The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-01
BY MARGARET E. sANGsrER.

tcopyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowies.'
 choosing partners" sounds as 1T we were going to play game. ana. III Iac. that Is Just what we are doing every day of our lives. Whether we are IF school or at home busy or idle. happy or sorrowful. we are always piayihe the great game that begins when we are babies and goes on till we ar" grandmothers.
 It is very funny, isn't 1t. to think Of ever being a grandmother. when one is only IA or Is, or may be youngerF But I have been looking at the picture of a girl who is grandmother, pie ture taken when she was scnool-girl' with dancing eyes and coal-black hair and merry dimples, when she was as gay and lighthearted as any of you. She wore a yellow silk frock, and black silk apron with pockets and runles a rufIied silk mantilla over her shoulders, and she had little bonnet tied under her chin. It was a droll way of dres- sing, but 1t was the fashion then. and 1t looked as pretty as your fashions do now.
 It is always the face that matters most, and fashions have ttle to do with the looks of sweet girls This girl has never lost her beauty. nor her trick of smiling with dimples that  she is a bewitching grandmother and fairy godmother to bevy Of young people.
 Choosing partners was what thought of when I looked at her. for she was one that everybody wanted to choose She had her chums. and her comrades. and generally there was one wee DIT dearer than the others.
 On the day that school opens there t,o ,~rtxr irJc in o1 a and fhny may be total strangers one to another But very soon they will drift into groups and into circles of threes and fours and finally you will see them walking home together or stroiiing about the playground or the campus. two and two Nothing is so unnatural in a schoolgirl as to have no friends. Our friendships mean great deal more than older people dream.
 To share one's desk or ones room with a disagreeable girl. or with rtrl who is not in sympathy with one. is a real misery. The next worst thing is to have a chum forced on ono against her will Occasionally teacher insists on putting together two girls who belong apart. The result is seldom blissful. Once in awhile mother makes the mistake of harping o, the grace and the amiability and the cIeEerneSS OI mduuc Ol hdoVi eO NAoiy and Jane. who very probably wish nothing to do with either of the para gons. There is no surer way of antaE- onizing a girl and setting her against somebody else than the way of con- .tnuallv pNlising somebody, and show ing off her good qualities at the ex- nensn of the other.
 remember two girls who ought to have been the best of friends. hut who were driven into a condition very much like "1mity. because the one was forever held up to the other as bright and shining example.
 We have to choose our partners on the road We do it in the school room, we do 1t in the playground. we do 1t everywhere. Our partners and chums are the ones who best suit us. They do not misunderstood us. We do not have to talk with them all the time, or entertain them. or make any particular effort to be pleasing. when in their society. They and we may sit in silence for hours. and yet have very good time.