The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-02
|OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
WRITING OF 'sTHE SWEET

| an exchange of the writing of The | Sweet By and By" by Dr. s. Fillmore: Dr. Bennett became associated with J. P. Webster. the composer. and they published numerous songs in sheet mu- | sic form. The Signet Ring," book l to which Dr. Bennett contributed near ly hundred original hymns contain | ed The Sweet By and By" This hymn entities and has given the au- thor an enduring place among the worlds poets.
 The origin of "The Sweet By and By is thus given by the author of the hymn:
 MT. Webster like many musicians, was of an exceedingly nervous and sensitive nature and subject to pe- riods of depression. in which he looked upon the dark side of all things In life. had learned his peculiarities so well that on meeting him I could tell at a glance if he was melancholy, and had found that could rouse him by giving him a new song to work on. He came into my place of business, walked down to the stove and turned his back on me without speaking. was at my desk writing. Turning to him said: Webster, what is the matter now?' It's no matter he replied, it will be all right by and by
 The idea of the hymn came to me like a flash of sunlight and I replied: The Sweet By and By!. Why would not that make a good hymnT Maybe 1t would said he, indifferently.
 Turning to the desk penned the words of the hymn as fast as I could write. I handed the words to Webster. As he read his eye kindled, and step ping to the desk he began writing the notes. Taking his violin he played the melody and then jotted down the notes for the chorus,
 Tt was not over thirty minutes from the time I took my pen to write the words before two friends and Webster and myself were singing the hymn. While singing another friend entered, and after listening awhile said: That hymn Is immortal
 It is not necessary to comment upon the worldwide renown which this hymn has gained. It Is published in numerous collections of sacred music in America, and Is translated into va rious foreign languages and sung in every land under the sun. The author had copy of the hymn in Chinese.
 While Dr. Bennett achieved signal success in the practice of medicine, 1t is in the literary world and as a man of letters that he won his great lau- rels. When a mere lad he began con- tributing verse to newspapers. his first published poem appearing in The Wau- kegan Gazette in the early sos.
 From that time onward he was a vol luminous writer. but as the greater part of his work was for the daily and weekly press of the country, 1t has been largely lost among the mass of such matter published For years he had been a valued contributor to The Universalist. He was one of the edi- tors and publishers of The Richmond Gazette for short time. Among his best prose works is a series of articles on Alcoholism" published in that pa per four years since. His poem. "The Pioneers" has attracted wide attention and will be published in book form In the near future. The doctor was en- gagged in revising his poems when stricken, and hoped to have them pre- served in permanent form.
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 OLD NOTIONS.
 An interesting woman of s3 years as- sures a writer in "Harper's Bazaar" that when she was young 1t was an unheard of thing for a woman to go to a bank alone. When business made such a visit an absolute necessity she was always escorted by a male rela- tive, and as quickly as possible snug gled into the private offices and thus secured from public gaze! For some reason, which 1t is now difficult to fathom, a druggists or "apothecary's" shop, as 1t was called then, came un- der the same ban. No gentlewoman could go alone or even with another Of her own sex to any public eating house or tavern. When the girls of that time went to town shopping, they probably | in their retfCulNe ! to stave off starvation. There were also severe though unwritten laws as to which side of a street a woman might walk upon at certain hours oi i the day. etc, but these seem. like mod ern city ordinances, to have varied with localities. The authority jus quoted says that in her native town nc gentlewoman could be seen on the bus mess streets after 12 o'clock in tho morning.
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 WHAT A wOMAN'S CLUB CAN DO . The practical good which it Is possi' ble for a wide awake and earnest wo- mans club to do in community has been strikingly shown by an organiza- i tion of that kind at Utica. N. '. The New Century Club of that city. whose | members are leaders in the most ex' | elusive social set, has undertaken the | solution to some degree of the prob- | lem of increasing the number of skilled housekeepers and therefore the num- Der of happy homes. It has establish ed a 'kitchen garten," and a commit tee of the club devotes itself to giving instruction on every Saturday after noon to some 200 girls, ranging in age from 4 to 16 years. in all the principal branches of housekeeping. The little women are trained in the arts of cook ing. sewing and laundering, In waiting at table and in chamber work-Leslle Weekly
 WASTE OF GOOD MONEY. Apropos of the penny in the slot saw ines bank. one of the latest manifesto tions of the slot idea. an Englishwo- man who strongly advises their use' particularly for children, claims that her country people need to practice economy. '"Women are the worst of lenders" she says. 'They invariably snend all they have. which accounts for tbe sad cases of extreme distress one constantly hears of. A balance at one's bark is a fact only millionaires and misers attach importance to. A woman would think 1t waste of good money
 ON CAMPING OUT.
 With the growth of city population there has come the need and the de- velopment of visits to the country that were not felt by anything like so large q ner centage of our people genera tion or two ago. Nor are the holiday seekers content to dress up and sit on hotel porches, as is shown by the enof-