The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-29

tion. And 1t was no mean education, either, the training of hand and heart and brain was the end achieved. even where 1t was not the sole purpose or the child's labor"
 In the factories today we are "us- ing up the vitality of children; soon they will be men and women, without the vitality and strength necessary 70 maintain themselves and their depend- ents.--"Whatever burden society lays or permits to be laid, upon the should CTS of its children, 1t must ultimately bear upon its own. Society's interest in the child may well be expressed In a slight paraphrase of the words of Je- sus, whatever is done to one of the least of these little ones, is done unto me It is in that spirit that the advocates of child labor Legislation would have the nation forbid the ex- ploitation, literally the exhaustion. of children by self-interested employers.
 For solving the problem of a fair bringing up of the children of tho 1O.- 900, 900 persons in this United States in poverty, MT. Spargo advocates more responsibility upon the State, more ex- penditure by the State upon It's chill dren. Charity" he aserts. "degrades and demoralizes and there is little or no compensating effective help"
 The State must care for it's chill dren from birth to maturity. supply Ing not Only as now lLS eQuCAIlOH, put when needed. it's very bodily food as well as mental. Fortunately with us of the South there is not for us the bit- ter cry of hunger. Only the bitter cry
 of mental starvation and that from one class only, the child of the poorer
 white man now working in the fact ory, or living in districts far removed
 from our center of culture. This cry
 our own State needs and even today Is
 straininK every muscle and nerve to
 meet and to minister to every need of it's own.
 The Misses Make-Believe, Mary Stu art Boyd-A thoroughly English novel with the scenes laid in London and Devonshire. The Misses Make Be-
 lieve are two marriageable sisters
 steering their own affairs through the dangerous sea of an insufficient in-
 come, Not until they learn to it man
 ners and means together do they find true happiness and true lovers. The moral of the book is good but 1t contains the old-fashioned, though still popular, thread of romance, that in a woman's life, marriage is the ultimate
 end. An American girl of today might
 be dying to marry but she will never admit it-in words. If necessity pinches, she will teach something or
 make a feint at one of the professions while awaiting her chances, but she | isn't likely to belittle her large idea ot feminine independence by acknowledg- | ing that she can't struggle happily by herself
 In the character of the Misses Make
 Believe nothing Is left untold. both goHd and bad is revealed. and 1t must DC admitted that the author presents two women remarkably natural and la-
 mentally true to most phases of soci' | ety.
 The pictures of English life and soci- ety are well drawn, the story is well l told and the sense of relief in the end
 on seeing the two heroines safely mar ried is both pleasant and soothing.
 asIf Youth But Knew" by Agnes and Egerton Castle.
 The Castles have written many l books. but they have done nothing bet | ter than the present story It 10 a charming description of Westphalia, upon whose throne was seated the pup l pet, Jerome. and of other romantic and | historical happenings.
 | There Is a Tong logic" beneath the story, which takes it's title from the poem by Elinor Sweetman. "If Youth but Knew"
 The glory of his April day | Would he not cast the year away | For one more dawn of dream and dew. For what shall unto age accrue.