The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
NEW BOOK NEWS
 CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG ss

many of them, engaged in making their own living, in managing their house. holds with hopelessly unslxilled labor. The great amounts of money given to negro education is often applied by i those ignorant of the real need in ways that mar rather than make A small amount of book learning with little or no moral training or I character building, makes either white or black person desirous of but one thing--to earn a living easily.
 Under the heading, New Movements | and Remedies" Miss Kellar tells of the various schools and societies working | to turn unskilled labor into skilled. es- pecially for domestic service. This
 is full of suggestion and its careful
 reading breeds hope. How excellent a thing it would be if some of these
 methods could he transplanted South
 by the many miilionaires of the Nortb l who are really eager to help the ne- gro. Of the Sargent Industrial School
 at Matteawan, N. J., Miss Kellar writes: This was founded by Mrs. Win l throp Sargent in her old manor house
 In 1891, and now there are six resi- dent pupils and more than two hun- dred day pupils with waiting list of one hundred more. The object is to | give free instruction to those who in-
 tend to adopt household work as a | profession.
 Another movement is the laundry | operated by the Charity Organization
 Society. of New York City. Several hundred women---wldows and deserted | wives who are bread winners for little l children, and wives who support inva- | lid husbands--were graduated last l year as expert laundresses. The laun-
 dry is d; trade school. It receives l eighty or ninety unskilled women ev- l cry month, puts them at work over
 steaming washtubs, advances them to starching and ironing, and graduates | them with a recommendation after
 thorough instruction in the ironing Of
 filmy lace curtains and finest linen. IL accepts laundry from patrons, so the
 instruction is entirely practical" | Study of methods such as this, and
 the work as herein described of the | Woman's Educational Union, Woman's | Domestic Guild, Household Aid. St.
 Louis School the Y. w. c. A. system
 would be we'll undertaken by those in | terested in the education of negro youth at the South.
 | Our Southern women, to whom the problem of domestic service grows daily more complex, would do well to | form charitable organizations to fur | ther ends like these: the turning of unskilled household labor into skilled. The negros of ante-b bellum days made as perfect servants as Swedes, Ger | many and Swiss youths; they would be- come as good now under proper train ing.
 Susan C1egg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop." More quirks and turns to it's humor than has little pigs curly tail. The fun is New England fun. Fun of parsimonious, pie-day people, the fun of the rural small farmer, the villager, the people who horde all the quaint traits of a section in themselves and so get themselves called typical,
 when they are only excresenses on the
 body polite of the country. Just as the Georgia Cracker and the Alabama Hill Billie are called our typical folk.
 '"The Marrying of Susan Clegg found
 many readers when 1t appeared last No vember in The Century.
 The other three stories of the book followed in succession: Miss Clegg s
 Adopted" "Jethrop Lathrop's Cow and Susan Clegg's Cousin Mauin. |" lThe last story The Menedies Vacation is printed for the first time.
 So true to certain, types are the
 characters that the author has deemed
 1t necessary to give a predatory note: | MISS CIegB ana ner Irlelu, MIS. lIatH
 TOD, as well as the other characters in
 the book, and the scenes in which they
 figure are wholly imaginary" Anne
 Warner. the creator of the inimitable
 Susan Clegg. is in private life Mrs.
 Charles Ellis French of St. Paul, Minn. 'The Marrying of Susan Clegg" was the first of her stories to attract atten-
 tion In the spring her first serial. an international love comedy entitled "A Woman's Will," appeared and won
 warm commendation.