The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-17
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

month from last Saturday. when St Val entine will hold sway. It Is remarkable that when some one sends us a hideous comic" we are sure he or she Is joking and when we get message Of sentiment we take 1t all to heart in perfect conn., dence
 A Chicago policeman wants a divorce because, among other misdemeanors, hIs wife hit him 50 times. If she hit him 50 times that means that she probably struck at him 15O times. He ought to be released.
 Reformers are continually striving to cure the craving for liquor. What the populace wants is not remedy but A queneher
 A Wisconsin man values his stomach at s5O00. He probably never ate any real good mince pie or he would put a higher price on his digestive apparatus.
 Students of economics and sociology are continually offering plans whereby one can live on any sum from cents to s5 a day. As matter of ract all such dis cussion is futile, and is of no real benefit to the people who are supposed to be in- terested. If a man makes so much he will spend so much to live. and If he does not make so much he will expend just that much less. The number of young people who are saving mp this worlds goods at a rate to make them die rich and in disgrace is very small indeed, when compared to the number of those who are spending just about all they make.
 The real national evil. according to the opinion of the National Educational as- sociation, is our inability to walk cor rectly. A lot of pedagogues are losing sleep O nights over the monstrous spec tacle the American people present on pa- rade, when the truth of the matter is that people who really have anything to do in the world don't have time to bother themselves with the dictates of hair brained reformers who cry out when there is not sufficient cause therefor. The man who is able to walk around the corner in a city and close deal which nets him $l50000 is not a subject for ridicule by any means, even if he does shuffle. And another thing-a girl who is really pretty always manages to walk in a fashion to make you look around. There are number of matters of more importance than the National Educational associa- ton might consider; for example, how much an over-worked pedagogue who is trying to support family on $50 a month really earns.
 A city council has lately been trying to decide when a pig ceases to be a pig and becomes a hog. While this is splitting hairs with a vengeance, some one really ought to give an opinion. Of course pig is a pig all his days and hog is also hog when he is made into sausage meat. Yet. a pig Is hog and a hog is a pig. What we want to arrive at is the psycho- logical moment when one of these "cute little things gets old enough to be called hog without breach of etiquette No one would think of calling the pink per lection of a new litter ''hog" although pig is hog and a hog is pig. The dictionary says a hog is "a quadruped of the genus Sus and allied genera of Sui dae." A pig is "any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera Young swine are generally called pigs, although pig can be hog and a hog can be a pig without any infringement of the geological or grammatical laws. As to when young pig becomes an old pig-or hog-that is a question for experts to answer, although 1t is comparatively easy to tell exactly when a man becomes a hog. PC.