The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

E r is really unlSind to heap all the
 abuse on the end seat hog when there are so many other specimens of hu- man pokers on exhibition every day. In fact the end seat hog is merely one in multitude and it is only because he has attracted public attention more than the others that his devoted head Is the target for vituperative villification. While sum- marking the fai1ings of the end seat hog 1t would not be amiss to recall that there is the road hog who persists in taking up the Hons share of the sidewalk when he is a pedestrian or the street when he
 is in vehicle; the elbow hog to be found in all crowds, who pushes his way to the front by walking over the corns of his fellow man and digging his allows in- to their appendicitic stomachs; the box office hog who monopolzes the attention of the ticket seller for five minutes and keeps several hundred people waiting while he gets the best seat in the house for the least money; the conversation hog who prompts all the talk and forces every one else to hear of his exploits and-may Juno pardon us-the lady who is to be found in theatres, at bar gain counters, and in many public places where her sex gives her the privilege Of making the public uncomfortable with impunity. Indeed there are so many Varia- tions of the human poker that rank in justice is being done the end seat hog who contents himself with monopolizing the end of a car seat and is perhaps the meekest man in the world-when he gets home
 Hurting over the wires comes a dis patch which tells of a youth who shot himself because his supper was not ready when he got home The rash deed IS inexplicable. If he had shot himself when he saw the supper or after he had eaten it there would not be a mystery about the affair. Perhaps he knew what Kind of supper it would be and escaped 1t by the suicide route. If unfeeling hus- bands would content themselves with merely blowing out their brains when the meal does not please their palates instead of making unlkind remarks married life would be so much pleasanter and there would be fewer divorces
 June is at hand, bringing in her train a list of June weddings that have already set the fair sex to palpitatng- For some inexplicable reason a great many people have an idea that there is no month in the year like June for wedding when as matter of fact any month of the twelve is bad enough. It is just as easy to get into trouble in January as it is in June, but brides do not look at it that way and consequently there is a great de- mand for June weddings. A wedding is a funny thing anyway, although the af- termath may be quite serious Weddings date back to the time when Adam lost a rib and found a wife but every one is new and more interesting to the fair sex than circus could ever hope to be.
 Now Is the season of the year when farmers bring into town the biggest watermelon, the finest" berries the largest peach, and so on ad infinitum. In the fall they will bring In some speci- mems for the initiated to gape over and country editors will wax eloquent in their praise. It is noticeable that these speci- mems are always the largest or the finest each year. All records of the past are annihilated and nothing preceding can compare with the new wonders of the soil. Happy Is the editorial genius of