The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-27
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Millionaire Girl as asKItchen Mald-Ex-
perlenees OF the Singular Miss Smith
Minneapolis Has Fame as Bucketshop
center-A Book Which Credits City
With Being "the Greatest In That Line
Some Good Books Coming.

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The experiences OF millionaire do
nestle, even tho she Is the creature of
another Womans imagination. make in
terestlng reading. We discovered that yes
terday In reading The Singular Miss
Miss Smith had more money than she
knew just what to do with, also much
sympathy for those who had so little mon
ey that they scarcely knew just what to
do With themselves. In her efforts to de-
eide what to do with her money and at
the same time to make it easier for 9TH
ers to decide what to do with themselves,
she became a member Of the Theological
club, an organization of fashionable .won-
en- III Boston, which debated such ques-
lions as why Do American Women sof
the Iaboring Glass Decline as Rule, to
Enter Domestic Seryice?''@ and heard lee
lures OH intimately correlated" subjects
such as THE Primal Relation of Woman
to the Evolution of the Cosmos Miss
smith did not get much light thru the
CLUB She declared II have SO far failed
to realize my primal relationship to my
Kitchen, to say nothing Of the Est of the
cosmos. She was more concerned in
helping poor girls who needed help than
IN "eleyating the masses For all Of
which she was said to be different
All of this is purely introductory, show
Ing the motive of q wealthy and edu-
Gated Boston girl in buying a 1928 ready
made suit, getting an old trunk, going to
cheap boardinghouse and, from that as
q base seeking a place as a domestic.
her experiences as related by the author
are highly entertaining, both from So
GEOLOGICAL standpoint and for amusement.
Her f1rst place was in the home Of Mrs.
de Puyster-Jones. She remained there
just one day, and the horrors of that day
ought to awaken in every reader deep
and broad sympathy for the servant girl.
Mrs. de Puyster- Jones is conclusive an
swer to the question above referred to as
a subject Of debate in the Ontological
club. s. gEaE1%2 ~
The situation becomes highly amusing
whsn Miss Smith, while waiting for an
other place. acts as walter at her board
11ghouse, and joey Larkins loses his
heart to her, asks her to keep com pany
with him and to marry him, declaring: II
love you true, an I'll stan 'twiXt you an
the world every trip. Twill, honest" or
again when the foreman of foundry in
Eires her to attend a lecture with him
this daughter of one OF Boston's elect.
But q very pretty romance grows out
of the girls singularitiesE after all, and
one having read the book Is not surprised
that 1T is among the ''best Sellers F,
book which promises to become very ,pop,l-
lar is The Loves of Edwy's tThe Lothrop Pub
fishing company, Boston) by Rose Cecil o ELL,
the Well-known illustrator. So great has been
the advance demand of this unique romance,
which is embellished by sixty ilustra tions
by the author. that the publishers have decided
to increase the size of the first edition, and have
postponed the day of publication from the 18th
to the Goth of August. -.4-s .s---,E