The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-29
'Mongst Pleasant Persons
WHAT TO SAY TO-DAY.
T,ahIe Talk for BrOmides During Ths
 Three Meats.
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Three Meats.
 Breakfast.--I wonder what tqoitsn- ness Is in the paper today. Listen 70 shoals. You might say. they. were very strong mussels eh? Flaw, naW, nav! There is no telling what Man VIII go next. Just think how long the indians them. ! dare say they didn't even eat
 Tuncheon.--I saw two candidates af- ter one man a while ago, for the same office. The political bees that are pxts- stz- the same flower sometimes. How o0 you think of such fanciful thingsf don't know; they just seem to pop Into my head. wouldn't an Indian pc noaI. ssf- and see the wheels going around q hundred miles away. ! should think he would. They say they used them for money. And ate with V em' some
 Dinner.--I knew 1t was tonight: those newspaper fellers never get any- thing right It surprises me they set anything at all; they just stand around and gas Yes Yes; sTds was ssliing sId bs ssoTE saIg he was in a hurry. And without 2 smile, too, I bet. T wish had thought about those mussel shoals. Some ot those muscle have pearls fn them. I believe that Is what those men are af- ter. You never can tell what those Yankees have up their sleeve. You watch the weather, # will rain before you know it. My vote Is in my vest pocket and 1t is going to stay there. There are more pretty women in Mont gomery than any other town In the country.
 The Painting of the FOuntaln.
 They--which means those in civil au- thority-are going to paint the Foun- tain, and there has been much talk about it's coiors. Most of the suggesv tions have been for colors of brown, The Impractical Person, in a moment of patriotism, argued with an eloquence that surprised the other persons, and a patriotic spirit that seemed strangely thought, @ for red. white and blue. The people of Montgomery. he pleaded, ought to recognize that we are a re- united country, no North, no South;
 sI and in ye no tss1 mGEs sag Tay s9uIa tas of the commingling of the blue and the gray (which he afterwards con- fessed to The Placid Person, privatim. generally made very muddy sort of color) than by decking the Palladium in the national colors-
 But there was another who made a suggestion of white; he made it very senslbly and offered very sensible req sons for 1t. It would give the fountain the appearance of marble and as a background for the falling water by day and for the water and the lights by night would be most effective. White he said. would be showv and neat and to the eye. So good were his argu. ments, which are but poorly expressed here, that they will have the corr0bora- ton Of many.
 Out of the Fire Into the Frying Pan.
 When Humpty Dumpty balanced his oval form upon the wall and impress ively told Alice, who was then in Look ing-glass Land. of the Kings promise to him. he did not prophecy that he would faIl in fact, he insinuGted that he probably would not. But he was cautious and provident; he recognized there are many contingencies. So he said, if he did fall, if--he-did--the King had promised to come with all his horses and all his men to pick him up aumptIy DSmpty was ready y,,,i1 for the security afforded by impr probability. Secondly. my dear brethren, there hath been much writ and said about the disagreeable change of climate con pan into the fire. It Is parlous times Indeed (unless one happens to be a salamander or a phoenix) when one has to make that kild leap. But some thing might be said of a leap out of the fire into the frying pan.
 Now upon those two texts and the fact that on all the boasted sky scrapers that are making so lustlly for the 19I0-100, ,000-count em--lOO. 00O movement, there is not a fire escape | There is what Is sometimes called an "audience" duly enacted b ythe Coun- oil, requiring that all those great big houses shall be properly equipped with | the necessary means of exit from win dows when the doors are full of smoke The Grand Theatre. which is not a | sky-scraper except of foggy morn | ing at about G. M., has escapes and very good ones. But if--there may be no fire-but IF there should be a fire there would be a leap from the fire | into the frying pan, which would not be | the lovely basin in Court Square, but ] the durable pavements round about and 1 nigh it.
 The "audience'' about the fire escapes was once given a narcotic because il l was declared by some aesthetic Alder. man and equally aesthetic owners that | fire escapes would ruin the appearance | of the buildings. A leap from a tentf ! story to the pavement would ruin somt | apnearances other than buildings. l The other day a tenant of a larg, building, while there was a fire tryins | to be very bad in the basement, soughi
 means of exit. He couldn't ind on, | because he could so down neither ele
 vator nor stairway. The buildings ar, l ire proof. but if--IF there should be , | fire-whell, it Is fine to live in a prett,
 building.
 The Teachers and Thaw.