is permitted to hang fire for a week or ten days it will be necessary to refresh the publics memory before interest can be reawakened Nan Patter- son and Mrs. Chadwick appear to be about nip and tuck with the public as we'll as the paragraphers, with the advantage going first to one and then to the other. It is curious to note that public sym pathy is almost a unit for Miss Patterson while Mrs. Chadwick is viewed coldly. to say the least. Perhaps 1t Is the difference in the two women more than the difference in their alleged crimes which accounts for this state of affairs. Nan Patterson Is young and pretty, she has been stage beauty, a ''Florodora' sex tette girl, in fact, while Mrs. Chadwick is not good looking, is not exactly amia- ble and her past career is not one to awaken general admiration. The world ] is a queer place and there are lots of queer people in 1t. P. c.