The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-10
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
WE CAN HURRY.

We Southerners are not supposed 10
be over-energetic or usually disposed
20 be in a hurry, but there are occa-
sions when We could compete on that
line with the most enterprising chill
dren of colder climates. Those occa-
sions are times when haste is UNI
seemly and to no purpose.
On Sunday morning the congregation
or some members of the congregation
who have sauntered in to church late
with an air of elegant elaboration will.
while the benediction is being pro-
nounced. occupy themselves making
preparation for a speedy departure.
Prayer books are being put noisily in
place. parasols and gloves gotten to-
gether, hat pins readjusted, draperies
arranged, overcoats-if 1t be winter
being put on. and general shufling
of feet will drown the words that are
spoken by the minister. This pent-
up energy exhausts itself as soon as
the Threshold of the sacred edifice is
passed, and again the elegant air of
leisure asserts itself as they saunter
homeward. This is the custom in the
North as well as the South, and there
Is a movement there to adopt the plan
OF silent prayer after the benediction
as holds already in the Catholic and
Episcopal churches.
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AT FUNERALS.
Another time of haste with US is at
funeral services when 1t does seem
that, as it is the last time forever
that our friend may claim moment
of our attention. We might walt. But
no! So eager are we to give vent to
the pent-up energy that the family is
not allowed time to pass out before the
crowd pushes into the aisle. as II an
sWering fire alarm, and forces back
the heart broken loving ones who
wish to follow their dead to the last
resting place. Time is over for our
friend. Can we not spare him one
moment out of respect?
"a AT WEDDINGS.
The same industrious performance Is
a feature of most all large church we'd
Rings. Even the ribbons, that are
placed along the aisles as a gentle re-
minder that the wedding party should
be allowed to leave the church before
the throng of guests rush in upon them
DO no good. They are either torn
down, or crawled under in the mad
rush to depart.
On one occasion in Montgomery when
The uarents of the bride had issued in
yftations to a reception to follow the
ceremony at the church, the host ana
hostess arrived at their home long
after the guests were there awaiting
What did the guests gain? Why
rould they not have remained seated
lust two minutes longer that the we'd
ding party might have preceded them
10 the home?
%@&
AT THE PLAY.
At the theatre, too, this hurry pre-
vails-this hurry to depart. 1t is an
Injustice to the actors. When the end
of the last scene is near enough for
xhe audience to guess the rest up doz-
ems rise, and dozens more, emboldened,
FOLLOW Those who either through po-
liteness or through interest, wish to sit
the play out, can hear nothing, can
see nothing want to see one COM
pany stop short when the first batch
rises, and drop the curtain while the
manager says:
"Beg your pardon. but thought you
paid your money to see the play"
G@H
o. yes, We Southerners can be in
hurry. Just watch us at the proper
time and we will prove that we can.