The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
FROM A MAN.

The following communication, including
the head notes, from man who reads
the woman's column has been received:
Mrs. Orr Against Child Labor
Legislation"
How green are you, and fresh in this
old world.-King John, iii, 4.
To The Advertiser: In an address to
the club women of the State, against pro-
posed child labor legislation. published
in your issue of yesterday, Mrs. Lillian
Miner Orr. President of the Alabama
Federation of Women's Clubs, INDUCES
in the following bit of refreshing art
lessness:
.We have in my home town a cotton
mill-the Avondale. The directors of this
mill are some of the best men in our COM
munity. The very men to whom we wo-
men must go for advice and assistance
in any humanitarian enterprise-child-
lovers every one of them. If their. in
tegrity and humanity is to be doubted,
then yours and mine may be- Every
where in our State we find the same con-
dtions So 1 can but advice that We
give them credit for, first. more accu-
rate knowledge than we can have of the
conditions surrounding the labor in their
factories, and of the sincerity to give us
an accurate report of these conditions
and their attitude toward them.
from them, that child labor does not pay.
believe this implicitly"
For unsophisticated verdancy this
takes the rag off the bush" l suggest
that the club women of Alabama seek
membership for their President in an
up-to-date card club of the smart set,
that she may learn something of the ways
of the world.
I take it for granted that neither Mrs.
Orr nor her husband owns stock in the
Ayondale. Homo.
AMELIE RIVES'S INFLUENCE (P)
Julie X. Wetherill. in The New Orleans
Times Democrat has this to say of the
husband of Amelie Rives;
prince Pierre Troubetskoy in spite of
his title, must be a painter of great tai
ent, for the frontispiece Of the August st.
Nicholas over the line AN American
Boy" Is one of the most exquisite pieces
of portraiture ina ginable. 1t is handled
with & simple dignity and breadth worthy
of the very highest In art. The prince is
of course. the husband Of the talented
Amele Rives. and it has been reported
that the young artist-nobleman has lost
his mind
1t appears tn he the fate of those in
timately connected with the author OF
"The Quick or the Dead?" TO become
mentally unbalanced or at least to he
reported So Mr.. Chanler. her first hus
band. was incarcerated in an insane asy
lum for a considerable period. She her
self then broke down mentally and ply
sically-'nervous prostratlon" 1t was
called She went to a sanitorium in Phil
adelphia to take rest cure" and i
was reported that a visit from the prince
her husband. invariably threw her int
Mysteries. So the prince was requested
by the physicians to deslst. He desisted
but at last accounts the princess wa:
still in the sanitorium. ~:-
Is the influence of THE Quick or th'
Dead?" casting an unholy spell upor
those who come too close to its creator
1t would seem so. and that even she her
self Is caught in the meshes At any
rate, the persistent reports call to mine
a conversation that was said to have
taken place between the young authores:
and the late Bishop Wilmer.
1t was soon after the publication Of
The Quick Or the Dead?" when the Eng
lish speaking world was in the throes o.
its fascination. The authoress was stu
plain "Amelie Rives" not the Prin
cess" nor even Mrs. Chanler. She
had known Bishop Wilmer in Mobile
from her childhood and when she me
him first after the appearance of hel
book she asked him what he thought o
It.
well, Amelie," replied the Bishop
"since you ask me l must tell you.
think the quicker it's dead. the better.