The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-23
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:. woman powders her face to keep 1t from shining - she doestat care "hetner truth shines from it or not We'll. anyhow, cracked ice for those morning after" headaches Is not SO much in evidence since prohibition went cheaper Ice this summer. however, we are unprepared to say. +
 An English publication has teiegraph- Roosevelt in fifty words. MT. Tiilrnan will hardly care to confine himself tv that number. The chief objection to telling a young man to paddle his own canoe in this day and time is that he prefers as gaso- line launch with plenty of nice sofa The Sargasso Sea is missing. Anv- body round here found a scar
 Money Is the root of all evil; no won. der 1t makes hog out of some men. Two-thirds of the battle is in pro- testing. and the women seem to realize it in courtship.
 Is 1t possible that the Republican Party Is to have new emblem In the form of a Taft 'Possum? Perhaps SO: the elephant has become somewhat blase.
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 Ever notice the man with the big bass voice always sounds important every time he talks whether he is or not?
 Boston and New York are to be con- nected by dirigible balloon on schedule on May l. It is only q question of time meeting with Mobile and Birmingham. And then we'll all be high flyers
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 The first noticeable change in a girl signs her letters. If she goes off Edith, it lis at once changed to "Edythe." s-
 A Pennsylvania man has died of heart watch in a raffie. That is just what would happen to us if we should ever win anything in raffie. The shock would be too great.
 Castro has announced his intention ok soon returning to Venezuela. We would advise .him before starting to provide himself with 9 nice casket suitably dec- orated with floral offerings.
 It is an i'll wind that blows nobody good. This is evidenced more partieu- larly, when g girl wears pretty pair at any other time.
 Foraker denies that he is to take up the Brownsville case after the expira- ton of his term as Senator. The burnt child dreads the fire,
 Charity begins at home: so does trouble.
 There is so much in environment: even the bull dog will cultivate q sweet disposition under feminine treatment,
  water wagon; 1t doesn't cost you S5 an hour like an automobile does.
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 That shipping, slashing noise you hear is Uncle Sam fitting the new Sem atorial togas.
 The United States now has the second largest navy in the world. A little moro pulling and tugging and we'll have the largest.
 Speaking of the "open door policy" to favor 1t, insomuch as they keep the front door. swinging open about half the night. letting in the cold air be- cause it takes 'em so long to say good bye.
 4 Pressed Rose. An old-fashioned rose in an album Content through the years to stay. And I think of the day it was first ca.
 ressed
 And carefully laid away. I think of the night that she wore 1t there
 At the dance in the long ago As it lay in the strands of her golden
 hair
 Matching her checks bright glow. An, poor little faded rose--you've lain In the album for many day And my heart has long since broke in twain
 For the girl who went away, She only lives today in dreama. God bless her. is my prayer Sometimes her form ts near. 1t sSema Sometimes stroke her hair. The scent of the rose brings back the And the whispered love.words low. But where she Is through Joy or toarsa Only she and tho good God Enew'
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