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Personal and Pertinent.

We never all meet about the board until dinner hour.
 Our hostess some might call her land lady, for there is little matter or dollars and cents to be settled between us every week, but the former title seems more fitting to her,-our host ess, then, is one of those Southern women come to New York to make a new fortune or to recuperate an old one.
 our hostess is from the far South, and though she hasn't lazy bone in her, she appreciates a bit of luxurious ness in others. She sends breakfasts to our rooms.
 Think of that luxury in New Yorkl
 There is nothing so good as to hear the little 7tinkle of the breakfast things on the tray outside ones door when one has written an hour or so by the drop-light.
 But there are pros and cons to every thing: Suppose, now. we had an "Au- tocrat." he would miss his Breakfast Table"
 From faint hearsays I gather that some few of the household do snatch hearty breakfast one at time about the coffee urn, but I am never there to see.
 Then at luncheon all our world is at work except the Southern Girl and the Hostess and myself, so we three gather for cups of Russian tea and talk. The Southern Girl Is back from lessons, and I from flights among the publishers. and the Hostess from fittings about on all the matters that keep any house. keeper busy.
 But at dinner there we all are. The slim, quiet Northern Girl completes our uuar rtet of women folk.
 There is the Aimable Bachelor. You should see how four women hang on his wisdom for advice and information. He must be up in all matters to meet the demands: Explain the Stock Mar ket. What happens when the Bulls meet the Bears? Can love lorn wid- ow be sued for a disputed gas bill of $6.99 cents? Is Mrs. Fiske really bet ter as Helda Gabbladtan as Becky Sharpe? How far is 1t. exact mileage. from here to Seattle? Are the Ta- males sold here genuine? Not if they are with an O. How can body get from Bronx and back for one fane? What is the reason the Subway Ex- press never stops where you want to get of? Why Is Under the Anheuser Busch" a more popularOSong than. Awake My Soul?" When will Wannamaker's. new building be com pleted? Why does The Telegram sell better than any other paper on the earliest Elevated trains? Who was tho best dressed woman at the Horse Show? Where must one put the accent in Lagniappe2 Who writes the funny column in The Evening Mail I never have known the right answer to fall Taere Is the Pretty Boy. He is tall. away up wonder, and he is named High, so he Is often addressed among us as;
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the actress. Let us hope a "good fat meal' solved for her all lifes problems. IIS
 The heroine of the next story is White Lacy Morning Gown All Little Ends And Hanging Pieces" Its name is Helen. It falls in love with young man soon to become R. R. Vice President. Enter expected lover sud- denly. At sight of the White Gown" It is 'set off against a large red leath- CT chair" the young lover drew in his breath suddenly and swallowed" This Is lover who at q house party can find no better way of asking It to wed sthan to scratch on card with a pencil: T love you. Will you marry me" However,in a novel so full of the essential things of life, such as coats, gownws, trousers. boots, this coup-d etat may be needed: how else could readers have been gracefully as- sured that the hero had card.
 III
 In the next match making story a Long Riding Coat" makes love to a Grey Gauntlet Here is some fox hunting with phrases of the field that may be culled from Manual of the Chase.
 "
 The fourth O fthe series has for heroine a Cloak And d-An-Automobile- Veil. For lover It has very brave betting club man. And all goes gaily with bogus telegram" and a racing automobile to help along.
 "
 The fifth match Is struck for "A Silk Gown An Opera Cloak And No Hat" For a lover It has young English nobleman. This young lord travels incognito for deep and desperate neces- sity; his mother wishes him to marry Trump" For this he lets himself be thought both murderer and murdered. The love- making is unique Said the silk Gown Opera Cloak etc." q should add now that you are an idiot. a murderer and, a mountebank" Brusque. A little more smoothness, might have been expected of a "Silkcn Gown, etc" However the lord makes satisfactory explanations to the "Silken, etc" and wins his Ameri- can bride.
 Quite the brightest of the stories is one that begins in a Fifth Avenue stage. The heroine of this is a Maids s Costume" It Is named Miss Apthorp.
 The author of "A Box of Matches" has written so valuably of correctly clothed creatures of his imagination lllett One IS lnclnc0 10 expect rom nm next the story of a "Corday Bonnet" and Cuff Button" or the Annals of "A Spur" and Chiffon Veil;" or the Romance of "A Hairpin" and Shoe Tie"
 New samsria. By S. Weir Mitchell New Samaria" is a plausibly told and pleasant story. If the plot is somewhat strained. the reader,s pa- tience never is. Dr. Mitchell keeps In- terest ever springing. Whatever he says is good and he has a way of say ing it that makes it better. The wealthy New Yorker refuses to give to beggar and by a series of acci- dents and thefts he becomes in a day himself apparently a beggar a tramp. a horse-thief. a church burner. It takes many interesting pages to'tteII how the young man proved his inno- cence of all crimes allotted to him. but one; and of how he makes reparation flor that.
 The best lesson of the story is never refuse to help a begSar.. It Is the fat purses opportunity It is sure to bring its blessing in good feeling within if
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Mrs. Pryor. Remlniseencea.
,r Ynrk rimea Book RevieM:

New YOrk Times BOOK tNekleN.
 Truth, the aesthetic in art, simplicity, and the admirable usage of literary analect have been used by Mrs Pryor in writing her "Reminiscences of Peace and War" All the oreiwonderfuI Is the volume because the author made no use of memoran nda q am informed by the high est authority next to herself. that this is sol but relied absolutely upon her memory-Mrs. Pryor's alter ego. for her substance. Suppose we naive ly say that the "Reminiscences" Is d good history of semi -offlciaI society about the time of the Civil War. and advise those who are interested in his tory to read the volume. with the as- surance that they Will find knowledge and pleasure by doing so.
 Surely the Hon. Roger A. Pryor can say of the war as Aeneas did when he told Dido the story of Troy; "of which I was a great part Should he not. record will nevertheless prove 1t true. G. A. E,
 New York, Nov. 10, 1904
 Maud Howe (Mrs. John Elliott), the author of Roma Beata,' book des-
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The Promotion of Coxhlan.

Rear Admiral Joseph E. Coghlan. who has just succeeded Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers as Commandant of the New York Navy Yard, first came into prominence before the people as the Captain of the Raleigh, when that ship whs a part of Dewey's Manila squadron. Captain Coghlan's hearty performance of the work that fell to him commended him to the American people. In 1899. shortly after the re- turn of the American squadron to home waters, came the regrettable incident
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Songs from a Georgia Garden. By fsobert Loveman.
 book of incomparably exquisite ly- rics. As striking as sunbeam. The poesy that runs through the little vol ume is as startling, as inspiring as roldenly clear as is a sudden sunbeam flashing from a cloud.
 MT. Loveman is a poet who sings for songs sake only. He cares not at all for fame, for fashion, for filthy lucrie. He sings like a bird on bougn' careless of all the world, singing to let wayfarers know that in spite or the dust of the highway, there Is yet tNlight and warmth, and love, and peau- ty somewhere. That such singing brings it's reward 1t Is refreshing to know, and the rising fame of the young Southern poet Is gratifying to the many admirers or ms muse. We quote the opening and ending lines of the little volume. The little verses between these two pages are clear and sparkling as dew drops; "Recause never careed for fame.
 Fame came and cared for me; I who had sent her soul to shame
 And hell and infamy.
 Because I never cared for fame.
 Fame came and cared for me; God-glowing now with hearts aflame We brook our estacy."
 Many of the verses have appeared during the past year in various lead ing perodicals. some have been quoted in the magazine excerpts of The Ad-
 
 entire the last part of the volume: "At the end of the lane of joy and
 pain,
 We come to the little gate; The king and the clown, and the court
 go down
 Through it's portals soon or late; The peasant. the peer, the sage. and the seer
 Denart when the day comes round, { With a muffled cry and a lost good Out through the gate in the ground. Iris fix'd by fate. we must pass the
 clay gate,
 Little clay gate in the ground, At the end of our ways of nights and
 days.
 iris marked by a grassy mound;
 
 tear,
 And the still lips give no sound; We can never know where Gods gar
 dens grow, | But through the gate in the ground. "A Box of Matches" by Hamblen sears.-The author writes of society as a caddy would write of a golf game. This is a romance of clothes and con- versation. The first story has for its heroine a Big Hat and Veil and Pretty Silken Gown The Big Hat and Veil and Pretty Silken Gown" is named Ethel. It has been engaged to a .Tight-haired young giant" But It is r Q longer engaged because It has seen A the young giant dining at a restaurant Nith 8 real live actress.
 The intricacies of the plot develope the facts the actress is moneyless, friendless. job lost--followed by mel aacholy and depression" The young giant. like a good Sir Galahad, comes fo the rescue of the maiden with "a -.oa faf meal" We hear no Fnoro of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
What is n "Fussers,

Fhsser. noun, of. beau, gallant, spark, fiirt, masher See active verb, to fuss.) One who laughs and studies the moon despises nothing but rude ness and cautiousness and fears noth- ing but bungling. is governed by poll icy rather than by instinctive admira- tion covets nothing of his neighbor's except that which he wants. and spends as much time as he deems wise in a feminine atmosphere.
 The material for this definition of an uncommon word is found in ''The Fuss CTS Book" an illustrated collection of social rules and precepts, which read as if they might be the wisdom of the reatgreat- great grandson of Lord Chesterfield.
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criptive of modern Italian life, is the youngest daughter of the late Samuel c. Howe, and of Julia Ward Howe. who has celebrated her eighty-fifth birth- day anniversary. Mrs. Elliot has been before the public as a writer and lecturer for score of years. In 1884 she went to New Orleans to take charge of the literary department of the wo- mans Exhibit at the New Orleans Ex- position. The outcome of this visit was "Ataalanta in the SoHth," perhaps the most successful of her early books. This was followed by "Mammon" and, after lapse of several years, by Phil Ida" A year ago Mrs. Elliott and her. sister. Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, published the story of their father, Dr. Howe's remarkable pioneer work in teaching Laura Bridgman, the deaf blind mute. This book, aside from it's great human interest. was of scientific and educational value. and attracted widespread attention in this country and in England. Mrs. Elliot has lived much in Rome, and has taken deep in- terest in the infinitely varied life of the Eternal City. As the wife of John Elliott, the artist. as a woman of let ters. and as keen observer of men and manners. no aspect of the Roman kalei- doscope escaped her notice, and for Pope and peasant her comprehensien ana sympathies were alike quick and ready. % From her letters and diaries. written during several summers spent In Rome, Tuscany. etc, Mrs. Elliot has drawn the materials for her book of charming pen-pictures of Italy and her people. entitled Roma Beata.' which Little, Brown & Co.,, publish. The in- spiration of the book was a series of letters written to her sister, Laura E. Richards while Mrs. Elliot was in Rome with her husband, MT. Elliot then being engaged in painting his mural work for the Boston Public Library. Roma Beata" is illustrated from drawings by MT. Elliott and from pho- tographs.
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men have wives and some women have husbands. For your own peace Of mind. woman, when you are marry ing, see that you become wife and do not merely get husband"
 Their Wedding Day" is the divert ing tale of how a telephone and all the aid and advice of fourth twice removed up in Vermont failed to help q laggard in love.
 "The Song that Sold shows Mir. Loomis to be wise in his day as to tho road down which Success comes to meet her favorites. His hero, Tom Chandler, declares: q was simply an advertising man with scheme. I be- lieve that you can place anything from a Uneeda Firecracker to a fake actor If you advertise enough"
 There is truth in that.
 Tom Chandler makes hls fifty thou sand by a song, and generous fellow that he Is helps others on the road to Easy Street.
 Mir Loomiss gentle satire never fails to win his audience. A book of most kindly humor.
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A Notable Dramatic Achievement.

Miss Marlowe has much changed her Beatrice: it has now supplied it's old lack. Charm 1t had alwaays; poetic quality. some distinction; and now it has authority also. The touches are laid on with the certainty of one that knows. The wit of Beatrice flashed very brilliantly In her hands, due again to the nice discretion of her emphases; in such verbal play her habitual com mand of utterance shows at the best. rcllicking and infectious humor, but none of more clearly revealed psychol- ogy. The suggestion in the play that from the first Beatrice Is in love with Benedict, how cleverly that was indi- catedl And there were other colorings yielding equal profit of satisfaction. If the work fell short anywhere. it was in the arbor scene where Benedict's sup posed passion Is made known. a pas sage extremely difficult because of its similarity in motive to Benedicts own enlightenment just foregone. But whatever may have been lacking here was overbalanced by the full sweep of the compulsive skill in the church scene between Beatrice and Benedict, where from "A very even way but no such friend" to Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered. scorned. and dishonored my kins- woman? o tha& I were man" there was surge of inevitable and absolute power; all the woman seemed borne on the rising wings of invincible wrath Charles D. Russell. In the December Critic
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Cheerful CNnicianl.

There Is no cyuic like young eynic. Listen to these biting words from the cheerful little illustrated manual en- titled The Fusser's Book:
 Hypocrisy. thou are jewell Pick out what you and the girl know are her worst points and ask her if she minds your mentioning your admiration of them
 Don't drop her like e hot coal the minute the music stops. Seem loath to let her go. and waltz a few extra steps if necessary. This Is tremendously telling. and so easy"
 Hold off at times the little atten- tions which you feel are expected of you. but don't hold off too long"
 When she truly cares she Is apt to appear indifferent, but she almost sure- ly k indifferent when she appears to care"
 Carry yourself with confidence but not with over-assurance, sremembering at the same time that almost every thing is your fault"
 pr. Weir Mitehelrs somewhat auda- eious and very interesting Youth of which our reviewer fe- Hcitously likened. for it's verisimili-
 tConeluded on Page Twe.1
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Maud Howe (Mrs. John Elliott), the
 author of Roma Beata.'' a boek des-
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of the Union League Club dinner, at which Captain Coghlan sang a comic version of "Hoch der Kaiser ." For this indscretion he was reduced one point on the lists.
 This handicap Captain Coghlan soon overcame. Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1902, last year he was placed in com mand of the Caribbean Squadron of the North Atlantic fleet. Since his return from that service he has been assigned to shore duty. Rear Admiral Coghlap' is a Kentuckian. having been born In Frankfort just fifty years ago.-From ''The World at Large" in The Metro- politan Magazine for December.
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tcOneluded on Pase Tws.l
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Tone Noguchi of Tolsio sends. in tribute to the late Lafcadio Hearn, g. letter describing his funeral. Three foreigners, Americans, were present at 1t. Hearn was the first alien ever buried in Japan with the Buddhist rite. Forty Japanese professors, 100 Japa- nese students. and his own former pu- pills were present at his last services. The pupils presented a wreath of 1au- rel, which bore this inscription: 'Ip memory of Lafcadio Hearn, whose pen was mightier than the sword of the victorious nation which he loved and lived among, and whose highest honor 1t shall ever be to have given him cit- izenship and, alas, a gravel" In full fllment of Hearn's own wishes, his grave Is in one of the loneliest spots in the cemetery near the outskirts Of Tokio. MT. Noguchfs letter ends with the words: Truly he was a delleat te. easily broken Japanese vase, old as the world, beautiful as a cherry blossom.
 Alas, that wonderful vase was broken! He is no more with us. Surely We could lose two or three battleships at Port Arthur rather than Lafcadio Hearn."
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Your Highness. He is so white and rosy of face, so droll of smile, SO quaint of wit and that he always makes you think, here's Somebody's Son. Somebody's Son drifting about in New York. Somebody's Son dancing all night at a masked ball. Somebody's Son having a scrap" with three toughs Somebody's Son at cards all Saturday evening, Somebody's Son listening to and stopping off begar's tale of woe with goodly coin. Somebody's Son go- ing out in the rain to mail our impor- tant letters. Somebody's Son a connois- seur fin drinks. Somebody's Son laying aside all his plans and habits to put in all his hours free from work at nurs- ing an i'll boy friend. That is our Pretty Boy
 Then our diplomat. 1T a mans age can be judged by his teeth. as horses can, should say our Diplomat is not day over twenty-five. But if one judged by the repose of his manner the wisdom of his eye, the weight of his Judgment. I should declare the fig ures must be transposed to make his age fifty-two. His manners are Ches- terfieldian. his judgment infallible, his expression inscrutable, his honor and honesty inviolable. He Is admitted to be the steadiest worker in the lot of us. A future for the Diplomat!
 Now that you know us, l shall tell from time to time the stories that we tell about the mahogany. Sorles that reach the world around by a process like arithmetical progression, for seven people at work In New York meet seven times seven and even seventy times seven people in q day and these tell stories of seven hundred times as many more. and so one dinner table talk would often serve to fill Holiday Magazine with more natural and moro interesting stuff than is often found in the highly colored backs of those made- to order notifications
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Tbe Play of Isben Holden,

The play made from Irving Bachel- lers Aben Holden will be taken West for the first time this season. It is now under new management, with new scenery. etc, and is reported as high ly successful. Doubtless the freshened interest in the play Is due to the largo sales of Mir. Bacheller's popular novel Vergilius, with which he has gained new audience. in addition to the many admirers of his former work. It Is not improbable that Vergilius tod will eventually be made into a play. as the book is full of powerfully dramatic situations. e. aa s..yss4 sa
 Miss Mary Johnson. author of Aud rey' and "To Have and To Hold" has just returned to her home in Richmond. Va. She spent the entire summer in Sicily, where she went for a complete rest, and returns much improved in health.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
Oldest Letter in the World.

What is probably the most ancient
letter in the world has just been
discovered in some excavations being
made in the Province of Attica, and Nj.
Wilhelm, secretary of the Austrian
Archaeological Institute, who has sue.
ceeded in deciphering it, asserts that
it was written four centuries before
Christ. 1t is engraved On leaden
leaf, folded in two, and it bears on
the outside the following address: 70
the porter of the market at Potts, to
be delivered either to Nausias or to
Thrasicles, or to their sons" The
text of the letter is as follows:
"Mnesiengos sends his greetings to
those in the house and informs them
that he is in good health. Please send
me a blanket or some sheepskins, il
possible of the ordinary kind, with
out ornaments. AS soon as the oc
casicn offers shall return them"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22

iadys meteoric fight is made on an S
shaped track--an s with the middle
part wanting. She starts from the
top and descends, her car gripping the
rails and holding to them, the latter
part OF her descent on this upper half
of the S being made head downward;
aEd in this position she is projected
across the gap to the lower half of the
5. upon which she lands and completes
the course in safety. The entire length
OF Madame de Tiers remarkable flight
is 16c feet, the gap is 50 feet, and the
course is run in Az seconds, mo
ments OF greater anguish" says a
Paris paper, for the spectators than
Yer the courageous lady. The latter
remains quite calm during her terrific
Hight, which is like rapid vision of
an automobile upside down in space,
then terrible shock, and then the de-
scent to the stopping-point. The tires
are pneumatic and it is mystery how
they resist the impact upon the track"
Montreal Herald.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
BRINGING UP A PRESIDENT.

Pointer for Ambitious Mothers Of the
Coming Generation.
It Is fortunate thing to be tall
and straight and of vikings shout
ders where one strives for political
popularity, since the hopeless per cent
Of people come by their opinions
through the eye It Is what they see
rather than what they hear that turns
to be impressive.
Washington was equal to running
broad jump of % feet; Jefferson lifted
1000 pounds with his bare hands, and
was known as the Strong Man of Al
bemarle
The world has had its Caesars and
Napoleons, but it adopted these little
people slowly and after trial.
The first thing to remember in
bringing up president is his health
his stomach should be thought Of as
often as his head. A dyspeptic would
find the road to the white house full
Of double difficulties, and he would
make a dangerous president-nay, he
might even invite Impeachment.
A good stomach and a good heart
go far IS raw material in the construc-
ton Of a best man. They are the bed.
plates for that engine called the mind.
Alfred Henry Lewis in Good House
keeping.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-12-22
A Need Of the Hou. ,

at seems to me-" said his friend,
that your college ought to establish
a chair Of gambling"
"a chair OF what?" said the profes-
sor.
Gambling. It is the great occupa-
ton Of many il not most OF us, and
the average college graduate is apt
to take it up in some form or other
in spite Of all the warning he may
receive. Therefore, why not train him
to follow it with skill and success =?
Why not have, say, lectures on how
to play poker, on how to play the
races, on how to speculate in stocks,
and so on? If you could have these
subjects properly handled you might
turn out corps Of experts who would
cover their alma mater with glory
end reap a golden harvest for them
selves"
But, supposing the movement to be
success, it would simply ruin the
public"
We'll, judge that's what the pub
lie is for. 1t is simply question of
who gets the money"