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TH!3 OHAKLOTTE NEWS JULY 23, I9II
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Social and Personal
J]y ADDIE WILLIAMS CALDWELL)
A Plea For the Gentler Graces.
L«»v«* the mean things for narrower
men tfian yo’i.
And li?t to the call of nobler work
for you.
Scorn nor the humble; that is small,
indeed.
And small men only wound the
hearts that bleed.
Bury the ausei' that flashed from
your eyes.
And learn that hate is something to
despl!»e.
Leave hitterness*. with all its with-
erinn blight.
To those 'vlio walk in darkness, not
in light.
L«t cynics spurn the homlier vir-
tuee, which
Make true men's hearts irrevocably
rich.
Leavy puny minds to question those
decrees
Which God sends forth, and down
u^on your knees!
Think nof love useless, nor a tender
word-
Life to its deep by sentiment Is
Stirred.
Talk sweetn«fls». act it, and so being
Trise
Pass to swee: dreams when • other
BweeTness die^'
—Bentztown Bard.
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♦ CONFEDERATE COLUMN ♦
Dame Fashion.
Writing of ‘n-ame Fashion"
pmi
The first meeting of Stonewall
Jackson Chapter V. D. C. this fall will
be on the first Saturday in Septem
ber. 'i'he most importsnr business
before ilie C'hapter at the fall inaugural
meeting will be the state convention,
which will be held this year in Win
ston. The date is October 2r>. To suit
the convenient'e t>f the Winston .date
wa.s moved up two weeks so as not to
ronflict with the oouut' fair.
♦
WHERE NATURE
IS BEAUTIFUL.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Rogers returned
F/lday night from an extensive trip
north. After visitmc Rochester, the
mecca of the Shriners, they went to
IJuffalo ani Canada, visiting Toronto,
-Montreal. Niagara. Thousand Island.^,
and other places along the St. Lawr
ence. and then to Lake Champlain.
As I think of the beauties of the
places visited.' said .Mrs. Rogers, “I
van not find words id tiescribe them—
the stuitfudou^ i;randeui of .Niagara,
tho beauties of Thousand Islands, the
(luaint beauty of the Canadian cities,
the placid beauty of Lake Champlain
— all beautiful bevond description."
♦
TO VISIT
ST. LOUIS GIRLS.
Missies Hlrdie and Helen Clinard,
left yesterday for Ocean View. Va.,
to be the guests for several weeks of
Misses Priscilla and Rebecca Alden,
of St. Jxjuis.
her influence William T. L'llis. taK
,ng "Manasseh as I'.i? text, says:
“Cleopatra Is famous—or infamous
—in history as the woman who led
king* captive to their ruin. Her in-
auence is said to have changed the
current of bi?*tory More po'ent thaii
Egvpt's beautiful queen, however, in
iffecting The fate of nations has been
the force wnich we sometimes per-
■onify as Madame Grundy or Dame
Fashion T'na* tyrannovis old lady has
led kings and empires about as a
society girl leads a poodle dog: and
she is -t.’i in business. The assign
ed 8tor\- O'’ the misdeeds and misery
of Maaasseh. because he lavishly fol
lowed the days vogue, may be in
terpreted by countless instances
from contemporary history. Madame
Grund.v is »till the worst woman
in the ''or'.d, and the chief hand
maiden o^ the e^il one
The tendencv which gives power
to fashion-foliowing is as old as man,
and as young as last year’s babe.
The greatest of Hebrew seers dis
cerned it when he said, "all we
like sheep have gone astra.v.” The
manner, rather than the fact of tlie
astrayness, is the point of that obser
vation. Men do not go astrsy in pur
poseful, resolute self-direction; rath
er thev wander like witless sheep,
flocking stupidly after any wicked
old bell-wether that chooses to jump
the fence Into forbidden fields. The
Indian mothers who proudly put
gaudy, Tin»elled, shapeless imita
tions of European frocks upon their
little children are in the same
class with Manasseh, and with the
sheep, and with the boys who learn
to smoke, and with the man who
buys an automobile which he can. family.
not afford: all are indiscriminately
following a fashion, poor slaves of
Madame Cxrundy. '
MISS OATES
RETURNS HOME.
Miss May Oates, who spent last
week with Mrs. Robert LassHe'. re
turned to her home on North Tryon
street yesterday. Mrs. Loi.s i  r,g
llacketT, of Statesville, the .lew t o-
prano in the Second church choir is
staying at Miss Oates’ This week, Mr.
and ;Mrs. H. S. Bryan will be with
Miss Oates.
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MR. CRAIGHILL'S
COMPOSITION.
The feature of the musical I'rograni
at the First Presbyterian church to
night will be a composition ot Mr. J
H. Craighill’s—an exquisite setting of
"Sun of My Soul”—'to be sung by
.^iss May Oates, the noted couT.ralto
soloist of the church.
Mr. Craighill wrote the piece lUst
after the death of his father. The i.e-
cuiiar pathos which crept into the
notes and harmonies’, tiie composer un
consciously expressing the lament of
his heait for his ics?, is peculiarly
well adapted to V.ics Otires" voice,
which abounds in tears and well as
smiles.
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ALL THE WAY
FROM BRAZIL.
A very interesting visitor at Mrs.
S. S. McNinch’s is her cousin, Miss
MarfMiet Hall. o1 3ra/.ll. Mi?s Hall s
family went to South America about
I.S66. They have piui visits to their
relatives m the ^tjites now and then.
i.^'>fole-returning hoi le Miss Hall will
visi’, ic'a^ives in Sor.:ii Carolir.a.
THE GRAY
MR. AND MRS JUSTICE
IN NEW YORK.
.Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. A B. Justice left Friday night
for Norfolk. Va., to join Mrs.* Jus
tice, from which point they went by
steamer to New York. They will
spend a week or ten days visiting
several Northern points.
MRS. FINGER
HOME.
Mrs Ctorclon Finger has relurnod
{rom Statesville, where she w-ent to
visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K.
Turner.
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WILL PLAY
FOR MR, HUYCK.
.Nils’* Helen Foil has returned from
New York and is with her tami)y in
Newton .Miss Foil will come to Char
lotte soon to rake charge of the organ
at Tryon Street Methodist church‘dur
ing Mr. Huyck's absence. During her
stay in New York Miss Foil continued
her music study.
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VISITING
IN STATESVILLE.
Mrf. Frank H, .Andrews Is visiting
tbe family of I)r J. F. Carlton in
fitatesville. Dr. Carlton is a nephew of
Mrs. Andre\\s.
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EXPECTED
HOME THIS WEEK.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Goff and
Mrs. E. B. Dickson, .Mrs. Goff's moth
er. who have l)een in Rhode Island
since leaving Atlantic City, are ex
pected home this week
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OFF TOMORROW
NIGHT.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Witherspoon
and handsome young son. Master
Harry Dixon Witlierspoon, leave to
morrow night for a trip Nortli. They
go to Baltimore. New Vork. and on
their return, to Norfolk, Mr. With
erspoon ifr disappointed that he will
not see ‘Ty,” the latter being sick.
TEN DAYS
more OF ATLANTIC
Miss l,ieUa Young and .Miss Alice
HoIUnd, who are at .\tlantic City,
will return home in the course of
ten days.
♦
VISITED
BRIDE AND GROOM.
Mr. M. F. Trotter and daughter, Miss
Ethel, have returned from a vi«it to
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Trot»ei. .Jr., in
Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Trotter,
Jr., were nxarrled recently in Shelby,
as News’ readers will '•ecaM.
Ah, well for us alt some sweet hope
lies
Deeply burled from human lies’
—Whittier.
Mrs. L. N. Gray and her daughter,
Mrs. Annie D. Lewis, lived at the Bel
mont hotel for several years, are i;ow.
the one in Statesville, the other at
Elkin, Mr. Jim Gray, Mrs. Gray’s son.
is manager of a hotel in Flordla.
TO ENTERTAIN
TUESDAY.
For her delightful house guests,
Miss Christian Hawley will entertain
at Cubical Hearts Tuesday evening.
♦
A FAVORITE
IN NEWBERN.
Miss Flora Bryan, who is visiting
in N>wbern, will be home the middle
of the week. During her visit Miss
Bryan has been the recient cf many
fcocial favors.
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LAST NIGHT.
RETURNED
Miss Cornie Fore returned ’ast night
from a pleasant visit to Miss Eunice
Hutchison, of Mr. Holly.
♦
ARE AT
BLOCK ISLAND.
Mrs. K. S. Finch and attractive
young danl)hter. MiPS Helen, are sum
mering at Filock Island, New- York. Mr.
P’inc.h is just back from a visit to
I licm.
TO RETURN
TUESDAY.
-Mrs. J. P. Durant, who has been in
?!alii»bury visiting Mrs. M. C. Quinn
rtiturns Tuesday.
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IN HONOR
MISS WALKER.
in honor of her guest. Miff» Suz
anne Walker, Mrs. Rush Wray will
ontortain at bridc,e tomorrow after
noon. .ind ai a sewing party Tuesday
atiernocn. /
GUEST OF
DR. MUNROE
.An attractive guest of Dr. J. P. Mun-
roe, at the Central hotel yesterday,
was Miss Coline .Munroe, of Hickory,
niece of Dr. Munroe.
MRS. M’NINCH’S
POEM
In ThM .American .Monthly, just re
ceived. is published Mis. Frank Mc-
Nincii's poem on “(.’apt. .lack." The
uoeni was read at a meeting of the
literature department of the Woman’s
club at Mrs. McNinch’s last spring,
and was published in The News. It
was 80 fine that the supply of pai)ers
containing it were soon exhausted.
MRS. CARSON GOES TO
VIRGINIA THIS WEEK
The News of her brother. Dr. Her
bert Atkins’ death, reached Mrs. C.
M. Carson at Toxaway Friday after
noon—too late for her to reach Boyd-
ton, Va., in time for the funeral. Mr.
and Mrs. Carson and son will remain
at Toxaway until the latter part of
this week, when Mrs. Carson will leave
(or Boyd ton.
♦TASTE OF AMERICAN WOMEN.^
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Tettrazini. the famous singer, has a
word or two to say about the taste of
American women in matters of the
toilet. Her article appears in Wo
man’s Home Companion and some ex
tracts from it follow^ here;
.American women have less indi-
vidualtity in dress than feny other wo
men in the world. Ha'e you ever
stopped to think that in this country
there is practically no national cos
tume? Were you to see a woman of
any other nation walking on the street
and were you unable to see her face,
you would nevertheless still be able
to say: "Ah. there goes an English
woman, or a Frenchwoman, or a Ger
man, or Russian". But what does the
American woman do? She borrows an
Oriental turban, and slips her feet into
French-heeled slippers; she arrays her
self in a Russian tunic, and wears it
ANith a Dutch collar. Of course ‘you
will say we all do the same thing more
or less; and you are quite right. We
do. Rut liere is the point. Even after
all this borrowing and combining the
American woman si ill does not succeed
in obtaining an effect of individuality;
of differentness in dres5. For that
matter there are comparatively few
women of any country of wiioni one
may not say the same.
Like Leaves About a Flower.
Mind you. in suggesting that each
woman design her own costumes, I do
not want you to tliink I admire con
spicuous attire. Well-bred or even
moderaielv intelli.gfut women do not
wear clotiies that are noticeable as
clothes. One may. of course, indulge
certain satorial fancies and even ex
tremes in the privatc.v of one s own
home. But the woman who gowns her
self in a conspicuous manner to go into
public restaurants and the streets,
places herself at once in an undersir-
able class. As a matter-o(-fact. a wo
man’s gown at all times should bear
nractically the same relation to herself
that a frame does to a picture. It
should never intrude; never become
more importatant than the picture it
self. A .gown on a well-dressed woman
should simply be there, just as the
as the leaves.omokgoe cmfw mfmrmh
leaves are about the flower.
Women Should Study Their Type.
Prsonally. 1 have often wondered
why women do not study their type
more, and then intensify it. 1 mean, for
example, some of your own Ameri
can women. There are immbers of you
with the wide liigh cheek bones, the
level brows, and the suare chins of
your own American Indians. Why not,
if you have the long, muscular figure
and the face of this type . revert to
type in clothing? Of course. I do not
mean to don moccaslans and leather
costumes. But consider the exquisite
Indian beading that could be used as
trimming—as a matter or fact, much
of it was used this spring—or the love
ly simiilicity of parted hair dawn low
over the ears: or the warm red and
brown colorings the Indian w.omen so
love. Or there Is the old Roman type
of face, or the Egyptain, offering in
finite suggeseions fo r classic cos
tumes: or, of course, the more obvious
Spanish type and the dress of my own
dear Italian women.
MRS. KIRBY
A VISITOR.
Mrs. Lottie Maffitt, who s>pent the
spring with her daughter, Mrs. T. H.
Kirby, in Baltimore, has returned
home. Mrs. Kirby and children ac
companied her, and are with her at
her apartments in Mrs. C. J. Kin
sey’s flat in the Elmore fiats.
♦
GUESTS FROM
CHARLESTON.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Simonds and
three children, of Charleston, S. C.,
spent yesterday in the city, stopping
at the Selwyn.
MISS DURHAM’S
TRIP.
Miss Camille Durham goes to Black
Mountain the first of the month to
join a party of friends.
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GUEST OF
MISS TEDDER.
Miss Carrie McQueen, of Wades-
boro, is the guest of Miss Ruth Ted
der. Misses Tedder and McQueen
have just returned from a trip to
Asheville and near-by points w^hich
the summer tourists are finding.
They .vere absent two weeks.
TO JOIN
HOUSE PARTY.
Miss Charlotte Smith, of Myers
Park, have gone to Cherokee Falls
to attend a house party at Miss Nora
Plonk's-. Miss Smith is the handsome
and attractive daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Smith.
TO STUDY
VOICE
Miss Martha Simons, of States
ville. the charming guest last week
of Miss Jean Dow'd, is to spend the
winter in Atlanta studying voice in
the new Conservatory of Music. Miss
Simons has studied voice in Boston,
She has r. beautiful tone and excel
lent covalization.
D. A. R. COLUMN.
A most interesting visitor from
New York is Miss Suzanne Walker
who is, and well be the guest of Mrs.
Rush Wray until Wednesday, when
she goes to the mountains of this
state. Miss Walker is a most enthus
iastic D. A. R. She is a prominent
member of the New' York City Chap
ter the Chapter to which Mrs. Don
ald McLean belongs. She is an ardent
admirer of Mrs. McLean. The work ot
the work of the New York City Chap
ter with the inspiration of Mrs. Mc-
l^ean's membership and presence, is
ever interesting and zestful, says Miss
Walker. “I understand,” said Miss
Walker to
I am in the
was here the first declaration of inde
pendence was signed. The Revolution
ary history of your city and section
fascinates me. I have visited the city
points of interest, and hope before
leaving to visit those in the country.”
Miss Walker has attended the D. A,
R. Congress, annually in Washington.
She is weil-versed in D. A .R. politics.
♦ FIRST PRINCE OF, WALE3^ ♦
Edward I, known in his day as
I^ngshank” on account of his great
height, in 12,')4 married Eleanor *of
CasHe.
The coronation of Edward and his
consort at the hands of Robert Kil-
ardoy, archbishop of Canterburv,
August 19, 1273, was attended by the
king of Scotland, but Llewellyn, her
editary ruler of Wales, refused to'-do
homage to the English king and ab
sented himself. Edward thereupon
sent him a message “to kniw where-
fore he did not tender homage at
thel au coronation of himself and
the queen.”
the wTiter yesterday, “that ’^le’^'eilyn refused to acknowledge
e cradle of liberty; that is' suzerainty of Edward and declar
ed war against the English, recon
quering all the territory that had
een ta^ en by the Normans prior to
the roi^n of Edward. Edward there-
Ujjon invaded Wales.
The]) rophet. Merlin, had foretold
^ Welsh-born prince
Z'l is'.e and such
“ stimulus of his- prophecy
■lat it was only with the death of
of Biillth that heslstanpe ceased.
T- Liew'ellyn w'as dead
" triumphant
m ^^ale.^, the country seethed with
hatred of the con-
q teiers, and such was the feeling
of unre&t that Edward deemed hil
Piebence in th« principality a matter
ot necessity.
of the vear
nor conveyed Elea-
to the Castle of Carnarvon, or
conSr'?”’K M ®^^'o^ShoId recently
copmleted, built by Edw^ard for the
purpose of overawing his turbulent
subjects.
The queen’s “apartment” was a
chamber in the thick-
r^^e^s- of a wall of the eagle tower.
Ihe room, which is still shown to
vi&itors, measures twelve feet in
length by ei.ght in breadth and is
^'itliout a fireplace. Here, while Ed
ward was away at Rhuddlin Castle
negotiating terras of peace with the
despairing chieftains of Wales, a son
was born, April 25. 1284.
Edward was overjoyed when th®
brought him, and at once
knighted the Welshman who had
brought him the message, bestowing
on his also a magnificent gift of
land. Returning to Caernarvon with
all speed he was followed three days
later by a deputation of Welsh chief
tains, who prayed that they be given
for a ruler a
HOME BY
AUGUST 1ST.
Mrs. John Van Ness and daughter,
Miss Alwilda, who have been at W’^al-
ter’s Park for some weeks, are ex
pected home by the first of the month.
Mrs. Van Ness is much better.
BRIDGE
GAMES THIS WEEK
Mrs. Cameron Morrison will be
hostess to the Wednesday Bridge
Club this w'eek, at her attractive
home on North Church street.
* * *
In her pretty bungalow' in W’ood-
law'n, Mrs. J. Arthur Taylor enter
tains the Tuesday Bridge Club.
PROMINENT
EDUCATOR HERE.
'Very delightful visitors from Nash
ville (N. C.) are Mr. and Mrs. R. E
Ranson, who are visiting at Mr. Ran
son's father’s. Mr. R. M. Ranson, on
McDowell street.
Mr. Ranson is superintendent of
education of his county. He has
man.v friends in Charlotte and Meck
lenburg.
MISS YOUNG’S
GUEST LEAVES.
Miss Mazie Thompson, of Atlanta,
who has been visiting Miss Willie
Young, went to Salisbury yesterday
to visit her aunt, Mrs. Carrie Bu
ford. She will go to Blowing Rock
before returning home.
MISS RUCKER
RETURNS.
Miss Evelyn Rucker, who succeeded
Miss Rose Milliron as teacher of the
fifth grade in the South Graded
school, has returned from Charlottes
ville, Va., where she has been attend
ing the summer school.
IN THE
CHARLOTTE COLONY.
Mrs. J. C. Montgomery and children
are among the Charlotte colony at
Blowing Rock, also Mrs. A. M. Mc
Donald and children, across-the-street
neighbors of Mrs. Montgomery.
MRS. M’QUAY
AT SANATORIUM
Mrs. Julia McQuay, of this city, is
a patient at the Charlotte Sanatorium
Mrs. McQuay Is the mother of Miss
Minnie McQuay, of this city.
ARE IN
SHELBY.
Mrs. C. B. Cabaniss and pretty lit
tle baby are visiting relatives in Shel
by, Mr. Cabaniss’ old home.
News comes to Dr. C. G. McMana-
way that Mrs. J. E. McManawa.v,his
sister-in-law', who was ill last week, is
better.
HOME FROM
THE BEACH.
Mrs. M. M. Murphy returned Friday
night from a three-weeks’ stay at
Wrightsville
IS IN
ASHEVILLE.
Miss Isabelle Beall is visiting m
Asheville, the guest of her uncle, Mr.
Alexander M. Sinclair and Mrs. Ma
mie Sinclair Pelham.
♦
TO VISIT
MRS. BUTT.
Mrs. George H. Richmond (Mise
Evelyn Grier) came over yesterday
afternoon to visit her sister, Mrs. C.
N. G. Butt. Mr. Richmond will join
her here todav *
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Listen.
We borrow
In sorrow
From the sun of some tomorrow
Half the light that gilds today;
And the splendor
Flashes tender
O’er hope’s footsteps to defend bet
From the fears that haunt the way.
We never
Here can sever
Any now' from forever
Inter clasping near and far!
For each minute
Holds within it
All the rous of the infinite
As one sky holds evsr.v star.
—Father Ryan.
TO JOIN
FRIENDS.
Miss Mamie Griffin left yesterday
morning to join, a part>- of Greenville
(S. C.) friends at Hlddenlte.
MISS BUCHANAN
HOSTESS.
The last and very prettiest hos
pitality of the week was the Hearts
party given ye&terday morning by
Miss Jessie Buchanan In compliment
to Miss Christian Hawley and house
guests. Misses Helen Scott, Beulah
Pauline and Janie Wilson and Thom-
asine Spraught. To meet these at
tractive vis-itors were:
Misses Helen Heath. Mary Harris,
Mattie and ./ulia McNinch and
guests, Margaret Hall, of Brazil;
Annie Todd, Louise Miller, Mary
McLaughlin, Beulah Wallace, Bessie
Burkheimer. Anna Wehner and gnest,
Willie Jenkins; Florrie Beard, Laura
Hailey, Bertha Wohlford. Ruth and
Hulda Groom. Mary Henderson, Kate
Elliotte, Willie Smith, Mesdames
Knebel, F. O. Hawley. Jr.; F. B.
Smith, and E. B. Littlefield.
Miss I..Aura Hailey won the prize.
THE FEMININE TOUCH. .
The feminine touch in work and
achievement has come to be so seri
ously considered as to form the basis
of an editorial in Harper’s Bazar, com
menting on the success that has come
to women because of it.
“What is the feminine touch?” asks
the Bazar. Is the world forever to
believe that it is drapes on the man-
tlepiece and fringed doilies eternally
accompanying our daily bread? Is the
work of the 20th century woman nev
er feminine except w'hen it is super
fluously decorative? What but the
feminine touch perfected the discovery
of radium? It was the feminine
touch that brought about the fame of
George Eliot, of George Sand. It Vvas
the feminine touch that accomplished
the success of Rosa Bonheur. It is the
(Written tor The Sundav Ne-,.- ,
day Social Pase in- i-i
Librarian.) ^ Palmer.
"'WO Pvecio:-,.
His spn it grew robust •
He know no more that he w— n
^or that his frame
alons the dinp-v
And this hen.uest of
'* as br.t a bool.;. What a -
A loosen’d spirit brings:"'' ‘
T^ liberty of a loo^enei
use EkIIv Dickin-op-c
never better exemVlifii,]
oucning incident reported h o
examining cnmn-:
feminine touch w'hich sustains at .•ice Lihrnry. Thp pperio
the art and the magnificent pow'er of i itip-.! •'''Onn
endurance of Sarah Bernhardt. j tiihntoH 'VfM-p i.c; ‘
In a word, everything that has hon-l.^vi,;] v\no;ier! ■
orably distinguished woman in her un-i •' ' crowds,j ^
dertakinga. through all times, is the nttie X | ‘ '
feminine touch. It is not where in a * " '
♦ LIBRARY NOTES.
"'f'hps \vai---.ri .
tienlly in the backeroniiri i- ‘. :'
as If the la.st book had h.-Pn
when his thein voice rnf.,i ‘
er, ain’t my Brownie
I he’-e was a whoio world
woman is most like a man in what
she does that she achieves greatness;
it is rather in full realization of her
womanly attributes that she glori
fied, To measure woman’s success bv . .
what it lacks of the feminine touch f ^
is to impoverish humanity’s concep-L-p hnr.v
lion of life, and to rob the woman of' T
any cause of glory in her work. That, 1 h=-; ?•
however, is not to detiact- from the j 7-nr " ^ ‘
t:ouch which no woman dreams of glcri-1 ^^essed his elbows i
fying, which the w'orld takes as a mat
ter of course—still the feminine toiich
the mother’s lips on the child’s
forehead, the w'ife’s hand in the hus
band’s palm.
CHARLOTTE PEOPLE.
SEE THE PETRIFIED FOREST.
Interest in great things of West
about which one reads, and is occa
sionally told by some one who has
seen them, is quickened locally this the library by the oity co-.inci] i
head on his hands, aini m \’,vo :■■ ■
had left behind him lamenef:? p,.
erty and ignorance, and hsd * . .
one who might well be the enw o--
king.”
And so Vv'e leave him. 'nis ‘iTpq,;..;-
wings” more than
loss of the free use ot' h.i?
cago Mail.
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The increased approprin.Mor; r'm
prince w'ho could
speak neither Anglo-Saxon nor
French, which, they assured him
were unintelligible to them, and
who had been born in the country.
He promised them such an one and
believing that he would name a
kinsman of the Welsh royal line
they declared their willln^ess to
abide by his choice, providing the
prince’s character was above
proach.
re-
RETURNED TO
GREENSBORO.
Mrs. A. N. Perkins, Miss Irene and
Master Aubrey Perkins, and their
guest. Miss Perkins, of Colorado, re
turned to Greensboro after a fort
nights’ visit to Mr. Perkins at the Cen
tral. ''
BETWEEN
SALT WATER AND FRESH.
Mrs. Ix)uis Asbury and baby, who
went north several weeks ago, are
w'ith Mrs. Asbury’s mother, Mrs. F.
M. Crosby at Centreville, Mass.—a
beautiful place not far from Boston.
Mr. Asbury is to join them In the
cour.se of a week or so. Centreville is
half way betw'een the salt water and
the lake.
MRS. RODMAN
GOES TO VIRGINIA.
Mrs, w. B. Rodman has gone to
Norfolk, Va., to spend a few davg with
her husband. Col. W. B. Rodman.
♦
TO VISIT
IN GREENSBORO.
Miss Orphelia Hartt. the attractive
daughter of Mrs. Janie Gifford Hartt,
who Is at the beach, will visit Miss
Ada Shepherd in Greensboro 'before
returning home. r ;
.vour brother man,
Still gentler s-ister woman;
Though they may gang a kennln’
wrang,
To step aside is human.
—Burns.
The king, going Into the apartment
in which his wife way lying, return
ed bearing In his arnis his newly-
born son. Presenting the infant to
the astonished nobles, he assured
them that here was a^ prince, born
in their countrj', whose character
was void oty reproach, who could
neither speak English nor French
whose first w'ords, if they so de
sired, should be Welsh.
fierce and turbulent
Welshmen had expected such a ruler
there was no alternative but* to ac
cept; and one by one they filed past
the king and, kissing the pink and
dimpled hand, swore fealty to their
tiny overlord.
Thus was created the first prince
of Wales on November 28, 1284—727
years ago.
He was the fourth son of Edward
and Eleanora. The oldest two, John
and Henry, died in 1277 while' Ed
ward and Eleanora were returning to
England from the Holy Land. In
August following the birth of Ed
ward at Caernarvon, the third son,
Alphonso, named for Eleanora’s
brother, Alphonso X of Ca&tle, call
ed “II Sabio,” for his great learn
ing, died, an event which deeply af
fected the queen.
Alphonso's death thus made Ed-
W'ard heir to the throne, and from
that time the principality of Wales
has given the title to the eldest son
of the sovereign of England.
Edward IT was 22 years old when
he ascended the English throne, and
the people of England had conceived
such a good opinion of him that they
supposed they should be happy dur
ing his reign, but it w'as most turbu
lent, and was finally ended after 20
years when he w'as murdered on the
order of his queen, Isabella, of
France, in most shocking manner, af
ter having been subjected to many
indignities.—Houston Post.
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RETURN FROM
ISLE OF PALMS.
Misses Margaret and Mildred
Cow’les have returned from a short
stay wath their father. Mr, W. D.
Cowies, at the Isle of Palms. Mr.
Cowles spend Friday and part of
ye&terday in the city with his family.
His run gives him a long lay off at
Charleston. Mrs. Cowles will go dow'n
soon to spend several days with him.
^
MRS. SPRINGS
BETTER.
The many friends of Mrs. Holland
Springs, who has been quite sick,
will beg lad to know she is better.
MRS OVERCARSh'
IN PHILADELPHIA.
Mrs. Harvey Overcar&h, who left
several weeks ago to visit her home
folks in the Valley of Virginia, has
gone from there to Philadelphia to
visit her sister. Mr. Overcarsh will
join her later.
BA9CK FROM ^
ROCHESTER.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lethco have
retuhied from Rochester, where they
went to attend the Shriners’ meet
ing. On the /way home they stopped
at Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
Mr. Lethco has great things to tell
of the Rochester meeting.
season by reason of the fact that
so many Charlotte people are trav
eling in that scenic portion of the
country. Dr. John R. Irwin, Dr, C. A.
Misenheimer and party. Rev. William
Black s party, many of w'hom are
Charlotteans, Mrs. Joe Person and
daughter, are some who have been
good enough to send the News post
cards of the “Golden West,” and its
wonders. All have visited the pet
rifled forests of Arizona.
The petrified trees in Arizona that
are of red moss agate and amethyst
and smoky topaz and agate are near
ly or entirely transparent and so
beautifully preserved that all th#
veins and ev^en the bark can be
plainly seen. The hardened dewdrops
of this enchanted wood, says the
Raja Yoga Messenger, are purple
and amethyst and topaz crystals
such as one traveler found in the
heart of an ancient king of the for
est.
In an outlying part of the forest
are different logs. They are perfectly
opaque and tinted in soft browns and
grays. They are partly covered by a
great deposit of limestone and
strange bluish clay, whose depth
shows how many millions of years
they have been there.
The most striking part of the for
est Is called Chalcedony Park. Here
is the greatest number of petrified
trees found in any one place in the
world. One of them ‘has fallen across
a deep canyon fifty feet wide, thus
forming the only bridge of solid
agate in existence.
The wood of these trees makes
beautiful ornaments when polished
but it is 80 hard to cut that even
modern methods find it extremely
difficult to saw through it.
MISS MILLIRON
AT CORNELL
The many Charlotte friends of Miss
Rose Allison Milliron, of Baltimore,
who, spent winter before last in Char
lotte teaching in the South school,
will be interested to know that she is
at Cornell. A post card from her to
Miss Adelaide Caldwell says; “I am
up here again in this beautiful place,
working hard.” It is Miss Milliron’a
custom to spend her summer at Cor
nell studying and attending lectures.
For years Miss Milliron has been a
teacher in the Baltimore schools. She
is a w'oman of superior Intellect and
ability. ^
JUST FOR
A DAY’S SHOPPING.
Miss Helen Bridges was down from
LincolntOA. She returned there in the
afternoon.
♦
GUEST OF
MRS. EDWARDS.
Mrs. Manly Edwards has as her
guest. Miss Alice Edwards, of Wil
mington, who will be a Charlotte visi
tor for a W'eek or so.
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NOT FOR A
FORTNIGHT
Mrs. Joseph Jones and only, w’ho
are at Switzerland, will not return
home for a fortnight
ARE AT
HIDDENITE
Mrs. John Ferguson and son Jack,
are at Hiddenite. Mr. Ferguson is
spending today with them.
MISS FINGER
RETURNS.
Mies Anna Bell Finger, w'ho has
been visiting in Atlanta, returned last
night.
ing spent almost entirely ror ooo'
As the children were the or;cs \\hn s-if'
fered most from a scar. iT;. df ;
this department wa> siipjiiiod ilr?T
Over one hundred juvenile books of n;
kinds have been received and are j rov.
very popular among the little fo;'K.
They are all bound in Chivers' rein,
forced binding v,’hich enables a book ro
stand rougn handling without materia]
damage. Books in this binding \^ii’
last two and sometimes three times a?
long as books in the average publish
er’s binding.
• • •
Among the books and magazines do
nated to the library by .Mrs. John Wa'
ter MiHer are two North Carolina
pamphlets of considerable Interest.
One Is “The Fallen Hero,” a sketch cf
Worth Bagley, Josephus Daniels. The
other is “Sketches of North Carolina”
by Governor Vance, with poems by
James B^ron Hope.
* * •
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has
written a play based on “The Shut
tle.” It w'ill be called “Q. Selden"
from one of the characters and has
been accepted by I^essrs. Liebler &
Co., for Mr. Richard Bennett w’ho will
“star.”
* • *
Three new books of popular interest
added to the library during the past
week are “Queed,” by Henry Sydnor
Harrison, “The Golden Silence,” by C.
N. and A. M. Williamson, and “Me-
Smith,” by Caroline Lockhart. All
three are good stories, but the first Is
by far the best. It is understood that
the author, Mr. Harrison, is a south
ern journalist. He has given an ex
cellent picture of the development of
the new south, besides touching many
other tspects of modem life. The plot
and the characters are decidedly orig
inal. The book has received favor
able reviews from some of the most
authoriative book-reviewing periodi
cals in the country, and is named by
many as the strongest book of the sea
son.
WESTERN PARTY
GETS BACK
Dr. and Mrs. John R.‘Irwin and Dr.
and Mrs. C. A. Misenheimer and par
ty arrived home last night from the
extensive trip west. They attended
the National Medical convention In
Los Angeles, being part of one of the
greatest gatherings the Pacific has
ever known. From there they toured
the west “doing” Yellowstone Park
and seeing all the wonders of that sec
tion.
MISS HAUGHTON
ENTERTAINS
Miss Alice Haughton was a charm
ing hostescs yesterday morning at her
pretty home on East Eleventh street,
where she entertained in honor of
Miss Karine Bailey, of Wilmihgtoli,
Miss Martha Simona of Statesville and
Miss Margaret Broadfoot, of Fayette-
vlll^f, attractive mid-summer visitors.
TO RETURN
THIS WEEK
Miss Janet Hall, one of the attrac
tive daughters of Mrs. Helen Hall, of
East Ninth street, is, expected home
this week from Blowing Rock, where
she has been the guest of Miss Helen
Colt.
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MRS. FOWLER
COMING TODAY
Mrs. George Fowler, of South River,
will arrive here this morning to be at
Mer son’s, Mr. Henry Fowler, during
his and his wife’s absence in Cbleago.j
“TASTE OF
CALIFORNIA FRUIT”
It doesn’t make any difference in
what clime Mrs. Joe Person finds her
self she is “in nothing else so happy
as Itt a soul remembering her friends.'
Yesterday’s mail brought a bunch of
post cards from her to the writer, a
number of w'hich were pictures of
California fruit. On one card was
written: “I am sending you a taste-
all but the taste—of California fruit;
also a picture of the petrified forest
in Arizona, and several pictures of the
bottom of the deep blue sea seen
through a glass-bottom boat. This is
a glorious country. I am ,iust as well
as I can be and just as happy as you
would have me be"—which is measure
that cannot be computed.
OFF TO
SWITZERLAND.
Dr. M. A. Bland left for Switzer
land yes-terday accompanied by twn
pretty young traveling companions—'
his granddaughter. Miss Terry
Bland and Miss Hannah Rodman-
CALLED ^ ^
AWAY.
Miss Lucile Berkheimer, of ’Wil
mington, who has been visiting at
her uncle’s, Mr. H. Dudley Burk
heimer, was called home yesterday
by the illness of her mother. Miss
Anna Belle Burkheimer, also a niec?
of Mr. Burkheimer, is a guest at his
home.
“LITTLE CHURCH AROUND
THE CORNER.”
One of the places of interest in
New Yokr Is the “Little Church
Around the Corner”—the real name
of which is the Church of the Trans
figuration. The sobriquet, as it were,
was given in this way:
In 1870 George Holland, a come
dian, died in New York city, and
Joe Jefferson, of Rip Van Winkle
fame, made application to the rector
of a church in Madison avenue to
hold services over the remaiHB- Ha
was met by a blunt refusal, but was
told that there was “a little
around the corner where they did
such things,” whereupon Jefferson
said: “Qod bless the little church
around the corner.” The servlc© was,
held there, and ever since tne
Churgh cf the Transfiguration has,
little church
been known as
the corner.”
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees
As brooks make rivers, rivers run^
to seaa.-*l>r7dtB. '