The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
MI CAREME AND CONFETTI.

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 Thursday will be Mi Careme the pause; the resting place in mid Lent. The one day in Lent set apart to be to those who keep it just as other days, and in Paris it is a festive one. In Washington an entertainment booked for that day is ac- Monroe Doctrine entertainment, a jolly masquerade with dash of American fun
 writer from Paris last mi-careme wrote of the origin of confetti which is used at Mardi Gras and mi-careme and on other festive occasions:
 Confetti have no doubt been introduced into America, into the whole world for that matter. It is always Interesting to know how a modern thing like that was invented. In a calendar factory there are machines for cutting hole in the top of calendar so as to insert the small brass ring by which it is hung up One day. when there were thousands of these pieces of small round paper on the floor the workmen began to pelt one another with them and during the heat of the fight the foreman happened to come in. The idea then and there struck him that millions Of those little papers might be made for pelting people on mardi gras and mi-careme. The confetti of Italy were sever allowed in France because they are made of hard plaster and hurt the person pelted. The foreman invent ed a machine and you know the result. Machines were sent all over the world and the foreman made large fortune.
 Still doctors are beginning to complain of the bad effect that confetti have on several cases of operations performed on the appendix in which 1t was found that confetti had lodged and caused trouble. They have also found confetti in ulcerated sore throats. The throngs become ex- cited, pick up confetti from the street to throw at one another and germs of disease are thus thrown into the system. l believe that the authorities in Paris
 Ak ,toer N4 confetti, as they have serpentines. long ribbons of colored paper. The latter spoiled the trees; confetti are still worse. for they spread disease and sometimes cause death.
 TABLET SET FOR CARNEGIE.
 Mrs. A. B. Battle who, with her hus- band and two little boys, has recently moved to Montgomery from Tampa, Fla. to make her home Is very accomplished embroiderer. She is now doing table set for Carnegie. It will be finished in September and will consist of a table cloth, twelve plate pieces and center piece. The design is strawberries.
 Mrs. Battle. though quite young wo- man. still in the twenties, did at one time run a paper in the brave way only wo- man will dare. That Is she was every thing from printers devil to editor in chief It was The Alabama News of Girard, Ala. She was at the time of her marriage, a teacher of shorthand in the Vanderbilt preparatory academy in Kings County. Tennessee.
 In speaking of the design of strawber- ries selected for Carnegie's table set. Mrs Battle said: Men always prefer fruit designs to those of flowers. In looking at my work they always begin to take an interest when show the fruit pieces.
 Mrs. Battle has never met Carnegie but he saw some of her work that was car ried to New York by Northern woman who had spent some time in Florida and through her he ordered the set.