The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-12
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY
BY ALLEN GRIFFIN JOHNSON

FtlN JOHN SUN Making life seem like peaceful sort of dream; And I'm just content with living on from golden day to day, In the mellow warmth of fair Octo- bers gleam.
 Oh, ye bards who sing of springtime-have ye ne'e- October known
 Ripe October with the fullness of it's cheer? May and April are as children, or as buds not yet full blown, But October is the sweetheart of the year. The National Highways Protective so- ciety reports that 215 children met death
 in the streets of New York city during
 the past 12 months. First thing you know
 there'll be commission reporting Amer ioan atrocities to some of the other powers. Verify. New York is a great place to see the sights-even all the hor- TOTS of war are enacted upon our beau tifully paved thoroughfares
 MIR. NEW YORK ] His name Of old was Father Knicker- | booker Yet, today. that appellation is sham, For his cast of phys. by mystic ! Necromancy Hebrewistic | Altered, proves that he is Father Abra- | ham. ] New Tori. audiences are not one-half
 so critical, nor so difficult to please, as | the audiences of the south. I refer to
 those audiences which gather in the the
 atres for the legitimate. vaudeville and
 movie attractions. They applaud even
 the faintest suspicion of merit and tol- crate much that is wholly without even
 that. They seem almost like children in their enjoyment, and after all, 1t re-
 suits favorably for them, since the more | appreciative an audience is the harder 1 the actors strive to please 1t. 1 Subway, .I." and surface traffic noises 1 have resulted in the average New York | CTS conversational tone of voice being
 loud enough to hear a block away. How ever, they make splendid baseball root | CTS" | One of the chief charms of citizenship
 upon Manhattan island lies in tho ability
 to say you live there, when you are
 visiting elsewhere. Many Gothamite | had rather write IN. Y." after his name
 upon hotel register than to write Pres 1 ident'' before it.
 Buy bale of cotton and help the 1 south," is sentence that is seen in many
 places here these days. | movement is on foot here for the | suppression of the derby hat for men.
 Being at peace with all nations it is necessary for us to make war on some thing. THE ELUSIVE ONE I know a little fellow who is mighty hard to find; Who comes most unexpectedly. yet never is unlSind: But when you're running after him you'll find 1t as say He Highs most tantalizingly and swiftly run away. Nobody knows just how he looks; some times he's smiling. gay. At other times he's silent, and he doesn't care to play He haunts the strangest places-you may not believe all this | have found him in sermon and I've 1 found him in a kiss. I've found him out where Nature smiles. | in woodland. field and fen; | I've also found him lingering around the haunts of men; | I've found him in some palaces where 1 lords all proudly strut; I've found him even oftener within some lowly hut He does not seek the good alone; some L. times in ribald throngs I've heard him laughing merrily at all l their drunken songs;
 And yet. among such people he has never long to stay, He merely greets them merrily and then l goes on his way. I'm sure he likes good people hest-his own hearts good and true And yet he plays the strangest pranks on folks like me and you; l Sometimes when we get married he will 1 hang around awhile, l Then suddenly he'll vanish without so | much as a smile.
 A woman finds him in g man. a man l within girl, < A girl will often find him in plaything. l or a pearly;
 l And yet In every one of these he'll often 1 change his shape. And when they're least expecting 1t, he Il
 make quick escape. | I don't. know how to find him. nor to hold him, yet I'd be
 Should you see him) very thankful #
 you'd send him back to me;