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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
DINNER AND THE GIRL
n the Chicago Tribune


Chops. potatoes, and apple pie made UP
the menu of % cent dinner which Miss
Anne Morgan, daughter of the financier,
ate the other day. Miss Morgan, accord
ing to dispatches, experimental with the
meal with a view of convincing several
hundred working girls that % cent din
ner is good enough for anybody.
Miss Morgan's efforts are wasted. There
are no working girls in New York, Chica-
go or any other big city in the United
states who woui1 not be satisfied with
a % cent dinner consisting of chops, po-
tatoes, and apple pie. The objection on
the part of working girls and those cham
pioning their interests is that the 25 cent
dinner is out of the reach of the great
mapority of them. If Miss Morgan were
to look into the lunch box of the shor
girl on the East Side in New York OF
on the West Side in Chicago, she would
find that from to 10 cents is all that z
per cent of them spehd for their noon day
meal They cannot afford to spend more
Even the better paid girls, girls in offices
and stores, do not spend more than i
cents in a near BY lunchroom for the'I
midday lunch. They cannot afford to d.
ii and keep the strait and narrow path.
Miss Morgan, while sincere in her sym
pathy for the roor, is hampered by hei
inability to look at things through thcil
eyes A quarter looks much bigger i,
the working girls eye than Miss Morgan
imagines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
City Primary in the Spring

The city democratic executive COM
mittee is planning to call democratic
primary in the spring or early sum-
mer months to nominate a democrat
for the office of city commissioner
and to answer various questions that
it thinks should be placed before the
voters on that occasion. The city
committee considers itself competent
to select the questions to be sub
mitted
These questions will relate not only
to the ownership of public utilities
but one at least will test the strength
or weakness of the commission itself
as method of governing the city.
The submission of such questions to
the voters in primary decides moth
ing, and yet such questions are test
of public sentiment, and in the long
run public sentiment in this country
is all-controlling. The first expressions
of it may be disregarded by politi-
clans, but later expressions of it will
not be.
Despite all its errors the commits
sion form of government is still strong
in the hearts of the people, and this
fact will be made known in the COM
ing primary when the question is sub
mitted to the voters. The people will
soon elect their own commissioners.
They will elect one commissioner this
year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

The poetry shop in London is already
famous. 1t is IN Devonshre street. Theo-
bald's road, and the proprietor is Harold
Monro. He will sell poetry and nothing
else. The store occupies the ground floor
of a quaint eighteenth century house in a
commonplace side street not far from the
British museum. Within this store will
be found for sale copies of the works of
major and minor poets alike. Customers
who are on the lookout for poetry of any
particular class will be invited to state
their preferences, and a clerk will do his
best to suit them. But Mr.. Monro do as
not intend to stop at selling poetry. He
has made up his mind to boom it IN
other ways. Twice a week there will DO
recital at which young poets will read
their own and other peoples poetry aloud
to any one who cares to listen. Lastly.
to complete the dedication of the whole
building to the muse, Mr.. Monro has fur
nished the top OF the house to provhSe
lodgings for young poets who may be
looking for simple and inexpensive hous-
ing in London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Suffrage in Great Britain

The franchise bill will meet it's fate
no doubt today in the house of COM
mons. As it stands it would add 25,-
100000 men and 13,000,000 women
to the number of parliamentary cleo
tors. Should the bill go through the
British electoral system would be
placed on an absolutely democratic or
manhood basis.
The government will maintain a
neutral attitude on the woman's
amendment. The cabinet is about
evenly divided. Mr.. Asquith is op-
posed to woman suffrage, but David
Lloyd- George, John Burns and Sir
Edward Grey favor the proposition.
Should the house of commons give a
majority for the woman's amendment
that provision will be Incorporated in
the government bill and it will then
have the support of the entire cabi-
net.
The big battle of today will be
watched with interest by Englishmen
in all parts of the world. The strug-
ple is fierce one, and the votes to-
day will probably determine the fate
of the entire bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Isles in the Aegean

The great islands of Rhodes, Cos,
Chios, Lemnos, Imbros, Tenedos and
Mytilene, all lying in the Aegean sea
near the Dardanelles, are to be hand
ed over to the powers to be disposed
of as they see fit. Along with these
large islands are many small ones,
and all are occupied by Greeks. Each
and every one of them desires to be
annexed to the Hellenic kingdom, and
unless this be done more trouble will
arise from time to time.
Bulgaria is to keep Adrianople and
it is not easy to see how the powers
can justly withhold from Greece the
islands in the Aegean. The islands be-
long logically to Greece, and any just
settlement would give them to her,
especially when she stands ready to
agree that they shall not be used as
military bases. By forgetting their
own schemes the powers now have an
opportunity to settle many problems
of long standing and open way to
peace in the near east.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

enough corn and hay to feed their
stock. Alabama was large buyer
of corn. But two years ago cred
itably high record was made in corn
production. Many farmers not only
raised all the corn that was needed
to feed their stock but they had corn
to sell, and if we have favorable
weather conditions in the coming
spring and summer this state will
make a new high record. Farmers
that in other years raised only 10
bushels of corn to the acre are salts
fled with nothing less than an aver
age of 40 bushels and on many farms
the corn crop will average even 80
bushels to the acre.
Cotton used to be the only money
crop. In the future corn is to be a
very important money crop and in
some counties alfalfa is now raised
with fine profit. The fact is that
Alabama is the most inviting field in
the south for diversified farming.
Homeseekers will be coming in large
numbers to buy and till Alabama
lands and add to the wealth of the
state. And every boy that wins a
prize as a corn raiser is doing large
share of good. All honor to the
manly young fellows of the Corn club
movement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
The Iron Market

The local iron market Is only fairly
ing $3.50 on a No basis for first
quarter delivery. but others are holding
for s14 1t is generally felt that with
the next big buying movement the price
will reach SIS. Rogers, Brown & Co.'S
Cincinnati circular this week says in
part:
"The market did not develop any fea-
ture of unusual interest during the
week, sales were for the most part of
limited tonnage and the greatest effort
being made to get out iron on existing
contracts,
THE local market is without change
as regards price, and there is no eX-
pressed intention of considering business
for more extended delivery than has been
the case recently The position of the
furnaces is satisfactory, stocks having
been reduced during the month, and
production curtailed at many points tenn
porarily on account of irregularity in
shipments of coke and high water at
various points.
I'm some districts buying has picked
up, due to consumers who held off at
the first OF the year having come into
the market in the last week The fin
ished steel market Is quiet, with some
large business in structural steel and
rails pending"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Alabama Corn Growers

AS a corn growing state Alabama
is moving steadily to the front and
the Corn club boys are having large
share in the forward movement.
Young William Atchison of Jeffer-
SON county raised last year 1913
bushels of corn on one acre and young
]. P. Leach of Marshall county raised
1876 bushels on one acre. AS cham
pion corn growers they are now visit
ing Washington as the guests of the
United States agricultural depart
ment.
For some time jefferson county has
been known far and wide for its min
eral development; known as great
coal, iron and steel county. But it
will now become widely known as a
county that can do large things in
agriculture. The Birmingham Cham
ber of Commerce started farm
movement two or three years ago
with a view of inducing northern
homeseekers of truck farming expert
ence to come and settle in jefferson
county. This movement has had some
practical results but the fact that a
boy has raised 1913 bushels of corn
on an acre of ground will prove a
great advertisement for this section
and will give strong support to the
farm movement.
Five years ago Alabama, agricul-
turally speaking, was a great cotton
state only. Few farmers raised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
81 SHOULD WORRY,
From the Chicago News.
"Ich sollte sorgen.
"Je sera malheureux."
"Giati ma animbomono."

FROM tne CHltds5O NEWS.
"Ich sollte sorgen.''
"Je sera malheureux"
"Giati ma animbomono."
"Sarei incenslero.'
Nations are lighting for it, Up on the
north side the Germans are positive that
the expression was invented by Goethe
himself. On Halstead street the Greeks
insist that the expression was born at
Thermopylae when Leonidas gazed COM
placently at the hordes of Persians and
then at his own stanch little band. The
French claim they have shrugged their
shoulders to "Je sera malheureux" since
tho days of Charemagne. The Italians
saw the remark fell from the lips of the
hddling Nero while Rome was in flames.
And all 1t means is:
Il should worry
This phrase expressive of complacency
during circumstances commonly supposed
to be of a trying nature has fastened its
tentacles on the country with all the ad-
| hesive qualities of, ''Twenty-three-sk
doo'' TELL it to Sweeney" and Il gotcha
Steve"
! IT should worry lot and build house
| is one of the favorite corruptions of the
original. Il should lose my perfect conn
plexion" is one of the more recondite
usages. also 4 should get wrinkle or
II should have a palpitation."
| 1T is wholesome and exceedingly ex-
ipressive phrase for a rather complicated
mental attitude. said an instructor al
the University of Chicago, who preferred
not to have his name used. ITO analyze
| it into its basic conception" he ran on
II should say that it indicates the person
speaking has special knowledge of the
phenomena with which he is entangled.'
There was lengthy discussion at the
Auditorium theatre recently when the
opera stars were asked If they were ac-
quainted with the American II should
worry"
"That is our 'Sarei incensiero, cried
one OF the singers. 1T means I should
be in thought should brood-in fact, !
should worry. oh, yes, it is common
! enough for us. When we have to ride oT
the horrid cars and sing many times il
a week and sleep in uncomfortable bed:
we just thing of our salaries and then We
say 'Sarei incenaiero.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
THE BANANA
From the Journal of the American
Medical Association.

From the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
| With the increasing demand for fresh
fruits at all seasons of the year has
come the difficulty Of supplying them
| in a condition in which the dangers
of contamination arc largely averted.
Decay is one of the limiting factors
in the use of fresh fruits. Among the
| many fruits there is one which is
equipped in its native form with a
protective covering that calls for more
than passing mention. Some time ago
the Journal of the American Medical
Association emphasized the advantages
afforded by the banana as a wholesome
food and ventured the suggestion that
this fruit, though growing in popu-
larity is still estimated in Ameri-
can households. The banana consists.
in its green state, largely starch and
water. The essential change during
the process of ripening is a conversion
OF the starch into sugar. The rate of
ripening Is dependent on the tempera-
ture. The edible portion of each fruit
is packed away in a peel which serves
more useful purpose than has hitn-
erto been realized Experiments on
the fruit in different stages show that
the inner portions of the pulp of sound
bananas are practically sterile. The
peel is singularly resistant to invasion
by basteria. Even when bananas were
immersed in fluids containing disease
germs they did not penetrate into the
interior. The probability of infection
through the peel is therefore slight
though germs on the peel might be
transferred to the consumers fingers
and thence to the mouth. This is an
interesting example of a food delivered
by nature in practically sterile pack
ages. Natures wholesome service
should not be undore by careless meth
ods of marketing such foods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
ANrs WISDOM
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.

From the ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
cook. being annoyed by the depreda-
tions of ants. put a pie in the pantry
shelf, surrounded it with thick circle OF
noasses and awaited developments.
They came in the shape of fully SOC red
ants. led by an ant larger than any
other.
When he came to the molasses ne
halted and held consultation with a
small detachment from the main army.
Each one selected place where the
stream of molasses was narrowest. the
leader made a tour of inspection and the1
all the ants made their way to hole in
the wall where the plastering was loose
Each ant took Il tiny piece OF plaster
ard to and fro they went from nail hole
to the moassss for two hours until they
had thrown a bridge across.
Then they formed in line, marched over
and soon every r,enber of the army was
conteutedjy eating pie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

Kate Masterson in February Lippincott's.
vU7oMEN have been responsible for
w most of the decorative elazes
w and house furnishing departures
that have marked our gradual develop
ment from the epoch of the parlor stove,
crowned with its funeral urn to the rest
full mission Morris fashions of today.
Some of these times that we lived
through turned home into grotesque mu-
seums of useless incongruities. Since
then 1t is evident that there has been
gi eat development in the feminine art
sense and in the humor sense as WE'LL
for the humorous perception teaches the
eye and the brain to detect bad art al
most by instinct
The women's magazines now have de-
partments teaching us how to furnish
rooms with an eye to color and harmony.
N'o know one truth, which is that so
lons as we choose things for their use
and their simplicity we are not far wrong.
This helps us to avoid combinations of
tirt, form and line that clash With one
arother like badly tuned bells. And by
degrees we are contracting a healthy hor-
ror of imitations-gilding bronze paint
ans the near furs and near jewels that
used to win us simply because they were
such excellent frauds.
Mans humorous sense. as general
thing, keeps him from adopting deceptiv,
effects in his dress, but women revel In
them. Several years ago there was
fabric called SNOW flake" put on the
market. The background was in solid
COLOR and at intervals upon the surface
there were tufts of white silky cotton
wool about the size of a silver half
dollar. This was supposed to produce the
suggestion of snow, and, despite the
welrdness of the idea, woman made it
very fashionable.
Yet there was an actual quality of
humor in that cloth that made one smile
back at it. 1t certainly did not look like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Life ts a shuttle.
Merry Wives of Windsor.
Modern Recreation in This Country

Over 100 communities IN this
country of 5000 inhabitants or more
now have supervised Fairgrounds, Tor
a play leader is as essential to play
ground as a teacher to school. In
2s5 cities 2094 regularly supervised
Fairgrounds were maintained last
wear. In these cities $500 play lead
ers are employed, not including
1852 care takers or janitors. or the
1920 play leaders 2195 were men and
sO75 women, leaving 30 whose sex
was not reported.
The play leaders are needed to teach
play to the many children who do not
know how to play, to organize games,
to free and guide active impulses and
to shape growing citizens through the
universal play instincts whose educa-
tional powers are suggested by Well
ingtons statement that the battle OF
Waterloo was won on England's play
grounds.
The Playground Association of
America was organized six years ago
and in that time has spread to all
parts of the country. An expenditure
of over four millions of dollars was
reported last year in the various COM
munities, and in the summer months
an average daily attendance of 5O0,-
900 persons was reported in 2004 play
grounds in the 285 cities. The asso-
citation hopes to induce all American
cities to adopt modern recreation as a
means for, raising the standards of
physical strength to a reasonable max
imum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
stenographers and stcnogrnpher~

There are many hgh-class stenograph-
ers and typewriters, but many are so
lacking in ordinary education as 20 be
practically worthless" remarked a pro-
fessional man. Some of us have put
for not teaching their pupils English
but in all the short hand schools with
which l am familiar. a good English
course is part of the system. The trouble
with many boys and girls who take
short hand fail to study after securing
positions. They have no ambition and
it often happens that the men who die
tate letters are either devoid of educa-
ton or are Indifferent as to the gram
mar or style of the letters to whch they
attach their signatures. A writer in the
New York Sun has this to say Of the
situation in the great metropolis:
Speaking from my own personal ex-
perience with the average public stem
ographer, l would hold her or him dear
al any price. The majority | have found
to possess the most meagre knowledge
OF the English language and to be so
deficient in literary intelligence as to
be capable of making the most grotesque
errors of sense, such as "excavate this
evil" for 'extirpate," etc: ''ausmenta-
tive assemblies for argumentative,' etc.
In my case there was never the slightest
excuse for the preparation of these mis-
takes, because l never demanded more
than the mere mechanical transcription
of document, taking care beforehand
to advise the copyist that 1 would give
all the aid that might be required as
TO punctuationfi spelling and capitaliza-
ton.
- remember that when on one oc-
casion ] pointed out to a public type
writer in a leading hotel the atrocities
OF which he had been guilty he excused
himself by saying that the language was
unusual yet the document was abso~
lutely non-technical and did not contain
single word that boy Of grammar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
On stx Corners

Buildings representing total cost
of upwards of s4.000,0O0 are in course
of construction on six corners in BIZ
mingham,' said A. r. Dearborn.
THE Tutwilag hotel, corner of Fifth
|avenue and Twentieth street, will rep
resent a cost of about s1,200,000 the
Roden hotel, Fifth avenue and Eigh-
teenth street, something like $1,O0o,000i
the Jefferson County Savings bank
20 story skyscraper, Second avenue and
Twenty first street, about $1,000
Major Tutwiler's eight story apartment
house-the Ridgeley-Sixth and Park
avenues and Twenty-first street, about
$400, 900; the Motion six story apart
ment house, Fifth avenue and Twentieth
street, about 100000 and Gen. Louis
v. Clarks theatre building, Third ave-
nue. and Eighteenth street, about $780,
900. Besides these many other hand
some buildings are under way, but tits
certainly worthy of note that on six cor
ners such splendid Improvements are In
evidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
LITERARY PRETENDER
Ie Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Plttsburg Dispatch.
Colonel Roosevelt. an all round man
himself, despises those who pretend, with
out just reason, TO be all round.
With one of these BUFFERS" he said
at a recent dinner, II recently called on
famous Scot. The Scot was an ardent
disciple OF Burns. and he had flne COL
lection of Burnsiana. The buffer looked
at the volumes With feined interest, and
then said warmly:
Dear old Tommy Burns, I always did
love his books. And what grand collec-
| tion of them you've got here. Dear old
Tommy,'
Our Scottish host smiled sarcastically.
Tommy Burns2' he sniffed. Billy
Miltoni George Tennyson Charlie
Shakespeare
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
noBERT BURNS

BY Robert G. Ingersol
Though Scotland boasts a thousan
names
or patriot king. and peer,
The nobest. grandest of them all
Was loved and Graded here.
Here lived the gentle peasant Prince.
The loving eottar-lxing.
Compared with whom the greatest lord
Is but a titled tEing.
" 'Ts but a cot rooted in with straw,
A hovel made of clay:
One door shuts out the snow and storm,
one window ereets the day;
And yet | stand within this room
And hold all thrones in scorn.
For here. beneath this lowly thatch,
Loves sweetest bard was born.
"Within this haiiowed hut feel
Like one who clasps a shrine.
When the slad lips, at last, have
touched
The something deemed divine.
And here the world through all the yearA
As long as day returns,
The tribute Of its love and tears,
Will pay to Robert Burma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
Bell Telephone onIcial.

Several Bell telephone officials spent
yesterday in Birmingham. Among them
were Reid Hobson general commercial
superintendent, with headquarters at At
lanta; c. A. Stair, superintendent at
New Orleans; Foster Hume, superin-
tendent at Memphis and w. 7. vorhies,
lanta.
birmingham always looks good to me-
said Mr. Hobson. Il come here fre-
quently and | always remark progress
This city is growing rapidly and the
handsome improvements seen in the busi-
ness district quickly impress the yisi-
tor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24

Miss Eleanor Wilson will wear a dress
ufactured in Norfolk. When she was
asked TO designate the shade she desired
she chose the outside petal of an Ameri-
can Beauty rose and the dress is now be-
ing made in New York. 1t will cost se5C
and viii be delivered early in February.
Miss Wilson accepted the dress in order
to pay a compliment to her fathers ma
tive state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-24
REELEcrloNs OF A BACHELOR

From the New ork Press.
The expenditure YOU buy at par you
C; MT sell at one cent on the dollar
The only exciting thing TO a man about
pair of ankles is If he oughtnt to see
them
The way a woman finds out what a man
really did is substracting all the things
ne says he did.
About the pnly reason for expecting the
children will learn something at school
i; their parents didn't.
There's nothing makes thin sirl more
thankful than not to be fat, and 4 fat
ore than not to be thin.