The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-24
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The Csar superstitisus.


The Russian Gear is superstitious,
and gives audiences readily to every
sort Of charlatan and fraud. An Amer
lean resident OF st. Petersburg wrote
home:
The town is humming with story
Of the Czar and gipsy fortune tel
Ter.
The girl is young. pretty and clev-
Or. Furthermore she 10 frank. OUT
rageously frank She works on lines
that are original and unique. some
times, really she does a great deal Of
good.
The csar, having heard Of her sue
cess In Petersburg, sent for her the
other evening. She appeared before
him In the beautiful gypsy dress that
leaves bare her amber-colored throat
and arms.
at have had said the Emperor. a
singular dream. VIII you interpret u
for met
yes SIRE said the gypsy. in her
deep, clear voice. She smiled. She
was quite at her ease.
at dreamed said the Emperor. OF
three rats-a fat rat, lean rat, ana
blind rat. This dream troubles me.
Has II . meaning?
at has, said the gypsy. and she al.
rected on the young man a smile that
was both tender and scornful. Inc
fat rat stands for Russian officialdom
for all your various ministers and
Departmental heads. The lean rat Is
your people. And the blind rat IL
ekH
Dress Laws.
In ye olden times there were laws
to regulate our dress. Clothes hao 10
conform with the ordinances OF the
government. The follwing Is quoted
from the ruling OF the Massacn 1sse
THAT no person, either man or wo-
man. shall herafter make or buy any
annarel. either wooden, silk, or linen,
with any lace on 1t, silver, gold. silk
or embroidery, under the penalty OF
the forfeiture of said clothes. Also
all gold or silver girdles. hatbands.
belts, rufus and beaver hats are pro-
hibited. Also immodeS~fe Sreat sleeves
slashed apparel, immoderate great ray
les, longwings. etc.
Thereafter, no garment shall be made
with short sleeves, whereby the max
edness of the arm shall be discovered
in the wearing Thereof"
The antiquary explained that the
"rayles" prohibited in the law were
neckerchiefs. He had no idea what q
longwing was"
Authors Profits, Past and Present.
In an authors club, says an ex-
change a couple of minor poets were
talking about the money that there 10
in literature.
Shakespeare" said the holder of the
two. got pounds for Hamlet Mil
ton got pounds for Paradise Lost.
Smollet got 10 pounds for 'Peregrine
Pickle Coleridge for 'Christabep got
6 pounds. and Poe for The Raven got
$40, or Q pounds.
There is more money in letters to-
day." he went on. "Rudyard Kipling
has made as much as $4,000 in q
year. Winston Chruchill's pen is good
Tor $4,000 year. Conan Doyle
has made $1,000 a day writing a 'Sher-
lock Holmes story at 81 word-sl a
word, by jingo!-even for the preposl-
tions and the articles!
Journalists make big money, too. I
know by sight a New York Journalist
whose salary is 100000 He is an edi-
tod. and he writes editorials-grand
ones Reporters in New York make
from $50 to 800 a week"
How much do you maker
Well" said the minor poet, the
market price for minor poetry. is TWEEN
ty-fve cents a line, but ! have a
special decker. Through this special
decker / get thirty cents line Tor
everything. The usual length of a min
or pom Is sixteen lines. That, at spe-
cial decker rates, is worth $3.50 to me.
I deduct thirty cents for postage--us-
ually a poem has be tried on six or
seven magazines before 1t Is accepted
and thus have an average Of $3.50
for every piece"
R9@
A Compass of Your watch.
Get the number of hours from mid
night, divide by two and point the
hour at the sun SO that the shadow
of a match or lead pencil falls direct
ly acros sthe center of the watch:
twelve o'clock will be north. six south,
nine west and three east. Suppose
it is nine a. M: number of hours from
midnight is nine; one-half is four and
one-half; point 4:30 at the sun SO that
the shadow of a match or lead pencil
falls across the center Of the watch.
and twelve is north. six south, three
east and nine west. Suppose Il Is six
p. M; number of hours from midnight
eighteen; one-half, nine; point nine at
sun and twelve is north six south three
east and nine west.
Also, when the sun Is hidden on q
cloudy day take lead pencil or stick
that is well sharpened and place 1t on
the thumb nail BY looking closely you
will see faint shadow. which will
give you a very good idea of the direc-
tion of the sun, and may be useful to