The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-10

A FESTIVE Chicago husband, haV- A ing promised to quit his "cab- areting,," his wife has dropped her suit for divorce and will try to win back the felicity of their courting days.
 We are now face to face with the verb ''to cabaret" meaning the habitual quest of excitement in places
 where there IS The Baneful Effects an abundance of "Cabareting" of poor vaude-
 vile and very little to eat. Of drinks, however, there is no lack. The more freely the drinks flow, the less apt patron is to criti else the quality of entertainment of fered him. That summarizes the cab aret business as conducted in this country as well as abroad. American tourists who have visited the famed resorts of Paris without having first dulled the edge of their perceptions by many drinks have been painfully impressed by the banality and cheap ness of what they saw.
 However, human nature is so con- stituted that "cabareting" will doubt less continue to be favorite indoor sport of Americans with money, or without, regardless of reformers. The cabarets of Chicago are under fire nearly all the time, yet they seem to have lost none of their power to lure married men away from their wives and fascinate visitors of both sexes from rural districts.
 The husband who promised to quit "cabareting" probably meant it at the time. He had been spending practical ly all of salary of S110 month in such wicked places and on the day after payday there was precious lit tie of the $110 left. He may be good for while but the cabaret habit is one not easily overcome, unless the person who has temporarily reformed gets entirely beyond the sphere of cabaret influence.
 A cure may be effected by fleeing to the country, far from the white lights and the fizz water, but he who fingers near the scene of his dowfall is apt to backslide at any moment. T HE great British "drive," recently U begun on the western front and continuing with uninterrupted success, has placed glorious crown on the life and career of Kitchener. It has also revealed the heroism that is at
 the bottom of The Aftermath most m en S of Kitchener's Mob souls, no matter
 how humble the place they fill in the scheme of things. Prosaic surroundings may narrow a mans viewpoint, but drag him out of his rut put him to the supreme test and nine times out of ten he will make good.
 One year ago many-in fact, most -of the gallant soldiers who are slow ly but surely pushing the Germans back all along the British lines, were shopkeepers, clerks, farmers and men in obscure walks of life. Excepting , the farmers, many of them were "soft," without previous military training and totally unsuited by their habits of living for the stern duties of soldier.
 Yet look at them now All England honors the cockney clerks and the small tradesmen who have fought the efficient Germans with the utmost heroism-and have won. Amazing as it seems, these men are said to have conducted themselves in battle with the sang froid of seasoned veterans. Not only have they shown courage of q high order, but they have proved themselves real soldiers, skilled in the arts of war, easily directed by their officers and incapable of being stam- peded.
 The bitter lesson learned at the be- ginning of the war will never be for