The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-22

MIR. DUST
How would you like 10 wear a perfectly
good halo?
One that fitted you exactly and was as
becoming as new spring bonnet?
| Well
! If / ever get ON the "halo wagon in
heaven. I'm going to remember all those
who tell me before ] go what sort they
want and what size they wear, and
mean TO send each one of my friends a
nice, pretty, becoming one back for a
Christmas present.
The halo that Mr.. Dustin Farnum
wears is of course cowboy" halo.
Everybody in or out of captivity knows
that.
Sort of
syoyfng Lochnvar has come in from the
west
With fringe on his trousers and fur on
his breast
effect.
So
Yesterday l determined to find out for
myself just how this 'halo sat upon MIR
Farnum off the stage.
| hilVW llON II HlAS til thI GtoSt+
Tremendously WE'LL
| | had a sneaking idea that I might see
dispelled right before me this wild west
delusion If ! could get an Interview
with Mr.. Farnum from civilized angle.
This is what happened:
Scene 1-Hnlman hotel palmroom. lime
| 2:3o Dramatis personnae-Dolly and Mr.
| Farnum.
| The orchestra was playing, and Mr.
Farnum emerged from the cafe to the
strains of slow music and much interest
for the "Foyer-ers'' in the Foyer"
| Mr.. Farnum quietly removed his
halo" and expected me to see for the
nonce at least that il had given way to
| the worn and dusty old hat of Union
colonel, the role that he is now essaying
in "The Little Rebel" but | am vivid OF
| Imagination, and | haven't been seeing
billboardsn and posters and pictures
in magazines" all these years for nothing
| and straightway mine eye detected that
halo which enyeloped his so artistieally
and | had no desire to destroy it, even for
the sake of truth.
! Whether MIR. Farnum put il on again OF
/ whether it was my imagination, OF
whether the halo just took a sneak when
he wasn't looking and took its rightfu
place, I'm not prepared to say, but II
came back
! There isn't a matinee girl in all Bir-
mtngham who wouldn't have envied me
| the distinction that was mine when Mr.
| I'arrum, tall, handsome, distinguished and
charming took a seat opposite me anc
| consented to be interviewed"
There are masculine stars as popular
Perhaps and leading men, who lay CLAIM
| to large following, but Mr. Farnun
stands between these a splendid specimen
| of what some sages have declared is like
the "puffalo'-an extinct type-"the matt
nee idol cowboy.
| | think Mr.. Farnums smile, showing
his beautiful snowy white teeth, and his
| elegant manner, perhaps more than any
thing else, appealed to me.
| He's such a high type of the ''perfec,
gentleman" and you can Just see exactly
the minute you begin to talk to him how
| he could have attained his ''hao''-becaus,
these qualities are all so instinctve--witf
the man as we'll as the actor, and he's got
| them-plus.
| | mentioned something about "nlatinct
icols' and cowboy worshippers," ant
Mr. Farnum said with that woneerfl
smile of his:
Really, don't know what matinee lido
means"
| You are very modest, / fnterpOlatSd
Maybe after all it's only an Ameri
carism. It's just another name for en-.
| thusiasm," he said
| Perhaps" I agreed, and waited.
Its generally the role that a man is
playing" Mr. Farnum continued.
.sAnd not the nan?' | questioned.
We'll, of course, one wouldn't expect d
bunch back to be doing stunts that would
| elicit such admiration" he quicSl,
claimed" but as matter of fact, the mar
himself has little to do with it,
lbeen installed at the Shades mountain
lplant all necessary devices for the use
of hypochlorite of lime but up to this
| time the results obtained by sedimenta-
tion, coagulation and filtration have
lbeen so perfect that the hypochlorits
| of lime process has not been used.
During the month of January, 1913
more than 991a per cent of the bac-
terra in the river water was removed
by the purification process.
| The Birmingham Water Company
Supplies Filtered and Purified
Not Crude Product
1T will be appreciated, from the de.
lscription which we have given of oui
lpurifcation plants and methods, ,-that
the water supplied by the water com.
lpany to the homes Of Birmingham is
lnot the same water which one sees
flowing in Five Mile creek or in the
canal or in the Cahaba rivers. but Is Z
water which has been scientifically