The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-22


.sere are a million more women tnah
men in Great Britain makes the fol-
lowing picture of the middle-class Eng
lish girl:
THE girl will take great interest In
domestic economy classes and CONS
home with copious notes, but also sne
will hardly dust a room or heip 70
make a bed. She Is willing TO atteno
ST. Johns ambulance lectures, put IL
bores her TO death If asked to go ana
nurse a sick relation. Ihsn
with the death of the head of the ram
tly comes poverty. and the supernuous
woman is generally proved to DE inca
pable woman"
1t is said that in Canada and New
Zealand and Australia there are
uuarter of a million more men tnah
women. The above picture is enough
10 reconcile that quarter OF, miliioh
Wiveless men to their fate.
According to a Russian traveller VINO
has recently made tour throu ,a a
churia he finds among the Cninese
system of socialism of which ne gives
scme interesting details. He says:
There are in a Chinese business mousse
neither proprietors nor empioyes,
says. All persons employed are PAL.
ners, who share in the prohls VI ~
undertaking. During the year each
memher receives, at stated times,
kind of salary, which, however, Is 50
meager as to be barely sufnclenI 10
supply the necessaries or Ire. AhoN
at the end of the year the prohts a.
divided One more instance that the
.'childlfke and simple" Celestial mas
h.atan the west by establishing sys-
tenn which western socialists are stiii
merely preaching.
The following account is given of a
marriage feast in Hungary:
For three days and three nights a
wedding party of 500 made merry at
HaIes, and when they got through at
the brides house they went to that
of the groom and continued feasting -
Each day the following portions OF
meat were provided for each guest:
Three pounds of meat, three-quarters
of a pound of fish and one chicken.
Aside from that three calves, eighteen
lambs and four porkers were carved up
daily to serve as "appetizers. Dur
ing the first three days feasting at the
brides house the guests drank up 2,7OO
quarts of wine and twelve big barrels
of beer.
A writer in The London World, in an
article on the Elizabethan Stage, says:
The great plays of Marlowe. Shake
speare and Jonson were performed by
actors in Elizabethan dress, in front
of a curtain, usually in daylight, on
little stage partly occupied by the gal
1ants of the period with their pages
and tobacco pipes. There was no fash
ionable actresses no orchestra, no lime
light, yet the drama was more popu-
lar than church going and held its own
even with such gentle sports as bull
batting and "wiping of the blind beare.
The little that we know of the actors
shows them, with the exception of Bur-
bage and Nathaniel Field, to have been
very ordinary work-a-day people, with
empty pockets and domestic affections
and other modern characteristics. Yet
the protests of the Puritans, the sane
timonious and avaricious records of the
censor and the continual erection of
new theatres in spite of the solemn
threats of the City Fathers are evidence
enough of the marvellous popularity to
which the art attained in that spa
cious time of playhouses most remark
able for lack of space
On June three windows were UNI
yelled in the Old Blandford Church at
Petersburg. Va. For the past two
years the Ladies' Memorial Association
there has been working to ~estore Old
Blandford Church and cow rt it into
n confederate Memorial Chapel. Each
of the thirteen Confederate States is to
place a window in the historic edifice.
Missouri. Louisiana and Virginia. At
the top of each window is the shield of
the State Mrs. Behan, President of
the Confederated Southern Memorial
Associations was sponsor for the Louis
lana window, Mrs. lie Roy Valiant for
the Missouri one and Mrs. David Cal
lender Of Petersburg for the Virginia
window.
n Moriop Ia
says an exchange. has little sympathy
with the art for arts sake" cult. He
has a SWIFT, fluent pen, and does not
believe in that indefatigable polishing
which Walter Pater advocated. Other
wise Mr.. Crawford could not turn out
the number of volumes annually that
he does. A young woman was intro
duced to Mr.. Crawford recently. Hear
ing that he was a novelist, she said:
And have you written anything that
will live after you are gomez"
Il don't know" he replied. You
zee, what am after is something that
will enable me to live while 1 am
here"
The latest census shows 346,59O mar
riages in Japan in the year. Not one
bride was over % years old. Forty
two were only Is, 759 were Is, 5,4s4
Sherbet glasses now come in cut
glass and china in the shape of flowers.
One seen recently was made to repre-
sent an orchid blossom, and was a deli
cate lavender and white, with a slen-
der twisted stem of green. Another
one represented a water lily, which rest
ed on a green pad of transparent china
These dishes come in sets of twelve
with ice tubs and bonbon dishes to
match.
If Russell Sage is correctly quoted.
says an exchange, the money getting
faculty is a gift of nature. and not one
to be acquired by education or training
and IL the story told of him Is true It
emphasizes the fact that he has the
GIT
The story is that enc day when the
walks were slippery he left his Fifth
Avenue home to walk to a basement
shoe cobbling shop in Sixth Avenue to
get a pair OF shoes that he had left
there to be repaired, the charges ON
which-by previous agreement-were
to be G5 cents. To avoid DELAY he
counted out the money in dimes. nick
els and cents and carried it in his hand
AS the financier was. turning into
Sixth Avenue he slipped and, in his eff
fort to catch himself dropped his hand
full of change, which was scattered over
the walk. Patiently he gathered the
coins, and when he counted them he
found that he had as cents
He had found a dime lost by noor