The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

l went down to the fairgrounds re- gently and called on my friend, Secretary Dent and found him in shirt-sleeves, looking very much like a farmer
 He was proud of his two corn patches and called my attention to the healthy look of the advanced field, but big rain having just fallen, he was lament ing the fact that he had gone to such trouble to mulch it against the drouth, for now he would have to change his method of cultivation.
 We next looked in on his vegetable garden, and he has a small but good one, and shows that he is no mere theo- retical gardener but knows what he is doing. He couldn't help sticking in some cantaloupe and watermelon Eeed, but said he would have his garden cleaned as he wasn't going to try and make fall one
 He had been telling me about his reg istered Berkshire boar, and his SOW, and her litter of fine pigs, and so l had. to pay them a visit. I found they were we'll worth it. He is counting on his pigs being big enough when the fair comes on to have a hog-killing time do not mean a literal butchering of them but in being able to get a good price for them.
 Sure, he has a lot of chickens. 1 can't truthfully say that he runs to the ex- hibition variety l think his highest ambition is to have plenty of fresh eggs few friers, some broilers, and an occasional hen for the table. His excuse for not going in for fancy breeds is that the fair demoralizes everything, for a couple of weeks, and he does not care to be bothered with high-priced poultry.
 I have no idea you have ever noticed
 it, although you may have passed the fairgrounds daily on the cars or made your way into them daily during the week when the fair was on, but just over the ornamental entrance there is suite of the most livable rooms in the entire district. I know you will think l am ex- 'travag gant in what I am saying, but the kitchen, dining room, living room, bedrooms, baths. sleeping porch and bal cony are just as home-lke as any apart lment in the entire citv
 said sDent avidantl,+ ,,, your life you have lived on a steamboat or ship, for you have utilized every available inch of space to the best ad- vantage wish many of our house. wives could see just what can be done in a small space. Yet in spite of the way he has handled the outlay. there isn't the least sense of being crowded. but there is an air of spaciousness, and as a matter of fact two of the rooms are really larger than are to be found in many pretenious dwellings,. have always been foolish about in- side planning, and I take off my hat to Dent in compliment to what he has done to transform the top floor of the offices
 
 can be found, even in Placid Norwood ,. It's easy to spend money. Any rich fool can build or have built a palace. but | 1t takes man with the homing instinct to create livable place where he can find rest from the cares of the world -
 1 Now, I do not want to throw too many bouquets at the secretary bachelor of the l Alabama State Fair association, for I am
 afraid that President Brown might get
 bit jealous, for he thinks he is some l little fixer, himself, and for years has bsasted of his menage out on High
 land avenue; and he gets credit for be-
 ing nifty housekeepeT and I do not
 -'arr to willingly overshadow him, for