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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

colored cuff, or colored shirt. except when engaged in some game was quite unthinkable.
 ( For many years the broad cuff shar- ed with the high color and the single eye-glass the reputation of being the outword sign of vacuous youth known in some quarters as a mug" Mir. Chamberlain maX. be said to have smashed the eyeGlass in this respect and there are barristers who are given to screwing their eyeglass in their eyes with extra ferocity just before pummeling an unhappy witness to pulp under the hammer of their cross exam nation. Similarly other people. when they were about to deliver a fatal blow, used to shoot their linen" as a sort of trumpet call to victory and, perhaps. Captain Cuff was one of this sort The shooting of the cuffs was always the signal for action. but the modern young man, who. by tho way. does not seem to have acquired nickname. has turn coats, and seldom has anything remar- kable in the way of cuff, except, per- haps, in evening dress. when the white starched cuff is still a necessity. The real reign of the cuff ended with the victorian era, and since the Edwardian age began the cuff has too often been colored or little better than the old fashioned wristband, We have gone back to the habits of the Georgian days when all but the Handles wore bands. and only put on their ruffles when they wanted to be remarkably smart.
 There are some benighted persons who apply the word cuff to detachable monstrosities which are. or were. fast ened on to the end of the shirt sleeve by buttons, and were even sometimes reversible. Such abominations are not
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Measuring out the tea in his hand. he dropped 1t in the pot. the negress slave then poured boiling water over it. This was swilled around and the water poured off. The pot was then filled with huge Jumps of loaf sugar. broken roughly from a sugar loaf, and a little mint was added. A small quan- tity of the connection was poured back into a glass, sipped-and poured back again into the pot. This process was continued until the required delicacy Of flavor was reached.
 The company then drank the custom ary three glasses of this sirupy mix ture. drawing 1t through their teeth with sound like a horse drinking. As each glass was finished and replaced in the tray 1t was redlled and handed back by the Keeper of the pot" who was supposed to remember to whom each glass belonged. At a sign from the host the tray was removed. and an other slave approached each person with a brass bowl. soap and towel. and a bronze kettle of warm water. The guests washed their right hands pre- paratnrv to the dinner
 We all sat around small table about six inches high. upon which was plae- ed the dish. The courses were many and varied. As says the Hadith. The blessing of God rests on the food taken with the fingers so all good Moham- medans follow the words of their prop het. No knife must be used on bread, and the small round loaves are broken up and handed around. The tajin. or stew. is not difficult to manipulate al though the olives floating in argon otl slip through your fingers. Miniature tugs of war occur with your vis-a-yis
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. How The Cuff Came Into Vogue

in the effort to dismember of fowl or divide tough meat.
 As particular mark of favor the host will from time to time place be- fore you a little titbit which he has torn off with his greasy fingers. How ever your stomach rebels against 1t you have to swallow the morsel. During the meal the national dish of cous-cous is invariably served This is made from broken grains of wheat specially pre- pared by the women. It is served pill ed up like a huge cone. with the meat on top. Each person scoops out his own little hole in the side and must not trespass on ms neighbors portion.
 To the inexperienced it Is difficult to manage the cous -cous without making an awful mess of it. The smP Il grain must be iudiciously compressed into a loose ball and then shot Into the mouth with the back of tho thumb. The Moors take extreme delight in watch ing the ineffectual efforts of Europeans who are in difficulties with their cous- cous Moofs are very great eaters and little conversation Is carried on during tho meal. A bowl of water is passed from hand to hand for those who re- quire drink The last course finished. the bowl ana water are once more re- qulaitioned and the hands and mouth washed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

particularly stated to be coat cuff the expression is always considered to refer to the shirt. and the shirt cnly. AndA while talking about the meaning of the word, 1t is worth nothing that though the etymology of the substan- tive euff is unknown. the verb cuff IS said to be derived from "kuffa. to thrust or push forward. a meaning whtch clearly foreshadowed among our remote ancestors the phrase shooting the cuffs" or as they might quite pos sibly have put 1t, "kuffing the cuffs. !" if they had had any to shoot.
 The original form of the shirt cuff was. of course, the simple band fas- tened at the wrist. to which the lan- dies attached those beautiful lace ruff hes which held sway for so many years and which formed so elegant, if un- practical, a finish to the sleeve. To Puritan times, we owe the plain white shirt cuff. which was turned back over easily solled and nothing like so splen- did as the lace cuff or ruffie. It is therefore, not surprising that the lace ruffie held it's own for many years, and was the only alternative to the plain linen band which found so great favor in the days of the Georges among all but the Veriest butterflies of fashion. But the Puritan cuff was not done for, and it came in again after the French Revolution. though it only began to be properly starched in the earlier years of the late Queens reign. But the cuff declined when the athletic period of the sos and sos same in, and 1t was not until the '70s that fhe modern cuff in all It's glory was invented. It soon be- come a necessary portion of the ward robe. and the idea of a man wearing g
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other is across the Ponte Vecclio, for 1t Is fairly lined with jewelry shops. where you can pay any where from one to twenty thousand francs for a string of beads. Florence is the home of tourquoise, of amber, of lapsus-laZ- uli and other precious stones, Gold fingree IS also native here and looks like 30 cents only you have to pay many times franc and a half to buy it.
 Getting to Florence.
 Befort you get to Florence the ex- pression >of "Oh, wait until you get to Florence" is quite bromatic. but it's true; wait until you get ther. Besides being dazzled by the jewels displayed in the. windows. all kinds of wonder full leather work and silver smith, pictures. frames, lace, china. meet your eye at every turn. Yes, just wait un- til you get to Florence and see how your letter of credit stands when you get away. I would wager a Savan- arola chair that it will have to be supported by a large check from the United States to be able to stand on it's balance ere you leave.
 May. Day appears to be moving day for the tourist as well as the house. keeper, for about that time everybody who has been doing Easter in Rome moves on to penal service economy Tn Florence. If Italians still inhabit their native town they are but little in evi- dence. the city appears to have been evacuated to make place for the Amer leans. You find them in flocks at the bankers by hundreds at tbe art gall leries in marching order along the shops that bound the Arno, in large companies in the churches and cafes and by battalions in the hand made lace embroidered gown shops.
 Seeing the Italians.
 The place to see the Italians is in the Casino, which Is Florence's central paYk. For less than a dollar you can see Florence's chivalry in gold lace and charmingly trained mustaches driving beside some of the best look ing women you ever saw. Yes, driv- Ing in Florence Is one of the cheapest and cleanest things you can do. The one-horse victorias accommodate four comfortably and are clean, and after Rome appear to have been imported
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13
By ssChat''

that the natives talked about being haunted by Michael Angelo, who had no patience with lovers. by Machiavelli, by Dante and all those other old Flor entines just as they are now haunted by Americans.
 Queer Street Names.
 You don't have much use or need of Italian in the Florentine city unless you wish to translate the names of the streets. They are very domestic sounding in American, | O., Street of the Cow, Street of the Horse. Street of the Melon, Street of Old Age, Dire Need, Bad Prayers, Skeleton, Gailows, The Last Rest or Old Age. The Way of the Discontented. Small Rags. Our Lady of the Coughing, Death, Hell and Purgatory.
 From a musical standpoint Italian is very easy. It is much easier to use the terms than to play them. You hear a lot about piano and that's Ital- ian for the French stage. and stage is French for the American floors, first, second, third and up to hundred or so in New York, but only up to two or three or four at the most in Italian palaces.
 It Is very interesting to take a mu- sical drive around and among the many pretty villas for which Florence IS IAInouH. II It lB u N-iHl Nty y0u start out "Abbandonamento" and go "Adagio'' for some time. Often you appeal to the coachman 'affettuoso" fl he goes too slowly and then "Agita- to- il he pays no attention. Later on you begin to feel "Allegramente," and '.Allegro" and enjoy the "Andante" and when the horse gets too lively you "Dolcemente" ask the driver not to "volta" and you feel like "A1legretto'' when you pay your hire,
 The Musical Language.
 There is no trouble about the mu- sical language being understood, for all Italians are musical. You have only to go to a concert to know that. Ikere are no vacant seats. and recsQtly at those conducted by Masgagnt Florence has been in a musical heaven of de- light. The Italians stand or sit for hours and it's no conversational party, can assure you. Even If you sneeze. cough or sigh, you are apt to be hissed
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and as for using your tongue. never. never. never. Between numbers their enthusiasm knows no bounds, they simply dance and bravo with delight and from the galleries send cornucopias made of programs sailing through tho air with childish delight, for although the Italian nation is one of the old est, yet the people are like children when IL comes to pleasure.
 There are other interesting things to do in Florence besides taking nin-l sical drives, seeing Boticeliis, looking at Medici Courts of Areus withiits pillss one of them blue one, which is of coiirse the origin of blue mass going to the monasteries and seeing the dls- tillers of holy cordials (for Florence Is the birthplace of Chanti) for there is the market.
 Maybe you have forgotten that Flor ence Is in Tuscany. andt that's where the Tuscan straw braid hats come from. Then it is In close proximity to Leg horn so hats abound. Every other day in the week the market Is a hat market in the other days if is a flower one, natural one you know. although it seems a pity not to raise the arti-
 hcial kinds so as to trim the hats. The hats are. cheap, but are made for Ita1- fans and not for Americans, for they are sadly lacking in style.
 There are more styles In Florence 1 weather than there are. in hats. You
 can go to bed on a sultry evening and find the hills covered with snow the next morning, or you can go to gar- den party at the Bobo1i Gardens sur rounding the home of the Medlcis Of a ] clear afternoon and come home in a thunder storm. This Is in spring timo and they say the winter is fierce and that in the art galleries people walk around with wooden socks over their shoes. l. Just the same. Florence is a real toy to the American, and they come nere to live by the hundreds and come here for short time stays by the ship loads. for you know tart is q big thing. Al- ways bust into teers when you see a pictur' Remember. too, that "fsei- demo and churches aren't ho account unless they druv you clean out of your census,s and then you can afford ta be a tourist like Chat.
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The kofo Is always danced at any greet national festival, and the effect or the som Orous voices and swaying ring is very fine. TAen there is another dance performed by four five usually youths, Co the accompt- niment of a fiddle. the leader setting a tot of intricate quieksteps, which the rest i1ni- tate at once. It is really sort or 1iGs and makes the spectators head swim # he watches it for long"
 bania. says a writer in The Wide World. f'though certain SlaY artists love lo depict maidens swaying gracefully after the style of uautch girls. A casual observer who haa seen the Albanians come into Montenesrtn markets or Co their great weekly eatheftnS in the bazaar of Scutari could never picture these stern men dancing or at play.
 ".They never smile and they look the life they lead. each clan ever ready for war with It's neiEhb0r. and absolutely pitilesssta the vendetta. When fighting the Turks die Montenegrins evtnee herotsm and Nttef fearlessness that is remarkable. The strons- est men carry bombs, rather, hand gFeii- ades--things the Turkish soldier particularly
 q was told once how a certain man whom ] knew well saved his band from de- struction. They were fairly cornered and the Turks closing In. when the bomb-tbrow- CT stood up amid the hail of bullets lit the fuse with his cigarette and rushed toWnfd the soldiers, who seeing his intentions
 Ut was of course. lucky that the Mohan- mcdan soldier, who does not much niind' being sent to Paradise with Q bullet, thtpk4 his chanc, of eternal bliss very doubtful tl he is blown up with dynamite The nete4 required @ be a bomb-thrower is worthy expose hlhself and, as the fuse is vef short, the Ignition must be eoolly considers
 If premature. it means the destructidn of himself and comrades, and, when ], ls fairly aight. the bomb illUst be throNf with mathematical exactitude. Tn othei words, the man must leave hts cover aud charge au overwhelming force alone. and not throw till he IS close up 10 it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

About the end of the far-away 70's there was a comic song which had a great vogue. in which the singer an nounced, after the fashion of the day, with much emphasis and repetition. that he was Captain Cuff. It was at the beginning of that decade that the great white shirt cuff, as we know 1t now, came into vogue, for before that time, says The London Globe, the suff had been softer and not so stiff and starch ed. It was supposed to be a sign Of great dandyism, like the tall collar, and caused much innocent amusement to those who saw in it only a symbol of superhuous cleanliness. a thing which in certain grades of society and among the peculiar brand of the music hall comedian has always been legi- timate subject for wit. The starched cuff is the twin brother of the starched collar, and Captain Gun was. of course, held to be carpet knight. because he was particular about his linen.
 No one knows why a cuff is so called except because it could not very well be called anything else, just like a '.Yorker" The original meaning of cuff appears to be a covering for the hand, which. like mitten, left the fingers free. and, in fact. it used to be a synonym for what we know as a nit ten. Then the word was transferred to the loose end of the coat sleeve. which covered the base of the. hand and could be turned back to leave the wrist free. and thus it assumed the meaning which we now ascribe to 1t. The term was easy to apply to the shirt sleeve which also fell over the hand. and could be turned back when 1t was in the way Tn fact. so entirely has the shirt sleeve psurped the word euff that unless it Is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13
MT. Dooley On Turkish Politics

nine less wives but iliven are a good nanny fin tn suburbs, he has put away a few piasthres fir a rainy day. out-iv- dure life may improve his health an shuddent wondher if yed read some day fin tn pa-aper: At tn Stambool county fair tn first prize fir Polan chiny hena was won by A. Hamtd, tn poplar ex- Sultan
 "Ye can't tell /annything about 1t. Give tn poor 'man a chance, says I. There may be tn makin's emf There may be tn makin's iv a dacint citizen in him afther all What op- porchunity has he had, tell me? What can ye expict firm man that niver was taught annything betther thin that he cud do annything he wanted to do without bein' called down fir it? It doesn't make amy diff'rence whether 'tis polisman or tn Rajah iv Beloo- chistan, be gorry. put a club in his han an tell him that he can use it an hell begin usin' if tomorrah He'll break wan head tomorroh. two tn next day an befure he's been on tn foorce or tn throne a year it'll be a whack on tn ohimbly befure he says. Eow ar-re weT By an by he'll get so nanny people afraid iv him that hell be in danger. an thatll maka him afraid iv thim an thin he'll he more dangerous thin iver, dye minds Tn on'y man yre need to be afraid fv is tn man that's afraid iv ye. An' that's what makes a tyrant. He'a scared to death. If I'd thought about 1t whin r-read iv me frind murdherins people Idve known thy'd find him thrembIin' in a room an shootin at the hired girl whin she come in with hiz porridge. So I'm glad afther all that I didn't put in me application. l want no man to fear me. I'd hate to be more of a coward thin am."
 What ar re these Turkish athroci- ties I've been r-readin' aboutY' said Mir Hennessy.
 'T don't know" said MT. Dooley. l don't keep thim. Have a eigar.H
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

steam heat in her hotel One of the
 most interesting types is the young
 American girl tourist. one of the klnd
 who has been brought up by quiet
 fireside, say in Alabama, and Ss then
 turned loose in the Latin quarter Tn
 Paris and sees all the sights. She
 may have had all the bloom and inno- ceuce of youth rubbed off, but she has been educated just the same.
 very delightful tourist type IS the
 one that says that she prefers nov ing pictures" to dough-faced Madonnas,
 for at least she is sincere.
 There is nothing, after all, to equal
 the insincerity of European travel.
 volumes might be written on the sup-
 feet, but no one could do 1t justice,
 and the only one who ever saw the hu- morist tourist side in strong hght was Mark Twain and his innocence
 Abroad" is only about 500 pages
 Tourists are guilty of all kinds or
 things and a number of them now are guilty of doing the hill towns of Italy;
 in fact, it is quite the fad,
 A Fresco Lover.
 One of the nice little towns is Assist, chiefly noted as having been the home of St. Frances and St. Clara, and is now
 the fresco lovers delight. You can l easily tell a fresco lover by the way | the head Is carried, which is at most uncomfortable angle. Sufferers from frescoities, though, are guilty all during the disease of going into rap- | lures over almost unseeable splotches
 of color on the walls of two in one 1 churches in St. Franceses little Assist town. They talk GIolto, which isn't
 French or Italian, but just fresco lan- guage, and not to know Gfolto Is to acknowledge that your European edu- cation has been neglected. The insin- cere tourist, the one who says she likes foreigners, doesn't allow you to say
 that you think that willie Hearst could
 have gotten out whole edition about St. Clara and St. Frances if he could have lived behind the times instead of ahead of them.
 When you escape from Assesi In order to get to Florence you have to do so by way of Perugia, another lit tie town tourist resort. You go there by carriage or automobile and stop off
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i clangs tn bell, an off goes tn mighty potentate to two story frame house in Englewood. An tn Sultan's broth CT Is taken out iv a padded cell where he has been kept f'r twinty years be- cause he was crazy to be sultan an is boosted into tn throne. An he has his pitcher took an is intherviewed be tn
 reporthers an tells thim he will do tn
 best he can an he hopes tn press
 won't be too hard on him because he is a poor loonytick aunyhow.
 An there ye ar-re. There goes me dhream iv bein' Sultan along with me dhream iv bein' gr-reat gin'ral till tn Spanish war. an me dhream iy bein
 Jawn D. Rockyfellar till knew about him an seen a pitcher iv him In tn
 pa-apers. If that's tn kind is a job Sultan has. I'll lave 1t fir annywan to take that wants It. Why. be hivens
 whin tn Young Turks come to search tn palace like tn pathrites they ar-re to find If he'd left amy money be-
 hind. divvle tn thrace they found iv annythink that Id th'rade fir me back room. I begun to feel sorry fr tn poor old miscreent. Instead iv iollin' on a sofy an iistenin' to tn song fv tn mickin' bur-rd in tn pommygranite threes while ladies firm tn chorus iv The Black Crook famed him with fans iv peacock feathers, tn mis'rable old haythen was locked up fin a gar ret with a revolver in his hand ready to shoot annywan that come next or near him. He suffered firm dyspepsia an he cudden't sleep nights. He cud ate nawthin' sthronger thin milk toast. He was foorced by fashions whim to
 have five hundred wives whtn wan was abundant. Take it all in all, he
 led a dogs life an bet ye he's hap pyer now where he is. wathrin' tn geeranyms, mowin' tn lawn an sneakin' into Constantinople iv Sat-
 urday night an sein' Circassyan girls
 dancin' fir tn first time in his life. His childher are all grown up an safe in jail he has four hundred an eighty
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direct from spotless town and the. coachmen wear top hats a la Paris.
 You have gone to the Casino where the horses race, and the tennis play CTS go. the drive way and the horseback path are to be seen, for Florentines, like all other Italians. live out of doors. They are unlike many of the Italians for you find the men have something else (not something better, of course they couldn't do anything better) to do besides following Amer ican girls in the streets. They do take their sweets and tea of an after noon and they wear smart docking uniforms and would have a good chance for tho "Medceilli dor" i'll T beauty show.
 Florence is too picturesque for words, it evidently grew up on both sides of the Arno just for the scenic effect The Arno really has no other excuse for running on for ever except for this. You seldom see here A row boat mak- ing use of 1t and you would not dare even pua1t in your tea.
 The F1orentines have an expression "A thing of beauty Is cash forever" and that's the reasons no doubt, that all the old buildings, the Campanile, the Cathedral, St. Marco, the abiding place of Savonawla. and all the other old buildings are kept up to antique date. That's the reason too that many of the buildings and corners have Della Robia Madonnas and bambinos still intact and that none of the pal- aces have steam heat or the glare of the electric light
 If you listen to the tales they tell you of Florence it Is a regular voudoo town, and there are more stories of devil haunted bridges. etc, and streets than you could have heard of on a vNfa ha rrraP ThhFn fG n legend about girls sweetheart having been turned into the Arno and the verse isn't half bad even at this date: "Seven years have come and vanished.
 Seven years of perfect bliss.
 Whenever she washed in the water
 She felt her lovers kiss.
 She washed full oft I ween.
 Twas plain to be seen.
 There was no maid in Florence Who kept herself so clean"
 They say that 1t was not so long ago