The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

1 immortal souls sometimes gives Us less
 concern than the loss of the shiny shoe l to Ruth.
 1 If the finder of that little moccasin i only knew how baby is distressed
 Homesickness
 Out in the Philippines the order to
 military bands, it is said, is to play | Home, Sweet Home,'' very sparingly 1 The reason?
 The old time is apt to induce home sickness in the soldiers, and homesick- ness leads to assertion. General Leonard Wood chief of staff 1 in the army. asserts that the greater proportion of assertions in our military forces is caused by homesickness. It is the same in other armies. In Canada some years ago the au- thorities found it necessary, for the same reason, to prohibit the playing of
 'Lochaber No More'' by the bagpipers
 in regiments of troops composed large ly of Scotchmen. Also
 A similar prohibition was made for a like reason, by French officers against the playing of "Rans des | Vaches" in regiments in which Swiss | troups were serving. Human nature being the same every where, it is. likely that much playing | of Die Watch am Rhine" would tend
 toward assertions from the German
 army in Africa.
 | The home tunes touch a tender spot.
 The doctors say homesickness is a real
 disorder. They call it nostalgia" and | say it often takes the form of acute
 melancholia and is ruinous to health and l f. requently fatal.
 Persons literally die and go insane
 from the heart wrenchings. | The poor soldier, far from familiar
 scenes and home surroundings. among a
 strange people, doing onerous duty, hears | the dear. familiar music. and the longing
 for the homeless tugs at his heart The | longing induces breeding, which ends in acute melancholia. The lure of home
 makes him half insane, and he forgets his | duty and his oath. | The call of memory is enhanced by time | and distance.
 | Who can resist the tender plea? | Those who lead men into strange lands do well to be careful they do not awaken l in the hearts of their followers fond recol-
 lections of native land and home and | friends
 | Because
 | The tie that once had bound a boy to
 hime will never come united. Thrift | An official of the Netherlands govern , ment who has been Investigating the con- dtion of the Hollanders who have come
 to this country says: q have not found a depedendent Hol- lander here in my eight months inves- | tigation. Hans has a wooden shoe phi losophy, which teaches him that pennies | make dollars. He never is in a hurry, but always at work Furthermore
 '"The Dutohman who comes here saves
 on the average half his days wages and is therefore soon settled in a neat little cottage of his own" That's all | The essence of all advice of all the
 books that have been written on how to get on in the world is embodied in one short sentence:
 Spend less than you earn" He who sets out to follow that rule finds that great will power is necessary. and in the exercise of that will power
 he grows strong in accomplishment. He finds he must stint himself and do with
 o''' things, and that makes him able to
 endure.
 1T is far easier to make money than | to save it.
 | In an old book Thrift" by Samuel | Smiles, is the story of John and Mary, man and wife, employed in a factory. | In those days beer was part of the daily drink. On the day they were mar ried Mary asked John for money to buy l two classes of beer daily for herself. 1 We'll
 | On their first wedding anniversary John, l having a holiday. wanted to take Mary | on a visit to her mother, but regretted | he did not have the money. | Mary went to her hiding place and brought out the price of 73O glasses of
 beer. which in English money was
 about $21.
 "But where did you get it?'' 4fr
 'My pint of beer,'' said Mary. z | Which set John to thinking how pen nies piled up into dollars. The sequel
 was that John quit the beer, and in a few years, by making judcious invest
 ments he and Mary owned their own small factory. But" says the average American "Who wants to deprive himself just to
 save little money?" l Who? Only the wise, who can forego i fleeting pleasures for future good. Ballast l When a woman falls she falls from
 great height, and it is difficult to | get up again tif,
 clerk in her fathers grocery at Osh- kosh, Wis. Her beauty attracted q
 Milwaukee millionaire. an honorable man, who married her, | She had a beautiful home. leisure all too much leisure-luxury and the | things that money will buy | But she was dissatisfied She said
 there was not enough life" in Mill
 waukee She preferred Chicago. Her indulgent husband provided her with funds and permitted her to spend most l of her time in the larger city. In Chicago she got into bad hands. She descended from gayety into crime One day Milwaukee and Chicago were both startled to hear that the
 wife of the millionaire, who had been
 under the eyes of the police. had stolen
 a lot of diamonds. She confessed.