The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-13
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD.

, and as his career testihes, a person OF
remarkable diplomacy who could make
DR.. Jekyl ashamed of the fact that he
ever told any one about Mr.. Hyde. Now
Selma poses as a moral town where Nor
monism Is not tolerated and polygamy Is
frowned upon but here is a citizen who
has lived happily for three years with
two faithful spouses. As is perfectly
natural, this accommodating husband Is
now in trouble. His wives got acquaint-
ed and his dream of peace was ended,
but all the same the case is a remarkable
example of the possibilities of conjueai
felicity in the metropolis of the black
belt.
The man who wanted to roll wheel
barrow from Atlanta to st. Louis with a
young lady in it will have to make his
trip alone and will start out next week
for the fair town. As the acceptance
of his proposal by a young lady would
virtually signify that she would marry
him at the end of the trip, or like Mark
Twain's Johanna, be seriously compro-
missed, one may suppose that the enter
prising Georgian is not yet ripe for we'd
lock- 1t would never do to insinuate that
he is lacking in personal charms
Now that 1t Is proposed to get tips
from the races by wireless telegraph the
picturesque wire Taper will have to go
out of business and pool rooms will
henceforth be amply protected from I'M
scrupulous individuals who would steal
race track news for the money there is
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soon be tried in a number of cities and
Signor Marconi may after all become the
patron saint of the tout.
Chicago has abandoned that remarka-
BILE project whereby it was hoped to have
,, a sane" Fourth by subscription, with
free fireworks for the children, provided
they would agree to burn them in a GER
tain spot with attendants, physicians and
the fire department near at hand At
first glance the plan did not look FEAST
BILE and 1t is not surprising that 1t has
been abandoned. The characteristics of
the American small boy would not permit
of such nonsense and perhaps after all
Chicago will have a sane" Fourth of
July celebration. such as gladdened the
hearts of our ancestors.
The peek-a-boo shirtwaist has again
been denounced. In fact remarks derog-
atory to ventilated hosiery shrtwaists
and similar wearing apparel have been
made often before, but without results.
| The peek-a-boo shirtwast seems to please
the fair sex. Dame Fashion has set
| the seal of her approval upon 1t and no
complaint is being made by the vacation
man. In view of these facts denuncia-
lions have little effect on such apparel
The only complaint that could possibly
be made against the peek-a-boo shirt
waist is that II offers too many ways OF
| egress and ingress to mosquitoes, flies
and other pests of the glad summer time.
| Now that he has received his diploma
the college graduate is beginning to
consider how he viii go about setting
the river on fire, or in other words con-
! querng the world before the year is out.
A cartoon that is timely has just APP
peared in the Chicago Tribune and shows
why so many college graduates fail. The
| champion athlete, class president, best
dancer and first honor man with two de-
grees cannot bring himself to start at
| the bottom with other fmumpers'' who
have won fame in the past. He will start
higher up nowhere and the conse-
quence is that too often he starts no.
where. p. C.