The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-24
M E N W o M E N
 A ND THIN C s

Hotel Lobby column in which one of our citizens stated that his father had never travelled out of the county in which he
 was born.
 It's hard for me to appreciate such an attitude. and yet it shows certain con
 tentment which is enviable in this twen- tieth century when everybody seems to have been bitten by a gadfly, and no enc ever seems satisfied with their en- vircument.
 The duery of the drummer who. enter ing a crowded car on the Southern not long ago, on which happened to be rid ing Don't none of you folks ever stay at homer was an apt one and true in- dictment of the restless American who never seems satisfied unless he is on 1.-the move It seems a good nickname for
 Uncle Sans sons would be constant levine"
 I'll admit that all my life I have had the itch of travel, and have been con istaEtly on the move, and l reckon when the old man with the scythe overtakes me | la lad in a Paris pension by the remark iof an old French lady who, when an American husband said to his wife at table, My dear I think I'll run over to New York for a couple of weeks" ex- Iclalmed, Mon Dieu, you Yankees talk about crossing the ocean with the sang froid Parsian would speak of making la f,i,, to yrorcaitio.
 It's the difference between the Anglo Saxon and the Gallic people. It is the wanderlust of the Englishman which has made him the great colonist, and which lsent our pioneer forefathers from the Att lantic to the Pacific. The Parisian is content with his dear Farce but John Bull and Uncle Sam are filled with curi- osty, and are always polSing their noses ir out of the way places. It is said the British built an empire in fit of ahsentmindedness and the great west was peopled by men of adventure. I This is rather long opening to tell about and justify my recent visit to Nashville I admit that am a busy
 
 are doing When I journey it is with open eyes. and what Is more I do moi |mind converting myself into question mark. It may be a bit disconcerting and not add to my popularity as sight, seer. but it is the only way to find out of old would have been a heaven born re- porter, for he had the power to grasp the salient points in the lands through which he passed as a missionary
 l went primarily to see the staging of the Fat Cattle show and to get an idea of just how Nashville had grown by leaps and bounds as southern cattle market. l found much that stored away for future use, and I have already set down in this column much that I saw and heard, and from time to time will continue to utilize the information I gar nered. as it is my business to bring to my readers items of interest about r.aien, Woman and Things"
 The cattle game is a fascinating one from any standpoint It is a joy to 1 see the herds graze. It is interesting to follow tbe calves from the time they are dropped to the time they are sold WI en raised and finished for the market. It is exciting to see them in the pens as they are cut out for the slaughter. It 1 is worth while to follow them to the and if you are a housekeeper to see how the meat is cut up and kept in the retail markets and stores
 1 I stopped at the Hermitage, and every day on my way to the Nashville Union Stock Yards made it my business to go l through the market hall, which is a city institution and see the various offerings and talk both with those who kept the stalls and with the purchasers. More than % years ago the public market had I Vanderbilt I used to frequently go through it. and marvel at the chance the i fousekeepers had to make their selec- tions. l had come from Eufaula, an in land little city with no market facilities l l found out that the rents in the mar ket building were most reasonable. In talking with one of the leading butchers I learned that he paid only $50 year for his stall. It was plenty large for him 1 to do a good-sized business in meats. No one in the market tried to handle every thing, but most of the renters made a speciality of one thing or another. Meats, vegetables, fruits fish, creamery pro- ducts, etc. I was surprised to find that practically all the business of the day on the inside of the market was over by Il d
 ! But the thing which interested me most were the country wagons on the square, just to the east of the city hall mar ket. They lined up on one side of it and almost surrounded the county court house. They. were of all sizes and de- scriptions. from old-time covered wagons down to the latest thing in motor trucks It did not take me long to find out that | they had for sale a very much larger variety of things than found their way to our curb market at Woodrow Wilson park
 | Perhaps our showing of vegetables was just as good. but they had on sale prac- !tically everything produced on farm 1 was astonished at the fresh meat dis play. | saw whole hogs dressed cut up, sausages. souse and every variety of pork I asked about the inspection and saw that every carcass bore the city stamp. I found that it was without cost