The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-14
ffH FIFE natural cowards has proven
 \OR a fruitful theme for noveIists,

n6 TIE natural cowards has proven
 \OD a fruitful theme for novelsts
 playwrights and all those whose business 1t ia to depict the varying shades of human emotion. There is some thing essentially pathetic about nat ural coward" although he is despIcable in our eyes, and one cannot but regard him with loathing. Perhaps all towards are to a certain extent snatural cow ards" in that their pusillanimity was Torn in them and has not been eradcated, but the natural coward" is indeed to be pitied. Fate has decreed that he shall be a coward all his days, and no matter how carefully he veils his weakness from the eyes of the world the time will come when he is forced by circumstance to un- mask. The natural coward is curious psychological phenomenon. Although he may hate the weakness that makes him cringe in the presence of danger, and though he may struggle with all his will power to overcome his infirmity, 1t will not down. A coward he was born, a coward he is and a coward he shall be all the days of his life He is the spawn of destiny the victim of prenatal infiu- cnces and hereditary traits for which he Is not to blame, but the fact that he is born a coward does not detract whit from his sufferings. Some interesting stories have been written about natural towards. Many more could be told, but perhaps 1t Is just as well that these little tragedies are not known.
 
 An Iowa professor has soemnly stated that the western half of Kansas Is in sane. The denizens of that benighted region are crazy as a result of their geo. graphical location. and therefore all the insane asylums in the world cannot help them. If this part of Kansas is really an insane belt, as the professor states there is no use to hurt the feelings of the cit izens by telling them about 1t. Of course the theory of the professor Is evidently a scientific one, but that does not help the plight of the people who dwell in the western part of Kansas Perhaps the constant apprehension of Kansas cyclones has something to do with this unfortun- ate state of affairs. but as to this matter the professor offers no enlightenment.
 
 It is rumored that an attempt is be- ing made to start the fashion of bracelets for men. A young broker recently ap- peared on the floor of the New York cot ton exchange wearing tiny gold brace let about his let wrist, a silk handker- chief tucked up his coat sleeve and red silk lining in his derby. Now In the matter of bracelets, there are brace lets and bracelets. Some are called hand cuffs and some are called bracelets. Handcuffs for men have been in vogue for quite a while and In fact some of the fair sex have worn them on special occasions but the fad of men wearing gold bracelets merely for the sake of ornament is about the limit. The only bracelet suitable for an "exquiste' who would be guilty of such effeminacy Is a handcuff the other sleeve being worn by an officer of some jail or sanitarium for light heads.
 It will soCn be great problem to dis pose of all the foreign visitors who are now taking part in the St. Louis fair. When the big show closes these people will be out of Job and some of them have already expressed their determina- ton to remain in the land of Uncle Sam, regardless of what Uncle Sam may say, While no patriotic American could blame the Japs, Chinese, Esquimaux, Filipinos Germans, Dutch, Italians, Egyptians As syr.ans and other people for liking Amer ica better than their own country, there may be some red tape that will have to be considered before they can be turned