The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-18

sioner of accounts to investigate it, adding that the talk about a crime wave is propaganda on the part of the insurance companies. If that is the case the burglar insurance com panies have gone about their propa- ganda in fairly subtle style. Take the crime news of this week. Fur thieves got $10.000 worth of loot from a shop within one block of police station. The arrest of five men cleared up a subway bandit gang mystery which included six hold ups and three stolen motor cars Many victims of burglars have asked permission to wear masks when they Identify suspected criminals because the criminals are so numerious that the victims fear. their vengeance. If that be propaganda, make the most of it.
 But still and all, crime wave or mo- the starched ruffie-banished these many seasons--is upon us again in all it's crisp glory. The Spanish hat has arrived, topped by Spanish comb thrust in at the proper angle. And the gold anklet set with dia- monds and worn beneath the filmiest silk stocking was twlnkled on the avenue.
 
 cial.) )-An absent minded woman is an aggravation to herself and to her friends, but when lady is fur ried with the business of getting married, 1t is unreasonable to ex- pect that She shall remember every thing. Mrs. Becky Maurer was so occupied with her wedding gown or her white gloves or some such seri- ous matter that a number of little things which she ought to have mentioned to, Meyer Maurer went clean out of her head.- Among the little things were six children and itwo former husbands. According to Meyer his wife de- scribed herself as a widow with one child. The bridegroom was not at all pleased when within a few weeks after his marriage he began to count new faces at his table until, one by one, six other juveniles ap- peared. Even the thought of that other New Yorker, Domeico zacca- hea, failed to comfort him, though Mrs. Zaccahea had received a letter of congratulation from the President for being the mother of 16 young sters--only a few more than MT Meyers bride possessed With the appearance of the seventh little guest, MT. Meyer called a halt. Not a note from the President, but a decree from the annulment court is 1 what MT. Meyer seeks.
 | But if Mrs. Meyer finds men un- reasonable, so does Mrs. Beatrice | Nugent Surely $2,000,000 is little enough to pay woman for Keeping a secret. It Is the price which Mrs. Nagent says her uncle agreed to | give her if she remained mum about his marriage Mrs. Nugent remained mum, the wealthy mother, who lad opposed the uncles match, died in the belief that he was bachelor; :; the uncle consequently inherited a fortune, and now he won't give Mrs. Nugent a stingy little $2,Ooo,ooo. Most Men vipers, Anyway l Oh, well; most men are vipers, if you believe Mrs. Eddy and Mrs. Kel- Icy Mrs. Ethel Eddy, who ssks I $200 a week alimony, calls her hus- band in the official documents a living Judas and "a child Of the idle rich" The case furnishes, fur ther, the unusual instance of a CO., respondent: aiding the wife to ob- | tain a divorce. Mrs Inez Kelley, i one of the women named by Mrs. Eddy, has voluntarily made affida- vit as to "the duplicity" of Mir Eddy: and Mrs. Kelley has done this "as a l woman who has previously been a wife," she felt what a cruel situa- tion Mrs. Eddy was in and realized the baseness'' of Mrs. Eddy's hus- I band. Moreover, Mrs Kelley's affi- I davit defends with the hope of her testimony will aid Mrs. Eddy in win ming her freedom. Who says wom en don't hang together?
 It has been, on the whole, a hard week for women. Look at Valerie Josefowska, who says Stanislaus Cichoki not only borrowed $s,o0( from her. but tilted her into the bargain. Stanislaus wrote beauti- ful letters when he sought a lean Like this: DO you prefer, swee, baby mine, to Iet me die slowly thar to have me ~Snffer slowly" aht Listen to- my voice as roars vitf
 but to depart as a big nothing that would be drama of dramas. The letters may seem a bit unin1elli gible, but Valerie took them tt mean that Stanislaus wanted $6, 00l and herself. / When he married someone else Valerie began suit fol her $6.000 and added nineteen a. heartbalm
 Mrs. Thomas' Hard Luck
 LOOK, too, at Mrs Q. B. Thomas Wht thought she had inherited one mil lion dollars until Referee John God
 frey declared that Mrs. Johnson husband forged the will for wnici that amount was bequeathed her. Ant look at Mrs Louise Auditore, who II suing for alienation of affections ha. set the price of millionaire hus bands love at an even hundred thousand. One woman, however. ha, played in luck. She has been granted tho right to talk and talk and tall without giving her listeners the ghost of chance at a re1oinder Upon any subject, hers will be tn, first word and the last. She Is tn, woman barber installed on the une' Olympic" Haircuts masculine a. well as hAircuts feminine come with
 in the range of her efficient shears But it is significant Of. the topsy turvy days in which we live, the fac that the lady barber was ehEaxet primarily to trim the heads of bobbes haired women passengers.
 Though the thermometer jigs eve, and anon up round 90, school Spene; Monday. .AllathA critics of HvIan n<