The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
Little Stories of Fact and
Fancy.

Fancy.
If, as the classics say, Architecture is
frozen music then the Brown-Marx
building must be Liza James top note.
Is Mr.. Taft's name responsible for the
derivation of the word 'Taffeta?
The person who is always getting the
cart before the horse, got both before an
automobile the other day. and then there
was troubled
Have you heard the story about the
Chinsman who was robbed by the wom-
an? He was at the police station trying
to describe her. The lieutenant said:
How was she dressed, John?"
me don't know. Me Chinaman. She
Mclean lady"
quarry.
Hat? HAITI" said John. ''oh. yes"
his face frightened at the thought. Yes,
she wear hattie dead-she glad" he ex-
claimed.
And now the police are looking for a
woman with Merry Widow" hat.
''She has an automobile figure"
What! Twenty-Five hundred dollars?'
The woman who can't be healed by the
doctor had better try the cobbler.
How much could you love me?" asks
Mr.. Multi Millionaire.
"Oh! Just LOTS she says. Corner
lots'-she thinks.
Woman wants but little here below
/ frequent hear 1t said:
A few more flowers while living
few 1ess-when dead
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Could it be called Posing in the Alto
gether,'' when the pretty modern wore
a peek-a-boo waist, and a sheath skirt?
A doting mother saw her small son
gazing intently at the lamp on the center
table of the library one evening recently,
and she wondered what he was thinking
about. Presently she was rewarded by
the inquiry:
Mother dear, where does the lamp go,
when 1t goes out?"
Startled by the question, but quite equal
to the emergency, she replied:
IT have no idea child. You might as
well ask where your father goes when
he goes out"
The last straw hat of summer looks
like lemonade when everybody else has
ordered a cocktail.
Are you a Mollusc?" is a question Oft
en- asked nowadays in Gotham, duo
to the popularity of 1.-THE Mollusc" play.
Sounds "fishy itf but in terms
of humanity 1t means one of those per-
sons to whom there is no pleasure like
lying in bed when they feel strong
enough to get UP. A lazy person? BY no
means. Laziness is q negative quality
that of molluscness, positive
The Social Climber of plain origin
may be said to have a pedigree with a
Queen Ann front and a Mary Ann back
Sitting on the vine clad piazza the
sweet Girl Graduate, shyly inquired IF
the Amorous Swain, which of Dumas
books he liked best.
II am greatly attracted to The Three
Mus-K eet-ers,' was the reply, as he
made a plunge at his silk clad ankles
which Culex Pipiens CWalk-) was de-
vouring with great joy.
The question, what is charm?" is an
oft mooted subject Mr.. t. M. Barrie in
his new play, "What Every Woman
Knows" which London has received so
rapturously, might have answered 1t with
the title, but more definitely he says: ut
is a kind of bloom possessed by woman
which some women have for many men,
which most women have for one man,
and which some women have for none.'
If there is a modish who hasn't been in
troduced to the '1ncroyable'' collar she
H. cd
is the very latest feature of the Fin De
Steele gown.
Everybody isn't up to the standard in
tellectua1ly.
A young man was calling on some
young women one evening recently, and
the discussion of the development of the
English novel came up.
Upon being asked what he thought of
"Fielding,' he replied:
"Oh, fielding is important, Of course,
but it doesn't amount to a hill of beans
if you haven't a good pitcher and men
who can hit the. ball.
If the woman who divorced her hus-
band because he stayed away six
months was Mrs Eskimau," she should
remember that after all he was only gone
one night, and maybe "he was afraid to
go home in the dark"
Should a man proceed to kiss girl
against her will, wouldn't you say that
said girl was more kissed against than
kissing?
Two well-known clubmen are great
chums, and assist each other in their love
affairs when it is necessary. Not long
ago one of them was talking to a bright
young woman about the other and re-
marked:
HE takes me to see the girls he
doesn't want, and l take him to see the
girls 1 can't get"
Bring him around to see me-" was the
way she gave him his congo.
GiI.z4zo