The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-25
TIE CUB REPORTERS
THANKSGIVING
How IProfeth Man Fall In Love-No Amount of Advice
Can Take It's Pace-The Road to Happiness
and Success
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

his clothes fitted in real Beau Brummel
style.
| IT want to thank you for the advice
you gave me-" he said as he stopped at
my desk. where I was busy figuring out
how to write some sort of dope that peo-
pie would read
why you don't have to thank me for
any advice I said, absentmindedly, as
my brain fitted over the latest sleeves
pattern and the most modish couture
both of which / was trying to make out.
when did I give you any advice?'
Don't you remember when l came In
here one day not long ago and was just
on the verge Of suicide, you told me that
the best thing for me to do was to con-
suit the family physician" he asked.
"Oh, yes" said, reminisciently, II be-
lieves I do recall some such conversation.
What did he advise? That your liver was
out Of order, or that you ate too much,
or perhaps you were going the pace that
kills?"
Nothing of the kind" he growled. II
told him that my mind was blank-that
my wits had flown to the antipodes, and
that was on the verge of losing out
with the paper. And what do you sup
pose he suggestedr'
Haven't an idea," I replied. Don't
know anything about diagnosing cases.
''He said, II wanted to write really
good stuff that I must fall in love-" an
nounced the cub reporter.
Mercy save us, I'd rather not write at
ALL" I exclaimed. 1.-THE cure is worse
than the disease
HE said If I couldn't fall in love-
continued the enthusiastic young man,
that the next best thing would be real
lively Irritation"
well, upon my word" I shrieked. "Of
all the medical advice, that caps the eli
max. I suppose you proceeded to follow
the gentlemans SUGGESTION
Certainly" replied the cub reporter
gleefully, rubbing his hands together.
This physician says that love is the pam
| acea for all Ills, that 1t is one of the
, finest trainers and quickeners of the mind
| that is known today. That 1t makes for
social grace, balance, rapidly Of thought.
| felicity of expression, and one month ago
stood In hopeless need of all these
things. as you know"
And who is the lucky young lady p
| may I ask?' I said timidly.
First, let me tell you that I have
| found the physicians word to be absolute
| ly true as to the result of such q condi-
| tion," he said. I'm doing better work
than I've ever done before. I've some
| thing to live for-and up to-now. The
city editor asked me the other day If /
u
| my friends tell me that I'm looking bet
ter than have for years."
IT'S like the get-rich-quick scheme.
isn't it?' I said jestingly "Only in this
sort of affair, one must have a very ac-
| commodating heayt, else one couldn't fol
low the prescription"
"And l owe 1t all to you and Sylvia, u
he said. This wonderful love curey'
| "Sylvia-my dear friend syiviap' I ex.
claimed. How dare you trine with that
| girls affections, just to gain your owl
| end? It's SHAMEFUL
mot at ALL" boasted the cub reporter
"for this beautiful Thanksgiving Day
| brings the announcement of our engage.
ment, and I came here purposely to tel
| you about 1t, before you heard It from
| anyone else. Sylvia announces It at the
| Thanksgiving dinner to which you are GO
ing, and I thought 1t would be q pretty
| little compliment for me to come by here
and tell you before the rest, because yor
know If 1t hadn't been for you 1t woult
| never have happened"
"Oh, that's different, since know tina,
you are not trifiing with Sylvia's affec-
tons. and that you really do care" said
as we talked about what q jolly time W.
would have at the dinner party
And now won't have the very hap
| piest Thanksgiving Of anybody in tbs
World? he said Joyously.
You certainly should have" replied
for you are getting one of the finest grill
In the world"
Haven't you found 1t makes the great
est difference in the way one writes oil
reads or talks or does anything else
whether one is In love or not?" he de-
manded in his great happiness. Then
everything assumes a roseate hue, ant
| the whole world seems good and beautiful
| Love opens ones eyes and equips one'i
Imagination with doubled-barreled tele
scopes, and the man or woman who can
| command his or her best efforts unde
such circumstances is ut for treason
| strategem or war;
Just then a summons came for the cul
reporter from the city editor, and I wa
saved the necessity Of replying to his sill,
question.