The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-15

"she is making my life a misery. She cries and laughs continually. She is always wanting queer things to eat, and she chatters until I can have no
 peace"
 Twashtri smiled as he relieved the man of his responsibility, and still mad e
 no comment, but when later the man
 came and shamefacedly told of his lone liness and his wish to have the strange
 and lovely creature again, Twashtri
 said to him: You must decide whether you are to have her or to do without her Take her with you this time, but
 do not bring her back And the lord of eation' that Twashtri had made
 went his way again leading her by the hand and lamenting. Woe is me, I cannot live with her and I cannot live without her.'
 The problem of living without her" appears to have been solved with much satisfaction in Birmingham. for one cannot imagine more genial or happier group of bachelors than the set who add so much to Birmingham so-
 cial life while giving their cleverness to the upbuilding of the business side
 of things. And as some one remarked the other day the real Birmingham
 bachelors are the most attractive mon in society One doesn't dare consider how cleverly they have solved the prob lem of living, for it puts too high pre- mium upon bachelorhood, and that is hardly fair to .re women of similar condition. Certain it is that our bach elors are demonstrating most clearly their ability to live happily without the presence of the eternal feminine, for while there is not a "spinster" home in all Birmingham, there are. in several localities, either apartments resi- dences conducted solely for the happi- ness and comfort of unattached men.
 The oldest established home for bache-
 1ors is the handsome residence on Hi gh- land avenue, which is the property of
 MT. Erskine Ramsey and in which he
 and group of friends live life which
 appears well nigh ideal. The personnel
 of the home includes MT Ramsey, Mr.
 A. C. Ramsay, MT c. S. Ramsay, Mr.
 o. P. Gaut, MT. Hnds Peevy. MT. Mur-
 ray Brown and MT. Robert A. Brown.
 At Terrace Court a colony of bach
 elors have charming apartments in which they frequently extend informal Inequalities. They are Mir J. A. Nor man. MT. J. Leo Edwards Mir Mudd Martin, MT. Tom Hall, MT. John Denson, MT. Ashby Weller-not a bachelor by the way, for his wife is merely spend
 ing the winter Tn Virginia; MT. Ranse Mabry, MT. Robert Mabry MT. Mark
 Johnson, MT. Ed Williams and MT. Fer- guson.
 At 1874 Avenue lives a company of bachelors, the personnel of whose home, like that of the bachelors on Highland avenue has changed somewhat in the past few years because of the unwill- ingness of some of the inmates to re- main bachelors. The household at present includes MT B. F. Ezekiel, MT. Adolph Hirsch, a widower; MT. Au- gust Hirsch, MT. Arnold Hirsch. MT. Davison, Mir Herman Lit
 ten, MT. J. r. Schweitzer, MT. Louis B. Joseph. MT. Carl Honig and MT. Henry Baruch.
 In the Cullom apartments another group of bachelors have a charming home Dr. Norborne Cooke. who was one of their number, changed from
 bachelor to benedict few months ago leaving MT. V. J. Nesbit, MT. W. W
 Hazard, MT H. c. Stiles, MT. Crook Whatley, MT. Seab Whatley, MT. Wilson
 Baltzell and MT. G. z. Peak as the pres ent "apartmenters."
 Those who motor through Norwood | never fail to note the quaint little cot | tage of MT. William Wilson, bach elor and some times hermit. When the cot tage was constructed several years ago. | jointly by MT. Wilson and Dr. Devereuv 1 Porter, 1t is sail that the two youn, men made a compact to remain in that care-free state. The joys of a home life, however, but emphasized to MT. Porter the lack of one thing to make 1, it perfect. and not long afterward he \ D