The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-01
By poLLy pALRYMPLE

| NNNCE more the time of the clinking 1 U of ice in tall glasses has come and once more I've made my an nual spring visit to gay New York and once more I'm back in nice little old Bir
 mingham, ready to give out yards and | yards of news on the subject of Fifth Lavenus fashions and futurist interiors, 1 patriotic organizations and preparedness campaigns, Billy Sunday double head ers' and naughty, unclad cabaret shows. 1 The great parade of thousands of peo- pie which took place on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington has come and
 gone; the baseball season has opened with
 Marathon flourish, and the Giants have grabbed the lead with rush; , the rhododendrons are out in the park; ;; Mrs Castle is still wearing her hair ''bobb ed,' though it's much thicker and darker by several shades; Mayor Mitchell has issued the order that beginning this
 evening all cabarets, cafes and restau- rants must be closed up good and tight at 1 a. m, Englands great statesman,
 MT. Balfour, and Frances one and only Joffre, and M. Viviani, whose name sounds like an Italian wine, have been interviewed and toasted and feted; Frit- zi Scheff and her latest husband, George Anderson, have opened the most palatial cabaret on the Great White Way, where wine is $10 a quart and lobster Is worth
 it's weight in gold, while suckers are in such demand that the brand would seem almost exhausted-an well-thats New York in nutshell. I shall now proceed to elaborate.
 With banners waving and flags flying, bands playing and people shouting, the Wake Up America parade on April 19 began at midnight with a modern Paul Revere-a young woman, Jean Earl Moehl, riding through the streets sounding the patriotic tocsin; the procession which stretched in long, slender, vivid line from Seventy second street into what seemed infnity, and which took hours to pass a given point was a marvellous exhibition of solid American patriotism; there were, to be sure, some joy-killers atop of Fifth avenue busses, all of which are marked Direct to the Billy Sunday Tarbernacle" tthe busses, not the joy killers, who said that the parade would not look like much to Germany, but in the opinion of the rest 1t was represen- tative of the finest and most wonderful spirit of Young America in all its beauty and youthful enthusiasm. Sone- times I feel morally sure that statistics would prove that most human beings are born bearing yard of crepe and tack hammer, but it's dead certainty that many of this kind who use the sub way" during the rush hours" who for merly imagined they could give the men higher up at Washington points" on steering the Ship of State now really realize their inability; of course, I be- lieve in the voice of the people being the of ha a al thing, but when you stop to reflect that the ma sses choose Robert w. Chamb CTS as their favorite author. it makes us rather optimistic about our friend, Will liam Jennings Bryan.
 The cabarets are putting on their seven league boots before the 1 o'clock a. m. ordinance goes into effect and from the way things looked to me I verify believe that all the Irish bacon and scrambled eggs in the world will be devoured along round the delectable hours of 8 a. nl., be- fore this story goes to press After last night if you want to fit about from cabaret to cabaret after 1 o'clock, the white ribbon of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will have to adorn your shirt front, or you'll have to have a passport before you can gain access to any of the Hawaiian rooms in New York.
 My friend, Irwin 5. Cobb is telling an adorable story just at present which all New York is chuckling over He re- marked to group of friends recently that he never knew until he went over to England last summer why King George was called King George the fifth, but after meeting the royal couple he under stood. because Queen Mary is the other four-hfths. Quite Irvinesque, isn't it?
 I dropped into the headquarters one day of the National American Woman's Suffrage association at I'll Madison ave- nue to see Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt the president and Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, the National treasurer. and get a direct line on the activities of that big organization during the war times.
 found Mrs. Catt one of the most at tractive women I ever met; very hand some and with a graciousness and a charm that is most appealing. Mrs. Rogers, the national treasurer, is a woman of tremendous force and the in- formation which she gave me concern ing the agricultural movement. now be- ing promoted by the Suffrage association (the story will follow later) was full of