The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-19

cemetery was pronounced too fat and local judge ordered the sculptor to re- model the figure so it would be a slender female angel. Don't see how the change will make much difference to those who go through the gates feet foremost.
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 Newspapers in the fatherland are now caricaturing Colonel Roosevelt. That's no way to treat man who once hob nobbed with the Kaiser and said the German army was "buhy."
 It is said that the Kaiser will not toier- ate failure Still. there's the Crown Prince. who is permitted to stick his feet under the family mahogany" whenever he feels like it.
 There are all kinds of cranks in this world, but none is harder to cure than the man who thinks his player-piano can furnish better music than Paderewski.
 
 The antics of those silly women in Washington should have been stopped long ago and their advertising campaign nipped in the bud.
 According to an Italian journalist, the Kaiserin is the best cook in Europe; No
  pean broth.
 Young officers will be permitted to monopolize the swagger stick without protest. No civilian would venture to carry one.
 MT. Hoover spoke and the New York coffee and sugar exchange quit dealing in futures. Big business is at last learning to obey
 So many reasonable speeches are made these days you'd think there wasn't yard of hemp rope left in the United States.
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 One thing is certain. MT. Wilson is not any more weary of labor troubles at this time than the American people are. rine and may repay our lavish hospitality by making raids in the Pacific
 * It has about reached the point where 2 girl hates to be seen out with fellow who isn't wearing khaki
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 Among the new dances is the Chinese toddle," which may or may not be as tame as it sounds. The lion and the lamb will lie down to- gether sooner than MT. Daniels and the Navy league What the German war dispatches char acterize as full victory leaves much !! to be desired
 WHY THE BULGARs DESERTED Herbert Corey in Harper's Magazine for | August. "We will want more bread in the first | line tomorrow" said a. captain in my | hearing. We expect many deserters. Every army receives deserters, but I had never heard before an army mak- ing preparations to receive them. The story that was told me illustrates the extremely personal nature of the fighting in Macedonia. The Servians had directed | a number of Bulgarian prisoners to wash | slick back their hair. Then the captors distributed much soup and stew and lamb | broiled in strips over the coals of wood 1 fire.
 Now sit down." was the order, .'and l look pleasant" The stuffed and shining men dropped on | the grass and lolled about in garden | party attitudes The picture which an | army photographer took of them is the | most ridiculous thing in the Balkans. The | grinning Bulgarians entered into the | spirit of the affair, and put their arms | about each others necks, and draped | themselves in elaborate postures and fea- tured the large hunks of bread and the l strips of beautifully greasy meat and the i steaming cans of coffee. Except for cer- tain details of clothing and the guards 1 in the background it might have been a basket picnic. The Serbs tied copies of this picture to stones and threw them | into the Rulgarian n trenches See how well we treat your brothers?" | ran the legend. Come on over" They came for a time Then the bait | ceased to attract more deserters, though | the Serbs dangled it never so wisely be- fore enemy eyes. After a time the Ser l vian officer who had been responsible for , the plan to get deserters by advertising | methods in use commercially. He wrote | letters to prospective customers and | .hrew them into the Bulgarian trenches. 1 He wanted to know what was the trou- l ole? Were not the samples of his goods l The Bulgarians said they | were not. Our brothers smile in the picture" was the reply put now do we Know 1 what they are thinking?"
 The Servian officer considered for l time Then he visited the prison camp, 1 armed with much writing paper and many pencils. Write to your friends at the front" said he, "and tell them truthfully how we'll you have been treated" So that for days that squad of enemy |