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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-09

Mir. Jake Wells of theatrical fame arrived in Mobile last night and left this evening for Atlanta. He was accompanied by MT. M. B. Rosenbaum MT. Wells stated that 1t was more than likely he would put in some attractions at Monroe Park theatre this summer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-09

There are two acts and three scenes
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MAKING FRIENDS.

A writer says truly: One often hears
the remark, and probably makes it
oneself that there are no friends like
old friends" And have known people
to maintain with pride that they have
no desire to enlarge their visiting list,
no wish to go to functions at which
they may encounter strangers. A re-
mark made by wise old lady of over
eighty years of age once caused me to
ponder over this friendship making.
She, needless to say, was a very old
friend in more ways than one. and to
her let fall the hackneyed remark re-
ferred to. my dear, what a mistakel"
she said. TN time new friends become
old friends and tried ones, while as the
years go by the old ones must in the
course of events pass out of our lives
I am sorry for those who have never
replaced old friends by new, for they
will find themselves very solitary in
later years." Truly a sage remark, and
one whose truth she had tested herself
for, though she had outlived most of
her contemporaries, she possessed a
host of friends, young, middle aged and
elderly, in whose joys and sorrows she
took an interest both keen and kindly
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How 20 Hana Pieturea.

Not one woman in ten knows how to
hang pictures properly. The woman
who is neat and methodical is perhaps
the least artistic. Her orderly soul de-
lights in straight lines and even num-
bers.
A careless, or at least an apparently
careless, grouping is the only one which
looks well You should avoid as much
as possible using wire running to the
molding. OF course this is necessary in
the case of large pictures, but a lot Of
small pictures look a great deal better
hung fiat against the wall by means of
a nail and a short loop, both, of course.
being invisible behind the picture.
It is good thing to remember that
a picture with shadows should have its
light side next to the window so that
the shadows will seem to fall naturally
Pairs and companion pieces" should be
avoided like the plague. They are no
longer good form, if they ever were
among people of good taste.
One of the most useful things for wo-
men to learn goodness knows, they
waste their time learning enough use
less onesD is the gentle art of milIi-
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YOUNG WOMEN TRAVELLING
ALONE

Following are the cautions to young
women travelling alone which have been
issued by the international board of
Women's and Young Women's Chris
tan associations:
Do not start for a strange city or
town even for a night without previ-
Gus information of a safe place to stop.
Do not leave home without some
money for an emergency.
Do not ask or take information or d.
rections except from officials.
Do not trust attentions on the trains
or elsewhere from men or women. Re
port annoying advances to conductor
or policeman.
The board was moved to take this
action by the frequent reports of young
women being misled through trusting
strangers. 1t is well known that there
is a certain class always ready to prey
upon unsophisticated girls whOsaare
travelling alone.
There are matrons in all large rail-
road stations who will care for women
that need aid of any kind If a young
woman reaches "a strange city without
knowing where to stop she should in
quire of the policeman or the station
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spINsTERs IN BERMupA.

In most countries where civilization
is somewhat backward marriage is ap-
parently regarded as the necessary fate
of every woman. This is so much the
case in Russia that there when the par
ents of a girl see her getting on to-
ward old maidenhood without any
prospect of marriage. they take her
abroad for a time After a year or two
she will reappear among her old friends
as a widow, and though they may sus-
pect that her late lamented husband
never existed outside the imagination
of those who invented him, yet the fic-
ton is useful in giving her a certain
status in society and enabling her to
avoid the notifications of the s'unap-
propriated blessing"
In Bermuda, on the other hand, girls
are often prevented from marrying by
the law of the land, which DEGREES that
a woman who marries a foreigner shall
not only lose what property she may
happen to have, but shall also become
incapable of inheriting any.
Sometimes Bermudan girls renounce
their birthrights for loves sake; but, as
rule, the charms of penniless damsels
are not sufficient for men to desire
them for wives, and therefore many of
them are doomed to spinsterhood by
the law
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= DON'T GROW OLD.

Many women become middle aged
from the simple reason that they allow
middle aged habits to steal upon them
and relapse into a state of physical in
dolence just at a time when they should
fight against this tendency to give up
exercise. 'eThe best preventives against
growing middle aged" says a charming
woman of forty-five whose unwrinkled
face and slim figure give her the ap-
pearance of being at least fifteen years
younger than her real age, ARE cheer
fulness, a strict determination not to
worry over trifies and a sense of hui
NOR that saves one from depression. A
cold tub every morning, a walk every
day in rain and sunshine. face massage
with cold cream at night, ten minutes
physical exercise Immediately on ris-
ing, friction of the scalp to stimulate
growth of the hair, viii keep any wo-
man free from wrinkles and will pre-
serve the contour of her figure"
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nose and in a muf1ed. rasping way
which is excruciating to the cultivated
ear. To avoid this simply form your
words at the front of your mouth just
where the lips, teeth and tip OF the
tongue meet. Practice this a little to
yourself, and your ear will note in
stantly the difference between the clear
frontal articulation and the disagree
able variety which issues from back in
the throat.
OF course you already understand
that you must make yourself master OF
correct grammar and pronunciation.
Don't talk all the time. Let the 9TH
ers have a chance, even when you know
they know less than you do on given
topic. To listen well is part of success
full conversation. Finally, don't seek to
shine in your talk. The true object OF
conversation is to interest others with
out any reference to yourself at all.
KATHERINE BLADES.
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HERBERT SPENCER AND LOVE.
New York.

HERBERT SPENCER AND LOVE.
Mr.. w. H. Hudson in concluding an
article on the autobiography of Her
bert Spencer sounds a pathetic personal
note as to the late philosopher, whose
love story is suggested rather than told.
1t is a touching picture of a great mans
inner desolation. I'm most men, writes
Spencer, personal considerations con-
quer impersonaI ones; in me the con-
trary happens The world, writes Mr..
Hudson, which to most of us is a world
of flesh and blood, to Spencer was
rather a world of abstract principles.
1t was his great misfortune in boyhood,
as he recognizes to the full, to have no
brothers or sisters, and what in after
life he needed before all things was
just that plexus of common human re-
lationships. interests. responsibilities,
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date; the other leading one was Mrs.
Dore Lyon, president of the Eclectic
club, also of New York.
Members of both the Women Law
yers' and the Eclectic clubs Journeyed
to Syracuse to work for their presi-
dents. The election was lively as only
a woman's club election can be, but
Mrs. Carpenter won.
a pleasant event which speedily fol-
lowed ought to be convincing proof to a
doubling world that women's club cleo
lions are not mere cat squabbles. The
Eclectic club, Mrs. Dore Lyon at its
head. invited to a special luncheon Mrs.
Carpenter, the new state president, and
gave her the time of her life. The &c
Iectic speakers declared they had work.
ed their best against Mrs. Carpenter,
the days guest, but now that she had
been elected federation president they
would unanimously work their level
best for her.
1t was a graceful, kindly act on the
part of Mrs. Lyon and the Eclectic club,
showing womanly loyalty without a
trace of bitterness or sulks, and gentle,
sweet tempered Fanny Hallock Car
penter was pleased to her hearts core.
When once a friend spoke to her con-
corning this way she has of promoting
good will and good temper wherever she
appears she said: That's what my ia
ther lived for. 1t makes one believe in
the goodness of everybody to have a. IA
ther and mother whose life was abso-
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fashions, gossip concerning persons and
the narrow, humdrum domestic sphere.
Read every year several good books,
not always novels, but volumes con-
nected with happenings and theories
that interest humanity. Moreover,
don't use many words. Gossip concern
ing the private affairs of other persons
is not conversation. A woman may ac-
cumuIate and store up knowledge of all
the scandal, all the new dresses, all the
happenings in the respective sacred
home circles of her acquaintances; she
may spend two hours pouring this stuff
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Fanny HallOck Carpenter
Lawyer and Club Woman

%O sow seeds of harmony, good
will and womanly sympathy
all along the road of life is no
n small mission, especially to
sow seeds of such beautiful fruitage
among club women. For that reason
perhaps, because such seems to be her
mission, Mrs. Fanny Hallock Carpenter
is in steady demand as president Of
clubs. Three years ago she was elected
president of the Women Lawyers club
of New York. Possibly women lawyers
have their appetite for arguing whetted
by their legal studies, but it is certain
that Mrs. Carpenter as their president
is able to maintain harmony among
them.
II know couldn't keep good natured
always, as Mrs. Carpenter does, if I
were president" said one of the lady
lawyers recently.
The Women Lawyers club of New
York is a fine and growing one, having
lately doubled it's membership. This
result is, of course, partly due to the
constantly increasing number of women
attorneys. but it is in no small measure
due also to the exquisite tact aid inn
perturbable good temper of President
Fanny Hallock Carpenter
At the last election for president of
the New York State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs there was keen rivalry be-
tween two clubs whose respective pres
idents were candidates for the state
honors- Mrs. Carpenter was one candi-
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from which for one and another rea-
son-his early poverty and struggles,
his self devotion to a gigantic task, the
isolation which this entailed, his break
down in health-he was actually debar-
red.
It is at once pathetic and suggestive
to find him longing to have his "af-
fectionse called out" hoping at thirty
five ito begin to live some day and
discovering amid all the ennui of inva-
lidism and old age that his keenest
pleasure was furnished by the society
of two little girls. children of a friend
who Tent them" to him at his request.
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WORLDS TYPEwRITINe RECORD

Twenty thousand four hundred words
in six hours is the worlds typewriting
record. If this number of words were
dictated it would be remarkable feat
to write them down with a typewriter
in anything like six hours. Yet this
record was made by an operator who
read copy from closely written manu-
script, and the operator was only
twenty-one years old
The young woman who gained inter
national fame by this remarkable per-
Torrance is Mary z. Pretty, a native of
Philadelphia employed in the patent Of
fee at washington. 1t is said that her
looks do not belle her name.
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bands would not be able to stand for
millinery bills of the same size as those
they had inflicted on their loving ia
theirs. Being wise girls, they deter
mined to have the same number of hats
If possible and Joined the class.
Before the end of the season the max
ing of hair ornaments, fancy muffs and
fancy collarettes was added to the cur
riculum, and the wardrobes of the pu-
pills blossomed forth like flower beds in
the springtime.
And herein, by the way, is a hint for
the girl who is forced to be economical.
Let her make fancy stoles and muffs for
evening wear since she may not indulge
in the costly ermine. Very pretty eff
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finished so far as matters outside of her
domestic affairs are concerned. Her
sphere of influence thenceforth consists
in bringing up her children and ruling
over her home domain.
There are no women's rights conven-
tons, no women's societies, no daugh-
ters' or mothers meetings. There is
not even a woman's whist club in the
whole country.
The women are perfectly happy in
their own homes with their children,
their friends and their charities
After all, is not the strenuous life of
the northern woman responsible for
some of her unhappiness?
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master where she can md the matrous
Then she should consult the matron. Il
there is no matron she should take adj
vice from the uniformed officials only.
When a man or a woman forces his
or her attentions on the lonely traveleE
it is the easiest thing in the world to
call the conductor or the policeman ana
simply say:
''This person is annoying me. WIZ
you please have him stop 1t 2"
That will very quickly cause any ans
noyance to cease.
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into her neighbor's ear, yet not one
word of genuine conversation has she
uttered. She who would really talk
well must shun such matters. They are
things no lady can permit herself to
repeat. They degrade and darken the
mind
In this grand world fortunately there
is enough to talk about that has real
wit and wisdom in it without descend
ing to gossip.
Nothing adds more charm TO CONVEX
sation than clear, musical voice. and
this is within reach of every woman.
Many Americans have the very bad
habit of articulating their words back
in the throat, which causes the sound
itself to escape partly through the
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toward others and always putting your
self mentally in their place is the
quickest possible way to get away from
yourself and that uneasy self con-
seriousness which is the sole cause of
awkwardness. bashfulness and embar-
rassment-
Next, know something to talk about.
Keep track of current events; read al
ways in the papers the news of the
world. Get all the knowledge you can
on all subjects, not SO as to merely re-
peat it like the multiplication table. but
hold it as a fund to draw on when it is
wanted to illustrate some topic under
consideration Intellectual men often
say they find women stupid, because
the women knew nothing outside OF
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springing up on all sides, proving that
home work can be made interesting and
is by no means beneath" the intellec-
tual woman when it is done properly
and, in addition, when it is done artis-
ticaIly.
Perhaps the new woman movement
was not so bad, after all, if it taught us
to appreciate our homes. It made US
realize, at any rate, that household Ia
Dor when done with the same intelli-
gence as is devoted to business pursuits
is bound to be a success and not an I'M
ending drudgery fit only for Ignorant
Immigrants"
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THE VALUE OF COMMON SALT.

Besides being such an essential part
of culinary art, salt has many other
uses perhaps not generally known. Salt
cleanses the palate and furred tonEe.
and a gargle of salt and water is often
efficacious A pinch OF. salt on the
tongue, followed ten minutes after BIZ
a drink of cold water, often cures q
sick headache. Salt hardens the gums,
makes the teeth white and sweetens the
breath. Added to the water in which
cut flowers stand it keeps them fresh.
Sailed water and alcohol in solution
should be used for rubbing weak an
kles. Salt used dry in the same man
ner as snuff will do much to relieve
colds, hay fever. ETC., and if used for
bathing tired eyes it will be found very
refreshing. Salt and water win stop
hemorrhage from the extraction oe
teeth.
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achu coat whose fronts are crossed and
fitted into a pointed belt of brown vel
vet The stripes of these fronts, of
course. run bias, giving a long Shout
dered effect, while the wide, bell sleeves
have their stripes running around the
arm and are finished with wide frills of
lace.
Both black and brown caracal are
ultra smart, and a box model of the
black seen recently was trimmed with
bands of white cloth with fancy white
vest embroidered in gold thread.
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ACQUIRE THE ART
OF TALKING WELL.

YAvE you sympathy with all that
lives and do you habitually put
out good will to every human
being? Then you have the foundation
for a really brilliant conversationalist.
That renowned and fascinating talker
Sydney Smith was noted as one of the
sweetest natured, most sympathetic
men of his time. Putting out sympathy
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HOW TO LIVE ONE HUNDRED
YEARS.

Be cIean.
Be good *natured and companionabIe.
Do not worry.
Be more careful to take exercise al
you grow older.
Be comfortable Keep your feet warm
and wear comfortable clothing.
Sleep in a comfortable bed in a room
that is ventilated and in which sum
shine is not a stranger
Do not eat twice as much as you need
and eat only the food that agrees with
yoiI
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neys must be taken during Mr.. Carpen-
ter's brief summer vacations-but none
the less pleasant. Mrs. Carpenter finds
Spain very fascinating. A jolly good
travelling companion. too, is this lady,
who says with full sincerity of meaning,
'I would not for any consideration hurt
anybody's feelings"
That sentence is the keynote to Fanny
Ha1lock Carpenter.
MARILLA WEAVER
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chinehiIIa Wraps.

The fanciest wraps of all, however,
are of chinchilla. They come in stole
effect enriched with ruff1es of lace and
gray velvet or else in the shape of
little, loose hanging jackets with tab
ends. Worn with a gray velvet skirt, a
costume of this description leaves moth
ing to be desired.
Squirrel box coats dyed a rich brown
are smart and pretty and their cost is
moderate.
sealskin is daily increasing in value.
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instead OF dis
figuring 1t, as
in former times.
Even the sedate
sealskin is elab-
GRATED as much
as possible and
fitted with lace
sleeve ruffle S
and like frivoli-
ties.
Next to a sa-
BILE coat mink
is rated most
highly, and be-
cause of its fine
S tripings it
lends itself to a
variety of fancy
effects. Perhaps
the latest is the
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A PARTY FRocK OF MUSLIN cHIF-
EOM-

The dancing frock illustrated is made
of white muslin chiffon on a foundation
of pale green taffeta- The skirt has
graceful festoons of gathered lace up
to the knee.
The bodice is arranged somewhat In
dchu fashion, the crossed draperiea
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ALREADY SETTLED.

seYour daughters young man inter-
viewed you last night, didn't hep ask
ed Smith. YES. And such a stupid
fellow! He hasn't any sense at all, -
replied Robinson. sAh, then you won't
have him as a son-in-law?" Il? What
have got to do with it? The idea OF
his coming to ask me when the girl and
her mother are satisfied If he had any
sense he'd know that settled it."
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"ModeI Wives"

At a woman's club meeting attended
recently the subject of one speech was,
strange to say, Model Wives and the
speaker assured us that the South
American woman bore off the palm.
It appears that there are no married
f1irts in South America, from which it
viii be seen that it is slightly different
from New York. After marriage a wo-
man is lost to the world. Her career is
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LAcE is FASHIONABLE.

Everything that is real lace is COM
ing back. Even the young women are
wearing Brussels, while Irish crochet is
enjoying the greatest popularity it has
known in years.
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AFTER all, a fur coat is the best
"a investment a woman can
make. She may wear it with
a a variety of dresses and skirts.
even with old skirts, and still look well.
The fur coat of this season is vastly
different from its predecessor. It is
dainty, enriched with embroidery ana
lace and designed to show of the form
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fects can be gained from combination
of white panne velvet, pointed tabs and
ruff1es of cream chiffon, while in pale
pink and pale lavender the effect is
even prettier,
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merry When you
reflect on the
prevailing price
of hats and the
fact that fash
ion now de-
nands that your
h a t S h 0 III d
match your cos
tune it will be
seen that home
m Him cry is
worth while"
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10 Sd WITH A klsa-

Oh, mothers. so weary, discouraged, Z
Worn out with the cares of the day. 4
You often grow cross and impatient
Complain of the noise and the play. !
For the day brings so many vexations. /
So many things going amiss,
But, mothers, whatever may vex YOU.
Send the children to bed with a kissi
The dear little feet wander often
Perhaps from the pathway of right;
The dear little hands find new mischief
To try you from morning till night;
But think of the desoIate mothers
Who'd give all the world for your bliss.
And, as thanks for your infinite blessings.
SEM the children to bed with a kissl
For some day their noise win not ven
you
The silence will hurt you far more.
You will long for the sweet children
voices.
For a sweet, childish face at the door,
And to press a child's face to your bosom
You'd give all the world for just this
For the comfort twill bring you in sor-
row
Send the children to bed with a tissl
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No More MNew. Monnen.

One of the most encouraging signs
that the day of aggressive new woman
hood is past is furnished by the numer-
Gus household magazines which are
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girls, and you will be surprised to
hear that its success was immediate.
Among her pupils were several prospec-
tive brides who foresaw that their hus-
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the
Create
and
the
her
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and mink in its dark shades is account
ed very desirable.
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Between five and twenty-one years OF
age the death rate of women is slightly
higher than that of men. The death
rate of women between twenty and
thirty Is less than that Of mem q,
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A Bright Wo-
man.
A clever wo-
man tenporari-
~ hard up open
ed last fall a
class in nilli-