The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
nY nTRs. ,. M. DeC0TTES.


 otherwise lack for 1t. Broad-gause Christians tolerate or frankly enJoy an afternoons excitement over playing cards. iustifyfng the waste as relax atfon from household care. But the | pasion grows. There is a fascination | in taking aim, whether one wins or not | --there is always a hope that one VIII | From the one euchre club woman | may allow herself, others ramify. She | is pressed to join, and without much 1 eIoquence on the part of the inducer. | The result Tn some instances, and this | is 10 exagger ation, is at least one club every day in the week, with embryonic {, heart-disease at each, struggle for a | prize, over-zeal, disappointment to the , majority. There are women in New l Orleans--nor is New Orleans unique in this-who play cards most of the af- ternoon, getting home on the stroke of the dinner hour. At night they haul their weary husbands off to evening euckres.
 Card playing is an intoxicant. It allures. But one must have a consti- tuition to stand the wear on ones tis- sue and nerves. The blood surges quicker at playing cards than over sewing, and headaches are not infre- quently the result. We are living fast enough in this age. Heaven knows, and | cards are an accelerant. Isn't it a frightening thought.
 T. C. DeLeon writes in ~'Carnival Gossip of the memorial in Mob.Ie to ! the great Sieur de Bienville chevaliex de Saint Louis. Governor of La Prov | ince de La Louisiana. to which after more than two centuries women's hands have reared to him and which was unveiled on last unit fittingly inn pressive ceremonies: He writes: | fn nj har i'd eriN To garland the earth with Roses Of 1 Heaven!''
 After two hundred and six years, it was left to the gracious hands of the women of Alabama to erect the first monument to the memory of the gall lant French noble and prenx chevalier, who discovered the Province of Louisiana for the Grand Monarque: who planted the lilies In the first soil of the New France;' then ruled it we'll and wisely for nearly thirty years.
 "February 24, 1908, will live as a red-letter day in the annals of Colonial
 history. It will stand rebricked by the thought and the prompt action of the National Society of Colonial Danes | Of Alabama. directed to result by the patriotism and research of Mime. Hor- tense Batre, widow of the late loved | and respected Alfred Batre, of this city; long succeeding herself, by their unanimous vote, as president of the so- ciety.
 Since his death. at Paris. in 176s- in comparative obscurity and almost poverty--the bones of the great ex- plorer have slept in an unmarked and
 unknown corner of the famous and crowded Cemetery Montmartre.
 Tn two centuries. the brave adven- turer, gallant sailor of France in two ! wars. the daring explorer, who with his brother, Pierre le Moyne Sieul d'lbervilIe captain of frigate in tho navy of France-sailed into Mobile Bay. thence founded Biloxi, and dis l covered the mouths of the Mississippi the great diplomatist, fearless Indiar lighter. and wise Governor for King Louis XIv---this immortal has had nc
 stohe raised to his honor-no eros; reared to recall him to the memory oi generations that glibly call his name
 unknowing!
 From the 24th day of this month
 of the year of grace, 1906, this ignor' } ance shall no more have excuse. In thu little -Bienville: Park. in the old Gull | CtA- he founded, a 'Wayside Cross ot
 native gray granite-strong as his na
 ture, enduring as his valor and simpl'
 as his soul-shall arrest attention O. the careless passer. On it's front, let ! tefS or UTpuESy ISll. HIS SlpI.
 briefly; on it's rear, the signet of thu
 Colonial Danes recalls the lines ol
 the great German, introducing thes'
 words of record that claim the grati
 tude of nation. and aid the Muse whC
 teaches by example.
 At Greenville. South Carolina, I'm
 Margaret Home is an institution re
 gently opened and fin it Alabamian'
 have special interest as it is the gif
 of Mrs Chambers. formerly of Mont
 gomery, now of New York, and is nam
 ed for her mother, Mrs. Margaret Wal
 Ter, of Montgomery. who is one O the most honored. beloved and revereC of Alabama's women. At meeting
 held in Ensley, Mrs. L. V. c. Kelly reaC
 a paper on the subject and from he
 paper the following is taken by Th' Alabama Baptist. The opening of the Margaret Hom ! at Greenville. S. C., is the fruition O