The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
DRIFTWOoD

l DRIFTWO OD Get out your blankets and see what the moths did to them, and show what ing.
 Get up bright and early tomorrow and be at the opening of the Big Fair, Parades are getting to be quite conn mon on Dexter Avenue,
 | Here's the way we figure 1t: if | a thin woman has money she Is "slen- der but if she has none she Is "slxin- l n.y."
 Crouch makes wrinkles; cultivate a cheerful disposition and make yours look young.
 Now that this baseball business has been settled. people can give more at tention tQ the Presidential election. l Up till the age of twenty-six a girl man with her coyness; after she passes l that age she isn't going to take any 1 chances but pounces on the poor Vic- tim like black bass going after a When woman gives a party she | wonders the first thing of all how many extra chairs she will have to borrow from the neighbOrs. -. A girl has greater horror of the l young man she loves seeing. her with death.
 It certainly looks like a waste of local talent for girl with pretty red cold clammy nose of a pet dog when some young man is looking on with his, mouth watering for little loving and few kind words E iJ The only difference between thei talking capacity of a woman and a thoughts and the bird doesn'd j ;'ss v A Montgomery girl who has beam writing the advertisements of her. to young man who had asked her If he might call. As she is a good girl and never takes her mind off of her postscript which read; Come early and avoid the rush."
 A country youths idea of heaven is to wear suit of store clothes to town and eat in a city restaurant <, It's no use talking: "Women's hats look to us like they are larger than |
 :. ts' s s1 Lots of men are seTf-made whose wives have to rely on the dress-maker. Col, John Reese has solved a prob lem that has long vexed this coun- try. He says that war in the Balkans will help to give lot of names to the sleeping cars.
 A Connecticut man was sent to jail and fined $20 for kissing his wife on went scott free for kicking her hus- band on the impulse of the moment An aeronaut now proposes to ride 125 miles in folding airship that he carries around in two small suit cases and trunk. All we can say is that this fellow Is flighty.
 speaker of the House. The country has 1t in for Uncle Joe this time we fear. The police department of the Lacka- wanna Railroad has put stop to the throwing of rice on bridal couples, The latter are no doubt gratified at the news. These new tight skirts make girl hesitate sometimes about sitting in a young mans lap.
 These days every war cloud has a silver lining.
 Bobby give an example of extremes "A pigeon toed man. mum" When asked if she can do sewing The girl of today will act shocking | shen just knit her brows very know But she don't give a darn for her stocking
  Knees to propose to an heiress Mack-No; I'd get down on my luck. |
 The other Day. The other day Cor so 1t seems)
 We strolled together down this lane. l And we were happy without dreams | Chimed to the mating birds refrain. | You hummed some foolish. sweet love Somehow 1t seems the other day, The sun still shines down through the The birds stiI warble happily: The same sweet odor's on the breeze. | But somehow they are naught to me. Naught to me since you're away
 Though you were here the other
 dsy The old path winds toward the spring, | Wherein the old gourd hangs I
 know; 'Tis strange no change in anything 'Tis just the same as long ago; Except my hair Is fIecked with grey | Where it was black-the other day! | Once more stand and watch the . leaves Drifting, slowly drifting down. And cen the south wind sadly grieVes | To miss those tangled curls Of
 brown. Oh, Youth-oh. Love that would not | On come back from-the other day, |
 Phil H. Armstrong.
 
 Digs at Drift. Not only are Atlanta girls more | beautiful than the drug store blondes | of Montgomery. but they are much | brighter and wittier. The Advertiser | says a girl there says she had as soon l eat eggs without salt as to kiss a man | without d bunch of whiskers. It isn't | fair to rasurrect such venerable jokes ]