The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-15
mrss MAUD LINDSAY,

MISS MAUD LINDSAY.
 Tuscumbia has added luster to the name of our State by giving to the world two, remarkable young women. each of whom has a national reputa- ton though in different sense. Helen Keller Is known to the learned and the iliiterate, the seeing and the blind, the hearing and the deaf. the old and the young. Maud Lindsay is known to only two classes--little children and their teachers. To these she is knowp from Maine to California, from Canads- to the Gulf and even across seas.
 Though Miss Lindsay is a person of many talents, the one that has brought her before the public is the gift for writing stories for little children. Herself kindersartner she first wrote for the little mill children whom she taught (and Is still teaching) in the free kindergarten in Florence. As an afterthought, some stories were sent to Kindergarten Review, published ir,, Boston. Since then she has been a regular contributor. and their pros- pectus for the current year shows her to be the largest and most prominent one.
 Four years ago a dozen of these sto- ries were published in book form un- der the title of Mother Stories .". This volume has had large and steady sale and is advertised by tbe publish CTS, Milton Bradley & Co. as their best story book, although they publish many. being the largest kindergarten publishers in the country. It has been adopted by the Kindergarten Board in London, England. and has received most ample recognition in America.
 In addition to her story work. Miss Lindsay Is now engaged in writing commentaries in Froebell's Mother Plays, winch is being published serially in the Kindergarten Review. All com ruentaries previously written address themselves only to the most cultured and philosophic mothers and teachers: these bring the great friend of little children in touch with those of ordi- nary inteiligence--the rank and file who could not otherwise have known him.
 Most writers have but single vein: the subject of this sketch not only writes tosehfidrerf. and puts philosOph- 10 abstraetions in such plain and sim- pie language that the most common place mother or teacher nftsst be helped to lead little feet into right paths, but she expresses herself very gracefully in poetry. Probably many who read this sketch are familiar with her ring ing words to Dixie as they have been frequently published.
 Added to her literary ability the yer BatIlo young woman has marked his- trionlc talent which enables her to increase the charm of her stories by telling them. Her audience, whether , Rrey-heads or tiny boys and girls. at once comes under her spell. Since telling stories is the only way in which literature can be given to little chil- dren, this ability is at Q great premium In Kindergarten and primary school. It has brought Miss Lindsay many calls from Northern cities, a few of which she has accepted. Last spring her stories were perhaps the leading feature at the International Kinder. garten Union in Rochester, N. Y., where she was encored again and again.
 While meeting with such eminent success in these two fields. they are both of quite secondary interest to Maud Lindsay, for two reasons: first. like q true Southerner, she wants to do her work in the South; and, second. neither an appreciative public nor an applauding audience can weigh for an Instant with her agai.sst a little child for she is above all, a lover and teach CT of little children. Her work with them and for them is strong, beautiful and original. That, however, 'Is an- other story" and one entirely too long to tell here.
 Maud Lindsay is the youngest daugh- ter of ex-Governor. the late Robert B. Lindsay.
 In acceptance of an Invitation ex- tended her by the Mothers Union of Montgomery, Miss Lindsay will deliver q lecture Thursday, November IT, at s:30 p. m. at the Carnegie Library. Her subject will be ''FrUebsFs Mother Plays" The members of the Moth CTS Union have extended to all per sons interested in kindergarten and child study a cordial invitation to this lecture and no doubt a large audience will enjoy the occasion.
 Mss Lindsay. during her stay in the city, will be the guest of MT. and Mrs Ray Rushton at their home on South Court Street.
 The first meeting Of the season of the No Name Club was held with the