The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
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 M. E, wilkinson, in The Sunday Re- cord-Herald of Chicago. has the follow ing to say on the Reasoning of Wo- men:' rs . .-T
 } Again. churches are largely composed of women. and women are not the reas- ontng element (by custom at least) Or- dinartly tho woman whose life is passed in the natural shelter of parent and hus- band. trained in orthodox beliefs, retains the stamp through life and thinks each and every suffering sister woman. erring or unerring, has 'transgressed the laws of God and is receiving but justice Sympathy is neither felt nor exhibited. Of course not always. but customarily. such Is the case. Her mind does not reach over the mines. the sweatshops, the vast areas of tenement houses. with its hundreds of poor and oppressed; the slaughter-houses of purity in the shape of mills and factories, where wages are so low that 1t is hard to remain virtuous while bread and butter depends on it.
 "She doesn't hear such matters dis cussed, and she goes on believing, or thinking she believes, in an imaginary Being who will do all necessary protect ing. So she freely gives for missionary purposes, and lets her home element freeze, starve and go to the bad gener- ally. because they are not in her circle or, don't belong to her church, She leaves the whole thing to that God. Now and then she comes of broad-minded percentage. in which case she realizes the struggle of those highly refined ones of her sex who must yrapple with poverty alone and unprotected and without so much as Q profession even. Then she be- comes public benefactor."
 Mary Arden's house at Wilmcote, says an exchange. is private property. and is cared for without much feeling for its association with one of the greatest Eng lishmen of all time. What repairs have been made upon it by it's owner, one Mir. Smith, have been made in the most tasteless fashion, and old vines and trees which gave 1t beauty have been unnec- essarily cut away. MT. Smith lets the cottage to two or three tenants. and says that the property has been expensive rather than profitable for many years.- This Is the only Shakespearean house still in private hands. and it is pity that the British nation should not become it's owner. ...4...-
 Louis Sherry, the noted caterer, tells an amusing story of a chef whom he brought over from France. The chef. be- fore his contract with Sherry began, lived in idleness for a month in Brooklyn. During the month he walked all over Brooklyn, and he dined all over 1t as well. What impressed him was the multitude of churches that he saw and the uniform ity with which everything he ate was served with a melted butter dressing. At the months end. when he reported for duty, MT. Sherry said to him:
 "Well, Alphonse. you have had month to look about you. What do you think of American
 Tt Is an extraordinary country" AL phonse answered. Tt has twenty relig- ions and only one sauce:"
 A BIRrDAY PARTY.
 Little Master George Thurman Kettles. Jr., celebrated his third birthday yestel- day afternoon when he entertained number of his friends at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Thurman Kettles. The hours were from 4 to 6 o'clock. and tones of the decorations were pink and green. The center of the table was adorned with Paul Neron roses, and 1t asSlighted with pink and green can- dles in silver candelabra- Southern smi- lax was gracefully traced in lavish ar rangement.
 The little ones were entertained on the lawn where various games claimed their interest.
 The guests were: Lois Watson, Anna Bell Watson, Charles Watson, Robert Hodgson, Arthur Billings Cooper, Nellie Nall Mathews, Louise Mathews, Gladden. Harrison. Haynes Harrison, Milo Howard, Gene Blue Howard, Caroline Smith, Alma Smith, Herbert Smith, Florence Tender son, Laura Henderson, Lamar Smith. Jessie Trawick, Margaret Weatherly. George Beers, Dibble Flasthar, Jule Naf- tel.