The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-28

shopping and calling; her white dresses
serve her even on the evenings she
spend away from home.
Wash muslins are very Inexpensive;
they cannot fade. and they wear o
long time. II she need not economize
on her laundry bills. the wearing Of
cotton fabrics Is q fad that may be
well taken up by the woman whose
purse is none too fat.
WOMAN AND HER sUPERsTITIONs.,
Every woman has her pet supereti-
tfons, Is the verdict of q well-known
writer. Something. to her stands Tor
luck--a horseshoe picked up. a Four
leaved clover found, pin gathered up
from the floor. a black cat straying
into the house, a birthday stone.
lucky date or number, etc. She be-
lieves in 1t because she can prove IL
to herself by definite examples. and In
this she Ia usually correct what sne
| calls luck has really come to her the
very day or week in which she found
the horseshoe or put on the birthday
| ring. 1t Is not mere coincidence. IL
| has happened as she says. The only
thing she fails to see Is just why ana
| how 1t has happened.
The most important thing in life Is
| ones attitude toward It. To the wrong
| attitude life brings nothing. To the
right attitude 1t brings everything.
| The blind doctrine of luck Is the hand
maid of this clear truth. The woman
| who finds O four-leaver clover ana -
convinced that life holds something
pleasant for her In the immediate fu3
! ture gets at once into the right at
titude. She looks out for something
| good to come along, and SO she sees
| 1t and grasps II. II she had not found
| the clover and had gone DULY and fret-
fully along instead she would never
| have noticed the pleasant thing at all.
That is the whole psychology OF luck.
1t seems too simple to be true--pu.
really its simplicity is its sign manual
! of verify
Expect good luck for good-and life
| becomes good and grows ever pettoE.
| There are always opportunities along
the daily road for the eye made Keen
by pleasant anticipation. sometimes
big, happy coincidence comes along 10
boot, but whether 1t does or not, there
Ia enough daily 'luck" on any woman
| path to be more than worth her whiie,
| Cats, clovers, pins and horseshoes arg
simply selected symbols of this STEADY
and enduring truth, which heeos hons
| of them when once IT Is grasped anu
held by the woman who Is wise.-New
Orleans Times Democrat.
COURTING DAYS HAPPIEST OF ALL.
1 have always felt that 1t was not
justice to Eve that Adam had no
chance to court her. Perhaps IL he
had, che might not have been SO fond
of forbidden fruit, or taken counsel
from the serpent.
How she felt about the matter his
tory does not tell us. but we know
Adam awoke and found a wife without
| ha Wis he nat N
1t 10 good thing for a man to
have plenty of counting to do, to have
hard work to get his wife, to be in
wholesome dread of the mitten for
some time. 1t takes some of the van
ity out of him, and Is better for his
wife, for no man cares for what he
can get too easily.
The girl who places herself in the
position Of trying to catch a beau or
a husband does a very foolish thing. 1t
Is the mans place to do the catch
ing"--even savages recognize that.
Properly managed, counting days are
1 the happiest a woman ever lives
through. At this period she Is queen.
and the less she grants the more sure
she is of crown and 'sccpter.
There are many stories told OF wo-
men offering themselves In marriage.
but ! doubt IL half OF them are true
/ knew of an old lady who always
said, of her daughter-in-law: she ran
after John and would hev him." but ]
consider this somewhat OF O. spiteful
| exaggeration.
Men no longer go upon their knees
| to pop the question, as they did once
upon q time. Cases have been known
where stout and elderly lovers. getting
upon their knees were unable to rise.
and cruel fair ones were sometimes sc
| nd N = r.
want to help up. Today all sorts OF
! Off hand speeches, and even no speeches
at all, serve a man. Ali he has to do
Is to ask q girl to have him somehow.
At any stage of the game no advice
can be given; they know all about 1t
| and their wooing Is something to re-
member as a little breath OF paradise.
New Orleans States.
WOMEN NURSE DOGS.
The services OF a band of highly
trained young women, in neot blue uni
forms and smart white caps and aprons
embroidered with the letters &C. N. l."
In bright scarlet, are now at the dispo-
sal of fashionable ladies whose pet
dogs require a canine nurse, says The
London Daily Mail. The Canine
| Nurses Institution was established at
harrington Road. Brixton, nearly
year ago. There are now more than
forty trained canine nurses on the rolls,
and a fancy fair in aid of the funds for
further development was held in Chan
dos Hall, Maiden Lane, w. c.. recently,
under the patronage of Princess Chris
tian 1.-The canine nurse acts entirely
under the orders OF the veterinary sur
geon in charge of the case" said Mrs.
Leuty Collins. the foundress. Our
nurses must be able to use the Their
mometer and stethoscope. to apply
poultices and lamentations. to attend
to the condition of the coat, etc The
nurses take night duty as we'll as day
nursing, for in difficult cases 1t is nec-
essary to watch the animal through
| out the night. Canine diet has to be
scientifically studied. the food properly
prepared. and the sick dogs appetite
tempted with invalid delicacies." Re-
quests for the canine nurses come
| from Paris and Brussels, as we'll as
London. and the country. The fee is
| ~aN 40