The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-12
sician and the conductor was master

of interpretation.
 In the public schools of Birming- ham and in the schools generally in all progressive states music IS being taught seriously. It has been raised to the dignity of class "credits" and i in the near future it will be recog- nized as one of the most intellectual of the high school studies. In the meanwhile let Birmingham's school band, as we'll as its orchestra, be encouraged and be given frequent opportunity for public performance. < # % MT. McAdoo sternly prohibited the idle rich from travelling in private cars, but now that the war is over and incidental ly he has signed a contract as attorney for movie stars at salary of s10o,ooo a year, he rides serenely in 8 private car of his own. By all means MT. McAdoo 
 should visit Washington, where he felt the pinch of poverty. # x x A Birmingham boy who is now lieu l tenant in France writes that shoes cost s20 a pair As the war is over he is no longer in a position to provide for his | wants as the Irishman did who had tc kill about a dozen Germans before he found a pair of officers boots to fit him. # # ;s I The superintendent of the criminal in- | vestigation department of Scotland Yard has been knighted. Sherlock Holmes al most convinced us that Scotland Yard didn't amount to a hill of beans in run ming down criminals because of certain obtuseness in deduction. | E # # 1 Pictures of German women who are | now figuring in the politics of the fath erland force us to the conclusion tha some very competent hausfraus have been lured out of the kitchen. | x < x
 We can hardly curb our impatienc' while waiting for some enterprisnt cameraman to provide the Sunday pa pers with a photograph of Trotzky'' favorlte manicure
 It is announced that the cost of living
 will be lowered. However, it would no
 be advisable for the ultimate consume
 to begin celebrating until prices actuall,
 drop.
 Ed Howe is a stanch defender of tn
 business man. As proof of his sincerit he doesn't care a hoot about publishin
 advertisements in his monthly. # t: *. . pr. Albert, former German spy l America, has been promoted at Berlir Naturally his record comments him t
 the more thoughtful Teutons. # < # [ London ''bobbies'' don't seem to rt
 alize that trolling the bones'' is a time honored institution among American SO
 diers and sailors.
 x The simple African, enjoying the con forts of jungle life, little dreams tha American prohibitionists rlan to mak
 all Africa dry.
 The American army university, recent
 ly opened in France, has 15,O0O students The varsity baseball team should
 a humdinger.
 f Those American soldiers who took pal
 in a riot in London may have imbibe
 something else besides the spirit (
 7s"
 The indefatigable Colonel House l keeping in touch with the presidents l ship as it steams toward France.
 H * E The popularity of red hats does m signify that every woman who wea . one is a bolshevik at heart. $ * * x
 Italy has no death penalty for murde u Maybe that accounts for the popularii of the stiletto in Italy. e * a #
 Huzzahs gladden. the returning so
 dier's heart. but is there job behir
 the cheers? q STYLES IN NAMES CHANGE
 From the Manchester Guardian. ,, Fashions change in feminine nomel - clature as well as in other affairs. one corner of Lancashire, at any rat Sarah a generation ago was probab e the most common Christian name for
 girl It was more often than not link' . with second, the two in pronunciatit
 always being run into such fearful cor n pounds as ''S'r'ann," "S'r'annah, "S'l n ellen" These were the days before u
 decline of the Sunday school, and mo of the children bore the Old Testame 1" impress.
 ! One aunt, we remember, labored Il
 der the burden of Kerenhappuch; ? other, Jemima Then there was Rut 1T Hannah. Naomi Ann, Abigail. and u O more common Martha and Debora
 There has been a growth in populari of the cheap novelet, and we nevada