The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-10
VINTAGE AND VANTAGE STORIES
 OF THE NEWSPAPER CLUB

Speaking of newspaper breaks said to several other newspaper men, T think the one made by C. H. Mandy of the Age-Herald few weeks ago is about the limit. He wrote an article about the Girls Refuge home at East Lake, under the title of Are the Girls of Alabama Less Worth Saving than the Boys?' The story was a good one and was in the na- ture of an appeal to the Alabama legis- lature for an increased appropriation for the home.
 Toward the close of the article MT. Mandy got somewhat dramatic, and in making a point repeated the tile with an addition as follows, Are the Girls of Alabama Less Worth Saving than the Boys? God knows they are.' This changed the entire idea of the story, for he had been insisting that the girls should be given the same opportunities as the boys. He claims that the compositor in setting up the type left off the word not al the close of the above sentence. With this ad- dition, of course, the sentence was all right and in keeping with the story.
 Poor typographical error, thou art to be pitied, for countless sins of omission and commission are laid at thy door,
 c. M. Stanley told the following: Two men in Chicago were almost flat broke. They had quarter between them and thirst that all the waters of Hepzi- bah could not have quenched. Both knew that a quarter would go nowhere in as- suaging it. After much deliberation they hit on the following scheme:
 "In roofing around the vacant lots in the neiehborhood they discovered d two gallon jug which they carefully washed. Investing three-fifths of their capital in huge sponge they succeeded in forcing it into the jug and then proceeded to the nearest saloon.
 "The spokesman handed the jug to the bartender with a lordly air and said: Fill this with 1O0-proof Bourbon The bartender complied and handed it back with the demand: Two gallons s6.' Charge it to John Smith. AT Elder road The bartender refused declaring that he did not know John Smith. guess you'll have to take 1t back, then,' sig ,ne '
 "The liquor was poured out of the jug and the two departed with the empty receptacle. Proceeding to the nearest va cant lot they carefully broke the jug and extracted the sponge Upon squeezing it ever a vessel 1t was founl to nave ab- sorbed over a quart of the coveted elixir" "A real country negro who had come to Birmingham to live said the wife of prominent member, saved up enough money to rent from livery stable horse and buggy to take a drive one Sun day afternoon.
 | 'He was so pleased with his achieve l ment of driving fiery steed on city streets that he was continually going in and out among vehicles just to show his friend who was with him what won- derful driver he was.
 About dusk, just as they were going back to the stable, he spied coming down | the street the two large headlights of an automobile.
 '' Now Lizzie he said, just watch me and see how well can drive. I am going right between those two lights. l hNcrypOuy KNOWS, Sdiu d Pi
 member yesterday, that Bradley ''
 Saunders, the popular automobile man. has pet hobby, and that hobby IS the Hudson car. Nothing pleases brao ihore l than to tell fellow how Judse nehis
 D. Clayton told him when ne was here recently that the Russian amoassador at Washington drives beautiful Hudson
 limousine with his monogram done in
 blazing letters on it. and that MT. w. r.
 G. Harding of the regional reserve board
 still uses his big Hudson and boosts IL