The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-08
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A sELF-MADE COUNTESS. By John Strange
Winter. Philadelphia: ]. B. Lippincott com
psny.
The death Of Sir Edward Darlington
left his widow and her daughters only a
few thousand pounds to live on and they
had to retire to less expensive quarters
where Lady Darlington exercised her tall
ent as matchmaker for her girls and
succeeded very we'll as to the older sisters
and kept on the lookout for little red
haired Blanche, a "callow chicken her
mother called her.-who proved perfectly
able to take care Of herself, altho her sis
tiers predicted that her red hair was
strongly against her marriage prospects
She dismissed several lovers, however,
and when the Earl of Gundlebury fell in
love with her and proposed, she accepted
him. Gundlehury was d clever fellow, but
he didn't please his mother who had
picked out stupid, rich heiress for him.
lie was of the army and Blanche had what
the world calls pretty good time,'' when
she was Informed one day by an expert
enced lady that, now she had achieved her
end so far as her girlhood went and she
was a countess, she still had to make her
self as a married woman and as a woman
OF position; that is, she must identify her
self with and work in some charitable,
educational or other useful movement; be
lady patron Of something and be promi-
nent as a working countess. Blanche
found that this was correct, according to-
society's code and the story of her toll
is worth reading and bordering over. She
found she had cut out for herself harder
work than she had ever dreamed Of, as a
woman Of affairs, woman of business, a
op-keeping countess.
JOHN PERCYFIEI.D. THE ANATOMY OF
CHEERF ILLNESS. BY G. Hanford Henderson
Boston. Houghton. Mfhin & Co. Minneapolis
n. Mccarthy Price $1.50.
If you have not leisure: to: read this
book, don't attempt it, because it is "a
book not to be, hastily read.t It is con !
spicuously a cheer-up book; a book of re-
Elections upon the true, the beautiful and
the good; a series Of very beautiful de-
scr1ptions of natural scenery, a splendid
glorification of the true love of men and
women; an idyll Of the gust quality, frain-
ing a charming love affair. Margaret RAJ
venel, a beautiful New Orleans girl, of a
southern family impoverished by the war,
and John Percyfield, Of 1.-The Jp1ands in
Pennsylvania. were marked for each other,
doubtless John was sure Of it from the
time when, as a boy, he loved the little
New Orleans girl with cbestnut-god hair
and dark-brown eyes. The reader finds
John first telling Of the delightful life ON
the shores Of Lake Seman in Switzerland,
he and his sister were leading in a pleas
ant chateau. with a charming chatelaine
and interesting boarders. Afterwards in
Italy John finds on the register at Naples
the names Of Margaret and her mother.
He had not seen her for q dozen years.
hut his heart bounded and throbbed alarm
ingly.. He sought her in vain but some
time after, the Ravenels came to the old
chateau on the lake. Then much hap
pened. The chapter headed Margaret
tells about it. Do not say it. is too ex-
travagant as q. tribute and an assertion
of what love is. "a woman's love- said
Margaret, "is instructive and can give no
account Of itself. / think it is the soul
that a woman loves What a queer
honeymoon these two spent in London,
studying social problems--the housing of
| the poor, old age relief. ministrations to
impecunious motherhood, etc. This book
| will shake the megriIns out of anyone.
OUR NEIGHBORs. BY Ian Maclaren, author o.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Rush,' etc. New
/ York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Minneapolis: VIM.
! Donaldson & Co. Price $3.50.
This is a, book of impressions. Dr. Wat
! son is a most excellent raconteur. He is
] q close and keen observer. How finely
and cheerily he tells about a baby he saw
in an omnibus. under the caption, Ills
Majesty, Baby" There are stories Of
presbyterian n1OQefatOrS ana elders, will
gints of real humor in them. 'Receivine
Moderat ors" is rich and racy Our Boy
/ has a real Dickensy flavor "The Residu-
airy" is touching and amusing tale OF
! the remarkable result of the sudden quit
i ting notice of an old family servant who
/ was forced to recall it by an incident al
family prayers. In tt'The Restless Ameri
can DR.. Watson relates in very inter
esting way some Of his experiences with
4 American life when he was in this coun.
/ try. No man." he says. goes slow il
he has the chance of going fast no mar
4 stopsZto talk if he can talk walking; nc
man walks il he can ride in a, trolley car;
4 no one goes in q trolley car if he can get
a convenient railway, ands by and by nc
1 one will go by a railway car if he can be
shot thru. a, pneumatic tube In this
country, he says. we have IAN electric eli
i mate. and the electricity has passed into
i the people. who are simply vessels charged
slup to q, certain number of volts In s..,rhe
i Lecture Platform DR.. Watson relates his
i experience as a lecturer in this countr,
and elsewhere and gives an inside view Of
things bearable and unbearable in connec.
4 ton with the business. He tells how he
4 was reduced to confusion and incoherence
4 of speech when he opened a clubhouse
i for a. company. of women students at al
American university, who "f1opped dowr
upon the floor when he began his littl,
speech, and, as he looked down upon tina
1 fair flower garden all my thoughts van
i ished and do not think uttered a gram
NAUTICAL sentence. There are twenty
three sketches in the volume.
ANOTHER REMINDER.