The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-31

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 has enlisted many of the nations best known women who have not hereto fore been identified with the Y. W. C. A., but have realized the necessity ot the work being undertaken by the war council.
 ] In Great Britain, in France and in Russia these women are already giv- li ing invaluable aid to our allies in es- tablishing clubs, rest rooms, recrea- ton centers and eating places for women workers. It is proposed to spend $1,00o,00O for this purpose abroad.
 Hostess houses erected at the mili- tary camps for mothers, wives and ] friends visiting the soldiers are prov l ing both useful and popular. Six of these houses are now in use and twenty more are being erected. The houses will cost $900,000. An equal sum will be spent for housing women employees of munitions plants and in work at the cantonments. The war councils American-foreign language service bureaus will care for foreign women and their children whose husbands have gone to war. Eight of these bureaus are already in operation. One hundred thousand dol lars will be spent in this work.
 Elsewhere in The Age-Herald of to- day appears more detailed account of the plan to raise money and the purposes for which it will be spent by the war council of the Y. W. c. A. Birmingham has responded literally to all appeals for aid since the war began and the patriotic women of this city who have undertaken to raise the comparatively small sum of 5000 should meet with ready response.
 
 Let them say what they please. a "dem- onstration'' along the Italian line isn't going to tighten the pressure against the Germans on the western front and that embargo is still in good working order.
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 William J. Damn of New Rochelle has been given court authority to change his name to Dale. which Is more euphonious and less suggestive of misadventures on the golf links.
 women's skirts will be made even shor- ter and the height of their shoes will be decreased. Stockings will have to fill the gap. See that they arc of good quality and in repair.
 
 Forward with God!" telegraphs the Kaiser to Emperor Charles of Austria. There is evidently no improvement in the Kaiser's mental condition.
 Wilbur Glenn voliver denounced dogs, tobacco, chewing gum, theatres and med so;ras ,,, n rooao+ odaroc. xV;1h,,,v ;s ooo o of our leading denouncers.
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 In the meantime, how is the spread of prohibition affecting business at the vari- ous and sundry sanitariums for the cure of the liquor habit?
 When 8 stage celebrity declares over her own signature that she has received as high as sS500 week, gaiantry demands that we believe her.
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 The strike of press feeders in New York does not include the sob writers, although they help to feed the presses of metropoli- tan journalism.
 King George lost an uncle the other day, but he was q German uncle. and George will not be expected to go into deep mourning.
 The army officer who closed Colonel Roosevelt's eye in boxing match was promoted. A tribute to red-blooded ef- ficiency.
 While the second liberty loan was pill ing up, it was but fitting that American Gunners should begin peppering the Hun.
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 Tom Green county, Texas, has gone wet" That county simply had to live up to a name that signifies good fellowship. The man in the street doesn't seem able to understand that Dagoe Island is not pronounced the way it is spelled. LUKE M,LUKE SAYS Maybe more folks would marry for love only they know they can't afford to in these days of the H. c. of L. l. The calm before the storm is the period of comparative silence during which father is sneaking upstairs in his stocking feet about a. m. Ia spite of the fact that they already have q wife and cheap automobile, some men are not satisfied and will go out looking for trouble.