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Queen Has Craze. Queen Helena of Italy has taken the keenest interest In motoring ever eince its earliest days. She and her husband possess five beautiful cant and the Queen not only drives, but also has had lessons in the working of motor machinery, and could, at a pinch, effect repairs with her own ver? capable hands. lndianapolis fcews. Docs Not Went* Af^rcf*. Queen Alexandra has issued a pub lic statement to the effect that she does not wear arrets, and this, of course, is intended as a rebuke to a cruel Rr.d horrible practice. The offi cial statement means something more even than that'. It means that no lady can venture into the Queen's presence with these feathers upon her head, and it means that the a'.gret is stamped as unfashionable throughout every rank In society. Royalty has Its undoubted disadvantages, but something may be written also upon the other side of the slate. The power to make cruelty unfashionable Is one to be envied, and every country would be the better for an influence that is no less real because it has no coarcive laws to back it.—Argonaut. Inspiring nnd Otherwise. 'lsn't it an inspiring hook?" ex claimed the enthusiastic woman. "Oh, yes." admitted the other, wearily. "Many things are inspiring. When I see a good play or read of tieroic characters, or the organist plays something from Beethoven's mass in D, I feel that life Is grand. I am filled with zeal and eager for a chance to prove my noble, elevated point of view. "Then I am called up on the tele phone by some strangar who asks me If I will please go up to the top floor and ask Mrs. Blank to come to the telephone—Mrs. Blank being a per son t do not know and to whom I am Indebted for nothing—and the broth erhood of man suddenly takes on a pale, cold, blue tinge that doesn't in terest me in the least. I wonder why It is?"— New York Press. Willi and Without Curve*. "What's the use," etclaimed the tall, handsome woman, mournfully, "of luring a fine figure like mine! "3 • 1 o C_2 w CU »■ cc 2 -Z £ s - CSS a Doughnuts.—To four cups pastry flour (once sifted) add one and one-half teaspoons salt, one and three-fourths tea spoons soda, one and three-fourths teaspoons cream of tartar and one-half teaspoon grated nutmeg. Work In one-half tablespoon butter, using the tips of the fingers; then add one cup sugar, one cup sour milk and one egg well beaten. Mix thoroughly, and toss on a board thickly dredged with flour. Knead slightly, ai.d roll to'one-fourth Inch in thick ness. Shape with a doughnut cutter, fry In deep fat until browned on both sides; drain on brown paper; dust with powdered sugar. -J- 2 =3 a u S3 « O p ~ "Now, there's Mrs. Blank, for in stance. She is so thin and lank that all comparisons fail. Of course she looks perfectly stunning in the new hipless gowns, while I—well, it's sim ply impossible for me to bo com pressed within one of them. I look "I'Trvgnt, t"& "Sayii'OOtTH g of the putF Ishment to my vanity of having to try to hide all my symmetrical curves—• and then not succeeding. When prin cess gowns of closest tit were all the rage, Mrs. Blank had just as many curves as I have. Oh, no, my Jfear I don't know where she g;it them. I am not Mrs. Blank's dressmaker nor her tailor. I only know sho had them."—New York Press. ••Backbone" Superfluous, "The worst thing about having no backbone," said the woman who had been born without that supposedly in dispensable member, "Is trying to get one. It is a perfectly useless agony, too, because If nature hasn't given you a backbone, you can't get It by any other means. If ypu once recog nise this fact and submit to your lim itations you'll find that you can get on fairly well without a backbone, and when you realize how often the thing that passes for determination is a mere disregard for or inability to comprehend other people's rights and feelings, you can bear up under the contempt commonly meted out to the 'spineless.' "A backbone is not nearly so nec essary as people Imagine, and very often one gets on a great deal better without It. If you haven't any back bone, you won't be tempted to butt your head against irresistible forces. We are most of us helpless victims in the hands of fate, and ordinarily we might as well let ourselves drift as try to'mold circumstances to our will. The drifting may be a mistake, to be •nre, but pulling against the current may be a mistake equally, and the first is easier. "If I can't decide, I do nothing, when that is possible, and let events •hape themselves as they will, and if I must do something I do what I like best or dislike least, as the msn may be. My own inclinations are the most reliable guides I have ever found, and X wish that I had earlier learned to rate them at their proper value. Tho powers that presided over my early education contrived to inoculate me With the idea that inclinations exist, as Herbert Spencer says, 'not for our guidance, but solely to mislead us, jtnd It took me a long time to learn that when I went against them I was certain to be wrong, and gometimcs disastrously and fatally wrong.*. "Another thing I do is to lean shamelessly on any one I have found capable of supporting my weight. That, of course, has to be done with discretion, because it is painful to lean on the wrong person, but when you have found a staff that you can rely on it is foolish not to use it. The strong like to etercisa their strength, and It must be pleasanter for your friends to give you the benefit of their superior wisdom than to see you come to grief. "It is also possible to avoid cir cumstances that call for decision. If you can't make up your mind quickly you don't need to drive a motor car or steer a boat. Leave that to other people, and let who will sneer at your incompetence and lack of courage."— New York Tribune. Partiality Toward Sons. The partiality which mothers are supposed to show to their sons—and which some mothers certainly do show—may do little harm In the ear lier years of family life, when the father, perhaps, balances It by a spe cial fondness for his daughters, and when the buoyancy of youth carries such injustice lightly. But on daugh ters of mature age it often bears very heavily. The lot of the unmarried woman on whom falls the care, and even the maintenance of a widowed and aging mother Is a laborious and exacting one. Many such women there are, as every one acquainted with our cities knows, working hard all day and struggling to carry home evening cheer to itoe who makes less effort than she might to greet them brightly. There is a brother who comes on a flying visit now and then, bringing a gift none too generous, but seeming large because It is received all in one sum, and on him the moth er's appreciation and gratitude are lavished. When he is gone, his ad vice proffered without much knowl edge of real conditions, Is quoted nnd urged with an insistence discouraging to the sister, and even the contrast between his light hearted merriment and her seriousness is harped upon. There are sadder cases still where the money earned by a self-sacrlflring daughter is persistently shared with a reckless and Improvident son, and—« | bitterest of all—lt is to the perpetu ally returning prodigal that the warm est affection seems to go. Habits like these can hardly be corrected, perhaps, in age. But mothers in younger life should be on their guard against forming them.—Con. ' gregationalist. 1 -— : Bouillon lace is constantly em ployed by French dressmakers as a furbishing. The dealers are making no display of fans so far, and there are predic tions that the fan is not to be stylish the coming ball season. The high collar has come In again on fur coats and jackets, and Is often made of a different fur from the gar ment on which It is used. Little novelty stocks,' often copied from French models, are one of the most striking features' of the season. They are charmingly made up of rib bon of almost any fur—even pointed fox and black lynx. This is a day when bags, little oi big, ostentatiously plain or elaborate ly decorated, are put to a hundred uses, from the shopping and automo bile bags down to the delicate little j wrist and vanity bags. While no skirt at the present time I can be called full, those designed foi soft, thin materials are often made to fall In voluminous folds, but they have the top closely laid In tucks thai produce the sheath fit. The shortened waist and straight, clinging lines of the skirt are feature! that strongly Influence the wlntei modes, characterizing evening gowns, dressy coat Buits for afternoon and other affairs of ceremony. In gowns having the high waist, line, the top of the skirt Is, often tucked, but If the gown Is of chiffon or anything of this nature tha gaffr. ered top permits the soft folds of tin material to cling to the figure and fol low the outline becomingly. I" Ea'.h one of the puffs arranged at the back of the Psyche knot Is held in place by a large hairpin, and the pompadour is now held by a pin in stead of a comb. Some glrle, too, have gone so tar as to add one to eacli I ■lde o! the knot. New~ York City. The latest blouses are made with just such long, pretty sleeves as these and this model can be utilized both for the separate waist of net, thin silk, lingerie ma- terial and the like and for the entire gown. In the illustration it is made tof fine lawn combined with banding of Valenciennes lace and with hand embroidery wcfrked In the squares tWCMd by the design. Cashmere with bands of silk or satin would be pretty and effective for cold weather wehr. while net, lingerie materials and lace are charming for certain oc casions at all seasons. # The waist is made with a fitted lining, which can be useh or omitted, as liked, and consists of the front and the backs with the Bhaped yoke. The waist itself la tucked and joined to the yoke and the trimming is ap plied on indicated lines. The sleevei also can be made with or without the fitted linings, and can be tucked, aa Illustrated, or gathered, as liked. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and three fourth yards twenty-one or twenty four, three yards thirty-two, or two and three-eighth yards forty-four Inches wide, with ten yards of band ing and one and flve-elghth yards of edging. Black Walking Skirt. \ A street toilette that is becoming 1 to a great many women, and that hfs stylo, though perhaps not as much as when an or one eoitff, is the black skirt In walking length, large hat of black, and a perfect-fitting coat of the new striped coverts. An Odd Hat. A decidedly odd hat is one of white, furry beaver, with a band around the crpwn and a long, flat bow at the side of chamois. A Lovely Gown. A picturesque gown it of crepe de Chine In that shade of blue best de scribed as hyacinth, with a draped sash, also of crepe. In dull purple, and adorned with embroideries of purple and blue foliage and little sil ver bells threaded in and out of the leaves upon a slender gold ribbon.. Wearing Green Tulle. There is going to be a good deal of tulle worn. Its new, heavy weave makes It available as a serviceable accessory. Bright % blue will be more favored than light blue, but parrot and apple green are to be In tho load. Bows of this will be worn at the neck on an evening bodice, in front of the hat and to tie flowers. Rug Muff and Neck Scarf. Scarfs that fit closely up about the* throat are among the latest features of fashionable dress, and such a one as this, combined with the muff illus trated, makes an exceedingly hand some as well as smart set. They can be made from any fur or fur cloth or from velvet or almost any fancy ma terial. The muff is made with the founda tion and the over, or rug, portion, which are quite separate. The founda tion Is made complete and the rug is lined throughout, then arranged over It and the two are tacked together. The neck scarf is simply lined and in terlined, while one end is slipped through a band arranged over the other by means of which It is drawn up closely about the throat. The quantity of material required to make the rug and the muff for either the woman's or the misses' size Is one and seven-eighth yards twenty one, one yard forty-four or fifty Inches wide, with two and one-half yards for the lining for rug muff and [ scarf and making the foundation muff. Corduroy Stockings. The royal ribbed stockings in two- Jtoned stripes, which are often called corduroy stockings, will be much In aorta. They are in apun tllk and ta lisle and silk. They are not inexpen sive, but the spun ones are so heavy that (hey would last forever and a day. Soft-Clinging Skirts. The tendency toward so ft-clinging skirts now extenda to below th« kneea. Garbage Pall In Good Condition Have pall perfectly clean and dry, line all aroand and on bottom with newspaper*—the paper absorbs the moisture, and where there Is no mois ture there is little or no ndor. When garbage Is emptied, if the paper is not taken with It, remove and rellne with fresh paper. The pail will be~ clean. ~Thls does away with the un pleasant duty of cleaning the pail.— Boston Po.it. Bureau and Commode Scarfs. Take some curtain muslin with a pretty design and make strips large enough to cover bureau and com mode. Now take and put two small ruffles around, one on the edge and the other just inside and line with a color that suits the taste. I have pale blue, which is very pretty. My pin cushion is lined and covered with muslin same as covers and ruffles around and baby ribbon rosettes in the corners. I also made broom brush holder to match covers and wall paper. This suggestion le eco nomical and at the same time ver> beautiful.—Boston Post. Cleanse Lace Curtains. Came across th 6 way to clean lace eurtains by dry process the other day and will pass it along, aa there may be others who shrink from the task of laundrying curtains as much as I do. Claims they will look like new after this treatment, even if discolored with dust and smoke,, and they will cer tainly last longer than if put through the wash. Take down the curtains and shake them free from dust; spread a sheet on the floor and lay one curtain smoothly on it; cover thickly with corn meal, lay on an other curtain and again cover with the meal. Continue until all the cur tains are covered with the meal, then roll up loosely and lay away for a few days. When wanted, unroll, brush off the meal and hang on the line in the wind and sun for half a day. When hung up against the window they will look like new.—Rostov Post. Role For Doing BJg Washing Easily. Soak clothes over night, using tablespoon of washing powder to each pall of lukewarm water. In the morning lift clothes with a stick into the boiler, cover well with cold water, using powder in proportion to the amount of water. Let it come to boll and boll twenty minutes; stir the clothes with stick occasionally; take clothes from boiler, drain off the water, fill in tub with cold water; wring the clothes from this water into another tub of cold water; souse well with the hands or stick; drain oC water; fill again and repeat. Have blueing water ready and wring clothe* out in the clear water, then put each piece separately in blueing water; wring out and put in basket. In this way there is no scrubbing, unless it might be very soiled wrist bands on a child's blouse. If the washing is very large, it had better be done in two parts. There will be no tired back, and a nice white wash on the line. Be sure and open kitch en windows at the top while boiling to allow steam to escape.—Boston Post. wirK/ Mock Mince Pie.—Twelve cracker* rolled line, one cup hot water, one half cop vinegar, one cup mblasses, one cup sugar, one cup currants, one cup raisins, spice to taste, one cup butter. Measure with a teacup. Some use bread crumbs instead of cracker*. Cafe Parfalt.—One cup sugar, one half cup water, one-fourth black coffee, six' egg yolks, one pint heavy cream. Cook sugar and water five minutes and add coffee. Pour slow ly on the beaten egg yolks, add whip from cream, turn into mould and pack In Ice and salt. Let stand four hours. Orange Dainty.—Peel four or* anges cut them into small pieces, sprinkle with powdered sugar and put in a glass dish. Whip one-balf pint of heavy cream until stiff, add one tablespoon of sugar, one-half tea. spoon of YanlUa and one-fourth cup each of chopped nut meats and can* died cherries. Spread this over the fruit and serve at once. Blaeberry Cake.—One egy, one half cup sugar, one-half cup molasses, pne cup milk, nutmeg and one tea ■poon i cinnamon, one tablespoon shortening. After stirring above thoroughly, add two cups flour which contains one teaspoon soda and a pinch of salt. Before stirring flour sprinkle in one cup blueberries. Mix to medium batter, And bake In sheet; serve hot with butter. English Drnrti Butter.—Rub to gether a tablespoonful of butter and one cup of flour, add slowly one-half pint of boiling water, beating all the time. Boii a few minutes, take from the fire and add one-half teaspoon salt, a little pepper and another table spoon butter. Serve with summer squash or any green vegetable. This may be used for.boiled haddock, hall* but er cod If the juice of one lemon la added. - -M-.. , £» Counlry Editors. Independent as a Kog on Icr Con-pared Willi tt:s City Win. r.-om (tif V'Mttfastaa ytr ' The country editor Is as indo pendent as a lies on compared tc the big city editor. "Of'coaraa, be de fers to his biggest advertiser. Whes his biggest advert h?r'3 daughter geti married, he swenrs by the long bor* spoon that she is a fairy nymph. whet ten to one her feet don't .track and her hat is on crc.V-ted. He lef.-rs tc his "oldest subscriber," who pays foi a dozen copies to send to kin, and when he comes to town he speaks of "our prominent citizen, Mr. Doodah," and writes nice places about the -earn he drives and about how liberal he it at the church and lo rharlty, when he knows doggoneJ weM that he pays the preacher in shabby potatoes and to save wear and tear on his vo«al chords, and nakes his wife go barefoot in summer to save . "oe leather. However, aside "from that, the country editor is as Independent as we said he war. But ho asks no oJds from his city brother, and dad Immn his picture, he doesn't ask for any n'cs pieces to be written about him. He eats three, square meals a day, If he can get them, and if not be writes nice piece# about the land that flows with milk and honey, and swears "by gum." that his party Is entitled to the credit. Ask favors from our city brothers? Not on your chin whiskers. The coun tary editor breathes the pure, free air of liberty, and you get more patriot ism In the average country paper lit a week than you get in the big city dally In a coon's age. The country editor thinks he believes what ho writes, while half the city editors— we mean the political and religious writers—ivrlte what they are paid to write. Thu3 many a Democrat i* boostlfig for tL- - " Republican party r while the Republican editor write* nice pieces about Bryan. In the country, bless your life, we live near to nature and near to our critics, who find us before we find ourselves. If we renlg on any proposition, before sundown half a dozen offended sub scribers are in tha office trying to make a door mat of the editor and trying to stop their vile paper. Tell us the country editor has « hard lot! Maybe he has, but he is at least on the square. He believer what he says, unless it is his big ad vertiser who believes It for him. But you come a good deal nearer to the facts than you do In the city paper P where the work Is done by a force of writers, and nobody is actually re sponsible, because nobody knows who the guilty parties may be. The country editor, bless you, he tees just as many funny things and laughs up his sleeve just the same a* you big city editors do. He see® shams and pretense and the men who work religion and those who try to work the lodge and those who are bosses and those who only think they are, but be Just laughs. As Jamea Whltcomb Riley says of Old Jap Mil ler, "He Just chawed on." So we Just chaw on. Never mind writing nico pieces about the country editors. You may feel sorry for them, but don't let them find it out, or you might find yourself in contact with a stuffed club. It i» all right to feel sorry for them, but jrou had better not pay anything about IE Many orthem are where they are from choice. There are country edi tors who could command more con spicuous positions, but they prefer their life of ease and luxury apd afflu ence and high living and independ ence and independent thinking to any of your measly, little, cooped-up, nar* row, hack-writing city editorships, Now, Is this clear? If so, then j&s# the pie. Getting Even. Joseph A. Willfcrd was In a friend*! law office one day when a client cam* In (or advice. He said that be had hired a horse to go to a neighboring town for sl, but when he returned the stabiekaep* er aaked him for $1 more. "What for?" the client had asked,' "For the ride back." The lawyer gave some instruction!, which the client followed. A little later he went to the stablekeeper and asked how much it would cost to hir* a horae and buggy to go to Salem. "Fire dollars," was the reply. The client hired the team and went to Salem. When he returned lie came on tho cars. He went to the stable and paid the keeper $3. "Where is my horse and buggy?" asked thfe owner. "In Salem," was the unconcerned reply. "Why did you leavfc them there?" cried the keeper. "I only hired them to go to Salem," answered the cjient.—rChl cago Tribune. Sardou's Experience. Talking to an interviewer not long, before his death, Sardou told a story of his early days when as a poor med« ical student he was adding to bis scanty means by teaching Latlft to some fbllow-stu dents. About this time hi hawked three of his plays around Paris theatres. "But managers, with one excep tion, were too busy to see me or to read my plays," be said. "This gen tleman —I aball not teU'yon his nam* —condescended to read my produc tions, and he pronounced them rub bish. A few years later I had no dif ficulty whatever in-disposing of all three without having altered a Use." * • -I. -
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