The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-15
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

ly away. and 1t is gratifying to note that the number of deaths resulting from eat ing this delicacy has not been sufficiently large to make it unpopular. There are some pleasures that the public will not be bullied out of enjoying by the ad- monitions of science, and eating ice cream is one of them. The season will soon be at hand when mince pie will do much to console us in this vale of tears, but hark to the eternal rant of science which en- deavors to prove that minee pie not only plays havoc with the digestive organs but Is the father confessor of appendicitis. There are times when science is a bore.
 The Anti-Treating League of America has just been organized in Chicago with the avowed purpose of doing away with the treating evil. It is wisely argued that treating is very affable, very courteous and sign of good fellowship. but when there are six or eight in the party and each man feels called upon to "buy' all around, why 1t is time to call a halt or a cab. The man of moderate capacity ia the person who suffers most from such practice. The gentleman whose thirst is never quenched profits by it the most and rejoices. He is not the man who pro- posed the Anti-Treating league. While the new organization is not expected to become of national importance, on ac- count of the obstacles with which It will everywhere be confronted, still there a no denying the fact that it Is step in the right direction, for the man who can not imbibe eight drinks and still attend to business Briefly stated its bylaws and constitution may be summed up thus: You can buy a drink If you want to and I will buy one if feel like 1t, but 1 do not intend to take six drinks just be- cause there are six men in the party who want to do the right thing"
 We hear at frequent intervals of prize fighters rushing out into the streets and stopping runaway horses, rescuing damsels in peril or coming to the relief of distressed policemen. Just the other day MT. Corbett did battle valiantly against four obstreperous citizens of Gotham who were trying to dispose of a policeman. Now 1t has been suggested that inasmuch as all retired pugilists cannot go on the stage, and some of them are unable to purchase saloons, they might be enlisted in the cause of law and order as plain clothes men, citizen police. It would fill the hearts of our bluecoats with cour- age and bring fresh hope to them in their battle against sin if they knew that they had as allies such peerless knights of the ring as Messrs. Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, Corbett and Sharkey.
 billboard censor is the latest sugges-
 tion of this enlightened land. It is pro-
 posed that q foxy gentleman be empow-
 cred to walk abroad at noontide spying
 on all sides for Autographs that show
 too much of the ballet It is supposed that
 when he discovers one of these offending 1 posters he will either tear it from the
 publcs admiring gaze or have it done, so
 that the youth of the land may not be demoralized into believing there is more
 wiekedness on the stage than really ex-
 ists. Of course such reform is needed,
 for 1t has been demonstrated that the av- craze billboard is inclined to exaggerate
 and the radiant visions of loveliness
 which they hold up to view exist on paper | but nowhere else. F. c.