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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
EYE-sTnAIN CAUSED BY "MoyIEs'


From the journal of the American Medi-
cal Association.
Constant attendance at moving picture
shows may cause eye troubles similar to
those of eye strain. This statement is
made BY DR.. George M. Gould in recent
issue of the Journal of the American Med
fcal Association. DR.. Gould says that he
has recently made practice of asking
his patients, what were you doing the
evening or afternoon previous to your
headache or giddiness or upset stomach
Nothing at an is the usual reply, that
Is, nothing out of the ordinary. | was
at the movies for a couple of hours and
went to bed as soon as l got home, as [
was feeling badly" Or, Gould warns
physicians, oculists and nerve specialists
to be on the watchout ror such symptoms,
and when found that attendance at NOV
ing picture shows be considered as a
cause. The symptoms. he says, do not
differ greatly from those caused by strain
or abuse of the eyes of any kind. The
most common are those of sick headache,
such as intense weariness of the eyes
and brain, a dazed, good for nothing
feeling, lack of energy and appetite, up
set stomach vomiting, sleepiness- and
other effects. If the patient is wearing
glasses, he may think my glasses need
changing" But on consultation with his
oculist it may be found that the glasses
are all right, and that the cinematograph
is to blame. But if the movies are not
to blame, probably fitted glasses will en-
able the patient to attend moving picture
shows without discomfort. Without prop
er glasses, however, the cinematograph
will more certainly cause nervous symp-
toms in the patient tnan when good
glasses are worn, as there is no douot
that moving picture SHOWS put a terrific
strain on even the least defective eyes,
while the strain is increased by poor
glasses or lack of glasses when they are
needed. Dr. Gould says that the prinei-
pal faults of moving picture shows is that
the ''fxation point chosen by the eye
dhat is, the point on which the eye
rests) is unstable and jerky and the eye
is tired and strained in following this
point The swiftly passing series of pic
lures tires the eye and the brain, and the
illumination is generally poor. To COR
rect these faults he suggests that the time
of exposure of each image be shortened
and that better illumination be required.
The enormous growth OF moving picture
shows in the last ten years and the adop-
tion of the cinematograph for teaching
Sand for various commercial uses, as well
as its probable growth in the future,
makes it important that the effect of
moving pictures on the eyes should be
carefully observed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
THE CHINESE NEW YEARS

FROM the st. Louis Republican
The Chinese of St Louis this year
will celebrate New Years day Janu-
ary l. The overthrow of the Manchu
dynasty and the establishment of a
Chinese republic has sent its message
around the world and Cinnamon every
where are hearing it.
Heretofore the Chinese of ST. Louis
and elsewhere observed New Years Day
according to the Maing calendar. They
made ceremonial of it, But it is
characteristic of exiles or expatriates
to cling tenaciously to national tradi-
tions and customs. They remember how
it was done at home Mostly, too, their
memories go back to the vivid i'm
pressions of youth, for the majority of
people who seek fortune in other lands
do so while young. To the Chinaman
who has remained in China the New
Years observance and other festivals
mean far less than they mean to the
Chipaman of the same age who has
come to the New World. For the exile
the occasion has the luster of idealsm.
To the man at home 1t has become
something of a routine fact. So the ex-
lie celebrates with patriotic fervor
and loyalty which may be wanting
quite in the disillusioned stay-at-h home.
He is slow to forget the traditions.
The promptness, then, with which the
Chinese in America have abandoned
their old calendar fete day and adopt
ed the New Years of the new Chinese
republic is significant. 1t shows beyond
question that they are in close touch
with affairs in their native land and
are in sympathy with the revolt that
has ended the Manchu line. 1t shows the
cogency and broad sweep of modern
Chinese sentiment 1t is a testimonial,
peculiar and emphatic, to the irresist-
ible crusade of democracy
The dim, mysterious, gray, old China
awakes to newer day. Toppled is the
Manchu throne. The king is dead. Long
live the republic. Thus do 400,000,000
in the Orient greet 1913. And children
of the middle Kingdom in many lands
right Loyalty join in the greeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
Back to picture show pu.ines.

II note with pleasure the return to the
picture show business of E. II. Colley
who started the Bonita.e said a man OF
family
THE Bonita was the first pictures
only show in Birmingham and it was
popular from the start. Mr.. Colley omit
ted the black faced vaudeville features
and 1t was certainly a pleasing innova-
tion so to speak. At that time there Were
two or three picture shows that were
featuring coarse entertainers in song and
playlets that were unfit for even grown
ups much less for the youthful who are
highly impressionable and of course, imi-
tative.
Great Improvement has been made in
many respects In the entertainment OF
the public by picture shows. Many in
structive and highly entertaining features
are now shown. Then, too. 1t is refresh
ing to tired person to sit in the shad-
ows of a scent playhouse and look at
the flashes OF some great play, or per-
haps the pictorial story of the times as
told by camera, with only the orchestral
music heard 1t reminds me somewhat
of my first experience at the great pan
tomime shows. which I>so much enjoyed
in my youth.
"Mr. Colley will do all that refined
gentleman-a man of family himself
can do to entertain visitors to the vau-
dette with clean, wholesome and instruc-
tive pictures; and the rest goes, as to the
general character that this pretty play
house will maintain under his manage
meDtf,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
How sharper than a serpenfs tooth 1t Is
To have q thankless child.
king LEAR.
Colonel Gorgas' Services at Panan


The medical science applied at the
isthmus has been fully as important
as the engineering science there dis
played, and this induces the New York
Sun to second the suggestion that DR..
Gorgas should be as well rewarded
by a great country as Colonel
Goethals. The Sun does not exag-
gerate when it says that without
Colonel Gorgas' marvellous prepara-
tory work in the sanitation of Pan
anna the canal project could not have
been undertaken"
The difference between the nom
success of the French effort and the
continuous and steady success of the
American effort was simply mat
ter of germs and sanitation in gen.
eral Colonel Gorgas brought the
latest knowledge of tropical diseases
into the case, and there has never
been day during the digging OF the
canal when any person engaged in
the work was exposed to yellow fever
or other climatic dangers.
No cne desires to detract from any
honors that may be awarded to Col
onel Goethals. He deserves to be
rewarded, and the republic cannot
well do too much for him. But when
he is rewarded let Colonel Gorgas be
also, for he made possible all that
the engineering officers have accom-
plished. Both should be rewarded,
and the rewards should keep step with
the greatness of stupendous task
and the greatness of a grateful
country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
STAGING A FAIRY PLAY

STAGING 4 FAIRY PLAY
Homer Saint-Gaudiens, in Harper's
Weekly.
The making has been fun Yes, fun
even in the face of that word ''piffle."
which so many veterans of actorland un-
doubtedly would utter at the suggestion
that rehearsals could be anything but a
hopeless grind. Poor men 1t may not
be fun to rehearse ordinary plays but
that is all they know about it. fairy
play is quite another problem: it means
to place the petals the Wild flowers;
to mingle reality with melodrama, poetry
with the grotesque; to ignore all rules
and to discover subtleties rising from sub
tleties; to achieve the self consciousness
OF children and yet not to know it.
Think of it, Would not you children
and perhaps again your children's chill
dren like to follow such a fairy as Tinker
Bell-whom you can see only as dancing
light: to go with her straight ON till
morning. when you would most certainly
come to the Never-Never Land? There
you would find Hollow Trees and Snow
Balls and Toad-Stools-Big- Enough To-St-
on and A-Lion- That Let's His-Tail- Be-
Cutoff and Friendly-Indians-W With War
Whoops-and-Fights and Wolves-That-
Dare Not Touch You If -You-Look-a t
Them Between Your-Legs.
But most of all. imagine the excitement
which would be yours upon having fairy
dust blown on you so that you might Ay
just wiggle your shoulders and let go
It's the most delightful Of sport this
learning to fly; very like what the young
robins do in the apple orchard every
spring Because when an exceedingly big
nightly pirate named Adolph makes
passes across your shoulder blades and
calls In an oversee voice to Deus ex
Machina known as Gustave, hidden in the
shadowland 50 feet above you, your per-
turbation and heart fiutrerings and vain
efforts to fly and yet to avert the awful
moment, and Your silly mingling OF glee
and terror when the expected happens so
unexpectedly, are astonishingly like what
Sc have all seen In other tledGlings on :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02


From the Paris Letter in the Living
Church.
The Wrestling of Saloniki from the Turks,
worshippers of Mohamet its occupation
by Greeks and Bulgarans, Christians, is
perhaps the most important event from
an ecclesiastical point of view of the pres
ent war in eastern Europe. For Salonild,
called the pearl of the Aegean sea- chief
port and town of Macedonia, is the ancient
Thessalonica, the city to whose inhabi-
tants st. Paul addressed his epistles to
the trhessalonians. That was nearly 1906
years ago.
Saloniki lies to the west of Constantine
pie at distance of about 400 miles. 1t is
marvelously situated, forming a wide am
pLitheatre just opposite the Mount Olym-
pia of classical days, now Mount Lacha
The name Thessalonca is believed to have
been given to the town some three CEN
turies before Christ, either on account
of battle gained by the Greek King
Philip Ii or by Cassandra from Thessa-
lonis, the name of sister Of Alexander
the Great. st. Paul evidently had the
spiritual welfare of the citizens deeply at
heart He preached to them from a won
derful marble staircase now preserved in
the museum at Constantinople. Some au-
thorities say the apostle found the Thes-
salonians earnest and jealous, anxious to
follow his teaching; others declare them
Ito have been needless, faithless, in sc
much that st. Paul on leaving the city
shook the dust from off his feet.
1t was in the fifteenth century that Thes-
salonica came definitely under the power
Of the Turks. They have held 1t ever
since, till the other day. November s, 1872
the fete day of the patron saint of the
city. St. Demetrius.
A grand TIE Deum was chanted at Atil-
ems when the King of Greece entered
Saloniki as its sovereign. A solemn SER
vice of thanksgiving was also held at the
Greek church here in Paris. There is re-
joicing and giving of thanks everywhere
among Christian peoples of the east. King
Frederic of Bulgaria entered the little
town of Mustapha-Pasha in solemn state
preceded by a grand religious procession
choristers singing, the cross borne on be-
fore, the clergy following in their vest
ments In remembrance of the ancient
custom of entering conquered territory
trampling under foot the weapons of the
vanquished, King Frederic stood two min
utes on Turkish gun as he alighted from
the train which had brought him to the
surrendered town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
sLAppING AT UNDERWOOD

From the Montgomery Advertiser
Mark sullivan, the political writer
of Golfers, in the current issue of that
payer, speaks of a small group of pere-
sons who are doing what they can to
hurt the democrats by making Mr..
Underwood their target. They say he
is as much boss as Cannon was. Mr..
LaFollette's paper expresses it in
hysterical italics:
"The democratic House is slave of
the vicious caucus system"
Whereupon Mr.. sullivan well says:
whether stated as fact or as infer
ence, the assertion that Underwood S
position bears any close relation to
Cannon's is quite untrue. Doubtless
the caucus system isn't perfect; doubt
less the time is soon coming when
public opinion will force most commit
tees to sit with open doors and take
record votes. But anyone who looks
far enough ahead must realize that any
weakening of the democratic organi-
zation's power just now will be taken
advantage of by those democrats who
are anxious to escape from the party S
pledge to reduce the tariff
There is no sign of discord among
the democrats of the House. They
are satisfied with the efficient leader
ship of Mr. Underwood There is no
member of Congress who can say that
he feels any yoke Of oppression from
the caucus system, or from the leader
ship of Mr. Underwood. 1t is not
obligatory upon member of the
House to take part in the party eau
cuses. If he goes into the party coun-
sells he does so willingly. In doing SO
he is only following time-honored,
thoroughly tested custom. We know
of no man whose freedom of action is
in any way hampcred because of the
party caucus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
THE SECRETS OF THE SEA


BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
All, what pleasant visions haunt me
AS l gaze upon the sea
All the old romantic legends,
All my dreams, come back to me.
Sails of silk and ropes of sandal,
Such as gleam in ancient lore;
And the singing of the sailors
And the ancwer from the shorei
Most of all the SPANISH ballad
Haunts one oft and tarries long,
OF the noble Count Arnaldos
Anr the sailors' mystic song
Like the long waves ON a sea-bess-.
Where the sand as silver shines,
With a soft, monotonous cadence
Flow its unrhymed lyric lines
Telling how the Count Arna1dos,
With his hawk upon his hand,
Saw fair and stately galley
Steering onward to the land
How he heard the ancient hesman
Chant a song SO wild and clear
That the sailing sea-bird slowly
Poised upon the mast to hear
Till his soul was full of longing,
And he cried with impulse strong
'Helmsman! for the love of heaven.
Teach me, too. that wondrous sonen
"Wouldst thou ESQ the helmsm.n an
swered),
Learn the secret OF the sea?
Only those who brave its dangers
Comprehend its mystery
In each sail that skins the horizon
In each landyard blowing breeze,
behold that stately. galley
Hear those mournful melodies
Till my soul is fun OF longing
For the secret of the sea,
And the heart of the great ocean
sfnds . thrilling pulseA through ma.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
New Year Starts Off Well

One hears much about business
barometers. The price of cotton has
long been business barometer IN
the south just as the price of corn
has long been business barometer in
the west. In recent years an active
iron market has been considered one
of the best of barometers for the
whole country. When iron and steel
products are in brisk demand at high
prices there is little question about
the condition of general trade.
Another good barometer is optim-
ism-that optimism which quickly
rises in evidence and throws pessim-
ism into the shade. In times of un-
usual depression it may be hard to be
optimistic, but the man whose
psychological processes are true, the
man who is inclined to take a bright
view of life rather than a gloomy
view and refuses to be croaker even
when crops fail and the stock market
slumps and the price of staples go
down, is rightly classed among the
upbuilders.
The spirit of optimism prevailed
throughout this country last year and
the new year starts off with optim-
ism, for all agree that business con-
ditions are sound.
Coal, iron and steel are in healthy
demand and the business outlook for
this new year is bright indeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
supply of Coal Cars

This week for the first time In three
months the district IS well supplied
with coal cars. said L. Simpson. gem
eral freight agent of the Southern rail-
way.
'There was an acute car shortage in
the Corona coal fields during the fall.
but now. we have 5000 coal oars in the
birmingham district, and viii be able
from now on to move coal as fast as
it is mined. This means great deal
to our line as well as to the coal
shippers. l think we will be able to
keep up the car supply in Alabama right
along"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
You can find pleasure; you have to
earn happiness.
If women had to shave they could un-
derstand what strain>a busy mans life
is on his health.
There's no way you can show man
What hard heart you nave az not t6 ap-
preciate what fearful cold he has.
II mans coat buttoned down the back
a girls hair wouldn't have to get tangled
on his buttons the way it does.
From lying shamelcssly to their wives
men can become so abandoned as hot to
be entirely frank with other peop(&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
Package Carrying by the Government

Package Carrying by the Government
Postmaster General Hitchcock is
confident that the government will in
the long run take over the entire
business of the express companies.
He considers this inevitable because
the parcel post will have no taxes,
federal or state, to pay, and no divi-
dends to earn. 1t will, in other
words, be operated at cost.
Mr.. Hitchcock estimates that the
borcel post will accommodate 2O,-
~, 900 people who today are out Of
- reach of the express company
1rtice. He mentions as an example
fIver City, New Mexico. 1t is 80
les from a railroad, and yet it has
nootoffiee, and parcel posts pack
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
HARDLY MISSED.

Fun many man of conscious worth,
Who is self-respecting wight,
And bears himself as one who feels
Ills presence makes the day more bright
Would be surprised, could he but see,
Long after he Is dead and gone,
Without his aid how placidly
Ihis good old world keeps rolling on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

The hunt for William Rockefeller who
Is wanted as a witness by the Pujo COM
mittee, is the sensation of New York at
present. His New York house and his
Tarrytown home are surrounded, and bets
are being offered on the outcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

All prominent democrats have been men,
toned for a cabinet position. The list is
exhausted, and trouble comes in when the
President-elect has to pick nine men out
of 800 who's Who"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
From ths Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
~ you recall ''Mr. Topsawyer,' of
y David Copperfield? Perhaps not.
- Young Copperield himself could
not recall that he had ever met him.
When "William.' the waiter. asked the
boy who was on his way to Salem House
school If he knew him. David was COM
PEELED to reply that he did not.
There was a gentleman here yester-
day. said the waiter at the Yarmouth
lima stout gentleman, by the name OF
Topsawyer-perhaps you knoy him?'
No" replied David. II do not think
In breeehes and CATERS, broad brimmed
hat gray coat, speckled choaker," said
the walter.
No" David replied bashfully, Il
haven't the pleasure"
"IIe came in here" said the waiter eye
ing the ale which David had ordered for
his dinner, ordered a glass of this ale
would order it-T told him not-dranls 1T
and fell dead. 1t was too old for him.
1t oughn't to be drawn, that's a fact"
OF course David Copperfield did not
drink the ale after that. and the waiter,
offering himself as a sacrifice, had the
pleasure of drinking what David had
paid for.
In like manner it will be reealled.sthe
waiter ate the chops which made up the
principal part of David's dinner.
what have we got here?'' he asked,
putting a fork into David's plate. mot
chors?"
Lord. bless my soul,' he exclaimed.
IT didn't know they were chops. Why,
a chops the very thing to take off the
bad effects of that beer. Amt it lucky?"
When the chops had been disposed of,
Che waiter brought in the pudding.
"Pudding!' he exclaimed. "Why, bless
me, SO it is. Whatr' looking at it nearer.
'You don't mean to say It's a batter pud-
ding.'
.Yes, it is, indeed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

One concern in Gary, Ind, sent 1000 con-
crete paving blocks weighing all told COCO
pounds by parcel post. They are sam
pies and the manufacturer found he could
send them cheaper by parcel post than by
express.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02
The Goose hone Prophet

My forecast made in November for
December was fulfilled said the goose-
bone prophet. 81 predicted that We
would have very little freezing weather
and comparatively high temperature for
several days at time
My forecast made month ago FOR
January and February called, for d great
deal OF winter weather. We are having a
touch of something like early spring now,
but in few days We win have ascold ssnap
and. - J read the signs. the tempera-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

THE RIDERS.
o. Paul Revere pursued his course
Beneath lucky star
Twas lucky that ne had a horse
And not a motor car
kansas City Journal
When Sheridan made his great ride
He might have mourned his luck
If he an aeroplane had tried
And found it prone to buck.
Chicago Record-Herald.
And George would have essayed in vain
And never landed there,
IL he had used hydroplane
To cross the Delaware.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
And then old Noah of the Ark
No landscape would have seen.
IL, with his cargo, he had been
Down in a submarine.
-Yonkers Statesman.
And Bonaparte would not have found
The Alps an easy hike,
If he had tried to scale them
A-straddle of bike.
Houston Post.
And Blucher never would have been
On time at Waterloo,
Had he come on a Southern train
That's always overdue.
THE GINK.
(Contributed)
A gink there was who loved girl,
Even as you and l.
Her mouth was sweet and her teeth were
pearl,
Her hand he'd touch and mis- head would
whirl,
And he swore for her he'd die
And for her he swore he'd die.
This ornery gink was dreamer of
Even as you and I.
And his dreams of the maid and the part
she played
His thought and his speech and his ac-
tions swayed,
And he wondered and wondered why;
And he wondered and pondered why.
So the gnk would think and the gink
would drink,
Even as you and I.
And a guy who was wise came and
copped out the prize,
Meaning the maid with the Swiss lake
eyes,
And she told the gink goodbye;
And the gink she told goodbye.
Dan Boyd.
NOT WANTED.
Castro came to visit us,
Ger the wild and stormy main;
Now he's in mood to "cuss,'
For he'll soon go back again.
FLATTERY.
'It is an easy matter for an agent to
sell Gupp an edition de luxe set of books.''
How sop
'All the agent has to say is, Mr..
Gupp, you look like man of intelli-
gence.' y PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

Alack, and also Alast Boies Penrose is
to be deposed as a leader, and Governor
Tener is to step into the breach.f The
former has certainly lost his grip as ii
leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

The photograph furnished the evidence
in the case of DR.. Mortimer, rector of St
Marks Episcopal church, Philadelphia
The doctors downfall was due to immor,
al conduct. He was the leader of the
movement to change the name of the
church to the American Catholic church
1t is now predicted that the name of the
church will not be changed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

Woodrow Wilson stood at Staunton,
which was more to the point than all the
standing that the colonel and Hi and
Perk and Suspender Jack did at Arna-
geddon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

The Honorable Violet Asquith, daughter
of the prime minister of England, is in
this country. chaperoned by the Countess
of Aberdeen. They are In New York. and
from there they will go to Washington
They will sail for England January IL.
Neither will discuss the woman suffrage
pose for snapshooters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-02

There may have been more than one
garden Of Eden as some tell us, but it is
certain there is only one Mary Garden,
and all the archaeologists in the world
cannot prove the contrary.