The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-06

 -poem outiines.- by Sidney Ianier. 3n fife title of book of hitherto un- n4b1ished fragments by one who IS fast sming to be regarding as our ieadns American poet. The work is cited by Current Literature as an example Of how the essence of poetry may exist Without rhyme or meter
 n is A collection of outlines, many 6f (which are poems In themselves. and are characterized by the lyric sweet ness and the sincerity of the writer's moro finished poems.
 With the passing away of that broth CT spirit whose influence for the re- fnement of culture has been so sensi- bly, felt in Montgomery for many long years, the interest in the name and the work of Sidney Lanier is deepened- GRACEFUL COMPLIMENT TO
 MRS. OWEN.
 It has been learned with a great deal of interest throughout the State that Mrs. Thomas M. Owen will succeed Mrs. J. M. DeCottes as editor of the society page in The Montgomery Advertiser.
 Mrs. Owens is one of the most bril- liant women in Alabama. She has been prominent in Southern journalism for years. having been a constant con- tributor to several periodicals In addi- tion to free lance work. Her charm ing stories in Uncle Remus" and in the %Taylor- -Trotwood" magazines have created much admiring comment. She has also written a pay, which is said by critics who have reviewed 1t to be exceedingly meritorious. She is at present in New York, where she is su- perintending the staging of her play. The Advertiser is to oe congratulated upon securing the services of one who wields pen graceful, tactful and forceful and who is personally an ac- quisition of whom 1t may be proud Birmingham Ledger.
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 AS OTHERS SEE US.
 Opinions written by foreigners who have been received within the homes of the rich folks of the United States with generous hospitality, and some times with subservient sycophancy. are now flooding the magazines and press of European cities.
 These opinions are critical and full of censure. Those who read them with foreign feelings of prejudice delight in their wit of censure.
 Every city has a circle of society people known as The Smart Set" a paradox of words They are generally very stupid and foolish in speech and conduct.
 Foreigners looking on New York's swell society in restaurants. theatres and operas, are astonished. bewildered at the bar-maid voices. talk and man. ners of society rich women. They feol an authority of visible evidence in their censure.
 Every city in the United States has a culture. a refinement equal to any city of Europe. These people do not live in vaudeville publicity. nor do they talk with the 1zz of champagne words. They are nearly all college or university graduates. They look at life with the dignity, the serious thoughts that come with the incense of culture. and the contagion of high thinking minds. Some of these people are in society. Strangers do not always meet them. because they do not give well come or entertainment to all women and men who come with the flare of mo- toriety or public advertisement.
 Rich folks have degraded the ideal of society in the United States. This is a great injustice to the majority of American people. If hundred men and women boast stable manners with the jingle of their coin, there are hun dreds in every city of the United States that do not The majority has a right of recognition that must not be obliterated by a privileged money minority.
 A Count came to New Orleans on hunt for a matrimonial investment. He asked a prominent man in New Or leans to personally introduce him to clubs, merchants and florists. Every day he ordered $2O worth of American Beauty roses to be sent to the visiting heiress. Gifts of every description. of delicate fancy were of daily pres entation. The Count and lady departed at the end of carvinal gayeties. The Count forgot to pay his bills. Being Count he was not charged with lar ceny or embezzlement The problem was solved by the gentleman who was thief, according to the precepts of American honor. No honest man would say that all Frenchmen were thieves because one Count was a slick giver Of roses and gifts at another mans cost.
 With the same logic why should itine- rant foreigners dare to assert that all society women in the United States are of nasal voice, bad manners and no dignity of culture and taste? Paris society has her gilded fools; London society has her race horse women sports. Every city in the world has lights and shadows in social life. Let lig vaule the shadows within the quiet and rnodesty of cultured home life. They are true blue lights of right-liv- ing. When this fact is realized we will moi have magazine and newspaper writ ers making the history of the Amert- can women of 1908 as degenerates.- New Orleans Sunday States.
 THURSDAY BRIDGE CLUB.
 The Thursday Bridge Club was charmingIy entertained by Mrs George Tyson at the home of her mother on washington Street The hall and rooms were profusely decorated with ch chrvsanthemums of all shades. The hand-painted score cards were orna-