The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-26

MAGAZINES.
Many stories of japanese women
have been written. II Is a bold writer,
who, In face of ali the, recent successes
| of the same plot, the Geisha girls love
for mister Foreign Devils" who takes
up the theme. Colgate Baker. though
using the much-used plot. puts pretty
freshness and q winning tenderness into
| his treatment of the theme. Thomas
Hastings gives valuable advice to the
home maker. Needed advice. when one
goes about much in suburban districts
| and sees the tiny little lowered struc-
lures of wood SO popular today. Better
indeed for the wayfarer's eve If tho
home buflder had been content with a
broad low eaved cottage, but the home
maker, doubtless feeling that every
mans home is his castle, must run up
his fifteen or twenty-foot tower Of
wood.
with what designed of beauty of the
value Of times slow labor man cuts,
and hews. and saws, and planes, Gods
great leafy towers, the trees, out of
their destruction to build petty cas-
| tellated homekinsi
The OUTING of the Poor, by Richard
Wightman, is a sympathetic story of
| the Joy of the poor of New York at q
day across the water to the fields. This
| article appearing at almost the instant
of the most fearful disaster ever
| known, aeoentuates the horror of the
loss. Surely every care of inspection,
every protection of the law should be
about these poor when they go forth
for their one day In the three hundred
and siKty-fiys joyless ones of their
work day existence.
| The appreciation of Robert Blum with
the illustrations of his works, SO many
of them Studies" Sketches" marked
Diminished" sadness. That talent at
its hey-dey, labor at its fruition, should
| be suddenly out short, always sets
heart and mind above with the restless
ness of the unanswerable, "Why?"
| The death of Robert Blum a few
months ago, removed from the art
world one of its most interesting fig
ures He was stricken suddenly and
and passed away before even his most
intimate friends could realize the fact
that he was ILL.," The quoted account
of the artists creating of the mural
/ decorations of Mendelssohn Hall read
| inspiringly. These and the panels and
the supehb decorative compositions in
| the New Amsterdam Theatre OF New
York are pieces OF the painters great
work than the tourist may see for him
self.
1t is a surprise to read in the current
| number of The Metropolitan; do
DE Goofch- Jack" a humorous poem
If I mistake not, that is a repetition
or adaptation OF verse which appeared
six or more years ago In snort uVeo
Southern periodical called Dixie.
The novelette, in July Lippincotts
Magazine is "The Love Affair OF
Princess" by Lafayette McLaws. Sure
ly the we'll known writer, Emily La
| fayette McLaws, author of When the
Land Was Young" a native of Geor-
gia, has not left off a name and done
| this good piece of work without
sounding every note in the trumpet. to
| let US know who has done 1t.
| There are in the number nine stories
| of excellence. Elizabeth Duer writes
If lovers who meet beside fountain
dedicated to Pan: The Court of
Pam" Edward Bothwood writes a
clever story of cowboy life. Cyrus
Townsend Brady writes summer
story of: THE Baby Goes a Fishing"
Bertha H. Lippincott writes of how a
charming widow is outwitted by a
more charming debutante. Ella Mid
dleton Tybout tells the story of
Moses, Jr." Mabel Nelson Thurston
writes: The Emancipation of Lydia
Durae. "a Thread of Scarlet" is q
story of strength and originality. "A
Delayed Heritage" is a tale of that
ever good happening, or turn of fate,
or kindly help of guardian angel that
brings our long desired hopes to real
ity.
A new sort of ghost-story is Bertha
NJ. Bowers Ghost in the Red Shirt"
George Moores Moods and Memories"
are captivating.
General Keifer replies In Open Court
for June to Edwin Watts Chubb's pa
per in the Shakespeare controversy.
! Important articles of the number
are: "Adolph Bastion" by w. H. Car
ruth. Marriage and the Roman Cath
Ollie Church." by ]. Clark Murray. "A
New Religion: Babeism' by the editor
The editor also states some startling
facts about our postal service. OF how
express companies interfere with the
delivery of parcels sent by mail. John
Wanamaker had told him (Mr. John
Brisben Walker) that there were four
inseparable obstacles to the obtaining
OF a parcels-post. First, the Adams
Express; second, the American Ex-
press; third. the Southern Express,
and fourth, Wells, Fargo g. Co. The
government is probably losing $780,
100000 by not having a parcels post
Again: we are the only large ma
tioE in the world without a parcel
pest system; we are the only large ma
ton whose postal service is conducted
at loss, despite the fact that our
charges for transmitting mail matter
are far above those of other countries"
The recent United States Consul in
Guadeloupe. Louis H. Ayme. estimates
that this country is losing So, 900, 900 a
year in small mail orders from the
West Indies through the refusal of our
Government to enter in the Interna-