The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03

An encouraging word was brought 10 the notice of this department few days ago. in the form of a paper which was written recently for the Courante clup of New Orleans. In this club are 4O or the most brilliant women of that metrop- olis and one of he most interesting of the 4O-Mrs. Letitia Dabney Miler-was the writer AS the sister of Dr. J. D. Dabnev of this city, Mrs. Miller's eonnec- tion with local society is most interesting and as her lovely daughter, Miss Emily Miller, has been many times visitor she seems quite close to our own club women, who will enjoy her remarkably clever treatise on what she terms the minor consultations" and which Mis- sissippi friend of this department wished its readers to see. Instead of the minor consultations, in general, Mrs Miller re- marks in introducing her paper that 1t is .rather one of them. for blessed prov idence, who, as says Lamb, is better to us than all our uncles and aunts, mas provided us with many. There are but seven deadly sins and seven cardinal vir- tues, but our consultations are legion
 My never failing one is the morning pa per. There I find surcease from sorrow and lethe for my woes; there I can merge private cares in the full tide of human events. True, murders, suicides, lynch ings, divorces, embezzlements, and even occasional hangngs mar my satisfaction; but after all these concern tiny trac- ton of the people represented by the pa per, and a natural and well cultivated tal- ent for skipping enables me to swerve aside from most of these horrors. But the restl It is history in the making yesterdays world brew poured out spark ling for our morning draught.
 ''Without leaving your chair you cen learn more of the worlds ways than a lifelong wanderer, two or three centuries ago--survey mankind from China to Peru, has been transposed from hyper bole into solid prose. Kings die, parlia- ments dissolve, armaments shake, great race movements unfold under our very eyes
 Are you engrossed in politics? Here is the latest dictum of every diplomat in the world. Is your fad musicP literature: science? invention? adventure? society? sport? the drama? Here you may browse at will on such herbage as best likes you
 Our daily press depicts the life of the world. Here we have the very pulse of the machine and all that mighty heart lies bare before us. No historian can show us the correlation and inter-depeDd- ence of human affairs as does the press. It lss mighty orchestra whose varied instruments and tones makes mp alto gether the voice of humanity.
 ...lt shows us how short crops depress the marriage and birth statistics; now fiuctuating markets send up the rates Of suicide: how war brings out bursts of poe try; how socialist demonstrations are fol- lowed by government concessions.
 ,. Here no Caesar fills the stage to the exclusion of smaller folk. Here the cry of the humble finds its place beside the claim of the mighty. The wronged con vict jostles the diamonds of the duchess fin these sheets We could not read a history so voluminous, even should it be written; but, day by day. we assimiate a portion.
 ''We catch the very spirit of the age in the advertisements. Marx now breakfast food has crowded out patent medicines, how motor cars have busted bicycles, and how aeroplanes begin to encroach on space once given to graphophones --- What panorama, what moving pie ture show. is here unrolled for us. I do not think any care or private sorrow which left the reason untouched could deprive us of this (breathess interest in life as a whole. Here we see weaving the tapestry of human evolution; the shuttle flies. leaving it's black or crim- son or gold thread; the warp opens and closes behind it irrevocably, and another figure has been added to the pattern.
 My life may have been failure, my hopes dead, my mistakes fatal; but noth- ing can deprive me of my share in this