The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-17
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

CIENT1FIC research Is all right
H1 in its place but one cannot help
- but think that science Is going
little too far when 1t politely informs
us that great many of the daintles on
which We have been wont to regale our
selves in halcyon days gone by conceal
poisons, pains and often death in their
delectable interiors. Forth comes wise
acre who says there Is poison in candy
another informs us that Strawberries are
almost as fatal as strychnine and still
another states that ice cream is certain
TO kill anybody but summer girl In
the meantime the price of beef Is going
up and If the sweets that are within
reach are to be declared injurious and
more solid food is too high priced the
question naturally arises, what are we to
eat? Blackberry jam that has been hand
ed down In song and story Is now reveal
ed as a chemical mess that looks like
jam, tastes like jam but Is far from being
JAM One never knows whether he Is
getting butter or oleomargarine, all
canned foods are considered dangerous,
DR.. Wiley says adulterants are to be
found in nearly everything we eat and
it really seems that the gastronomic fut-
ure holds any but a pleasant prospect.
Before very long people will get desper-
ate, throw caution to the winds, forget
the existence of germs. microbes, adulter-
ants and ptomaine and go back to the
blissful ignorance that prevailed before
appendicitis became popular when people
managed to live and die very comfortably
without knowing so much as they do now.
1t is rnmored that small waists may
come back again. A great many men are
of the opinion that the small waist has
never gone away, but that shows what
they do not know. Only a woman can
tell what Is really a small waist About
the only practical advantage of small
waist Is that 1t squeezes up girl so that
it is impossible for a young man to
squeeze her any more, although 1t Is
much easier to encirc1e her with one arm.
As the small waist does not hurt anybody
but the woman who is squeezed and she
is determined to have 1t in spite of what
doctors may say there is no reason why
the male part of the population should
worry much over its return to favor.
Another man has gone mad because he
thought too much This fellow is crazy
on art and vegetables, with religion as a
side line. When person endeavors to
concentrate his thoughts on three such
dissimilar subjects a breakdown is not
surprising. Either. one is capable of caus-
ing dementia and the first, under the
guise of vegetarianism, has already filled
the land with health cranks who manage
| to stay out of the sanitariums.
It Is fitting and proper that Louisville
should have the next reunion of the Con-
| federate veterans. The choice was made
in most picturesque style when "Old
Kentucky Home" won the day and stam-
peded the convention, so thai other cities,
candidates for the honor, were not given a
ghost of a show. Louisville is town
with an interesting past and a brilliant
future. No one can extend a more cor
dial welcome to visiting veterans than
/ the old guard of Kentucky colonies who
frequent the hotel lobbies and grace the
bars in pursuit of mint juleps 1t is
hardly necessary to mention the women
and the horses, but they will be counted
in the joyous reception which will be ten
dered the veterans when they arrive in
Louisville next year.
A divorce case that recently came up
| in Berlin court was settled by Curl