The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Herald Classified Ads Tell You Ho 70 Make And
AL|MONY |S URGED ] FOR HUSBANDS BY LORD B|RkENHEAD
English NobIeman Says The Tables Of Matrimony
 Now Turned


 ] banas-if there is to be equality be- tween the seXes-was urged before 1 tie House of Lords by Lord Birken- f head during a debate of the second reading of bill which would allow English women to obtain divorces l on the simple ground of misconduct. Lord Birkenhead criticized the bill as unfair to the males and said that the tables were turned now. He did not see why the husband should be made to support the wife after di- vorce, or why guilty wives, "ones rich in this worlds goods" we're not made to support their husbands Lord Parmoor caused a sensation by saying that the high-minded wom- en of England did not want divorce laws. This caused Lord Buchmaster, who introduced the measure, to jump to his feet with the retort that there were plenty of the best English women who had been glad to take advantage of the divorce code.
 LIQUOR JOKE GROWS STALE
 One of the standing jokes of the English newspapers is that Ameri- cans come abroad in the tourist sea son principally to drink and dance. This little pleasantly is becoming very shop-worn to Americans who live here and who know that the great majority of travellers from the United States come here now for the same reason they have always crossed the Atlantic-to see the sights.
 Some well-meaning London shop keepers and others started during the off season what they called ''brighter London movement" One of its purposes was to have the amuse- ment places, particularly the danc- ing resorts kept open later than heretofore, and to have the license hours prolonged for the hotels and m a pa shows. All this was to have been for the lone benefit of Americans. But the "brighter London movement" has been wasted as far as Yankee tourists are concerned. Prohibition does not seem to have changed them. The tired businessman manages to cheer up when he gets abroad with out spending all his time at the cock tail bars, and for every American citizen found at jazz teas in the res taurants several hundred are pour ing through Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London, armed with their red guide books
 Thousands go by train and by mo- tor to Oxford and to Stratford, where Shakespeare was born and where Ma rie Corelli lives.
 The cathedral towns in Ireland are beginning to cry out for a share in the attention, although the news papers admit that the travelling facil- ities are not yet entirely normal in that country. Nevertheless, Ireland IS safe for strangers. She is as hos pitable as ever and is feeling a little lonely.
 HEAR AMERICAN SPEAKERS
 England, which has furnished so many lecturers for America in the past winter, is getting back some speakers quite as good as she sends.
 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia university, has finished his tour. James M. Beck, the United States solicitor general, de- liVered two addresses in Grey's Inn on the supreme court, which att tracted more attention than they otherwise might because the recent prohibition decision has stirred the English to an interest in the exact powers of that tribunal. MT. Beck also gave brilliant address before the English speaking union last Sun day in the Shakespeare Memorial chapel Stratford, making a plea for the revival of poetic imagination.
 D. S. M. Zwemer of New York city. editor of the /Moslem world, who is here for the international missionary council spoke at d luncheon in his honor given last Tuesday by the Journalists of the religious press He spoke on the British empire as a Mohammedan power.
 NEW SHRINE
 Little Scottish mining village of Carfin, which slept for many cen turies among the thrifty towns of old Lanarkshire. has suddenly become a miniature Loudres to which daily go thousands of devout Christians Sin search of the same blessings that bring pilgrims to Loudres.
 The fame of this village comes from the grotto built there q year ago adjoining the Catholic church in imitation of the shrine at Loudres. To this grotto the village people went to ss offer prayer asking that the Shrine be given the powers which were bestowed upon it's counterpart in France.
 The first miracle said to have been wrought as the cure of an old Lanarkshire woman who hobbled to the Shrine with the aid of crutches but who was able to leave her sticks before the altar and betake herself home without assistance.
 The village sees thousands of visitors daily. On a recent sunday o0'oO0 persons visited the shrine in a great