The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-29
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

@ MOTHER anti-kissing club has \P11 been organized. It begins to ap- pear that this movement is reaching alarming proportions. Georgia set an example and now Pennsylvania follows suit. Surely the damosels who show themselves so indifferent td the pleasures and advantages of osculation have never read what the poet has to say on the subject. It may be that kissing is unsanltary. silly and undesirable in several other ways but 1t is an old cus- tom, well established and the fact that the world has been kissing so long with out a serious diminution in its population would lead one to infer that after all the practice Is not so bad as it is painted unless, of course, some other fellow is kissing your wife or your best girl.
 One cannot but envy the pleasant lot of the crew of the Russian cruiser Lena, which will probably remain in San Fran CISCO harbor until the close of the war between Russia and Japan. Frisco is pleasant town and the visitors will have naught to do but enjoy themselves They can go to Chinatown every day in the week, see all the fistic bouts and have good time generally while safe from the Japs and far removed from the scenes of war. However. it is reported that the number of assertions from the shin is increasing daily and at the present rate the parole exacted by the United States that none of the Lena's men would again enlist for service until the war is ended will become a farce. The crew is scat tering to the four winds, each man ap- parently determined to go back to Russia and get into trouble again.
 The Doukhobars are reported to be again on the march to the United States from northwest territory. This time they are not seeking the Messiah but are looking for warmer climate. In view of the fact that the Doukhobars are inclined to discard clothes they are wise in looking for a location where, there is more sunshine and less snow. The main trouble with these fanatics Is lack of brains, a defect which can hardly be remedied un- der the present existing order of things. It is preat pity that the Doukhobars are not as strong of mind as they are of faith. However, steps are being made | by the authorities to intercept their march and they will hardly get as far south as Zion City.
 It is subject for general congratula- ton that the latest name to become prom inent in far eastern affairs, that of Gen. eral Grippenberg, is at least not beyond the elasticity of American tongues. For a time We were in such a maze of .1skis, D "owskys" and other patronymic freaks that the mind of the strongest was be- wlldered, but 'Grippenberg'' comes to us like balm upon the waters after a storm. What could be more dulcet than Grip penberg" after the perusal of those other names that have caused trouble in the past? In the resultant exuberance one is almost tempted to hail him Grip"
 The unprecedented case of man who has just married his own mother-ir1-law Is causing remark. Is 1t possible that the mother-in-law is at last to get her Just dues, and will shake off iron. her shoul- ders the odium placed there by genera tions of jokesmiths? It is not at all sur prising when man marries somebody