The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-31
COMMENTS ON MEN AND ~z-
MATTERS OF THE WORLD

happens that makes great stir and sets
everybody talking IT is then the enter
prising poet comes forth with lines that
command an audience, regardless OF
merit, by their theme alone Thus
Charlie" Swinburne is out with poetic
roast for Car Nicholas because, for
sooth, the Car happens to be In a very
awkward predicament for which he is
scarcely more responsible than Swinburne
himself, and doughty Edwin Markham
has just published a copyrighted warn
ing in poetry to the unhappy ruler Of
Russia. Trust to Rudyard Kipling and
Edwin Markham to bestir themselves
when the iron is hot. They don't waste
tine on trivialities but leap into the fierce
w.4ite light and proclaim their views to
the world when the world is too excited
to inquire into the merits of their verse.
Result: The copyright line and vast
prestige.
How to Make Money" another one Of
those magazines of inspiration" has
gone by the board, presumably because 1t
could not practice what it preached. After
all the best way to make money Is to
get out and dig. There is a deal Of theor-
izing these days about the road to wealth
but it is not the theorist who piles up
ducats in great store and ultimately rides
in blue automobile.
A we'll known broker died the other
day after spending many weary years
toiling to pay back the debts incurred in
two successive failures. Although he con-
tinued to deal In large sums of money
and figured in financial transactions of
weight he economical in the simplest
details and led the life of a poor man
in order that he might restore to his
creditors what was their due. When death
ended his labors his debts were almost
! wiped out. There are not many such men
in whom commercial honor is so deeply
planted.
Bewildering Lillian Russell has just
tilted her nose at an offer of $500 from
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish, who desired that
the comic opera queen entertain her
guests a few minutes at a dinner party.
Shades of Ham Fats from Maine to Cali
fornia! These indeed be plethoric days
for the stagefolk-some of them.
The Carbonate, Pa. branch of the
w. c. T. u. has started a crusade against
"Oh, fudge!" "Goshi' and similar verbal
depravities that now threaten to corrupt
the young womanhood of the land. Bravol
Let loose the pamphlets, tracts and
brochures! Turn out the exhorters and
from every platform in the land wage
stout warfare against "Oh. fudgep' OF
all the exasperating, facilitating and con-
temptible phrases In the English language
'Oh, fudgeH" stands out so prominently
that Its vacuosity is surpassed only by
that other insanity, "oh, slushr'
Pa1pitating Agnes would know how to
keep a husband, that is keep him at
home. matrimonial expert says, En-
terrain him." 1t is not necessary that
fond wives learn to do vaudeville, execute
cute" steps on top of the dining room
table and cultivate a thirst for cock
tails. There are many other ways In
which to make the home life interesting
but all agree nowadays that the sue
cessful wife is the wife who knows how
to make an evening at home discount an
evening at the club by about 80 per cent.
In addition to being a ranchman, cow
puncher. valiant hunter, warrior bold,
a writer of books a reformer, a preacher,
a lecturer, republican and politician,
| it now appears that President Roosevelt
has looped the loop and issued forth a
! good democrat. p c.