The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-05

finish and fneness of thought that ias- cinate the reader.
 However far-fetched her theories. one doesn't want to miss the charming way she has of telling of. them.
 How quaintiy she touches on the murder craze of covering ones idenu- ty with letters to designate what were and whence came our fathers. That seems so odd to those of us who, as a matter of course, know whence we come and attach no undue importance to 1t. being satisfied that our forbears did their duty without desiring to ad- vertise the fact by placardfng our selves with labels like a travelling trunk"
 Delicious art-lover is the over-rich Mrs. Jenks Smith who didn't care for
 the original works of two great mas
 ters "so often hung in inconvenient places" but who 'mucn preferred the copieswe've got at home in albums they're so much smaller and easier to see." Sukey Craudon, who is wise beyond her twenty.two years. put the whole
 matter of woman's work into a nut
 shell. Tt does not occur to one of them that most of the equal rights for women mean that to their own pecul-
 far burdens they are to have the right l to add self-support and the heavier re- responsibilities of man.
 And Barbara sums up valuation of woman's work thus: The social and educational foods of one day are the errors of the next, but the magnetic clasp of mothers arms has lasted since the worlds dawn and will en-
 dure beyond its setting to eternity" Barbara among her flowers is irre-
 sistable. Very fetching are her de- scriptions of life in ood corners of
 New York. the home of the antiqua-
 rian in Greenwich Village, the youth of today on Easter morning is the Old World setting of Chelsea Square, the violinist of the tenement clasping die gelbe violet to his heart-his old loves name on his dying lips. Such are the little pictures of life that open up on every hand in New York for the seeing eye.
 A book kindly and wise and clear.
 Ways of Wood Folk, by William J. Long.-No nature writer holds the at tention of his readers more strongly than does MT. Long. We really get a personal acquaintance with his Wood Folk.
 He has learned all that he tells us by long Iys and nights spent in the forest alone, or with his faithful Indian guide, Semino. who seems as faithful a nature student as his master. There Is a fetching story of fox-ways. Mir. Long tells how he first met fox face to face and of the polite salutation that passed between them. To one who has studied nature much through fable line Is much interest in MT. Longs sto- ries along this line. Many of his ex- cerpts from nature go inbubitably to prove how near the fable-mongers go to preserve the truth of nature. Par ticularly is this true of the fables of the negro tale-tellers. Mir. Long gives as truth the story of an old fisherman who relates having seen fox catch crabs for his eating by dragging his bushy tail through shallow water where crabs are. They reach up claws, catch the brush and are so dragged ashore | by hungry Reynard. All readers of Uncle Remus recall that rabbit lost his | tail by trying to initiate fox in just
 such fishing.
 There is a favorite tale our Alabama negroes tell of how fox figured dead
 to steal a bag of goobers. MT. Long tells us that the fox often saves him self by feigning death. He gives one instance of a little trapper who caught
 a rare black fox. the fellow lay as dead in the trap. the boy carried him home hung him across his shoulder. showed his prize to the family and carried him out on the doorstep to examine his prize more closely. looks away for a | moment and To! the fox had come to life and fled! So in Mir. Longs stories
 of the rabbit we find that nature her
 self has furnished many of the stories of the old plantation lore concerning | rabbits tricks and cunning. I have heard an Alabama negro tell with great susto of the dance of the rabbits oi
 which Mir Long gives so animated description.
 | The negro leads a modern and per hans perennial torch. The rabbit: dance and dance with joy because the, have just held a convention whereir
 the vote has been unanimously passed | that mo more dogs shall run no more
 rabbits" As they dance, one wise ol'
 rabbit thinks he hears the barking O
 a dog. So he stops the dance and calls | "Stopl Stop! Y'all stop yr dancin Don't y'all hear dat dog barkin'?' ( dance on! Dance on" cries a youngei
 rabbit. Don't listen to dat ole shaver! time critter. Don't you know de con
 vention done pass de law no mo doi
 run no mo rabbit?' "Yas." cried tn' l wise ole rabbit as the barking. Of th' dog drew nearer; "Yas but dar want m dog at dat convention. and bedouh
 me if a dogs jaw will obey rabbit