The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-01
'Mensst Pleossnt Persons
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Table Talk for Bromiaes purtnn

goldfish are back in the Fountain and they can't talk about them any more. But supDSss IDS s.tt,y they wiil haul out Nit couldn't get into that cold p water. u'' . Luncheon.-.I tell you. Montgomery has got the H,,n pest team in the League. ought to make Some fun. It will be like a revival of the other campaign. They say they are having storms all over the country. I feel uneasy every time see cloud. This cold weather will clear things up. Real bracing like, isn't 1t? Too darned bracing for me. It's so warm now I don't sec why I didn't take nay tub. take one ev- cry Saturday night whether I need 1t or not. Let's so out on the o'clock car.
 Dinner II started to get on the game. Horses are the thing to bet on. I am certainly interested in this primary. l hadn't thought there would be much doing until this morning when I read the paper. Before things are over 1t I shouldn't be surprised if they revived all the old issues. I wish it would stay cold until all the cyclones had gone Everybody seems to want a high school. cry Montgomery already has good one. Wonder how we will come out to- morrow.
 zavs smSelns Sea sS.s CT stfsst Ger. The Placid Person of ssveralS others of the Persons. how, few laws con templating the protection of. the mere or those we have the two of which we see and hear most are for prohibit ing smoking and splitting in certain other laws that are intended to secure us from discomfort. are most, disre- pareied Person assented ' enthusiastieai- ly. Some men are so anxious to ladies. One of us might live in a box but some women can't stand whiff Of it. Only yesterday I knew a lady to be get 6 terrible headache from sit ting behind a man who was smoking
 And of Course" The Impractical Person cut in. he he never knew any can't think; They are just like the beasts of the field. They are hungry and eat; they are thirsty and drink, very simple fact of physics that ths smoke must blow through the car---" Tt comes to this" The Placid Per sGa RiFFspssa ssi soaa bssn res ta Some of his schemes. "The longest ride on any street car in Montgomery lasts thirty minutes. Everybody likes but is there in town any man-think of 1t seriously. for sometimes there Is such a man--who is physically unable minutes7 say there is not; and add the amendment that if there Is. he ought not to be in street car but in
 We have been fed on Southern chivalry all our lives" continued The Placid Person. Tn the, morning of our lives, If may ascend to the meta phorlcal heights of The Poetic Person. eaten with the milk. of human kind ness, which may say was not al- ways served with 1t; warmed oyer. 1t sufficed for a scanty and hasty luncheon; but now, when we are come to dinner time. and soon shall have eaten our cake and may have it no ducted ourselves with somewhat of decency in table manners. may enjoy what Stevenson, calls an scstacy of try to feed on Southern cliivairy unless we have added to 1t something of our own cooking; It is fine to have had is none of us but discreetiy let's such fact be known; but 1t Is very nice to be chevalier as chivalrous as our 
 50. if we,are to prate oyer our homage to women." The Placid Person -contin- ued. "let us practice our preaching in some comedy degree. It would seem minutes is not too severe a test of the knigh thood that holds present sword for the insolent and ynwritten laws TOT l1e for oFs iaKsNSe1i S Giienser' %e have many. Let us not speak of them; the fines for the binders In smoking on conductors permitting are heavy. It is all right for us to smoke on, the front platform or Anywhere else and cry. Dieuet les Damesr But let us not light our cigars with the overly dried parchments of chivalry."
 The 0hlcehOlder's Stare.
 The Placid Person and The Impracti- cal Person were, standing prominently on the corner when The Public Person came by. He was looking straight be- fore him and did not see them.
 Isn't that funny?" asked The Im- practical Person. He never speaks to me except every now and then. Some times he pauses to tell. sometimes to inquire; sometimes to invite, sometimes to be invited. But most of the time he goes right by. l can't say It's selfish . ness or even snobbery But it's funny" Placid Person explained. 'I devoted two years of my life to a study of 1t. It is not confined to offlceholders alto sether though nearly all of them have it. For oficeholders I dare say 1t is almost necessary or they could never get anywh ere for speaking to constit- uents. So they have learned to see only when it is exped;ent:''
 T have noticed 1t in many others. too" said The Impractical Person. There are so many fellows in town who greet me very effusively as I'm practicability' while I thought I ought next time. don't seem to see me. I am frank to say--that's what all the pro- motors say in their letters to me. Placity. when they decline to promote my great ozone separator-I am frank to say that 1t has amused rather than ,rritated me. l don't understand 1t. John Dough is never Jack to me yes terday and MT. Dough- today. If meet Mir. Rough today, he Is mighty good fellow if I call him Dick tomor- row And I bet you, if I Call either one of 'em Jack or Dick I'll see him just about every time see him
 "A great many feel that way about :t," The Placid Person reJoined with sympathy. Let us formulate; don he the same to all men every time, but be the same to every man all the time
 You are magnificent" cried The I'm practical Person.
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