The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-07
WHY SHE DIDN'T MARNY.

WHY SHE DIDN'T MARHN.
 Bachelor girls of nowadays
 Aren't what they used to De;
 They're bright, an not 90 easily caught
 Al we may plainly zee.
 Kate. the charming bachslor queen ;,
 Was questioned by frtend Co'
 who'd put the question te her pia.n. .,
 .Now. Kate, why don't you marryF .Sxsrrys Pray tell me why should I! Mv narrot can sweAt and nght, aoId Sport, my dog. knows how to growi
 And my cat stays out all night. "A. E. V. in St. Louis Post-Ditspatcn. sonru DICTIONARY SURPRIsEs. The dictionary affords many surprises to thcss seeking out the origin of words. How many. for instance, would ever imagine that the term vegetarian |is derived from anything else but a root word Ono pun intended) sisnifying ve~etabIe or plant? Yet, as the Funk I& wagenalls Standard Dictionary shows. vegetarian comes from the Lat l in word vegetus, meaning lively. Nine out of ten people who pride themselves on the accuracy of their Ipronunciation accent the second sylla- ble of the word exemplary. The Standard Dictionary will show that the irst syllable should receive the accent. and that the word should be pro-
 nounced eggs-emplary. = MEMORIES OF ~JENNIE JUNB.~ The woman's Press Club. of New.York city has prepared memorial volume to Jane Cunningham Croly, better known as Jenny June. It is made up mainly I of tributes and memories written by friends and associates in both private and club life. Mrs. Croly may justly be called one of the pioneers of wo- mems clubs in America. She was one of the founders of Sorosis as we'll as
 the New York woman's Press Club. of
 both of which she was for many years
 the president.
 Born in England. when Jane Cum ningham was yet quite young the fam
 fly moved to New York State. settling in the neighborhood of Poushkeepsie.
 Later, acting as housekeeper in the household of her brother, then pastor
 of a Union Church in Massachusetts. her capacity for journa1ism first man.
 ffeeted itself She edited a semi
 monthly paper. every line of which
 was written by herself, and a fellow
 worker. and held readings of what she had written at semi-monthly church meetings. Later, in 1856. she married ldVlQ SIOky, TCPoItCk Ou hO 3NSW
 York Herald, and they began their married life on his salary of $14 per
 week. Thrown thus in the very vortex of newspaper life. 1t is not surprising
 that Mrs. Croly soon began writing for the metropolitan papers.
 In the book now issued tributes from the various members of the various clubs with which she was associated form the main material. A dedicatory poem by Ethel Morse introduces the other memories, which are written by
 her brother, the Rev. John Cunning ham; Thaddeus B. Wakeman. showing itivist movement: Haryot Holt Dey. on
 Mrs. Croly's club life; memorials and tributes from various clubs, and lastly. Mrs. Croly's own essays and addresses delivered at various times. as we'll as letters written to and by her.
 Miss Gertrude Smith, whose book for
 children, Little Precious" is just pub lished by the Harpers, was recently asked by a New Englander why she lived in Atlanta when she might live l in Boston, to which she made the fol- lowing reply: The South is waking lup. like to see things wake up! At- lanta Is like Western city On a boom. It is the highest city except one east of the Rocky Mountains, and.
 being on the delightful end of the Blue
 Ridge Mountains. 1t doesn't have hu-
 midity. August has been too cool. The nights are never to be forgotten
 always cool. Every one wears white.' moves slowly and takes things easy. There are too many negroes, and they wait on you for very little, and every one has open fires in winter. and waffles and fried chicken. ."--An Exchange. Mrs. Clay of Alabama, whose me- moirs have been published through Doubleday, Page & Co.,. with the title "A Belle of the Fifties," has had a re- markable career. Her husband, Clem-
 ent c. Clay. Jr.. was a distinguished Southern statesman, who suffered i'm prisonment with Jefferson Davis in Fort Monroe. At one time she was re- garded as the most eloquent woman in
 the South. She knew everybody worth knowing, Southerners and visitors in Southern homes, and her volume is
 packed with anecdotes concerning them l-President Lincoln, Pierce. Davis and Buchanan, Patti, Jenny Lind, Mrs. Drew, Charlotte Cushman. Thackeray.
 Blind Tom." and host of others.-
 New York exchange.