The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-08

truths about the Mormon saints An
other of the four girls had also a sad ex-
perience of life, which is related.
PEGGY o'NEAL By Alfred H Lewis. Author
of "Wolfville Days. Etc. Illustrated Phila-
delphia: Dre2el Biddle.
This story is based on General Jackson's
ardent defense of General Eaton's wife,
who was bitterly assailed by a political
cabal opposed to Jackson's selection Of
General John H. Eaton for secretry of war
In 1929. The politicians belittled them
selves by attacking the virtue of Eaton's
fascinating wife and Jackson sprang to the
defense Of his friends wife, He gave a
considerable portion of his time to tracing
stories about Peggy O'Neal to their origin
AS historic fact Peggy was the cause Of
the smashing of the cabinet Her de-
tractors did everything they could to stab
her thru social ostracism. but ''Cld Hick-
ory' stood by her and when the cabinet
was dissolved, Pegs husband was given
the goVernOrship of Florida. incidentally,
the reader Of this book gets behind the
| scenes in Jackson's presidential career and
walks realistically among the great po-
litical personalities of that period Mr..
Lewis has written q decidedly attractive
historical novel.
THE WISDOM OF THE FOOLISH AND THE
| FOLLY OF THE WISE. BY Minna T. Antrim.
! Philadelphia: Henry Altemus company.
| This book relates to the eternal femi-
nine" largely, and, being by a woman of
| wit, she has committed some spinous
| thoughts to the types. It is necessary to
quote a little: .1ae
"Concerntng men. women are illogical;
to believe all men knaves Is unjust; but
| to believe any Of them are saints, is just
| nonsense" ~
1.-THE scorching power Of silence is only
| hv ho Wifi ,Io
blazes at her taciturn spouse
/ when you arouse a foolish woman to
| wrath she often becomes wiser, but when
!. You anger a wise woman she always
max esaa fool of herself
| sS IF to condemn means to damn, how
! women do damn" =
! IF at 20 the girl ties her husband to her
apron strings at 40, she will have lost
either her apron or her husband
Let all wives beware Of pulling too hard
upon the matrimonial yoke; it looks
stronger than 1t is ...-t- s
| Women who pirate Of affinity have re-
nounced all hope of love-
| 1.-The husband Of an extravagant woman
finds her price above rubies; and he fire.
quently rises UP and 'blesses her."
SEA DRIFT OR TRIBUTE TO THE OCEAN. B,
Antoinette Brown blackwell. New York: J
Il. White & Co. 81
|
:. force which poets thru all time have
treated in manifold ways-wtth awe anC
tenderness; reprobation and admiration
Here is one of the authors tributes: z
Ocean unfolds the whole great rounded world
His claspfng arms encircle, all death
= Fitting as birthplace of the earliest life.
, Thus all the ages share one final couch,
Where, as with God, thousand years are but
day. ~
No earthly crown so mighty and august
AS the sealed peace and rest in every brow
l Regal in state their vast sarcophagus.
That, indeed. is large conception
t worthy Of the very large subject.
3 THE UNwELcoME MRS. HATCH. By Mr.
Burton Harrison. Network: D. Appleton ,
Co. Price $1.25. {
Mrs. Harrison, with real power. por
i trays in this book the resistless yearn
E ing Of a mother for her child, kept fror
r her by a brute Of husband. Mrs. Hatch
: the discarded, divorced wife of Richar
n Lorimer. hungered for her daughte
: Gladys, who had been judicially decree
g to the custody of the father, who ha
e married again. Mrs. Hatch, always un
: welcome to the Lorimer home was abb
S on one occasion before the marriage
y Gladys to get into the house in the dis
e guise of a dressnlaker. She saw he
: daughter who did not know her and wa
8 detected by Loriner and brutally treated
: There came a day, however, when til
o girl got back to her mothers wide ope
II heart.