The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-07

It oMoRR0W afternoon Birmingham
\CN will witness her first football
game of the season of 1904 Some
how the idea of heroes In gridlron armor
consorts strangely with the weather which
we are enjoying and a football game at
a time when electric fans are still SER
vlceable will no doubt be something of
novelty. Birmingham has no religious
scruples against football. The game is
one TO appeal to the hearts of our hust-
ling population and the chances are that
the football ''rooter" will be out In force
tomorrow afternoon, although 1t will be
hard to forget the Coal Barons who but
two weeks ago were the targets for a
city's admiring eyes.
There is something pathetic In the fall
ure made by Della Fox, the former comic
opera star, on the occasion of her re-
cent return to the stage after an absence
Of two years. There was time when
Della Fox was fortunes favorite with no
odds against her in the theatrical world
but that day seems to have passed. This
season she returned to the stage amid
the applause of her old friends and APP
peared In New York in 1.-The West Point
Cadet" The production, a musical COM
edy affair, was a failure from the start
and now the company has broken up
after a disgracefnl scramble for clothes.
trunks and other belongings. The critics
say that Miss Fox was unfortunate In
her choice of 1.-The West Point Cadet"
for starring vehicle and, worst of ALL
she is too fat. Embonpofnt and art find
1t difficult to get along amicably. es-
pecially in comic opera and musical COM
edy. Now 1t is stated that Miss Fox IS
i'll. For old times sake 1t is to be hoped
that her luck will change
The International Brotherhood of Team
sters is making efforts to incorporate the
chauffeurs into their organization. The
thought is almost repugnant to those per-
sons who have placed the chauffeur upon
a pedestal befitting his naughty station
in life and his French title. VIII this
proud monarch of the highways. this be-
goggled Juggernaut condescend to hob
mob with the plebeian driver of coal
carts, the Ice man. the milk man. the
delivery man and tho express man? 1t
Is thought not. For .ne sake of an es-
thetio throng of admirers who cannot en-
dure the thought of such base association
the chauffeur should hold himself alool
AS yet he has not unionized himself. Let
him refrain from such organization. When
he become a union man he becomes a
working man just like everybody else.
However,. II the chauffeur must organ
lie may he never unite himself with the
International Brotherhood of Transfers.
They are good fellows, all right but they
are not In the chauffeur class.
| There is a world of possibilities in the
Eyeglass Protective association, con-
Germ that has just started business in
New York, with the purpose of insuring
eyeglasses. The modest fee of 81 year
will insure you glasses against every
contingency and there Is no reason why
the association should not do a land
office business Eye-glass insurance was
the one thing needed to complete the
sum of human happiness so far as in
surance goes. If there is anything else
that is not already insured the first per-
son who discovers 1t should speak up.
And yet, 1t will not be long before a