The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
HENRY M. EDMONDS.
ings are disappointing. Cotton is de- ing only fairly well. General rains have missed the corr. belt"

have missed the corn. belt" # T <. Alabama legislators who make positive statements in regard to the coal and iron Industry of Jefferson county and then acknowledge that they don't know what they are talking about are typical of law makers who have made state legislatures the laughing stock of the country. | + + <
 There are still more than 57 ways of separating fool from his money A farm where Captain Kidd was supposed to have buried some of his treasure was sold the other day in New Jersey to inter- ested persons. Feverish digging turned up nothing of a negotiable nature. # # # A young woman in New York went to visit some friends and then got mad because she was reported lost and the newspapers raised a hue and cry. Might set a time limit before starting to search for missing young women, < * < | Another reason why the Prince of Wales ought to be popular in America is the report that he overruled his mother to get into the army and then led the of ficers charged with keeping him .out of danger a merry chase i < x # "WilSon at Golden Gata Earlv in San 1 tember '-Headline. Refers, of course, to the entrance of San Francisco bay and not the golden gate where St. Peter asks embarrassing questions t. < #
 Ultimate consumers who never expect to draw the princely wages of railway train men are wishing them more power in | their fight to reduce the cost of living
 <: * * ! ChicasO's race war is over and the car strike has ended This should enable the next fair defendant tried for murder ] to get her full share of publicity <. * * MT. Taft is the most amiable of men, Even when his confidence is violated he doesn't lose his temper If he were not a republican we could love him. <. < # | It's a bit disappointing to read that Kclchak's army is crumbling, just when We were about to be convinced that he was Russia's man of destiny. as * # 1 There must be times when the family of a second lieutenant wishes he had brought back German helmet instead of French bride ! The idea of the French pact is to serve notice on Germany that the next time she feels quarrelsome she needn't start to pick on France.
 < * .* | When Ganymede was cup bearer to the gods and there were high inks on Mount Olympus, the beverage served was not a 2sl brew. fN ] It really doesn't make any particular difference to the royal exiles in switzer-
 land when the treaty of peace is rati- fed
 The German morale will never be what i it once was until yard of sausage is ! with:n the reach of the poorest hausfrau.
 
 LUKE M'LUKE SAYS. | careful man feels that a woman should not be trusted too far and a careful girl feels that a man should not be trusted too near. l When man and maid fall in love it hurts her whole lot more than it hurts i him.
 The reason why married woman acts so independent is because she imagnes that if she ever needs divorce she can go and get one and have it charged to her husband.
 Since prohibition hit this land wife isn't curious about kissing her hus- bany every time he comes home. Another thing we can't understand is | why the wind is always blowing in your direction when garbage wagon eoes by. The old boy who announced that thing of beauty was joy forever had another think coming. If her complexion is nat | ural it is bound to fade, and if 1t is | artificial it is bound to rub off. l Cheer up! No matter how skinny a | girl may be, there is nothing to keep her from having broad outsook 1 There is only one trouble about being | a corn-fed. You have to get an out size | in everything but handkerchiefs. l Married life agrees with some girls. But five years of matrimony makes other | girls look like their mothers sisters. 1 Any time you hear a dame loudly in- sisting that she is lady. you can bet all you have that she isn't.