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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-21
SUITS TSAGAINST STATE
IMPORTANT CASES PENDING BE-
 FORE JUDGE swAYME.
Cases Involve the Possession of About Half a N1IfIi0n Acres of Fiorida Land---vfolat6Fa of Postal
 ftegmIatfons Fined.

Pensacola. Fla, Feb. s0.--tspecial0-- Judge Charles swayne. Of the United states Court. has now under advise- snent, case involving about five hum df4d thousand acres Of land, now in possession of the State, and which is being claimed by various railroads Of the State. All of the land, however. is not involved in one suit. but the actions are numerous,
 Today attorneys for Mrs. Hotel of New York argued one of the cases. she bringing suit against the internal Rev enue Fund Commissioners to compel them to sign deeds to 1s0.o00 acres of thts land. She claims that she holds ali of the claims against the State of the Tallahassee and Carrabelle Rail- road and that the State granted this road this amount of land. Prominent attorneys. representing both the State and the plaintiff. are engaged on the ease, among them being ex-Governof William S. Jennings. who is assisting the Attorney General.
 Judge Swayne held his decision in reserve. but it will be announced at an early date and upon it depends wheth- CT or not similar suits will be brought by other parties who hold claims.
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expect, and are expected, to marry.
The majority Of them l believe are look
ing forward to it, and yet marriages are
fewer and girls do not marry so young
as they did when u grandmothers we're
girls"
And one reason. you think9' prompted
the young oma
~Is that in America, in New York at least,
polite society no longer frowns on young
women who take the initiative in arranging
opportunities to meet their men friends.
l must confess that the newer code is prac-
tised i~nnocently enough. l presume not
more than one in a hundred young women
has any other plan in view than having a
good time. And that the average up to
date girl does see much more Of her men
friends than did the average Die fashioned
girl, l don't deny. All the same the out
come is not so productive of marriages.
well, all I've got to say is this; II New
York girls we're to take to knitting by the
fire and waiting for their men friends to
call they would seldom or never see one Of
them. New York men have no time to
make social calls. Or at n rate they
don't make them. summed up the young
woman with a conscious look as the tele-
phone bell tinkled.
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stayed beyond the Alleghanies. although
the field included some OF the best golfers
from the Atlantic seaboard. Miss Bessie
Anthony Of Midlothian, now Mrs. B. p.
Horne and a resident Of Pittsburg, was the
successful player.
The runner up, too, was q Westerner.
Miss j. Anna Carpenter. now Mrs. v. j..
Hall Of Chicago. The two have often at
tended the championships in the East and
may do 80 again, for mAtrimony is not a
barrier to feminine golf. Mrs. Charles T.
Stout, for instance, Is as good On the links
now as when she won championships as
Miss Genevieve Hecker, while the Western
champion this year and last is Mrs. Charles
L.. Dering. The hand that rocks the cradle
loses none Of its power to grip the golf
club.
. Special interest in this years champion
ship will be felt in the play Of a team to
come on under the leadership Of Mrs. A. T.
H. Brewer, president Of the Women's Vest
ern Golf Association. There is also a
Women's Eastern Golf Association, Of
which Mrs. E. F. Sanford Of the Essex
County Country Club is president.
The Eastern League held a championship
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getting to be on such a sexless footing.
According to the old fashioned code man
used to make the advances. Once upon a
time young women who asked favors Of
and arranged meetings with young men,
even in public, would have been considered
almost without the pale Of good society.
In those days ever ambitious mothers
baked at making things too easy for men
Of their acquaintance. Something was
left for the man to accomplish. But the
modem social code is quite different in
spite Of all that may DO said to the contrary.
Well appearing young men, to say nothing
Of the really eligible, are loaded with invita-
lions from one weeks end to the other
in the CONGRATULATIONS which entail
only doing escort duty and making them
selves agreeable. They are asked to go
to the theatre and the tickets, Of course,
are provided by the hostess, and to this
place and that place in and out of town.
! don't mean to large companies only, but
almost en- fdmilLe. II is not often now that
a young man is obliged In order to see more
Of a girl he fancies to ask her and her
mother to be his guests anywhere. And
l am sorry to observe that men do very
little OF such planning nowadays, not be-
cause they are stingy-the New York man
is not apt to count his dollars carefully
but simply because he doesn't get a chance
to and doesn't have to.
AS q result the young men and women
OF the present day behave toward each
other more like good comrades OF the same
sex or like brother and sister betw cen whom
sentiment was to be forever tabooed. Never
before were young people allowed TO see
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new SOCIAL CODE FOR WOMEN.
THEY TAKE THE INITIATIVE
NOW IN DEALING WITH MEN.

It's All Right TO Telephone . Friend 10
Take You 10 Luncheon. but the Old
Fashioned woman IT owns But Matri.
mOnS Is Declining, Some Observers Say.
The question whether, after all, Mrs.
Grundy herself is not in some degree to
blame for the alleged falling of in weddings
in higher circles, by permitting rules regu-
lating the conduct Of young women toward
the other sex TO be cased up here and re-
Taxed there, was discussed the other day by
q party Of women Just returned from the
country. II was an elderly woman, who
that morning had seen her young son of to
college by way of the Grand Central Station,
who started the discussion.
1T seems to me-" she began, that the re-
quirements of good form have changed a
good deal in the last few years"
-Yes?" returned a young woman, a CUES
ton in her voice.
You know Lila Blank"
There was a nod of assent.
We'll, when | was at the station this morn
ingl saw her get of an incoming train quiSe
alone, and at the gate she was metby a young
man who seemed to be waiting for her. She
greeted him quite ehusively and the two
walked out Of the side entrance and over
toward Madison avenue. l was a bit sur
prised. because / don't recall having seen
the 20 ng man before, and l have not heard
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wouldn't have grown to be so popular.
Sometimes two girls arrange to come
together and notify two Of their men friends
to be on hand, and there is Mrs. Dash, one
of the Hampstead crowd, who does not hest
tate to accompany her daughter and let
the young man look after them both. Most
young men are glad enough in such cases
to be Of use, for the reason that in return
they get all sorts Of nice invitations to
dinners, to the theatre, opera, &c. It's
a sort Of give and take arrangement and
the young men singled out know that very
we'll.
The first time it happened to my brother
he felt quite set up, l could rec, for the girl
CHANGED to be something of a belle. but
when he discovered that a friend Of his
and Of the girls had first been spoken for
the very same day and couldn't accept be-
cause OF a business appointment his salts
faction took a tumble. Unless a man Is
horribly conceited he isn't at all likely TO
construe such an attention from a New
York girl into evidence that she is in love
with him. In most cases there isn't the
slightest bit Of sentiment about any Of
these dates. In fact, a girl who was very
deeply Interested in a man or thought he
was settling his affections on her probably
would be chary about making any appoint
ment at all with him"
ITO my mind that is the most regrettable
feature Of the relaxed social rules, spoke
up a middle aged matron.
What do you mean2" said the young
woman, puzzled.
Just this; that the intercourse between
the young men and women Of to-day is
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in June at the Nassau Country Club at Glen
Cove. Miss Fanny C. Osgood Of Boston
won the chief honors in a tournament
distinguished by the best golf yet re-
vealed by American women>
1t was relatively better golf than in the
national championship last year at the
Morris County Golf Club, for the Nassau
course Of o,O35 yards and a par of "a Is one
Of the standard tests of the game in this
country. Yet Mrs. C. F. Fox Of Philadel-
phia established the record OF ~, 40-S2,
and played in so the next day.
Almost as exceptional we're Miss F. Louise
vanderhoff's SO, Miss Georgianna Bishops
IS and the score of so made by Miss Harriet
Curtis of Boston and Mrs. r. H. Barlow OF
Philadelphia. The championship was at
two days Of the score game, a task the
women themselves selected.
Tomorrow championship round will be
at eighteen holes Of score, or medal play.
There will be a prize for the lowest score.
but the real object of the round is to sift
down the starters to the thirty-two who
will continue at match play for the title.
Miss Georgianna Bishop won the low
score prize last year with 81, but Miss
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Turnure, New York; bronze medalists. Miss
Anna Sands, New York. aAd Miss c. Oliver,
Albany.
1897, Manchester, Mass.-Champion. Miss
BeatriK Hoyt; runner up. Miss N. &. Sargent.
Boston; bronze medalists, Miss c. K. Long
worth, Cincinnati. and Miss F.. c. Griscon.
Philadelphia.
1893. Observation-Disclosures Miss
Beatrix Hoyt; runner up. Miss Maude X.
wetmore, Newport; bronze medalists. Miss
Carol Eidlitz. Ardsley. and Miss F.. c. Griscom.
1890. Observation-Disclosures. Miss Ruth
Underhill. New York runner ". Mrs. c. +.
Fox. Philadelphia; bronze medalists, Miss
E. +. Cassatt. Philadelphia, and Miss Marion
Oliver, Washington.
1900, Shinnecock Hills-Champion. Miss
F. c. Griscom; runner up. Miss Margaret
Curtis, Boston; bronze medalists. Miss Beatrix
Hoyt. and Miss Eunice Terry. New York.
1901. Baltusrol-Champion. Miss Genevieve
Hecker, New York; runnerup, Miss Lucy
Heron. Cincinnati; bronze medalists, Miss Nj.
Curtis, Mrs. f. A. Manice, New York.
1902, Brookline. Boston-Champion, Miss
Genevieve Hecker: runnerup. Miss l.. A
/ Wells. Boston; bronze medalists. Mrs. W. NJ
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greater thoroughness and superior mental
aptitude Of the American women.
To revert to the pending championship:
There will be an eighteen hole match play
round each morning during the week.
The thirty-two players Of Tuesday morn
ing will be sixteen on Wednesday and by
Saturday there will be but two left in.
But the four to last until Friday morning
will each be sure OF a prize. That will
be the semi-inal round, in which the two
losers will receive bronze medals-very
pretty for watch fobs and If the conscience
does not forbid especially so if plated
with silver or gold.
The winner of the final will win a gold
and the ~runnerup a silver medal, but the
device ia the same on all Of them. Dhe
winner, too. will be acclaimed as the cham
pion Of the year and her club will nave the
care of the Cox trophy until next time.
This is the list of the championship links,
winners, runners up and bronze medalists'
1895, Morris County-Champion, Miss Bea-
trix Hoyt. New York; runner up. Mrs. Arthur
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s14E 5U@V CoUNT7T cE ca

From West and East, North and South ,
there will be fair wielders Of driver, cleek
and putter waiting at the tee tomorrow at
Brae Burn, near Boston, for the opening
round Of the women's national golf cham
pionship.
Az with the mems championships, the
competition is conducted by the United
States Golf Association, the supreme court
In the American game. but the champion
ship cup is the gift OF a Scotchman, the late
Robert Cox, NJ. p, OF Edinburgh. Ia Great
Britain the women have to arrange their
own championship meetings, and as late as
1895, when Mr.. Cox happened to visit at
Morristown, they had little recognition on
nie British links.
The swirl Of the petticoat," said the
golfers over there. lis a distraction to the
best game
As a silent protest against this state Of
affairs. Mr.. Cox formed the determination
that the feminine golfers Of America should
not lack a helping hand. He noted with
Measure that the initial steps in the forma-
ZION of the Morris County Golf Club had been
taken by women. Also, that although the
game had only a slight foothold. the native
golfers had every deslre 10 nave Ine "omen
Join in its pleasures.
There was to be a championship for them
at Meadow Brook, on Long Island, for a cup
presented by r. d. Winthrop and W. H.
Sands. Mr.. Cox offered a thousand dollar
trophy as a perpetual trophy to the United
States Golf Association IL it would under
take the management Of a women's an
nual championship.
The gift fitted in with plans already
formed by the national organization. 1t
accepted the cup, and since 1895 the contest
has been an annual feature Of the goling
season.
Western women, although somewhat
slower in beginning than their Eastern
sisters, are as enthusiastic in the game, and
In 1903. when the scene Of the champion
ship was at the Chicago Golf Club. the title
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that Lila is engaged TO anyone. The Blanks
country place is only a short distance up the
Hudson and l fancied when l first saw the
girl that she had run down for a bit of shop
ping; but one doesn't go shopping with a
young man, as a rule
mo, but it isn't a bad idea to be met by a
young man and have him treat one to
luncheon and post one on the latest gossip
suggested the younger woman
you don't mean to say
yes, 1 do. 1 mean that some very nice
girls indeed. before descending on the city,
call up a man friend-often they call up
more than one man before settling things
satisfactorily-ask him to meet her and
escort her down to the shops or to a certain
shop, maybe, and have a chat. These girls
don't always propose luncheon; occasionally
one does though. My brother has told me
all about it. He says he is quite aocns-
toned now to being called up on h tele-
phone early in the forenoon and asked to
meet some woman friend at a railroad
station. II he happens to like the girl and
can spare the time he goes and he says
that a girl isn't offended at all when a man
refuses on the plea Of business. l suppose
in that case she says, all right and rings
up another man acquaintance. All this has
come about partly because Of the telephone.
1 suppose Lila Blank 10 going to lunch down
town somewhere with the young man you
saw and that is all there is to it.
But do you suppose her mother APP
provost"
I'm sure I don't know. I do know,
however, that II mothers 10 general
frowned on the custom it couldn't and
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language OF looks and glances. / have
bestowed two months in teaching her to
sigh when she is not concerned and TO
smile when she Is not pleased.
Then she is no more able now TO walk
than she was to go at a year old. By walk
ing YOU will easily know l mean that regular
bat easy motion which gives u persons
so irresistible a grace, as II we o to
music. and is a kind Of ~disengaged figure,
or, il I may so speak, recitative dancing.
This gait may ave been artificial, but It
must have been charming for all that.
Through the eighteenth and tho earlier
nineteenth century proper carriage OF
the person was considered a fine art In
which instructions were given by mothers
Rovernesses and dancing masters and mis-
tresses with anxious care. Girls were
taught -the various l~eanings and bsndings
OF the head, the risings OF the bosom, the
curtsey and recovery, the genteel trip and
the agreeable jett."
The lett was a gait OF ancient origin, for
Il is menti oned In an Elizabethan poem
on the woman OF fashion.
with whyppet a while lyttle pretty one,
Prank It and hogge 1t well
For II you jette not NICELY
You shall not bear the bell.
The lett Is described as a sort Of strutting
gait, so perhaps 1t is the direct ancestor
OF the Bury-Palllser versions OF the only
gait acceptable TO royalty. She thinks
that Americans would call the carriage
in the Ioourtl walk stiff, because the head
must be carried very erect and there must
be no Unnecessary motion. II can be
very graceful, however, when properly
done"
But with all the suave stateliness OF
bygone danes who swept about in their
spreading petticoats like graceful ships
under full sail there are records OF many
eccentric and affected gaits. which became
fashionable from time to time, much as
did the Grecian bend or the kangaroo walk
Of later days.
In the time Of that dressy monarch,
Elizabeth, ladies had -oorked shoes to bear
them HE . They mince it with a
nAcs no strange. like untamed heifsrs on
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Pauline Mackay OF Boston won the cham
pionship after the match play. beating Miss
M. Curtis, also OF the Hub, by 1 up in the
final. Match lay e easier on the nerves
for men than the score game, but as the
women revealed in fixing the conditions OF
the Nassau tournament they md medal
play the more fascinating.
The difference in the viewpoint Is more
than one Of temperament; it Ia erhaps a
sex problem. At the score game there is
hone Of the player against player stripe
the round is not a duel to the death between
the two who are playing together-the Il
must win and you must lose spirit Is Lack
ing.
With men this feeling adds spice to the
match, and a trite remark tetween two
chums as they step OIL the te IL. Here
friendship ceases Each does his best to
knock out the other, quite in tbs matter OF
fact way Of two pugilists in the ring, and
winner and loser go of to have a drink
together afterward in the best OF feeling.
The women do not take a match so philo-
sophioally. To them there seems to be
something tragic in defeating a chum. As
a consequence, winner and loser are s apt
to Tx OF together in tears as to give the
hearty handshake customary among men.
Consequently the women seldom make
their best scores at match play. But at
medal play the situation is very different.
On the score card is the DOGGY OF the
course and zach woman sets out to equal
DOGGY without the thought that she is try
ing to defeat another competitor. The
jotting up Of the scores afterward will
fix the position of each.
The professionals still stick to the medal
game for their open championship, for they
regard it as the fairest and most exacting
method, far superior to the matches of
the amateurs, in which the element Of mere
luck figures so largely. To prefer the
score game may after all be a proof of the
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so much Of Zach other, to associate so IN
tremendously, even in the best society.
THAT reminds me-" the elderly woman
broke in, that when / heard hat my niece
had made up her mind to attend a co-educa-
tional college I was quite alarmed. l was,
and am still, strongly opposed to such
colleges, believing that p%ropinquity is a
strong emissary OF Cupid and believing also
that young people are the better for not
having romantic entanglements until they
leave school"
And in the case Of your niece7" asked
the young woman
Il was going to add hat nothing at all
has happened and she confided to her mother
in a letter that college fellows, she found,
were a great deal more interesting to meet
away from their alma mater han in it, and
that they didn't show nearly so much gal
lantry to the college girls as she had ex-
pected. And that reminds me that l read
somew here the other day of a certain Co
educational college which was removing
certain restrictions relative to the associa-
ton Of men and women students for the
reason that the proportion Of college women
who marry il year by year row ing less and
is now noticeably small"
Exactly, said the middleaged woman.
Not that l put the college woman exactly
on a par with the rank and file of the young
women idling in society, a large proportion
Of whom have no career in mind except
that of matrimony. Many college women,
l imagine, don't fall upon mstrimony
easily, simply because they have other
ambitions, whereas most n~on-college girls,
not obliged to become self-supporting,
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The Professor Is Prompted Now 10 State
His Choice OF All the Seasons.

AAH " w wv
The leaves are falling now from the
trees in the range of backyards in view
from my shady window" said Prof. Won
Joggleby, "and that brings to my mind,
as il ALWAYS does, the question Of which
season l like best. As a matter Of fact
l like them all. And here l am reminded
Of the words of the poet, as to the season
he would prefer to die in;
wouldn't die in springtime,
In summer or in fall,
wouldn't die in winter,
! wouldn't lie at all.
~You see, when he came to really give
the subject consideration he found that
he didn't want TO die in apy Of them. the
obvious inference being That he liked
all the seasons, and | am like the Uoet
in this respect, al well as like him in not
wanting TO die in any season, but ! nav
a choice among the seasons, to live in,
as indeed, perhaps he did, and for myself
| like fall the best.
Il like spring, the awakening Of nature,
the renewal Of its youth, the coming Of
the buds on myriads of plants and Of the
buds and the leaves on the trees, and
after the ri3ors of winter | like the soft
and balmy ar of springtime, but | like the
soft, hazy. yellow richness Of the early
DAYS of autumn, of natures full ripenesa
better, and fall / like best Of all. when the
leaves are going, az they are going now;
when, after the languid summer the air
is bracing and the winds blow and life is a
strong, full joy.
Il NAV at some other time have ex-
pressed another preference as TO my choice
Of seasons, but il / have done SO, please
consider that now. revolving all forrper
wills and testaments, | fall as
my final selection"
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she moves. All that are in this mode carry
their fans between both hands before them.
Dulcissa, who is the author Of this air,
adds the pretty run TO it,"
High heels are responsible for much that
is peculiar in the fashionable gate, In "A
la Mode 1854, this is noted
Let a pair Of velvet shoes
Gently press her dainty toes.
Gently press and softly squeeze.
TOtt'ring like the fair Chinese,
Mounted high and buckled low.
Tott'ring every step they go.
In those days lettering was ~femiRinely
helpless and appealing, but now the indie
pendent manly stride is the thing, and this
does not combine well with high heels
In fact il is this unnatural combination
which is largely 70 blame for the ungr&o0-
full gait OF American ome
There was n time in the early half Of the
nineteenth century when the following rule
prevailed as to a lady's gait:
"In general walking of ladies tho step
should not exceed the length of the foot.
The gait should be in harmony with the
person, natural and tranquil, without giving
the appearance of difficulty in adv ancing
and aotiv e without the appearance Of being
III \ HuAAy'
It seems as though this must have been
written in prehistoric times, and yet the
time is within tho memory Of people under
40 when it became fashionable 70 rave about
the athletic girl who stepped straigh out
from the hip in a free stride after the man.
Ter Of the amazon.
From this time gait aid carriage became
a free for all, go as o please, reformed
spelling sort Of thing. Short girls stVooe
along, paving the air in an effort to keep
| pace with the long limbcd girls, who could
play the Amazon with better grace.
Girls who longed TO be conspicuous re-
! sorted to the contortions Of a Spanish
dancer instead of the dainty little afrecta-
lions of Chloe, Dulcissa and their kind
and in the lack OF airy ART fetal STANDARD
of gait and carriage al sorts Of indF idual
pecul iarities fouTished and ran not.
After all perhaps a woman's gait IN
like her waist line. Il must he held under
j some degree Of artificial restraint or ie
runs away from her entirely.