The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-14

IN the years to come, when nation i wide prohibition" obtains, perhaps
 1 the small boy studying his geography may not find the following definition, put undoubtedly at the present time when asked to 'bound'' New York q guess they are still doing that at schooD he would say:
 l New York is bounded on the north by Manhattan; on the east by Martini on the south by Bronx, and on the west by Staten Island Punch, and while en- tire,v surrounded by water it is seldom used except for external purposes,
 which, of course, has to do with the na-
 tional drink, cocktails" as well as geo. graphical situations.
 This reminds me of the exquisite cameo which Mir. Leo Ditrichsten makes of his
 Jean Paurel in "The Great Lover" when l he says Of the American cocktail;
 You put g little bitters in to make it bitter, and a little sugar to make il
 sweet; you put little whisky to make | it strong and little water to make 1t
 weak, and then you say, Here's to you and drink. it yourself"
 | Anyway, as I was about to remark ! before started out on this rambling dissertation about drinks" New York IS the most marvellous place for seeing peo- ple that can be imagined; every type may be found from the scum of the earth to the most exclusive; from the dirty, sloth- l full, miserable, poverty-stricken peopie of the East Side to the Fifth avenue nouveau riche who flaunts his wealth lri your face and knocks you silly with US enormous proportions; from Queens couh- l ty iail, where Emma Goldman glor1fleo l in serving sentence because of her iec- | ture on Birth Control" to the gorgeous Fifth avenue hostelries where Phylhs Neilson-Terry disports herself in all her regal English beauty and the Dolly Sisters caper about with Diamond Jim Brady Tn 1 The Cascades" of the Biltmore to the | tune. Evelyn, Quit Your Devilin,' which Mitzi Haios warbles at 9:49 each even- | ing in "Pom-Pom,' and Maurice and 1 Walton canter about the floor like aerial sprites. while the lights and shadows i play hide and seek with the hundreds ot 1 interested people sipping and munching dainty edibles about tiny tables built l for two.
 One of the things that impressed me | most in New York is the way the south ern people there read The Age-Herald. l know this is talking shop" and my fam fly always follows me to the door and tells me not to talk about The Age-Her- aid or the baby-the two things that are nearest and dearest to my heart-and which I promptly do as soon as the oc- casion presents itself; but as l meant to say, the southern people in New York knew as much about Birmingham affairs as I did myself; the women were all eX- trava gant in their praise of the Roto- gravure Section of our paper, while the men were talking about the editorial which followed the Presidents message to Germany, and which foreshadowed just the state of affairs which now eX- ist in diplomatic circles.
 Take the charming little colony of Bir- mingham people in New York, many of whom I had the pleasure of seeing upon my recent visit, and they all read The Age Herald and look anXiously forward to it. Mrs. Florence Earle Buck, Mrs. J. Edward Miles, Mrs, Truman Aldrich, Mrs. A T. Henley, Mrs. Richard S. Hart (Who is so pleasantly remembered here as Ella Kirkman), Mrs. J. Norman Brooks, Mrs. Allison M Archer (formerly Mrs Viola p. Walker), Mrs. Dudley Lawrence (Kate Birch, who is prettier and more attrac- tive than ever), Mrs. Kobbe (F1orence Smith), Mrs. Lewis Woodruff (Helen Smith Woodruff, who is the busiest per- son in New York hobnobbing with the lit- erati who belong to the authors fund and who are raising the sum of $500OO for something or other-I guess to help |. ie 1Ai l thing for them in New York. it seems. All of these people read The Age-Herald and enjoy it thoroughly. I might say it 1 is the official organ of southern society 1 in New York. MT. and Mrs. Leslie Car penter, formerly of Bessemer, are among others who keep in touch with southern society by reading our paper. MT Car penter has made his millions in Wall | street. and he and his charming wife
 are among the most popular people in | southern society in the metropolis. Mrs Alden Howell, Mrs. Minthorne Woolsey, ! Mrs. Charles T. Barnes of Brooklyn (Ce-
 cile Buek), Mrs Caroline Beale Mcqueen
 and her mother, Mrs. Beale; Mrs. W. E. I Evans, who is so much beloved in Bir- mingham, and who for the past winter has made her home at the Marie An
 toinette in New York, and her lovely
 niece, Miss Geraldine Beckwith, who has
 achieved tremendous success the past
 season in "The White Feather Maj. and
 Mrs. William F. Tebetts, formerly of Mo- | bile; Mr. s. H. Kress, who is frequent visitor to Birmingham; Mrs. W. H. Pleas
 ants, who was the lovely Lillian Grant ! of Pensacola, one of the souths most popular pelles, and even far away Texans
 Col. Edward D. Steger, ane of the ablest and most prominent capitalists of his
 state, and the eminent jurist, Judge l George Garden, both of whom have a wide circle of friends in Alabama, and
 Judge and Mrs. Ebert H. Gary-all these
 and many more talk as familiarly about Ned Braces timely Sunday articles, Hugh
 Roberts Washington correspondence Richard Lussiers ''Footlights and Screen" Fred Bodekers Food for Fan
 dom," Ellis Hollums. Judge" Mandy
 Leon c. Bradley, Billy" Ryan and oul
 city editor, MT. c. M. Stanley, as they dc
 about the big writers on the various met.
 l ropolitan sheets.
 Among the southern women who hay,
 achieved unqualified success in tha hig