The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-11
MIME. ADAM AND
 HER FAMOUS SALON

The following Is rom an Axcnange on the subject of the woman at whose home Jean Aicard and Roliinet read their first verses:
 In a land which has produced moro brilliant women than any other country in the world-De Stael. Recamier, Bon- heur, Sand and many others-it is claim ing much to say of living woman that she Is entitled to rank among the first of her sex. Yet we think this can be fairly said of Mime. Adam of Paris. says Leslie's Weekly. Mime. Adam has led long and eventful life-she is now over 60~and has distinguished herself in many ways. Her first marriage, contracted at the age of 15. was very unhappy one, and resulted finally in a separation.
 Her second husband. Senator, left her wealthy widow and with his fortune was founded the Nouvelle Revue, and that famous salon In the Rue Juliett Lamber, in which all the celebrities of Paris-and. indeed, of all the world-at one time or another have been seen. Mme Adam has little private theater attach ed to her house, in which new plays are acted by clever amateurs on Sunday nights. Admission to the theater on these nights is eagerly sought for, and Mime. Adam has adopted the plan of play ing each piece on three successive Sum- day nights, for she never crowds her theater and her friends are numerous enough to provide three separate audi ences. More than one poet dates his celebrity from a soiree at Mime. Adams. Jean Aicard read at her house for the first time his poem. "Miette ct Nori." Rollinet recited his first verses there. and there Jean Rameau was introduced to the public.
 WHAT WILL WOMEN DO THENP
 Books. it is said. are to be supplanted by talking machines. Now that is talk ing away one of woman's rights.
 The following from an exchange tells the story:
 Sumer girls and their temporary or permanent affinities will sit in hammocks while companionable talking machines deliver effusions of love from popular novels. when the prophecy of Prof. H. Marion, of the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, is fulfilled, says The Chicago Tribune
 Professor Marion told a score of Chi- cago University professors and ambitious language students in Cobb Hall that it would not be long before printed books would be classed with wall sweep clocks. and that libraries would be made up of talking machine disks.
 Professor Marion Is an advocate, with Professors Scripture of Yale, Cusachs of Annapolis, and de Sumichrast of Har- yard, of the advanced talking machine method of teaching the languages.
 "In time,' he declared, these disks will take the place of text books. Paper backed novels will disappear. and instead of reading printed books the literateur will only have to put a disk in his talk ing machine and have the novel read to him in the living voice of it's creator"
 After the talking machine has dis placed books how can charges of plagtar- ism be made?" suggested a student. How could Ignatius Donnelly have written the Great Cryptogram' if we could hear the passages of the poet of Avon spoken in his own voice?"
 But Professor Marion was not speaking to convince his hearers of the value of the new talking machine for fiction read CTS so much as for the students of lan- guage. He declared that the new peda- gogical method of teaching the languages overcame the necessity of linguists vast