The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-31

perance. Frances Willard said once that Miss Holley had done more than anybody else to help the temperance movement. Susan B. Anthony de- clares her books have done great good for the womans cause. And once lady said
 There's my husband, now He won't listen to word about woman's rights, but he'll take down Marietta Holleys, books and read them through and through and laugh over them and swal- low every word of their doctrine"
 There is nothing better than giving useful medicine in sugar coated pills.
 So soon as she learned to write Mari- etta Holley began composition. Her first published writing showed the trend of her mind. It was q humorous bit of blank verse about womens bon nets. She sent it to the local paper anonymously and did not tell any of the home folk. An Uncle Luther" visiting there saw the poem and prais- ed it highly to the Holley family, none knowing Marietta wrote It. Then the young girl was so pleased she had to tell. From that day she continued writing essays, poems, short stories and finally books.
 Millions have read the doings of her Samantha. She has made more people
  did. excepting only Mark Twain No woman humorist of any other land equals her She told me of her first book My opinion and Betsy Bobbetts." publisher had expressed desire to examine her writings
 T sent him specimens of three kinds" said Miss Holley-'poems. serious es-' says-these both in good English-then some humorous dialect sketches He CIyf, him book in the dialect talk. I was bitterly disappointed. I wanted him to choose my good English"
 Neverthless she Immediately shut herself up and wrote My Opinions and Betsy Bobett's." No one outside her family knew what she was about.
 T have found out that 1t Is not a good plan to say anything about a book am writing till the book is done" says Miss Holley.
 She discovered thus for herself the occult law that works through silence. Plans and forces are scattered and come to naught through being pro- claimed to all the world When the book was written il had Immediately great success and was quickly repub- lished in. England. "Betsey Bobett". was the first in the series of some of the most successful books written in ShA'Nt ietA III IFttHt NEIuGS. OI IueSe crii- mantha at Saratoga Is an especial faVOrite.
 Miss Holley has a lovely home in Pierrepont Manor. N. Y. near the spot where she was born. She herself plan ned the mansion and had it built to suit herself. Into her studio. where she writes sunshine comes all day long at the bay front, like the mans revolving house. The garden and grounds are beautiful as good taste can make them.
 T always wanted to live near the water" says Miss Holly " so I had ponds dug on my place" Thus she made the water come to her.
 Miss Holly Is methodical in her hab- it's and accomplishes much work. She can write best fin the morning, SO ri3es early. By o'clock she breakfasts and is often at work before S. Before sit- ting down to her desk she arranges her hair carefully and makes a neat toilet. She respects her profession-has for it something of the feeling that prompted Michael Angelo to paint his great pie lures upon hls knees.
 I've got to be dressed. I cannot sit down to write in a kimono and sloppy