The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-09
IN SOCIETY
By Mrs !. N. deCottes.

have returned from New Orleans and are at home with her father. Mir. T. B. wiikerson at e23 South Perry Street. Miss Mabel Massey of Tuskegee is visiting Mrs. E. P. Flowers at her home on Court Street.
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 Mrs. A. E. Edmunds and niece, Miss Annie Laurie Howard, are visiting MT. and Mrs. A. H. McNeel and other rel- atives in the city.
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 Miss Laura Chambers and Miss Mag gie Chambers will leave today 'for St. Louis, where they go to spend several weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. L. w Martin have taken apartments for the winter at 12s VII kerson Street.
 Mrs. Ella Paul has returned from Selma and is with her daughter. Mrs. Dave Dunn, at her home on Hull Street.
 Miss Mary Lillian Meyer has re- turned from a visit to friends in Bes- semer and Birmingham.
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 Mir. and Mrs. C. J. Martin, who were married in Nashville on the 14th of No- XCfHDeT,s nave T0dEuGu 0h0 eAA with Mrs. Lizzie McLenan.
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 A MOTHERS ADVICE. The various women's clubs and socle- ties in Montgomery are doing excel lent work. Some of them are cuttivat- ing a taste for the best In literature some are working for q better condi" ton among the little children of our factories, all are interested in more or less, degree in ptiilanthropic, educa- tional, humane work. Every appeal to them for aid in city or state reforms meets hearty response, they are ever generous to help In time of need. and yet a recent very great and crying need has been overlooked by then1-T the need to shield our city from an in- flow of communicating thought--of standing together as unit of resist ance against the corrupting influence of the immoral play. In the wide range that error seems to have there is no more subtle influence for evil than an immoral play, presented by great actor. with all the seductive ad- juncts of a brilliant stage setting. We repudiate for ourselves and our chil- 6ren a bad book. though written by famous author, or we read it secretly with @ sense of shame. The effect Of the bad play is much worse than the
  the former and sometimes, sad to re- late, in the very presence of our chil- dren, sitting in the glare of the crowd ed theatre enveloped in an atmosphere of degrading thought, for our theatres are open to the most iniquitous of men and women. Can we overestimate the vitiating influence of such conditions? The woman who comes under the inc iuerce of such conditions sacrifices her own best instincts, her higher self, and will long be shadowed by sense of pure in heart Gin thought) that see God (good) and bring out Its manifes- ton. Thought forever precedes action.
 Shall we set the fame of an actor. however great 1t may be, against the infamy of his play, and besmirch our inner lives with the one for the pass ing pleasure of the other?
 Shall we, who love our young, and yearn over them foI their we'll being, who seek diligently the physical best for them, countenance g moral evil that saps true vitality, ahd hlights the fair buds of prenniseR
 We look carefully after the sanitary condition of our homes, should we not be more careful in building the mem tai condition of our children. that they may be like the polished corners of temple?" Think what it would mean