The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-07
T Care Not About His Looks"

to marry, m the June Ladies' Home Journal One hundred young ladies were asked what they expected of the young men they wished to marry. Their de- mands are as interesting and as varied as they are numerous. A few call for good looks and well-groomed, clean-cut appearance; some ask for wealth; a few demand Christianity; the majority ask neither for beauty nor wealth if only love is given them: while in other cases, business sense and self respect are spec flied fin addition to all the other fine qualities of mankind.
 The article should be especially inter esting to men, and should be a tip to them. On the whole, the girls are not exacting; they demand neither wealth | nor good looks. two things which are all | the more difficult because the lack of | them cannot be hidden. One can hide dishonesty or intemperance, but it is hard
 to convince even girl that one is not poor or that one is not ugly. Tn another article the author will express the de- | mands of one hundred men, which in | turn should be interesting to the ladies. TO Mir. Rockefeller they say in the | oil fields, a day is as a year and year as a day. He can wait, but he never gives up.'" In less than a paragraph this sums up the character of John D. Rockefeller as 1t is being painted from month to month by Miss Tarbell in McClure's. The June installment is particularly interesting, for in it the final overthrow of the oil men who had been opposing Mir. Rockefeller from the beginning. is described in every detail.
 Miss Tarbell has already gone so far as to describe Mir. Rockefeller as a being little less than a monster. and in a mass of historical data and private correspond ence she has built up a character as typ ical of America as Napoleon's was of France, or Bismarck's of Germany. Whether Mir. Rockefeller is monster or not, as Miss TarbelI would have us be- lieve. he is the perfect embodiment of the American commercial temperament. In the same number, Henry Harlands novel, My Friend Prospero'' begins, and John La Farge contributes another of his charming papers on painters. treating of Delacroix, Decamps and Diaz.
 sI have tried to draw with free hand | picture of the average experiences of an average member from an average dis trict of an average State.''
 In the second of the Significant Auto | biographies. a Congressman in the June number of Everybody's. has attempted, and very entertainingly, what he has I not particularly new or startling. they have the interest of all things described as they have been seen behind the scenes. The confessions are social. financial and political. and are thrown out by the usual contrast between life in Washington and life in a provincial city.
 Everybodys has lately undergone a change in ownership, which shows itself even in the June number. On the whole. hn Aff to nf vYanr IfOhtnaGu nd perhaps less educational weight. The magazine is now owned and published by the Ridgway- -Thayer Co.
 "The great thing in journalism. as in anything else, Is for the individual man to maintain his self respect. his high personal standards, and his determination to do the best work he can, even at small salary. rather than do work of kind that he secretly loathes, for the sake of larger salary"
 Under the head of Making Q Choice of a Profession" Albert Shaw discusses journalism in the June Cosmopolitan. He makes the nice distinction between Journ- allsm and literature, and describes the former as near as 1t is possible to de- scribe it. He states the kind of prepar- ation necessary for 1t and holds out its benefits and its discouragements with fine impartiality. He contrasts the condition of the country editor with that of the editor on some great city daily, and is
 inclined to give the rural journalist the choice He holds that his life is freer. less wearing, more literary and independ- ent, and advises many of the young men who arc obscured in some corner of a great daily, to go to some rural paper.
 There is also another installment of Captains of Industry and some of the lighter stories and articles that the Cos mopolitan is famous for.
 In it's editorial section, the Worlds Work for June quotes these statistics from an article on the>decrease of lynch ing. by J Ebert Cutler:
 Tn twenty-one years 1872 negroes have been iynched and 1256 whites. Since the as the blacks Nhe proportion of negroes lynched is. of course. very much higher than those figures indicate"
 The editorial then goes on to state that only 35 per cent. of the number was lynched for the usual social crime. and that since 1892 the number of lynchings had greatly decreased, especially in those States where prisoners are tried prompt ly In another article in the same mag azine a writer comments on the increas- ing number of people who take vacations, pointing to this healthy outlook for American citizenship"
 After a man has successfully filled an executive position in the United States Treasury Department no place in the banking world Is too high for him"
 With this introduction. a writer in the June Success describes the complicated process of financing a nation. the enor- nous payroll of the army, the navy, the various departments and services. the pay of Congressmen, Senators. employees of every description, and the great num- ber of Improvements that are going on in all parts of the country. The article Is interesting both from a statistical and descriptive standpoint. and gives one startling inspection of the governments financial machinery. There Is also in the same number an interesting account of MT. Dooley. the part of Chicago he lived in, and how he came to delight the world with his philosophy. Young Men in the Administration is the subject of another article calling attention to some of the young men who have reached responsible places in the service of the Government. Altogether, the magazine Is full of the kind of literature which has to do with effort in any kind of enterprise.
 General Gordon, in his civil war remi- niscences in the June number of Scrib- ners. in speaking of the battle of An tietam, says: Tt left it's lasting impress sion upon my body as well as upon my