The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-11
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no YOUR SHOFElM1 shA~@sAs
 Is your Christmas shopping over ana done vithf It should be and each gift tied up with its cherry red and green ribbons. or if you should want to pro- long the pleasure of your Chris.nss .s preparaffon, buy your presents ana ue them up at your leisure.
 Remember there arc only eieven more shopping days before cnr sun q, Just think of 1t The most many or Us have done, Is to make some resoiu- tions about shopping early and post poned the first purchases.
 The longer you wait, the harder you. make 1t for yourself. and the one Who serves you.
 Each day the shops become more crowded. and the stocks are mors atsraasive niv things are sold.
 The woman who goes down town every day. and goes to all the stores forty times, and changes ner nina az often, about what she is going to gfve---her name is legion
 Are you In that classf or VIII you Le charitable and do your snopp'ns
 The woman who does not shop early cannot consistently subscribe to the yuietide sentiment, .'Peace on earth, good viii to men ]" She is one of many who are making 1t impossible for an army of men. women and children to1 realize this sentiment themselves.
 To you who cannot see the necessity for early Christmas shopping the fol- lowing clipping from The Ladies Home Journal may appeal:
 .T saw girls of IT and IS weeping with pain and weariness at ii o'clock at plight as with shaking fingers they made their counters attractive against the next days brutal rusn. I saw one Al ~t.,k 4n~ n to a fond mother of children. I saw little boys fall asleep in rubbish cor ners at the noon hour. their untasted 2 luncheons In their tired hands.
 That night when I went to my sup per saw a boy. small for his 1s years. sitting on box before the employes elevator, for which he waited. He looked up at me and with the craving for sympathy innate in children, he sighed softly: Oh. my God. I wish Il o'clock would come.'
 Pathetic, you say? Yes, but who is Irresponsible for such sunerings? The women who delay their Christmas shop ping until the last moment, for the above Is an actual picture of poor worn-out and nerve-racked store clerks lin Christmas week when the thought siessness of thousands of women com pei shopkeepars to keep open their stores in the evenings. What trait it is in woman that she will procrastinate in her Christmas shopping? Is 1t so strange that she is called heartiess and inhumanf We believe 1t is only heed-4 5Iessness, but is this not being needless to the point of being criminai7 Cannot the average woman realize that # Is to her own advantage. to say nothing of common human mercy to the shop clerks. to do her Christmas buying be- fore Dec. IS? Every woman who does this does christlike act"
 AFR. AND MRS. TANNER ENTER
 TAIN FOR MISS PARRISH.
 A charming event among the young CT set was the party, at which Mir. and Mrs. ". B. Tanner entertained Friiay evening in compliment to their young neice. Miss Katherine Parrish. @ For the occasion the attractive home on South Court street was decorated with a profusion of pink and white carnations and number of palms and ferns were used as q background.
 In the dining room the table was covered with a ciuny lace piece. and in the centre was a cut glassl vase of pink and white carnations and asparagus ferns.
 Silver. canaelahra. in which. pink and white candles burned. and bon-bon dishes holding candles in the same coiors. completed the decorations of the table.
 During the evening. the young people danced and various games were played. Refreshments were served
 Miss Parrish looked very pretty in a gown of light blue silk with an overdress of chiffon.
 About sixty guests were present. MRS. MOBILES MORN
 ING AT BRIDGE. For the second time this week. Mrs. Benjamin F. Noble was the hostess at delightful affair Friday morning, at the Beauvoir Club. She entertained a number of friends at bridge.
 Tn the ball room where the tables were placed. the decorations were most artistic and profusion of ,bam- boo. Southern srnilax and autumn leaves being used.
 Bridge was played at thirteen tables and on each table was a potted fern,