The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-08

ting for the Red Cross bring
their needles and yarn with them to
the Sunday services. Many knitters
'reSpoded last Sunday and during the
sermon hundred or more feminine
worshipers kept themselves busy
knitting warm goods for our boys.
One of the matronly knittsrs who
was also one of the most rapid manip-
iulators of the needles, when asked if
she heard and mentally digested"
what the preacher was saying, re-
piled: II never enjoyed sermon
more. My mind is SO ordered that l
can do two things at once-work and
listen. If I had been sitting in my
pew with my hands folded while the
minister was delivering his discourse,
my thoughts would have fitted about
from one subject to another. But the
act of knitting with humane motive
Iuppermost had the effect of steadying
my nerves and intensifying my
mental receptivity. Not all sermons
are gripping, but the one in question
was to me animating from begin
ming to end"
1t is needless to say that if all
knitters were like the Columbus
woman quoted, preachers in general
would stress all their invitations to
the gentle sex to come to church and
knit.
A New York woman struck her hus-
band on the nose when a Judge decided
that friend husband wouldn't have to
pay her but 81 week aIimony. If he
blame him?
There are said to be 100000 Ger
man soldiers imprisoned in Russia
who are we'll fed and ready to fight. Is
it possible that the Russians feed their
war prisoners and go hungry them
selves?
The protest against boomers worn
hxy
that there are still persons in this
country with nothing in particular to
worry about.
Some people--a great many people,
in fact-are beginning to think that
a Teuton spy dangling at the end of a
rope is contamination devoutly to be
wished for.
A sentence of IS months in a peni-
Tertiary will merely give German plot
ters an opportunity to plan worse
ldevilment than they have perpetrated
before.
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Repeated references to the ground
hog indicate that we are getting along
to the season when we can afford to
/ tell the coal man what we think of
him. ~
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'The world is on fire." says the
Montgomery Journal Uncle Sam has
that fire out
The average man wonders how Pres
ident Wilson ever finds time te GO to
a theatre and stay through the entire
performance.
A contemporary discusses "The Flu
ture of the Turk" He has past that
is going to play hob with his future.
John L. hobnobbed with the great
while he was alive, but his humble
friends followed him to his grave.
a X y
An American congressman abroad
cuts much more important figure
than he does in his own bailiwick.
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The wedding out of unfit army Of
ficers is a process that the American
people can view with equanimity.
Those telephone girls who are going
to France won't have to know much
French to say, The lines busy"
y y 4
Listen to Bolo Pasha and he'll almost
convince you that he is as innocent of
wrongdoing as babe unborn.
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That peace conference at Brest-
Litovsk seems to be nothing more than
an optical illusion.
LUKE MLUkE SAYS
There is always something to be thank
full for. A bald-headed man doesn't have
to buy any dandruff cures.
A man handles more money than his
\ wife and seldom counts his change. But
a wife handles so little money that she
always inspects her change to see il
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