The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
ST. ANTHONY

beholding The Sins of St. Anthony in the movies. Wouldn't that jar you? Whoever thought St. Anthony had enny sins? He has been held up to us as a perfect paragon of all that a respectabul married man ought to be-
 Frum Childhood we have been under the impression that St. An thony was the mustard-he was newer lait at the offs; newer did he cum home at 1:30 a. m. with a double barreled grouch and a thick tung; no pliseman evver left him on the stoop of a morning along with the milkman's de- livery; he was entirely innosent of that old worn out allyby of having to "sit up with a sick frend" or 'I had to stay down town tonite Deer becawse a class malt of mine blew in frum De- troit" and a job lot of old stuff like that
 Of corse all of us men have con- seeded in our minds that theere must have been a lot of class to St. Anthony. He was a big ath lettic handsum chap and all the wimmin envied Mrs. Anthony and no doubt remarked that "it was a pity so good looking a man had married a little shrimp like hur." Also the natturel infurrense was that all the Vamps weer constint- ly on his trail, making eyes at him and in uther and devius ways putting him to the test. So much in fact has been sed upon this sub ject that potts and artists have 4N1I f,. nf the rock ribbed and cast run furmness of charactur of St. An thony. Theere is an authenticated press dispatch by a speesial cor rispondent of one of the feeding publications of 437 B. c. resting in detail of how a forrain princess of unusuel buty maid strenuous effurts to Vamp St. Anthony and put him through the 33d degree; trying hur best to make a date with him at the Kits Karltun all of which maid no gratur impress sion on him than sircular letter asking for donasions for the ky sur would make in Belgium.
 Now a reputasion carefully built up by a feeding citizen menny centuries ago and handed down to posterrity by personnel trends and memburs of the fammerly un- til it has grown to be a kind of an institusion ought to be sacred. No rude hand should disturb it-- and theere ought to be universal protests frum the publick at this late day-espesially as theere air now not availabull enny eye wit nesses who can cum forward and testify on the behalf of the defen- dent.
 All of St. Anthony's schoolmaits and contemporaries have long since ceased to draw pensions and theere perminint addresses air not in the arkives. Theere air no authenti- cated meens of communicating with them except by the weegee board and our courts air prejudised against the weegee. It is sort of unsportsman like trick for the enemies of St. Anthony to cum for ward at this lait hour when all his witnesses air out of town and drag out a lot of old nayborhood gossip and make capital out of it. It will strike no sympathetic cord in the public mind; it will fall with a dull thud as it richly desurves to fall.
 The trends of St. Anthony must not be alarmed. If it weer possibul for him to return to us grateful peepul would acclaim him and promptly vindicate him by electing him to the Legislature and, maybe later on if his record continued good to the senit. This would put him to gratur test than he went through yeers ago and if he got by with it--his reputasion would be