The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-17
'Mongst Pleasant Persons
The Impractical Person Discusses Eiec-
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By 0. s. PARTRIDGE.

By Q. s. PARTRIDGE.
 The Impractical Persoa Discusses E'ec-
 The Person with a Political Past was trying to talk politics to The I'm, practical Person and The Impractira him and said more than he had ever at one time said before.
 Tt Is foolish, foolish. foolish! That old king they had at the theatre tHe have seen she machinery they had for that play. I could have helped them little with some of the wiring but
 But politics---and what the king said" interrupted The Person With a Political Past.
 "Well.>the king said, That way mad. been repeated frequently it struck me as just hitting politics. Last year The Placid Person came to me and said or do something to the Protective Person, so that he would be so busy he could not try to sell us insurance. said I should most certainly do 1t. him Mayor. The Placid Person said he did not wish to be Mayor, and ! said he did an& that The Protective Person had with his own voice, and not an-
 "Then The Placid Person and had to bet and of course l lost because The Protective PerSon wanted to pc AL derman or councillor or whatever the Monday night madmen are called. Then I paid 8 for a street tax or poll or something else foolish, and they ballot There was challenged; at first thought I was challenged 10 fight duel or flsticuff with cut-and- thrust, pistols q believe that's what the tll-talking old Iassis in the play called them). but 1t was only about my voting. It seems you have to be registered. as If you were SO much many different things and paid out so much money that thought I had done enough stead of my vote. But The Placid Person calmed me after while by telling me that even if we had voted would not have had enough to do to keep him from insuring us against death, accidents. our own desires and every other thing that could harm us. politics to me-"
 "Diddie DiddIe" the Call of the Ducks. sy %hS f peFsod gsod ehoSgh hoW to to ts ss ducks-which "in these columns" he recently said he could not do--is bad enough not to sign, her name to the postal card upon which she conveyed the information. She lthrows score upon The Perplexed Person in these words:
 plexed ay Person M g say 'diddie eodiddie' to the ducks? Don't tell me he had any barnyard raising" if he did not know that ducks always answer to 'diddle- A great many feel that way about 1t; but wouldn't 1t be just too cute for anything if grown man that has to ssd saaTpsd TddGe WS eTsr e per say plexed Person wanted was not the la dies and loisses sized salutation of ducks, but pair of great. husky, raul make virile noise. Nevertheless. The Perplexed Person is very much obliged. When Your NixSsr ger. Nanny Kissed
 It is one of the, most embarrassing things in the world, the kiss of that old nanny. You love her, perhaps when you see her after some years of separation you rather feel like kissing her. But you are now years old maybe even or 1O-and when she | throws those gentle arms. strong even if they are GO and more years old, around you, and with her fine old voice cries out. "Lawd 0aNd. of 1t ain mer baby" you spy out quickly and laughing.
 The kiss was given yesterday after l noon 10 d lllll6 BlIt Ou De1IST avenue.
 The little girl was as old as little girls of her age generally are. and about as large as little girls of her height, weight and size generally are: and when her old nanny kissed her right before all those folks-why. she blushed like big sister when right be- | fore her best beau little brother asks her if this is the man you told mom- mer you thought you'd take?'
 But she was really very glad to see her nanny whom she tugged by the skirts until the old woman had promis. | "d-after much pretence, that she had no time for such doin's-to come by Christmas morning to holler Christ
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 The P. (. nnd The S'-WaIk Reporter
 What has become of a prominent
 citizen who used to say such inane and
 Insane things before the recent expira
 ton of the Sidewalk Pencilings
 Column?' asked a private person yes
 terday. -
 You know the one mean; that per
 petually prattling person who button
 holed the common sueet-walking re
 and remarked, I perceive that 1t ii
 raining, said a prominent citizen yes
 tcrday--at least that is the way 1t wal
 printed in the newspaper. Or perhaps
 quently the street cars stop at the cor
 ner of Dexter Avenue and Court street , said a prominent citizen yesterday.
 Then again the old favorite, The day prominent citizen yesterday as h' neatly placed the chill cure almana in his pocket
 Where Is he?' The Walking reporter tool , aside from the crowd the inauisitiv "The P. c. has gone" he said. "w ran him out of town. We made m m