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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
Fighting Spirit

L expect to see a scrappy game Satur-
day afternoon at Redwood Field when
birmingham and Howard colleges meet
IN their annual game" said Earle Black
welder. Howard college has team
which is not up to the standard this year,
but Coach Longwell knows how to make
his boys fight.
birmingham college, am informed,
has very good team. 1 know that the
Methodists are the favorites in the bet
ting, but just the same 1 will be prepared
to be surprised. The open play will be
the predominating feature of the game
If both teams play true to their previous
games.
L would not be surprised to see 5000
people out to the game. The spirit of the
two colleges is more heated than any two
their size anywhere in the country. The
fighting spirit is excellent. I'm banking
on the Baptist fighting spirit which Coach
Longwell has instilled in his boys
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they know everything in general. Per
haps it is the false formality that ruins
these male dinners History records mas
culine nighttime gatherings of more
informal nature which have almost sue
ceeded.
We should not have mentioned this
gloomy topic were it not for one ray of
light to be detected. Male dinners seem
to an optimistic eye distinctly on the
wane. They must be held occasionally.
But the frank despair with which they
are now approached by most men gives
promise of their ultimate death. Take
1t either way, that a formal dinner is
the rarest delight or the most accursed
inlquity. Why exclude from its pleasures
or terrors the more interesting half of
the human race? Or, If you cannot go as
far as that (Mr. Wells, we should note
is our authority you must at least con-
cede that the question touches that half
Of the human race which has strange
attractiveness at dinner, even possessing
charm sufficient to make or mar that
particular feast Some such line of ar
gument seems to be gathering strength
within the human race We note its prog
ress and wish 1t well. The sooner the
unilateral dinner is abolished and for
gotten the better for livers. dispositions
and the race
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
The Reason We Pay

eff the consumer expects prices to drop
any time soon, he had better get the idea
out of his system at once said James
Prince, a travelling man Of Baltimore.
IT notice in The Age-Herald that eggs
are wholesaling at 40 cents. Why is
this? Because, according to reports from
1856 cold storage plants, their rooms con-
tain 2,S77,541 cases Of eggs. And they
are going to stay there until all stocks
on the outside are used up. Then the
trust will set new record price. 1t
wouldn't surprise me to see first-class
eggs sell in Birmingham around Christ
mas at 90 cents the dozen.
"And cheese! Why is the shameful
wholesale price of IS cents pound quoted
in Birmingham for full cream cheese?
Because 1856 cold storage plants reported
on November 1 that their roofs covered
32,339024 pounds of American cheese.
And the cheese route is going to be as
rough as the more dainty egg road.
"And butter! The same old story, that
179 cold storage firms have tucked away
within their frosted walls. 81, 296,09S pounds
of creamery BUTTER A few more climbs
and the ordinary citizen will have to re-
sort to 'lasses and bread.
But still this great government of ours
can discover no conspiracy to manipu'
late food prices The good Lord will GER
tainly be kept busy looking after his
flock of well-sheared lambs here below
this winter. and many of us may not an
swer the call in the springtime if prices
soar much higher
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
THE GENTLEMAN

George Henry Colvert.
The gentleman is never unduly ia
niliar; takes no liberties; is chary OF
questions; is neither artificial nor af-
fected; is little obtrusive upon the
mind or feelings of others as on their
persons; bears himself tenderly toward
the weak and unprotected; is not AFRO
giant, cannot be supercilious; can be self
denying without struggle; is not vain
of his advantages, extrinsic or personal;
habitually subordinates his lower to his
higher self; is in his best condition, cleo
trio with truth, buoyant with veracity.
Gentlemanhood is not compassed by i'm.
itation, because inward life is not imi-
table; nor is it purchasable, because re-
finement cannot be bought; nor but par
TALLY Unbeatable, because nature discount
tenances monopolies. 1t is not superficial,
it's externals being the tokens of internal
needs, its embellishments part and parcel
of it's substances
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From the ST. Louis Republic.

From the st. Louis Republic
6T1HE Chicago Tribune Is the national
organ of n-Americanism. A cou-
pie of years ago it vehemently
traduced the entire south because a mob
in a southern state had trampled on law,
as mobs have occasionally done in The
Tribune's own community. On yester-
day it turned its stored billingsgate upon
California, calling it 1.-The champion boob
state" and other choice epithets.
Our fevered contemporary argument
is interesting. California has had the
temerity to report a plurality for Wilson,
after keeping the Tribune nervous to the
margin of hysteria for two whole days.
yet California needs a Pacific navy. Why
is this thus?
The amusing feature Of this Is the fact
that the present administration has put
in force the most extensive building plan
known to our naval history: has started
the creation of an auxiliary fleet, instead
of waiting to buy floating junk at panic
prices, as the Mckinley administration
did when little war found the govern
ment wholly without necessary trans
ports, supply, repair and dispatch boats;
and has given us what we never had be-
fore-a naval programme, calling for an
orderly and uniform development.
Inland Chicago with the 1877 feet, per-
pendicular, of Niagara Falls on one side
and the odors of the drainage canal ON
the other to protect her from invasion by
sea, has doubtless overlooked these
things, but California, with more than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
NEW LIGHT ON SHAKESPEARE

NE" OIN ShIhIAAHoA AEA1eAN
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Before the Contemporary club Prof.
Charles William Wallace of Nebraska
told of the results of his researches into
the life of Shakespeare and of his inves-
legations in London, which were highly
interesting. Some years ago it occurred
to Professor Wallace and his wife that
a thorough search of all the court docu-
ments of the time of Shakespeare might
throw some light on his activities. More
than 100000 ancient and dusty documents
were examined before one was found
which bore on Shakespeare's career. 1t
seems that while living with a French
family in London there was a lawsuit
over the failure of the head of the house
to pay a promised dowry to his daugh-
ter. Shakespeare appears as friend
of both parties and. his testimony is
signed by himself, being the fourth au-
thentic signature by him that has come
to light
Continuing their researches, additional
information, although of not quite such
d ueHulte CidIdcleI, WAS oDldlneu, llot
SO much from the ancient muniments as
from other available sources. AS result
of this painstadng delving it may be said
that the authenticity of the Shakes
pearean dramas is confirmed and that
the Baconian theory has received another
mortal blow" although it seems, phe-
nix-like, to arise from every such at
tack. 1t is fair to say that in the last
few years the Baconians have not been
very active. One Of their richest pro-
tagonists is dead and the propaganda
lacks funds, although not supporters. Also
the war seems to have shelved the subject
for the present.
The three hundredth anniversary of the
death of Shakespeare has instigated
serious students to review the whole
case, with the result that most of them
are of the opinion that Shakespeare S
traditional position is unassailable on any
just grounds. That Is the view of Pro-
lessor Wallace, and it seems likely that
most people will agree with him. It is
not matter Of the first Importance
since authorship has little to do with the
unquestioned merits of the dramas them
selves. These will last as long as Eng.
fish literature endures and their pri.
macy can only be removed by the ap-
pearance of greater poet and drama
fist. of whom there is not the slightest
hint, nor has there been such in the
whole world for 300 years.
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A NEWSPAPER SNOB

twice the coast line of the German en-
pire, is keenly sensitive to them.
But California had other reasons for
voting for Wilson. The states greatness
is due to her successful fight with the old
Southern Pacific ring and with the choice
collection of political craven images in
offensive and defensive alliance with it.
Governor Johnson, who has been elected
senator by 100000 plurality, is the leader
of the organized conscience and civic
spirit that did the fighting. Candidate
Hughes, fresh from the company of po-
litical standpatters like Boies Penrose and
Reed Smoot, went to California and ig-
rored Johnson and his supporters, putting
himself in the hands of the reactionaries.
Ignoring is game that two can play at;
and so California ignored Hughes.
Our superheated Illinois contemporary
closes it's diatribe by attributing the ia
milar Latin quotation about the gods first
making mad whom they would destroy,
to "a Kipling chaplain" What would
McPhee, the deep-water tramp's engineer
who used the quotation, have to say to
that? Its relevance. however, cannot be
disputed. An essential prerequisite of a
newspapers ability to understand current
events is a capacity for sympathy with
just such splendid manifestations of the
American spirit as the protest Of the new
California against the nefarious elements
with which Hughes consorted on his
| western tour. In the world of newspa
pers, whom the gods would destroy they
first make snobs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
CHARLES FROHMAN

and he transformed the old aquarium at
Thirty-fifth street into a theatre for that
purpose on credit. The production left
him poorly. He lost also on 1.-THE Pulse
of New York" but his spirits were not
dashed. Even Caprice" which made
the early fame Of Minnie Madden Ffske,
made no money for Charles Frohman.
He took the Wallack plays with a compe-
tent company all over the country on the
who believed in him, and he paid it back,
together with enormous arrears Of sal
aries, and notes amounting to $4,000
years later He settled down in a rea-
sonably profitable booking business in
1885, but he could not help dabbling in
management, SO he increased the volume
of his debts by 5000 with 1.-THE Golden
Giant" and $4,000 with "a Wall Street
Bandit" Even Gilettes HELD By the
Enemy" profitable for so many others,
caused a loss to Charles Frohman.
But Shenandoah changed the cur
rent, and he had hard enough work to get
the play, after it had failed in Boston.
" luQuCo IT'S dullOTp bTOIlSOu I1OWdiup
to make needful changes, to borrow theI
money from various sources to pay the
preliminary expenses. With this well re-
membered triumph he paid all his debts
and stood firmly ON his feet, though he'
had preserved a steady gait and a cheer
full demeanor through all his vicissitudes.
The remainder of his career had it's
downs as we'll as its ups. II "Men and
Women and '"The Lost Paradise" made,
money for him, there were the losses
on "Gloriana" and 'Thermidor" to be
reckoned in the account. Jane" how
ever, a farce much like a thousand other
farces, was vertically gold mine. With
the days OF the Empire theatre, the.
Theatrical syndicate, and the huge en-
terprises of his later life we need have
nothing to do. He had become probably
the most famous impresario in the world
But he had no magic wand. He had to
endure public indifference to plays asi
worthy as others which were eagerly
supported, and the record Of his life is q v
record Of triumph over obstacles few men
could overcome His energy and yea
put in another business would have
made him Millionaire.
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From the New York Times.
6JHE recently published biography OF
Charles Frohman by Isaac E.
q Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
serves at least one good purpose. 1t re-
veals again the enormous pecuniary un-
certainties of theatrical management.
Methods have changed, the business OF
conducting theatres has, been put on an
entirely new basis. since the days OF
Simpson and Marshall and Burton, but
the results are generally just as disas-
trous for all but the bravest spirits, ana
sometimes for them Charles Fronman'
while he was still small boy, made up
his mind to be a theatrical manager
and he was never shaken from his pur-
pose. He had everything about the call
ing to learn and he was com-
PEELED it In hard school, but the
bettered his instructions, of course LOT
as theatrical organizer he was unique
He made the managers calling one that
could not be understood in his day except
by studying the methods of Charles
Frohman. The essential fact set forth IN
this not very illuminative story OF MS
busy life is that he needed all his ex-
traordinary courage, all his firm belief IN
himself, all his imagination. all his cneer-
fitness. to withstand the trials and build
upon the wrecks of countless hopes
firm fabric Of achievement.
The world does not know now near
to actual fortune any theatrical manager
NAV be who dies actually in harness.
History shows that most of them have
died in poverty after enforced retire.
ment. Mr.. Frohman was at the height OF
his fame when he persisted, he was the
foremost impresario of London and New
York. his name was written large in
Paris. he controlled various generally
profitable theatres, he was assuredly
solvent, he was cut off in an hour of tri-
umph But he would never have reached
that exalted position If he had been af-
flicted with the ordinary human being s
capacity for encouragement. He was for
a term of years a veritable Mark Tapley
of theatricals. The 800 he borrowed from
Calender. the minstrel man, to advertise
Peppers ghost show was soon lost. He
managed at the age of Is the John Dillon
comedy company, and paid many a rail-
way fare from the proceeds of pawning
Louise Dillons sealskin coat, which was
Knocked" and redeemed accordingly as
business was fair or the reverse. There
was a single one-hundred-dollar bill kept
to Flash" in the face Of hotel clerks and
ticket agents, which gave the enterprise
certain air of solvency that was en-
tirely misleading. "Ahead" of Haverly'
Mastodon Minstrels. he got his salary I'M
til the company was stranded, and while
| he managed No 2 companies for the Mad
ison Square theatre in the era Of 'Hazel
Kirke'' he seemed for a time to be or
tho top wave. but Haverly got him back
for $11 weekly and modest allowance
for hotel bills. He had no capital when
hs produced 1.-THE Strangers Of Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

A high hat isn't going to make you
look dignified unless you have something
dignified looking to wear it on.
When you get a picture post card from
a friend who is out of town, don't bother
reading what is written on it. 1t is 100
to 1 that what is written on it is: Having
a good time. Wish you were here
Man is natural optirnist. He gets paid
off on Saturday and on Monday hopefully
sees pay day on the way.
A bald-headed druggist with rheuma-
tism always knows a sure cure for both
Affections
A skinny little Princess who is homely
is always reminding folks that the big
gest and prettiest apples are not the
sweetest.
If a man discovered method of re-
storing the dead to life, the demonstra-
ton hall would be packed with men. But
the women folks would all be in some
other hall where a woman was demon
strating a new way to do up the hair.
The wedding ring has been growing
smaller and smaller, and has almost dis
appeared. Is it possible that a woman is
becoming ashamed to admit her weakness
for any one man?
A mirror doesn't always tell the truth
And red-headed girls hair looks golden
TO her when she stands in front of her
dresser.
You can get on the fence to avoid
trouble with either side. But if you do
you will get it from both sides.
Father has his own ideas about heaven
But to mother heaven is a place where
she will not have to worry over children,
where she won't have to cook or wash
dishes, and where she will have plenty
of money to buy all the new clothes she
needs.
A woman can't see any harm in her
husband gambling as long as he Quits
winner and produces his Eskimos to that
effect. But it Is different if he quits loser.
The fact that a man seems worried and
uneasy at this time of year is not al
ways due to his conscience Maybe he
has just put on his winter ones.
Now that the elections are over and the.
demon rum has been cowed to a degree
the reformers are paying their respects
to the demon, dance The dean of girls
at the University of Chicago claims that
II is the provocative lure" of the snare
drum in the orchestra that tends to pro-
woke immortality. On the other hand
Evangelist Forsythe declares that it is
The hugging in the dance that causes all
the trouble. Well. we'd rather hug
corn fed in a tango any old time than
listen to snare drum.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
TEST OF FoRr1TUDE

When bills descend on hapless mortals,
In truth a trouble freighted stream,
The optimist no longer chortles
And to the pessimist it seems
His tale of gloom Is vindicated,
And all of life is just bore
And every human beings salated
To suffer till his journeys Ger.
But he who's neither one nor other,
Who plods along about the same
And takes each days unrest and bother
AS If it were sort of game;
Who's not inordinately cheerful,
Nor quite as gloomy as hearse,
May find the prospect rather fearful,
And yet feels sure it could be worse.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
AOTEL LOBBIES


came over to Birmingham to attend
the meeting of the Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, and have had such a glorious
tiine mere that 1 think I shall stay some
time In your city" said Miss V. Miller,
one of Anniston's most popular girls. II
nave never seen Birmingham so gay, not
even at Christmas. 1t seems to me that
all the meetings of unusual interest and
all sure-enough football games have a
failing for meeting and playing here. L
nope they will keep it up, for it occurs
to me that Birmingham by reason of it's
geographical location and facilities for
handling big crowds is an ideal place
for big doings'"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
CHoRUs GIRLS SCARCE

Reports come from New York tina
chorus girls are scarce. Theatrical man
ayers are said to have trouble findint
enough frolicsome-footed divinities to sup
ply musical shows going on the road. Il
is told:
One manager who advertised for girl
engaged two stenographers, three clerks
and a nurse to I'LL his chorus ranks ans
not one of them had ever been on tn
stage.
Another was confronted by a petit
blonde, who wanted to join the chorus
Can you dancer he asked.
Sure, I cam she replied. "and so cal
you, you little rascal! I've seen you doins
the one-step several times In cafes"
He felt frivolous about that time, =
he engaged her and then took her to din
ner at restaurant where they have tn
doggondest ragtime banjo band anybod'
ever heard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-22
On Having am Eye
For a Pretty Girl

~ NE way to keep young, thinks
w the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew,
of after-dinner fame, is to have an
eye for a pretty girl. He hastens to
add that the appreciative octogena-
rian, or nonogenarian, should also tell
his wife about it. This was an after
thought. 1t suggests safety first,
but while the wife of an elderly gal
liant may not rejoice in his admiration
for pretty girls, the knowledge that ne
does so may put her on her mettle and
make her keep youthful also. Growing
old gracefully seems to have become
lost art, anyway.
Mr.. Depew's opinion seems to be
shared and actively upheld by many
of his fellow citizens of New York.
Is there another city in the world
where so many cold boys" are to be
seen trotting about with young women
of the Chicken" variety? New York
accepts the old beau and the young
girl in its cabarets, theatres and other
festive resorts along Broadway as a
matter of course. Elsewhere they
might attract attention and even I'M
favorable comment, but in Gotham the
aged cavalier with plenty of money to
spend asks no odds and gives none in
the contest with young men for the
favor of the fair sex.
Perhaps Mr.. Depew draws his con-
clusion from what he has seen. But
he's wrong about confiding in Friend
Wife. Those hoary old rascals never
do look as feeble, broken-down and
generally done for as when they are
found out by their wives.
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mining, but they are always interested
in the things that add to the innocent
pleasures of life.
A branch of the Jackson highway
into Birmingham will help the cause
to some extent, but it really matters
little, for the tourists will not be
kept away, no matter how many sign
boards may point elsewhere.
Judging from the way they talk, you'd
think some Of the party workers who are
hoping for jobs didn't sleep a wink dur
ing the entire presidential campaign.
= * i
Social diagnosticians" say the light Of
Broadway is an Unhealthy glow" Has
anybody ever accused Broadway of being
health resort?
| When Luis Cabrera gets back home will
General Carranza pat him on the shoulder
and say, "wen done, thou good and faith
full servant?''
A little more efficiency, Mr.. Wilson, in
some departments of the government will
be welcomed by democrats and republic
ans alike
The Pennsylvania congressman who
flew to Washington in his own aeroplane
is probably the sort of patriot who scorns
mileage.
In other words, venizelos will have no
quarrel with King Constantine if the
King will listen to the right sort of peo-
pie.
If the war is over next summer the
great American public will be able to
concentrate it's attention on baseball
i - :.
Great Britain is keeping a close watch
on the Philippines, but it isn't the "yel-
low peril she's thinking about.
At this late day, what does it matter
whether Cleopatra was beautiful or not?
AS vampire she got results.
The Poles are taking lessons in how to
conduct themselves as officeholders. Can
you beat that for optimism?
u X
A football hero who gets through sea-
son without at least one broken bone
must feel deeply mortified.
:. x i
The sum of $1,000 was subscribed at the
Muscle Shoals dinner in jiffy-and it
was dry affair, too.
* 4 4
There Is something wrong with
world that let's a famous clown end his
days in the poorhouse.
x = 4:
Just at present, Monastir is the Servian
capital in name only. That town is liter
ally shot to pieces.
Why use star when young man
may hitch his wagon to a few shares of
steel stock?
4
Surely Mr.. Hughes doesn't expect
to retire behind his whiskers for the rest
of his life?
a.
At present prices some people can't
even afford coal for decorative purposes.
i. !. x
In the meantime Billy Sunday continues
to assault the academic calm of Boston.
The high cost of paper has not entirely
done away with the 14-page love letter.
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GLAD TIDINGs

Madame zira, the fortune teller, must
have had some good news for you"
Correct" answered the man who is
sued from the mystic portals with a
broad smile on his face. 81 own this
shebang and business is so good she has
leased it from me for another six
months, rent paid in advance"