The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

 | proper, and domestic science. To these | were added two portfolios of drawings I and seventeen calendars, besides twelve numbers each of Hsrper's Magazine, Har- pers Bazaar, and Golf. and fifty-twe
 numbers of Harper's Weekly.
 Seventeenth Century London. Tn the second volume in Sir Walter Besant's series. The Survey of London ready this week at the Macmillan Com | nany's-deaiing with London In the Time of the stuarts," the author writes about the Stuart sovereigns-James l., Charles l., James IT., William III, Queen Anne; | 'sReligion, Government, and Trade" -
 saThe Church and Dissent" "Supersti- tions." sanctuary" "City Government and Usages." Irish Estates" etc; The | Great Plague and Fire''; the Manners and Customs '--food and drink, dress and manners, wedding and funerals, theatres l and art, sport and amusements' coacnes' punishment and crime. public morality l and in appendices are given deScrlp- | tion of the Court, lists of London clergy elected. and of almshouses, tho compost I ton of the Houses of Lords and Com- mons in l6s7 rules for the enlargement. pitching, and leveling of streets, list Of | the new buildings of London, and de- scriptions of London gardens. There a1e also a full index and a map ot London at this period made hysJohu Ognoy. The book is copIonsly illustrated with fae siuailes of documents, etc; scenes views portraits of sovereigns. and other person aees. etc. The frontispiece represents RinR Charles I. on horseback, from van Dyck's portrait In the National Gallery 1 in London. Of the dress and manners of the time of the Stuarts Sir walter Besant writes
 what were the things" put out for the lavender or laundress? The common peo-
 pie wore neither shirts nor socks nor any underclothing at all. Towels, napKlns' tablecloths. sheets, piliowcases' were tne things that were washed in all houses except the very poorest; the medlaeval inventories of furniture show that pill"
 Iowa and cushions were much used m every house, Of personal things, linen
 shirts were not anciently worn even by
 great and rich nobies; they wore their
 splendid velvets and silks next to the
 skin; the poor man was dressed in olack'
 coarse wooijen with, if he were fortu-
 nate. some kind of cloak: there were no
 nirhtshirts. A Washing Tally
 preserved at Haddon Hall, supposed to
 be of Charles the First's time, enumer-
 ates all the different articles then sent to
 the wash. They were ruffles, bandcs,
 cuffcs. handkerchief" caps, shirts. haif-
 shirts. boot-hose, tops, socks, sheets, pil-
 iowcasse, tablecloths, napkins and towels.
 T. W. II. CrosIand. editor of ''Mcclure's
 ChIldren's Annual" Is probaniy oess Known as the author Of "The Unspeakabie
 Scot" He Is sonder. however, of Enak-
 inr books for young than old readers.
 He began life as a schoolmaster In 1ork-
 ahife. and during his early days con
 tributed a child's column to one Of the leeds papers His idea of 8 child's book
 ia that 1t should be delight to the
 child and not a worry to It's parents or
 nurse. Every book should be simple ana
 comprehensible to every child that IS oe-
 ginnlng to read. The pictures snouto DO
 quite as simple as the text"
 Miss Margaret Sherwood tells In The
 Story of King syivain and Queen Aimee. to be published next year by The Macinls Ian Company, the tale of two royal lovers
 who steal away from cares Of state to
 wander in holiday humor through the greenwood. She describes their He m lodge of boughs in the quaint style or Ine old English romances. The DOCK io oeul- cated to the "runaways in spirit" Tho nubllshinE house of Doubleday para S. Co will, shortly after FepruaTy i be removed into its new building on East sixteenth Street, In which inc new Worlds Work and Country Life in Amer
 lea presses will be installed. The owners atate that there will be something noVei Sr thA eItuation fin having all of their various departments and enterprses uh'
 der one ropf.
 "rhe Keystone" has been adopted aS the ofacial organ of the South Carolina plvis- ion of the United Daughters of the Con- federaey. In our past life 1t mas AlWays haen our pleasure to uphold the wofk of tho Daughters, but now that they have
 wivAn us the right to speak for them ofn- ciaiIy. it becomes ouR duty as we'll as our pieaSure to seTYe them with our best en- daayor. The officers of the United paugh- ters of the Confederaey, the officers of the State Divisions and especially the of ficers and Chapters of the South Carolina Division are requested to use our col- umns freely in communicating with the Daughters. As the medium of communi- cation for the South Carolina Division, We are always ready for service to the U. D. c.
 The woBlan's paper, La Fronde,'' a Paris daily. has been discontinued. the director. Mile Durande, having become joint editor of ''L'Action." The "Fronde' had been operated for seven years entire ly by women and the reason given for it's discontinuance is that it had accomplish. cd it's purpose by proving to the world woman's capacity for journalism. This clever French paper by its thoughtful and well handled treatment of the Issues and news Of the day had gone far towards disproying the accusation often made against women that ''she seldom faces anything but a looking glass"
 ! It is encouraging to learn from Mary