The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-06


 let in fresh air. Monday last was set apart as "open window" day. Every body is supposed to know the value of fresh air, but not all intelligent peo- pie have acted as if they did.
 A few weeks ago a citizen of New York wrote a letter to the Sun calling attention to a remarkable fact that should have been brought directly to the attention of the health depart ment. He related that in the house where he had boarded for several years the windows of the dining room were pulled down and fastened on the first day of every October and were not opened again until the first ofa April Nine or ten persons sat at the table every day, but he was the first one to make complaint He put l the natural query: How could people expect to keep well when they had to breathe impure air two or three times daily six months of the year while partaking of their meals? And yet thousands of boarding houses in large cities and thousands of homes, where more thought is given to the coal or 1, the steam heat bill than to health, keep the windows fastened down all winter. The New York health officials 1 in their appeal remind those concerned that lack of fresh air invites pneu- monia, tuberculosis and other fatal maladies; and as one of them put it, "One sniff of fresh air is worth a pound of pills"
 Sanitation and sane practice in eat ing, obviously conducive to sound bodies and human efficiency, should certainly come first in our present iday social service education. order church bells rung to celebrate a victory! But what can you expect of man who has taken the Deity into part nership with him as war lord? Missouri students were so overjoyed | by a football victory that they bom- barded 8 theatre with eggs, at 50 cents dozen, yelling, What care we?" What, indeed? Send the bill to father, l The two words, Sunday and "novies' | taken separately, may or may not start an argument, but when put together as ! Sunday moves' they never fail to do so | in Birmingham.
 ! been told that China is in no position to | fight, So they amuse themselves by slaughtering Chinese wno fall into their bands.
 l A .plantS will be erected in Texas for converting jack rabbits into sausages. l
 Hot dogs of that sort will not be ex- peeted to howl when punctured with fork
 | A Pennsylvania man made bet that he could drink s5 whisl1ies in less than an hour. He won the bet. A local un- dertaker also profted by the experiment.. | piece of stale bread placed in the pot will remove the odor of cooking cabbage, but as a rule people who dote on cab bage don't object to the smell | If Russian firemen are not on the job any better than Russian troops in Ru- mania, the house has always burned down when they get there. 1 The college president who says the most intellectual girls are the most beau- tiful is all wrong. There are too many proofs to the contrary.
 Richard Croker did not come back to this country to attend Tammany's fu- reral, for the excellent reason that Tam. many is not dead yet.
 i Presumably the miscreant who cut down the cooners sassafras tree has not yet been caught. This is bad year for the colonel.
 The loot has been so rich here of late that Villa may expect large increase in the number of his followers.
 After all, congressman are human. They want to be at home when Santa