The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-14

Two new words have lately added to the light -heartedness or at least to the light mindedness. of the nation. One has come out of Chicago whence come many startling innovations. The other came by way of Illumination from between the lips of a princess.
 It was a professor from the western city who asserted that the visitation which no one escapes, love, is a dis ease. He named it anaphylacis. Being | interpreted from its parent Greek 1t signifies mo protection" It is, the | western wise folk says, a state of mon | resistance" 1
 Are you an anaphylactic? In briefer | phrase, are you one of those in whom | exists an intense susceptibility of ad- | miration? Sifted down to its common place sediment, the new discovery or the old one in new mantle, is that some persons are more vain than oth- CTS The excessively vain man thinks all women are in the process of fall ing in love with him. An extremely vain woman sees in her minds eye all men lowing homage to her charms. The man who stands on the street corner and ogles passing maids, al- though the judge uses a shorter and harsher term when he appears before him in court, or even dares to speak to them is an anaphylactic. The girl who tells the other girl who stands
 
 l a just too awfully swell fellow started l at her in the street car on the way to 1 the store this morning. is an anaphy- ] tactic.
 l Likely the man was looking through l her. not at her. Instead of her fool | ish little face he was facing the days | struggles and its dubious outcome. He
 saw the throbbing ticker instead of 1 her tam O -shantered head. He heard ! the shouts of the frantic crowd on
 change instead of her piping voice. l Another word that has been prac- ticed by newspaper readers to the ac- | commandment of the tinkle of breakfast
 coffee cups Maya" "Another cup here,
 Mary. The darned stuff is all grounds.
 Maya? Hish! Are you suffering from
 maya, my dear?'
 Pm not" bis wife. if she's l past her bridehood. is apt to tartly an | swer. q see you you are, Sam. ! Bald spot, bit too paunchy and fin | ger nails stained by cigarettes. Yes, I l see you without glasses, clearly" To which he will reply, if ne's an anaphyIactic. which the learned profess
 sor intimates most men are; Then
 some other woman will, my dear" | Maya" is the princess explanation l of what fat, and not very good look | ing New York lawyer induced three
 women to wed him with a rebate agree | ment that if he ever cared more TOT
 another woman he should be released
 and permitted to wed her. and why | third woman, fearing to lose him, slew her, two babes and nearly killed her self. And why another and less Ia vored man induced dozen or more
 women to marry him in rapid success
 sion he in as rapid succession decamp- ing with their savings
 Maya" said the princess. ifs the Brahmin word for illusion. It IS see ing man not as he is. but as you H wish him to be" So we have 1t at last, the name of that temporary ab- beration that causes us to see some ordinary man as one above his fell lows. Why. as I have heard several
 women say. Ut was not he whom loved. but what I thought him 10 be" At last we see now. The purple and