The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-20
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

Germantown, Penn, a movement
 has been started by irate business men to stop flirting. The police force has been instructed to keep down this habit at whateveE cost and 1t really seems that flirting Is doomed in this par ticular part of the country Here of late flirting has been the subject of frequent diatribes and where the practice is held beneficial in one quarter it is condemned in another. For instance one seer will state that flirting develops the soul and is a very good thing, while another will asseverate with equal conviction that flirting is at the bolton of all our troubles not directly traceable to the trusts. Flirt- ing has reached crisis in several of our great educational institutions as the result of the co-edueation system, and the University of Chicago has been snfh- cienty advertised thereby. Whether there is harm in flirting depends T. great deal on who is doing the flirting and how it is done. The average man thinks it very wrong for his wife to flirt with an other man but all right for him to fiirt with tho wife of some one else. Right or
 
 flirting is an institution that will con tinue for some time in the future until people get over a great many of their present foolish notions. despite the wig ilance of bluecoats and reformers.
 Last Saturday was the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. 1t was significant of the trend of human events that the Japs and Russians were busy shooting at each other eighty-nIne years after one of the greatest battles in the history of the world was fought. In all that time nations have not advanced enough to avoid strife and it is painful to con template that the universal peace, the dream of philosophers. is about as far away now as it ever was However, thus far, none of the battles of the present day has equalled that in which Napoleon met his defeat.
 Reference to the battles of Waterloo reminds one of the Napoleonic cast of features which characterized the late President Mckinley and were frequently illustrated by the cartoonists. In fact Mckinley was about the only President we ever had whose resemblance to a notable figure in history was sufficiently marked to attract attention. However the face of Mir Mckinley had but feet ing resemblance to that of Napoleon at best. and he was certainly far from being a prototype in figure or general eharac- teristics.
 The report that former Mayor Van Wyck has netted s1.2O0,0OO by his plunge into Wall street and has retired to en- joy the fruits of his success is enough to tempt others to follow suit. Unfor- tunately everybody does not have such good luck and the chances are that it would be very hard to follow MT. Van Wycks example with any degree of suc- cess. It is a known fact that the secret of successful gambling lies in knowing when to quit. Any gambler will tell you that, and yet he will also tell you that he cannot do it and knows but few men who can. It is easy to quit loser-when you have no more money to stake-but exceedingly difficult to quit when the win ring streak is on.
 The president of Bryn Mawr an insti- tuition that is noted for the high-toned and cultivated young women it turns out ev-