The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-30
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

I like to know when friend of min' Is promoted and makes good. It gave m, great pleasure to learn that John An derson has been made general manager at Pizitz's. I congratulate the proprietor of the Busy Corner on having such [ hustler. I'm sure the corner will b, buster than ever.
 There is a little mother on our street entrusted. She Is just a child herself but the pride and care she takes in then is pretty to see I never get tired ot watching her as she rolls them up anc down the sidewalk.
 | I saw two girls about 10 years of age come flying down hill, each one bal. ancing herself or single skate, with the free leg crossed about the knee Il made a pretty picture of skill and daring as they sped past me with rosy cheeks and hair streaming in the. wind. I'm glad our girls are getting joy from outdoor sports.
 I was passing the alley between the | Tutwiler and Rosenberger's the other day. Just over a manhole was what, on first sight, appeared to be pile of snow as big as a barrel. A crowd of boys were having fun pushing one another into it. It developed to be soap suds which evi- dently came from the hotel laundry.
 
 The revolving doors in the hotels, banks and office buildings are a puzzle to number of people who have never sorry for some timid women who have to tackle them. It's study to watch the fear and trepidation with which they enter.
 They are a source of great pleasure to boys. I recently saw four having the time of their lives riding around on them. They gripped the brass rails and in some way, known only to the small boy, they were using the doors as a flying jenny.
 Noticing that the thick conclave glass in one of the doors in the Tutwiler was broken, I asked one of the young men who run the taxis how 1t came to be broken. He saw one of the hotel boys poke a dress suit case through it. A newsie overheard it and blurted out: Gee, I bet 1t will take six months for dat bell boy to pay for it.
 Do you buy your paper from one of the half dozen or more newswomen who sell them on the street? They are a hard-working lot and stick at their posts in all kinds of weather. One of of a regular newsy.
 It may seem bit strange for them to engage in such work, but if one has been abroad during the war, he is accustomed to seeing women en- gagged in many occupations that at the time seemed to belong to men,
 Birmingham is growing more cos mopolitan every day. At first 1t was novelty for barber shop to have a manicurist. but now we have shop with women barbers and 1t seems to do a thriving business.
 believe there are over half dozen young women In Birmingham who are now employed as sa1eswomen in cigar stands. They seem to like it. One told me how she preferred 1t to working in a deDartment store
 Were you ever run over by a auto mobile? If not, did you ever run over one? If you have done neither, may l ask if you ever came near jumping over one?
 landed on the radiator. During my student days at Vanderbilt, I was the highest jumper at the university I even jumped classes.
 Some of the old timers will remem- Der that I always led in the high jump ing at the society circuses. Later Sid Jones came on and was the hope of the Birmingham Athletic club in all the meets.
 But to my story. I went to cross from the Tutwiler to the Motion in a blundering run. I had my umbrella up and turned towards the Southern club and was watching an approaching Tidewater car.
 All of sudden I was conscious of something near me- I looked and in a yard of me was low-flung runabour. It looked as big as one of Groom Reattys busses. I didn't have time to run. not even a chance to dodge, so Just Jumped as high as I could and sat on the corner of the radiator and slid off as the car slowed up
 Scared? That's no name for It. But the owner of the automobile was more ala<med than I was He stopped as quick as he could and ran back to see if I was hurt. I apologized for sitting on his car and so what came near being tragedy ended as a joke. but believe me. 1t wasn't bit funny while it was happening.
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