The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Have you got any relics? The req son I ask is because at present tEe amount being shipped and brought back to America is something enof- nous. The mania has hit Birming ham. and so if you haven't got any you had better beg or buy some or you may be embarrassed, as I have been within the last few weeks
 My namesake came home and salo' Daddy, have you got any relics? A' first I was a bit nonplussed, for II was rather an unusual question for even kid to spring on his parent but I soon learned that they were gettlhs up an exhibit down at LakeVieW school and all the pupils had. been asked to bring curios of any descrlp- tion they could lay their hands on about the house.
 I had to own up, much to his disap- pointment, that I didn't have any c3- rios unless it was to be an old clothes exhibit, but if such was the case had some articles of personal adorr- ment which I might under compulsion submit to the inquisitive gaze Of fhe public and even permit them to be fin gered by those who cared to examine them more closely.
 Now, son." said I. there is an old sealskin cap which I let you wear during the recent heavy snow when we went rabbit hunting. It has an interesting history so far as your tatn- CT is concerned, for I bought the peit at Gothenburg, Sweden, seaport to"n' a famous fur market in which many rare and costly skins are sold on the market each season from various countries; but more noted on account of temperance experiment made ov it in the matter of granting licenses.
 told him how I had acquired seal skin and carried it to London where had part of it cut out for collar ana for cuffs for heavy overcoat and haa enough left over to make hooded cap which had been in service over quarter of a century and is practl' cally as good as on the day it was made. I thought that it with it's story briefly set out on a card beneath II might be of~interest to some visitor' but he vetoed the idea.
 "All right" said I. "If you do not care to exhibit the head covering ot your governor then the next thing III the way of relics is pair of suede gloves I bought from my good friends Caheen Brothers, just score of years ago. I explained how I had recently called at their store and told them that a pair of gloves which they had sold me were beginning to wear out ana that they had the reputation of stand ing behind their goods. However l got only this far when Sol said: Doctor just tell the head of the mems de- partment to replace them,' and how replied, T wouldn't have bothered you but had hoped that they must last me at least a score of years Although have in my possession such pair hi gloves with such a history, my off spring refused to place on exhibition my hand coverings.
 
 By this time I was getting deeply interested in relics and heirlooms anc | was determined to convince my sor | that I was no upstart without a pas 1 but that I had treasures that he reck- | ed not of I then suggested that il | he so cared I had a pair of trouser: made in the establishment of Loui. Saks 15 years ago and which had sec yearly service as my Sunday pants, an, after 10 years effort to get the best O them on the Sabbath I had tried then out on weeks days, but that I had bee, unable even to wear them out sui 1 ficiently to have the seats patched Knowing I could deliver them, he ye refused to even show the coverings e l my legs
 l My blood was now up. so I began {. press cutaway coat that I had pur | chased from Blach & Sons when the! were in business on First avenue 1, l ycdIS aSO, anu touds HdHSS II my closet pressed and ready for spe cial occasions. Not even 10-year-o.t coat could shake his determination [. let the household of Barnett be rep resented in the exhibition of relic at I,akeview school. He turned h | back on the covering of my baci
 which had done such long service.
 
 I then went to my shoeboX and pull ed out a pair of Bannister shoes whlcl have used for seven or eight year as my preaching shoes, for somehow in spite of having bought scores O
 new ones l seem to preach easier i
 not better in them than any other;
 so I have just kept them for Sunday and special occasions and expect then to be kept in use for many nor
 years to come. Strange to say, Fran ] wouldn't even think of carrying ther
 down to his school He flatly spurne
 the proffer of the coverings of m
 feet.
 I thought l would give him just on
 more chance in the hope that my fam
 ily would be able to at least registe
 one relic or curio. I looked throue
 my drawer of cravats and carefun
 picking out an English Ascot, I sait
 son, here is tie which I only wea
 on dress occasions with my Prince Al
 bert Brother Sam brought it to m nearly 90 years ago. He got it in LOT