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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Styles and Fashions
 Come and 20. Visit Tresslar's Studio. For Whats You Know.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Mrs. w. o. Thomas of Blakely, Ga, is visiting her sisters, Miss Merriweth- CT Gilmer and Misses Bessie and Addie Screws
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15
GRIEL-COOPER.

In The Shreveport. La, Journal Mir of his daughter, Miss Theo. Cooper to MT. Terry J. Griel of this city. This will be of much interest here, where the groom is very popular in the social and business circles in which he fig- ures.
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Mrs. P. O. Larkin went down to Csreenville yesterday to spend a few days with Miss Lillian Hun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15
News in Brief

A marriage license was issued by the Judge of the Probate Court yesterday to A. c. Griffin and Fannie Lou Rogers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15
Charged With Larceny.

New arrival of hats first of week as Mrs. Freeman and Miss kemper'a.
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NOTICE, IoNIAN CLUB.

NOIlCE, HUMAN CLUbs Important meeting at the New Ex- change Hotel on Tuesday morning at
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MT. and Mrs Hardwick Ruth have re- turned from visit to Pass Christian.
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MT. and Mrs o. D. Pruett of Clayton were the guests of MT. and Mrs. T. D. McGough for several days the past week.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Mrs. R. Carslll gave the members of her Sun"ov school class an Easter Egg Hunt . Saturday evening on the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Miss Francis Stakely left last night for Charlotte, N. C., to attend the an- nual convention of Kappa Delta, So- rority.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Little Miss Evie Apperson of Selms is visiting relatives in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Miss Genevieve Liverman of New Orleans will come to Montgomery this week to visit Miss Della Mohr, at her home, 120 Sayre street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Mrs E. D. Sterne and daughter. Mrs: Paul Sterne and Miss May Bernheim of Birmingham Is the guest of MT. and Mrs M Mohr on Sayre street.
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Mrs. James Ware Walker has re- turned from Birmingham, where she has been visiting Mrs. James Hillman
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V. lT7s.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
or First Meeting.

or First Meeting In the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama In BankruDtcY.
 In the matter of E. C. Norton. Bank rupt, Post Office Montgomery, County Montgomery. Alabama.
 The aforesaid party having been adfudgea q Bankrupt under the Act of Congress en- titled "An Act to establish a Uniform sys- tenn of Bankruptcy throughout the United states" approved July 1st, 1898, a meeting Of the creditors of the said Bankrupt is call. ed at the office of the undersigned Referee in the United States Court House. Montgom- cry, Alabama, on the 2sth day of April next. at 10 o'clock a m. to make proof of debts and for the election of a Trustee, and such other matters as are necessary and ro- anirsd by the Act of Congress aforesaid
 ASA K. sTRATToN.
 Referee MontEomeEy. Ala. Aprii 14th- 1ans-
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Mrs T. M. Ball and little son of Jacksonville. Fla, is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. W. w. McPherson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Mrs. James Hillman of Birmingham is visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. Hal T. Walker, at their home on South Court Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Miss Annie Kelley of Wetumpka is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A Stanley at her home, 619 Mildred Street.
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Miss Annie Bannon of Macon, Ga, will arrive in the city Tuesday and will be the guest of Mrs. John A. Fillmore at her homo on Virginia Avenue.
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Miss Clementina Marks has gone to the University of Virginia to attend the Easter festivities.
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Mrs. Richard Arlington of Enter prise Is the guest of Mrs. Mary Airing ton at his home on Church Street.
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Miss Florence Dawson of Birming- ham is expected tomorrow to be the guest of Miss Mary Seibles Ball.
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For n Noble Cause.

One hundred and fifty young college women will assemble there duringi the next few days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15
GERANIUMsi GERANIUMs.

Special Sale. N At 100 Dexter Avenue, commencfnx 6 q. m., Monday we will offer four ten cent geraniums all different, for 25c. About twenty different varieties will be included in this sale.
 R0semOnt Gardens.
 su-mOm.
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w E D D IN c S

w E D D l N G S STERLING SILVER.
 Those. unfamiliar with our new stock of sterling wedding gifts will find it interesting.
 The cream of such factor ies as Whiting and Gorham is here and best of other silver smiths. Sterling Silver ware, prettily engraved.
 Pretty and desirable pat terms at lowest prices.
 KNIVES, dinner size, $Io a dozen, pearl handle, $r4; de- sert size. $17 dozen; pearl handle, $Ia.
 FORKS, dinner size, $24 dozen; desert size, SI6. TABLE AND DESSERT SPOONS same price. Tea spoons $o, SI1, $Ie dozen. Coffee spoons $7. so t.ozen.
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For the star which marks the spot where President Davis stood-Mrs S. Halls Janney. Chairman; Mesdames V.
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Mrs. L. R. Mckee went to Mobile yes- terday to spend easter with her daugh- ter, Miss Pauline. who is at the Acad- emy of the Visitation.
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MT. and Mrs. N. k. Walker are to be congratulated on the arrival of little girl at their home on Holcombe street, whom they have named Mamie Ball
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tcor,lnued from Page Twelve,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

Miss Vernon Marks, who has been spending several months with her cousin, Mrs. Burwell Boykin. has re- turned to her home at Birmingham
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President Ladies' Memorial Association Mrs. l. M. P. Ockenden. Sec.
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Mrs. S. A. Jewett of Cleveland, O., who has spent the winter in Florida. is visiting the family of her uncle. MT. J. N. Hall at their home on Goldthwaite Street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
WAYS FOR FITTING A BRIDE-ELECT

the guest of honor what she had missed by not taking him. Of course. no names were mentioned, but the mans traits were so keenly hit and his virtues so extolled that his identity was not hard to guess.
 At the conclusion of each speech the pride was presented with token typi- lying the supposed lovers favorite hob by = IS motor car, mftre, a hoe, a gun and knapsack. and 80 forth. Where the bridesmaids can afford 1t, these gifts may be made very attractive by being in the form of little gold or silver trinl- cts for chatelaine--a novel string of scalps; but the cheap toys afford quite as much fun.
 During the luncheon a messenger boy kept running in at frequent intervals bearing telegrams or immediate delivery notes purporting to come from old lovers. These were in the form of com miseratlons to the lucky groom and con- gratulations to themselves for having escaped his fate.
 Where water is accessible an all-day sail, in which the entire bridal party Is included, is sure to prove interesting. What bride could ask any better form of entertainment than canoe trip down some winding, shaded stream it's banks beautiful with June verdure, especially if she is allowed to paddle part or all of the way with the man so soon to be her husband? tant point which the party can reach by train, from where they paddle home ward in the late afternoon and long June twilight to end with supper or impromptuf dance-if they are still of an age when dancing in hot weather does not call forth visions of apoplexy- at the country home Of one of the bridesmaids or at a clubhouse.
 If iucky enougn to live near a canal. deck an old canal boat in bridal array and 70 for a moonlight cruise on the oiiiet waters. The slow, dreamy motion t1f the mule-pulled boat, the soft even ing summer fragrant breezes, music to guitar and mandolin, old glees or mod ern love songs make a combination that wo,ild utferIy cast in the shade the pleasures of the usual round of bridal Entertainments.
 If you cannot nave water iestlval, iey uarty, with an al fresco supper at fhe end where the happy pair may be toasted and congratulated to their and your hearts content
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

Dotted swiss makes some attractive coats, which are worn, usually, oyer q colored slip, and trimmed with blind embroidery in a design that looks like an evolution from the dotted swiss it.
 For slips, China silk Ca quality that does up well) Is best liked, all though lawns make very good substi- ute where economy enters into the question.
 For the heavier coats, pique. Is used almost as often as linen, and the many cotton substitutes for linen are pre- ferred by the mothers who prefer to get less expensive things for their children, and then dispense with them after season rather than alter and piece them next season, when the child has out grown Gas they have way of doing) it's clothes.
 As to hats. they are fascinating, as wide Hopping brirns made of rufties of exquisite embroidery and great bows of ribbon are bound to be when. they serve as frames to childish faces.
 Often a remnant of fine machine-mad embroidery, enough to make hat of. can be bought for very little, and wire frame for very little more.
 Full ruffied brims, with tam-o' '-shanter crowns, are most easily made, If you are your own milliner. and are becoming to more types of children than any other style.
 Setting a full frill of valenciennes lace under the edge of the embroidery, out lining its scallops, adds one more pretty, dainty touch to the hat. The brim should be faced with the embroidery- plain at the edge, and gathered in to fit the inner circle, and an Alsatian bow of lowered or plain ribbon set directly
 When the coat is of dotted swiss. dot ted embroidery best carries out the style.
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ures are woven through the body of the material.
 Most of our summer life is spent out of-doors, and the rug for the veranda has now become almost a necessity.
 Probably the most popular, because the cheapest porch rug is that of closely woven prairie grass. The grass is in its natural tone, the only dye being in the cotton warp. The colorings are good dull greens, terra cottas, blues, reds and yellows, sometimes woven plain, again with side stripes of a contrasting hue.
 This grass material also comes by the yard and is used, instead of mating, for railways and stairs.
 If you have a large porch, with hand some wicker or mission furnishings, you should by all means indulge In the heavy fibre Mouzouk or Algerian rugs, made fin India.
 The color effects are daring and the designs flashing. For instance, rug of plain dull red has a broad border of vivid Irish green; another. with dark olive centre, has an apple green border and a yellow brown outer edge. Again, there are apparently impossible com @fNations of strong blues and greens and ,asslows, or a curved border entirely covered with huge central design of sage green, crushed raspberry and cop perish red.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

Y oW to cover the floors In sum-
 H mer, either in the country home N l or in the city house that must
 be made livable during torrid days, .s always a question.
 Few Northerners can bring them selves to follow the sensible Southern plan of taking up every vestige of car .pet a 9r g rug st .ns spring housecieaning, ly bare foors, either of hardwood or stained. We feel our dignity demands some sort of floor covering. but want 1t to be as cool and fresh-looking as pos
 Fortunately. this is now not hard to manage. We have effected a compro- mise between naked boards and the old Yankee method of shrouding heavy car pets with linen coverings in the belief that II was cool. Today ws have un- carpeted floors and rugs, or else mat ting, with small rug or two to break the monotony. ..
 In rugs nothing quite takes the place Tor summer use of the Night, dainty ,ehintz fabrics, in the new weave sug- gestive of old-fashioned rag carpet ef- fects.
 The coloring Is light, as a rule-bIue. with white striped border; green, with fiecks of pink. with deeper toned pink across each end; pale yellow blue and pink, yellow and heliotrope, woven without figures. with a broad border of greentsh and white stripes dashed with 
 One rug particularly striking is of two tones of beige. with dull green fig- ures scattered here and there. and a green and white border, with touches of red. Another js of red with a warm yellow border touched up with Egyp- tian designs, in green. red. yellow and white. A third, as serviceable as it was effective, was of navy blue, dashed with white, with a ten-inch border of diae- nal stripes in dark and light green. yellow, brown, white and red, the stripes made harmonious by faint waving out lines of black.
 In all these cotton rugs the borders, in true rag carpet style, are woven only across the ends. A light fringe usual ty emphasizes the color effect. The finish Is both smooth and rough the latter new this season. The rugs wear well, and spots can easily be washed from them. They can be bought In any size or woven to suit any room.
 There are also little rugs adapted to kitchen use. made according to Colonial patterns, in plaids or checks of dark reds and blues, reds and yellowst or reds and green. Next in popularity to the chintz rug are those made of fibre, which have stood the test of several seasons. This paper pulp not only wears well, but in Lhis season added beauty of color and 9esign may be adapted to almost any room in the house. The border runs en- arely around in the conventional rug style; in addition, large and small fig
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

1<HE last few weeks before a we'd
 ding are apt to be crowded with
 X entertainments for the bride; young woman Is often tempted to wish her friends less generously hospitable; Especially if there is a large bridal party, this pleasurable round of festiv- ltles becomes a source of real fatigue.
 Would 1t not be wiser for the bridesA maids. for instance, to defer their in- dividual entertaining until after the honeymoon? If they wish to offer some courtesy beforehand. let them unite and give combination party.
 Such an affair can be made very jolly; indeed. a touch of the unusual is almost essential to it's success. The stereotyped luncheon or dinner is all very well in winter Cor in summer, too. IT one objects to bothering or lacks in- genuity). but June wedding offers un- told opportunities for originality.
 There should be no lack of ideas where six or ten girls can be drawn on to arrange jolly party. but a few already thinking of some such joint party, or induce other bridesmaids not to kill their friend with kindness.
 In the first place, by all means ar- range for an open-air fete of some sort.
 It may be only a luncheon at the country club-where, ordinarily, there are plenty of facilities for meals on PoIches' t1ere the element or unusual ness must be supplied in the arrange ment of the table, in the toasts and in the souvenirs of the occasion.
 At one such luncheon, where the bride-elect had been a great belle and, If truth be told, somewhat in- constant the bridesmaids gave what they dubbed "a sour grapes" party. In the centre of the table, crouching as if in fear among great masses of ruddy love-lies-bleeding. candytuft pink larkspur and other symbols of flckleness, was a doll dressed to close ly resemble the bride, while behind her tall and slender Cupid drew his resenting discarded lovers.
 These lovers were china dolls, three or four inches high. and included a soldier, sailor, bishop, a farmer, a chauffeur, an octogenarian and boy in knickerbockers, doctors and law yers; even the butcher boy and post man were not forgotten. while at least
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ten miles into the heart of the real country.
 Their destination was rambling old farmhouse, where supper was served in true country style = everything on the table at once, until the board fairly groaned with pickles, spreads meats vegetables doughnuts, apple sauce, wal fles, big iced cakes and huge cups Of coffee in thick, stone china cups. Even the decorations were the typical snort stemmed, tightly tied garden flower "po- kay" of every variety and shade.
 After feast, where the hilarity might have led one to doubt that the toasts were drunk from tincups of new mhk' the real fun of the evening began.
 Each bridesmaid was given a pretty checked sunbonnet and pail and sent out to the barn to milk the cows, prize being awarded to the most sue cessful dairymaid, while the men wore set to feeding the stock and currying the horses. with another prize Tor the most expeditions.
 These chores done, the entire party were taken to the fields, where they were given rakes and pitehforks and turned into haymakers. For several hours those city-bred men and maidens raked and tossed hay with VIII, ana merry time they had of 1t. Prizes were given to the best workers.
 Much merriment was caused when the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
NEW MATTINGS AND SUMMER FLOOR COVERINGS

lines. They have shown more enter prise in adopting new ideas-many of them are American suggestions. The coloring is better and softer. designs more original and the surface less close ly covered. In every way, the effects are cooler for summer wear
 White mating. plain or embossed, is the favorite, and gives the best wear; then comes white with widely scat tered inlaid figures in rich color tones.
 One of these, a white Of extra fine quality, has large copper-colored roses and pale green leaves. Another sports strictly Japanese scenes in rather bright green.
 The old conventional closely covered dark greens and reds, with squares in lighter tones, still are Tn vogue, as are the somewhat similar China mattings.
 Few may know why the China mat ting, which is more durable both as to dyes and texture than any other kind. is less artistic in appearance. Chinamen, though they split their straw reeds by hand and weave very closely, cannot or will not weave figures. Their looms will not permit of 1t, and the conserva- tive Chinese spirit will not permit of new looms. Indeed. their mating guilds refused rather recently to allow the use of looms which were sent over rom thus country for the special purpose of in- struction in design making.
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Sounds rather dreadful, does 1t not? In reality, 1t is rich and artistic.
 As for the mattings, they never were lovelier, even though the dealers are tearing their hair over delayed ship ments.
 By the way. the cause of this delay is interesting.
 Japan or China-though this year is shown an American mating, made Of straw from China. so fine and pliable that even the Japanese themselves mar vel at it's texture. In point of fact, 1t is too fine for service, but would make excellent panelings or even hats.
 Now, the Japanese mattings-many or them-have not turned up yet, because, when the 200,0 900 soldiers came back from Manchuria, the government allowed to each of them four mats apiece for new floor covering, The dealers, seeing more profit in the weaving of these cheap rugs one and a half inches thick, six feet long and four wide, promptly went back on their foreign contracts.
 However, more straw by 75 to 90 per cent was grown in Japan this year than last, and the supply promises to be soon up to the mark again.
 There Is noticeable improvement tnis season in all the Japanese mattings that have been received. The weavers seem to be working along entirely different
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06

"HE June bride is often at loss
 for some novel way to entertain
 L her bridal party Of course, there
 is the usual dinner or luncheon, but these, however attractive they may be (and in what month of the year can they be made more so than in June?, certainly have not the. merit of novelty.
 A last-year bride solved the problem with such delightful results that her methods may prove suggestive to some distraught maiden who is even now racking her brain to find something out of the ordinary rut for similar occa- sion.
 The bride in question. as we'll as all her attendants, was a city girl. She had always rather disliked the country, so great was the amusement-not to mem ton the jeers-of her friends when she elected to marry a farmer.
 To assert her woman's privilege to change her mind, and to give her brides maids a foretaste of the, pleasures of country life, the bride-elect decided to make her bridal party truly bucolic.
 She asked her guests-the ushers were included--to meet at her home at o'clock one late June afternoon, as if for afternoon tea. On their arrival they were all piled into huge. old-fashioned hay wagon comfortably filled with sweet-smelling hay, and driven eight or
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A brought put is so stunning as
 are the lingerie coats for chil-
 dren. Made of the heaviest of linen, or of material so sheer that slip Is necessary, they have already, in the short space of time which has elapsed since they first appeared upon the scene, made a place for themselves which they promise to hold throughout the summer. An occasional little suit Is worn by the small girl which echoes the styles of her older sister. And plenty of linen reefers are being made as well.
 But the most popular style is long enough to reach from the throat to the hem. or @ little above the hem, of the dress.
 Those of heavy linen seem more prac- tical, at first glance, and those of the natural colored linen, or of the soft rose or blue shades, really are. But in white, and nine out of ten are made of white, the sheer, fluffy ones are about as practical as the more severe styles.
 Both heavy and light coats are em- broidered by hand, or trimmed with fine machine-made insertion or fiouncing- some even made of the very deep foun- cling which comes for the lingerie dresses and petticoats that the grown ups wear.
 Blind and openwork embroidery are both used, the openwork little more often because of it's greater effective ness, although the coats of heavy linen are often embroidered only with scal- lops, which edge collar and cape and cuffs, and even the skirt of the coat itself
 Some adorable little coats, which make the tot who wears them look like great French doll, are very much beruffied, some of them with one ruffie piled upon another, until the coat is as airy bit of beauty as a dress.
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a dozen students, in caps and gowns or football and baseball togs, were bowled over in a great arrow-riven heap. Each figure was pierced With an arrow and was surrounded with the tiny petals of the rambler rose to represent blood drops.
 At the brides plate was great heart made of deep red carnations-whose sig niflcance in the language of flowers IS. was lettered in orange blossoms: Take back the heart that thou gavest me, while running from 1t fin all directions were trails of Allegheny vine,. with tiny white sealed envelopes attached to the ends to inclose the card of some dis- carded lover.
 For toasts each bridesmaid, assuming the part of former adorer, solemnly rose and in clever rhyme made plain to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-06
FOR GRAY-HAIRED
 WOMEN

THE prettiest combs. made of some composition which looks just a little like mother-of- pearl, without us iridescence, come tor gray-haired peo- pie, and is far and away more oecoin- ing than either shell or amber
 Some have silver or gola trimmings, a few even set with rhinestones' or with some of the many new stones.
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HOW ONE BRIDE DOES HER ENTERTAINING

guests hid their hostess in one of the stacks of hay, to the great confusion of her fiance.
 The long ride back in the moonlight was not the least enjoyable part of the unique affair, which was voted by all the most enjoyable bridal entertainment they had ever attended.