The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-08

mannera. Its entertainments are ennpha- sised by, richness simplicfty. and cor diality--fhe hall marks of high-breedins- which xiSe them singular fascination' while thorough good taste is tne Key store of its superstructure.
 .sTo edit the column devoted to the SO ciel sneNu of rhe city by The Evenins Post, wherein will be recorded events tax. tng place among this elevated class or the community. will tnererore oes pie
 1t is hardly necessary to call atten- ton to the fact that modes and manners change with epochs and that wnet s accepted at one period as an sssen.ia' may he dfscarded at another. The preS- ent point of view is the one to be con sidered.
 '.Today. no centre of any importance and nc progressive newspaper Is without q weekly record of social events, mod srn phrase of If, as obligatory as cleo trio street cars asphalted streets. scien- tific sanitation, well 1t thoroughfarss. and the artistic adornment of cities The most prominent people or the world con sider such news essential Tor its practi- cal utility is universally conceded.
 During these exposition, months. when Charleston is crowded with prominent strangers from all parts of the country. when the Governors of far distant States, bankers, capitalists and the social lead CTS of the greatest cities of the country arc being entertained by the prominent people of Charleston, when even the Pres- ident is to honor the city and exposition with his presence, the social news of the town assumes very important proportions and certainly deserves special mention.
 The responsibility of this column rests entirely with its editor. and any item of importance in connection with 1t will be cheerfully received and considered
 ''S Rhett Roman
 No one would call The Evening Post anything but conservative-for if it were not that it could not have obtained in Charleston that signal success 1t now en- ,oys under the control of Mir. Thomas R. Waring, it's brilliant editor. and MT. F. H. McMaster, its energetic business manager. But The News and Courier Is even more conservative and there IS no indication that the morning paper will follow it's afternoon contemporary's cx- ample in this Journalistic innovation. But The News and Courier's editor, Major J. c. Hemphill. is most conspicuous nE- ure at all the official functions of the ex- position as the Chairman on Entertain ment, and besides 1t has been impossible not to publish accounts of these affairs which under the hoary traditions would be barred from newspaper notice.
 See what the exposition has done! And what 1t may do! To many things not be- fore dreamed of in their philosophy 1t has already awakened Charleston people and there is reascn to hope that before the Ivory City and its myriad beauties forever. disappear still greater things will have been done for Charleston. It is the most provincial city in the country-not excepting even Boston. now startled into social progress by Mrs. Jack Gardner and on account of that provincialism there has not of late years existed the proper cordiality between Charleston and the rest of South Carolina. The exposi- ton. it is to be hoped. will be the begin- ming of the end of this and Charleston and South Carolina may come to know each other better as they are today and not as they were a half-century ago.