The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-20

Perfumed gasoline for automobiles Ye
gods Gone IL that stultifying aroma that
has heretofore lowered about the benzine
buggy and hence forth 1t will scatter in
cense over the landscape at the rate Of
forty miles an hour. Let us have with
out delay ehugless automobiles, tractabIe
automobiles, law-abidins automobiles and
automobiles that can be owned by grocery
clerks
An interesting case has developed In
New York by James s. Metcalfe. dramatic
critic of Life, instltuting suit against
the management of Days theatre be-
cause he was barred from the house last
Monday as an Objectionable person OF
course the readers of Life are familiar
with the war that publication has re-
lentlessly waged against the theatrical
trust and the trust attempts to retail
late by keeping the offending critic from
attending plays in their theatres. Tt is a
test case to a certain extent, although
several such cases have been decided
adversely to the plaintiff in the pses4a Mr..
Metcalfe and his attorney think that by
carrying their suit to higher court they
will be able to get a favorable decision
The whole affair is interesting to the
public as well as those persons who are
directly concerned Most people will agree
that the management of a theatre has
no right to eject or bar out a person who
Is not Objectionable to the audience. but
has incurred the Ill will OF the managers
by too frank criticism Of the plays pre-
sented A theatre is public place Just
like a hotel and therefore the rights of
the public are to be considered. Yet a
man a combination of men, can own
a theatre Just as much as a residence,
o.. club house. and 1t is certainly ev-
cry mans prerogative to say who shall
make use of his property. However, all
this is for the court to decide and 1t
will no doubt require some very "tall'
thinking on the part of the judicial
| lights.
A woman Is years old has just married
a millionaire of TO- Puzzle: Find out why
she did It?
Out in Iowa they are playing chess by
telephone, but the noble game of poker
will never be thus pervated. Poker by
wire? Without the thick pillows of
smoke, the glasses the disordered room,
the rich stories and that atmosphere of
romance which distinguishes the national
sport? May such a thought never find
Judgement in sober minds
woman has just broken I'D a mans
happy home and has refused to allow him
one penny of his wages because he
snored and called her DIRTY Face" If
| the latter accusation was true the hus-
band was perhaps justified in making 1t;
If not, he was in error but the woman
has no grievance against her spouse at
all. Snoring is a badge of honesty Sec
ond only to the watch dogs honest bark,
and Is a sure mark of an open disposi-
ton. Snoring has been known to promote
profanity and cause unhappiness, but 1t
is certainly no Just ground for divorce
and alimony.
Big hats, the picture hats, have been
put under the ban at the University of
Chicago. 1t appears that co-eds have
been wearing them in class room and en-
terprising youths have taken advantage
of the protection they offered to sit on the
back seats and carry on hrtations dur
ing lectures. OF course the girls are ex-
tremely wrathy at the new regulations
forbidding them to wear their hats in
class rooms, and threaten direful meas
ures, but they appear to have encoun-
tered a stumbling block hard to get
around. Clearly, it appears that the pic
| ture hat has its good points, although
| heretofore no one has been able to dis
] cover its practical utility p C.