The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-07


 resolution never to be as funny as Warner. Susan Ciegg was striking creation, and however out of sympathy a reader might be with the type of i New Engiandcr depicted, yet the fun was there and could be enjoyed. Fun Is sadly missing in The Re- juvenation of Aunt Mary" The effort at humor is that Of the professional wit whose inspiration runs dry, resorting to ruerile farce, buffoon- cry. wagishness. These threadbare subjects are resorted to in effort to ex- tract wit therefrom.
 A deaf old lady.
 An Ear Trumpet
 Franks of a college boy, shooting . cook instead of a cat. hitting cap driver and producing concussion o1 the brain. getting expelled from col lege, bringing upon himself breach or promise suit, many drinking bouts. matters not in themselves funny. told without any extenuating or humorous points, Crude misunderstanding Of words through the ear trumpet is re- sorted to In order to raise a laugh.
 "Going West with a Glee club" With a she clubi"
 II A maid, who happens to be wealthy widow in disguise, who calls herself Janice, Is wittiiy tsave the word) call
  want bull dog" Not bull-frog." He ain't went to say he's dead, Is he?" is another time honored bit brought in- to service. Tho old lady wants the calf shod and let loose on tho gallery to make her think of tramping horses to make her think of the smell of au- aonlobiles. It is hard to extract wit from such a poor farce.
 The meager plot of the story is that Aunt Mary threatens to dislnherit her nephew. the college man Jack of many escapades.
 The old Aunt with many millions talks like cobbler's wife. She 'peeks," and doubles her negatives. says I sh'd think so.' and s and's for so and as. she has no final d's or g's. Her nephew is the pink of perfection, the monument of the society of mill lionaires into which he Is thrown. money-mad social life of to-day, The motto may be: If you have no good blood behind, strive to marry with the prospect of a little ahead.
 Thus did the heroine. the widow Mrs. Rosscott, who has missed her title by the death of her husband, the heir to one.
 At house party at her mothers her brother delicately describes her as re- ally one of biggest uns here. even if she is one of tho family" There might be an unconscious quip there. Here is the widows pungent fling at college women, find fun in 1t who can: Ps girl from Girton College. It's the most awful freak you ever saw. They're quite beyond everything. They're so homely, and their hands and feet arc so enormous, and their pins never pin, and their belts never belt. And no one has ever married one of them yeti" Tsf- f,. that they are not original Those who have not brains nor time to think for themselves, repeat them and their va tents over and over till there Is dan ger of never hearing the end. Just as slang, worn out from a metropolis fil- Hates to the outermost ends of the earth and sickens with it's staleness on the tongue of the village wag.
 
 It is love at first sight with the widow and the college boy. 'I wouldn't have thought you were such a bad man, but like bad men," from the widow. I'm really quite ! reprobate, and admit it frankly" is her intro duction of herself, so their love begins. The widow who has millions Ono mod ern heroine need approach n publish CT without) plans that Jack to pre- vent disinheritance and loss of his prospective millions shall nave Aunt Mary visit him in the city.
 This she does and her ignorance ot city ways is expected to be very di- recting to the reader as the author as- sures her it was to the young college men who took her to boxes at thea ter. suppers at Sherry's. in their prt- vate yachts, and speeding in automo- bilcs. In this later experience the old ladys bonnet flew off and was smash ed q don't care bit," she said; "I Irp. xg kr nAI f0Hf 0,,b er.f me another tomorrow mornin' easy.'
 Our knowledge that Delmonico does not deal in bonnets is supposed to barb this shaft of wit!
 The old lady learns the jcy of city life, that the end and aim of all true life must be to have and to spend mon- ey She makes Jack her heir. She wants in the country the maid loaned her in the city, "Janice," where we ara to be amused at her calling Granite" Janice goes, and after faithfully per- forming her duties. even to learning to smoke cigarettes that the odor might remind Aunt Mary of the college men, Jack follows and finds not French maid but his Lovely Widow.
 So a fully rejuvinated Aunt Mary and a happy wedding followed.
 Then the glori1cation of things:
 "A furniture man and an upholsterer with no other limit than that confined by the two words carte blanche.
 Aunt Mary is supposed to have said these two words. Prom dawn to dark the checks flowed like water" ..
 "wedding presents, which were gor- ,jerus."
 Gift of New York home and money enough for them to live on the income"
 The author iS now at home depict ing the eld-fashioned New England maid and companion Lucinda and the man of all work, Joshua. There is