The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-31

generous than they were They actually gave him the headlines that they were saving up for the next United States railroad disaster.
 And when he came into the court to get his decree. do you think for mo- ment that those mighty Archimedian levers which move the world to indigna- tion, sometimes, overlooked the bet? If you do, you're~ wrong. No sirree. There wasn't single one of the great English journals but spread the hint that while the eminent man of 'letters declined to be interviewed on so delic9te subject, still there were most excellent reasons for be- lieving that at a not far distant date he would lead to the hymeneal register (English for our word altar, Larry)-that same young gifted protegee of his whose great dramatic powers were first recog- nized by the way she wore pair of pink pyjamas in a musical show And we are sure it is the wish of all our readers as well as all other loyal Britons that they may be married and live happily forever after, or for few weeks anyhow. For fuller particulars of the lamentable pro ceedings before the justice. see next page second. third and fourth columns. Or words to that general effect"
 Well wot did them rounud robin guys expect?' said the House Detective. "aint a noospaper got a right to print all the facts about divorce soot?'
 "It has," said the Hotel Clerk, land 1t does. With the utmost pleasure. But the point I'm trying to make Is that the mother country is not treating genius with the proper deference and respect any more. Now with us, praise Heavens, it's different. We give genius it's proper due whether it's expressed in writing an epic pome or carrying a close election.
 "Twould be an awful thing if we didn't give a genius any more consideration that we give to a man who believes in hair cuts. You go to almost any dinner party for true Bohemians or others op- posed to working for their living these days. and you'll be apt to find there a dreamy-orbed party with an Ebert Hub- bard necktie and his hair all down his back like one of the Sutherland sisters getting ready for bed, and probably he'll be bathing his noble brow in the salad dressing or doing little intensified agri- culture on his finger nails with an oyster fork But it wouldn't be right to say anything about it. If he was an ordinary guy, well and good-give him the hook. But if he's 8 true genius who can write poetry that nobody, not even Richard Watson Glider can understand, or some thing of the sort, you want to overlook his little peculiarities, especially if you should happen to be the host; because, as say. they're evidence of real genius and if you rebuffed him he'd go away and probably never again break bread and shed dandruff at your board.
 'Tf you're bookmaker or a book keeper or a porch climber or a window dresser or any ordinary guy like you and me, such as go to make up the run of humanity. you can't skip your baths or overlook changing your collar about once in so long or fail to patronize the barber or refuse to pay your bills without event. ually getting seriously talked about. But with genius it's different. Therere only three classes of grown men in this coun- try that can wear the long flowing locks and get away with it. One class Is com posed of Col w. s. Buffalo Bill. And one class is composed of those fur-bear- ing patriots that swore they'd never cut it off until Bryan was elected President and as result are going around tangled up in the underbrush with every pros pect of furnishing their own immortelles when they die; and the third class is geniuses and they're the biggest and most important of all. We should &C., cept it as one of the eccentricities of gen ius when one Of them takes to wearing his evening clothes in the morning and no clothes at all in the evening; or any little quaint personal pecuIiarity like that For don't genius and insanity walk hand In hand, as the scientists say and when they quit holding hands and go to the mat in a clinch. isn't 1t nearly al- ways insanity that lands on top?
 And that's why I have no sympathy with the persons who get married to geniuses and then bleat apout 1t after, wards. Look at what they thought they were getting. And look at what they do get? am speaking now of male geniuses, you understand. I never saw but two lady geniuses in my life and from the looks of them I'd say that the female kind is not greatly addicted to matri- mony. One was about the size of the statue of liberty and had large common sense feet like a Broadway cop, and she was sculptress. The other one painted masterpieces and she wore those thick convex glasses that look like the bot toms of two whisky tumblers and as well as I could judge she was growing a brown vandyke She already had a nice mustache and some extra special fuzz to start her. But with male geniuses it's different. They seem to be great hands for marrying and giving in marriage.
 ''The average girl has very decided ideas of the man she thinks she's going to marry. When she's going on IS and is just beginning to put her hair up she figures 1t out that.th only party who need apply must be tall dark eyed hero with hidden past and great sorrowful orbs and ebon curls floating athwart his marble brow and he must know how to thum guitar dreamily and sing snaniah