The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
oorIrnr MAx,s .AwAKENING.

ooyr.EGr MANS AWAKENING.
 If is a dull tbud with which the coll lege boy graduate falls to earth after his last commencement The drop IS q sudden and a heavy one, and IL wakes him up to q realization of the fact that he must live under a life sentence or work: that is the penalty of being born a man. A boys last year at college i. the time when to himself and to his homefolk he is at the height of im- portance in his world. He has not yet had A chance to show himself suc- cess or failure and the possibilities before him for the former are unlim- ited. To his acduafntances they are possibilities. to his friends probabili- ties and to his fond mother they are certainties. His father, knowing him. self, has no fixed opinion on the subject --he just hopes for the best and fears the worst. But the boy--man himself! He has perhaps lived for four or five years like prince or millionaire. He has struggled with the social prob iens that confront him In college life. has revelled in the joys of fraternitiess and taken fiendish delight in the writhing of the boys on the outside who have been kept out of his frater- nity by some other fellow who pays a grudge In that ccru--and has per- haps himself had his innings in that line either as abused or abuser. His ideaSof life is one in which the prom inent features are late rising from a prolonged siumber. late breakfasts. hasty lunches, afternoon teas, swell dinners automobile drives, theatre par ties, football games, proposals. re- fusals. Accusations and denials. with fluffy ruffle girls thrown in as the 5 rafson d'etre of the whole of life. Of course there has been certain amount of study through it all. but that has been a side issue, a necessary evil. so to speak. that has been made interest big chiefly in the struggle to escape it. The game of bluff there has added zest to the program of life.
 The college graduate leads dolce far niente life during his first summer. He entertans his college friends. writes letters to the college widow" talks fond1y of his past college days as if they were years and years ago. rum mates happily of his experiences and 1aziiy chews the cud of the joys of days that are no more. The thud comes when he gets his first job and his sal- ary Is not enough to buy the cigars he has learned to fondle with so grace fuI . twist Of the wrist. while the rings of smoke ascend from his lips. Father at once becomes almost unac- quainted with him as far as finances go. Tn fact he Is pushed out the est that he may try his wings and he fut- terms and founders about, the dear old days becoming dearer and dearsr. He wonders why when he spent his return money he did not wire for more than just enough, he realizes he has lost golden opportunities to touch" the family bank while he was stock holder.
 When as the society season comes on he accepts an invitation to func- tion he bushes that there is no s25 with which to negotiate for carriage and flowers, and no such amount for the bite after the theatre for which he has saved up a weeks income. He accepts the situation and boards the street cars. The young lady is happy but he is q bit crestfallen. He likes the young lady quite we'll until she of sev- eral seasons just to make talk" asks him If he is going back to college this winter" He has thought the whole world knew of those brilliant com- mencement days when he took honors and "came through" with such flying coiors.
 A few blows like that cast gloom over him: he feels his life has been wasted up to date: he yearns to see his chum and talk over his troH- bies he feels that no one but his room mate would understand him.
 Time cures him.
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 CLUB WOMEN TO DIVERT MEN.
 The club women in Panama have for the object of their organizations the making of life pleasant for the hus- bands and brothers and bachelors who are engineers of the canal
 It will be remembered that Secretary Taft sent Miss Gertrude BeAks as spe- ciaI commissioner to Panama to as- certain conditions and suggest methods for their Improvement. Since that time the towns have blossomed with gestion. Miss Boswell. chairman of the
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