The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

of idleness, the perverson of the pur- pose even of the brue creation in horse , racing!
 Fast society at Palm Beach!
 The excitement of gambling in Wall Street and around the gaming tablet "A divorced and a deserted son and home turned into harem! The power of money and the native
 graces of mind and body used as subtle blandishments to seduce girlhood and
 to lead womanhood from right paths
 And the end? Flight to another city to escape vengeance from those who had been wronged. What were
 the scenes in the last night? A gay dinner at fashionable hotel? Fancy
 food and high prices. Dancng-not ! with his own wife, but with other wo- men. one of them a divorcee! Then to the theatre for another sex play Then, with perverted taste still unsatisfied, going in the early morning hours to cabaret, there joined by other boon companions, male
 and female and more daring dancing still!
 | Then whirled to his residence in
 racing automobile, that the poetic con- sistency of the whole thing might be sustained to the end. Then reading the racing news, as he sat at ease in the solitude of his own home. gloating, perhaps, with the gamblers glee. over news of his own winnings.
 !, Then. The Angel Death! | "Oh, what life and what a death I And what record with which to stand 1 before the judgment bar of Christ, What a warning to the youth of our city, and what a challenge to our con- servative citizenship to battle against 1 these evil forces which misled and de-
 stroyed this life. They were all there ! the gambling and horse racing and divorce, court and cabarets and double living and theatres and bloody death at l last"
 "If I marry him, I'll have to live in
 Kansas City" the pretty blonde says What do you aspire to-Chicago" he questions.
 'No-New York" she replies. ! My dear, a husband should be chosen by arithmetic and not by geog- From Irene" Speaking of orchestras. I've got a brother who has been with the Boston Symphony for thirty years l You don't say so." ''Yes, he's the biggest simp in the bunch"
 Ed Wynn, in Ed wynns Carnival" The only way to keep a husband tstraight is to keep him broke" From My Lady Friends" Would you like to meet Cleopatra, the vamp the home breaker of the ] Nile?" asks Stanley Harrison (speaking
 of Irene BordonD of Sam Bernard. Er-er-you mean q hope you'll par don this conversationings. but, well,
 you see I want to know) you mean Marc Anthony's lady friend?" whis- pers the amusing Mir. Bernard Well. I wouldn't go so far as to
 say that" comes the answer. You know there have been other Roman sol
 diers around here. too.' From "As You We're" Of course. I went to the "Follies," which is now an institutional affair in New York like the Brooklyn Bridge.
 the Statue of Liberty and the Aqua rum. Mr ziegfeld. who has the reputation
 of being the best judge of beauty in America, announces that the girls this year in the 'Follies" are of the 'hand-
 picked" variety; and truly for shapeli- ness and beauty and comliness of form
 and face they are as beautiful people as you could find.
 When the show was unfurled (you have to unfurl that sort of show)
 everybody realized that the greatest
 authority on feminine beauty in the world had come by his title honestly. for there were slim girls and trim girls blonde girls and brunette girls, tall girls and short girls-girls. girls. giris-and to pick the real plum from the pudding would be task at which even Little Jack Horner. that master picker of plums. woul have found him. self "stumped"
 cause see's pretty. but because she's so tremendously clever, and whatever. she does Is always permeated with the artists touch and there's dslicacy