The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-17

inative achievement than that of any
other American falls on July L.
hundred years ago Nathaniel Haw-
thorne was born in Salem, Massachu-
setts. He was of straight Puritan
descent, his ancestors numbering
among them efficient men In the COL
ony-seamen, men of affairs. The Haw-
tfornes seem to have been a reserved
and intellectually Independent race.
One of them. a prominent Judge in
witchcraft days, condemned an inno-
cent man to death, and the family
was popularity supposed to suffer from
the witches curse" after the man
ner of the Pyncheons in The House of
the Seven Gables. In fact, that story
embodies not little Of the family
tradition, slightly transmitted to the
purposes of fiction. The recluse strain
was strong in both Hawthorne and his
elder sister, although the isolation in
which the immediate family lived was
partly due to Mrs Hawthorne's COM
plete retirement from the world after
har husbands early death. For ten
years after Hawthorne's graduation
FROM college, he says that perhaps
there were not twenty persons in
Salem who knew that there was such
a person in existence as himself. Then
ca ne his meeting with Sophia Pea
bo "a love episode as purely poetic
as tho meeting of the Brownings. and
the man partly issued from the shad
owy life Of dreams. Six years after
his marriage Hawthorne wrote his
wife: Thou art the only person in
the world that ever was necessary to
me. other people have occasionally
been more or less agreeable. but I
think was always more at ease alone
than in anybody's company till
knew thee. And now 1 am only my
self when thou art within my reach"
In an almost literal sense the COM
partnership of his wife was Haw-
thorne's one vital social experience.
without her he would indeed have
been solitary With her his hitherto
purely intellectual life found its HUI
manity.-Harper's weekly.
Words of commentator for The
Keystone are always gratifying to the
women's organizations which IL rep
resents. The following clipping from
the Lynn. Massachusetts. News" will
be read with interest by The Key
stones well-wishers:
The dissatisfaction that has been
made manifest in the management of
the Club Woman the official organ
of the Federation. the objection to It
on the ground of fashion notes and
general frivolity, while manifestly
| true will aid the present management
| in conducting an organ that the club
women can indorse. While not pre-
| Stunning to dictate to an official organ.
| much might be said on its fiction and
| funny departments but the suggestions
made by the general attitude of the
| biennial toward the present policy of
| the magazine will be sufficient to aid
| the directors In the future. II a
| change Is to be made. the wise course
seems to be to substitute The Key
stone which is already a well estab-
| lished official organ of the clubs and
organizations of many States. and is
| conducted on high class lines OF
| thought, and with a noble purpose ap-
| parent in every page. This magazine,
| more than any other that has come to
| the News, represents what the field
of club women and club movements
stand for; what organized womanhood
| is aiming for; what has been the
| mental and moral force back of this
great awakening of women. Our Mas
saohusetts Federation Bulletin serves
its own purpose of keeping the pro-
| fessicpal club woman and club pres
ident informed on the happenings of
| or local organizations that support
Iit, and as such is of inestimable value
/ TO those whom 1t seeks to benefit. An
! official organ that shall meet the de-
| mands of the great number or wo-
mons interests and organizations. and
| at tho same time their sectional needs
| is doubtless a thing of the future, and
while possible, must be of slow
| growth"
While The Keystone appreciates
\ R,o,
| our Massachusetts, contemporary, we
must assure all our patrons and the
| general public. that our plan of life
| is entirely a sectional one. We know
our South, we are part of IT, and we
| claim 10 represent 1t. We believe that
the outlook here is large enough to
| support a first class club publication
with literary aspirations, and 1t is with
| this plan in view that we expect to
| continue our field of usefulness in Club
| Journalism.
Four Roads to Paradise. by Maud
Wilder Goodwin. A delightful story
\ wherein real people live real lives and
are allowed ito tell It in their own way,
which is a very bright way A real
New York novel by one who knows her
| city. That New York that puts up
| wooden doors and windows to the city
| house for the most of a natural life.
That New York that leaves half a
| million of home and household prop
| erty for the good of the janitor the
| most of the year.
The New York that spends the spring
at Aiken or In Florida, its early sum-
| mer at the sea. its late summer at
| the mountains, its winters in villa in
Florence.
That New York that is not worried
| much about anybody out of its own
class. or line of charity or trend of in
terest.
An attractive New York, gay. care
| less disconnected.
In spite of a heroine who is mistress
of millions. who is not beautiful. but
whose lovers hooking at her say. so