The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-27


Bird Tea Room" on the Highlands
which has recently been opened by Mrs
Mary Simmons-Scales in the Margare
apartments and if you haven't paid g
visit to this pretty, cozy little place, It
I suggest that you do so, for it's charming
Mrs. Scales with wonderfully pretty
| taste has decorated and furnished THE
Blue Bird Tea Room in pastel shades
of yellow and blue, very dainty and very
these piping hot times.
From the entrance to the kitchen there
is an atmosphere of refinement and
daintiness about 1.-THE Blue Bird Tea
Room" which is refreshing and enjoy
able. and the big electric fans and soft
delicate lights the immaculate linen and
the dainty china, make the place quite
unique and out of the everyday run OF
things
| The walls are done in pale yellow satin
striped paper, and the filmy curtains are
of yellow tinted dimity, while the tables
are covered with cretonne in yellow
shades with tiny little blue birds in ar
| tistic design; the china is done in the
| blue bird design also, and the menu
| cards carry out the blue bird idea in ar
| tistic hand painted sketches; on the walls
! at intervals are panels of the yellow cree
tonne in blue bird design and the ensem-
| Bile is really quite enchanting.
| Mrs. Scales, who has had a great deal
| of experience in the matter of conduct
| ing successfully several different places
of this type, is enthusiastic over her
plans and the success of her present ven
ture
| 1t is her ambition to make THE Blue
Bird Tea Room" a rendezvous for tea
parties, luncheon parties, dinner parties
and dancing parties. She will make ar.
rangements for any or all of these affairs
on short notice.
Among the many nice things that Mrs.
Scales will do, is to prepare lunches fot
picncs and also for Sunday night sup.
pers-the latter, the bane of the house.
keepers existence. Pies, cakes, ices
sandwiches-in fact, everything that per-
| tains to daintes and delicacies will ba
Mrs. Scales speciality, and in speakint
of 1.-THE Blue Bird Tea Room, and het
plans, she said:
This has been a dream with me for
a long time and now that I am about
| to realize my dream, I am very, very.
happy. 1 have always liked to cook and
bake and do the many things about the
kitchen that make up good housekeeping,
and in opening The Blue Bird Tea Room
| feel that 1 can give my patrons the
benefit of my wide experience and fur
nish them with good, wholesome, palat-
able food"
I'm regard to the typhoid situation in
Birmingham" Mrs Scales continued Il
want to assure my patrons that In par
taking of the food that I put before
them, they have the best that the mar
ket affords. I select all the meats served
at The Blue Bird Tea Room myself,
as well as the vegetables; the ices and
the creams are made from the purest
milk, from one of the highest grade
them as German American, English
American and French American in con-
tradistinction to their ancestral blood.
| One can be just, as good an American
| as the other; and when either is gem
| timely American he is just as good.
But a real hyphenated German
American is a person of German blood
Claiming to be an American), who
! wants to plunge America in the war
in behalf of Germany. This is a real
hyphenated person. And this princi-
pie is just as applicable to the person
of English, of French, of Irish or of
any other blood Claiming to be an
American) who wants to plunge Ameri-
ca into the great European war in be-
half of his racial blood, whether he is
a foreigner or not. In truth, there
have been more of the English and
French erican blood who wanted to
aid the allies than there have been of
the German American blood, who want
A - IT. ,A.,,J ry@.-f-
Now, these, be they German, English,
French or any other blood, who are the
real hyphenated persons.
The eastern and northern press, es-
| pecial]y, have done more to disturb
the neutral American spirit over the
European war than perhaps any other
thing. Much of that press have tried
, to force this country to war in behalf
of the allies. And it was that press
| that appropriated the term "hyphen-
ated" to the German-American blood,
when the term was only appropriate for
| their kind. Continually demonstrating
a spirit of military aid for the allies
against the central powers, suggests
! that such non-neutral American acts
| have their origin either in an allied
| pecuniary put-up or else from an in
| tense hatred of the German people
maybe both
There are some publica lions which
have maintained a strict American melt
trality and dignity towards the con-
testing powers. The Age-Herald is one
| of those publications. But persons
who want to force America. to war,
either for the allies or central powers
| cannot conceive of publications and
persons who arc for strict neutrality
other than 'hyphenates."
That was the trouble with the party
who wrote me an anonymous letter
from Rirmin CHAM. After Safeguarding
vulgarty and profanity, I was told to
| 'takesa dose of rat poison" Idle and
| go to hell" Then I was told to reform
be for the allies and against Germany
SO that I could go to heaven. 1t was
rather well written letter of it's type
| and character. But whoever wrote it
was certainly a paradoxical character
| to instruct Christian graces. I would
| instruct that he, whoever he may be
| appropriate to himself more of the
| Christian purity and charity and less
1 of his vulgar venom. or else instruct
| his friends to wrap his body, when he
| dies, in sheet of asbestos, so that
life won't be so uncomfortable for him
when he reaches the tropics of the 9th
er world. Respectfully,
| e. A. TIMMONS
Columbia, Tenn. JULY "a 1916