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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

University of Chicago in a novel Together"
 If you have not read the book, don't. It is not worth while.
 The author doubtless succeeds in draw ing the outline of certain type of woman.
 The sort of sensualized female whose auto is at the curb of the swell cafes on the Great White Way at l o'clock a. m.
 The sort whose menu calls for cock tails and cigarettes.
 Whose petty, trivial, if not vicious, life of leisure has devitalized her wo- manhood.
 blossoms in the blooming garden of American women ora better compari- son-a bunch of weeds in the garden.
 The author puts these words into the mouth of this kind of women on enter ing matrimony:
 Come, bring me money and I will kiss you; make name before the world and I will noise 1t abroad; build me a house more splendid than the others; set me above my sisters and l will re- fleet honor on you among men by the clothes 1 wear and the excellent shape of my figure
 But the picture is a lbel
 Suppose we try a different picture. Suppose we put into the mouth of the real American woman her thoughts on entering matrimony
 It would be something like this:
 Come, bring me your love and pro- tection and I will kiss and aid you; make for yourself strong character in which shall delight lsoth day and night; build me a home-it may be humble where may be your queen; l do not ask for rich. garments, nor will I seek | to parade my charms before men; will bear you children who shall fill oui
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
Get Out Into the Open,

You are simply tired out-physically
 mentally, if not morally. Do you know why? Because you have disobeyed the laws
 of your nature. You have been living an artificial, not a natural life. God made the country and man made the town. There is life in what God makes. There is no life in what man
 makes. There is no life in the town. Life is out of doors. Only in the open can you find the renewal of the forces of life.
 You belong to Nature. She nursed you. She will keep you. But you are always playing truant to her. Get out into the open. You are brother to the rock the soil, the air, the swinging worlds All these obey the law. You only of all things are disobedient to the law. Is it strange,
 then, that being out of harmony, you should lose your balance? Get out into the open. How for instance, can you hope to re-
 new the spent forces of electric vitality from the electric forces in the soil when your bare foot never touches the soil? The soil wants to help you, but cannot Get out into the open. Man was made to live out of doors He chooses slow suicide by shutting himself up in house. He was made to touch the soil, to press the vitalizing currents of the wind, to feel the soothing fall of
 rain, the press of waters on his barred
 breast. He was made so that he could
 restore his vital forces by familiar con-
 tact with the elemental forces He turns
 away and refuses the office of these forces. He becomes slave to the arti-
 ficial things.
 Get out into the open
 If only for one hour each day get out into the open spaces. The touch of primal life will put the thrill of new life into your veins. Feel the shine of the sun in it's life giving warmth, the air that is wine to your lungs, the soil that is elec- tric. Get out of the town sti1e. Pull yourself out of your self-made lassitude. Get out where real life throbs and pulses. Listen to the lure of the wild and obey its callS
 Get out into the open.
 You are one of Natures prodgal sons You are trying to live on the husks the swine would disdain. Arise and go back home where there is plenty and to spare.
 Get out into the open.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
CHEsTNUTMAN'S MEASURES.
MT. MacSwillback's Disappointment Over the Capacity of LittIest One.

From the New York Sun.
 ''In museums and other places in which curiosities are collected,' said MT. Mac Swillback, there may be carefully pre- served among other highly prized an- tiquities smaller measures than the small est of those that the roasted chestnut vender uses in his business at the present time, but I doubt it; or rather I did doubt it until today.
 q have always been more or less fas- cinated by that little measure, and I have often wondered how few chestnuts with their curled out shells taking up more or less of the space this tiny meas ure would hold. Today I found out
 "Pausing at a chestnut stand I pointed at the infantile cup and said to the ven der:
 How much? and
 'F'i' cents, he said, and then I said
 Of me some
 And then the vender took the little tin thimble and filled it up with chest . nuts and he heaped up chestnuts on the top--he gave me good measure. And how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
rh. Eairv Thinos of Childhood.

The Falry lhln9s ol N"'N
 Those whose hearts are dry as sum- mer's dust have long tried to kill that glorious soul the Santa Claus of child hood.
 But Santa Claus lives on. The other day in Passaic N. j., 'ig- norant iconoclasts'' tried to get the school board to banish from the schools those books that contained the fairy tales of Anderson and Grimm and the Arab ian Nights
 Fortunately these near-sighted people failed.
 They gave the old argument: This age is a practical age-an age of exact science Then why fill the chidren's minds with rubbish about the fairies?
 But do these practical folk know any thing more practical than enthusiasm or ambition or initiative? Well, could these qualities exist without imagination? Can | you have invention without fancy or Jm' bition without dreams?
 The imagination is creative.
 This would be a dull world-there would be no progress-a mere initiative world were there no robust fancies in the minds Of mer planted there by the day dreams of their childhood.
 Do not hesitate to fill the minds of the little tots with tales of Mother Goose or of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp. Because
 The real things are the unseen things. | Who ever saw truth or love or uspira- | ton? Are they not more real than the things you see or touch? Everything man has made is but the specialization of his idea and who ever saw an idea?
 Moreover
 That child is to be pitied wno has not who has not gone in fancy for the pot of whoh as not gone nj fancy for the pct of gold to the end of the rainhcw's glitter, who has not built for himself his beauti- ful castles in Spain. Barren of real joys i is the boy or girl who has not bodied forth the pageant of the years to some, seen through the ever shifting kaleido- scope of early dreams and aspirations.
 Imagination has it's educative uses. The world of fancy pictured by Grimm or an Andersen is world in which the emotions and principles of real living are taught the child the only way he can get them-through the living pictures that hold his wondering thought and feeling. 1 I repeat:
 l There is more in life than you get I through the five senses. Else it is all an- l imalsm and muck
 The fairy tales of every peop'e--melo- i dies of childish rhythm, myths of Kriss Kringle-have lived through the centu- res. They served good uses or they had died long ago.
 They livsa because
 That V Inch is seen passes That which | is unseen is eternal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
The Return.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Magistrate--'Tf I remember rightly this is not your first appearance in court"
 Prisoner-"No. your honor; but I hope you don't judge by appearances"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

many chestnuts do you suppose that tiny can contained?
 "Twenty-eight
 And I had supposed 1t would hold about seven.
 How the little measure could hold so many I don't understand, but such was the amazing fact, and 1t was great dis, appointment. The little measure wasn't so small as 1t seemed; it wasn't really a curiosity at all; and now am prepared to believe that not in one alone, but per- haps in many museums both in Europe and in this country, there may be found many ancient measures so much smaller than this littlest measure of the contem-' poraneous chestnut vender that to them the vendors measure would seem as barrel to very small keg''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
HEART TO HEART TALKS
By EDWIN 4. ME Copyright. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.

one of them an infant younger than Bus ter.
 Well meaning societies stepped in to say that Buster must have a better chance than his people could give him. Scores wanted the little fellow, and he was adopted into the family of a wealthy man.
 Now
 This boy will grow. up. and some day he will know that society has robbed him of his birthright.
 With a keen regret he will forever miss the love of that self-sacrificing mother Forever he will carry in his heart 0 Knowledge of the awful cost to that mother of the farewell to her bonny baby boy, Forever he will feel that he was cheated of a mothers love and a fathers care
 Yes, these things seem necessary in our present way of doing. But
 How much better if, instead of dragging children from their mothers arms in or der to put them into home for friend less children or to adopt them into some alien family-how much better if we could provide way by which we could help the family to keep the child.
 Because
 Every child is entitled by natural right to rerlain with it's own flesh and blood, to be reared by the family and of the , family. It is entitled to grow up with it's natural comrades-its brothers and sisters It is entitled to a mothers brood ing love and fathers kind direction. You may graft an alien shoot into a new trunk. In horticulture that is busi- ness. But to do il with humanity is the refinement of cruelty. Buster Brown may do better in a ma terial way in the rich mans family-and he may be ruined by prosperity. And it may be that his parents are too much burdened by other fkids' to do for him rightly
 But the pity of it. The civilization of the future must pro- vide better way. We must quit robbing the Buster Browns of their birthright
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
Baby Blankets

We carry a complete line of bea. cons blankets for the little ones, in white, with fancy borders or col ored all over with fancy designs, such as Teddy bears; sell for $1.50. Choice, 9sc pair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
Little Boy Blue.

Were is dis yer country youse want to send me? I ain't got nothin' to wear but desc"
 The slum kid put one hand on a ragged undershirt and the other on one leg of a pair of trousers fastened with safety pin and each leg slit from the bottom to the knee-his Sunday best The New York Fresh Air fund people were sending 50 poor boys to Vermont for a two weeks outing. This boys mother, who had seen better days" wanted him to go, but
 Gee, de odder boys Il have rags witch is better dan desc, an"- The poor lad flushed and turned away. The medical director solved that problem.
 He took the boy to a Hudson street shop and the latter selected a pair of blue jeans trousers and a blue ginghan blouse. His eyes shone.
 But I ain't got any money" he had said when entering the store. He was astonished when told the clothes were gift He said his cap belonged to his brother. A blue serge cap was added to the outfit.
 The cost of Little Boy Blues uniform was 70 cents.
 He walked home with a strange look on his shrewd little face, clutchng his bundle with the grip of absolute owner ship. The next morning he left with the party of 50.
 But
 He would not talk.
 His boy soul was so full of new glad ness he was afraid 1t would leak.
 While the noisy bunch chattered about him Little Boy Blue pondered. There was a poet somewhere inside of him that dreamed dreams of the wonderland where he was going. Once or twice, it is true for he was no molly coddle-he had to stop and lick a fellow who made re- marks about his silence Then back to his visions.
 Well, the Vermont folk had fitted up an old farm house of IT rooms. Gee said Little Boy Blue, white beds! And three windows in my pedroomi
 And there were baseball and football and swings and chicken fixings and pop corn and ice cream and the woods and the river and wild berries and real milk! Why. all the dreams of Little Boy Blue had come true
 And this two weeks of heaven for 50 boys cost $325-$6.5O per boy.
 Little Boy Blue had fun to the finish. Only once in a while his almost elfin face took on shade of serious thought. On the return trip he often held the air of strange wisdom A profound thought was incubating. He was trying to hatch it. Finally when ne got on the train at the ferry. his mind was delivered.
 'Geev' said Little Boy Blue, "Dere are bad uns in de world, but dere are good uns, too"
 And the moral?
 Why if your heart has not already found it--.
 Another smere man has tried to pie ture the American woman IS nc thinks she is.
 It is Professor Robert Herrick of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

Another smere man has tried to pie ture the American woman IS nc thinks she is.
 It is Professor Robert Herrick of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

house with laughter, and we twain shall go together, each loving the other more than self, through all our lives"
 Look on that picture and then on this.
 Which is the truer painting of the American woman as she really is?
 Professor Herrick knows very well the type he paints. If he knows no other he is to be pitied.
 Or, when blossoms are so plentiful, why should any one take the trouble to gather a bouquet of garden weeds?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

Men's L)ear
 We have an exceptional line of Mems Union Suits. There is no better underwear: also separate drawers and shirts. The best fieeced lined soc garments for asc. Our fine all wool sample gar ments at half price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
Looked That Way

From Harpers Weekly.
 "S-s-s-sus-say, Ma," stammered Rob- by through the suds as his mother scrubbed him. q guess you want to get rid O mo, don't you?
 Why, no, Bobby dear" replied his mother. What ever put such an idea as that into your mind?"
 Oh nothin," said Bobby. "Only it seems to me you're tryin' to rub me out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
Our Buster Browns.

Ever read the story of Lorna Doone?''
 If so you will remember the strong character of John Ridd and the pathetic story of Michey Crump.
 What made the difference between the Ridds and the Crumps?
 This The Ridds inherited ancestral acres and traditions of family success. They owned one piece of ground for gen erations There were pride of family, touch of kinship, independence. The Crumps, on the other hand, were cheated out of their inheritance-plucked by the roots from their native soil. s-
 We'll
 Do you know that we today are cheat ing our Crumps out of their birthright?
 A few days ago in Chicago beautiful little boy was lost on the streets. He was taken to the police station, where he was admired and petted. For days the police searched for the boys parents in vain. The newspapers printed his pie ture-a sweet baby face framed by a mass of curls-and he was dubbed Bus ter Brown.
 Finally the parents were found The fa- ther was crippled, but earned some wages. The mother took in washing to help support the big brood of children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
The Danger Signal

Ware the red lights, young man. l The engineer of the limited keeps his l eyes on the far stretching parallel of the | shining rails in front of him. Out of the | darkness he sees a glint of lurid red. In stantly the throttle is closed, and his | hand is on the lever that will reverse | his engine.
 | The swift telegram of the red lights spells "Dangeri"
 | The sullen red lamp swings by the door | of the t.buffet," whose other name is sa- | loon. If you enter you may say, Surely this place is dedicated to the service of hail and fellowship" If you stay hilar- ity will succeed good Fellowship, and ca rousal on the heels of hilarity. After a time the men who clash glasses begin to "see red'-the danger signal And lat the last it biteth like a serpent and sting eth like an adder" Heed the red lamp's warning and enter not at all. Ware the red lights The crimson gleams shine thickly down in the slums. The woman with poison in her veins, the woman whose feet take hold on helP'--she has sold her soul to Satan; she sells her body to fools for hire. The sputter of the red lights tells the wise man that disease and death abide within and he passes by. The story of the Lorelei, waving their hands and lur- HE Ineil IO W1eck, IS no liDle btIl1u the red lights the sirens sing and the boats of the unwary go upon the rocks. Heed the warning lights. Ware the red lampsl The gambler puts his red lights upon the inside because he is a lawless man. He will take your money and promise you your chance. He Is a liar He is also thief. He will batter upon a square deal and rob you--rob you of your. money, of your hopes, of your character. His heart is stone. He will squeeze you dry, as he would squeeze an orange-and throw away the rind.
 Ware the red lights. Look for the white lights. The white lights brightly burn where marts of trade abound, over hives of in- dustry, from doors of warehouse and fac tory. They shine over peaceful streets where men and women and children walk in the open; they point to library and
 lecture lyceum and night school and sa-
 cred sanctuary.
 Where so many white lights shine, why
 look for the red?
 The white lights of home! What cheer
 ful invitations, what friendly welcome
 They shine in the place of rest and hap
 piness and peace. There is here no bar
 ter, no sale of feeting pleasure. There
 is here no beast of unhallowed passion to
 rend and ruin. Eyes of love. lips of
 laughter. hearts of purity-the white
 lights of homel "Theres a light in the
 window for thee."
 Ware the red lights
 Look for the white lights.
 And when all the lights of earth shall
 fade away your dim eyes will catch
 gleam of the great white light shining
 from the windows of your eternal home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18

l5o doen barber towels, soc dozen.
 l2 yards longcloth, s1.4e. Unbleached cotton flannel. 15c grade, 10c.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-26
IF LITTLE TIM RULED THE SEA.
Liners Would Be Proper and Smokeless as
the Bowery. but He Doesn't.

Fortunately for fair travellers on the trans
atlantic liners the jurisdiction of the Board Of
Aldermen does not extend beyond the three
mile limit If the recent ordinance of the board
restraining women from smoking in public places
were. in vogue on the high there would
have been some wholesale arrests on the Ham
burg-American liner Amerika and the White Star
liner Adriatic. which docked yesterday. II was
said that while a steamer is public carrier and
its smoking rooms and lounges are as puoIc as
is any cafe restaurant in Broadway, II is not
considered a breach of etiquette for women TO
smoke on board ship
InasmuCh IL is common for women TO smoke
in public places in England and on the Continent.
the Adriatics passengers were not surprised 20
Lady Juliet Duff and Miss Violet Vivian light
their cigarettes in the lounge and join their
friends in a quiet smoke. The precedent caused
the timid women to abandon their state
smoking rooms. and they Joined the
others in the lounge. Lady Duff said she did
not approve of smoking in public, but as she
fond OF an after dinner cigarette she saw
reason for secluding herself TO smoke.
Mrs. O'Gorman. wife of Colonel The O'Gorman.
a retired army officer of County Clare Ireland, and
Lady Alan tombstone wife of the British Minister
to Denmark smoked cigarettes in the Ritz-Carl-
ton restaurant on the Amerka.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-26
NASSAU HOSPITAL TO BE CLOSED,
Will Not Be Reopened Unless the Managers
Receive Financial Assistance.

After ten years OF activity the Nassau Hospita!
at Mineoa will be closed on February for several
months. and possibly longer. Percy b. Bromfied,
the Weep president Of the hospital association said
yesterday:
"On Thursday the executive committee held a
meeting 20 determine what action should be taken
TO place the hospital firm business founda ton.
We about forty-six thousand dollars IN debt,
allow 1t to get deeper and deeper in debt every
month. Since last June we have been running be
hind about $4,000 monthly, and do that
this should continue 1t had been suggested tha.
issue bonds to be sold TO the friends of the in
sttutiOn. We sent circular letters asking for
assistance but about $500 all could get.
Mrs. c. II. Mackay. in addition TO a nurses home
has given ambuances horses and various other
needed things and has annually held fair for the
benefit of the hospital Mrs Oliver II. r. Belmont
recently gave building known the nurses quar-
ters which when finished will have cost about
$1,000. Mrs William K. Vanderbilt jr., has also
given freely.
There was considerable dissenson in the hospta!
last summer. which resulted In the RESIGNATION OF
Miss Alice NJ. Perrigo who had been the rnatron
and superintendent for a number of years. Miss
Mary E. Eton. of St Luke's Hospital, succeeded
her. There are more than fifty patients In the hos
pital at present. No more Will be admitted
New-York tribune., 1908-01-26
THAN TRIAL NEAR END.
Witnesses from Europe -4rriue-
jury May Get Case Friday.

Three physicians who testify in behalf of
Harry X Thaw arrived yesterday the storm
bound Adr1atic. II their two days delay
The three physicians accompanied by two nurses.
were met at the pier by employees of Mr. Littleton
and rushed to a hotel before any subpoena server
from Mr.. Jeromes office any reporter could get
10 them. They DR.. Abrams DR.. Wells and
DR. Gauga, the last Of whom treated Thaw in
Switzerland. Mr.. Jerome has cabled to Europe TO
find out something about them.
The physicians and will testify lay
witnesses. and their cross-exGnnation is
pected to take much time. Mr.. Ltteton probably
will be able TO ask his hypothetical question by
Tuesday. which will allow Mr. Jerome to get in
night. At the present rate OF progress the case
will go to tho jury on Friday afternoon. week
from Monday morning 1t is expected that the jury
Will return its verdict report disagreement.
1t is fairly certain now that Abraham Hummel
will be brought from Blackwells Island to
deny Evelyn Thaw's story OF how the famous afi-
davit was procured Mr.. Jerome is said have
been willing merely to have offered Hummel's afi-
davit IL Mr.. Littleton would have offered that OF
DIR. Bingaman. who was the family physician OF
the Thaws. AS DR.. Bingaman will be able TO be
here Monday, Mr.. Lit;leton refused to forego his
chance TO cross-exanline the disbarred lawyer.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw denied yesterday the stories
OF strained relations between her and the members
of the Thaw family.