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6 THE OHASLOTTE NEWS JANUARY 8.1911 (^ociaL c) ipersonat, (By Addie W ulicms Caldwell,) CHASING THE BLUES. Oh, my baby years. Is it that the dying Of ♦he year haa filled me with such thoughts as these, KlHed my eyes with mistiness, filled my breast with .^iRliing. Filled niy lieart wlfh sadness, filled ir with unease'. Fields there are wit hclover blooms In tbob reezes bending. Walls :>iero arew ith glory blooms ,1i:sf frsh with dev/, Gardens full of roses and the breaf'.is: of them nro blending, Wh.% iK> 1 look over them—arms ctitstro'ched ^o you? Nr^s (her«' ar.» and apples red, or* rk»' Arri my Viabv onie to me with her roil .'h.'eli' ! I'iisTins: ■ 'f li.'!' !i»v;lfh and happiness, want- IIP l>1 >,oM. WOMAN’S CLUB. lift them o’M up to me '■>M tJieni a" .-li >i love ■'n p-ck." iir, "’•■(! loveliness I .;'iM Uieni '.Iiuarms about my them, as blos- vv '1' I.','.'is. PjT VOURSELr PLACE. The January Treble Clef recital will be a lecture and recital on the life and works of Robert Schumann, by Mr. fleniT F. Anderson, the talented direc tor of music at the Presbyterian Col lege, next Wednesday aftemoou, Jan uary nth. at 4 o'clock. An invitation Is extended to the general public as well as the Woman’s Club members, to attend. An invita tion has also been extended to the Presbyterian College girls to be pres ent. Perhaps there la no composer who has made his music ‘‘say things” more than Robert Schumann. Trau- meri is only one example. An after noon of great pleasure is anticipated. Assisting Mr. Anderson wiil be Miss Mary '.'oreman, soprano; Mrs. H. F. Anderson, violinist, and Mr. Anderson at the piano and pii>c organ. FolloT\ing is the program: Disoourse on Schumann, For the organ: ta». Larghetto. (bi. Soherzzo. (ct. An Oriental Picture. Songs: (a). Mondnacht. Op. 39. No. 5. b). Widmimg. Op. 25. u ). Ich Wund’re Nicht, Op. 51, No. 3. Frr Violin: Traumeri. Op. 15, No. 7. Abendiied. Piano Forte: 'vtt So;u-in^. Op. 12, No. 2. Avowal o' l ove. Ou. 9. liomani'e. Oi>. 28. No. 2. Why .' Op. 12, No. 2. Xiphl Song, from Op. 23. Household Economics. The department of household eco- nuriiic?. of which Mrs. Rush T. Wrav I is chairman and Mrs. Chas. E. Platt, grieving thn^ i seeretary, v,ill meet Thursday. The I'lVd.crram v.-ill be as foliows: Pa);er--rvural Hygiene, Mrs. E. M. T H-ln --.r.cl!, ^ j F'ive Minute Talks: -IriTs with, 1. Snuitaticu of a Country Home— .su drun: H. C. Long. Kh’ for n:e. set : ^ 2. Healthful Surroundings on the Farm.—^}.Irs. H. D. Burkheimer. -1 danco.-? j Labor Saving Devices for the Wo- ivcn on the Alarm—Mrs. G. O. Dogsett. 4. Tv/cntietli ('entruy Farm House — Mis. A. M. S))ong. Pleasures of Countrv Life— Mrs. O. ,r. Thies. MISS BOWDEN’S LETTER. nrs' all thi ..HH anci l.appino?s all • >i;. vou. VM'ri* oaroll’ng. wav- Ti' >iuf’ina. V. ’- ' i.c! ans of \ '-I dev; r. ■•ars h.Tve broug'it ! . !ia\>‘ iiv(iui:ht me "'’d! • •' vt-ar— the IL, ■' il l'(l r>v IN HIS ■ ’ 'II a man's pl?.ce ■ i'ii ’ r ir p .;st be co him i :i in'u.'uiy wirli ;iio re- ‘ / -.irvn-cJ vvif^. Think I : *eii V. jth tiip labor of I ’■ • ki d w it: t’;*- -'ru.Li'Tle j 1 I,; i‘: nn niireas-1 ‘■ ■ r.x'hef s of! : iii^ himie to a , 1- frettli':" ai:c! . T '; tli’uk of; ii> : h' to a wife ■( • y ard conie-nt-1 I'.er li'tle ;\v(i-by-- ’ I'.ome in the; ■and :he fin'''?t fel-j ;r.h; a:yourself' rather be. | i' i M to you to I r.s !l ■d 1." that ari tl,-.: i‘- ■ • I ; Misses Elizabeth Pemberton and Alice \Valker. of Wilmington, who have been visiting Miss Caroline Con stable. have returned home. ^ DR. HOWERTON HERE. Rev. Dr. J. R. Howerton, of Lexing ton. \a. v'ho is to oecup.v the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church to morrow. will be the guest of his moth- e**. Mrs. A. S. Howerton, on South Try(m street. Dr. Howerton is greatly beloved in Clii*"lotto, and his return visits to his forrrer parishioners is a source of .“■^reat pleasure. O- MRS. YARDROUGH HOSTESS. ->Irs. J. A. Yarbrough was hostess at a lovely dinner party Friday at her houie on Xonh Tryon street. The col or sriieme was red and Mrs. Yar- Urough’s artistic temperament gave it were: ino«d in your j dainty execution. The guests TI .If,. ■ li - :i :i(i Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Hulten, Mrs. A. C. Ha i ron. Mr. and ^Irs. Lloyd Withers, ■Mr. and Mrs. Dabney Yarbrough, Mr! i'Ud Mrs. T. S. Franklin, and Mrs. D. H. Yarbrous^h. 'li.- . a. hr. I 1')., . r . V l.» -l' • 'iljl ( r> I '-a ‘o ):j f ' 1, : If/Vp t \ t'lt'd ; r.ii .11 Itis \'i. i ii-3 Thu^. s;;all John , jb.er h'}! P' 'iiic 'he »1' CP! ‘ i l) Tc are noi goin, (>i I'curse you ■‘"lug fo think alikr> »':i are going '.III' a rinu' and oft. VM-ir U'Pth on the i 'Tiii'ol your temper 'W'lud"' yourself into It .1 ’ f>’i rniarrol and I' th '.‘ ihe matter is ii.'ivc (icajf love a ?i li'tle of the life I.'} ind by it will In the Wlertz allery in Brussels , Is a wonderful painting, says David i you want to'Starr Jordan, in the Popular Science ^ urr oss. foster i Monthly, dating from tbo time of f ' r i‘. for; Waterloo, called “Napoleon in Hell.” NAPOLEON. The friends of Miss Beulah Bowden and the public generally will be Inter ested in the letter given below, which is taken from the Foreign Mission Journal. Miss Bowden is a daughter of Mr. P. A. Bowden, of this city and has been engaged in mission work for some time: “A two months’ stay in the Old North State, thirt.v-three societies vis ited and meetings held; three hundred dollars collected to help furnish the school building in Guaymar, the leav ing home, a week crossing the conti nent and down the Gulf of California to the Port Guay mas; a wait of twen- ey-four hours at the border for bag gage; a suit case taken from Pullman by mistake during the night, two weeks later recovered. “Thus was our entrance made into a climate of 1090 F., the last of Sep tember. The first day we opened our new school here with over forty stu dents, and to date I have registered eighty students. “Miss Laura Cox appointed from ^Interville, N. C., came with me and is at the head of the English depart ment of thirty students. We have sev en boarders. One of these is a pure- blooded Indian girl of the Yaqui tribe, and is a promising gorl. The other boarders are young and await to be iW)ulded by a Christian school into useful workers, we hope. They come to us about nine and ten years of age and the school practically becomes home to them. Among our day students the very best families are represented, as v/ell as a good many charity students. You may be glad that the convention has seen fit to put you to school here, for there is no shadow of a doubt but that there is a great opening here of we can only avail ourselves of the op portunity. “Note this that the government only ha_s six grades in the schools of ail this coast region, and the people are f^ggre.ssive and are ready for more ad vanced work. We give them ten grades and they appreciate it. Of course, some trouble must come. We use the Bible as a text book and interjiret it. One father took three of our first students out of school because we re quired them to attend chapel exercises and to stud.v the Bible. He left saying be would try to convince the mother and send them back. They have not returned. 'Our iniilding, though a residence, is fairly adopted to school work. In onr front yai’d bloom the perennial cotton tree, the orange, the aleander and the illuvia dearo (rain of gold), l.ooking out of the front you can see the bay with several warships, and ' es=els of several nations are pointed out to you. Although unbearably warm when we came, now, the first of November, the climate is balmy and breezy. And they toll me that we have ideal winters down here. Living is always high in Mexico, but even more so here than in the interior. Eggs are 8 cents a piece, iiutter $1.25 per pound, Mexican currency. “Our school is graded, with a si)an- ish department, as well as the English. We have two native teachers M’^ho are graduates of mission schools, and both are splendid charactcrs, as well as teachers. ‘ I ask each reader to especially re member this new work; it needs your help in thought, in j)rayer, and in moTi- ey. We are going to have a little in come. but \ou know we are in the very beginning and everything is to be bought. Many deserving ones can’t be helped because we have to limit ourselves. “Yours in His service as a teacher, “BEULAH B. BOWDEN. “Col]€gio Occidental, “Guaymas, Mexico.” that makes the i : "^o round with- ’■ - 1.'cause women .Tf },f y f r-a;-e to try to linnd;'. And to keep in ‘■Vi- W) your husband’s •T • inL'iiifving glass iip- ■’1 ’■■■(' liap|)y and make '■r (ii(> I'oa, success af ‘in a worran placing ii|H)n 1 p -desial, aud hav- f iii'*' uurniiu:; in- i I in - ! .’(jrotbv I)ix ♦ TO FLORI-.'A iN A FEV/ DAYS. Tlr. nn l .Mrs. \\'. T. will leave In the oi ibp next few day.s f'«” t’ w Ik i'i t1h*v wHl spend til* r*i iair (U r oi' the v.iuter - ^ MIS3 ADAMS SPECIAL GUEST, Th^- :>IistlPt(;f> Club was entertained \Vedue«(lay afternoon by Miss Sadie Sfewait at li(‘r bonu* on W’es^ avenue. Miss Suraii Adsnii.'-, of Sfaeavllle, was tl)'^ sj-erial iriioBt oi iionor. Mrs. J. C. I.«Rlie and Miss Emma Robb Leslie returned to New York last night after a visit here of several w('eks. ♦ HERE. Mjhb .Tanet Qumn, of Salisbury, is a gue&t at her uncle’s, Mr. Geo. M. Phi fer. She will be hero possibly for a week. ^ Mrs. W. A. Smith has returned from a visit of some weeks In Washing ton. 18 IN JACKSONVILLE . Mrs. A. xVI. Shaw and son. Master Oliver Shav.', who were visiting In Jacksonville, Fla., will be home in the course of a fortnight. A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Miss Virginia ivey won the girls’ prize, a copy of Evangeline and Mr. Francis Clarkson won the boy’s prize, a large postcard album, at the part;, given by Miss Anne Eloise Burk heimer, at her home, 11 W^est Vance .street, Friday evening. The occasion being her sixteenth birthday. The large home w’as bright with the holiday colors, red ribbons, shades and holly. Dancing and a state contest were the features of amuse ment. Ices and bonbons w'ei'e served. AN INEXORABLE INFLUENCE. represents the gi'eat marshall with folded arms and face unmoved de scending slowly to the land of the shades. Before him, filling all the backgrotmd of thep icture with every expression of countenance, are the men sent before him by the un-1 bridled ambition of Napoleon. Three millions and seventy thousand there were in all—so history tells ua— more than half of them F’renchmen. Thej' are not all show nin one pic ture. They are only hinted at. And behind the millions shown or hinted at ;ire the millions on millions of men who might have been and are not—4he huge widening human wedge of the possible descendants of the men who fell in battle. Harshness of Napoleon. In the service and in intercourse with his officers he was cold, almost rejiellent. severe, and Inflexibly just. One day Gen. Gouvjon Saint-Cyr, af- terwarrls marshal, appeared at the emperor’B morning audience at the Tuileries. Napoleon said quietly to him: “You come from Naples, gen eral?” “Yes, sire, I relinquished my command to Marshal Perington, whom your majesty sent to relieve nee.” “And no doubt you have leave of absence from the minister of war?” “No, your majesty; but I had nothing else to do In Naples.’" “Unless you are on your way to Naples within two hours you will be shot on the plain of Orenelle at 12 o’clock precisely,” said the em peror, returning his watch to his pocket. — Killand — Napoleon's Men and Methods. Mr. W. H. Thompson has returned to the city from Birmingham, Ala., where he recently lost his wife. Mrs. Thomp son was greatly beloved In Charlotte. Her death cast a gloom over this city. > LEAVE TONIGHT Misses Susie Hutchison and Sarah Wilson leave tonight on their return Not by years but by disposition Is to Washington where they are attend- wlsdom acquired.—Plautua. ing the Hamilton school this winter. We do not scan And .iudge the man All by the plan Of what he wears; But fashions start With changeful art And claim a part Of woman’s cares. While modes today Seem chic and gay, A glad display To please the eye. The fashion plate That’s out of date Portrays a fate That brings a sigh. The lass so fair With graces rare You would compare Unto a rose; You think how queer That pretty dear Would look next year In this year’s clothes ? —Washington Star. METHODIST ^ PKILEATHEA. The Philathea Class of Tryon Street M. E. church met Frida.y night at the home of Mrs. L. L. Caudle on Central avenue, where they were most delightfully enter tained. Business and pleasure were enjoyably combined, thouth the pres ence of the teacher. Miss illla Dowd, who is 111, was very much -nlssed by every one. Mrs. Caudle, who has re cently been made president of the class, presided so capably and show ed such an interest in the work as to give the class fresh hope and energy. Miss Nora Hyndman. who is a member of the class, was showered wits quite a number of beautiful presents. In token of the high regard in which she is held by them. A delightful salad course was sei*v- ed by the charming hostess. All mem bers are asked to be present at the next meeting, ♦ A noble soul has no other merit than to be a noble soul.—Schiller. CONFEDERATE COLUMN. Mrs. William Overman, of Salis bury, who was to have met with Stonewall .Jackson Chapter yesterday afternoon, was imable to do, so the business of the afternoon was rou tine. Mrs. Gordon Finger, president, presided. The treasurer reported hav ing received the sum of $55 from Miss Bessie Burkheimer, proceeds from her play, “The Girl Who Dared.” Miss Julia Alexander, chairman of the entertainment ■ committee of Lee Johnson Day, reported that she had secured as orator. Dr. W. J. Martin, of Davidson College, a son of a di!3 tinguished veteran—28th North Car olina regiment. The speaking will take place at night—19th—in the gymnasium Hall at the Y. M. C. A. There vv^ill be music b.v the children of the Confederacy and the Veterans choir. Mr. Robert Keesler will have charge of the music. The. Chapter voted to give $10 to the North Carolina room in the Con federate Museum at Richmond, and $10 to the Shiloh monument fund, the former being represented by Mrs. Latta Johnston and the latter by Mrs. A. L. Smith. Mrs. Register has charge of the veterans’ dinner fo the 19th. W^en asked about it yesterday she said; “The dinner will be on time—at 12 o’clock—and it will be a good one” * * * Dr. Madison C. Peters, the well- know'n writer has written recently a series of articles on “Turning points in great careers.” Judah P. Benjamin was one of Dr. Peters’ subjects. Says Dr. Peters: Judas P. Benjamin, pronounced by the late Mr.' Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme court, "the brains of the Southern Con federacy, and declared by Schouler in his “History of the United States,” “the ablest, the most versatile, and most constant of all Davis’ Civil Coun sellors,” was born of English-.Tew'ish parents at St. Croix. West Indies, in 1811. Removing in ISIS to W'ilmington, N. C., his precocity attracted Moses Lopez, of Charleston, a wealth.v .Tew, who sent the boy to Yale in 1S27, but wishin.g to be independent he left in his sophomore .vear. His parents had moved from Wil mington to New Orleans, and Judah followed them. He became a notary’s clerk, taught school at night, studied law at every opportunity and was ad mitted to the bar in 1S32. His success was phenomenal from the beginnin.g, and he soon acquired an independent fortune. He bought a sugar plantation with the intention of settling down as a planter. He made some wonderful exi)eriments in extracting the juice from the cane, which to this day are used in the large su.gar fields of the South, but his venture did not pay. he v.Ms compelled to give up the planta tion scheme, chiefly, however, through floods which destroyed most of his l)roperty. This failure as a planter was the turning point in his .great career. He was compelled to return to the practice of law. Politics began to interest him. In 18-14 he was a member of the Louis iana Constitutional Convention. In 49, as Presidential elector at large for Ijouisiana, he cast his ballot for Gen eral Taylor. Admitted to practice before the Su preme court of the United States, he poon became one of tne leaders of the Federal bar. Senator Vest records the fact that Judge Black was Benjamin’s adversary in his first case and that Mr. Justice Field? had told Black when the court toog its recess, after Benja min had stated his case. “You had better look to your laurels, for that little Jew from New Orleans has stated your case out of court.” Presidence pierce tendered Benjamin the position of associate .justice of the Supreme court of the United States which Benjamine declined. In ’52 Ben jamin Avas elected United States Sen ator from Ijouisiana. He was twice re elected. In ’5C Benjamin was one of the small group of senators who succeeded in se curing the nominaticn of Buchanan for president. Mr. Buchanan offered him the Attorney Generalship, which he declined. Benjamin’s attitude in the senate centered almost exclusively around his fixed belief that the duty of the Feder al government was to protect slave property. All the important political speeches in the senate were directly concerned with the slave question. His speeches were powerful expositions of the Southern view^ Henry L. Dawes has classed Benjamin with Summer. Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Yancey and Breckenridge as an orator and one whose productions were not less elo quent than those of Fox or Pitt, Pat rick Henry of John Adams. Referring to his farewell speech in the senate Sir George Cornw'all Lewis, was discussing it with some friends in a London club. Going up to Lord Sherbrook, Lewis asked the nobleman if he had read Benjamin’s speech. “No.” anr.wercd Lord Sherbrook. “Then read it,” advised Lewis, “for it is far ahead of anything our ov/n Benjamin (Disraeli) could have done.” The part Benjamin took in the Con federacy yill neA^er be known imtil a complete history of the South is w'rit- ten. He thought to bring England to her knees through a cotton famine. Cotton was then king and the astute statesman felt that the holding up of this product would be sufficient cause for interference on the part of a country which depended on the raw material for her finished products. But the Emancipation Proclamation of Lin coln made it morally impossible for England to Interfere. As to France, Benjamin was on terms of intimacy, with Napoleon III. He made several visits to that country and he knew the Emperor and people w'ell, but France too had to hold off her hands. Benjamin, however, succeeded in negotiating loans from the Erlanger family, of Paris, with which to carry on the struggle. When Erlanger, from whom Benjamin had borrowed money, in Paris, came over to this counti'y to see for himself the real state of affairs, he went to the state department where he had an interview of two hours with Benjamin, the conversation being in French. In a speech in the Confederate house of representatives, referring to this interview. Gov. Foote said: “On the occasion of the recent visit of Mr. Erlaitger, Minister Plenipotentiry and Envoy Extraordinary from His High ness, the Emperor of France, to His Highness, the Would-be Emperor of the Confederate states, Judas Iscarot Benjamin, the conversation was in French for two hours.” When Lee sun'endered to Grant and Jefferson Davis’ was outlawed a price was also put on the head of his secre tary of' state. Benjamin lost all his property and fled to the West Indies, whence he made his way to I.»ondon and there at the age of 55, when most men think of laying down the burden of life there came a second turning point in his great career. He entered Lincoln’s Inn as a law student in 1866 and owing to hi brilliant American record he was ad mitted to the English bar in less than a year. From the first his success was phenomenal. He made colonial appeals his specialty, just as he had made California claims a specialty at the Louisiana bar. In a short time he was making money at the rate of $100,- 000 a year. He rr'se in a few years to be the ac knowledged head of the English legal profession. He retired with well-w'^on and well-worn laurels in 1882. Bench and bar vied 1th each other to show him honor. A public dinner was ten dered in his honor in the Inner Temple on June 30, 1883, which was presided over by Sir Henry James. The greatest legal light in England paid glowing tributes to the Grand Old ^an of the Bar, who had made his profession a shining success on two continents, de spite every obstacle and difficulty. After he quitted the English bar he went to Paris to live. His daughter, Ninatte, had married Captain Henri de Eousignas. of the 117th Regiment of the French Line, and was living w’ith her mother in the French capital. There he died on May 6, 1884, at the age of 73. A Southern Yankee. Gen. Lee Christmas, who is leading Honduras insurrection in the interest of the Bonilla cause, is spoken of in the dispatches as “a Yankee soldier of fortune,” says the National Banner. He is a soldlr of fortune beyond dispute, one who emulates the example and dar es the fate of William Walker, but that they call him a Yankee only serves to emphasize the diverse use of the term made in different parts of the ■vs'orld. Lee Christmas comes of a family that was in the Carolinas before the revo lutionary war. His birth and bringing up w^ere in Mississippi and New Or leans, and just before he began his Central American exploits his home was in Memphis. In all respects he is wholly Southern, and that they should call him a Yankee shows that these foreigners do not refard the difference we make in this country.” ^ LIBRARY NOTES. ♦ I^ D. A. R. COLUIMN ^ ♦ (Written for the Sunday Social Past by Miss Mary Palmer, Librarian.) ♦ MUSIC. ♦ ^ The second concert of the “Throe Artists Series” of the Charlotte Musi cal Association will take place at the Academy of Music on Tuesday eve ning, the 24th of January. The artists- to-be are: Mr. Henry Holden Huss, composer and pianist. Madaui Hlldegard Hoffman Huss, so prano. Miss Lillian Littlehales, cellist. In a program Avhich they gave during their recent European appear ances, containing several of Mr. Huss’ compositions, including the beautiful A Major Sonata for ’cello and piano, which has been so highly received in New York and London. Since Mac Dowell’s death Henry Holden Huss ranks as America’s foremost living composer, and it is to his type of man and musician that has won the re&pect of American art at home and abroad. \t is a matter of pride with the asso ciation that the lovers of music will have the pleasure and privilege of hearing two such American pianists and composers as Mr. La Forge and Mr. Huss. The second concert prom- i&es to be one of unique beauty and Charlotte musicians are anticipating an evening o fgreat pleasure. *>!!>!■ The offertory at the First Presbyter ian church this morning will be sung by Miss May Oates, with violin obli gato by Mr. Don Richardson. It will be a musical treat. ^ CAM Pi MG PARTY. Miss Madeline Faires was hostess Friday evening to the following young people and a most enjoyable party was the result: Misses Emily Durham, Hazel and Geane Robinson, Harriet Orr, Sarah Moseley, Lucy Belle Jenkins, and Nell " Baird; Messrs. George G. Simpson. Kennard Buxton, Clarence Blake, Jack Wal lace. William Myers Jones, John Parks, John Martin, Charles Russell and Ben Wallis. The occasion was in the nature cf a “camping party” and the decora tions and refreshments were unique and in keeping with ’this Idea. The green dining room was converted into a typical camp-in-the-woods, and a real gipsy kettle from which de licious punnch was served was the center of. attraction. The refresh ments consisted of oysters, sand wiches, crackers, pickles, olives on tin plates, with coffee in tin cups. Bags of apples were found around in convenient places and after dinner mints v/ere passed. The w'hole affair was informal and a most pleasant variation from the usual round of midwinter festivities. ^ » PLAYERS OF CARDS. The public library of Madison, Wis., is trying the experiment of moving pictures as an aid in making the li brary more fully an educational in stitution. Admission to the room is by ticket, distributed by teachers of the schools to the seventh and eighth grades of the public schools. Miss Wilde, the children’s librarian, on a recent date told in a simple man ner the story of Lancelot and Elaine, explaining that this story, which was to be illustrated by the pictures and other stories of a similar nature, would be found at the loan desk of the in stitution. The moving pictures that portrayed the leading scenes of the story, the scenery and costuming of the charac ters being in perfect accord with the spirit of the thenie. Miss Imhoff then outlined the story of Oliver Twist giving a little account of Charles Dickens and his other in teresting books, and then for about twenty minutes the story of Oliver Twist was retold by a moving picture apparatus. Secretary Dudgeon of the Wisconsin library commission is greatly interest ed in the outcome of the experiment and should adequate results in inter esting the children follow% the work will be extended to other libraries in the state. * * * The executive board of the American Librar.y Association has decided to hold the 1911 confei’ence at Pasadena, Cal., beginning May 18, and the ten tative outline, of the itinerary of the librarians in connection with the meet ing is most attractive. The West has become a splendid libr«ary field, and will prove exceedingly interesting to the visiting librarians. * « * Interesting topics in leading period icals for January; America, Industrial, Ten Years of— Warld’s Work; American Naval Ex penditure—Atlantic; Americal poets three—Forum; American trees, for eign-born—Review of Reviews; Arc tic prairies, The—Ccribner; Automo bile. The, in fire service—Review' of Reviews; Balloon “America II.” Flight of—Century; Battleship, The new— World’s Work; Child, A crusade for the—North American Review; China, American trade v/ith—Century; Cor porations, The tribute of the—^Amer ican; Disease, Conquest of—World’s Work; Divorce, Problem of—Forum; EfTiciency and tariff revision—Review of Reviews; Farming with automobiles —Review of Review's; Furs from far places—Everybody’s; Goodness, The ignominy of—Atlantic; Government of law or men?—North American Re view; Grand Canyon, The—Century; Hotel, The land of the—Harper; Ital ians in the U. S.—Forum; Journalist, the training of the—Atlantic; Lee and Davis—Atlantic; London Town Plan ning Conference—Review of Reviews; Methodist church in Italy—North American Review^: Miracles, The sub ject of—Everybody's; Mormons, The —Everybody’s: Napoleon, An unpub lished talk with—Harper; Oklahoma, Ten years’ progress in—W^orld’s Work; Panama Canal—North American Re view; Pension Carnival—W'orld’s; Work; Personalities and political forc es—North American Reviev.'; Political coruption. Cause of—Scribner; Poli tics in 1911—American Polygamy. Mor mon revival of—McClure; Popiilation, Ten years' growth in—World’s Work; Railroad monopoly—McClure; Sierra. My first summer in the —Atlantic; Socialism and human achievement— Atlantic: Tariff-made State, A.—Amer ican; Tariff, The lemon in—McClure; Telgraph and telephone men—Scrib ner; Tolstoy at sixty—Bookman: Tol stoy. A visit to—McClure; Unemploy ment insurance in Germanj-—Scrib ner; Woman suffrage. Importance of —North American Review; Women, A platform for—Forum; Women of to morrow—Everybody’s. Thursday is D. A. R. 1;.,. . mark the first meeting ' ' ’'i! the five chapters of the lenburg, Charlotte and ;nree ilor. y Ha Mecklenburg Chapter D, \ meet Thursday witli Mr? " don. Mrs. C. N. G. Butt paper on “The State of Lor' ‘ “UiKliu; Charlotte Chapter is to !),. of Mrs. E. L. Bussev oi^ Court. The literary pror,;..,) sist of a paper by Mrs. H [,'1 ‘'°"' on “The Hu.genots of the Delegates to the continen. i' are to be elected at the nn * * * Liberty Hall Cha])ter w[\] Mrs. E. P. Tingley at 3 o’clock the commitiee o'j Standisa Tea" to be givea meet. inas; ' Oiisresj 'int;. n-.r W’:', ni. V The Francis Scott Kr p. A. R., of Baltimore. i;;,d a 'r ing Iasi; week commemurati\ unlurling of the flag t'o' ti'f^ a !' time by George Wasliiu-i,,' uary 1, 1776. ♦ girls AND THEIR FRIeNdc 1 “Most of us start our with rather definite Aii'ihuofj opiniijiis os jg friendship,” says Anne i3rv;,_n in Wom-an’s Home Coniitaivam for January. “A friend should be that. We have the matter all eenied in our minds. And then, RUmg comes some experience entirely ouiside our expectation. The friend in Waoru ne have vowed undying devotinn fails 13 in some essential and and uiaappoinfs us deeply. The structure we tboi’ght secure for all tlm.e falls snddonlv Some of us perhaps sit among the ruins, bewailing and embitterod: but the healthy-minded girl fares the fact squarely and looks about for reasons, “One reason our friendship fails Is that we think of them of complete and established things. Friendship is a thing never complete—it is always in the making. A vow of friendship, no matter how earnest, is, at best, oni.v a promise to pay; whereas many of ns mistakes it for a payment in Ifqeif, Take any of those big qualities and re quirements of every worth-while friend, ship, loyalty, truth, honor, uiiseltish- ness, fidelity—does it occur to you that any one of these can be established once and for all? Indeed, it cannot Loyalty yesterday is not loyalty today, nor ■v\'ill an unselfish act of the day that is past serve to meet the obliga tion of unseliishness of the day that i>) here. It is a luxury, this, that can be bought and paid for and a receipt giv en. This love you have set yourself to share w'ith some particular person is an obligation, a duty, a tas^k and a difficult one that shall lasi your life long.” ^ miss orr ^ UP AND OUT. The many friends of Miss Lnura Orr, who has been confined to bed for some vv^eeks, will ie.joioe ' know that she w'as able lu be Cai for a walk yest^erday. GUESTS AT DR. GLASCOCK'S Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Glascoc!-; hfTP s? .guests at their pretty home in i')!':- worth Mrs. H. W'. Glasccriv and 11?.: of Raleigh, and M. N. Gln'^roclf, of Mass., father of Dr. Glascock. ► ♦ ♦ O GOOD MANNERS, M If a tailor be the ninth part of a man, it must be a consolation to the cardplayer to be at least a fourth. If indeed, he be “dummy” he need not be a tailor’s dummy. The w'hole range of human emotions is this. The trium phant holder of four trumps, the mas- sacreed and inocent victim of a “grand slam.” the irritable and irreconcilable whiner whose trick has been doubly won by a sleepy partner, are subjects for caricaturist and tragedian alike. For in a game of cards one has the miror and measure of a man. A Ho garth might sharpen his pencil or a Lamb write a whole series of essays upon the cardplayers. The benevolent old gentleman, with gold-rimmed spec tacles; the studious old maid whose mind carries the procession of cards like a human kaleidoscope; the dream er w'ho is thinking of some suit more romantic than tho four cardinal points of the card-player’s compass; the hope less and abject beginner—all move in the pasteboard circle. They are not invariably models of propriety, of re straint and temper, but always they are artists, models.—T. P’s Weekly. ‘ WEDDIN GOF INTEREST. A pretty home w'edding for nesday will be that of Miss Lucy Leonora Hynadman, of this city, and Mr. Edward Clinton Hood, of Balti more. The ceremony will take place at 3 p . m., at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam John Hyndham, 315 East Sev enth street. Rev. Dr. Rowe will ofll- ci&te. The only attendants will be Miss Mattie Hyndman, sister of the bride, w'ho will attend her and Mr. J. C. Gilmer, who will be best man. ♦ PRETTY ' AFFAIR. The box party given in compliment to M:ss Zada Gardner yesterday on the anniversary of her birthday, by ten of her young friends was a j^retty as well as delightful affair. The two boxes to the left of the stage were reserved, and the .voung people filled both. A color scheme, in dress, was maintained, pink being the effect. The dresses were dainty and becoming. After the theatre the young ladies of the party gave a progressive dinner, which kept them on the road until about 7 o’clock. The young men of the party gave Miss Gardner a ten pound box of Martha W^ashington candy while at the theatre. The pariy consisted of: Misses Gardner. Dolores Bellinger. Katherine Adams, Evelyn Blake and Marvin Ray; Messrs. Norman Schiff, Francis Wearn’, Frank Dowd, jr., Harold Hooper, and Todd Misenheimer. “Good manners are made up pei.ty sacrifices.” This w^as a dictum oi Ernorson?, 'if'd it is well illustrated in tabie manners. Perhaps nowhere else d'- ’•.e see more examples of personal convenience being submitted to co> sideration for the sensibilities '>• others. It is certainly easier ana more convenient to eat a oi'.op 'i'' a chicken wing by taking the bonp In the hand and biting the niea’ fr'>™ it than it Is to cut the meat rpref'::; ly in pieces of a suitable size a:r carrj' these to the mouth nn die fork. In like manner it is ii simple' matter to la.v your bread on ’li; table, “slather” the butter on it ^ " your knife and then take montl't: Mrs R. G. Chestnut of Greenville, S. C. who has been visiting her pa»’- ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Williamson, has returned home. ♦— TO SCHOOL IN BALTIMORE. Mrs. J. R. .Jordan, of Virginia, who has been with her sister. Mrs. Harris Wilcox for some weeks, has return ed home. She was accompanied bv her neice. Miss Eleanor Wilcox, v/ho leaving her mother at Danville, went on to Baltimore to school. ^ TRIP TO FLORDIA. Planning a delightful Flordia trip for the near fuiure are Mr. and Mrs W. R. Burwell, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Carson, and Mrs. J. S. Carson and daughter, Lucy Holmes Carson ^ Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share Of our consideration.—Pliny th© Elder. from the whole slice than ‘S break off and butter a Mi 0 time as you w’ant it. Quiet eating might, it would he taken for granted. Yet 1 !• ' family of charming girls ' -i.. eat noisily, apparently ne\> ing or never having b^eii fausrh^ that one of tiie first essemials o- table manners is to keei) closed while chewing. Wrong table manners nf" . r ron from occasional experience. V ■ almost always tell from the nia’rip: of a man or woman whoil’ r conduct displayed is tho r- 11; habit or a desire' to appear ' the presence of strangers. Ti; vlor which is taught, and, if sar.v, enforced at home Is ' ' ■ kind that wiil stand strain. V Home Companion. ♦ TO JOIN FAMILY. Mr. T. J. Mathews, mn'.ae''’ the Zinzendorf, of Winswn. - here this week to join his " little daughter, who are vi.si ' Matthews’ mother, Mrs. Gu-- ^ '• Patrick. ■ — Mrs. J. M. McLaughlin v -- ■■■' to Sandersville, Ga., ye.'^i '• see her sister, Mrs. Hood. ' ' ' cently had a stroke of paral.v^i-’ ^ MR. SHAW SELLS HOME. Mr. \y. E. Shaw has sold hi> ’ ' ' in the western part of the cit; St. .Tames’ Park to Major T. » consulting engineer of the Power Company. Mr. and -Mrn are temporarily at Mr. .F. Howell's, ^ ^ Mrs. M. C. Thomas, of H 1^'^ liam, who has beita in the 7' lotte Sanitorium tor several returned to her home yesier'i^i'’ ternocn. 11P3- i.f? ■hd'’-
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