The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-16

so Yalorously are women, 1t Is probably true that there are more women in the Japanese army than there are in the army of any other civilized or semi-sivilized country of the world today. Thus has the athletic woman of the island king dom surpassed her sister of the west, for the American girl has not yet aspired to tackle anything more formidable than a golf ball.
 A man dwelling in New York state un- der the name of Lorrain-his name is romantic but his soul is not-ls suing a young lady for 5000 damages on the plea that she hugged him so hard she broke one of his ribs. It seems that the couple were developing pictures in a dark room together and the red rays of the lap.s so affected the damsels warm, oriental nature that she could not restrain az impulse to throw her arms around the young mans neck. Those arms must be well developed arms, or the young man needs outdoor training, for one of his ribs was broken by the embrace Now the spiritless Lochinvar hales the young lady to court and demands that she liquidate
 
 make Cupid blush and the muses go out of business, but in this cold. commercial age. what could one expect? Instead of cherishng his fractured rib as a proof incontestible of the young ladys warmth of affection the paltroon demands money. However, it is lucky thing she did not get him around the neck, for she would have certainly strangled him.
 Tourists in search of wildly hilarious and frosty time will be given an oppor- tunity to accompany Commander Peary on his preliminary trip into the polar regions this summer. Arrangements have been made to insure the comfort of pas sengers in the Peary auxiliary ship. There will also be glorious opportunities afforded for shooting walrus and polar bears and running from the latter when the occasion so demands. In about two months trip to the polar regions will be very alluring to sweltering humanity, and Peary should have no difficulty in getting plenty of applications for berths. While there will be ice and polar bears there will be no mosquitoes which is enough said.
 The Oriental hotel in Dallas, Texas, has just handed over the sum of $4000 to Louis James. the actor, and his wife, who were suing the hotel company for charg- ing Mrs. James with the theft of a pillow In view of the fact that the pillow was worth but few dollars at most it would have been cheaper for the hotel company to have remained silent. Mir. and Mrs. James asked for $2O,OOO. but are no doubt willing to compromise on $4OO0. All of which shows that 1t is a. very poor plan for a hotel to try to break up the sou venir habit among it's guests, even if the evidence is more convincing than 1t was against the tragedian's wife.
 The possibility of fire is keeping visitors to the St. Louis fair decidedly interested these days The ubiquitous cigar stump has already sfigured in several incipient blazes despite the fact that smoking on the exposition grounds is not permitted by the guards. If the big show were to burn up it would certainly furnish a much grander spectacle than now. but 1t would also be calamity that would pros- trate St. Louis and deprive many people of the pleasure of seeing The Pike.
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