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SOCIETY Maaoa Lilian) Bible Ofaus to Meet Mmday The Mason Lilian! Bible Otam of the Methodist Sunday school will meet Monday evening. De cember 16, at the home of Mrs. H. P. Graham on Gwyn avenue, with Mrs. Henry Dobeon associate hostess. All n umbers are invited to at tend. Open House is Held ait Pa«ponage Wednesday Evening Rev. and Mrs. Herman F. Dun can held open house at the Meth odist parsonage on Market street IOONT LOOK OtDER THAW YOUR WH CHICK YOUR £VSS IJfiW—MAVI A SCIENTIFIC tXAMINATOM MAM W DR. W. B. REEVES OPTOMETRIST Office Over Elk Theatre Think of the chances 1 of accident represented in ihe figures of a license plate/ Insure ' PAUL GWYN INSURANCE Phone 258 West Main St. Elkin, N. G. >SyVJR Utik Youngsters \ iIV ARE WANTING FOR CHRISTMAS If you want to make tKis Christmas one hundred per cent, successful for the youngsters, we have the answers. Come in today and see our line of sturdy wheel toys and other fine gifts for the kiddies. Tricycles -$4.00 Up Skates SI.OO Up Wagons SI.OO Up Model Airplane Kits 10c Up Scooters $1.50 Up Knives 25c Up k Surry Hardware Company . Wednesday evening. Hie parson age has recently been extensively repaired and redecorated. The guests were presented to a re ceiving line upon their arrival, composed of Rev. and Mrs. Dim can and Rev. Duncan's mother, Mrs. Watson B. Duncan, of St. George, S. C., Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Gtbbs and Rev. and Mrs. L. B. Abemethy. Assisting in entertaining were officers of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the church and Mrs. R. C. Freeman chair man of the parsonage committee. The lower floor of the parson age was decorated throughout with crimson berries and red candles, suggestive of the ap proaching holiday season. Punch and Christmas cookies were served. Approximately one hundred and twenty-five guests called during the receiving hours. Fidelis Class of Baptist S. S. Meets, Elects Officers The Fidelis class of the Sunday school of the First Baptist church met in the monthly business social meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. C. A. Mc- Neill on Bridge street, with 15 members present. Mrs. David Brendle, president, presided over the meeting and conducted the devotionals. Officers were elected for the coming year, the report of the nominating committee being unanimously accepted. Mrs. Wal lace Reynolds will serve as presi dent. Other officers are: first vice-president, Mrs. S. O. Ma guire; second vice-president, Mrs. Charles Alexander; third vice president, Mrs. c. I. Boger, and secretary-treasurer, Mrs. I. C. Yates. An interesting Christmas pro gram was presented by Mrs. C. I. Boger. During a delightful social hour the hostess served a delicious re freshment course. Christmas gifts were exchanged between the members. Mrs. Russell Burcham, Bride of Autumn, Is Honored Mrs. Cliarles Young entertained at a lovely party Tuesday evening at the Lucy Hanes Chatham club house to honor Mrs. Russell Bur cham, a bride of the late autumn, the former Miss Jane Womble, of Raleigh. A color scheme of green, red .and white combining the Christ mas and bridal colors, was car ried out in detail ,in the appoint ments of the club house and re freshment course. The nine small tables, where the guests were seated, were centered with white tapers in red holders, sur rounded by sprays of holly. Mis cellaneous games were enjoyed during the evening, with prizes going to Miss Lexie Cummings and Mrs. Hugh Brannon. The festivities were climaxed' with group singing of Christmas car ols, with Mrs. H. A. Rothrock playing the piano accompani ments. Mrs. Burcham was presented I with Madeira tea napkins as THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA guest of honor. Mrs. Kermit Mackle, another bride of the sea son, was given a crystal bowl, and Mrs. R. E. Burgles, of Fay etteville, an out-of-town guest, was also presented a piece of crystal. A dessert course was served during the evening. The guest list included forty. t Miss Abrams Is Bride of Aimer L Brown in Ceremony Friday Miss Julia Abrams and Abner L. Brown were married in a pret ty ceremony Friday evening at 6 o'clock at the heme of the bride groom's daughter, Mrs. C. L. Davis, and Mr. Davis, in Jones ville. Rev. L. B. Abernethy offi ciated, using the ring ceremony of the Methodist church. An improvised altar was ar ranged in froht of the mantel in the living room, which was bank ed with native evergreens and flanked with floor baskets of white gladioli and carnations. On either end of the mantel, which was covered with English ivy, were white tapers in silver can delabra. Mrs. Roscoe Poplin, soloist, and Mrs. Ivry Johnson, pianist, ren dered a program music. Mrs. Johnson played "O Promise Me," and Mrs. Poplin sang "O Perfect Love." During the cere mony Mrs. Johnson played "Sweet Mystery of Life." The tradition al wedding marches were used as the processional and recessional. The bride and bridegroom were unattended, with the exception of Johnny Davis, young grandson of the bridegroom, who carried the ring in the heart of a Madonna lily. The bride wore a becoming street length dress of rose beige moss crepe with accessories of blue. Her shoulder bouquet was of pink roses and lilles-of-the valley. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Mrs. J. P. Abrams and the late Mr. Abrams, of Rutherfordton, and for several years has been a popular member of the nursing staff pf Hugh Chatham Memorial hospital. Mr. Brown is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brown, of Taylorsville, and is associate owner and manager of Brown Machine Company. Following the ceremony the wedding guests, which included the immediate families, and a few close friends, were entertained at a reception by Mr. and Mrs. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Brown left during the evening for a wedding trip to Florida, and upon their return will be at home in Jonesville. A New Brand "What kind of cigarette is : that?" "Baseball special." "There ain't no such brand." "Sure, there is. It was a ' grounder and I picked it up." If all railway bridges in the U. S. were strung together, they frould reach from San Diego, , Calif., to St. Johns, Newfound land. ARE TO SOLICIT CHRISTMAS AID Hi-Y Boys, Acting for Asso ciated Charities, to Can vass Town SCOUTS COOPERATING Within a few days a group of Hi-Y boys, authorized by the As sociated Charities, will solicit mer chandise and goods from business men and individuals for Christ mas baskets for needy families. Those making contributions by j check are asked to make the i checks payable to H. B. Holcomb, j treasurer. Cooperating with the | Associated Charities are members of the Girl and Boy Scout troops. The girls are making Christmas stockings to be enclosed in the baskets and the boys will aid in the distribution of gi£ts. It is requested that gifts which are wrapped ready for delivery have a card attached to designate the contents of the package, in order that it may be given where it can be best used and in order that it will not have to be re wrapped. Rev. Herman P. Duncan, presi dent of the Associated Charities, expresses thanks to students and principals of the Elkin and Jones ville schools for their fine cooper ation in assisting with the Christ mas contributions. ————— THE DOCTOR by WE ADGHBBAUGB MP EPILEPSY Cave men for many centuries ' suffered from "the falling sick ness" as it was called, because its victims usually collapsed. Crude drawings on the sides of their primitive habitations verify this. The earliest writers on medicine repeatedly referred to this tragic illness and believed it was caused by the entrance of demops from the underworld into the bodies of men and women, which might , only be driven from their human tenements by exorcism performed : by a cleric. No nation, no race, no sex and no age has ever been free from this hideous infirmity, i It is unquestionably due to a spontaneous discharge of a motor nerve force and is characterized by periodic convulsive attacks on its victims, which vary in inten sity and in duration. This week I attended a young married man who had been free from these at tacks for ten years. A few days previous to his call he had been resting on the sand at a famous Atlantic coast bathing beach and had a spell lasting five or more minutes. While talking with me he had another attack. His grandfather and his father both had been subject to similar spells, as had other relatives on his father's side of the family. There is another type known as Jacksonian epilepsy, so nam ed after the brain surgeon who discovered it. It usually results from an injury to the skull which leaves scar tissue over the cover ing of the brain. By lifting the depressed bone, freeing the ad hesions and removing the tumor, the patient usually is restored to normalcy. In the other type of epilepsy there is no organic change visible in the motor cells even under microscopic examina tion. Ordinarily victims of both types of this disorder know when an attack is coming on, because they have spots before their eyes, fullness and ringing in their ears, twitching of the muscles, espe-1 cially those of the eyelids and i mouth. Many of the greatest men and women in the world have been epileptics, among them being Joan of Aft:, Napoleon, Richelieu, Julius Caesar, Nero and many saints of both sexes. In olden days leaves were ap plied to the foreheads of suffer ers, then throw into the wind, which was supposed to carry I away the devil causing the at- j tack. Later primitive men made clay images, on which they out- j lined the seat of the illness, thereby transferring it to the i statue. St. John, the Evangelist, in the' i guise of l a beggar asking alms, 1 : I supposedly approached Edward 1 the Confessor, who handed him : some coins, in exchange for which 1 . the holy man gave him a ring, : assuring the king it would 010*6 ' all sufferers from this cause, pro : vided they were touched with it. 1 This mythical story was re- j ; sponsible for the so-called epilep- | ; sy cramp ring worn by thousands : of victims of this malady. I 1 i The French used emerald set : rings to prevent this scourge fall-! 1 ing on them. Water, blessed and : poured over the face as a prayer } was repeated, was also reputed to be a sure cure. 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