The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-13

There is nothing aggravating In a Tn,rd vest per SC. It has to be coupled with other annoyances. It has to De surrounded with other minor aEgfava- tions and the man inside the vest mas a whole lot to do with the tmpr rsssfon made by a checkerboard vest With the spots of red and brown.
 The loud vest that made itself heard along the entire length Of the dininz room had not a single redeeming quail itv The very look of the man aggra- yated his offense against good taste. He was 'undersized and pudgy' put too young to be very fat. His air was stiff and crinkly and his nose proni- uent. He had loosely hung mouth with large flexible lips and fmpudent. oxIiug eyes. He even had the nerve to trv and ogIe the prim old maid school teacher who sat at side table Ill the dining room Of the country hotei.
 Way down at the end of the long rarrow dining room was the 'transients table, about which huddled hall doz- en disconsolate road men. Tor the Win ter season of the travelling men was on in earnest There was pleasant hosteTrv fiction that the two dollar aav men at the tramsfen. table fare1 better than the drug clerk ana the ,usrried couple who only paid Sl5 ncnth apiece. But down to the tran sfents table the loud vest pushed us way to join the fringe of dissatisfied travelling men.
 vest which may or may not have been real and a big sinner on his ringer which may or may not haVe eeen real
 The new conner was as ostentatious and as flamboyant as the clothes ne ,vore His chair scraped loudly as he ruiled it back and with an appearance of suuerb cleanliness he rubbed ms knife and fork vigorously wlth ms knapkin, holding them high in the air during the process.
 say I've been travelling in the coun- trv so much that every time sit down 10 the table I expect some countrymaD to iump up and ask blessing" His voice was loud and throaty, the voice os one who is overly fond of hearing himself talk.
 was out here at one of these lum- fn eat dinner with the mill boys at the hoardinr house. All the boys were lined up on the back porch washing up in a fin nan. The boarding house keeper came out and blew a !ol-l COW horn to tell everybody that dinner was ready. A long bony hound dog rose up from the side of the wood pile and hcwied one of these long. searching howls
 "one of the felIers on the porch wiped the soap out of his mouth ana sald What the dev'! are you bowling about. You don't have to eat the stun we do'
 Say, I didn't appreciate the point to that joke until I got inside and stacked up against that dinner
 John, take this ice tea away, dldn order any ice tea. Not ice tea? You don,t mean to tell me it's water. Well I'll swear. When summer time comes you may run in a piece of lemon an sell this water for ice tea, any day. Why don't you run it through sieve and get some of the mud out of 1t, or rut if out in the sun and bleach some of the color out of 1t. And that's wa ter. Is your coffee made out or thls water? Well bring me some anyhow guess all the fish and other germs were killed in the boiling.
 So it went from the beginning to the end of the meal. The mans private ar fairs, his shallcw views on all polit- cal questions. all that concerned him. belonged to any that cared to listen Roosevelt was "a cheap skate, Bill Bryan, "a nutty hot air artist, The limited states Senate was "a bunch of Rrafters, getting hand outs from the railroads" the railroads were running the country and cunning 1t in the ground.
 We learned all about the "chicker he met on the train near Selma. She was a peach, too and her father didn