The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
WOMEN ana SOCIETY
mns. THoElAs M. OWEN TO


 ASSUME CHARGE. The Advertiser announces that Mrs. Thomas M owen will in the future be in charge of the Society and Woman's Department of The Advertiser.
 Mrs Owen Is at present in New York City, where she is superintending the staging of her play which has been accepted for production. She is ex- pected to return to Montgomery within the next week, when she will begin her active work as Editor of this De- partment.
 In the meanwhile all social items for The Advertiser, If teIephoned to 1884, will receive prompt attention.
 Mrs. owen is one of the best known writers of the south. The work of her pen has found welcome in some She has for nearly ten years been q resident of Montgomery and during all that time she has been actively inter eetea in the club, philantrophic and social affairs of the city.
 She has wide Knowledge of Ala baFns Snd Southern social affairs. swhF comes of a sparticipation in the inKham and Mont somery.
 In the near future Mrs. owen will have an office in The Advertiser build ing.
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 TO OUR GENTLE READERS" we (ti1s printers devill who are go- ing to run this department while the Editor Is away, crave your mercy. your hnlp. and your Christian charity. In preparation for this work we have done our best to hypnotize ourself into that Inane stata Of mind and spirit which is generally understood as the correct thing for ladies, but even his Satanic Majesty fails sometimes. so we cry you mercy.
 are feelingly invited. Any old subject wtaI do, from How to be Agreeable to the Hired Girl,p to ''MotKers-in-iaw of Noted Men"-anything on earth, just SO the men will be sure not to readt it. It should be remembered by contribu. tors that etiquette, love, marriage, poetry, music, art and religion are subjects distinctly feminine in their ap- pl1cation and that all mention of them belongs properly in the wonan's col- u1nn.
 If ths editor will only stay away long enough we promise our readers cor respondence column with some such cosy heading as At, home with the Devil" through which they can get all their perplexitles unraveled, from how to buy a baby trousseau for &2.9S
 
 divorced husbands sitting within the ribbons at the marriage of his some. time wife to another man. We will teach them how to be good, brilliant and beautiful. We will demonstrate to them to a mathematical certainty how to so through life, death and in- mortality on sl.65 . week. We will so dispense our ll-comprehensive wis dom that there will be no more bad manners, no more wasted cold food no more freckles, no more eternal damna- ton.
 ALL-SAKNTs DAY. The golden leaves drop through tha
 golden air.
 The wondrous love of God is every
 where.
 And earth and heaven. O Godl are
 praising Theei
 AS souls, all saints, in one vast circle
 met
 aand touching hand from utmost, sea
 to shore;
 Not one through ages shall Thy heart Nor one Thy grace o'eriook for
 evermofe.
 S Margaret E. Sangster. The Feast of All Martyrs and Saints was instituted in the year 610 A. D., in memory of the early Christian mar tyrs. It was originally celebrated on the first day of May, but in the time of Pope Gregory III, was changed to the first Of November It is a day of solemn festival in the Roman Catholic Anglican, and Lutheran churches. and is observed in them by fitting services. Though originally instituted in com memoration of the martyrdom of the early sufferers for the faith, 1t has be- come to every loving heart day sae- red to the sacrifices of obscure martyrs whose names have no place on storied paEe or marble shrine, whose humble ways were marked with sufferings un- complained of. who died in very truth fok the faith that was in them.
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 FEDI -GATA " NOTES. The meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs to begin in this city on November IT is of more than usual interest The Federation now includes fifty-hve individual clubs-a gain of ten clubs over last year. The gain In club spirit is also marked.
 The first session of the convention win be held on the evening of the 171h. There will be addresses of well cSme by Governor B. B. Conner on the part of -,le State, Mayor W. 4d. Teagne or the part of the city. and Mrs. Phares Coleman on the part of the City Feder- alton of Clubs. frs. Philip N. Moore,