The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-14
Monsst Pleasant Persons
WHAT TO SAY TO-DAY.
Table Talk for Bromides During tn
 TbPeA Meals.
By 0. 6. PARTRIDGE.


 Table Talk for Bromides During the
 Three Meals.
 Breakfast--I certainly hope we will have a good fruit crop-We shall have have frost--I ten you. late frost plays havoc with peaches---And other things, too Well, this weather is all right They say he's never been caught yet Do you think he really comes to placed.
 Luncheon---John Albert did not come home from that smoker the other night till awfully late--t wonder what a smoker Is, anyhow--That's what Mittie May wanted to know she asked her pepper If they smoked opium. he stayed so late--She Is an awfully cute chtld-- Little John Albert wanted to sit up for his popper-Well. the contest is nearly over-Either one would make a good Mayor-I mean the automobile contest--Oh. I had almost forgotten that-Our trees are just full of blooms: but never count on fruit; rrost would kill them all now-The blooms are so beautiful I almost hate to see them turn into fruit-You won't feel that way when they are ripe
 Dinner-They call that baseball play CT TabAsco-I wonder which one it was They say 1t was Almuuist--Well, we ought to have enough theatres when the Wells people get through--Hes, ana good ones. too-That play was little too English for me--They are the slow n60ni0 they can't understand a joke--And some of them have got off some pretty good things-Yes, some of Thackeray' humor Is every bit as good at Dooley- They cant tough the the siSrIiIs eId Sngye su gle wouldn't last two weeks in Eng land--The idea of a grown man never having eaten an oyster-lt was cruei to give him tabasco--Oh, IL was 1usL 2 joke-Ryan knew what he was doing when he didn't get big league team to train here.
 A Raise by Any other Name |.
 In a Missouri town there IS pank called tEfe TootleLemon National Bank.
 The Tootle part of 1t is derived from the name of the president Of the insu- tuition, but where the Lemon chaser course a raise dug out of the Tootle- Lemon combination would buy just as much as a hand-out from more son orous strong-box, but Tootle-Lemon- it is to laugh.
 Foreigners Generally Are Net Deaf.
 Il have never become accustomed tt the shouts of my new countrymen; gentleman from France said yesterday You do not know what l mean? speak English fairly we'll; yet ! con fess. I have the accent. It Is enough that they should know l am rom an other country. So they howl at me.
 "You will find but few who do no make the screams to the foreigner; is as If he were deaf. They know tha most foreigners do not understand Eng fish; they know that deaf people d' not understand 1t unless they carrI the trumpet of the ears or submit th' less deaf ear to the violence of thous | and thunders. They class us together | deaf people, foreign people hav' | never gotten used to it. start at th' terrible noise and say. Is it that yo' | think l can not
 Then I remember that am not dea | but a foreigner
 Some Patrons Of the Paper. Even the Exchange Editor woul' 1 hardly guess within a goodly numpe of the total of "exchanges that com | to the office. They are broughtin arm fuls several times a day. Every pape | in the State; every daily paper in tn South every important paper in tn Country, from The Maine Mercury U | The California Curio. comes as regu | larly as If it were being paid for D. something else than an exchange | The Advertiser.
 The Exchange Editor uses most O | them, Bun there are scores of then l put aside for men who come regularl | every day to get them. The larges papers. of course. most people buy the news stands. But the journals ] little places, scattered here and ther over the country, are eagerly sough by citizens of those places who nav removed to Montgomery, or who hap pen to pause here in their Journeys 1 Perhaps every exchange rom withou l the State has one time or another bee called for. Some of them are alway called for.
 The list varies. Now a paper tha has never laid long on the exchang table in the last five years begins t reneat itself. so to speak. until ther are a dozen there; its subscriber ha | gone away from town. Then ther comes a call for one that never be | fore was sought. A few days ago ther was a demand for Mississippi news paper
 "First time I was ever asked for copy of a newspaper from that town connected the Exchange Editor. He Ina been watching them for ever so man years. A new man has come to towi