The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-02
N ERHAPs the most sensible sugges- " tion for minimizing danger on

IN ERfIAPS the most sensible sugges- " tien for mininizing danger on
 excursion boats yet made Is that offered by the New YorA Mail and Ex- press that two city hremen be kept on steamers when making a trip SO that in case of fire or other disaster these men. trained to danger may be of service in saving lives The plan Is such a good one that 1t has met with the favor of the board of aldermen of New York and 1t is probable that an ordinance providing this measure for safety will be passed at an early date. Of many wild schemes that have been proffered since the Slocum catastrophe this Is decidely the most feas- ible, from the fact that 1t Is easy of exc cution could hardly be opposed by the steamship companies and conflicts with no laws of the land. Inasmueh as fire men are supposed to be men of more than average courage and constantly on the alert for danger they would be more apt to keep cool in case of accidents than regular members of the ships crew and in addition their experience in fighting fire would prove invaluable in a case like that of the Slocum.
 District Attorney Jerome will be spec tator at the St. Louis convention although it is believed that he will remain passive for the time being and will take tenn porary surcease from making it hot for the wicked. MT. Jerome will be accom- panied by MT. Dooley," who will proba- bly, amass abundant material for witt cisms and the public may expect some thing good from the fertile brain of Mr. Dunne at no distant date.
 The suggestion has just been made by certain enterprising citizens of an eastern town that the streets be given historic names instead of being designated by let- ters or numbers Now everyone Is will ling to grant without argument that the system of calling streets by numerals And letters of the alphabet Is rather confusing when there are several divisions of a city each with it's numbered streets. but if all the streets were given an historic name the stock would soon be exhausted. Moreover, it would sound triie queer to hear man speaking of Julius Caesar avenue" East Napoleon Bonaparte street." Nero alley and Carrie Nation street."
 c. Stanley Hall, president of Clark university, deplores the mannish girl and lays the whole blame of race suicide on the present system of co-education. While there is difference of opinion as to the evils and benefits emanating from CO., education, the male part of the popula- tion is a unit in deploring the scanda- 1ous march of the fair sex toward trous- CTS. To the average man mannish woman Is abhorrent. She is entirely too independent to suit his tastes and more over 1t is unfortunate that the most man. nish women are not always the prettiest women. That initiates against them to a marked degree. mannish woman who is also pretty may be forgiven, but a mannish woman who hath no personal charms is a travesty on the sex that few men can view with equanimity. While the bloomer craze has been for the time being partially checked the fact remains that the mannish woman is increasing in numbers every day and it is more than university presidents or even Theo- dore Roosevelt himself can do to Stop their progress. Give us more of those