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THE
BIRMINGHAM
AGE-HE RALD
ft VOLUME xxxxrv
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1914
SPORTING SECTION
NUMBER 4G
Too Many Travelers Give
Offense
ACT LIKE SIMPLETONS
Stories of Some Arrogant Americans
and Their Experiences in the Far
East—Are Very Egotistic
in Conduct
From the Chicago Daily News.
Nagasaki. Japan.—"So this is that re
. markable kite flying exhibit, is it! Huh!
I’ve seen the youngsters in our back
yard at home do better."
The speaker was a tourist. The sad
fact waB only too patent. If the pathetic
arrogance of manner was not convincing,
there was the inevitable straps, glasses
and camera to speak more plainly. The
city of Nagasaki had been overrun *or
three days by a "welt-reisen" party of
several hundreds of this genius, and to
* do proper homage to them the merchants
and officials had arranged ail extensive
programme in their hoonr.
The remarks would have passed unno
ticed—the traveler’s contempt for all
things oriental is common enough—had I
not caught a quick, cold glance exchanged
between the mayor and governor, who
f formed the center of a nearby group of
Japanese hosts.
Blush for Tourists
It Is this "back home" attitude which
makes the American resident In foreign
lands blush for his own nationals. Not
that other countries do not offend. They
do. But every American tourist seems
to hail from Missouri. They must be
"shown." Is it not Zola who tells of a
SAYS SULPHUR
DRIVES ECZEMA
• FROMM SKIN
Use like cold cream to in
stantly stop itching and
clear the skin
< Sulphur, says a renowned dermatolo
gist, Just common bold sulphur made In
to a thick cream will soothe and heal the
skin when irritated and broken out with
Eczema or any form of eruption. The
moment it Is applied all itching ceases
and after two or three applications the
Eczema disappears, leaving the skin
clear and smooth.
He tejls Eczema sufferers to get from
any good pharmacy an ounce of bold-sul
phur cream and apply It to the Irritated
parts the same as you would any cold
cream.
For many years common bold-sulDhur
has occupied a secure position in the
practice of dermatology and cutaneous
affections by reason of its paraslte-de
atroylng property. It is not only para
sitical but also antipruritic, antiseptic
and remarkably healing In all Irritable
and Inflammatory conditions of the
akin. While not always effecting a per
manent cure It never fails to Instantly
subdue the angry Itching and irritation
and heal the Eczema right up and it
is often years later before any eruption
again appears on the skin.
Where Southerners
Will Find
Excellent
Accommodations
At Leading New
York City Hotels
Booklet at Our
i Information Bureau
ST. JAMES HOTEL
45th Street, near Broadway. !s
High-class Fireproof Hotel. Near all leading
theatres and a few minutes from department stores
Rooms with bath. $1.50 up. For two, $2.00 up.
* HOTEL SEVILLE
MADISON AVE. AND 29TH ST.
I® $1.50 to $5.00 per day.
HOTEL MARSEILLES
I 103d St. and Broadway. U
f Coolest rooms in New York- rates $2.00 (with
hath) per day; absolutely fireproof; overlooking
Hudson river; subway express station on comer.
THE MADISON SQUARE
37 Madison Ave. Facing Mad. Sq. Park, only
New York house where a rule against tipping i»
strictly enforced. Roeas with bath, $1.50 to
(5.00. Summer only.
* Hotel Martha Washington
28th-29th Sts. and Madison Are ”
Only exclusive hotel for women in America.
Rooms. $1.50 up.
Hotel Blackstone
50 E. 58th 8L. N. Y. City
A New Fireproof
f Exclusive Apartment Hotel.
Located in Best Residential
Section.
Suites of 1. 2 A 3 ROOMS.
ALL LARGE A LIGHT
AT ATTRACTIVE
RENTALS
BUCKINGHAM HOTEL
5th Ave.. 49th to 50th St.
500 rooms; $1.50 upward.
Longacre Laurelton
47th Bt. A B'woy. 147-149 West 55th.
Exclusively Bachelor. New. Modem Rooms
* Rooms, bath and show- with bath and show
kj cr. $1.50. er. $3.00.
HOr.’EL ALBERT
Uth St. ar.d University Place. Fireproof,
y Rooms. $1.00 day up; $2.00 with bath.
EMPIRE HOTEL
i Broadway at C3d St.
; Rooms. $1.50 with bath. Suites. $2.00.
j Entirely remodeled.
I HOTEL FLANDERS
1S5 West 47th St., near Broadway.
Rooms. with private bath. $2.00 up.
GRENOBLE~HOTEL
& t Mth 81. and 7lh Ave.
. $1.50 per day; with bath $2 and up./’ t
MITAGE HOT^
— at 42nd St. and/^ ,/ay.
1.50 per day ay
skeleton which has lain in the cata-!
combs at Rome for 1700 years ana was
quite perfect till “an American broke it
with a walking stick to make sure it was J
quite genuine? I have sometimes won- j
dered if this was the same man, who, j
shown in some Indian fane a light which
had not been permitted to go out for 301X1
years, said: “Not for 3000 years, huh!”
and blew at the feeble flame. “Puff! It's
out now." he laughed.
To give a catalog of the vagaries of
the American tourist were an easy mat
ter. But it would be useless. I should
be accused of exaggeration—or words.
To himself no man is a tourist. It is al
ways the other fellow. "Above a cer
tain level of culture," as Arnold Bennett
says of liis own tour of the United States,
“no man who is a tourist has the intel
lectual honesty to admit to himself that
he is a tourist.”
The tendency most baleful, both to our
friend, the tourist, and to those of us
with whom he comes in contact, is that
which Socrates termed "taking himself
along with him." You congenial traveler,
who is not afraid to learn, has as a duai
a character as Dr. Jekyll. His more ex
acting self which, were It allowed to go
abroad would demand his enamel bath
even In the Sahara or on the Jungfrau,
he will leave at home. Some time during
the first days of his journey he sloughs
the old skin of routine, home standards
and conceit. Unconsciously he puts him
self to school to the world, He fares forth
not to find new worlds to condemn, but
with the desire to commune. He goes
with a heart, intent on travels, not on
arriving.
Show Superpme Arrogance
This "back home” attitude of the water
front tourist is closely relater to a sec
ond system which characterises this un
pleasant malady. I mean his supreme
arrogance of country which he chooses
to call "patriotism": his lack of respect
for other countries and other people. This
Is the man who insists on the superla
tiveness of all things in "God's country."
He has made the Japanese to foresee a
‘white peril." To him th& aslantal is a
species lower than human the citizens of
other nations but people to be tolerated.
Only yesterday a portly gentleman In
immaculate white came to his own in a
way that was most gratifying. In order
to attract his rickisha runner's attention,
this god of creation, Jabbed the coolie
In the back with a fierce thrust of his
stick and shouted at the same time a
polite "Hey!" Things moved quickly. In
a flash the runner dropped the shafts,
stepped aside and left the portly party
to Injure his temper and white flannels
along a dirty roadway. As he picked
himself up and muttering maledictions,
made his few steps to the hotel it seemed
that one man more had learned that In
some points east and west do occasion
ally meet despite Mr. Kipling. I should
like, however, to have been seated in the
smoking room of the Manchuria and
heard the same man's story of how he
“got the best of an insolent coolie and
by caning him to within an inch of his
life, taught him how to treat a whits
man.”
Another flagrant example of this lack
of respect for the people among whom
one Is traveling I witnessed in the old
capital of Satsuma. Here I found two of
my fellow countrymen inspecting a large
Etatue of the greatest of many great Sat
suma heroes—Saigo Takamori. As they
walked around the railed enclosure, De
fore which the most thoughtless Japan
ese would pause in reverence, they
reached in and with their sticks gave the
fignre several good, sounding thumps
"By George, It's nothing but wood!" was
theli amused and, no doubt, scientific ver
dict.
It is possible for you to Imagine two
Japanese using their sticks over a Wash
ington or Nathan Hale in an American
city? And if you can, is it difficult for
you to go further and imagine the re
sult?
Disregard Local Ways
An amusing Instance of tourist con
tempt for local customs comes from Can
ton. A large party started oft in chairs
to see the Chinese town. As It was very
warm the sightseers Insisted that their
bearers remove the roofs from the chairs.
The coolies refused. With prompt Amer
ican dispatch our tourist party them
selves took oft the tops and continued
thar trip, to the amusement of the chair
coolies and a continually increasing cue
of* admirers. At last they were brought
to a halt In the center of a large native
cemetery. As the , party stepped forth
they were watched by a quiet, respectful
crowd of Chinese who had come to sea
the great funeral. "Suppose chair no
have top side,” the visitors learned, "you
all same dead man. Canton man he al
ways keep top side.”
But If these signs have been discourag
ing, the third is fatal. Your sentimental
tourist is the worst of all. "Old Faithful"
In Yellowstone gushes at certain Inter
vals but the sentimental tourist knows
no interval. You may know the type by
their adjectives. In Japan everything Is
so “dear," so “cute," so "quaint,” This
phase of the disease seldom appears in its
aggravated form before the 40th year and
then commonly in the female sex. One of
the first forms this outbreak takes Is that
of having one’s picture taken in gay Jap
anese dress and Beated in a rickisha. It
is "so nice to send to the folks back
home. And the Japanese dress is so
darling, you know.”
As a result of a too affectionate leave
taking of one of these dear ladles a stu
dent acquaintance of mine suffered tor
weeks The studept—as any Japanese
student will always do—offered his serv
Ices gjatls as guide to a large party of
tourista As the last launch was leav
ng for the ship this quiet mannered old
*dyJeaned OVer and Placed a resound
ing kiss on the youth's cheek. "Oh, thank
raiU 80 muoh! You have been a dear! T
think Nagasaki is perfectly grand and
you are simply fine. You have been very.
A merl1 nd ^ b®' atld lf ®ver yoa to
America you must look me up. Do!
Good-by, sweetheart!" v
The fulsomeness would bare been dis
gusting from a younger woman, but in
this case it was only absurd—to the oc
cidental. To the Japanese it i™
possible. The student stood' for a mo
ment blushing from what must have been
an excruciating shame and then disap
peared through a crowd of his Jeering
fellows. His nickname of "sweethelrt*
stayed with him through hls coHege
course.
For Reform of Egotism
Mr. F. G. Aflalo, a Britisher, writing of
British tourists, recommended some time
ago that the foreign office might issue
with every passport “an epitome of eti
quette" for travel In foreign countries
and suggested that such an Innovation
"would contribute more to the friendship
of nations than The Hague conference."
The writer goes on to say that It mlgnt
be well for the government to "supple
ment Its passports with a general In
struction that there are other countries
besides Great Britain.”
So far as it goes this Is very good
That it would be sufficient to reform a
bad case of chronic egotism, I very much
doubt. We could go a step further and
demand an examination in courtesy be
fore granting a passport at all. This,
however, might be impracticable as the
countries which are entitled to our good
manners . are far more numerous than
those which demand passports. Also some
I cynic might express uncertainty as to
whether we have men capable of con
] ducting Buch examinations,
j Might we not have a Carnegie school
I for Intending tourists? Surely there le
: room for one more specialized school and
this would bring results more far reach
ing than any. Americans who have shown
that they know how to travel, such men
• as Dr. Crotliers or Henry Van Dyke,
I would make capable presidents nnd they
j would bring to the school that quality
| which would most quickly bring ihout
! the change— a sense of humor. Could the
j "back home" tourist be made to see how
incongruous and laughable he really is,
the reform would be rapid enough and j
self-made I
Prices Cut Deeper on All
Ready-to-W ear
Special Sale of Silk Dresses $3.98
69 beautiful silk dresses, best colors and black, most popular selling
numbers this season, best styles. Formerly priced dji c> qq
up to $12.50, Monday.MPcJ.170
Colored Crepe and Voile
Dresses $2.98
A new lot of pretty crepe and voile dresses in all the pretty light
summer colors, in all sizes. Regular $5.00 values. We djio qo
offer these Monday at one price. Choice.
$10.00 White Dresses
$4.98
The largest and best sale of white dresses we have ever had. White
dresses in voiles, lingeries and crepes, all daintily trimmed, in all
sizes. Heretofore priced from $7.50 to $10.00. All go on <fl»^ QO
sale Monday at one price. Your Choice.nP*x. J70
i.
Notice!
Following our usual custom we will close every
Thursday afternoon through July and August.
We also will continue to close at 9 o’clock on
Saturday nights as usual.
New Wash Skirts
$1.25 to $5.98
Special showing of new wash skirts, latest sum
mer models, showing the long tunics. All sizes
up to 36-in. waist measure. Spe- QQ
daily priced $1.25 to ....dptA
Ratine and Linen Suits
$8.50 to $15.00. Values
$5.00
Choose from our entire line of cool summer
suits in unlined ratine and linen, in all the
pretty summer shades, formerly A A
priced to $15. Specially priced.JPO.UU
Paul Jones Middys New Skirts $5
This well known brand of Middy Blouse; Monday we show about 40 new styles ip Ladies’ t
the best wearing and best colors, in all All long tunics, in all fashionable shades and blacl
sizes; $1.25 and aI1(l 8e*e(*^‘on °f stylish Skirts we have ever sho
$1.50 values...vOt Specially priced for Monday.
End of June Sale
Point de Paris Laces in match sets; Patent Leather Belts, black, and
regular 10c and 12 l-2c P* white combined, in plain and rn
values for, yard . •>•-•>••••»• .OC vestee effect. Each ..
T . _ . . . . , New Lace and Chiffon Tunics.
Linen Torchon match sets, in fine, prtce , each
TZr .10c $2.50 l $5.00
Dainty Swiss Flouncing, OP Children’s Suede Belts, op
18 Inches wide. at. yard .... iOC each ... AuC
Tango Neck Cords, -| A- Wash Braids, p
all colors. Each . AUC yard ...
Stationery in all colors, with f7P_
Tango Belts, $1.00 sellers, C A*, gilt edge, at, box. I OC
at, each, 39c and . Bngerdinc Correspondence Cards
45-lnch Swiss Flouncing 50C W,Ul **** ed*e' 50C
Children’s Dresses
At 25c
Children ’ s ready made
Stamped Dresses, sizes from
1 to 2 years, 25c
The
"Hygienic—Band”
Seamless, sanitary Napkins
with pins. Absorbent,
hygienic, comfortable, eco
nomical. QQ/»
Dozen.Owt
qq Black and Navy Serge !|
^ Skirts, $5 Values $1.98
>epaiate ^ 1 s. Another lot of all wool Serge Skirts for
:s. 1 lie largest Monday’s selling. Black and navy, in
svn. QQ all sizes. Regular ao
. $5.00 value .. $1.0^0
3—Big—8
Silk Specials
36-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta, silk ry£»
tape bordered at, yard. I OC
36-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta Silk
at, yard . Oi/C
36-inch Black Chiffon Taffeta Silk, PI A
absolutely guaranteed at, yard.<1)JL*0U
End of June Sale
Apron Gingham—High grade, standard
Gingham, fast colors, all size checks. C a'
Per yard.. • •
Colored Lawns—Right from the mills, new
and crisp, immense quantities of 1 Ol*
1 snappy patterns. Per yard. J-v/v»
American Calico—Light and dark col- (Tp
ors, new patterns. Per yard.
Dress Crepe—32 inches wide, sheer and
beautifully printed; a 25c value. 1
Per yard . .
Picaninny Percale—The best in the world.
Shown in all new, pretty, bright patterns,
quantities of shirting patterns, "I O 1 f*
36 inches wide. Per yard.. 2 ^
Linene—15c value, heavy weight, 36 inches
wide. Shown in old rose and wistaria. As
long as they last, Monday, Ra
per vard.
A Ratine bargain that is worth looking for—
We have decided to close out our entire line
of Ratines, values from 59c to $1.00. Com
posed of the most elegant skirting and suit
ing manufactured. All placed in
one lot at, per yard.OU\s
Ratine Bargain No. 2—All Ratine worth up
,to 39c. A fine range of colors. 1
Per yard . Awv
25c
Brassieres 19c
A special of regular 25c Brassieres, laee and
embroidery trimmed, *| Q
in all sizes.. Ac/C
Long Muslin Kimonos 69c
A special lot of long Muslin Kimonos; _
regular $1.50 values; empire style. .. Oi/V/
Short Lawn Kimonos 10c
A clean-up sale of short Lawn Kimonos, all
light colors and sizes. 1 A
Monday. AUC
Ladies’ Swiss
Ribbed Vests 8c
Twenty-five dozen Swiss Ribbed Vest, taped
neck and sleeves; regular Q _
15c quality . OC
$2.00 and $2.50 Corsets, Odd
Lots, 98c \
An odrl lot of Corsets—just a small lot of each kind—all lengths and '
sizes; all $2 00 and $2.60 Corsets. For a quick sale we offer you OO
choice Monday of any Corset in the lot for ... i/oC
Children’s Dresses, 50c Values
29c
A close out of a lot of Children's White and Colored Di •OSSttS, QA 111
all odd lots and sizes from 2 to 12 years; 75c values .. !
A Special Sale of Children’s
White and Colored Dresses—
$1.25 and $1.50 Values 75c
This is the best lot of Children's Dresses we have ever offered at this ! '
price. Beautiful White and Colored Dresses, In all sizes from rwp*
6 to 14 years; $1.26 and $1.50 Dresses. You choice. /OC
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COURTESY TO AN OLD 1
WOMAN WINS $25,000
For being courteous to an old woman
Robert Reiner has been left $25,000 In her
will, but. Mrs. Christina J. Evans, who
took care of the same old lady’s dog until
the dog died, for which, she says, she
was promised $3000 in the will, has had
to start suit In the district court against
the estate in order to collect the money
COMFORT WITHOUT EXTRAVAOANC*
HOTEL WOODSTOCK
WEST 430 STREET. JUST EAST OF
TIMES 8QUARE, NEW V0RK
••8 ROOMS 170 BATHE
EUROPEAN PLAN ONLY
ROOM WITH RATH ft.SO • *3.00
DITTO. FOR TWO. 33.80 E *4 OO
WIRE FOR RESERVATION OUR EXPENSE
ihe claims Is due her, says a Denver
ipecial to the New York World.
The old lady was Mrs. Celia Oster. She
vas worth about $100,000 when she died
i short time ago, and divided her money
ind property among a number of friends
md heirs and made several bequests to
charitable institutions, but Reiner came
n for the bulk of the estate, receiving
F10,000 from it and all of the money Mrs.
Deter had in two Denver banks, amount
ing to $15,000.
Mrs. Oster became a . t a number
of years ago, and being c* found
that nobody was kind to her v. , *hey
were well paid for their little *'av •».
Reiner, however, she found to be a
ferent sort, although a young man. lib
entertained Mrs. Oster in numerous ways I
and never asked anything in return.
When she died he found he suddenly had
become rich. !
When Mrs. Oater made her will she
left $1600 to be paid to Mrs. Evans for
taking care of her dog, Daisy, until the
latter's death. Daisy died in July, 101%
and shortly before Mm. Outer's death
she made a codicil to her will in which
she revoked the bequest to Mrs. Evans.
MONUMENT IN HONOR OF
SOUTH’S HORATIUS
From Bristol, Tenn., comes word of
the unveiling of a monument to James
Keeling, the south's "Horatlus at the
Bridge," says the New York Times.
Here Is what Keeling did, according
to a description sent to the World
from Bristol:
"Left alone to defend the railroad
bridge at Strawberry Plains, Tenn.,
DROPSY
against federal bridge burners who had
been given orders to destroy all the
railroad bridges in east Tennessee,
Keeling hurled his foes down a steep
embankment one at a time as they ap
proached, killing three of them with
his sword. Although Keeling himself
had an arm cut off he stood his ground
until he had routed the entire party,
and then, weak from loss of blood,
he crawled to a nearby farmhouse,
where he received medical attention.
Nobody except Keeling and the men he
engaged in battle knew of the fierce
struggle until the southerner related
It at the farmhouse.”
The monument bears the image of a
Confederate flag, above which are the
words, "Defender of the Bridge." The
inscription recites that "Single handed,
he repulsed the federal bridge burners,
killing three and himself was maimed
for life. ’
The Daughters of the Confederacy
and a camp of Confederate Veterana
I raised by subscription the money tc
erect the monument
-—— »■
What Happened to Mary
From Tlt-Blts.
The maJd-of-nll-work In the services of
a provincial family, the members where
of are not on the most amicable of terms,
recently gave warning of her resignation,
much to the distress of the woman of
the house.
"So you are going to leave us?" asked
the mistress sadly. "What's the matter,
Mary? Haven't wo always treated you
like one of the family?"
"Tie, mum," enld Mary; "an' X'so
shtood It as long as I'm goin' to!”