The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-07
'Mongst Pleasant Persons
wHAr ro sAY TO-DAY.
Table Talk for Bromides During the
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By 0, 6. PARTRIDGE.

WHAT TO SAY TODAY.
 Table Talk for BrOmides During the
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 Breakfast.--We can't be too sure about our children's safety--I am mis- erable until see them home again. am glad they are running all the an- archists out of the country. The Gold man woman says the man that killed Chief Sh ipman was not an anarchist This weather Is just perfect--The ants are out: that's sure sign that spring has come--You seem to notice all those little things-oh, haven't forgotten all the things my old Nanny used to tell me-WeiI. there are mighty few, of the old ones left---Yes, they are dying away gradually. ing woke things up-They tell me there was a heap more to it than the newsr papers prirfted--Just think of having to look through that carnel heap for one's near and dear ones-You see. the prohibition wave has hit Louisiana They will have hard fight there-I hate to see all this good basebsn more-Don't be too sure, you can't ever tell what the weather will do-- The police ought to arrest that Gold man woman right now-I believe that she Is the cause of all the trouble work!
 Dannef--l Lell you WOuAu 8tfc all just be a barefoot boy again with can of bait and willow pole over my shoulders What about the hickory stick you used to get on your shoul- ders?--Ah, that was just part of the days work--I wish we hadsmore liberal ideas about Sunday; I'd go fishing Think of S0,0O0 voices in one chorus; that's what 1t says In that interview with Innes--I tn ought his name was Ennis-You know. just love to stand 20 by-It is awfully Interesting to watch peoples expression-You can read people by their faces If you know Is g8ipg gsrTst rgh hSt ahOps Bryan n ns homecoming-I wonder what old Thaw thinks of brain storms now?--Child, l haven't bought a Twin '-stivin' stitch for Sunmer-If 1t hadn't been for this old waist I'd have roasted--Is that old? thought 1t was brand-new--Well, be good!
 Interesting interview of Tnnes.
 It may safely be said that there was yesterday than Mir. Frederick Nel whose name is so writ largely as that one may properly disregard his "hOme town" recorded upon the register of him a cosmopolitan in that real sense of the word. world-citizen. MT. 1nnes was In Montgomery to transact busi- ness, but he had enough of both leisure and graciousness and wit to say things that were interesting.
 Mir. Innes is making tour of the South to arrange series Of concerts and musical festivals in which his band will have part. It is a prospect of one of these festivals for Montgomery that induced him to Montgomery. But Of
 Of himself, MT Innes talked incl dentally, but there was enough sad to afford delightful glimpses into a life others and for himself. He was born in England, but, as he expressed it yes terday, he had lived "all of his intelli- gent life in America. 9sd,,is aHd IS in spirit that more than very small fraction of the life of man of MT. 1nness mentality was not intelligent, so 1t may be deduced that he was not many years old when the young idea was | transplanted into new soil and taught to shoot He Is the son of a musician, all his life. The T-bone, which is the economical method of local coterie of saying trombone. was the instrument well that he played for the delight of old Hugh Manity In many parts of the world to the profit and glory of his managers and himself. Gilmore was his br.nger out. He was a director in
 Next in interest to. the meagre ac- counts of himself. MT. Innes's most l about American music.
 There is an American music" he | said. We have been, still are, essen- tially a commercial people; we have devoted all our time to commerce, but now we are gaining leisure to th.nk and to work upon other matters And | just as American music Is becoming 6 l better every day. American apprecia- | ton of music. desire for the best the art has to give, Is becoming more finely | discriminative. If I may justly have pride In any labor I have done, it is my part In educating the musical taste. In my tours I have given program 1 that other directors branded as in- director can feel the auditors sym pathetic responsiveness or their aver l sion or their apathy. The best music was well received. have not believed | in using a hundred-ton hammer to crack a walnut; have not employed | played as well-nay, better-with a | mechanical plano. And everywhere the | people has responded. It had not liked | the best because it was unconscious of | It's existence"
 most admires McDowell, whose death | occurred recently. - | Acceptaneo, of the general director | ship of the music of the Yukon Exposi- tion to be held in Seattle in 1909 has | and he will go to Seattle April 1. to make the initial preparations. Some | idea of the vastness of his work was given yesterday when he mentioned the fact that among the gstnerinsS ss svs9d od convention of about one hundred | bands of the Pacific coast. and the as- | semblage of 10000 voices into one | chorus. He will remain in Seattle only ! A ahort time. returning co make q tour