The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-12

@ MoNG the curious discoveries re- V gently made by science is what is called the antitoxin of lazi- ness Dr. Wolfgang Weichardt, sa- want of Berlin, claims that he has found a germ which will destroy that tired feeling. to which so many of Us have fallen heiis. The antitoxin of laziness is not a spring tonic. by any means, but il is somewhat Of a stimulant and wonder-w worker. The antitoxin is pro- duced by a guinea pig when reduced to state of absolute exhaustion. From the animals crushed muscles a toxin of exhaustion is procured which when dry assumes the form of yellowish brown scales. When this toxin is in- jected in horses they develop a scaly antitoxin. Beautiful, abstruse and learned, is it not? The question is, how long will be it be before the anti-lazy It is badly needed Some people are so lazy that they don't want to be cured, but a sure remedy for lassitude might do away with hundreds of husbands whose wives conduct boarding houses, young men who live at the expense of their parents, young ladies who take tea and toast in bed while their mothers wash the dishes, professors" who pro- fess everything and know nothing, wives who prefer light fiction to domestic du- ties and others who have a deep-seated prejudice against work. The sons of rest would cease to exist as a separate and distinct organization
 In display letter to the New York American, Captain Hobson ventures the opinion that the Russians are going to the slaughter Long-distance predic- tions of what is going to happen in the affair between Russia and Japan are in- teresting, but not instructive. Just at present nobody seems to know what any body is going to do, although Togo may possibly "do' Rojestvensky.
 All things are now possible since we have penny-in- the-slot soda water foun- tains. We need only a quick lunch slot machine to complete the list of public utilities.
 WOMAN.
 She loops the loop and shoots the chute, Says that a roaring lion is cute,
 Rules the roost, which is the house,
 And faints away at sight of a mouse.
 President Roosevelt says that he will bc permanently through" with his pres ent position four years hence and will then write a history Of Texas It is now tnsf hA fore td do tlaafh fhnV they will have Roosevelt in the White House for another term in 1909 or will submit to a new Roosevelt book.
 It is rather remarkable in these days of progress when books are so much in demand that the hotel library is prac- ticaly unknown. Realizing tne need of books among travelling men, the Travel ers' Protective association has installed small well-chosen libraries in hotels over the country for the use of members, but with this exception. no provision is made for giving hotel guests instructive reading matter And such a condition is to be regretted. There is no plight more lonely than that of the stranger in great hotel in a city of teeming thou sands where he has no acquaintances. Nothing cheers a wanderer more than the sight of familiar volumes that re- call pleasant hours of the past. Hotel libraries would be a popular innovation.
 Dr. Alice B. Stockham advocates a new department of the government to be called the home culture'' department Its object would be to teach men and women the duties of husband and wife, in addition to looking after the race suicide problem and promulgating rules for the establishment of happy homes. The proposition looks good" but where is the man capable of filling the posi- tion of secretary of home culture, and where is the man who would accept such