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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

Somebody. apparently a woman, has ndded a new expression to the Eng fish language. It is nerve storms" and now every woman who hears of them is getting them. The wash lady has them over the tub, the dame in society indulges in them. while the woman clerk and stenographer get them frequently. Nerve storms" show such exquisite sensitiveness, such ms lady capabilities. They used to be called mysteries, but that term Is out of date. unrefined and unfeeling like. Nerve storm" expresses a highsr, more advanced civilization.
 But all women do not have nerve storms" She who has a wholesome, sane, sensible mind never hcd. never will have one of them. She despises them. She uses means to ward them on that are in easy reach of every one Of Eve's daughters. She takes abun- dance of physical exercise outdoors. she eats simple food and dresses In comfortable, light weight clothing. Above all. she controls her irritable 4snper and fool emotional outbursts.
 The Premier Exercise.
 Almost any kind of vigorous outdoor exercise promotes health and strength. but the one above all that gives grace fulness to the carriage and body is fencing.
 sitting. walking or standing. stage women are far more graceful than others. They quite generally take Fencing lessons, while those who are carrying their physical grace and sup pleness through the whole term of their natural lives are in nearly every case exserts at this noble exercise. The aging of the human body is now said
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

to be due to the hardening of the coats of the arteries. If that can De prevenetd, then goodby old age--and good riddance of 1t!
 The way to prevent hardening of the arterial coats is to not let It get stars. Keep the muscles and the arr teries so active that no deadening sub stance can get Judgment. This can be done by regular fencing practice be- ter than in almost any other way. Some of the most active and efficient fencing masters of the time are aged men, spry and strong. One Of the most graceful women living Is Lang try. Langtry practices physical cul- ture exercises every day of her life. and she is an expert fencer. Bern hardt is past sixty, yet Bernhardt can kick a chandelier like ballet dancer. Bernhardt is a noted fencer. Her marvellous youth Is largely due to the fact that she keeps on doing the same things she did when she was young.
 Youth stays with us as longas we with It." says a writer. Let the girl of today will that youth shall stay for ever. and then live up to the part. How to do 1t? Tn a recent interview Lang try says that youth is in the mind that one must hold fast to It there and that the best preservative of 1t is mental self control. The girl who will keep her youth must give in to no nerve storms" They are deadly.
 For the Twentieth Century Girl.
 It is the girl Sf to4ayI am talking to, With continued youth as a fixed fact in her mind taking advantage of modern physical culture and sanita- tion, the girl of today can be younger at seventy than her grandmother was at forty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
BEST ALL ROUND DEVELOPr1ENT ATTAINED BY A TTiOROUGE1 COURSE IN FENCING=-6r

her mind sees before her already that result achieved. Measurements show that English women average consider ably taller than American. This is mr. doubtedly because for several genera tions English women have cultivated vigorous outdoor sports.
 But it Is possible even to increase the height from one to two inches if the woman takes herself vigorously n hand. Every girl naturally would like to be tall. You have heard the story of the candidate for admission to the Naval Academy at Annapolis who, re- jected on account of the Bhortness or his stature, practiced with stretching machine till he had drawn himself but to the required length and thus got in. The story is true. What the young cadet did. any woman can do. The first thing is always to stand tall" Let the short girl hold herself to her full height at all times, sitting or standing, and give herself the feelin g that she is drawing herself upward from the waist.
 A horizontal bar placed just out of her reach, so that she will have to stand on tiptoe to grasp 1t, is the best mechanical appliance tor increasing the height Let her grasp this firmly with the hands and swing back end forth beneath it. The exercise will strengthen chest and arms as well us Iengthen the body. Lying fiat upon the floor on the back with the feet against body vigorously from foot to head is also useful. To increase the height, stretch. stretch and keep stretching.
 Mary Gould Lytle.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

Perhaps the strangest. oldest. and most astounding experiments in hered- efv ever attempted have been made by Prof Truman H. Holmes of Philadel- phia- After experimenting for over thirty years and studying especially babies and kittens, Professor Holmes has proved in an astounding manner that mental impressions made on the minds of parents will be continued in khe brains of their offspring even to the third and fourth generation.
 Not only is this true of human beings, hut even more strikingly true in the gases of animals.
 Taking the well known "instinctive and unconscious cerebration" and the phenomena of instinct" generally, Pro- Hessor Holmes has worked out in act uaI practice some of his ideas.
 That the we'll known failing dream" " which all human beings experience, Is the result of a prehistoric impression carried down through the generations and still impressed upon all men, is conceded by most psychologists and physiologists. That the dog that turns around and around before lying down is carrying out the idea of remote an Cestors, wild dogs that turned around and around to make a bed in the long grass. is known. These things are only tho A. B C's of Dr. Holmes theory. His most startling idea Is that the education of a child may begin generations before 1t Is born
 Know Things Without Being Taught.
 He cites hundreds of cases where children know certain things before they could have learned them in this world. He has hundreds of cases prov gng that children come into the world with special instincts.
 But the practical part of his work. which Is as plain to the layman as to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

they have backs that hollow in below the waist. thus throwing the lower part of the body out of boise and causing 1t to protrude in front in manner unsightly to behold. What then? Take proper exercises that will let the kink out of the spine and make 1t straight as a die. says the physcul- turist who has at heart the bodily per fecting of the American race. wear pad on your back, says the dressmak- CT. And the American girl--wears the pad.
 The diseased fat condition of the American womans lower limbs Is part 1y due to the wearing of long and heavy skirts, Professor Sargent de- clares in so many words that skirts have hampered womans progress for 5000 years. He does not believe in them but if they must be worn. he says, let them be as light in weight es possible and short. What the leading American apostle of physical perfection thinks of the girl who does not feel dressed" unless she has on three skirts in addition to her dress skirt he prob ably could not put into agreeable English.
 No wonder. on the whole, that wo- man Is deformed both above and below the waist. Below the waist she is what 5000 years of heavy skirts have made her. Above the waist she is what high, tight corsets and wickedly insufficfent breathing have made her. The fashion of pinching in the waist was started by certain women in Rome in the time the hips look large. Thus we see there were humbug and illusion an feminine attire before the Christian era
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

slender little switch about as tall as my head with root to 1t. He said it was a Georgia everbearing mulberry tree and as I had often told how good tho mulberries were, when I was a child. he thought would like it. He dug the hole and planted 1t, telling our little boy the while that it was to be hos pitable tree into which would be in vited all the birds. It was to be a sacred tree into which no stones must be flung and that 1t would bring us many friends and much sweet music Gods praises would often be sung from its branches and many hungry mouths be fed. He did not foresee half the pleasure we have realized.
 The first year four berries chung to that slender little tree and when the first one blackened I tasted it. Yes, it really was just as good as mulberries were years ago, and I thought children will climb this tree some day and come down with dark rings around their mouths Then I began to water the tree and watched 8 mocking bird that had nested nearby feed the other three
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

The task before the American wo- man is to put herself in physical train ing that will straighten her spine, en- largo her chest and lungs and change the abnormal fat upon her hips and lower limbs into clean, live, 1.-the red and white muscle.
 The physical inferiority of women to men has been found much greater among so-called civilized people than among savages. It is much greater than nature ever intended, owing to woman's wicked neglect of physical training. Now that she knows what is the matter with her figure, let the American girl reform it. And once more, vigorous fencing practice will do beneficial as on the body. It trains the eye to quickness and accuracy. It trains the mind to con .entration to be cool, steady, resourceful, ever on the alert Steady concentration is what ss most needed by the scatter brained fe- male who is subject to nerve storms"
 Finally. the woman who is u skilled fencer can at any time, with parasol or umbrella. defend herself from robber or ruff1an.
 The Japanese system of fencing is in some respects superior to that of Eu- rope. Like every other system of Jap physical culture it trains both hands and both sides of the body equally The foil or sword used by the Jap fencer is two handled. No wonder the two sided Japs whipped the one sided Russians.
 "Divinely Tall.s
 There is really no limit to the phys ical improvement that is in the bower of almost every woman when her will Is determined on any given result, and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

The result Is worth all 1t costs.
 You have seen pictures of noted beauties of the courts of France and England during the eighteenth cen- tury. Some of these danes were real- ly so handsome that the modern girl wears their portraits painted in min- iature for a brooch. Well. among these court beauties were women fencers who excelled any of their sex today, unless perhaps professionals, who earn their living by giving exhibitions of their skill.
 Dressed in the height of fashion. with tailor and millinery accessories. the American woman has won the reputation of being pretty. So she is-- in the face. But what does Professor Sargent. tho director of physical cul- ture at Harvard, say of her figure? To satisfy himself about the American girls shape and size Professor Sar- gent took the physical measurements of girl students in twenty colleges. The students in women's colleges are probably better developed bodily than the rest of their sex for gymnastic ex- ercise Is part of their curriculum.
 Professor Sargent finds this much vaunted American beauty has a hol low back, a flat chest head that droops slightly for want of support, an artifcially small waist, hips and lower limbs abnormally large because of ac- emulation of fat. He has, Indeed, found some women whose monstrous thigh measure is actually greater than their waist measure. It Is because of the diseased gathering of fat below the waist and that comes from lack Of full breathing and of exercise Of the lower limbs.
 Girls have noticed many time that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

1. Br1ckman, Al Commerce St, Montgomery. ... Phone 445.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

Members are looking forward with much pleasure to the next meeting which will be festival meeting Ladies are to gather and send their blossoms to the homo of the president in the morning. A committee has been ap- pointed to arrange them. and in the af- ternoon members will come, bringing their invited guests to enjoy the gath ertng together of so much beauty and to exchange information about the cul- ture of the flowers. The meeting will be informal.
 Talking about trees, the tree I know and love best is a mulberry tree. When we first moved into our little home, the man of the house came home bringing a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
The Fallen Mighty.

NeW 1OTK FTeSB.
 Tt isn't necessary to go to the Wal dorf to see the nobility" said the man about town. Go down on Second Av- enue to the Hungarian restaurants there. The proprietor of one is an ex- fled baron, the pianist is a prince and the violinist a duke. the waiter with the mustachios was titled land owner in his own country. and each and ev- cry one of the patrons. myself except ed, Is a scion of Russian. German. or Hungarian nobility. banished for some reason or other to the wilds of New York"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
FZolUers andF2oluer Grouers
Official Organ of Montgomery Flower owerAssocaton

The Flowers Growers Association will do much to beautify Montgomery. Already recognized the real "city beau tiful" of the South. Montgomery will be even more charming to the eye.
 Such an organization as the Flower Growers Association will give impetus and interest to all Horticultural depart ments not only in Alabama. but in other States.
 Applications from adjoining towns for membership are already being re- ceived and there is a probability that several branch Associations will be formed to work in conjunction with the Montgomery organization.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
Roosevelt's Conspirators.

Mobile Register.
 The term conspirator carries a cer. tain amount of opprobium with 1t, but, as applied by the President, 1t gives even an editor some appearance of financial standing. The President should not name too many conspira- tors, however. If the five millions be divided into many small parts the con spiracy will be reduced to the ordi- nary level of a mere campaign.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
Two Sides To It
NfohtIa pagister

There is more American machinery in Japan than in all other countries of the Orient combined. Japan is profitable field for the American manufacturer. What If Japan makes Rn immigration law similar to our own? Labor Eeems not to have observed that ;he effect of it's influence in shaping the Immgra ton law may so react that In the end labor will be the sufferer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21
PRENATAL TRAINING Dogs Born With Knowledge, Others
 Must Be Taught.

the scientist, is found in the series of experiments begun in 1884. The recent developments in this series of experi- ments have staggered scientists and opened new field of possibility.
 Briefly Professor Holmes has produc- ed litter of puppies that were born with great part of the knowledge &C., quired by fourteen generations of an Cestors.
 Tha results are so plain and so con- vincing that the theory of the possibil- ity of producing poets. flnanciers. scien- lists. or anything else almost at will seems possible. If a man desires that his great grandson shall be a wonder full musician all he has to do Is to train himself. his son. and his grandson along that line. select their wives with the view to the ultimate result, and the great grandson will be great mu- sician.
 The story of the experiments con- ducted by Professor Holmes is so in- terestinE that scientists from many places have visited his home and stu died the result.
 Experiments on Babies at First.
 In 1884 Professor Holmes became con. vinced that 1t was possible to control and direct the mentality of succeeding
 
 even going so far as to rent or buy in- fants from two days to two weeks old and study them in a specially prepar- ed laboratory. using nurses upon whom he could rely to handle the infants scientifically. but without infiuencin: their actions. These experiments, how ever. brought little that was conclusive
 At that time he owned a fine brindle bulldog a well bred and intelligent ani- maL He determined to begin the ex- pertinent with that dog. He selected a bat cared French bull female and bred the two.
 Before they were bred Professor Holmes decided to teach them certain unusual tricks and, above all, to teach them obedience. From the litter ot eight puppies he chose three. all males and at the same time purchased two female puppies of the same breed. These five he trained together. teaching them exactly the same tricks and the same understanding of discipline he hat taught their parents.
 Teaching Special Tricks to Puppies.
 One of the tricks was to have them all stand in a row and to keep the alignment, to eat from separate dishes without poaching on the food of tho next neighbor. and to stop instantly and hold any pose that they might have as- stunned until a snap of the fingers releas- ed them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

sATsomM. TosET COMPANY. Paris. Tenn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
BRICKLAYER FALLS
FROM HIGH WALL
j. j. johnson Sustains Painful Injuries
in 35 Foot Drop at Power
Station.

June J. Johnson, 9141a Third avenue,
a brick layer employed on the new
wall being erected at the Tri-City Rail
way company's power station on Sec
Ond avenue and Twenty-third street,
fell from the wall a distance of 80
feet, about 4:30 yesterday afternoon,
the accident resulting in his sustaining
fracture of his left ankle, a broken
jaw, a severe sprain of the wrist ami
bruises about the body. The wall is
being erected in the interior of the
building and Johnson was working
near one of the large smoke stacks. /
is supposed that he became faint from
the intense heat from the smoke stack
and lost his balance. The ambulance
was called and he was taken to St.
Anthony's hospital. where physicians
reduced the fractures and dressed his
injuries. His condition is not re-
garded as dangerous.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, May 17-Following are tht
market quotations today:
Wheat.
May, 951a, 90, 95R. $685..
July. 97H, 1925. 9G1a. 100h.
September, 9SH, 1884, 9712, 1917.
Corn.
May, 53as, 54&, 531s. SAY.
July, 52&, 541s, 524, 53M.
September, 527s, 541s, 523s, 53A.
Oats.
May, 4514, 4S3s, 45h, Az.
July, 445s, 475s, 441a. 1858.
September, 371B, 1914, 3G7s, 80.
Pork.
May, opened 1850, closed 1G.45.
July, 1855, 1915, 1916, 1870.
September, 1857, 1880. 1856, 1917.
Lard.
May. closed 9.15.
July, 9.12, 9.35, 9.12, 9.27.
September, 9.27. $50, 925, $40.
Ribs.
May, closed S.92.
July. $50, 9.07, $50, 900
September, S.97. 1922, S.95, 9.15.
Receipts today.-Wheat, So; corr
60; hogs. $4,000; cattle, 1000; sheer
4 900. Hogs left over, 3,400
Hog market opened weak-Light
G.30@652: mixed and butchers, 6.256
ESQ; good heavy, 600@6.40; roug
heavy, GOOGLE.
Cattle market opened steady. Shee
market opened dull.
Omaha.-Hogs, 5000; cattle, 1000.
Kansas City.-Hogs, 10000; cattle
1000.
Union Stock yards $40 a. M: Ho
market a shade higher and strong
Light. 6.30@6.55; mixed and butcher.
6.25@6.5O; good heavy, 600@6.4J
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
New York Stocks.

New York, May IL Following are
the quotations on the market today:
Gas 81. L. p. 143H. L. S. Steel pre-.
ferred 99&. L. S. Steel common Sc
Reading 1071a. Rock Island common
.203s. Southern Pacific SO. n Y. Central
113h, Missouri Pacific -, l.. e n
115%, Smelters 1898, c. F. |. - Can
adam Pacific 1873, Illinois Central
40, Penna 1925. Erie 237s. 7. c. |
l46a, C. & o. 81. B. r. T. 80, B. & o
sc. Atchison SS$s. St. Paul 1917, Cop
per 9412. Republic Steel common 262s
Southern Ry 20k.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
SOCIAL AFFAIRS.

lSOClcty news, written or telephOned
to the society editor of The Argus will
be gladly received and published But
in either case the identity of the sender
must be made known, to insure relia-
bility. Written notices must bear sig
nature and address.l
Hinds-Loughran.-The marriage Of
Miss Agnes |. Loughran, daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Loughran of SIS
Farnam street. Davenport. to LeVerne
Kinds of this city took place yesterday
morning at O'Clock at the Sacred
Heart cathedral. Davenport, Rev. Faith
CT Walsh officiating They were dt
tended by the brides cousins Miss
Gertrude Green and Isaac Green. Fo'-
lowing the ceremony wedding break
fast was served at the brides HON
and Mr. and Mrs. Kinds then left 70"
Chicago. They will visit in Racine.
Wis and later at Davis, III. the homo
of the groom's parents Mr. Kinds is
chief bin clerk al the c., NJ. & ST. Pau
freight Office in this city his bride Is
an accomplished young woman. grad
uate of the schools of Davenport and
the Immaculate Conception. They will
be at home after June at 1926 Fifth
aud-a-half avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17

band of 40 or 80 pieces with the tri-
city delegation to the national meeting
at Philadelphia in July will be discuss
ed by members of the Tri-City Phila-
delphia club composed of members who
intend to attend the meeting. The
question was up before the Moline Elks
last evening, and it was suggested that
10 defray the expenses of the trip three
concerts be given, one in each of the
three cities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
rough heavy, G.O00G.15.

Cattle market steady-Beeyes. 40
@G.45; cows and heifers. l.S04 $40,
stOckers and feeders. 2.900515.
Sheep market steady.
Hog market closed steady.-LighT
G.30dG.57; mixed and butchers. G.250
ESQ; good heavy, coca Gao; rousa
heavy, G.00@6.40; rough heavy, G.0OG
G15.
Cattle market closed dull. Sheep
market closed steady.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
8 to 1Oc.

8 to 10c
Buttcr-Dairy, 30 to pc.
Lard-10c to lie.
Eggs-Fresh, 15c.
Observation-Disclosures. Csc to roc.
Live Stock.
Hogs-MiXed. S5.75 to 1925.
Sheep-Yearlings or over, $500 to
S5.75; lambs, $3.50 to $G.75.
Cattle-Steers, $3.50 to IS; cows and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17

-Smedes.-The marriage Of
Dr. George Sumner Champion OF
Philadelphia and Miss Hazel Smedes,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Smedes of Vicksburg. Miss. took place
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
BUTTER SALE.

Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of this week
Choice Elgin creamery, only %
cents per pound. Not more than ,
pounds to 4 customer.
THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC
TEA COMPANY.
32S Twentieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17
a Good Investment,

The greatest health regulator, is :
Cross Country is the best obtainable.
Telephone West 80 old or G0S9 new
ROCK ISLAND BREWING co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17

yesterday at the home of the bride.
DR.. Champion is the son of Mr.. an /
Mrs Richard Champion of this
city and is a practicing physician
at Philadelphia, Pa. where he
and his bride will make Their
home. He has many friends in
the city who will extend heartiest con
gratulations. The bridal party will 90
to Oak Park, Chicago and there at
tend a family reunion to be held -
morrow night at the home of Mr.. AMI
Mrs. r. Champions daughter, Ms.
Arthur Heurbley. Mrs. Richard Cram9-
ton is already there and Mr.. Champion
will leave for Chicago in the morning,
to be in attendance at the reunion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-17

Celebrate Birthday.-Mr. and Mrs.
II. Clemann gave party to about
thirty of their friends at their home
last evening in celebration of Nj.
Clemann's birthday. An elabOrai
luncheon was served. Mrs. ]. Clemann
and Louis Salzmam won the highest
honors at cinch. The cOnsolatio1
prizes were won by Mrs. Arthur Salz,
mann and Al Diedrich and the booby
prizes by the hostess and F. Meyer.