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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
WOMEN SMOKERS

Prom the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
 Members of the house committees of the women's clubs whose buildings con- tain all the modern conveniences will be interested to learn that the new womens building on the poor farm in Ramsey county, Minnesota, Is to have smoking room. Smoking has never been either a novelty or a fad with women. So long ago as the early days of the last century Horace Greeley was in the habit of light ing his mothers pipe and getting it we'll started for her every day. His mothers delight in her pipe was not ex- ceptional among the women of the New England neghborhood where she lived We are not informed, however, whether the other women were of such luxurious get the pipe well going for them. The sociological investigator who would ex- plore this little known region of social custom would find most interesting spoil.
 The two extremes of female society meet today on the common plane of to- bacco At one extreme, represented by those living on the Minnesota poor farm. it Is used in a pipe, and at the other extreme there is a group of women who think it smart to toy with a cigarette. Now and then there is one who will smoke a cigar, but fashion has not yet sanctioned the pipe. There is no telling when the cigarette case dangling from the belt will not be displaced by a to- bacco pouch. embroidered in silk and adorned with a gold monogram, with a special attachment for carrying small meerschaum pipe, for history repeats it. self in tobacco as well as in the atrocities of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
A SHEER LOSS.
HOW THE MOTH WORM WORKS

blades are incomparably keener ths
 the best sold in the market for shavii
 human faces The finest safety razd
 blade is dull compared with them. !
 wonder, then, that the tiny caterpill is able to do such lot of damage clothing In very short time.
 Saving the threads from which u fabric is woven in two, one after anot
 CT. it reduces the material attacked
 irving therefrom the nourishment it Il quires for sustenance and growth. The moth worm Is obliged to do of its growing while 1t Is a caterpilld
 Hence its immense appetite. Probah 1t eats not less than six times its weig every "A hours; so it Is not surprisil that the housewife's blankets and t1 family garments exhibit serious ravas
 when the moth worm has had chan to get at them.
 Altogether the adult moth which ! see flying about in the lamplight new
 harms our clothing, it's killing is a pr ceeding to be encouraged because tn
 checks by just so much the multiplic ton of the species.
 The common species of clothes mot has been associated with man from t earliest times and are thoroughly cd
 mopolitan. They are all probably of d world origin, none of them being il digenous to the United States. m they were well known to the ancien is shown by Jobs reference to "ga mont that is moth eaten." and Plij has given such an accurate descripti| of one of them as to lead to the cal Identification of the species. That th were early introduced into the -Unit States is shown by Pehr Kahn. Swedish scientist. who took a keen 4 terest in house rests. He reported thd to be abundant in 174S in PhiladelphI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
Deadly Creature

"That Kipling Aeller is light mourned Mike Mpllaney in the city bastile of St. paul the other day, "the female of the species are certain ly more deadly than the male."
 And Mike, speaks out of sore ex- perience. y.he other evening Mullaney, all dressSed up in his Sunday raiment, went fiorth for stroll in the park. The. evening was ideal, the park was beautiful and hither and yon devoted rcouples sauntered off in blissful con- tentment with one another's society.
 Mike felt lonely and wished he might make acquaintance with some pleasant girl. Presently young wom- an in natty tailored suit and hat came down the walk. Mike summoned all his courage and invited her to walk with him; in fact he rather insisted.
 The young woman consented, but soon lead him out of the park and down the street. Presently she paused in front of big store building. Would he step inside? She had an errand.
 Mike had no sooner stepped inside the door when his pretty companion turned back the lapel of her coat ano displayed police badge. Now ths  misguided Irishman is serving out g short sentence for flirting, and in his enforced idleness is pondering upon the ways of women.
 All of which indicates that the pres. ent day "masher" should know the police force before he attempts tc make acquaintance with unknown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
HOW IT WORKS IN WEST VIRGINIA

From the Chattanooga Times.
 West Virginia appears to be having it's troubles growing out of Its prohibition laws. It seems from an article in the Huntington Herald Dispatch that the au- in Cabell county that will convict boot leggers and blind pig manipulators One Pine was arrested in Huntington the other day charged with violating the liquor law in new and novel, not to say ingenious way He was the owner of boat and trot line for the catching of fish, and on each hook he had at- tached a pint bottle of whisky; then in order to avoid the charge of sale he rented his boat for the price of pint to any conner. whose privilege it was to run the trot line' for the catch of at least one hook Pine was acquitted, and the "drys'' went up in the air. Now It is proposed to impanel juries from adjoining counties where dry sentiment may prevail.
 The conditions in West Virginia are precisely like those in other states where an attempt has been made to coerce the sentiment of communities by imposing upon them laws their people do not ap- prove. Such a condition inevitably creates widespread discomfort, arouses antagonisms and promotes contempt for law, meanwhile raising crop of hypo- critics and speak easies." These difficult ties In the way of enforcing state sump- tuary laws are timely because they will be useful in considering the final and ra- tional settlement of the liquor question, which just now does not seem t9 be very far off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
THIS IS WORTH READING

From the Chicago Herald.
 Los Angeles.-Eugenia De Forest. who for 20 years had posed as a man. vas twice married-once as a woman. again as a man-and divorced, and who for five years conducted school of dramatic art as Professor De Forest. confessed to the police today her duplicity.
 The woman's story reads like a page from the Arabian Nights.
 T have always been sexless," she de- clared. 'T have the body of a woman and the thoughts and characteristics of man.
 Early in my life met J. H. Hart 6 newspaper man, in New York. His love making was violent. and after explaining to him my secret he consented to our marriage We lived together many years as chuws and were as happy as 1t is possible for two mortals to be-
 After MT. Hart's death went to s 4n Francisco and then came to Los Angeles and opened my school of dramatic art. Soon after that met Margaret Barton Hawley. housekeeper for prominent man here and she proposed to me-. I told her there were obstacles in the road. but she waved them aside. Then I told her that if she wished to be my wife we could live in companionship based on a higher plane.
 She was willing, and the ceremony was performed. But she soon tired of the arrangement and separation followed.
 T have harmed no one. If the law insists I will cast off mans clothes and don woman's garments and again be- come Eugenia, the woman I was when first a wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09

1ndias population, says a writer in Leslies. is s25,Ooo 900, in which practically all the religions and races of the world are represented. Ninety-eight and six tenths per cent of the population can neither read nor write and only per cent of the inhabitants eat regular meals. The others eat when and where they can. The average Indian is said to live on less food per diem than any other human being in the world, not even ex- cepting the Chinese. large numbers of whom are continuously on the verge of starvation In a population such as that of India religious prejudices are very strong. Buddhists will not eat neat or take medicine derived from an animal and as a result millions died during the bubonc plague, rather than take a se- rum made from pepsln and beef broth. The pig from which the pepsin was taken is unclean to Mohammedans and Hin dus, while the killing of this animal and the bull from which the broth was mace, is against the teachings of the Buddhlsts faith. Although wages are as low as cents a day, it Is estimated that the native population of India purchases each year foreign made goods to the value of $1.91 per capita, amounting altogether to more than s600, 0,0O0,0O0 annually. More than s4o.0o0,0OO worth of sugar was im- ported last year to supply the craving of Indians for sweets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Daily Times: Tennessee has Lea, Patterson and Kellar in the race for the United States senate. In a few months from now Alabama will have Bankhead. White. Hobson. O'Neal and Abercrombie in the race. Tennessee cannot get ahead of us whsn 1t comes to number.
 Decaturs Daily: Eventually the federal government will maintain great military roads throughout the United States. At that time the completed Jackson high way may be an inducement for the bridg- ing of the Tennessee river at the De- caturs
 Huntsville Mercury: While body call- ing itself the National Convention of Peace" was in session in Chicago. sun- day, applause greeted the reading of the telegram announcing the sinking of the Hesparia. with 600 passengers. by a Ger man submarine. People who will applaud an announcement like that have no busi- s- -ss in a peace" meeting. They should be put on the firing line and, in the trenches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
Faith i'm Bu.tne.. RevivaI

Showing it's faith in an early revival of business throughout the south, the Southern Railway company is increasing its supply of high-class box cars to be used in the movement of crops and the general distribution of merchandise which is offered for shipment in normal fall seascns." said l.. Sevier.
 "One thousand old cars have recently been rebuilt and converted into modern steel underframe cars, the work being done at the various company shops throughout the south and at the Lenoir Car Works, Lenoir, Tenn, and another thousand will be put through the same process in time to aid In the fall crop movement.
 During the past year 3250 new steel underframe box cars were acquired which with the cars being rebuilt will give the Southern railway over 5000 new box cars of heavy capacity and modern design, a substantial proportion of the total num- Der of box cars 1t owns"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
JEFFERsON,s OFFER

From the Coosa River News.
 Jefferson county offers the Seventh con- xressional district gall-jaded trick when it proposes to take that name and give us the Ninth. The Bloody Seventh won its sobriquet by democrats mopping up with all sorts of political heterogenei- pops. do dangs and what nots-and just at such time as we were to enjoy our laurels, big old Jeffer- son Is to employ our very name. Aside from that it is proposed to overload us with the two do dang counties of Blount and Shelby, in lieu of the close counties of Franklin and Winston. There is more sentiment of poetry and proportion in the fact that the Seventh districts of both Alabama and Georgia broadside each other, the only missing link to perfect the chain being that the good old democratic county of High Jackson should be given us to make us safe. and to finish the line to Tennessee and the also Bloody Seventh" of Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
Locating the Jackson Highway

Much interest has been aroused in the Jackson highway convention to be held at Nashville September 23-24 in view of the fact that the chief busi- ness to be considered there will be the location of the route south of the Tennessee line.
 It was understood sometime ago that a route which would embrace Athens, Decatur, Birmingham, Mont gomery and Mobile had been practical ly agreed upon. This is unquestion- ably the logical route, but the people of Florence are working hard to have the highway built to that city and then follow line through. Mississippi to New Orleans. A Jackson highway organization has been perfected in Mississippi for the purpose of putting in effective licks at Nashville.
 This Lakes-to-the-Gulf highway will be thronged with motoring parties during a large part of the year and these tourists would certainly be dis appointed if their itinerary did not include Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile-the former the most populous city between Louisville and New Or leans, and now more talked of than ever, and Montgomery and Mobile cities of great historic interest. Mo- bile is one of the oldest cities in Amer ica and next to New Orleans and San Antonio, the most unique in the south.
 Alabama should be represented at the Nashville meeting by large dele gations from Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, Cullman, Decatur and Athens. If the convention decides the question of location on it's merits the Jackson highway will be routed through Alabama from Tennessee to the gulf; but nothing should be taken for granted!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09

superlative. He speaks of the talk ingest'' girl, the ''single-footinges horses. the 'smilingest'' person, and the ''astingest" or the 'lastiest'' wood.
 Sound logic if not literary authority ex- ists for his use of ''ary' and nary" which are said to be convenient and eu- phonious contractions of the poetic .eer a" and 'ne'er a. and for the use of 'farder' and "furder for farther and further" which have the same justifica- ton for their existence from an etymolo- gical point of view as murder" which used to be written "murther." Hit" which the mountaineer uses for the pro- noun 'it." is the original Anglo-Saxon form of the word.
 Other examples are cited of the use of common words in uncommon shades of meaning, as nice for sober to be 'ambitious' for to be angry" ivy for laurel" flower pot for bouquet" lilies" for roses worried or wor- rited" for ..tired,' death for a temper ary loss of consciousness. etc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
femininty, no matter how soft and

femininty, no matter how soft and helpless her appearance.
 Incidentally what of the assertion, oft repeated, that public life robs a woman of her attractiveness, and tho mere act of voting renders hitherto quiet, domestic woman horrible ex- ample of frowsiness and loud pug nacity?
 Probably heater arrest has never been made by any member of the police force. Which, however, doesn't argue against the pet philosophy of Kipling and Mullaney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
From the New York American.

From the New York American.
 N EOPLE often wonder how so tiny and harmless looking a crea-
 4 ture as moth can do such a lot of damage to our clothing and other fabrics. In the winged stage the clothes moth ia the most innocent insect imaginable. Practically it has no mouth. the parts representing that feature of its anat- omy being merely rudimentary. It cannot eat; 1t cannot even drink. Un- II like most other kinds of moths 1t is
 unable to sip the nectar of flowers. But it's offspring, the little cater pillar that we know so well and 50 greatly to our cost and discomfort, is altogether different. Observed under q good microscope, it is seen to have pow erfully muscular jaws and a formida ble apparatus for biting and chewing. TAe chewing apparatus does not con sist of teeth, in the ordinary sense of the term. It is vastly more effective for the caterpillar's peculiar purpose than teeth would be. One might de- scribe it with some accuracy as pair of miniature safety-razor blades.g There is one razor blade in each of the worms two jaws, and when the creature uses them 1t does not merely bite with them-it works them saw fashion to and fro. one against the other. If the edge of an ordinary safety razor blade be examined under a micro scope it will be found to be rough and
 serrated. But the bl}des in the jaws of the moth worm, under the highest
 obtainable magnihcation. appear to be perfectly smooth. with an uninterrupted edge.
 As matter of fact, the moth worni's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
KENTUCKY DIALECT From the Indiana polia NeWs.


 A writer in The Survey recently pointed out the existence in the Kentucky motsn- tain districts of vigorous pristine poetry comparable to the early English ballads Now, William Aspenwall Bradley. in Harpers Magazine, calls attention to the mountain dialect. which instead of being merely uncouth, is, he says, comparable in strength and purity to the language of Shakespeare. It might be argued. he asserts, that the purest English On earth is that of the Kentucky noun tains." The reason for this. he thinks. is that the natives are either illiterate or have access to little reading, 50 that they have no stereotyped forms of ex- precision.
 What at first sight appears most cor rupt or colloquial, he finds to possess "unexceptionable linguistic credentials" What. he inquires, could possibly have a more bucolic or Boeotian flavor than tho use of the verb ito talk in the sepfe of ito court" or ito woo [" Yet in king Lear we nnd Began saying precisely My lord is dead; Edmund and have talked" So. he continues, in Shakespeare we find ''holp" for helped" which Is a very common form of the pretsrite in tine mountains; likewise. Shakespeare V given as a precedent for mountaineers' use of ''whup' for whipped" "wrop'' for wrapped" and "cIomb" for climbed" When mountaineer be- comes suddenly insane it is said that he's tux frauzy spell" and this rustic ,f~ ktHa thority of Sir Philip sidney.ss A sugges- tion of shaksspesrean usage is found. also, in the mountaineer's use of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09

Alfred Hertz, formerly one of the con- ductors of the Metropolitan Grand Opera, but now conductor of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra, resembles in ap- pearance Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz. Each has a prodigious expanse of shaggy whiskers Herr Hertz conducted Farsi fal' when it was presented by the Metro politan company here at the Jefferson theatre several years ago If he would part his beard in the middle and twist the ends a bit he would even more re- semble the pictures we see of Won Tir- pitz. W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09

From the New York Herald.
 One of the qualities for which the late King Edward was most admired was his tact. a quality also possessed in no slight degree by James G. Blaine. who was once the guest of Edward, then Prince of Wales.
 Edward had both as prince and as King, always insisted upon showing his friendship for Americans and things American. One incident that particularly impressed the man who tells the story was that which took place at dinner to which Blaine had been invited as the guest of the prince. It was prior to Blaine's nomination for the presidency. Knowing that the prince took special delight in honoring Americans, the other guests were generally most gracious to Blaine. The one exception was a duke of the royal house. who had a reputa- ton for boorishness and lack of tact. During lull in the conversation after the coffee this nobleman blurted out:
 ''The greatest outrage in history was the revolt of your people against King George I'll. There was no justification for 1t then and there is no excuse now"
 The prince was visibly embarrassed Perhaps no man but Blaine could have carried off the situation. While the en- tire gathering sat in silence Blaine re- piled, in his carefully modulated voice:
 Perhaps, my dear sir. if George III had had as much diplomacy and as wide knowledge of his people as his great grandson possesses America might still be English"
 The prince at once turned the sub ject, to the relief of all present, but the teller of the story saw him grip Blaine 8 hand with a twinkle of admiration in his eye at the end of that function.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
Kilby's Courageous Vote

The anti-cigarette bill is now dead, and it was Lieutenant Governor Xiii by's vote that killed it.
 This was very drastic measure, seeking as it did the absolute prohi- bition of the sale of cigarettes in Ala bama. The excessive use of tobacco in any form, like the excessive use of anything else, is injurious, but when men indulge moderately in the stimu- lating weed they experience practical ly no harm from it; only solace. And high medical and scientific authori- ties have declared that the cigarette contains less nicotine and is therefore less likely to affect the nervous sys- tenn than is pipe or cigar.
 Many well meaning people reach conclusions on important subjects without taking the trouble to ascertain the facts. Those who are prejudiced against tobacco, and especially against the cigarette, are as a rule misin- formed; but after such people develop a fanatical state of mind they are easily led to the support of any move ment intended for the suppression of cigarette smoking.
 Much surprise was expressed when the temperance committee of the sen- ate reported the anti-cigarette bill favorably, but it was still more sur prising to find when the senate acted yesterday that the vote was tie-16 to IS; surprising indeed that 16 mem- bers of the senate could have been in- duced to vote for this measure.
 All honor to the lieutenant governor for declining to go to ridiculous ex- tremes in sumptuary legislation. Some of the supporters of the bill had counted on his vote in the event of a tie, but when the time came he showed his firmness as we'll as his good sense by siding with the lawmakers of the conservative rather than the radical mould.
 There is law in Alabama prohibit ing the sale of cigarettes to minors. It is a good law. Boys who abstain from the use of tobacco, and even cof- fee, are all the better off, but when it comes to men, then only a fanatic would wish to deprive them of so mild a stimulant as the cigarette.
 Were an anti-cigarette bill ever to be adopted the state of Alabama would be cut out of large annual rev enue, but as The Age-Herald said re- gently in discussing and opposing the senate bill the question of principle should determine in all such matters; and it has been so in this case, thanks to MT. Kilby and to those others who apprehended the right principle and governed themselves accordingly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
Passes for veterans

T was glad to see that a bill had been introduced in the Alabama legis- lature permitting the railroads operat- ing in this state to issue free passes to all poor veterans to attend all Con- federate reunions, and I hope it will pass" said John Benton of Georgia. T am the son of veteran and my sym pathies always go out to the brave men who wore the gray. I understood last spring that the interstate commerce commission granted all the railroads per- mission to issue interstate passes to and from the reunion at Richmond to such veterans as admitted their inability to pay fare. I suppose the same courtesy will be extended next year when the re- union will be held in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
CUT-THROAT COMPETITION

From the Philadelphia Evening Le0ger.
 A correspondent of the New York Sun informs the editor of that paper that g. rooster has been discovered which can- not crow. It-or he-can hiss but the bright chanticlerical call is not for him.
 Such are the marvels of science! Each day 1t conserves a new strength, cuts out waste, diverts energies into use- full channels The matutinal salute of the rooster has long been an example of crim- inal waste and inefficiency. It an- nounced, at great expense of energy. . perfectly obvious thing-that the sun had risen. Boosters, besides, have been in the habit of trying to scoop each other, to score a beat on the sunrise-as if anyone were passionately interested in the rnatter-and the result has been a distressing series of Extras" called at as m. Cut-throat competition has killed the rooster.