The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

Evedybody knows .the spooners." who are sapidly becoming prominent in this city. although their names do not appear in the Social Register nor yet in the so- ciety columns of the newspapers. Much Is said about them, however, in the di- vorce courts and occasionally in the police trfnHnals. when they try to take chande- hers and tureens Instead of just ordi- nary spoons, knives and forks and the more portable articles which adorn their restaurant feasts
 New York has a view only recent ly in the Supreme Court of a Spooner family.and the judge from up the country was shocked when the woman who fiRur- ed in an alienation suit freely conferred that she had taken away in her gown the silverware which adorned the table of Broadway hotel
 You don't mean to say,s' inqulred His Honor. "that you actually stole those spoonsT' And she replied. staring at the rural Justice and smiling auizzicalIy, that she certainly did.
 There are thousands of the Spooners of about the same status, and theipnnum- Der Is increasing. The courts give kaloi doscopic glimpses of the genus. and if requires closer view to understand thA ideas and the condition which are re-, sponsible for the present herd of Spooner immigration.
 Their ancestors may have been hung for the theft of sheep, but for that matter persons of the most respectable antece- dents have had forebears who were liter. ally descended from gibbet The Spooners take things as souvenirs prt- marily because they are a cheap and vulgar tribe and consider that no prop erty rights are vested in umbrellas, spoons and marital happiness.
 Rank Rooms of Prosperity.
 Condition which have attended an era Of prosperity are responsible for the fn- lux of the SpoonerS. Most of the male members were underpaid clerks, small operators in coal and iron, speculators, promoters who have, through the rapid changes in industrial and financial con ditons. been borne Unto the metropolis They have suddenly discovered that they have more money than they ever had before in all their lives, and they have no sense to realize that they have more than is good for them.
 The tribe Is chifdless. The spooner household consists in most cases of two room and bath apartment in one of the side street family hotels: often .of two or three rooms in boarding house or a fiat where housekeeping is reduced to the minimum. The ,Spooners who figured re- gently so prominently in the courts had an abode which represented their first serious attempt at housekeeping in their decade of married life. ss. ,s
 Typical Spooner homes are to be found in large quantities on the upper west side, and from that part of the city there is every night an exodus of the cheerful and ungrammatical, the ebullient and the noisy Spooners.
 All Spooners go out to dinner. for the evening meal is the official dress parade. MT Spooner makes some acquaIntances In business way and Mrs. spooner at first knows nobody at all. She stays at home reading the latest novels and loung- ing about in curl papers. wondering why folks do not come to call upon her. She finds going out to dinner the diversion of the day.
 Did you ever see the spooners on their way to their evening repast? You may