The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-28
Sidewalk Pencilings
No Gratitude without Pienitude.

 Yesterdays crowd on the streets any number of persons, 50 beNit that they are on the streets. constitutes crowd-was distinctly shopping crowd. Some of the crowd bought hair pins. and birdy bonnets, an1 hats of the vegetable kingdom. and like trinkets. Others took over horses and shotguns and similar trifles. Eat all of the crowd bought food.
 Was happy tpe soS r5Gm dinner--if you but have the stomach for 1t as we'll as the proper chin for the purveyfng persons, Is enough 10 pc thankful for, without thinking of the
 The proper dress was tailored suit of pale droop toque and of course, for those that liked them the bird bon. nets. For those others who preferred bunch of real ald malagas. a tuft of head rye, and G&een and purple noun tain geranium eaves the hats of the princess princess of taffeta were were the @ things. The simple street dress for the man was heightened by gun worn jaunti- ly upon the shoulder or carried handily by the side, a pretty touch being added by dog appliaued to a chain of steel.
 But without doubt the most popular adornment was the shower bouquet or celery which many Of the fashionabies wore, though chatelaines of pearl oysters, set in simple but strong paste board were much in vogue. Some af- fected an arm bouquet of dressed tur- key but this was generally accounted extreme and in especial bad taste with the hats of the vegetable Kingdom Most sent their fowls homo by cour- tesy of the purveying persons.
 It was a rare and pretty sight the promenade of the Thanksgiving shop pers and 1t will hardly be seen again st, ,fcfn xtyt, ,ev1 they'll eat again.
 Stringency in Stage Money.
 q understand that George B. Cortel- you will be asked to come to the -aid of the drama and relieve the present Talkative Tad just back from little old New York T understood from good authority while there that unless some thing is done before very long that there is not a melo drama in the. coun- try that will not be driven to the use of stage checks instead of stage cur rency The stringency is also being felt in vaudeville.
 While I was in New York Captain Flynn. of the New York Secret Ser Washington department confiscated the printing offices where stage money was being manufactured,-d destroyed the plates and billions of dollars in stage
  counter early one morning. and he as- sured me that it was practically impos- sible to secure loan of stage money now, and that managers are growing desperate.
 Tn one stauch old melodrama where the hero dashes upon the stage shout ing: Hold, you shall not sell the old home over my mothers head! Here's your ten thousand dollars heartless old skinflint"-the lines have been changed to read Hold you shall not sell the old home over mothers head. Here Is 2 certified check for ten thousand dollars you heartless old skinflint The effect is not the same. however, In the former version the hero dashed a huge bundle of stage greenbacks in the williams face and the house went wild with delight. The certified check doesn't get hand.
 ment as understood it. was due to the fact that as soon as currency became scarce thieves commenced faking with the stage money when changing large pills; Several good hauls were reported in this manner
 Never before has stage money been so tight, and all managers who hap pened to have good supply on hand are hoarding it.
 And He Wondered Why.
 precelVe that 1t Is raining out side" said a prominent citizen as he stood in the sidewalk column a few nights agone. and vainly endeavored to remember whether he had left his um- brella. at the office or In the coal box on the back porch. and if 1t was his left or his right gum shoe that had a hole Tn the heel. or the toe. For the life of him he couldn't remember.
 Of course. The Paper Person, flip ping the rain off his hat, had out an immense roll of copy paper and was writing like mad to secure his journal the report of the latest remarks of the garrulous prominent citizen, who If he keeps on with his quickly perceptive faculties. will discover the way to the graveyard long before he dies.
 The Ordinary Citizen emptied his pockets of the last shower. called The Paper Person aside and asked. very politely indeed. yet without attempting to conceal his ire:
 Why do you print the inanities and the insanities that creature gets rid
 The Paper Person called The Or dinary Citizen even farther aside and then remarked. very politely indeed.
 we are trying to run him out or town. He is already ashamed of him. self. and about two columns more will put The Prominent Citizen on the hike we print him."
 The Ordinary Person thanked him
 q had just often wondered" he re- piled dreamilv: that's all"
 Hon. W. L. Lee, of Columbia, was a visitor to Montgomery yesterday.
 Mir. Hnsh Watts. Clerk of the City