The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-01
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In Lawrence County the farmers are turning their attention to the raising others might do. Maybe it would have a tendency to bring the balloonified bovine in the reach of the average cons sumer's pocket book:
 "When a woman is over thirty, she conceals her age. muses an exchange. Perhaps--if she understands the gentle art of applying cosmetics.
 A woman in Connecticut who has had twenty children was severely beaten by her husband the, other day. With family like that the good woman might organize her forces and run the brute out of town.
 Love is the thing that makes the wise foolish. and Marriage makes even the foolish wise.
 A man at Gadsden was fined s25 for ascs DoSrnf to o on bt tssn dSs and msybe h a ''petted and perfumed society poodle, and he was jealous of the attention lavished upon it. fin which case he IS hardly to be blamed.
 An Alabama man has grown an ear of corn one foot long. containing l.500 grains. (Houston Post please write.)
 If it is true. as reported. that the President shot 'possum. he is likely to lose the colored vote entirely if he isn't careful. it
 The statement that women's skirts will be shorter has caused several newspaper paragraphs to become long CT.
 There are lot of good financiers these days who deserve to be felicitat- ed on their success in keeping cut of jail.
 Marshal P. Wilder says that no one makes a new joke. Who made that one. Marsh?
 The cash register of a Mobile. sa- loon was robbed Sunday of SS9. Any body who would do that would steal From blind man; s+s
 Tine winter of our distcontent" is when our girl hands us the ice pitch CT with a frozen lemon in It keep the biscuits warm for him will win you a husband. girls. every time.
 Speaking of governing common car never put any limit on the old Stork!
 Be good and you'll not only be hap py. but yon'H be a rarity these days. besides.
 A scientist says he has discovered a way whereby people can live with out food for two weeks at a time. The but there is hardly any doubt that 1t Is Washington boarding house.
 A woman out ip Des Moines wants Seer VIei in her SeGae face. s she Is fight: any man who will waste such precious fluid (especially at this time5 should be punished in some way.
 The latest plan Of reaching the North Pole is to be drawn there by polar bears. A good idea. When food Sa sssn cs' dos %ss SSsd prove more
 At the Fair grounds yesterday a girl girl bought t s,hs sO,cent wadikins wal cane cane woman's taste for hnery is more keen ly developed than her epicurean taste.
 The Latest
 An inverted sauce nan.
 A rooster's tail on il.
 And there YOU have eH
 The new fall bonnet.
 The Humble Prune. Washington Herald. "
  Montgomery Advertiser, evidently gentleman of observant habits and a seeker for light from sources whence his seeking is likely to be rewarded. of the humble and downtrodden prune. and wonders what The Washington Herald will say"
 What" asks this prunologist, "is better than a plate of nice, dimpled, fat prunes for breakfast?" And de- spite the sneers and uncharitable re- marks of those who affect to make flight of prunes. we take this brother by the hand and answer, Nothing" The very boldness of his remarkable question and the very courage that enables him to stand up, proudly and nobly, for this splendid fruit are founded upon evident persistent con- sumption of the same. Were he less frank in tue perfectly apparent happi- engendered we might pause to barley with him and seek to learn the full depth of is,content; but. having raised loud his voice for prunes we are as- is only too plain, in fact. that he is full of pruneS!
 Like the mother-in-law-one of the grandest institutions ever invented the prune' is a victim of circumstances. Away back wonder, some fellow started a near-joke about the landlady who served--or, rather, alleged to have served--this palatable. if homely, fruit with too great regularity. For some unthinkable reason, this so-called wit ticism caused a great laugh. And man. monkey-like and unreasoning, has been laughing at it ever since Nobody knows why: nobody as rule, seeks to know Things just took that di- rection in the beginning. and very few people have essayed the task of head ing the islander off.
 Here in Wonderful Washington, where culture mingles amazingly and abundantly with common sense, our honorable and careful boarding-house keepers set great store by the prune. Ever having fin view the necessity of a body, these gentle refined, and thoughtful people serve this dainty generously to their patrons. This &C., counts. in great measure. for the bulging brow, air of profound wisdom, and wide scope of learning so readily to be noted among our handsome Gov ernment clerks and clerkesses; the our newspaper correspondents, and the general aspect of healthfulness and happiness to be observed on all hands. All praise and all glorihcation, then, to our patriotic landladies.
 We have but to add one sentence more to establish beyond the shadow 'of doubt the prowess and potency of the prune when we say: But for a several years service at the Washing ton breakfast table. where he daily came in contact with the prune there would be now no George M. Bailey of The Houston Post, to sing the praise of grandoldtexas and the glories of the stead, mayhap, dried and shriveled old man. scratching away somewhere at $6 per week. Need anything more be said in upholding the humble but