The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08

Don't take the charfty-receiving atti-
 tude in trying to sell your products of
 your labor. If what you have to dispose
 of is honest you need not be ashamed of
 It. If 1t isn't. then you ought to be too
 much ashamed of 1t to make the effort.
 Mrs. Alden once for all silences the complaints of those who hold that wo- work to take up that of man. She plainly shows that men and manu-
 factures have come into woman's field
 and have taken her work from her ere
 she was ready to lay 1t down. Her spinning is done in the factory.
 Her weaving, her knitting, almost all of
 her 1ace-making and embroidery is su.
 perseded by machinery.
 Now men brew the beer. that was once homemade. men cure the hams. once nome-cured. weave the carpets, make all clothing in factor7cs, can meats and veg
 etabies and fruits. Men make the cheese.
 do the butter-making in Sairies. even
 attend to great poultry farms. What work Is left to woman?
 washing goes to the laundry. Bread
 comes from the bakery where men are
 that some women are employed in these
 factories. but small number in propor-
 ton to the large number who once, say
 hundred years ago. made each homo A
 place Of humming industry.
 Thus she sums up present conditions:
 The grasping of women's old work by
 men must not be forgotten when the com
 piaint Is made that women are now en-
 tering new fields. No man who has not
 taken one woman out of the compet,tion
 mas right to complain. The men who
 nave VIII not find time to file any objec- tion." s
 The little book bristles with valuable
 maxims: Take the first opening" Don't
 be a dead weight" Don't lean when
 you can stand"
 Some fairly new occupations suggested are Mending clothes for several fami- lies. or in a hotel. Darning and cleaning
 iaces. Glove cleaning Putting up box
 lunches at railroad stations. Flower selling with attendant work of decora- ton. Flower seed and bulbs. Organiz- ing and managing children's entertain ment clubs. Entertainer at hotels. Whistling in concerts. Revising old acts and crafts and washing demand for sale or such articles by exhibitions. Buyers Tor stores. Press agent for hotels Press agent for theatrical companies. Book binding. Of course stenography in all Its branches and newspaper and editorial work. and painting and music are
 thoroughly discussed in this very use- ful little volume.
 Every woman forced into the world to seek her living should provide herself with this book for both its practical help and its worth of sympathy
 Women's Ways of Earning Money by Cynthia Westover A1den.-A. s. Barnes & Co.,. New York. Price, N.oo Dramana. A Romance of the Stage, by Annie Arlington Tyson. This little romance reveals the aspirations of every stage-struck youngster. To 20 before the footlights in spite a fathers disap- proval. to succeed by work and magic
 It Is safe to say no two girls of today however. versed in "elocution in the every phase" could by asking 1t of the star" of company receive on the in- stant contracts for engagement at fifty dollars per week.
 But little has been done, one fears by the endeavor of the author. however earnest and sincere toward freeing Dramana. Dramana, who the happy lover declares in the first warmth of his bethrothal to Helene. has been imprison- ed by actors and managers who desire
 fare and money above 'are purely for arts sake"
 "Yes." returned Helene, proudly, but firmly i've will labor together to have open wide the doors of Dramana's cell and set her free-Dramana, the fair and beautiful queen of the four grand divine acts" @'
 Dramana by Annie Arlington Tyson | The Scale Publishing Company, New York.
 Cherry's Child: John Strange Winter | loves to write of child. How we'll she knows a childs heart and better still the child's place in the | heart of those about it. Her
 children do not always remain children
 but grow up very charmingly Readers
 already won by Little Joan' of last year, will welcome "Cherry's Child" A
 love story pure and simple is always
 refreshing. This one Is delightful and
 the reader can discover for himself pleas ant unfoldings of the plot.
 ~Cherry's Child. by John Strange Win ter Lippincott Publishing Company. Philadelphia. Price, SIPS.
 Northern Europc-AnotEer one of the
 Geographical Readers with which child
 ren of today are beguiled into much
 knowledge of this world wherein we live.