The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08

N NOTE of warning has been A sounded by the Washington
 Post against the yellow mag azine." This product of an advanced age is comparatively recent development but it's rabid tendencies are already pro- nounced. One who has cherished an affec- tion for the purely literary magazine may well hold up his hands in horror for what the future has in store. Without calling any names it is easy for maga- zine readers to pick out the publications that are now running a close race with the Hearst journals. They are waging stout warfare on various great commer- cial enterprises of the country and are lending themselves to the promotion of fads. There is also a superabundance of pictures. good, bad and indifferent, which laud everyone from the most famous jockey to the greatest scientist of the day. The yellow magazine is decidedly ur to date, breezy and independent, but it seems to have a trllle too much verbal clamor scattered through it's pages. Some os the old line periodicals stil follow the precedents of earlier days, but the dis tinctly literary magazines are now being pushed about unceremoniously by the newer publications. Yellow journals" have cast blight upon the land The yellow magazine" threatens to make matters worse.
 All this discussicl if the best way to punish wife-beaters and the various phases of the art is unnecessary Few men have the courage to dispute with their spouses, much less strike them a blow, and it>is in most cases only when husband is impued with the unnatural courage derived from corn juice that he waxes so indiscreet as to lift his hand against the woman who shares his for tunes and spends his money Moreover, reformers should stop to consider that while one man beats his wife a score are hen-pecked, so that there is no req son why advocates of the whipping post for wife-beaters should wax hysterical The balance is very well maintained.
 A club woman makes the bold asser- tion that Eve did not eat an apple but a quince, even if the story of the serpent and the fruit tree Is to be credited. First, Eve did not eat the apple because there is TO evidence in the Bible that she did; second, no apples have ever been known to grow in the region where Adams orchard is supposed to have been located; and, third If she did eat the forbidden fruit 1t was probably a quince It will be noticed that the weight of argument in the third "because' is very heavy and also that all three reasons are given in characteristic female fashion-sweeping assertion without a particle of proof Now it matters very little whether Eve ate an apple, a quince or a pear Nobody cares whether she ate any fruit at all or not. What the world has grudee against five for is that she gave of the apple" to Adam and he did eat. If she had been content with getting herself into trouble without dragging Adam into the same pickle why there might have been some chance for the first man to excuse him self Eve might have been supplanted by a new helpmeet of the right sort and the present lords of creation would not be humping themselves to support the daughters of that very .self-same person who plucked the forbidden fruit It is very poor taste for a woman to remind us of this painful affair.
 An interesting little romance has been ended by the birth of William Jennings Bryans first grandchild, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Homer Leavit. Be- fore her marriage Mrs. Leavit was Miss Ruth Bryan and rumor had it that Col. Bryan was not greatly pleased when she welded the Boston portrait painter. An estrangement resulted and Col. Bryan viewed his son-in-law coldly until the birth of little daughter was announced The child was two months old when Col. Bryan first saw her a few days ago in the Leavit home but she won his heart and a reconciliation has been effected. The scommoner'' is now bonafide grandfather and it is reported that he Is very proud of his new office.
 An old man, in his second childhood.