The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10

Countetre to stand fn wooer: T shouldn't think of marrying an old sheep like you, my dear man. You had much better marry the soap boilers couple of you will be about as tame as a pair of barnyard fowls"
 This. too. is Madamselle CherPs idea and has been for forty years.
 Final scene on the terrace of the Chateau of Montplaiser sunny Au- gust morning. De Latour and Julie happy lovers. Eugene and Melanie their way to marriage smooth at last old Latour and Madamselle Cheri af- hanced after forty years of courtship
 Madame de Beauregard alone. cen ter of stage: Good Heavens! all the world seems to be getting married. shall ring up General Granier over the telephone and tell him that mean to marry him just as soon as have time to attend to anything. Let me sec automobiling this morning, Casino In the afternoon, dinner in the evening automobiling tomorrow morning, Ca sino in the afternoon. ball in the even- ing--well. l shall arrange to get mar ried as soon as possible; but one leads such gay life in Dinard that it's very hard to find time to do anything. even to get married"
 Curtain. The brightest and gayest of summer romances is finished. A book as bright and blithesome as a summer meadow all a-blcom.
 All That Was Possible, by Howard Overing Sturgis. I should like to dis miss this book with a word. and att tract no more attention to 1t; but I am expected to say more, and justice com pels me to say that 1t Is well written. V xl<l q {sh had never been written. I hope 1t will not be read Why turn aside from the pathway lined with roses to pluck an evil-smelling weed.
 The book is "the record of summer in the life of Mrs. Sibyl Croft's come dian" and is told by her by means of letters written to q friend. In the very first letter she says: You have probably seen In the society papers the approaching marriage in high life of the Earl of Medmenham to Lady Flor dered what would become of me under those circumstances. Several other people I find have been wondering the same thing, including George himself. Thus she announces to the one friend she seems to possess the breaking on Of her affair with George, Earl of Med menham, who has been her "protec' tor for the last three years Mrs Croft's life seems to have not affect. ed her despite its unconventionality For she closes one of her letters witf the following: Why. should I cal myself Mrs? Why must I lie, and tao, ity own I'm ashamed of what I've done when I'm not? That's the kind of thins that gals my pride"
 Being unable to stay in London to be what she calls a peepshow" for ev. eryone, and her aunt refusing to re. cefve her after her irregular life, Mrs Crofts hies her away to a little moss grown cottage in North Wales and begins to be loved to death She soon finds an admirer In the young son of a neighboring family, who are i'm mensely wealthy In an endeavor to save this youngster his uncle, some years older, falls victim to the come dian's charms and proposes marriage she thinks. The struggle that tmme- dfately begins in the girls mind as to whether she can pick up the threads of her life and begin over again under the protection of a good mans name or whether she must renounce him because she loves him too we'll to stain his life with such a wife Is well de- picted, The writer seems to have pen etrated to the inner consciousness of thc WoihdHt anu HON Oil9y CicdI what is there, but also brought out the characteristics of a woman's req soning capacity, The struggle de- picted is wonderfully we'll done. She says: why should I consider him st exclusively? What forbids me thinl of myself a little, and of my own we'll. fare and happiness? suppose it fl the fear of his relations, of what they will say and think, the terror of be. Ing supposed to be what they thought me at first, a designing adventures anxious to secure a position Whai does 1t matter what they think. SC long as he knows me better An! but suppose he should ever have doubts oi the purity of my motives. have such strong Inducements to marry him as the world reckons. even if I did not love him, that there might 6e moments In which he wondered if that was all I never could prove to him that had married him only because love the grass his feet have trodden better than all the rest of the world. There is only one thing can put my disinterest- edness beyond a doubt and that is to refuse. couldn't bear that he should ever have to blush for me. that shame or offence should come to him through me. And yet, and yet-it Is not Lon don. We might live it down"
 It is after this struggle on the girls part. her really noble effort to do the best thing. that the man makes her understand that what he proposes Is simply tie like the one binding her to the Earl of Mendenham. A Jason and no marriage at all. One feels sorry for the girl that she should have such an awakening after the moral struggle she has gone through with. ITO be kept in a corner" she cries the hidden sin of his life would be a daily torture. I recalled. too, what he had said about the possibilities of a woman taking one departure from the beaten track of commonplace morality without much harm, but that after the first lover would come the second. and so on. step by step. till the degradation was complete. And yet all his love could do for me was to give me the first impulse on that downward path But the girl fsN true to some higher. noblcr impulse and she fees away from temptation. Loving her lover blindly. she loves a something recently awak- ened in her by means of this very love, and she will not degrade herself nor him by anything but the most sol emn union. The heroine's solution of the problem confronting her is to be But why. oh, why. bring this topic forth so prominently in the book? There Is not A little that is ob- jectionable in the story, and one hopes the author will choose theme less re- for hls next effort.
 PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
 1 am no socialist l desire no equal ization of wealth. no general distribu- tion of riches. But in seeing the great outpour of wealth by the very rich I