The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-08
Mrs .Wigg's Philosophy.

There amt no hole SO deep can't
somebody pull you out 80,
THE decidin time was the time Ter
"caint none Of us help what trait we
start out in life with, but we kin help
what we end UP with!
* "If$you want to be cheerful, Jes set yer
mind omit and do it,.
You ean coax q elephant, with Il litt le
sugar The worser NJ VICES y, use "a o TO
-" AS fer the children, always did
use compliments on them std OF
" "The way to git cheerful Is to smile
when you feel bad to think about some
body elses headache when yer own Is
most Dustin, TO keep on belicvn' the sun
lis a-sinn' when the clouds Is thick
That's one thing can't stand in nobody
There's always OTIS of other folks you KIN
he sorry fer Std of yersef."FH
5LoVEY MARY. BY Aloe Hogan Rice. The
Century Company, publishers. New
York. $l.00.
The thousands and thousands of readers
who made friends with .Mrs Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch" in 1902, will hasten
to read "Lovcy Mary" the new book by
the same author, IN which Mrs. Wiggs,
her geographical children and her friends,
Miss HaZy and the rest, reappear. with
some new characters, notably LoveE Ma
ry, who runs away from an orphan asylum
with Tommy, n very small boy, to whom
she llns become greatly attached, and
seeks refuge in the Cabbage Patch, and the
many new readers of rLovey Mary.
should surely read Mrs. Wigs, of the
Cabbage Patch" wherein the optimlstio
Mrs. Wigs was introduced to the world.
She Is Que OF the most delightful charac-
tors in fiction, Her philosophy and quaint
sayings make of her Il gay challenge to
iyt rs. n pap IN ch NM n
blues and a rebuke to grumblers
One Is glad to continue an acquaintance
with Mrs. WiGgS, who makes it mat
ter of conscience ito put all my worries
down in the bottom of my heart, then set
on the lid an smile" How simple faith
in all human nature. unfnling, honest
optimism and unsctsh cheerfulness can
transform and inspire other lives, swceten
all experiences and make roses bloom IN
the Cabbage Patch, the thought ful reader
may find through ''Lovey Mnry's' four
teen chapters of richly humorous incident,
with just an occasional touch OF pathos
10 keep the heart tender. lovey Mary is
I, pathetic wa!f, whose starved IRE y
devoted to Tommy, the baby outcast
whose pretty, weak mother Knocked at
tie girl who assumed her duties, and
came to n realization of llfo's deep things
| only in DEATHS shadow. 1t is Mrs. WIGS
who straightens out the tangles keeps
the faces around her smiling, and teaches
ono and all that 1T amt hard to be good
! when folks love YOU"
The little green book Is an attractive
! one, with eighteen clever, full-nage ..,us-
/, trations, drawn by Florence Scovel Shinn
and with the Typographical excellence al
Ways expected from the De Ninne Press
! The story Is dedicated 40 Gale Young
Rice, who taught me the secret OF pluck
| ing roses from a Cabbage Patch.' Very
| likely this Mr.. Rice Is the gentleman who
can account for the difference between
| Alice Caldwell Hogan and ALICE Ilegar
| Rice.
SOME TRuTHs OF HISTORY. BY Thad-
deus *, Oglesby. The Byrd Print
ing Co., publishers, Atlanta, Ga $1,25
Some Truths Of History is an able
defense of the South against the ignorant
or malicious expressions upon the South
| of the Encyclopedia Britannica through
| certain omissions and garblings OF the
| truths OF history. II consists OF series
| OF articles originally published in the
| Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser. They are
| vigorous articles, filled with facts, pun
| gent with combatlveness, and they are
1 of lust such stun as we need with which
| to meet the false witness of our malg-
| nant critics, both foreign and domestic.
Some Truths OF History Is a conyinc-
\ ing argument for history written with
| d design TO do justice To the South.
| "In the world Of letters" says the
| britannica. "at least the southern States
| have shown by reflected Light nor is il
4 too much 10 say that mainly by their
4 connection with The North the Carolinas
| have been saved from sinking 10 the
4 level OF Mexico or the Antilles That
is in The ninth edition, Vol t.p. 7la MOI