The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-01
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

and five barns at Fall River, Mass. Matches in the proper place are very use ful but in the hands of the average small boy are fraught with peril.
 Parisian dandies are reported to be re- vivine the corset fad Pads and stays are said to serve admirably for construc- ting a good figure for one who has 1t not and 1T the dandies can stand the corsets everybody else can. Fortunately the de- cree of fashion has not yet been made general and society matrons in this country will not be called upon to mauip- ulate the corset strings for hubby, until later date.
 The famous Bird Center, cartoons drawn by that clever cartoonist John r McCutcheon for the Chicago Tribune will be dramatized next season and if fs nroh able that Lew Fields will create one of the characters with which he is said ts be well pleased. The play to be made rom these cartoons will be a comedy drama and will be produced at the Grand opera house next winter in Chicago. There Is no doubt in the minds of tn, public that the Bird centern cartoons rank first among the humorous drawinszs that have frightened the big dailies of the country within the past few vears
 but whether they will be as funnv m the stage as they are on paper remains to be seen.
 The first baby born in an autamoh,,. died. The baby was girl and was horn at Stamford, Conn, the other day while her mother was being taken to hospital in an automobile. It was indeed unfor- 1 tunate that the baby did not live, for a career of fame and fortune awaited her as the first baby ever born in automobile! Now comes forward the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, who says that the good cid times' told about in song and story are fraud. He even ventures the opinion that we are better now than ever be- fore' which is highly complimentary and consoling, to say the least, but veterans Of many winters will assuredly disagree with him as regards the good old times.s There never was a snowstorm like we used to have forty years ago; they do not pahS IT eau dnu make pies now like the granddames of the past; summer is not s1 hot and winter is not so cold; the girls are not so pretty and the youths are not so gallant; we don't have so much time to rest and we do not enjoy life as we did in the good old times long ago.
 The gentle pessimists who preach this doctrine are legion, and Dr. Hills launch- ing his complacent views from his sump- tuous city pulpit will have little effect on their ideas of past and present
 While health food cranks have been laughed into transient silence large part of humanity, so far as this country
 is concerned, continues to discuss the question of whether we eat too much It Is reasonable to suppose that a plutocrat
 who has too much food set before him
 will partake too largely thereof and then
 fail to digest it in a luxurious automo-
 bile spin. but the man who works is sell dom bothered about eating too much So long as he Is sure of getting enough the mere matter of stomach complaint is of | secondary importance. Tn ract, it is
 feared that the people who talk so much about what they ought to eat and what
 they ought not to eat really have nothing
 better to do and lapse into indigestion from sheer enfiui. PC.