The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-15
SidswaIk Pencilings
Al Echo Of the Millinery opening.

fair poke, with it's bristling but alto 1 gethed fetching aigrette of real old l ostrich plumes, and wondered how STi E i would look in it; and sighed. His glance wavered and then was l caught by perfect dear of a hat. lus- I cious with a couple of punches Of Mall aga grapes caught uP with 's sngge9si, s9 ;, I gray; and wondered how SHE would | look in that; and sighed
 l droop draped lingerie toque almost l as large as It's price caught his bewil- 1 dered eye with its shower boquat of maiden hair fern and lilies of the val ley, set daintily with drops of jet and q bird of paradise rampant; and he won dered If that would not he (tha1 bete noir to womankind) 'just the thing for a sweet, demure little wife" such as SHE would be; and he sighed The ImpracticabIe Person had been watching The Person Who Appears Periodically At Polite Parties. Sinis- for some time against his friend seenl- ed confirmed. So The Impractical Per- son authoritatively, and after the man. ner of the melodranatic detective, tap ped The Person Who Periodically Ap- pears at Polite Parties upon hlB well padded left shoulder and asked him what he did there. and why he sohbed like an orphan snail, or a eentipeie that has lost one bank of legs. Tie Person Who Appears Periodically At Polite Parties, the which spasmodic so- cial sorties The Placid Person long ago proved to be not only temerarious but fatal, Quailed before the accusing glance, and confessed In these words:
 What your irritating mannor--of lack of manner- says but too plainly Is true, had thought of it; may say" brazen in his guilty effrontery) "that this morning had Intentions, Sir, mat rimonial intentions. Look at those things"
 "Perfeet dreams" said the Impractic- al Person.
 ,'The. prices, I mean The Person Who. Appears Periodically At Polite in YH polite % circles freuuently. even Ng if not long ago. and have learned that they do this thing two or three times year"
 My poor young Sir" replied The Impractical Person, with more of sym pathy than he generally displays with the frail of his own sex, T shall help you. None have to ride on railroad train. few really have to drink; and unless he be common carrier or common shipper, or a barbiess fish hook. no one has to have a rebate. The Legislatures facile but futile flights shali remedy it. The hat-habit is hereditary, if not instinctive; 1t is here that we need prohibition. l shall have The Person With Political Past prepare a bill at once and 1t shall be passed on special order when the Legislature reconvenes. Then you may again immerse yourself in matrimonial maudlinism."
 But in the meantimeT" inquired the Polite Parties.
 'Tn the meantime" commanded The Impractical Person. sternly, in the meantime waar a stiff shirt, without collar, to the baseball games. It is an excellent preventive"
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 New Kind of Weather Prophet.
 q was talking to g prognosticator "and he claimed to be fairly accurate weather prophet, although not an at tache of the government Weather Bu- rea1I Service. He told me new one, and I have serious doubts about his representations. 1t was this.
 ''We were talking about spring time having come upon us so suddenly, ac- companied by the budding of trees, etc. and we were asking ourselves if there were not considerable danger of q cold spell little later which would kill the fruit and young vegetables.
 "In as serious a manner as any one could desire. he predicted that a cold snap would occur exactly on Aprl 1. He didn't say how cold 1t would he, but he was positive it would hit us on
 S'fn explanation of his theory he said that he had noticed for years that, if you will keep account of the first day in January on which there is thunder, then on the corresponding date of the fourth month of the year, which is April, there will be cold snap He had observed this year that the hrst thunder we had in 1907 was on January 4. therefore the inevitable frigidity on April A."
 Didn't Like Dress Suits.
 'Trhe brief notice of Colonel Luke Pryor in yesterdays Advertiser" re- marked an old citizen, reminds me of a story that was told on him while he was in Washington. Though htted Tor any station, Luke Pryor was not what would be called a fashionable man. He was accustomed to say that the cry of the hounds in full chase was the sweetest music to his ears. and he much preferred hunting foxes to taking part in Washington's social life
 "On one occasion he accepted an invi- tation to attend a fashionable function in the Capital City, and allowed him- self to dress as became the occaslon' When he was rigged out in the swal- low-tail coat and other accessories to correspond, he viewed himself in the mirror and. with a whimsiealiy disgust ed expression, remarked to his asso- ciates who were looking on; Boys. for Gods sake take me out and bury me
 "A splendid man was Luke Pryor, all the same" :, n m
 Public Library a Great Aid.
 "The Carnegie Library Is a fine in stitution to Montgomery, said ciu- zen of Montgomery, the other day, "and leads to the cultivation of the habit of reading. -..1 ,,
 "Fspecially in the last two years has the library been improved in its stock of hooks However, along some lines I think there is room for Improvement Some of the best modern writers of Germany. such as Hermenn Suderman, Ibsen and Hauptman. are not repre- sented at all in the list of books. Along Inc line of philosophy, there are great many books that are recognized as standard works, that are not on tue shelves. The Ethics of Spinoza: "rha Critik of Kant, Fltchte, Hegel, Schop- enhaur, and many others, are conspicu- ous by their absence. Also the line CT musical theory, the list might be great '' "Of course there are only few per sons who care for this kind of books, but it seems to me the library should take into consideration all the different branches of literature and science"
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 Hon. William NJ. Brown. formerly Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvanta, is in Montgomery. He reached here yesterday from Florida, where he had spent.a week He will probably remain over here today and then return to his home in Newcastle, Pa.
 MT. Brown held considerable inter ests in the Montgomery Street Railway Company before the corporation was absorbed by tho Traction Company.
 Hon. Fred T.. Blaekmon Senator from Calhoun, is registered at the Ne" Ex- change.