The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-05
rHE nECLINE or CoURTEsY.

The familiar toast--"Here's to Wo-
man--once our superior, now our
equals much more than clever
bit Of banquet fooling. 1t was Jest
when first spoken; 1t 10 taken as fact
now. We have seen in recent years
steady elimination OF the reference TO
woman which in the past century was
a part of every boys education. Even
the bow, once q genuhection of real
compliment, has deteriorated into a
fashionable shrug: the kiss is unmen-
tionable except as a microbe exhibit,
and as for surrendering comforts from
a sense of duty. here Is the very latest
authority from the very latest book
Of etiquette: THE old custom Of a
man giving his seat in a street car to
a woman is being gradually done away
with. This is due largely to the fact
that women are now so extensively
engaged in commercial business that
they are constant riders at busy hours,
and thus come into direct competition
with the men," and we And this de-
licious passage in the further elabora-
ton Of the rules: "A woman should
not look with a panied and injured
air at the men passengers because no
one Of them has offered her a seat"
Really 1t comes as balm to the soul
to be told that "a man should never
tended in the passageway." Custom
rules, and it does little good to sigh
for the good old days. Still. VIC shall
cling to the belief that good manners
cannot 60 wholly out of fashion. that
difference to women is excellent, not
only for the woman. but for the man,
and that the gentleman who is guided
by the better teachings of his youth
will get more abiding satisfaction out
of life than by ignoring woman sim
ply because she dares to try the only
way OF becoming Independently
making her own living.
Saturday Evening Post
WORLDS POPULATION BILL
LION AND. A HALF.
According to an exhaustive Stats
teal work by a German the popula-
ton of the world today is 1903, 000, 900.
The average density of population is
about twenty-five persons to one
square mile and the distribution among
the continents is as follows: In Eu-
rope. 3s2,264.o00 people. or 100 in
hahitants for each square mile; In
Asia. 81s,556,o00 Inhabitants. forty
FIVE to square mile; in Africa, 140,-
100000 Inhabitants, thirteen to a
square mile North America. includ-
ing the West Indies, Mexico, Central
America and Panama. as we'll as the
United States and Canada. Is credited
with 1o5,714,ooo inhabitants. thirteen
to one square mile.
WHEN TO MARRY.
Judge.
Here's a precept that a passenger
flung at me after his wife had threat
ened to git a divorce because he had
seen somethin on tn horizon that he
said was a cloud an she'd declared it
was an iceberg. 1t had turned out to
be cloud. Never marry a woman
who's in love with you," he says to me,
cause she'll expect too much" he
says. Never marry one who amt"
he added. FOR like enough sheIl fail
in love with some other man later"
Then he went into tn smokin' room
an told tn steward to bring him a
Scotch highball.
SOMETHING ABOUT TEA.
1t is said on excellent authority that
consumers have a shuice of two thou
sand havors of tea. The only one IA
miliar to the mass of people is proba-
bly, not included in this list. because
1t Is not. properly speaking. a tea fla
vor at all. Good tea is easy to get.
easy to make, and to be colloquial.
easy to drink. The higher grades
only should be purchased. since even
at dollar a pound it costs only about
two cents a good sized pot when
brewed. The president of the Ameri-
can Tea Association, writing in a we'll
known trade journal, says: There
are four exact rules to be followed in
making tea. and the neglect of any one
of them will render the article value
less Nearly every housewife ne
elects at least one" The four rules
are these: The water must be fresh
ly drawn from the faucet: 1t should
boil hard for five minutes before pour
ing on the tea leaves; 1t should remain
on the leaves not less than seven and