The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-04-03
AGE-HERALD ECHOES

Jackson News: The Birmingham Age
Herald says that although Mr.. Bryan is
As years of age he looks much older. Per-
haps. like Cassius. "he thinks too much
Washington Herald: "There is no GER
tain cure for love and poverty says
Paul Cook. in the Birmingham Age
Herald. Yes. there is; when poverty
isn't cure for love, love is a cure for
poverty. And vice versa
Dothan Siftings: The Age-Herald is re-
sponsble for this: THE mortality sta
tistics of the United States Senate cham
her keep it from becoming mere health
resort" II the conditions were other
wise the medical fraternity would thrive.
Washington Herald: "A Pennsylvania
man, sneaking up the stairs one night,
stepped on the cat. He could probably
write a book about what happened after
ward says the Birmingham Age-Her-
aid. Probably he could, but doubtless he
won't
Danvile. (Va,) Register: "Hayu cannot
misbehave enough to secure annexation
to this country remarks the Birming-
ham Age Herald. And here's hoping that
no American land-grabber will SO misbe-
have as to endeavor to annex another
hornets nest.
New Orleans World: When airships
fill the air the pedestrians will have to
dodge both automobiles and champagne
bottle from the sky. and life on foot may
not be worth living. birmingham Age
Herald.
| It's not the people who soar in the bal
looms that empty the champagne bottles,
but it is those who simply soar aloft and
ny high on the wings of wealth. Edi-
tors and others can continue to build cas-
! Ties in the air and to fly high themselves
when they can raise the necessary wihd'
without any danger of being hit with
champagne bottles thrown by aeronauts.
Aeronauts do not go up in balloon with
champagne as ballast. Generally the man
who gets hit by a bottle of champagne
knew it was coming and he didn't try
to dodge it,
New Orleans World: Fourteen per cent
of these Boston children had never seen
the stars and had no ideas about them, 30
ner cent had never been out of town,
20 per cent did not know that milk
came from cows. IS per cent did not know
| that wooden things came from trees, from
| Is to Is per cent did not know green,
blue and yellow by name, n per cent
| had never seen a robin, from IL to Is
| per cent did not know what cheek,
forehead and throat" meant, still
fewer the meaning of elbow wrist"
and ribs" and more than three-fourths
/ had never seen-to know them-the COM
mon grains, trees or vegetables grow
| INSTRUMENTATION Herald.
F.! Perhaps these statistics would be more
interesting If they had indicated the ages
| or the average age of the children. But
that there is a degree of ignorance In
! all of the big cities of the country hard
lv supposed possible by the general pub
! lie is no more than the actual fact. This
| ignorance of course, exists among the
! really poor class of people, among whom
both father and mother must toll all
day for the support of the family. How
sad Is the lot of the little children. OF
sueh a family! The child knows nothing
nv intuition except its love for its mother.
! Every name of a person, place or thing
must be acquired. How can 1t acquire
| these things unless the parents have the
/ time to teach them?