The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18

| that which was physically possible at his
| age-added an extra inch to his. height
1t is stated that Welch has graduated
| with high honors, and much is expected
| of him.
You would expect nothing less from his
sort-a type of young Americans who
know what they want and go after that
thing and get it with singleness of aim
and a persistency that work miracles.
| Perhaps one cannot by taking thought
add cubit to his stature as the scripture
says, but a Luther Welch by determine
ton and scientific methods may add an
inch.
This young man knew his stature was
no real handicap. Physical size and
weight count for little in the modern
world. Napoleon's coffin is a short one
E. H. Hartman is almost dwarf of q
man.
In the old days before gunpowder size
and Drawn were important. The fighting
man Of that time was the huge knight
who could bear the weight of ponderous
armor, WELD a two-handed sword or
mace weighing something less than half
q ton. Nowadays brain and initiative win
battles.
Note the little Jap.
Luther WEIGH knew If he could stretch
himself to meet the Standards stand
ard now antiquated-he would be able to
go just as far toward success in the navy
as any other. Because
Ills brain was tall enough
Young man, athletics Is all right in it's
place, and 1t Is nice to be tall, wel1-de-
veloped fellow, but also it is humiliating
to have some little red-headed Funston or
sawed-off Luther Welch pass you on the
road to achievement.
The world of today puts emphasis on
brains. Therefore cultivate by study, reg
ular habits and sobriety the convolutions
In the gray matter inside your head.
Brains, supplemented by the energy
which stretches up an inch to make good.
easily win out over mere physical
strength.
THE woman thou gavest me, she
tempted me-" was the excuse of Adam
in the day Of his humiliation.
And, though worn threadbare by long
usage. 1t is still the cheapest and COM
monest way by which a man tries to At
the responsibility Of his wrong-doing to
the frail shoulders Of some woman.
Manlike, therefore, comes DR.. A. NJ
Hamilton, an authority" on mental dis
eases, to say:
1T has been my experience that bad
cooking and the use OF poor and indi-
| gestible food have led many men to the
habitual and excessive use of drinks"
Lay 1t on the woman, forsooth!
There may be some truth in the dec
| 1aration, but in 1t is a fiimsy implica-
| ton of the poor wife of the drunkard.
Why not better say, for instance, the
stuff the drinking man puts into his
stomach from the free lunch counter is
| the cause of his dyspepsia and conse-
| quent cussedness?
| Note the free lunch" menu.
One sample is composite of the fol-
| lowing: Stale bread which is the ORAL
| from some hotel or restaurant, cheap
bulldog sausages. smelly cheese, raw
! cabbage and spiced pickles.
| Now, honest
| in the saloons Saturday afternoon when
| wife can devise, awaits him at home !?
1t 10 all very we'll for our alienist
| to talk about nutritious food and good
! cooking. but where will the drunkard's
wife get the materials fer food, first
class foods?
1 The wife Of the man who spends most
| Of his wages In drink has neither the
! well supplied 1arder nor kitchen of a
sanitarium or hospital.
| While 1t may be true if the unfor-
| tunate wife could provide a proper diet
| there would be less carving for liouor
| stimulants how win fhe get 1t when
her provider gives hts mon ev TO the sa-
| 1oonkeeper to buy th~x steaks for his
| family and brings to his own hotne a
cheap soup bone or piece Of liver?
Tell u.s. please.
The fact is tho rattor resolves itself
| into these propositions:
| If drinking man were well fed he
! would drink less stfnulants. And
If drinking man spent less money