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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Miss Hannah Munter OF Spokane,
Washington. formerly of Montgomery
will return home Tuesday morning, after
a visit to Mrs. Hugo Noa at $40 South
Street.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03
The Appendix-what 1t Is.

The Appendix-What 1t Is.
London Chronicle.
People. as a rule. know nothing regard
ing the appendix. They talk about APP
pendicitis but the organ aneeted Is 10
them a profound mystery. Let me en-
deavor to make plain the nature of<thts
curious yestige In human anatomical his
tory. The digestive system Of man. and
that of all other animals, is canal or
tube, whereof the stomach Is simply
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

/ be accompanied by Miss Mary Blue Crow.
who will visit her aunt in the Gulf City,
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Judge A.. H Aston of Clayton spent
last night in Montgomery He is en- route
to Huntsville to hold court for Judge
Osceola Kyle, who is i'll in New York
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Mrs. t. C. McKeithen is spending a
while at Blount Springs.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Rev. C. A. Stakely. pastor Of the First
Baptist Church, is in Admission with his
family where they will remain several
W ,eks The pulpit of The First Baptist
Church will be filled this morning by r.
G. Patrick of Marion.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Messrs. w. w. Graves and L. w. Tyson
will leave this morning for Atlanta. Ga.
to participate in the tennis tournament
to be held there during this week.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03
An Old Adage.

Fast to- e-oplnion-of-Cuna -
bragg may be a good consul, but Hold
better.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

rs your property safe Is it not possible for some
one to steal it? Gould not be destroyed by fire!
In Offices and at home there always great risk OF
loss. In the Safety Deposit Vault of
The First National Bank of Montgomery
absolute security is afforded to box holders. Place
your vauables in these boxes and you will not be
worried by the fear of loss. Your freedom from anx-
iety will bring perfect content, and the investment to
secure it need not be large.
Boxes rent at $500 and upward per annum, accord
ing to size. g..
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Mrs. s. j. Mclaughlin is in Hender
sonville, N. c.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Prof. George F. Mcdonald left yester-
day morning for New York where he will
spend a few weeks combining pleasure
and business.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Mr.. Eugene s. Carter is ill at his home
IN Chisholm.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Prof. E. L. Merriam and his son, Mr..
A. E. Merriam, returned last night from
Griffin, Ca, where Mrs. A. E. Merriam
has been spending several weeks En- route
from a business trip to Macon, Ga,
Professor Merriam stopped in Griffin
Thursday where he gave an organ recital
at the First Baptist Church which was
greatly enjoyed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Hon. j. A. Driver, Probate Judge o
Chambers County. is in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Hon. William H. Sanford. Solicitor of
Pike County, spent yesterday in Mont
gomery.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Hon. H. C. Gunnels. Superintendent o
Education, spent yesterday in opeIika.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

+. Mr.. Jake Wolff left yesterday mornin
for a ten days stay at Lookout Mountain
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03
PASSING THRONG.

Rev. A, L. Andrews, pastor of the Dex-
ter Avenue Methodist Church, returned
from. a vacation trip and will fill the pull
Dit of his church today. Mr.. Andrews was
absent about three weeks. During that
time he visited Asheville, Hendersonville
and other points in North Carolina He is
delighted with the North Carolina coun-
try and says his health was much i'm
proved by the vacation.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-03

Mrs. C. H. Scott. Assistant secty.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
ACCORDING TO YOUR COMPILATION.


1t is curious what effect the color
of ones dress has on ones appear
ance. That a woman's dress can
make her look larger or smaller is a
fact that many professional dressmak-
ers now take into consideration.
Dressed in black and dark hues
stout women look smaller both in
the street and when out walking, and
by the use of the same hues the di-
mensions of small people are so de-
creased that they appear like dwarfs.
The optical effect of white and light
colors is to enlarge all objects and
make the stout woman who wears
them almost mountainous in her ap-
pearance. She need not, however,
look dingy and dull, for the rich, dark
hues offered to her for selection are
varied and numberless.
Greens and blues, in their various
shades, are better than reds, giving an
effect of repose and distance.
All light colored materials should
be avoided for the waist. During tie
awkward age of girls, between the
ages of IL and IA, dark blue or plain
red materials are found to be produc-
tive of the best results.
In choosing colors for dresses the
complexion must, of course, be taken
into account. Those with sallow,
dark faces should select clear tints
and scrupulously avoid glaring, bright
and decided hues.
Those who possess clear skins and
pale faces may wear all shades of
rose, primrose, buff, light green, lilac,
brown and violet.
Florid persons should wear tints
that subdue color and give the effect
of distance, such as blue and green.
The most lucky of all girls are
those with fair complexions and a
color. To them few shades will be
unbecoming.
Those with pale complexions should
wear only fresh colors, such as cherry
and pink. Some say that color in
dress not only exerts an influence
over beauty of the wearer but also
over her health. Dark colors, they
claim, are found to absorb and give
out smells of all kinds to far greater
extent than the light ones.
1t is said that for nurses black cot
ton is bad, black wool worse and
black silk the most injurious of all.
Some doctors refrain from wearing
black clothes when visiting patients
for the same reason.
The warmth and comfort of the
body also are affected by the color of
the clothes which cover it, white and
light colored fabrics rejecting the
heat and black and dark ones absorb
ing it.
Black, however, throws off heat
sooner, and white clothing retains
the natural heat Of the body longer
than black.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
IT WAS BILLS ROUND.

"Things don't allus come out as
you sort O. hope for" said the old
farmer, with a sorrowful shake of
his head, relates the Detroit Free
Press. "I've got son Bill who
thinks he is jest the smartest critter
in this hull state, and few weeks
ago 1 got tired of his braggin' and
thought I'd put stop to it. I come
up town and hunted up one of those
prize fighters and told him to come
along by my place about noon some
day and give Bill some sass. That
would put springs under Bill's heels
and start fight, and the prize fight
er was to knock him out and let him
know that he didn't own the airth.
bargained with him for SIS, and
one day two weeks ago he showed up.
He looked like a tramp as he leaned
over the gate and asked Bill how he
come to be bowlegged.
eco onp says Bill, who was
washing up for dinner.
cam yer feet toe in, says the
tramp as he gufawed.
eco on or I'll mash YEP yells
Bill as his hair begins to curl.
"And you are knee-sprung and
lopshouldered, says the tramp as he
laughs like a mule brayin'.
"That was enough for Bill. He
throws me the towel and jumps for
that tramp, and next mint they was
squared off. I was lookin' to see
Bills heels fly in short order, but
durn my buttons if he didn't swing
for that feller's jaw and knock him
clear across the road and halfway
through the fence. 1t took US IS
minutes to bring him to, and then
we found that he had broken arm,
a sprained ankle and a fractured knee
cap. We had to take him into the
house, and he's there yet and will be
for a week to come, and I've got to
pay his doctors bill and mebbe SIS a
week for his lost time. It was only
Yesterday Bill says to me:
"'Dad, I'm the awfullest fighter in
seven states, and three John L. Suli-
vans rolled together couldn't knock
me OUT but 1 didn't say nothin' in
reply. had to hear him braggin'
around, but you can bet amt goin'
to pay for any more soft marks to
come along and rouse him up and oc-
cupy my parlor for four or FIVE weeks
as a consequence y
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
RULES OF ETIQUETTE.

Never let guests know they are
the cause of inconvenience. Never
read a letter or postal card not ad-
dressed to you unless asked. Be
courteous to all. Do not lepd bor-
rowed articles without the owners
consent. Make guests comfortable.
Bow on entering room. Avoid
passing in front of persons; if un-
avoidable ask to be excused. Cen
tlemen vacate seats for ladies if stand
ing. Answer letters promptly. AL
ways keep engagements when posi-
BILE. Do not scold or whip children
before strangers. Be helpful to the
old. Gentlemen should precede in
ascending stairs ladies precede in de-
scending, even between strangers.
Avoid loud, harsh or nasal tones.
Show appreciation of hospitalities re-
ceived by returning courtesies. Write
thanks for favors received after re-
turning from a visit Be natural,
not affected or egotistic. Laugh
heartily, naturally, but not in bois-
ferrous manner. Do not monopo-
lize the conversation. In company
select topics for conversation which
are familiar to all Never trim your
nails in public. Never boast of favors
received or rendered. Do not be-
come familiar with new acquaintance
nor address them by their Christian
name. Do not interrupt others while
speaking. Apologize when express
ing contrary opinions. Do not look
over the shoulder of a person read
ing or writing. Do not question a
child or servant about family affairs.
Gentlemen do not allude to "con-
quests" made among ladies. A lady
should not accept expensive gifts
from a gentleman except her betroth-
ed or a relative; flowers, music, con-
fectionery, books may be generally
accepted. Do not offend or be quick
to take offense. Hasten to forgive.
Make amends promptly. Try rather
to please than to be pleased. Be po-
lite to your employees, associates and
those who serve you; courtesy is the
index of gentility.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
VOL. So. WHOLE No. 1897
THE 0PTIMIsT.

Ole Uncle Finn was good ole chap.
But he never seemed fer to care q rap,
If the sun forgot
To rise some day,
Just like as not
Ole Finn would say:
"Oncommon dark, this here we're in,
But 'tain't so bad as it might "a been."
But big cyclone came long one day.
An the town was wrecked and blowed away,
When the storm had passed
We turned around
And thought at last
Ole Finn had found
The state o. things he was buried in
About as bad as It might "a been.
So we dug i'm out o. the twisted wreck
And lifted rafter off his neck.
He was bruised an cut,
And sight to see;
He was ruined, but
He says. says he,
With weak look round and smashed-up grin
'Tain't half so bad as it might "a been!"
But after all. it's the likes o. Finn
Makes this world fit fer livin' in.
When days are drear
And skies are dark
It's good to hear
Some ole cuss bark,
Now see here, soul" with cheerful grin,
"'Tain't half so bad as it might "a beenp
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
WEEPING WOMEN ARE OUT OF FASHION.

Men have laughed and women have
wept for ages. Woman's tears have
been featured far more than they de-
serve, and the heroines of the old
fashioned novels must have been a
damp, red-eyed lot of girls even in
their most joyous moments.
The fact is that women have over
done their crying, and have allowed
any amount of health, courage and
force to ooze from their tear-glands.
Weeping in the old days was really
as fashionable as fainting and the
poems of Moore and Byron dwell
esctatically upon the tears of the
various Julias and Mary's of their
songs, SO crying spells must have had
their charm in those days, as well as
ring1ets and wasp waists.
But the woman of the future will
laugh, and will be all the better for
it. Girls have never been allowed to
cultivate humorous sense as they
grew up until within quite recent
years, when intelligence is gaining
such victories in the nursery. Bois-
ferrous conduct or loud laughter have
always been reproved in little girls,
while in boy such exuberance is re-
garded as a natural and healthy sex
attribute. This is one of the reasons
that the humorous sense, which in
children is usually evidenced in the
love of frolic, is killed in the feminine
nature. To laugh is rude. That
constitutes the law for the woman
child in whose brain-cells mischievous
fun is beginning to bubble. The re-
suit of all this is that few women
know how to laugh. The laugh of
the child is repressed, and it develops
into the giggle of the girl. Then the
giggle is criticized, and many women
continue, in their efforts to be polite,
to gurgle and gasp into their handker-
chief is until the end of the chapter.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
SALT AND PEPPER.

Salt and pepper, as generally con-
sidered, are of value in bringing out
the flavor of the food to which they
are added. That they have any value
from health standpoint is not SO gen.
orally recognized. You may know
that lump of salt is good for a
horse, but you do not stop to consider
how important salt is for your own
we'll being. In eastern countries the
condiments, such as pepper, are used
to profusion in all foods. Gastric
troubles common enough in other
countries are conspicuously absent,
and the free use of pepper has much
to do with that fact. Salt and pep
per work against fermentation. When
the stomach is out of order, or, as
the common saying is, upset, it is in
a state of fermentation.
A certain very wise physician who
has advanced to the point where
drugs seem the unimportant thing
and common sense the important in
making the sick we'll is advocating
the use of pepper and salt even in
glass of milk. 1t improves the flavor
to a remarkable degree, a fact you
can prove to your own satisfaction by
taking two glasses of milk, one in its
original simplicity, the other changed
by the addition of pinch of salt and
a dash of pepper, then sip little of
each. The chances are that you will
prefer the seasoned milk. Besides
improving the flavor and overcoming
the tendency toward fermentation the
pepper will practically disable any
microbes that may be floating in the
fluids. Thus the gastric juices will
perform their perfect work of chang
ing microbes to food.
One of the best remedies for dis
turbed digestion is hot water to which
have been added salt and paprika.
If taken full hour and a half before
breakfast, a cupful of this very pala-
table drink will completely cleanse the
stomach and leave it in good condi-
ton. Out of a hundred persons Sc
lected at random it is no exaggeration
to say that eighty eat too much and
also that these same eighty fail Of
proper mastication. Weakened di-
gestions are of course the direct re-
suit of overeating and insufficient
mastication, and weakened digestion
means undermined systems. At the
extremes of life, youth and old age,
it is wisdom to make the diet much
the same. A child's nourishment
should be very simple, so in old age
it should grow palmer and palmer.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
ONLY A LAWYER.

When Justice Bookstaver was on
the supreme court bench, he had as
special officer or attendant a punctili-
Gus old German, who always stood
guard at the door leading to the JUS
tees private chambers when the JUS
tice was within. One day a promi-
nent lawyer and two of his clients
called and asked if the Justice would
receive them.
The officer threw open the door
and called out loudly to the Justice
"Shudge! Two shentlemans und
lawyer wants to speak NIT you."
The three gentlemen laughed.
''Vor What you laff, eh?"
Don't you count me a gentle
man ?" asked the lawyer.
"Ach, you're lawyer only dat's
different"
80 YOU want a position i'll my
company, madam ?"
Eyes"
"Can you sing?"
"No."
"Can you dancer"
"No."
''I thought you said you were an
actress ?"
"SEE HERE, waiter, I can't chew
this steak"
II am not exactly surprised to
hear it, sir"
"What do you mean by that ?"
81 mean that you are the fifth gen.
tleman who has said the same thing
about it."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

GIVE BEEN looking for my hus-
band for the last two hours" said an
agitated woman to a calm one.
"Don't be excited, madam" re-
piled the latter. "I've been looking
for a husband for the last twenty
five years"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

THE RICH man travelling abroad
doesn't have to be linguist. Money
talks in every language.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

PEOPLE WHO are always talking
about their ancestors never have time
to talk about their neighbors.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

"HUsH It's wrong to say any
one is going straight to the devil.
"That's so. You have to be crook
ed to go there"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22
AN EXAMPLE TO YOUNG MEN

Here is conspicuous example of
success, due to his own energy and
resolute industry, afforded by Mr..
William Loeb, the Presidents as
sistant secretary. As his name indi-
Gates he is of German parentage, al
though American born. At the age
of twelve he was obliged to leave
school to take his place in the ranks
of the winners, which he did as
messenger boy for the Western Union
Telegraph Company, at Albany, N.
Y. He subsequently took up as a
side issue the study of stenography,
which he pursued with characteristic
enthusiasm, mastering it so effectu-
ally that in his twenty first year he
secured the position of official stenog-
rapher of the lower house of the New
York Legislature. He afterwards be-
came widely known and employed in
his profession, finally being appointed
on the executive stenographic force
while Mr.. Roosevelt was Governor,
becoming his confidential secretary,
and in that capacity he has remained,
accompanying his chief eventually to
the White House.
The secret of his successful career
is really no secret at all. He simply
mastered his chosen profession and,
as the president of the Billion Dollar
Steel Trust said of his highly paid as
sistant, che never looked at the clock
during business hours. "-ZHe Ne7O
Century.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

THE AVERAGE woman may have
some difficulty in understanding a
time table, but she can generally
manage a train.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

WHEN A mans breath smells OF
cloves his conversation is not neces-
sarily spicy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

"Is MY hat on" began Mrs. G.
when her husband interrupted:
eyes your hat is on straight. Come
along or we will be late. "
eff its on straight it won't do.
Wait a minute till 1 go back into the
house and tilt it a little"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

SOME MEN are born great, some
achieve greatness, and others thrust
themselves upon it.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

CLOSE FRIENDS are sometimes the
ones we can't borrow from.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

FIRST BoARDER -"I wish the
landlady would give us notice when
she is going to serve chicken"
S. B.-"Why?"
F. B.-'I was so surprised when
she brought that fowl in at dinner
that lost my appetite"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

IT IS not entirely prudent to put
your hands in the straps furnished in
the street cars for overcrowed passen-
gers. Turn one of the straps in any
car not fresh from the shops inside
out, and the reason will be plain.
Handled as they are by all sorts and
conditions of men, they are really car
riers of diseases. The abraded skin
of your finger may touch an infected
spot, and dangerous bacteria may ad-
here to it, which at the next move
ment of the hand may be transferred
to the delicate tissues of the mouth
or eyes.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

MRS. PATERSON Your maid
must be invaluable.
Mrs. Callerson-"What makes you
think SOP"
"Well, for example, after she look
ed at my card she said she was afraid
you weren't at home"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-02-22

FRIEND Cover the wine after din
ner)-"Your wife is certainly bril-
liantly handsome woman. 1 should
think you would be jealous of her"
His Host (confdently)-"To tell you
the truth, Seymour, I am. I never
invite anybody here that sane wo-
man could possibly take the least
fancy to-"
Hutchinson gazette., 1902-01-09

Those who are inclined toward Inn
pernlism ought 10 find u warning In
the Views now being expressed by the
eminent men Of other lands, An
American student at Heidelberg, Ger
many, sends TO the COmmOner the
following extract from u lecture de-
llyercd by Professor Jellenck OF the
Heidelberg University In discuss
Ing international law the professor
said; "The Spanish American war
was OF immense Importance In the
future development Of international
law, America, whose policy preyl'
Ously had been TO abstain, In
accordance with the principles Of the
Monroe doctrine, from the affairs OF
European governments, now aban-
doncd that position and became one
Of the powers, The people are de
yided into supporters and opponents
Of the present policy and II the
former who have been called lmpe-
rlalIsts, succeed, the organization Of
the government will inevitably be-
come similar to that Of European
countries; individual llberty-the
rights Of each particular man Will
be sacrificed In securing a strong ccn-
tMl direction, The German profess
sOr Is entirely correct II the imperi-
allsts continue In authority the or
ganl2ation Of the government will
gradually be changed and made more
like that Of European countries, This
Is the necessary result Of imperial
ism and 1t Is because this Is the In.
cvitable end Of I'M imperiallStlc pol
ley that such policy Is rcS0lutcly
opposed by democrats who love a re-
publican form of government and who
believe that individual liberty and
self-goyernment are Infinitely more
important TO the American people
than anything that imperialism can
bring. -Bryan's Commoner,