The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-03-30

wholesome summer, and a sixteenth
century manuscript now extant in
Plume Library, Mellon, Essex County,
England. contains this saw: AS many
mists as We have in March, so many
frosts in July" John Shelton, a six
teenth century English poet, writes
about the "madde Marche hare" that
has since become proverbial The ex-
traordinary hare Is matched by the
March cat, as kittens with March for a
birth month are said to attain to UNI
usual size and beauty. A woman who
has a faculty for telling a good story
writes in regard to this tradition that
IT went some years ago to visit at a
lonely house far in the wooded hills.
and as entered the room an enormous
cat rose up from a big rocking chair
by the IRE and stretching himself.
yawned majestically. thought 1t was
young tiger, but my hostess explain
ed that 1t was only March cat"
March Is a specially busy month for
housekeepers, even though the time
honored spring cleaning" Is fast get
ting to be thing of the past. Never
theless, there are many things that
have to be looked after during this
transitional stage between winter and
spring, when the first opportunity pre-
sents itself for getting rid of the win
IcE . Oh IustlHCSb anu
dustiness, OF opening doors wide and
letting the fresh air blow in and out
at will. March brings around the sea-
son of spring shopping" in it's train.
The contest now waged between Pa
risians and Viennese as to choice be-
tween big hats and toques will doubt
less be fought to a finish during the
ides OF March. that will be signalized
afresh by the victory of one class of
modistes or the other.
In the meantime, daffodils, that
come before the swallows dare and
brave the winds of March with beau
ty," have opened their futed trumpets
in the shadow of sweet-scented box
hedges, tulips are a-sho wing and a.
blowing, and the waxen bells of hya-
cinths swaying on their slender stalks
ALI the world outside answers to tho
March call that has
set everything to growing
The ferns In sheltered hooks.
~ SThe grasses In the meade a.sssa5s4. ~ j,
The a1ders by the brooks"
Alice NJ. Tyler. in Times Dispatch,
Richmond, Va. 4.
WOMEN OF IsTHMUs.
Trim, straight-backed women, mes
tizos. or mixed bloods, for the most
part, the younger ones comedy and be-
traying. the Spanish stain in their
black eyes and the-grace with
which they wear their mantilias, fit
traying. the Spanish strain in their
lacking from the hair a crimson flower.
thrust into their braided and twisted
locks above the ear.
When the night comes the gloom is
pierced by the glowing red dots from
cigarettes in the lips of men and wo-
men gossipers. the soft liquids of the
Spanish tongue rise and fall as the
chatter flows, from the balcony scraps
of badinage are tossed back and forth.
and guitars tinkle and
Some one-a tenor or mayhap
a rich contralto-trolls a vagrant air
from an opera. 1t is all very Span
ishy and appealing to the stranger.
Or perhaps in the Cathedral Plaza
or the Plaza Of Santa Ana the band
plays of an evening. This brings out
the pretty Panamanian girls in bevies.
One wonders where they keep them
selves in the day time. Probably be-
hind the blank walls OF the venerable
houses that stare and glover so
blankly and austerely upon the lesser
by giving no encouragement for one
to think of the gardens in the rear.
or of the placid, tropical family life
that is lived in them when the high
sun Is darting forth his heat lances.
But the band concerts unbar the doors
for the girls. Their garb for richness
and style yields nothing to Paris. In
fact. the Panamaian ladies depend
largely upon Paris and New York for
their f1nery.
Slender, dark -ch eeked beaux, smart
In silk, white flanney or drill, line up
on either side of the plaza promenades,
to see the bellies and be seen by them.
When the moon is soaring over the
square cathedral towers and the band
is playing and the pretty girls are
tripping back and forth, demurely but
not unregardful of the admiration of
the beaux there are thousands of worse
places to be than Panama.
J. e b STUART
CHILDREN OF CONFEDERACY
The J. E. B Stuart Chapter. Child
rem of the Confederacy held its regu-
lar monthly meeting Saturday at the
home of Director. Mrs. T. G.. Steph-
ems. A largo number of children
we're in attendance although the meet
ng was chiefly of a business charac-
ter
Five new members were enrolled
There was no literary feature other
than the distribution OF cards contain
ng historical questions which are to
be studied and answered at the next
Meeting. A social hour was enjoyed
turing which refreshments were
served. Miss Eugenla Griffin is pres