. Entre Nous 1912. u. And thought that thus hed surelj win her; For, as lus hope began to soar. He up and took her out to dinner. When of this speech hed spent his turned to parlez-vous tor taffy,And sighed en francats, Jc tadorv—Whereas, the maiden poured the cafe . So next he tried in Greek, forsooth,Hut she did not like his lo^os,For though twas Greek to her in truth,She greatl) feared it might be bomis. Just then he had a happj thought,And Hashed a classic ipse dixit;For since in Latin he had wrought, He telt that this would surely U\ it. Hut when she looked perplexed and blushed,
. Entre Nous 1912. u. And thought that thus hed surelj win her; For, as lus hope began to soar. He up and took her out to dinner. When of this speech hed spent his turned to parlez-vous tor taffy,And sighed en francats, Jc tadorv—Whereas, the maiden poured the cafe . So next he tried in Greek, forsooth,Hut she did not like his lo^os,For though twas Greek to her in truth,She greatl) feared it might be bomis. Just then he had a happj thought,And Hashed a classic ipse dixit;For since in Latin he had wrought, He telt that this would surely U\ it. Hut when she looked perplexed and blushed,lie vowed with hand above his cuore,For to Italian now he all his vows were of amora. When dulcet tones she would not list. He swore hed frame it somewhat rougher— irh Hebe dich, he fairly hissed, ^1 et ^rill he did not seem to bluff her. At last she said in speak in tones so much above you?Try English once. —he took the hintAnd won her with a plain I lore you. H. F\\ VIEWS : F BIXMIXGH \M The City of Birmingham as It Is \U i i in i. Armi sAuthor l /7/r Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, pointedl) different from other Southern cities, isa great workshop town—the coal, iron, and steel town of theSouth. It is the center of an altogether extraordinary businessactivity and success, as an investment held for certain of Vmericasgreatest capitalists. Situated at the geographical center of the cottonbelt of the South and at the very heart of Alabamas vast mineral is budded in a valley of limestone buttressed on one side by a massivehill of iron ore—Red Mountain—and on the other by a mighty coalrange—The Warrior Field. Thus the young city has, as the gilt ofnature, significant drawing powers in a commercial way, as well as abeauty and charm of locality, a tine quality of the picturesque. Once when Marion Crawford came here to visit, he said that, in siteand general topography, Birmingham was curiously like Italys Flo
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