The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30

MT Harding, who has made a lot Of novels out of plays for the firm of Dn- lingham. has taken the play. "rhe Time, the Place and the Girl" which met with a good deal Of success on the stage in New York, and made a fairly good story out of it. filled with up-to-date slang, which was in the play, ana interesting fun which may or may not have been
 in the play The plot ia eat much musical comedies don't nt-- plots to amount to anything. Ne ore ants a plot In a musical play. This story deals with separated and "misiudged" couple, who afterward get together at q summer re- sort and sanatarium in Virginia near the city of Washington. The slang ana fun
 in the story are really very good. There are a good many great laughs in the book as finished by MT. Harding Of course, there is nothing heavy aSan; l. it isn't intended to be- It will fill a bad quarter of an hour very pleasiagiz: hslp the reader to forget it.' Whlca $ a great deal-at times. The hero n the story had been having a hard tiise of 1t with his sweetheart, who had spur ed him. His sporty philosopher and feinrd intimated to the hero that the latter hadn't gone at the game in the right way. Here is some of his advice to the hero:
 Don't weaken, old man. Your work was pretty much to the sandpaper but i what you want to do is frame up some thing so you won't land with your face in the gravel next time. Take 1t from me, she (the hero's sweethearD has got phoney ideas from training with high school cadets What she needs is rough treatment Bark at her and make her think you'll spank her if she don't breathe regular and you've got her buffaloed. When she seen you was doin the gentle man act she said to herself: Here's where I make him jump through the hoop when I crack the whip And from then , on you was a hero with the rim off. Take it from me, when you want to cop out a pompadour like her, don't give her no=e of this frst-class language like she pulled on you; don't take her in your , arms and whisper Brownin poems in her ear. That may be the boarding school dr cam of Paradise, but it aint the game for a welterweight that's entitled to vote. If you treat em the way you read about in $1.50 novels pretty soon some other guy will pull the handle and let you go through the chute. You got to make her a little scared of you and she'll be nice . people. Keep her guessing. I've heard lots of married guys say that if you want a steady imitation of the Home, Sweet Home game you've got to lay for the missus with d ball bat every time she lays back her ears. Call her down, even if you have to use brass knucks, and she won't try no funny work Girls may go dotty over those soft cigarette children for a little while, but the real one who can lead 'em without using a block and tackle is the guy that don't let 'em any buttons on him. Any time one of the hand-laundry fairies tries to get new with me, l says: Sister, I'm the big squeal that does all the loud talking. You're the fall guy In the hands of friends and if you stick to that there won't be no cracked ice in the chairs when you call
 But the hero replied that all that sounds all right, but he asked what must he do if the girl he loved showed spirit, and his philosophed and friends added: The game is not to scrap with the shirtwaist 1 was calling on a girl like yours once and she was sitting easy like in my lap, when all at once hears phoney noise. l sez: Suppose yer old man comes in and catches us like thls? She sez: Don't worry. He won't come in here. He's waiting for you outside with couple of croquet mallets, because he don't want to spoil the furniture
 Of course, the hero didn't act the given advice. All men talk that way about other than their own love affairs, until-well-unul the little god with the bow and arrows gets busy in their own on-then-well-it is to laugh how
 
 and jump through hoops.
 Sowing Seeds in Danny" By Belle L.
 McClung. Doubleday. Page & Co.,
 Mrs. Burton Francis was a dreamy woman who had lot of beautiful theo- ries, also the artistic temperament-but no children to practice on. The Watson fam fly, which lived near Mrs Francis, had no theories beautiful or otherwise, but plenty of children, to wit: Pearl, an imaginative, clever little girl F years old, who was the mainstay of the Watson family; Mary, a younger sister; then Teddy, Lilly. Jimmy, Patsey, Tommy, Robert Robin Watson, known as Bug sey, and last but not at all least on the contrary, was Daniel Mulcahey Watson, Wee Danny" into whom the seeds were sown by Mrs Francis in carrying out some of her theories. Watson, the head of his family, was a section boss on the Canadian Pacific railroad and all of his brood lived in dismantled box cars along the side of the track, but near the hand some home of Mrs. Francis, who had a silent husband who allowed her to prac- tice or do anything she pleased, just so long she didn't practice on him.
 The book Sowing Seeds in Danny is one of the cleverest little volumes sent forth in a long time. Pearl Watson is l q creation Tar superior, 1T lnlS reNleWer IS any judge, of "Lovey Mary and Mrs i Watson, Pearls mother, will compare most favorably with Mrs. Wiggs at any ] time or in any company.
 The book is simply filled with bubblng humor, together with pathetic incidents i The book Is a gem. It is simply an un- pretentious narrative of life across the i line in Canada, and no volume of it's size
 will give more pleasure to those who care for the good things we get so seldom than Sowing Seeds in Danny" Mrs. l Francis sowed a few seeds; but best of all she discovered by contact with facts 1 as distinguished from her theories that life was living, not dreaming.
 A mighty pleasing book is Sowing
 Seeds in Danny and most readers will ] agree with this reviewer in thinking Pearl Watson about the best, sweetest little
 girl in recent fiction.
 l Don't for Bach elors and Old Ma ids" by Minna Thomas Antrim (Henry
 Altemus Co.,, Philadelphia.
 Most of us know better than to eat
 sloofing noise with our soup, but there
 are lots of us who are not quite sure
 how to tackle an artichoke or an as-
 paragus stalk. Many man knows how ! to choose a horse without getting tho | worst of the bargain, who might and l again might not, be a happier man if he had had an opportunity of consulting
 Mrs. Antrims little book of "Dont's. in
 regard to choosing wives
 In her bright little book there are