The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-26
SPRING BOQUETS AT $50
 BUY WHITE VOLETS

become interested in figuring out the possibilities of telephone growth here
 As g result of their investigations they assert that even New York. which has more telephones than any other clty m the world. is only in what mighe be called the primitive stages of the utilization of Professor Bells in- vention.
 Taking various States of the country. they have found that in California. which has the largest number of tele- phones in proportion to it's population, there are still less than third of the possible users equipped with in- strnrnents. In Colorado and Washing ton. which are both among the lead ing States in this respect. the propor- tion Is about one in five possible users, while in Illinois. less than one-ffth of the people are equipped with tele- phones New England, which is gem erally considered as particularly well developed field. 1t is estimated will ui- timately save seven times as many telephones as at present.
 Inasmuch as President Vail's report shows that there were approximately six billion calls over sthe lines of his system last year, this prognosticated development will mean something like hundred billion telephone talks year when every house and business
 
 Odd competitions are nothing new in New York. Pie-eating races, beef steak consuming contests. and others of that sort have become almost com monplace and it is only in a record breaking performance such as the re- cent consumption of forty-two pies in sixty-three minutes that any great inc terest is manifested.
 Society women who generally origin- ate the most bizarre happenings of the city. have now succeeded in really fnd- ing something new in the line of odd contests-nothing less indeed that hat trimming races. the first of which has just been held and a brand new anna teur record established.
 The details of this novel athletic con- test which is also likely to succeed monkey dinners and Turkish bath breakfasts. are dificult to obtain since in the hat trimming contest a mere man acted as judge. The new enter. tainment, as a matter of fact, has es- tablished two standards of excellence, one for sped and one for artistic re-. suits. In the former class a record | was established by the completion of three creations In thirty-one minutes, which shows that 1t is possible to con- sume six pies while one hat is being put together.
 Various of the competitors scoffed at the male judges decision, characteriz- | ing these effects as mere Ids" In the artistic competition his job was still more difiicult as he was be- wildered by yards of trimming. The verdict was given to the contestant who in four hours, constructed three bon nets" which, 1t was said, should sell for $100 each.
 About the only thing left in this field I &~ A utNA lNNNa Na9A | con, but the bar to this Is that no so- ciety woman would admit any ability in this line, although Knowledge of | how to trim hats seems to be admis- sible among those of social preten- | sions.
 It has remained for a New York woman to discover to expectant hu- manity which has struggled along in the old way for a good many centuries | the only proper method of raising chill dren-that is by science.
 To prove to a somewhat incredulous l public that children are now raised .n a manner almost criminally wrong, she | will adopt sixty children a year for the next ten years on whom she will demonstrate her scientific method. She f thinks that by the end of that time the present system, or lack of system, | will be obsolete. There will be no 1 such thing as men and women who are | failures once the new scheme is 1 adopted, for. according to Mrs. Wieland. I It's discoverer, such failures now are l.merely the result of improper youth i full training.
 l Emotion will be eliminated in the I new method which will regard the problem scientifically with two chief ] rules. First children must receive l names which fit their horoscopes at birth. There Is to be no choice in | this matter whatever. and parents can no longer argue as to what the baby