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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
School Facilities in Woodlawn

East Lake and Woodlawn, compris-
ing the eastern end of the city, feel
he need of a high school. Woodlawn
ends 200 children to the Central High
ichool, and the number would be in
creased if high school were built in
Woodlawn.
The people of the eastern section
IF the city present unanswerable
arguments in favor of a high school
in Woodlawn. 1t is just another case
illustrating the limitations of the con-
stitution of 1901 and the lack of local
taxation for school purposes. No mat
ter how much the city commission may
desire to meet the desire of the moth
ers of the eastern section of the city.
it is powerless because of a lack of
revenue. Given the revenue no doubt
a high school would be built in Wood
lawn as fast as a contracting firm
could put it up. The power of local
taxation for school purposes is sadly
needed in this state. Every county
needs it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

FROM tue w washington PoSt.
Governor O'Neal OF Alabama is up
against difficult proposition" said
Hugh w. Roberts of Birmingham. who
delivered the electoral vote of his state
at the capitol, at the Metropolitan.
'"rhe Alabama legislature meets only
cace every four years. 1t is not sched-
Tied to meet until January, 1915. The gov
ernor has the right to call special
ossion at any time he deems necessary.
There is clamor for session during the
coming summer or at as early date
as possible. The state treasury is empty,
and the governor has borrowed about
a.. the money that the law authorizes him
ID borrow. Many politicians and others
V ant some provision for raising money to
finance the state until the tax money
he gins to come in next fall.
THE governor does not seem to want a
special session. 1t will mean the stirring
un of various and sundry political ques-
tons. A special session is most always
embarrassing to the governor.
"But there is growing demand for a
special session not only for the consider
alton of the financial situation, but almost
every member has pet scheme for leg
islation he will Try to force up If the ses-
ssion is called. There is a movement and
perhaps a wise one, to return to biennial
sessions of the legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
BuDApEsT is GAY

ID. n. and A. S. Iddings, in the National
Geographic Magazine.
The greatest city of the Danube
Vienna being in strict justice excluded
from consideration-is Budapest, which
is fairly cut in two by the broad ex-
panse of the river. Formerly two cities
Buda on the right hand side struggles
up a picturesque mountain, and here
on high terrace is the magnificent
palace of the King of Hungary, will
q wonderful outlook over the river. Pest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
FEMININE MODEsTY

From the Argonaut.
A lady philanthropist. who is greatly m
terested in a new hospital For women,
lays stress on the necessity for a COM
plete staff of women not only sattend-
ants and nurses, but also as physicians.
Her reasons are worthy of some atten-
ton. The hospital, she says, is for poor
women, and poor women are so much
more modest -han those in easier. circurn-
stances Women of the leisured classes
do not shrink from confiding their inti-
mate physical troubles to the man physi-
clan. whereas fheir poorer sisters will
often allow their small ailments to grow
rto large ones because they cannot bring
themselves to consult a physician of the
opposite sex.
Probably this is true. We have good au-
thority for believing that satan finds
some mischief still for idle hands to do
Idleness always means familiarity be-
tween the sexes, and familiarity brings
lowering of barriers and a relaxation
Of restraints.
Feminine modesty is a funny thing any
way. IL may pe Sdlu pdiAuVAAcoAy lt-o,
It is one of the great facts Of life that dc
not exist. Most women have that kind
of modesty tina. loves to be outraged. II
is like the tail os the Irishman's coat that
begs to be trodden/on. Curiously enough
even the most .isid modesty viii give way
before unusual circumstances, such as an
ocean voyage or foreign cline. The
white woman Is not embarrassed by the
unblushing displays of Oriental life-ai
least for not moro than a day. She likes
them. She will take her stand in the
line of men and women awaiting theil
turn in the ships bath and she will be
just as proud of the cut of her bathrobe
as in the style of her hat. And yet that
same woman would believe herself to be
seriously embarrassed by an untimely ELI
counter with a male guest in the corri'
dor of her own house. American and
English women in France win do things
without the slightest confusion that they
would be incapable of in their own coun-
tries In point of fact feminine modesty
seems to be three-fifths convention, orc
fifth provocation and one-fifth humbug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
LIKE m.LIrKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
When a stout woman wearing
straight front corset goes to doctor
and complains about a pain near the
cinch line he doesn't know whether she
has acute Indigestion or pleurisy.
| When the floor of her bedroom is Of
polished hardwood, a girl sits on the
bed when she puts on her shoes and
stockings.
The world is growing better. and the
man who used to brag that fingers
were made before handkerchiefs Is be-
| ing crowded off the map.
You will notice that when man
wants to bet you that you are wrong
he always says that he hasn't much
money with him, but he knows where
he can get it.
Every woman Is an actress, and every
married woman is a leading lady
They say that time Is money. But
store 1t takes her a whole hour to
spend 2s cents.
These theatre caps makes girl look
as though she had forgotten to remove
| something when she got out of the
bathtub.
It doesn't mater how long you have
been married, nor how many children
you have raised. If your wife catches
you admiring a pretty girl she gets
just as sore as she did when she was
a bride and had no sense.
When a man is bow-1egged he can't
hide It. But when a girls props are
headed east and west she should cut
out the hobble.
This is a ueer void. II you love
flowers you can have as many as you
please. If you love music, you can
hear all you please. II you love art,
you can purchase all you please. But il
you love women who combine the fra
GRANGE of flowers, the joyous life of
music and the beauty of art you can
only have one copy
A bank clerk with a salary of $50
a month can wear diamonds and ride
around in automobiles, and we are all
sound asleep. But If girl who works
for 81 a week wears a new silk waist
we're suspicious right away.
We all like to roast marriage and to
joke married people. But / want to
state that If a law went into effect to-
morrow declaring all unions invalid and
and enabled married folks to out loose,
80 women out of every 100 would stick
to their husbands. and 95 men out of
every 100 would stick to their wives.
And Heaven help the other five hus-
bands!
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on opposite side OF the river, is the
tant. Its location is upon a fiat. so
characteristic of the rich Danubian
plains.
The population of the combined cities
lis about three-fourths of million. and
here is the center of all Hungarian ac-
tivities, Hungary as a nation having
little real culture, no manufacturing to
speak of, In short, naught but pastoral
existence, outside of its capital city.
plains has always made agriculture the
natural exertion OF the people Just as
the plains themselves constitute the
principal area OF the Kingdom. But the
| life in Budapest is compensatory for the
ldullness that pervades the rest of Hun
gary. Budapest is Paris, Vienna and
London in one. combination of the
gayeties of the capitals cf the world,
with little distinctive Hungarian
lpaprika spice thrown in.
| The "Corso" along the Danube in
Pest is the promenade whose group of
open air cafes and restaurants forms
the hub of the gay Magyar life.
Throughout the city almost every other
building houses a cafe. so important a
part do these establishments play in the
national life.
! There the business man partakes of
his early breakfast of coffee and rolls,
there he adjourns from his office on
numerous occasions in the day for i'm
portant business conferences. which are
best had according to the semi Oriental
idea of the Hungarians over cup of
coffee And after the family dinner.
which is almost invariably partaken of
| in one of the restaurants which are scat
tered through the city and among the
parks which surround. 1t, the cafe is
again resorted to by the whole family
as last thing before retiring, which
is often postponed till early morningl
so enthralling is the gypsy music al
ways to be heard in these public places
land the other attractions of cafe life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

From the Louisville CourierJournal.
"HE news that $4,000. 900 is to be
spent in Delhi in the construc-
i ton of government buildings ap-
propriate to the dignity of the new cap
ital of British India has opened a warm
discussion among British Journalists
and among lay brethren who are moved
to contribute to the press as to what
style of architecture should be chosen.
1t is not surprising to find the in
sular pride and prejudice of the British
expressing itself in a number of arti-
cles favoring English architecture OF
the present period" Just what Is
meant 1t would be difficult to say.
There is no English architecture of the
present time that is known as such.
There is a good deal of complaint in
England because London is growing
uglier as a result of a lack of any we'll
defined idea of architecture animating
the builders or existing in the minds
of the architects.
Delhi is a more or less modern city,
and an ugly one, situated amid 40 or
so square miles of ruins that consti-
tute an exposition of the various In
dian styles for unnumbered centuries
And among the noblest examples OF
Eastern Saracenic architecture are the
great Mohammedan mosque at Delhi
and the fortified palace of the Mogul
Emperor, Shah Jehan. who subse-
quently built the Tai Mahal at Agra,
admittedly the most beautiful building
in the world.
Although the Alhambra is better
known in Europe and America than
the mogul palaces in Delhi and Agra
the Moors in Spain built nothing that
can be compared with the architectural
monuments of the moguls in India, who
planned like Titans and finished like
jewelers." The Alhambra is a rather
cheaply built palace of kings who were
but little removed from tribal chief
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
The office Seeker.

Many democrats viii be disappointed il
they are not appointed to office by
Fresident-elect wilson, said John F..
Cartwright of st. Paul. Il am not a
democrat myself, but have many friends
who are and several of them are appli-
cants for office and are getting up petit
tons.
Governor Wilson has intimated very
plainly that he is not going to interfere
with the civil service rules now in effect
was never a politician, but l used
to believe that to the victor belongs
the spoil. ] have changed and have
come to think that all federal employees
ard officials should be selected accord
ing to merit and should retain their places
during good behavior regardless of poll
ties.
II believe Woodrow Wilson will make
Us good President. He has a will of his
own and he may strike some people a;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
REFLECTIONS nr BACHELOR

IIom the New York Press.
Genius seems to be able to do most any
thing but support itself.
What makes a love letter the best OF
all to girl is for it to be the insanest
OF all.
Nobody but a woman knows what real
excitement is, and that's when the first
new hat of the season comes into church
The tlSng that scares a woman about a
burglar is what il he should look at some
OF the clothes she left around the room.
AS II takes all mans money to pay
his family's bills it ought to console him
! that If he had any more money he'd have
ulat many more bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
BEAUTIES OF TIE MILKY WAY


BEAUTIES OF TIE MILKY WAY
edgar Lucien Larkin," by George whar-
ton James, in National Magazine for
February.
The Milky Way, or Galaxy, is an appar-
ent ring extending entirely around the
universe of stars visible in the largest tel
escopes. It is composed of suns in literal
millions. They are SO remote that as seen
from the earth they appear to be close to
each other, while really they are sepa-
rated by millions and billions of miles.
To the eye, the belt of soft lift looks like
a continuous band of cloth in pearl, but
telescopes have the effect of bringing OBJ
iects nearer. This separates the filmy
cloud into many millions of glittering but
minute points on the black background
of space At distance forest trees
| seem to be close together, but as they
lare approached they separate and stand
alone. 1t is next to impossible to describe
! the ihatchless beauty of the Milky Way
as seen in telescope of great power.
Carpet a large room with black velvet.
Have many electric lights in the ceiling.
Throw down and scatter all over the black
floor a bushel of minute diamonds, rubies,
pearls. sapphires, opals. amethysts, and
other gems. Then turn on the light.
You would have a faint imitation of the
supernal gloriss of the Galactic hosts
For the appalling depths of space loois
black in our great telescopes. In places,
these suns look ~ serspective as though
they We're arranged in piles, heaps and
banks, or built up into colossal windows,
or twisted into spirals, or dashed into
wsps and cosmic spray In some places
the concentration is SO gerat and dense
| that only the most powerful telescopes On
earth can magnify enough to bring out
details. A few clusters exist that have
not so far, been resolved into cbese necdls
points. And the height of human napni-
ness is to watch these vast congeries OF
distant suns in huge telescope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WAR.
RIOQ DEAD

Alfred Tennyson. in THE Princess
Home they brought her warrior dead;
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry;
All her maidens. watching. said.
"She must weep or she will die
Then they praised him, soft and low.
Called hin, worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.
Stole a maiden from her place.
Lightly to the warrior slept.
Took the face cloth from the face;
Yet she neither moved nor wept.
Pose I nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee
Like a summer tempest came her tears
Sweet my child, / I've for thee."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
February Weather

"Goosebone reports have been having a
sood deal to say. and some of them have
failed utterly in forecasting the weather,
but / will venture the guess that we will
have great deal of winter next month, .
said a man who claims to understand
signs.
THE severest spell of winter we have
ever had In my time was in February,
1899. We had had rather mild weather in
December and January, but just before
Mardi Gras the temperature dropped far
below zero. and the severe cold stayed
with us for a week or more do not pre-
dict zero weather for next month"; but
do think We will have a good deal OF
freezing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

From the Indianapolis News.
A few years ago one might OCCASION
ally meet an old man. who, in his youth,
had heard Daniel Webster who remem-
bered and could quote much of tina.
great mans utterances. The day has
gone by for any such efforts of memory.
The orator of the day does not feel that
he is delivering the goods unless he is
rafting off 200 words minute, a rapidity
that puts it beyond the power Of the
hcsrer to remember anything but the idea
sought to be conveyed, and that too often
rot any too clearly. The great Daniel
spoke with impressive deliberateness, for
when he spoke he really had something
to say and his speed was not above 100
words a minute. He would~have been
considered "easy'' today. even by stem
oeraphic beginner.
Webster's birthday is in this month.
He was born at Salisbury, N. H., Janu-
ary IS, 1882 His most remarkable eff
forts were his speeches in the Senate on
the Greek revolution, and in his debate
with Hayne of South Carolina. He also
acquired great fame by two orations--
one at the laying of the cornerstone of
the Bunker Hill monument, on the ami
sersary of the battle, July II, 1875, and
the other on the completion of the mon
ument, 1S4S. One of his greatest utter
ances which may be looked upon as a
prophecy OF the conflict that came near
to the destruction OF the Union, may be
cited as the best remembered of his ut
f,ra
turned to behold for the last time the
sun in heaven, may I not see him shin
ing on the broken and dshonored frag-
ments of once glorious Union; on states
dissolved, discordant, belligerent; on a
land rent with civil feuds, or drenched it
NAV. be in fraternal blood. I"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

IN Danville. KY, J. f. Ware holds the
record as a tobacco grower. On eight
ceres of land on his farm near town he
produced an average of 1I5o pounds, which
he sold on the local breaks for the total
of s2i1s, or sso6 per acre. Mr.. Ware kept
an accurate record of expenditures, and
his net profit on the crop was $500 per
n afsre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

being hardheaded. but he is very able
rlan and very just one. do not think
business is going to be hurt by his ad-
nlinistration, and I would not be sur
prised to see him go out of office with
fyiug colorsr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Another citizen, writing from North
Sixtieth street, said: 81 say give us
more smokestacks and we will have
larger pay rolls"
What every growing city needs is
encouragement to industries. In two
or three years, perhaps, it may be
advisable to begin to abate by law the
so-called smoke evil, but there should
be nothing precipitate in movements
IF this sort.
No one should ever disparage the
city beautiful idea. All will agree
hat fine streets, handsome houses and
veil kept lawns add to city's at
ractiveness, but in order to have a
firm foundation on which to build the
ity beautiful material prosperity is
absolutely essential. The great growth
# Birmingham has been made posi-
lie by the pay rolls and the time has
Certainly not come when we can af-
,rd to enforce a law that might
stard single industrial enterprise.
At this juncture the people are un-
hestionably on the side of smoke as
gainst the anti-smoke ordinance.
Commissioner Weatherly, who has the
eood of the city at heart, will doubt
.ss take a reasonable view of the
= tuation and call off his smoke in
)ectors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
GREAT sKuL

Mrs. Grabble seems to be very sue
cessful in managing her boarding house."
And no wonderl Why. that woman
can disguise a pune in twenty-seven dif-
ferent ways so completely that lynx
eyed boarder with a wine tasters tongue
can't tell what 1t is.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
REBUILDING DELHI

, tains who lived in tents, and who
wrought in plaster and used marble
columns as supports, as they had used
tent poles under canvas in their ad-
vance through Africa into Andalusia.
Yet there is no palace in England that
does not look as homely as a factory
in comparison with the Alhambra, and
after Windsor castles massive solidity
how marvelously beautiful is the Cen
eraiiffe,' the summer home of the
Moorish princes who caused the snow
cooled waters of mountain torrents to
be conducted under ground from the
white-crested heights of the Sierra Me-
vada range to make perpetual music in
their flower gardensl
Where the Moors in Spain proved the
wealth of their Imagination and their
love of the aesthetic, the Mogul EN-
perors of India showed themselves
master builders. or course they put
ceilings of solid silver in their palaces
and made flowers of precious stones
and inlaid them in marble in mauso-
leums, and were called decadent, but
nevertheless the Red Fort" at Delhi
wears a martial frown as virile as that
OF any European fertilization and the
audience halls of Akbar and Shah
Jehan must have impressed ambassa-
dors from foreign courts. as ambassa-
dors are not impressed at any western
court of the period.
And the moguls rate in India as be-
ing modern and newly rich. Delhi had
existed for scores of centuries before
their invasion of India. 1t was old
when Alexander was a conqueror. 1t
offers to the British a wide choice of
architectural styles and an opportunity
to win immortal fame by building
beautiful city.
If modern British architecture is de-
cided upon, can any one with a we'll
balanced mind blame the Indians IL
they continue to hurl bombs at SER
wants of "the British Raj?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Since the election of Woodrow Wilson
TO the presidency of the United States the
faculty of Harvard has named his works
on Congressional Government an oblig-
a.ory reading matter in the governmental
course which has nearly 400 Harvard stu
terry of the Presldent-elect the set of
works by Ambassador James Bryce has
been dropped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Governor Sickles is the only surviving
major general on the Union side of the
civil war. Mrs. Sicxles, from whom he
Is separated. is wealthy and she is will
Ing to come to his aid IL he will dismiss
from his home Miss Wilderding, his
housekeeper. The amount due the state Is
Ssa 476
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Governor Sulzer has gained three
pounds In office He files this statement
as an answer TO the charge that he is
breaking down under the strain of high
cffice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

William Ellis Corey is attracting no lit
tie attention as an amateur insurgent--
almost as much as he did when he mar
ried Mabelle Gilman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
ON A DARE

Though winters abroad and cold rains
beat
Just to show what bard can do.
I'll sing of the maiden adorably sweet,
Who captures the heart of you,
With open work hose, in a pattern SO neat,
And a waist called a peelN-a-boo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Harper's Weekly demonstrates that A
ford to keep an automobile. He certainly
would have something to tinker with on
evenings and SUNDAYS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
TEMpEsTUOUs.

you book agents encounter all kinds of
weather." observed the genial gossiper
Indeed, we do" assented the more or
less busy b. a. why, only this morning
I knocked on a door and walked right into
a domestice storm so violent that I mar
rowly missed being struck on the head
by flying soup ladle."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

The candidates for federal offices will
soon file their, petitions. and a rasping
sound will be heard from Athens to Bay
Minette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Mr.. Debs, socialist, received 901, $50
votes. He outran Mr.. Taft in California,
South Dakota, Florida, Arizona, Louis
lana, Mississippi and Nevada
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Governor-elect Dunno should have
been inaugurated January I, and he is
still a private citizen because the legis-
Iature is not able to organize itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
INDUS HASTE

After being lost for several days, Ari-
zona's presidential messenger was found
in New York. We have an idea of what
happened to him, but he might have
waited until after he had delivered Ari-
zona's vote before celebrating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
TIE LITTLE STREET.

THE LITTLE STREET.
The quiet little street
May ne'er attract crowd
Nor hear the worlds heart beat,
Insistentl~ and loud,
But in its tranquil way
1t breathes of peace and rest,
And somehow seems to say,
Calm, after all, Is best"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30
CLOSE ENOUGH

1 quite agree With those who say
A man should be on bargain day
At least a Thousand miles away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

When the wires say a West Virginian
shoots a wildcat. 1t simply means that he
is bringing in measly oil we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

When every passenger gets a seat the
millennium will certainly have arrived No
better evidence will be needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

Professor Webb of Tennessee is fine
school teacher, end he may make a fine
senator--if he hurries UP.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-30

William Rockefeller is the first Ameri-
can who has won great reputation by
being silent. 1t is the only case on record.