The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-28

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 self, the noisest city on the globe?
 There is an astounding love- affair of a
 secretary of the mayor and an octo-
 room newspaper woman reporter. There
 are several episodes of life-saving of
 the mayor by the old time exonerated
 method of the romancer, throwing the
 body between the murder and the as-
 sassin." There are police raids on
 gambling dehs and a lot of detectives
 work, there is investigation of frauds
 and exciting rides on swift engines.
 There are balls and theatre parties
 galore of the smartest of the smart
 set. For dialogue 1t reads like comic
 column in a New York daily.
 There is for Mrs. Duane a Hebrew
 musician for lover and a plan for a | divorce, but Mrs. Doane declares a love
 for her husband and after varied and
 long misunderstandings Billy" and
 Margie" Duane have their love scenes
 over on the gallery of the westburg
 place and live happily evermore. Billy
 Duane, by Frances Aymer Matthews. l From the West to the West Mrs l Abagan Scott Duneway in her prefaace to this novel of the early days of Ore l gon writes T do not desire augmented lame, or fuller notoriety than has long been mine Cat least within the chosen bailiw1ck of my portent and best be- loved West)" This novel will hardly bring fame of any larger audience to US writer. The book Is written every reader feels by a woman of sterling worth and good heart, but there Is no style or literary merit to recommend IL to readers outside the authors ap- preciatfve circle of personal friends. UT her former novel Captain Gray's Company" a book which she informs | us went rapidly into two editions and I has now been out of print forty years she writes Among the relics of the I border times that abound in the rooms or the oregon Historical Society, may | pc seen an immigrant wagon, a batter ed ox-yoke, clumsy, home made hand loom, an old fashioned spinning wheel 1 and a rusty Dutch oven. Such articles | are valuable as relics, but they would not sell in paying quantities in this utiiitarian age if duplicated and placed upon the market. Just so with Cap tain Grays Company It accomplish ed It's mission in it's day and way. By It's aid It's struggling author stumbled | forward to higher aims. Let 1t rest. and let the world go marching on." The author shows good sense of valuation Of her wares This volume will take | It's place beside the other as A thing or interest for the student of early l days and and ways in Oregon. But the loosely woven romance alone are truths or worth, facts of early life of the emigrants of the middle west to the further west which the descendants of these emigrants will live to learn of and to remember. The book is fitting ly dedicated to The Historical Society of Oregon, and her risen and remain ing pioneers"
 From the West to the West..- Across the Plains of Oregon. By Abigail Scott Duneway
 Cyr's Dramatic First Reader. The childs mind Is being so thoroughly probed at this day that there will not be spot in it untouched by some in- strument of learning in surgeon teach CTS hand. Let us sincerely hope that the geni originality be not utterly eradiated by the process. Perhaps as the good Doctor whose books we all love declares there Is after all nothing original but original sin! Maybe a blessed millennium of splendid med- iocracy will dawn when all originality Is gone.
 But look at the questions of educa- tlon as we will 1t Is very sure that this little book on scientific "playing Ia- dies" is very charming. "One of the first things" writes Ellen M. Cyr. "a ilttie child does is to impersonate the various animals and objects about him. thus placing himself in closer relation snip and sympathy with the whole world"
 From one point of view comes the ex- ciamation Do let the child alone at his little home made plays and imfor- nations. Don't disturb him. Don't keep him forever under the light of ob- serVat1on. The worst sort of torture to primer is to keep him constantly Ill the light! Persifage aside all things must be tried and those held fast that prove to be best Also in this age of rapid living the child's training belongs more to the teacher than to the mother. The mothers of the wealthier classes have their multitudious social duties. charitable organizations and clubs to at tend; it is right that these matters should meet attention. They are the outgrowth of the times, of progress The mother has not time for those hours of leading the child in all plays by companiouship and by suggestion, things that a while back made the nur- sery of households of comparative Ieis- ure the sweetest places of earth to grow in No more time has the mother or the middle class to give to her chill drens amusements, there is the work Of the household, the ceaseless toll of | trying to make ends meet. The mother or the working class has no play time | at all for herself or for her children. Here comes in the work of the free | Kindergarten. It Is we'll if to luxurious nurseries, to public school, and to free | Kindergarten can be transplanted some Of those youths of happiness, leisure | and luxury that so beautifed and ami mated the nurseries of a day that is gone.
 Perhaps originality is from heaven | and not of earth, resembling sunshine | rather than grass. Asphalt can eradi- | cate the universal green of earth's com ment bost beautiful covering, but on | the asphalt as on the field falls the sum- shine. So will the light of originality | beam on the continually taught and | observed child asN on the more natural | ly developed child of past decades
 This little book of dramatizations of l the old tales Of Jack and Jill, of Simple | Simon, of Jack Horner. of Mother Hub. | bard of Bo-peep and of Dame Trot is just fascinating enough to make even | grown folks want to go back to play | lady" days.
 But oh, give the babies Mother Goose frstl
 real old-time incomprehensible in- | consequential, perfectly irresistible al- ways delightful Mother Goose. Let tho first copy put into a child's hand be not an expurgated. interlineated, annotated volume. but just the real plain, good old thing that has been first aid" to so many youthful minds.
 Then give the little ones Cyr's Ora. matic First Reader!
 This little volume Is attractively H. lustrated by Editor Browning Brow.
 Cyr's First Dramatic Reader. By Ellen NJ Cyr