The Elon College Weekly.
LOCALS AND PERSONALS.
Mr. Louis Ashley, from^Greensboro,
spent Sunday in the village.
Mrs. J. B. D. Rhodes has returned to
her home in Harrisonburg, Va.
Miss Carrie Boyd, Mr. Leon Smith
and Mrs. W. A. Harper went to Greens
boro Friday, shopping.
Miss Cornelia "Bryan spent Saturday
night with Miss Annie Holt and Sunday
with Miss Ivie Coble, in Burlington.
Miss Pattie Preston led in Y. W. C.
A. Sunday afternoon, using as her sub
ject, "The Give and Take of Life." The
meeting was good.
After an able sermon at eleven o’clock
last Sunday, Dr. Atkinson administered
the ordinance of babtism to twelve per
sons, by immersion, in the afternoon.
Senior examinations closed Saturday,
2 I, and on that day the examinations for
all other classes began. These exami
nations run through this week, closing
Saturday afternoon, 28th.
One of Rev. C. C. Peel's little boys
developed a case of diphtheria i fe^v days
ago. The county health officers promptly
quarantined the patient, who is coming
out all right under the skillful treatment of
physicians.
It was announced this (Monday) morn
ing that Mr. J. W. Barney had won the
thesis medal, given by Dr. R. M. Mor
row, of Burlington, N. C., for the best
graduating thesis written by any member
of the Senior Class.
In Chtistan Endeavor Society Sunday
evenining, the subject was, " What is it
to be a Christian ?' A union meeting
with the Juniors; Mr. J. W. Barney was
leader. The meeting was interesting
and very inspiring.
Mrs. J. P. Huffman, who has been
sick about two weeks, is able to be out
again. Mrs. Sadie Jones has been sick
several days. She is suffering from over
taxed nerves. Mrs. W. L. Smith is in
poor health, so is Mrs. W. S. Tate.
Mrs. E. L. Moffit came down last
Monday from the hospital in Green boro,
where she has been with Dr. Moffitt.
Miss Clara Moffitt, of Asheboro, accom
panied her. Mrs. Moffitt returned to
Greensboro Tuesday, and the children,
Rhodes and Margaret were taken by
Miss Clara to Asheboro, until Dr. Mof-
fitt’s condition is such that Mrs. Moffitt
can leave his bedside.
Mrs. Alma Morse Wilson gave a
pleasant " At Home," on Thursday after-'
noon, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Robin
son, of Boston, Mass. The home was
beautifully decorated with roses and
various seasonable flowers. Miss Cornelia
Bryan and Miss Linda Barnes assisted
the hostess in receiving, while Miss Mary
Louse Pitts and Miss Bessie Urquhart
presided in the dining room, where deli
cious refreshments were served.
Mr. R. J. Kernodle and Miss Ruth
Jones marvelously escaped a serious acci
dent, Saturday afternoon, while out
! driving. The horse became frightened
I at the west-bound passenger train at the
' station, and in attempting to run, struck
' the front wheel on Mr. Kernodle’s side
against a stump, breaking the spindle.
Now with the lines slackened for an
instant the horse lost no time in gaining
speed. The buggy soon turned over
and threw both occupants to the ground.
Mr. Kernodle swung to the lines and
after being somewhat bruised up by be
ing dragged some distance, succeeded in
stopping the horse. Miss Jones was not
hurt, and the only serious damage was
to the buggy, which was pretty badly
torn up, the top being demolished.
The same day, but earlier, a team of
Mr. D. W. Brown’s ran away with a
wagon loaded with baled hay piled high.
As they turned the corner at the station
the wagon almost turned over. The
driver and bales of hay went flying down
on the side-walk like mill stones. Mr.
O. B. Barnes happened to be passing
just at this time and narrowly escaped
being struck by the flying bales. Mr.
Barnes is unable to walk without crutches,
having never entirely lecovered from a
broken ankle a few years ago, but he
cannot exactly remember whether the
crutches were of any service in escaping
the artillery of the hay wagon. The
team was stopped by running into an
out-building, ^with no serious damage
other than the breaking out of the wagon
tongue.
Affie Griffin.
Some Seventeenth Century
Books and Authors.
(By W. P. Lawrence.)
ROBERT BURTON.
The "Anatomy of Melancholy" is one
of the few books that 1 have not been
able to lay down, once having started to
read. I was so surprised at my fascina
tion that 1 have been trying to find the
secret of the author’s charm, but with
out satisfactory results. The title of the
book smells so much of the dissecting
room and there are so many Latin quota
tions, that would prove endless stumbling
blocks in any o her book, that I am puzzled
to know how these objections are so
easily overcome. The power in the
third portion, for it was this that 1 read,
must lie in the theme—three-fold—deal
ing with the three greatest passions of
the heart, love, jealousy, and religion,
and the author’s mastery of his subject
through close, accurate observation and
wide scholarship. Then, added to this,
is his easy, clear, charming style. |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
This author sets me thinking more than [
any other prose writer of this period.;
"Religio Medice," written when Browne i
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' found enough for one of fifty years. The
style is well suited to the matter, yet there
is no humor, no passion, no wit, other than
that of a penetrating, observing, learned
intellect, expressing itself without con
ceits, and with no attempt at striking
phraseology.
Like Felltham, he wrote resolves, but all
(in my copy of his works) on prayer.
Almost any one of the thirty-six sec
tions of "Christian Morals" is a sermon
in miniature. "Urn-Burial" is a learned
treatise on the disposal of the body af
ter death, as Burton’s "Anatomy of
Melancholy" is of that subject.
"Vulgar Errors" shows a remarkable
knowledge of the origin of popular su
perstitions and his dissent from much of
It.
Browne believed in prayer, lived
charity, taught wisdom, and died a philos
opher.
" O wad some power the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as ithers see us,"
And it might help a lot, my brothers.
To see ourselves as we see others.
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