The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-31
ill at ease in the republican camp.

had thoughts along that line. He may
make two or three speeches for
Hughes-he makes one in Maine to-
morrow-but it will require a su-
preme mental effort for him to invest
his remarks with anything like punch.
A luLswarn politician can never
make "drive."
1t is an even bet that the colonel will
not be on speaking terms with Mr..
Hughes after it's all over.
Senator Reed, as an earnest cham
pion of the administration, will do
much to increase the democratic vote
in Missouri, but in regard to Roose-
velt's agreement" with Hughes, ne
must apply his power of analysis once
more.
& TAGE beauties have a way of in
~ spring dreams in young and ten
der breasts which is little impaired by
the flight of time. That they are In
some cases old enough to be the
grandmothers of their palpitating
adorers alters
In Which Another the case not
Romance Is Shattered a whit. And
where the
stage beauty is undeniably young the
havoc wrought among susceptible
hearts is tremendous.
There is no telling how many men
have wanted to marry the fair Billie
Burke, and the fact that she recently
acquired husband-her first, by the
way-has not cast damper on her
admirers in the "back districts" where
the events of her private life are
not known. In the larger towns and
cities a death blow was dealt to ro-
nance when it leaked out that Mary
Pickford had husband, and when the
fair Billie consented to become Mrs.
Ziegfeld, the shock was almost as
great.
However, there is man in Coving-
ton, O., who still wants to marry her,
and he wrote letter to the screen and
stage star which got into print. The
gentleman says he is $4,000 ahead OF
the game and if Miss Burke will look
favorably on his suit he will add an
automobile and victrola to the home
nest.
Perhaps you can imagine the pam
pered Billie, because of previous
engagement" reluctantly renouncing
the prospect Of becoming Mrs. Some
body-or-Other Of Covington, O., with
$500 to spend, and an automobile and
a victrola. Perhaps you can imagine
something of the sort, but the chances
are you can't.
II y
A CCORDING to finger-print ex-
~ perts of the United States ma
rine corps, men with long, tapermg
fingers and an "artistic temperament"
are more apt to desert the service
than recruits with
Deserters Have short, u b y
Tapering Fingers digits, which de-
note stability of
character and the absence of "hifa-
luting notions"
Deserters from the marine corps
are said to be few in number, but the
experts have discovered that actors,
sign writers and walters predominant.
Actors might conceivably have an
artistic temperament, although most
of them do not. By stretch OF the
imagination sign writer's might quail
fy, but why walters should indulge IN
a luxury of this sort is not apparent.
If you are going to accept the state
ment of the finger-print expert, the
next time you have dealings with a
man it might pay you to see whether
he has temperamental fingers or the
stubbv sort. But don't forget that the
possessor of stubby digits may also
be coarse, cruel person.
~ NE of the concomitants of politi-
~ cal campaigns in presidential
years is the overconfident committee
man of limited judgment who gives
out farfetched estimates as to how
this or that state will CO. Such an
immature observer-or shall it bA
said misleading
Foolish Forecasters lis A. T. Hert,
in Political Field chairman OF the
western repub-
lican national campaign organization.
After making a survey of Kentucky
he hurries to Chicago to report to
associates there that the Blue Grass
state will be carried by Hughes and
r.l-y.. H. fa1+ +hot II would he