The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22

ton Scollard.
 Altogether the February Smart Set is splendid example of what a mod ern magazine should be. Personal and Pertinent.
 The South is avenged!'' Now what does that mean?' asked. We were in a studio many flights up pretty expression that-many flights up-as if we were birds and wore our wings right now. A matchless view of the park was outside. White snow everywhere. snow falling the stretch of reservoir waters duly glistening and moving under the drifting snow. The great buildings across on Fifth Avenue look ed through the white fiickering veil Of the snowfall as if they were fair air castles. magically, mystically rear cd there. instead of just brick and stone and marble abodes of flesh and blood millionaires. Why. mean what all can see." said the woman of the South, that we have come up here and possessed the land l The Westerners are with us as their sympathies were during the war" That is a fact that we Southerners insist on.
 The West wanted to be with us. 1T lt ASl ' true uOH tell us.
 We always say: If this and that had not been thus and so California would have been with us. As it was she gave, us-and then, here some sta- tistics to which I never listen. the wise never will.
 As soon asa thing gets to be on the ledger 1t ceases to be living and de- lightful
 It is always the dollar that we want that Is the worthful one.
 "Who are the coming miilionaires and money makers of New York-the men now taking the field?' pursued my arrived; they are from the West and the South"
 Then she rattled off a lot of names that proved her assertion to be based on fact.
 Who are the leaders in society but the women of the South and the West?"
 You won't, if you are wise, believe that we escaped just here the reefs of well-anecdote-with a strong person. al flavor.
 An. you young etrivers after social prestige hope to enter in.
 As we talked of the enviable position of a Southern woman who holds undis- puted sway over most exclusive circle I couldn5t help recalling what dear old lady of old time New York told me of how the same now enviable wo- man. made her entree into society. Her gowns" said the dear old lady, were something fearful. We had never seen anything like them. They were tarleton that one could shoot straws through-so-so-wh shall l say, but coarse. And she always had Iinio Of hA Shint, p1- bric. Oh. they were fierce. But she was beauty even then, she had the air of the grande dame. even then," a
 smile of amused reminiscence: We thought her gowns-well, she arrived"
 Courage, Aspirants.
 If there is any handicap worse than the worst it is-bad clothes. But see how beauty and blood win the race. l do hope, if that blessed leader ever reads these lines that she has forgotten her paper cambrics and won't know that their memory yet lives-a banner of victory to cheer another on to conquest. And how about the best selling books" said this Southern woman, who herself has won her laurels with the best; "who heads the list these past seasons, but the Mrs. Wiggs' and 'Lovey Mony" of Alice Hogan Rice of Louisville, John Fox. also of Kentucky; Thomas Nelson
 Page of Virginia; Mary Johnston of Virginia"
 Then she ran over the lists and l besought us to follow of the editors l out of the West and South-of the I actresses. the entertainers-charmin Kitty Cheatam with her Many
 Melodies. and painters and illustrators | Such a directory of grit and genius and get there!
 Oh. it is wonderful. Come for your
 self and see. But I do wish every
 Westerner could know of the brilliant | success of Ida Benfey Judd, so wei | known throughout the South, especially in Alabama. She is of California, you
 know. Her whole hearts love ant 1 loyalty, she says, are there still
 though she has been seven years 1T
 New York. As an interpreter of tho | great masters she has no rival | I would not call her an elocutionist | a reciter. and impersonater, all these
 she Is. but something more. More than any other. she gets at thC very soul of an author and makes fl walk forth to meet the understanding
 and appreciation of her audience. I have Lad the pleasure of hearing
 Mrs. Judd in every possible form oi
 lofty entertainment this season. l have heard her humorous rendition
 of the tales of New York street chil'
 dren, and of out-of-the-way New Eng
 land characters before an audience oi ] Bowery men.
 You should have seen that audience
 verify. the halt and the lamed and the
 maimed of humanity, the weary, the hungry. the suffering.
 | Looking down with intense human pity and loving kindness on that mot ley audience. she told them story after story, amusing them, helping them | making them for a little while forget bitter want and grievous sorrow. She swayed them, and she held them
 and she helped them in a way that was wonderful.
 On Sunday morning at St. Georges Mission House I heard her read from that mighty seer and poet. Job. She read to ex-Mayor Lows Sunday school class Mir Low was abroad at the time