The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-21
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

lions of the average woman. The man who can wear brass buttons has handi- cap over less conspicuous aspirants for the admiration of the gentle sex that is extremely difficult to overcome. Nc diat- ter where he goes or who he is he Is sure to attract their attention No mat ter how many times the fact Is impressed on woman that brass buttons do not make hero any more than clothes make the man, she will persist in her foolish adulation. And it appears very foolish to those persons who are left out in the cold because. forsooth, they must conhne themselves to everyday clothes that do not glitter.
 The republican vice presidential situa- ton is humorous and yet pathetic. The situation is certainly one wherein the of flee must seek the mana rather unusual state of affairs, by the way. Although the man" seems to have been found in the persons of several distinguished re- publicans, they are not apparently over anxious to be thus honored Fairbanks may be willing, but Uncle Joe Cannon is not. While MT Roosevelt appears to be having a hard time to find teammate, the Roosevelt tide that has set so strongly at Chicago perhaps consoles him for this annoyance. The vice presidency seems to be in such poor favor that the constitu- ton may after all have to be changed so that the office can be made honorary and can be conferred like degree on some worthy citizen who is not ambitious and has plenty of money to spend in leading high life at Washington.
 | Prophet Dowie is now on the high seas sailing homeward after a disastrous jun ket to raise funds for Zion City. AL though we are inclined to look down upon peoples of the old world as some what behind in the march of progress and vastly inferior to Yankee wit yet Dr. Dowie was extended a welcome that might be termed frigid had 1t not been at times decidedly warm. The trip was failure and Zion City is poorer through the expensive tastes of its chief who lived like lord abroad. Perhaps. after ] all Elijah IT." would be wise to stay at home He Is at least the whole cheese there and is master of the situation. Moreover there is no danger of mobs in Zion City.
 Accounts of accidents at circuses con- tinue to appear in the public print but they are to be expected and the fact that there is danger beneath the big tent will not deter thousands of people from going. In fact we are distinctly circus people and tents may fali as much as they like without appreciably decreasing the at tendance during a year.
 Brown will be the popular shade for mems clothes next winter, so the fashion. makers have decreed. While brown is a color that makes the average man look hideous, what is a mere matter of looks when style it at stake? It Is to be brown clothes and that is enough for the dudes. Moving picture machines continue to de- light the populace in all parts of the land. The moving picture machine, under it's various aliases, seems to be superior to the talking machine, the automatic music murderer and all those other me- chancal contrivances that are supposed to amuse the public, from the fact that it instructs as we'll as entertains. An other explanation for the popularity of the moving picture machine Is the fact that it is capable of infinite variety and is yet something of a novelty.
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