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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1908-06-23
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1908-06-23
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1908-06-23
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
Sauce for the Cander.

A law is proposed in Georgia making marriage null and void if it can be shown that the woman had used any artificial means to make a man propose.
 What!
 Few of us could wish to be in the shoes of the man who proposes that law. To say nothing of the opening of the doors to divorcement, which such a law would effect, the injustice of it ought to make the legislator ashamed.
 Says the adage, What is sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander."
 If women use undue influence or ar tificial charms to push defenseless men into proposal, what shall be said of like masculine tricks?
 These are some of the things used by women to deceive and inveigle men, says one of the advocates of the law
 Scents, paints, powders. perfumes, CO.'S metics, artificial teeth, false hair, iron V-cut waists, dropstitch or rainbow stock ings."
 battery of enticements, verify.
 But
 What of these masculine artifices: Padded shoulders, patent leather shoes, V-cut or gorgeous vests, rolled trousers, revealing delicate tinted or loud noise hosiery, to say nothing of other vari- ous charms of haberdashery?
 Also
 How shall woman be protected from the false promises and protestations of wooing suitors?
 Is it not using artificial means to make
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
AUTO TO CATCH TRADE.
Real Estate Man Had Hollow Shell
 of Car To Give Air of Wealth,

From the New York Sun.
 Some years ago, when the automo- bile was first coming into use familiar ly,'' said the man, T used to pass an apartment house uptown before which there was standing always an auto. This car never had chauffeur in it, and although I had occasion to pass and repass many times in the courso of the day I never saw any one pre- pairing to leave in the machine.
 "One day went up and inspected the machine carefully. Although 1t gave every appearance of being complete car discovered that some things were lacking from 1t, which left 1t really a ', skeleton. I sought out the agent and asked him about it.
 "'Well you see,' he explained, 1t looks so stylish and is such a good ad- vertisement for the house to have an automobile always in front of the door that when the boss had a chance to buy that deception out front pretty cheap he did so. And we've found that 1t was a good investment. Lots of folks be- lieve, of course that the car belongs to some one who lives inside and they come in, to be surprised at the cheap ness of the apartments. Then they rent
 q was thinking that nowadays that wouldn't be enough of novelty to at- tract any one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

coca-cola and smokes black cigar
 At Il o'clock the hunger passion IS placated with glass of milk and couple of crackers
 At noon he joyously makes his way to lunch, and there regales himself for another hour.
 In the afternoon, another coca-cola is deemed absolutely essential for the retention of pleasant state of mind, and at the ball game others are quaffed for inspiration or luck, or to drown an overpowering sensation of disgust. Dinner at o'clock consumes an other two hours, and after supper, an other coca-cola quenches the thirst of these summer days. After the show, club sandwich, chicken, bottle and bird serves to taper eff the day, and at midnight this individual of higher civilization rocks his stomach to sleep with promises of rosy tomorrow.
 And what a conglomeration of food- stuffs does this unsuitable appetite de- mand, and in what quantitiesl
 A fish, a steak, a chicken for break fast, with biscuit, grits, waffies, syrup and coffee-all preceded by a canta- loupe!
 Coca-cola, a glass of milk, number of crackers, serve for the intermediary appetizer between the morning and the noon meal.
 Salmon croquets, cold ham, slaw, cheese, a glass of tea, small coffee, and a light dessert will suffice for lunch.
 In the afternoon, couple of coca colas is poured upon the whole, and few hours later the well-fed individ ual sits down to dinner.
 An inch-thick steak, tomatoes, beans, sweet peas, cabbage, asparagus, onions, rice, things cold, things hot, and things lukewarm, followed by bread pud- ding, or heaped platter of sherbet!
 It is unnecessary to figure upon the ''incidentals," the bottle of beer per haps, in the moonlight, the sandwich and the bird, and the entire category
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

state of life, this fact being the basis for the argument that the present date appetite, already abnormally devel- oped, will continually increase in ex- act proportion to the increase of wealth and prosperity.
 Time will come, therefore, and come shortly, perhaps, when the Brown-Marx tower of bread and cheese will suffice for the nourishment of Birmingham for only five days, or a week, when the ever growing population of the Magic City will sit down to a meal and con- sume the Brown-Marx for dinner, and several smaller buildings in the way of drink and dessert.
 In the present day of stomach wor- ship it would require Birmingham but short while to consume the weight of the worldl
 What field, therefore, for the man. ufacturer of breadstuffs, the fancy grocer, catering to the highly devel- oped appetite, the dispenser of drink, the hotel, the baker, the chef and the ordinary cook.
 
 Philosophers, dividing the day in a way conducive to making Jack bright boy, have set aside third of the "A hours for work, third for sleep, and third for play.
 Birmingham, along with all other large cities of the south, has estab- lished four periods of six hours each one for work, one for sleep, one for amusement, and the remaining, for eating.
 The average individual, as soon as he leaves his couch and performs a hasty toilet, acknowledges the bangs of hunger.
 He sits down to a heavy breakfast. Before going to his office, he drinks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
Vacation and Father.

There is lot of significance in the song, Everybody Takes Vacation But Father"
 As rule, American fathers do little vacationing.
 But there are fathers and fathers
 With the coming of the hot months there is an exodus of the families of the four hundred from the cities. Brigades of fashionably dressed wives crowd the piazzas of the resort hotels. Sons go the pace at the races or swell resorts Daugh- ters go to Europe.
 The man who draws the checks stays in town, mostly by choice, to make the wheels of business go round.
 But there are others.
 There are tired and nervous wives and mothers who need rest and relaxation who go to some quiet place. The children go along. They all need the open spaces, the running water, the air and sunshine.
 The family purse permits no splurge
 Father stays by the stuff. To him come souvenir postals and cute messages for pop" To him come-most precious!- love letters like she used to write before they were married.
 How the "old man" glows and gloats over the bits of news-how Johnny tried to walk log and fell into the creek, and how Susie fed the calf. He swells huge when Mollie and the kids write they are having the time of their lives.
 It might be hard to guess who is the happier-those who go or him who stays.
 And when they all come back. It is easy to pick out father as he waits nerv- ously and happily at the depot. The bunch-his bunch-is on that train. He looks anon at his watch and smiles. And when the train pulls in his old sweet hearts kiss Is on his lips! There is big bear hug from the kids. Father is about the happiest man in the town
 Forgotten is the long, hard pull at busi- ness: forgotten the hot. weary days and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
A Lay Sermonet.

The text.
 It is easier to be good than to be bad.
 You have tried both, my brethren, and I appeal to your personal experience for confirmation of my text. Has it not been easier to behave yourself and enjoy the fruits of your good behavior than to sin away your day of grace and take the consequences?
 But you do not always behave yourself.
 Nor do other people. s Stop moment and think 1t over How strange it is that, after human beings have tried both ways of doing and have proved ten thousand times ten thousand times that badness does not pay, yet they go on doing evil.
 Why?
 You know, my friends, and I know that virtue is so made that it fits into the way the world is built. And we know that vice Is everywhere and always misfit Nevertheless
 We go on everlastngly in the old, old attempt to fit vice into the place made for virtue. Our fingers get pnched in trying Sometimes we weep over the hurt or the failure.
 Emerson said, "The devil is an ass." What he meant was that the devil is a poor logician. His arguments are fiimsy. He is a robust liar. He lied to Adam and Eve. He told them to eat and be Gods. He told them they should not surely die. In other words, he said they could violate the law without being punishe ed for it.
 The devil says the same thing today.
 He tells you, my friendly fellow sin ner, that you can do evil and not be caught at it. He tells you you are an exception to the rule of the universe. You will not suffer the consequences of breaking the moral law. You are too smart. And
 Though you know he is consum- mate liar and an ass, my dear brother,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
How to Do Bid Thinqs,

Ever stop and watch the erection of a modern steel building?
 How slowly it is assembled
 There is a shrill whistle from the fore man. The engineer of the dinkly little engine pulls lever. A big derrick swings out over the sidewalk A chain dangles down from the derrick. Two men put the chain around a steel beam. One of them stands on the beam, holding to the chain by his hands. Again the whistle Again. the engineer pulls the lever. The steel beam dangles in midair The man rides it. It goes up
 Up up, up to the 14th story. Again the whistle The beam is lowered little The rider guides it. Then men at either end grasp it. The piece of steel Is gently forced into it's place. The men make it fast with bolts.
 The chain Is loose. The whistle blows The derrick and chain are lowered again and the process is repeated.
 Day after day, hour after hour, the work goes on The whistle blows. the little engine feels the clutch that calls for higher speed and more power. and slowly, but surely, the steel beams are hoisted to their places.
 The building Is going together the only way 1t can be put together-piece by piece, a little at a time.
 First there was a plan.
 An architect made the plan. In the beginning the plan was in his mind. He made a rough draft. Then hls worked out every feature elaborately in blue prints. The build- ing must follow the plan.
 So is every great task performed.
 But, mind you
 Not only the completed work is seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

WI HILE eating, in its original W sense, is a necessity, eating
 too much is a habit, and in the south, at any rate, habit irrevoc- ably fixed, and already abnormally de- veloped.
 The average man in the south, in the course of day, month or year, according to those tireless statisticians who have just recently declared, with an air of honest horror, that in the United States, men and women smoke 40,412, 2,314,113 cigarettes within the time limit of 12 months, consume in the way of food and nourishment, just four times that amount which the stoical descendant of the Puritan fath- CTS deems sufficient for his comfort and continual good health.
 According to foregoing authorities, month, his weight in food twice over, or. in other words, the average male beneath the Mason-Dsxon line con- sumes 320 pounds of food each month, this amount including, naturally, his necessary and unnecessary drink.
 In Birmingham, therefore, each month, the 125000 people eat 40,0O0,- 900 pounds of food!
 Four hundred and eighty million nounds would suffice for a period of one year!
 In other words, were the Brown Marx building a solid mass of bread and cheese, it would accommodate the people of Birmingham for about b days, in which time the citizens would drink up Village creek and all other neighboring streams.
 Prosperous people, it is self-evident fact, require more nourishment than the man in the primary or natural
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

bread, one and three-fifths of a loaf for every man, woman and child of the greater city, of all colors and all avoca- tions.
 It is a fact easily ascertained, but surprising, withal, that one of Bir- mingham's bakeries, the largest of the 16, in manufacturing 30,000 loaves or bread and an innumerable number of rolls per day, consumes the contents of 90 barrels of flour!
 In the course of year Birmingham devours 72,000,000 loaves of bread
 If loaf of bread is ten inches in length, within two years Birmingham consumes enough to lap around the circumference of the world!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

If the loaves eaten in Birmingham within one year were placed in a row, this bread line" would reach from the southern boundary of Alabama to the northern boundary of Iceland, and back again.
 If these 72,000,000 loaves were piled upon each other, the pyramid would reach to a height probably 800 times that of the tallest peak of the tallest mountain.
 All of the wagons of. Birmingham and it's suburbs could not move these 72,O0O,0O0 loaves of bread distance of 100 yards within the space of day
 All the freight trains entering and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
The Happiest Woman In Town.

She does not live out on the avenue where wide lawns speak dignity and mans house is as big and as ugly as his purse can buy
 She lives on side street where the paving has not yet arrived. The lawn is a few feet square, and in the sum mer time the home is a bower of beauty. There are only five rooms.
 It is a cozy home, all used. It was cottage built for two. It is now oc- cupied by four.
 There's himself and herself and the boy and the girl-"us four and no more."
 Himself is a man, every inch. He is hearty, independent. energetic and steady as a clock. He has got his big feet firmly planted on the lower rounds of the success ladder and Is climbing slowly, surely, carefully.
 He loves herself and no other.
 The boy and the girl are healthy youngsters. Herself does not complain of shattered nerves.
 But" you say
 How can a woman who must econ omize and pinch enjoy herself?"
 Perhaps herself could not explain that. You can enjoy, you know, where you cannot explain. She might say, Well, we have enough and little to spare for the poor. There's enjoyment in darning himself's Sunday coat and the boys socks. There's zest in turn ing and making over garments. We are getting on. We have no envy of those who live in big houses.~ We love one another and are content"
 Understand that language?
 What herself means to say is that love Is the greatest thing in the world and contentment Is the next to the greatest thing.
 Or
 You could explain it in this way: In service there is compensation. There is joy in doing for others.
 If herself sometimes must wrinkle her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
Food for the Tlger-one Act.

This is a sketch for commonplace drama with dash of tragedy In it. Cast of characters:
 A repentant boy embezzler.
 The boys mother a widow.
 A busy and just judge.
 common bucketshop-keeper
 It is recited how the stripling in the courtroom has been speculating on the board of trade, so called. He had an ann bition to buy a home for his mother Early in the game the boy used his mod est balance in the bank until it showed up in red figures. He then took money belonging to the firm to margin his deals. The deals failed. The books showed the theft. The boy was arrested and put in jail.
 The mother sits near the boy in the courtroom-as near as she can get. She is a commonplace mother, gray-haired and worn of face. Anon tear drops down her cheek and falls unheeding on her calloused hands. Yes, she has told the judge in a plea for mercy-yes, her boy Is guilty, but he did not mean to do It.
 Enter the just judge to sit down In his easy-cushioned swivel chair. Tragedy or comedy it is all a part of the days work for him. He calls the case, hears the boys plea of guilty, looks into a Cdlt-DOuuu DOOh, WIitcS SoiiCthilS III iiio docket. Then he says to boy:
 stand upv'
 How pathetically slight in figure is the slip of a lad!
 Have you anything to say2'
 ''Nothing, your honor.'
 ssThen it is the judgment of this court that you be sentenced to serve five years at hard labor. l have made the entry in the docket And this court hopes, young man, you will have learned your lesson Call the next case%
 As the bailiff starts to lead the boy away there is a untitled scream of agony from the mother. She lapses into uncon- sciousness. How provoking. The court must stop a few moments until a doctor Is called who takes the woman away Provoking, but
 You see, the boy is the only son of his mother, and she is a widow.
 As the curtain falls the bucket shop -aan is shown in the background engaged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

1 inadeuuate to move this enormous quantity of bread to some other loca- tion,- and 800 men would have their hands full, working "A hours. to load | the cars. DO
 And the people of Birmingham eat this mountain of bread within a year, and the people of Birmingham are not notorious as eaters of bread. There is no moral to be drawn. Eloise Wilcox, perhaps, would raise her virtuous hands in horror, and refer with melodramatic gusto to the fact that the average man of the south, probably as a result of overeating, lives ten years less than the average
 man of New England.
 She would indicate the decadence of
 muscular manhood, and the growth of licentiousness. N
 She would review the rise and fall
 of the Roman Empire, teach lesson based on the opulence and self-indulg-
 ence of the Italians, and declare to the people of the south-"Et tu Brutei" But eating even to excess is a habit that every race cannot acquire ana sur vive, and if the average man in the south lives his few years joyously and keeps the doctor, the baker and the candlesticlS maker fat, withal, then what right has Eloise or any other
 modern day reformer, to crusade
 against the exemplification of the vir-
 tues of MT. and Mrs. Jack Spratt as
 practiced today in Dixie?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

of small things with which the average creature burdens his stomach in the pilgrimage to pleasant dreams and a Red Raven" tomorrow.
 
 It is not known whether or not Bir- mingham eats more bread than tits neighbors.
 But it is known, however, that Bir- mingham consumes an enormous quan- tity It is impossible to- estimate an approximate amount for the simple reason that the trail of the biscuit cooked in the home presents innumer able elusive features.
 However, there are 16 bakeries in Birmingham, and these turn out per day an average of 100000 loaves of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN A. ME Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.

in selecting Persian rugs for his new and handsome town house.
 Young man
 This is no fancy sketch. It is tran script from a real life drama.
 The bucket shop keeper furnished the tiger. The boy furnished the food for the tiger. The judge furnished the con- vict and the mother the boy.
 Young man.
 That wheat pit in the board of trade building, La Sale street, Chicago, Is only a few feet across, but it is as deep as hell itself
 Do you understand?
 It is as deep as hell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06

brows over household problem, study ing how to f"cut the corners for the sake of herself and the other two, why, measure for measure-sure as the law of gravity, certain as the law of chemical affinity-herself will be paid back ten fold, a hundredfold!
 An, little woman, you do not know how rich you are in being the happiest woman in town.
 Enjoy yourself while you may Who knows? One of the two may grow up to honor your gray hairs-or break your heart.
 Or some day you may live in big house where things are glded and arms are empty and life is hollow.
 Enjoy yourself and himself and the other two.