The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-04

l 1(F you want to find anybody from any where on the face of the earth when you are in New York just have them ''paged" on Fifth avenue; you'll eer- tainly catch them sooner or later; mo- body is ever at their hotel when you catl them on the party wire; many are out in the white light zone at all hours of the day and night many are invad- ing shops, cafes, theatres and Billy Sun day meetings and the Lord knows what else, but in the long run you'll find them on Fifth avenue
 Why? Because they've got the Fifth avenue-ritis bug" it's a malady that for years remained unclassfied, un- christened, and at that, in New York, just imaginel The Sister Anne scientists in their watch towers with glasses turned all highways leading to the big city on the special lookout for new diseases, have let 1t creep in without even the ordinary quarantine precau- tions; the habitat of the visitor Is Fifth avenue and. it's victim suffers no pain whatever; on the contrary, B strange, mad, wild happiness exists under the
 
 Nirvanal
 The victims of Fifth avenue-ritis are women from all over the world, espe- cially from the south and vest if you have any douht of this statement, just takes a walk any afternoon from the Plaza Fountain in F'ifty-ninth street to the Arch in Washington Square. Do you ask the cure for Fifth avenue-ritis? There is none; it is germ disease, and as yet no serum has been discovered as it's antidote; besides the victims do not want to be awakened from their poppy dream of illusion; leave their phantas- magoria untouched is all they ask Fifth avenue-ritis victims are modern reincar- nations of 'The Lady of Shallott;" they see the world in magic looking glass Fifth avenuei
 On Easter Sunday for the annual pa rade' I registered with the thousands of others as victim of Fifth avenue-ritis; l had heard the most wonderful sermon at the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, better known as John D. Rockefellers church. by the pastor, Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin (the able successor of my be- loved Dr. Charles F. Aked), on "rhe Romance of immortality it was 8 mas terpiece of diction, conception and poesy, smile after simile visualzng the great theme which Dr. Woelfkn finally ex- pressed tersely in the one sentence:
 Immortality is the corollary of dy manifest"
 After the service joined the Easter bonneted, silk halted Fifth avenue-rits victims, and enjoyed more than anything else the moving picture" people taking snapshots Of the crowds
 Another Sabbath day gave me the pleasure of hearing while in New York, a minister whom many regard as the biggest preacher in the world today, pr. Jowett of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church. Dr. Jowett as every one knows, is an Englishman, and has recently re- ceived a flatterng call to return to his native land; he is q man of fine presence a speaker of tremendous force, and gifted with a vivid imagination; his pcrcration cn the Biblical story of the young man who asked what he could do to inherit the kingdom of God and after enumerating the requirements and declaring that he had done all these is adrnonished by our Lord and Savior in the words: Thou hast spoken well this do''-was one of the greatest sermons have ever heard.
 And speaking of ministers, Will Rog- CTS "got off a good one" at the Midnight Frolic the other evening when some body in the knocking contest" asked him: What about Balfour?" Rogers said Fine man; great statesman; Eng land s prime minister; but pshawl Amer ica's got a prime minister, too; it's Billy Sunday"
 Birmingham people, I'm sure, will be delighted to hear of the big success that our own clever artist Edna Smith, has made in New York; she is connected with Mrs. Dar- rngton Semples school in the art de- partment and besides has her own studio and has done some very beautiful work since leaving here. She is most enthusi- astc over New York and she has a right to be, for she has met many notable bert Drennen, Fred Phillips, Joe Norman, Paul Chalifoux, David Roberts, Jr., Sam Majors, Robert Thach, W. j. Young, Matt Murphy, Victor Hanson, w. G. Harrison. w. L. Shumate Mrs. Thames. Misses Martha Latady and Mary Munger.