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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

likewise some courage, are required to be a successful chauffeur. For that reason, as an automobile instructor de- clares, middle aged and even elderly women are more successful chauffeurs than young girls, as rule. The mid dle aged woman has been seasoned to alarms, so to speak She knows there is nothing she ever got into that she has not likewise got out of in safety and that knowledge makes her com paratively fearless. Again, the number of tight places she has got into already makes the middle aged woman know they are scattered all along the way so she is in measure alert and pre- pared for them. The middle aged wo- man is therefore more cautious as we'll as more cool headed than the girl.
 Maybe, too, there is another explana- tion of the superior. expertness of the mature woman autoist. It Is no libel on the fair sex to say that wherever public appearance and outdoor func- tions are in question numbers of them think more of clothes. than anything else. The middle aged woman has reached that wise stage of the game where she thinks more of what she is doing than of how she looks while do- ing it. That alone would send her far ahead on the road toward expert "chauffing."
 An automobile instructor says that among his pupils was woman of fifty or past who was determined to under stand thoroughly the mechanism of her machine. She got book Of instruc- tions. sat down by the car and studied that book by the hour, at every para graph taking note of the relation of the directions to the parts to which they referred She learned even how to clean her machine and how often it needed oiling and fuel replenishihg. She can even lie upon the ground under the car and tighten a screw and see if any of the gearing is out of order. No wonder this woman is an expert mo- torls'.
 In New York city Mrs S. Moore is a skilled autoist. She owns two cylin- der machine and steers herself through the great city's most crowded streets. She understands its mechan- ism well and never has had an acci- dent Mrs. Moore is fond or all out door athletic sports.
 She's the picture of health and shes a perfect lady" says one Of New York's experienced professional chaut- feurs. There is no reason why any woman who keeps her head on should not run an automobile as well as a man can. There is not much danger only you must watch every moment that's all Now there's our machine No matter how fast it's going, you can stop it in it's own length Io De sure
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

sharpening knives and kneading dough
 wniie From bin on the kitchen fooI all the garbage is automatically fed 70 blast furnace beneath, and the
 neat from this furnace is turned into a noiier which generates fifty horse pow CT of steam for use in the kitchen
 Tners are two ice plants that can man I ufacture sixty tons a day. Specia
 boxes freeze filtered water for the car.
 afes on the dining room tables: and
 there are other machines which cut ths
 ice for the bar into neat cubes or shave
 II 10 the thinness of tissue paper. For the apparatus which supplies the power to the machines. great and small more than a hundred mechanics, stok' CTS and engineers are required, fol | does this force include the men work, I ing at the kitchen equipment and In the blacksmith's shop. the locksmith's
 shop and the silversmith's shop. These | shops are all tucked away in the lower basement. forty feet below the city's great thoroughfare, together with the headquarters of the army of mechanics "a large office, with head engineer
 his assistants clerks, te1lers and book keepers.
 In addition to supplying wine for use in their own dining-rooms, city hotels carry on a brisk trade with outside customers. and in the cellars of the Astor is machinery which can wash, cork and hncork. cap and wrap with tinsel a thousand bottles a day. There. too, devices resembling typewriters stamp out paper stencils for marking and addressing the boxes. thus doing away with the old-fashioned metal stencils and the still more antiquated sorawl of the inartistic porter
 In one instance. at least, the electri- cal wonderworks fn use the twen- tieth century hotel have serio-comic side. For many years the police com missioners and the managers of the hotels and theatres, not to mention the private citizens suffering from loss of sleep, have been trying to abolish the nuisance attending the mix-up of car- riages after the curtain goes. down or after the orchestra in the ballroom has played the last waltz. One i'm provement which has been generally adopted Is an electric screen over the
 hotel or theatre exit, upon which ap-
 pears the number of the carriage want
 ed. It happens very often, however. that the driver is. in. a doze on his box and
 before he notices the sign someone has
 to dig him In the ribs I
 An attendant at this new uptown ho-
 tel, however. stirs the man on the box
 by means of a searchlight. When this
 is suddenly turned upon the lines of
 waiting vehicles the horses get fidgety.
 waking the drivers up. and so, without
 noise or confusion. the right carriage
 starts for the door at the right mo-
 ment.
 The story of the revolution that cleo
 tricity has produced in hotel methods
 would not be complete without mention
 of the pleasure produced, in addition to
 the comfort and convenience. In the
 Orangerie of the Astor an electrical
 scheme causes clouds to appear across
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
What Sulphur Does
For the Human Body in Health and Dis.

For the Human bOuy In Health and DtSs ease.
 The mention of sulphur will recall to many of us the early days when our mothers and grandmothers gave US our daily dose of sulphur and molasses ev- cry spring and fall.
 It was the universal spring and fall blood purifier" tonic and cure-all, and mind you, this oId-fashioned remedy was not without merit.
 The idea was good, but the remedy was crude and unpalatable, and large quantity had to be taken to get any effect.
 Nowadays we get all the beneficial effects of sulphur in a palatable. col- centrated form. so that a single grain Is far more effective than a tablespoon full of the crude sulphar. In recent years, researcn aud exrori. ment have proven that the best sulphur for medicinal use is that obtained from Calciuni Calcium Sulphide) and sold in drug stores under the name of Stu arts Calcium Waters, They are small chocolate coated pellets and contain the active medicinal principle of sulphur in a highly concentrated. effective form.
 Few people are aware of the value of this form of sulphur in restoring and maintaining bodily vigor and health; sulphur acts directly on the liver and excretory organs and purifies and en- riches the blood by the prompt eIimi- nation of waste material.
 Our grandmOthers knew this when they dosed us with sulphur and mo- lasses every spring and fall. but the crudity and impurity of ordinary flow CTS of sulphur were often worse than the disease, and cannot compare with the modern con ,entrated preparations of sulphur. of which Stuarts Calcium Waters is undoubtedly the best and most widely used.
 They are the natural antidote for liver and kidney troubles and cure con stpation and purify the blood in a way that often surprises patient and physi- clan alike.
 Dr. R. M Wilkins while exneriment- ing with sulphur remedies soon found that the sulphur from Calcium was su- perior to any other form. He says: For liver, kidney and blood troubles, especially when resulting from consti- patlvn or malaria, have been surprised at tke results obtained from Stuarts Calcium Waters. In patients suffering from boils and pimples and even deep seated carbuncles I have repeatedly see them dry up and disappear in four or five days, leaving the skin clear and smoth. Although Stuarts Calcium Waters is a proprietary article. and sold by all druggists, and for that req son tabooed by many physicians, yet kn Jw of nothing so safe and reliable for constipation, liver and kidney trou- blej and especially in all forms of skin disease his remedy.
 A any rate people who are tired of pills. cathartics and so-called blood @pu- rihers." will find in stuart's Calcium Waters a far safer, more palatabIe and effective preparation
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

you'd rip off couple O tires in doing it, bat you would stop It."
 French and Engish women took up motoring before American women did. All our fads are imported. Not so many French as Engish women are motor ists. but one French duchess exceeds in automobile reckiesseness even any Frenchman.
 In England the beautiful and famous Countess of Warwick not long ago travelled all over Great Britain on a political tour in her big red motor car. England has also at least one woman professional chaffeur. She is Miss Clauden Laseil. who operates . ninety horsepower car.
 woman in England who enters for racing contests Is Miss Dorothy Levitt Several years ago she came under tlIs spell of the motor madness. and she can scarcely speed fast enough to sat isfy her, She owns an eighty horse power racing machine. She declares the racing auto fig a very doctle mon ster," and she says;
 Fancy bounding off the mark and keeping on and on and on at about q hundred miles an hour in steady ceaseless flow, with the air roaring past ones ears and the engine singing its song of triumph. It would be . sensation worth years of ordinary life
 Charlotte Van Beck.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

A veritable mechanical wonderland is the twentieth-century hotel, Ii is apt to startle a guest at first, if he should stroll into one of the department head quarters of the Astor. the latest of the big metropolitan hotels. to see pencil writing messages automatically on roll of paper kept moving by some in- visible force; yet this Is but part of the telautograph, which is used to transmit orders from one department to another. The man who writes the or- der uses a machine that Is very much like the contrivance used by the clerks in a department store; but the marvel lous part of this latest feature of ho.el management is that while the message is being written by hand 1t is being duplicated mechanically upon receiv- ing machine perhaps ten stories dis tant.
 Nor, now that the American inven- tor has studied her case, can the chamber-maid continue to be elusive In this hotel she is found whenever she Is wanted. When she enters a chamber she inserts small electric globe into a socket on the frame of the hall door. This little globe instantly lights up, revealing her whereabouts, and at the same time little glass button on dial In the office downstairs becomes lumin- ous. As. of course. every room is con nected by telephone with the office, this novel signal system enables the clerk to summon the maid for any guest who wants her without delay. Tn the up-to- date hotel the days of the old puzzle of
 find the chamber maid have gone, never | to return.
 Equally wonderful are the devices adapted by the contemplating hotel man. ager to protect his guests from danger in case of fire. In addition to the ordi- nary apparatus there is a device in every room in the Astor which sends in an alarm of fire whenever the tempera- ture around 1t Is abnormaily high; and the instant the alarm sounds at the office desk and in the basement. the hotel ire brigade responds. While this machine renders it practically im- possible for a fire to gain any head way before 1t Is discovered, at the same time precautions have been taken to meet the most serious emergency. For example, the twelve elevators in the building are in constant communication by telephone, not only with the office, but with one another. So, in the event of fire-a remote event, indeed. consid- ering all the safeguards in use, but against-this telephone signal system the confusion and delay which is apt sides, the elevator signal system would should meet with an accident between floors.
 Another remarkable fact about this
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

gown. The weather was not cold. and she went bareheaded. her eyes fixed with unobstructed vision on the road and d blue ribbon bound around her hair to keep 1t from blowing every which way"
 Mrs. Filters ambition had long been to take part in real auto race. and the first for which she entered was won by her. Her husband accompanied her in the car during the dash. ''in case anything happened" but noth- ing did happen, except that she came off victor.
 Tn the winter season the social cen ter of this country is Washington, SO entirely that it is now common for members of the New York millionaire set to take houses in the national capi- tai from December until March or April. There automobiling was taken up from the first with enthusiasm owing per haps to the nleasant weather and the me roads. Women are among those most devoted to this exhiliarating. even maddening snort. if one lets it run away with his nerves. In Washington numerous women are no longer depen- dent on what an indeuendent American citizen calls showers" but operate their machines with their own feminine hands
 Before she left washington. the dashing vonng Countess Cassini was an expert chaffaueur, Tho same is true of Alice Roosevelt. the Presidents inde- rendent, fearless daughter. who has done more to put feminine nerves out of business than any other vouu woman of her time. Miss Roosevelt delights in whirIing about in a big car. which she herself can guide as easily and safely as A railway engineer guides a long train.
 Once some Washington policemen saw a large auto f1ving through tho streets with what their experienced eyes told them was dangerous swift ness. They pursued and were on the point of arresting it's occupants. when suddenly they stopped and had press ing business elsewhere. They had been almost caught in the act of arresting the daughter of the President of tho Tinted States for violating the speed ordinance
 If a woman keeps her head on and knows her business. running a motor car is really no more difficult than op- erating a sewing machine But an ab- solutely cool head and steady nerves,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
IA HOUSE OF WONDERS !
ouppe Recorded by Pencils Moved Invisible Called by Search brmam Work Electricity Works the Kitchen.

interesting caravansary is that the lights'can never go out, except for the instant required to set the storage bat tery In motion. Accidents to dynan1os consequent loss of electric light throughout the house. with the accom-
 paniment of porters and bell-boys pumping their way from room to room lighting the gas jets, have been one of the chief banes of the hotel mans ex- istence. A capacious storage battery precludes trouble of this kind, and only the hotel electricians themselves know when the great power wheels far below the level of the pavements Of Broadway have stopped while upstairs people have continued to dine or dance in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

New York, Jan. 2T.-with all his imaginative genius, Jules Verne never conceived the idea of the twentieth century hotel The man who described the Journeys of a submarine boat a quarter of century before the nations of the world found such vessel prac- ticable for the purposes of warfare. never once hinted that the time would come when the model hostelry would be equipped not merely with its own electric light plant. telephones in rooms and in elevators, and machinery for keeping the air in every apartment fresh and pure day and night, but also with useful devises hardly less magi- cal than Aiaddin's lamp
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

brilliancy of thousands of electric lights.
 Comfort and convenience are the prime object of. all these mechanical wonders,l and even small matters do not escape the revolution. Once upon a time the delivery of keys to. the desk involved much. loss of time, not only to the guests themselves. but also to the employees. In this house the maid who takes the key from the guest places 1t in pneumatic tube and-prestoi it is in the hands of one of the clerks per- haps before the guest has pushed the bell for the elevator
 The lot of the housemaid here is g. happy one compared with that of her predecessor. There is more need of bandaging heads and tucking up skirts and throwing up windows so as to offset clouds of dust The housemaid simply runs what might be called a pneumatic tube broom over the carpets and the furniture; an easy and quickly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

done task, and, at the same time, a most efficacious way of removing the dust, which is not raised in one part of the room only to fall in another. but is car ried down to the basement and there elected.
 Downstairs in the kitchen potatoes and other vegetables are poured into revolving circular bin, with a bottom like cheese grater, and peeled by the peck in less time than a man with a knife could peel enough apples for pie. All the while clean water is run ming through the bin, and when the peeling is over the vegetables are au- tomatically deposited in basket Elec- trical marvels are everywhere-freez- ing ice. cream, chopping and slicing meat moulding butter, cleaning and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
THE aDAUGHTER OF
 THE REGrMENT.y

It is curious to note the contrary steps France and Germany are taking With respect to women in the army. The French have recently mustered out of the military service over a thousand cantinieres and vivandieres, or ''daugh-
 ters of the regiment" while the Ger man Emperor is seriously considering compulsory military service for young German women. Their duty would never be upon the field of battle, put in the various military offices of the Empire, thus releasing for field work thousands of men now detailed as clerks and employees. The Emperor beS lieves that such service would not only greatly augment his army. but wouli materially benefit German women, training them in punctuality, order obedience, business procedure, aud in- creasing their mental and physical well , being.
 Whatever her career, the German
 army girl will have none of the pics
 turesque features which have pertainnd
 to the French daughter of the regl-
 ment." This interesting character first
 appeared in the French revolution, and
 for over a hundred years she has flt-
 ted over the French battle fields of
 Europe, tending the, wounded, feeding
 the hungry. moistening the parched
 lips of the dying. The daughters"
 were generally mature women. called
 mothers" by the officers and men
 women able to rough it. mannish in at
 tire and speech, but respectable the confidants of their children" courage
 ous, merry, devoted, patriotic.
 The ambulance system on the field renders the services of the cantinieres no longer essential, and the thousand on the rolls have been retired with a trifiing pension. Heretofore the can tiniere has been pensionless, although often more deserving than the male soldier with whom she. marched.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
WOMEN EXPERT AUT0M0BnISTS

Whatever man achieves in a field of outdoor sport and exercise, woman att tempts, and in most cases with entire success.
 Only a few years ago women automo- bilists were scarce as angels in this naughty world. Now they even take part in motor races. steering their cars with skill and coolness. At the last motor racing meet at Cape May Mrs. Clarence c. Fitler entered as a con- testant, steered her own machine and won one of the races. Her auto car was of twenty eight horsepower and she ran it at nearly a mile minute clip. For this fine dash at Cape May Mrs. FitIer did not mummy herself in cap and goggles and we'll and clumsy auto coat, but wore simply a white
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
RAT RoUTs TWO CATS.
Aggressive Indiana Rodent is FinaIT
 Killed With Poker.

Aggressive Indiana Rodent is Finally
 Killed With Poker. Columbus (Ind.) Special to Indianapo-
 lis News.
 A full-grown rat. that showed more fight than rats ordinarily show, was killed at the fire engine house here Thursday evening. The rat was caught in a trap and taken to the sec- ond floor of the fire house, where the pet cat of the department was asleep. As soon as the rat was liberated the cat made dive for 1t. but, strange to say, the rat did not rnn. Instead, 1t stood its ground and fought the cat un- til the latter retreated to corner of the room and could not be coaxed to molest the rat further.
 A neighboring cat, which had a good reputation in the rat line. was brought in, and it also made a grab for the rat. The rat obtained firm hold on the cats jaw. and held on until the cat was so badly frightened 1t shook the rat off and made its escape through an open door. The rat finally was killed with a poker.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

the ceilings, with the moon shining through them; and this gives the fin- ishing touch to the prevailing atmos- phere. Different colored lights are thrown upon the guests. enhancing the beauty of many a dazzling gown and invisible globes behind the walls in crease the realistic effects of the paint ed scenes.
 In short, hotel like this latest one of which New York boasts is a unique exposition of the practical side of sci entifc progress. It might be regarded as an electrical show, we'll worth any price of admission; but, as a matter of fact, it is simply the twentieth century hotel combination of everything im- aginable as regards both necessaries and luxuries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28
rhe Adiective unnecessary.
Philadelphia Press.

PhfIadeIphia Press.
 How often," said the city editor. must tell you not to use tautologt- cal expressions? story" replied the reporter.
 well, you have. You speak of young Cadley as an 'effeminate cigarette smoker"
 John O'Neil, the well-known oars- man of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has in- vented a very ingenious method of keeping in. trim during the winCer months. By mounting a sliding seat arrangement on runners he, with the aid of pair of knife edged oars moves over the ice at very rapid rate. The novel racing shell has proved quite a success.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-05-15
HALF MILLION ACRES
OF LAND FOR SETTLERS

Guthrie, Ok, May l5.-Oklahoma
will soon experience Its seventh land
opening. There have been SIX in sew
entoen years. The new boom will oc.
cur in the southwestern part OF the
territory. where the Kiowa and Com
anohe pasture of 4S0, 900 and the wood
reserve of 25, 900 acres will be thrown
open 60 settlement within the next
four months. The Stephens bill,
which during the present session pas
sed the House, following the inclusion
of clause which provides allotment
for Indian babies born since June g.,
1900.
already around the confines OF the
big pasture the farmers form other
states who are snxionus to secure
homes in this new country are assem-
bling, and their tents are pitched
along the Red river from Wauriba
westward to Davidson. and along the
Indian territory line in the vicinity OF
NARROW, Duncan, and Rush Springs
Near these Indian territory towns are
about 1000 acres of the land to be
opened. Immense crowds are expect
ed from Northern states. Many of
those assembling nave all their earthly
Dossessiops with them
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-05-15
Couldn't Stand Twins

Chicago May 1b.-Angered at
double addition to mis- family two
weeks ago, j. Drubois, 4848 Hermis
age avenue. a butcher in the stock
yards, deserted his sick wife the
twins, and two older children, and
has disappeared. Yesterday the wife
went to the stock yards police station
carrying the fortnight old twins and
told story OF starvation ano abondcn-
ment.
The women said she was the dauRh-
ter OF a wealthy silk merchant in
France and ran away from home to
we'd Drubois. Since the birth of the
twins she has been unable to leave the
house until yesterday. The case was
reported to the county agent and Ser
geant Prindeville or the stock yards
station took up collection OF $40 to
relieve her immediate needs.