The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
Conducted By
 nlartba Young

II ~ " e>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>$ living is work in whatever class the lot be cast "
 For outside needs: We have a great and crying need for two things things which # is entirely within the power of broadminded philanthropy to supply
 "A well-regulated system of boarding and lodging houses. where we can live with decency upon the small wages we receive. designed something after the Mills Hotels for working mem
 The most important necessity of the model working woman's hotel or 1odg- ing house would be, not luxurious table, not dainty sleeping room, but a parlor! The number of young girls who go wrong In a great city like this. for want of the various necessities of a parlor. must make the angels in heayen weep
 The other need is for a greater in- terest in the work woman's welfare on the part of the church"
 No one can be thrown into even the most casual contact with the working girl. even up to the grades of the artis- tic working girl. and not realize those crying needs.
 ne Lung La! iS n DOOh that Wilt prove helpful study. for the philan- thropist and the soeiologist It is a book of appealing interest to any read CT who loves truth. who feels a glow of live for human kind As the great books of not far distant past have brought mighty reforms. so it is easy to prophesy will this book build the ideal Working Girls Home and help the church to set it's machinery in order f-.. il. -lx l,.& l., I
 A Maker of History. By F. Phil lips Oppenheim. A healthy and rather dull young EngIishman becomes un- willingly a Maker of History in Mir. Op- penheim's latest novel.
 For holding his readers interest Mir. Oppenheim's romances are veritable steel traps. They are warranted not to let go.
 From the first page to the last in- terest is tense. Held fast. Clampeu. Can't get away.
 To the. young Engiishman's hand as he rushes from a nights sleep in the brocken of Posen forest. blows a sheet of paper.
 That he holds this paper makes him just then the most important person in the world to force great nations.
 This importance thrust upon him by merry chance and mischief winds car ries him through strange adventures
 He Is spied upon in Vienna. He is fol- lowed to Paris. -.ere in the Cafe Montn1atre he tells a young danseuse of the strange things that he saw in the forest of Posen, emitting to tell of by two natives so>important a matter to have seen in friendly converse the German Emperor and the Russian Czar that the boy Is hurried off to mysteri- ous disappearance.
 Enter the beautiful sister. She goes at once to the search for her brother. When British embassy and Paris police failed her she begins inquiries at the Cafe Moritmatre.
 She, too, mysteriously disappears. George Duconlbe, young English man of immense wealth. marvelous knowledge of Paris. wondrous physical blessings in way of strength and good luck Is sent by his half blind friend. Andrew Pelham, to find the boy and girl.
 He has taken care to fall desperate ly, suddenly in love with the photo graph of the girl before setting out. so that there may be zest in the search.
 So we enter upon hair-breadth es- capes. secret history of great nations and their treaties, muddles, thefts, poi soning, false charges of mur6er, stolen Otht0 uOCdluGhbcs 4|uhSo HI lGuBQC Wiltl grizettes, Duchesses of great position and hautier love-making with boys, bribery. and secret State Societies, and governmental intrigues.
 Mir. Opperheim keeps the views well in hand and bowl along behind 6ll these many settlements as smoothly as coach over turnpike roads. But the | heroine is not done with the authors | usual charming skill. Miss Phyllis
 
 too little cause from a fresh unsophiS- 1 ticated English girl to a woman In league with never a satisfactory ex- planaton of wherefore) with one of the greatest intriguers and -ascals of France. Her visit under assumed name at Remton Place. England, brings about many adventures but Is dragged in un- heardly. Andrew Pelham, too, Is over drawn. His madness of love for Phyl- lis and his sudden lapse from it are not to be accounted for in his acquain- tance with the adventures from Weir or his recovery of eyesight for which he has always hoped
 Mir, Oppenheim grew so wrapped in his great affairs of imagination, the making and breaking of treaties of na- tions that he rather let the reins on heroes and heroines go slack How The Maker of History" is a thrilling good romance. and one not to be let loose till finished. One page of Oppenheim always makes ono want to know what is on the next.
 Nirvana, by pr. Paul Carus In | this volume a most competent scholar has undertaken to give us a story of Buddhist psychology. By means of this little tale Dr. Carus seeks to show how the Blessed Buddha has solved the riddle of the world and under stands the problem of existence. He teaches that life Is suffering but he knows both the origin of suffering and the escape from it, and assures his disciples that Njrvana can be obtained by walking in the noble path of right eousness." Sudatla Brahman youth, has been chosen by Maha-su bhut, the Chief, for his son-in-iaw. He Is blowing in the fields one day, and singing because of his great joy, when his blow strikes l the lair of a hare, and immediately Su- datla gives chase, but he Is stopped by the voice of passing stranger, who re- monstrates with him upon his needless cruelty. It is Anuruddha, a disciple of | the Blessed Buddha, who gives Sudatla the words of the Blessed One concern ] ing the treatment or animals He sa.d 'Suffuse the world with friendliness, Let cAeatures all, both mild and stern 1 See nothing that will bode them harm And they the ways of peace will learn
 Sudatla was abashed. He had never cared for creatures weaker than him. | self He was noble-minded and ann bilious. eager. to do and to dare, vel In this one thing he was wanting. Anuruddha, with the instinct of tho l tat faIx he