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"HF CHARLOTTE NEWS JANUARY 22 1911 ^ociaL ■cuxcL-i c) jpersomL, (By Addte W ihams Caldwell) A Sunday Thought. Hop«. child I Tomorrow hope, and then a^;ain tomorrow. Ard then tomorrow still! Trust in a future dHv, Hope, and each morn the skies new liRht from dawn shall borrow; As God is there to bless let U8 be iluTc lu i’rav. —Victor Hugo. DROP THE YESTERDAYS The new year is a good time to “leave tho low-vaulted past" to drop the yosierdays. to forget bitter mem ories. snys Orison Swett Mnrden in Success Macazine. Resolve that when you cross the line between the old and the new year you will the door on everything in the I'as't that pains and cannot help you. ?'ree yourself from everything which handicaps vou, keeps you back and makes you unhapp>. Throw away all usulesB baggage, drop evsrjihing rhat IS a Urau, that hinders your pro- ffrcsp. • Knter the dix>r of the new year with a clf-.in slate nnd a free mind. Don’t be mortpaeod to the past, and never lotik back. There are many times in the life of a person who doe.'i things that are worth while when lie gets terribly dis couraged and thinks it easier to go back than to pu.-h on. Hut there is no vu tory in retreatim;. We should nev er ler.vt' any bridges iinlnirned behind us. an> wax ojien for retreat to tempt r"i’’ ^' •■al\ne^s iiulH'lsion or discoiira.ge- nit n: If th« re is an.MhIng we evi'r fi-i 1 ,t:-.!teful i'-r. I; i.-; that we have bad ci'iirage and T^luck enough to push on. to u». i) wlu'U things lookeii d.ii k. .i.id licn ^eeniin'ily insurmount- abir ■ i>'.fa(ie' confronted us. If yi’M ?'ave m;idi a I'Oteh (if lOl'i. if -lu 'hi'! It [>ns I'f.'U a faifure. t'aat I.r.vi. tlt-andere.i and blunder- rl a;:d ' ['W dine a lot of foolish 'I;;::::, . iT oti hp.vi> -iii-n gillible, made in.; ! U(ii r. inv. smu :;ry. was'ed your lit!!.- :irti >, tir.u’t drag these '•.noi-i' (>•. or ili.‘ n. w line to iinndi- •• Ml ;u’d *. ,Toy your happiness ;-!! t:,.' toming ,\^ar. ir.\«u't V -t'Hl rnouuh energy "111! .ivi-r wh.'iT cannot be helped? I >n ! 1 t things sap any niore o' :• v‘;..!i'>. wa.-re any r.iore 'f ■ .i;- u(.>M'0.' any m;ro of your ^ MY CREED FOR 1911. ' o . \v.\ T\-o:U as b*'.,’ I may, f" n.-'i’ I'.'ieh daw nine day, \V i ■: i:i> •i-.-t faith in hum 'n lo\e .-.-le t- I.'!- in One al>;)ve. i ' ■ ■■■ 'v .!l'h. To live; • 1 ‘V, ,*ial -;aiu and :iive; !i. hind me for an hour. 1 ■ in vv. akin s? and to walk in . \ • . i’'-.' .•• '.\a s ^-ontinu f orward io the A !.""ing onv.pid. u;>v»ard 40 tlie ;!'■ ’'i-.ar .■•inip.., nf woo and grief. '''' •. lu*' '.von "T i '\ hr-licf ‘ ' -f'llT fn; ni,\ ui.nd • 1: '.lardilHK):! ■ • • ■ . in ( larliy. ; ■' r ii.-.alhy; !• t > I, ' vii ihiugs. t ■ I v:',l p!t a.'ure brine;. 1 ■ 1' 'i' ' n rlv s;:nn>' sid"' of J'\ei c:if I) • .ne of toile and I. . * ‘ - t 1 ■ • j) ‘^niiling face. '■ ■'' ' ’■) win lifi 's lafo; •' ' race is nni. I ■ ■ .M. sto;- 'Tluty Well c r. " —J. .^Ii.r■l oil Mf'Connell. MR'’. CAVE ~ HOSTESS. ' ‘‘id (”irrjp of (he Woman's Au\ .iaiy 1,; S‘. t'oier's l'.]pisfop:;l hu-'h • .1- 'it'ligiit j'ully entertained Tri.iay anernt nn ai thf'huJiie of Mrs. r*. .^l. .\iter ^he business meet ing ai, i.if'irn'al talk ff)llo'.ved upon I lie M;-.-ii;n Sia'ions in Cliiiia. Miss Shrrrani, ..f tlie V. W. (’. A. was uriiinimons V c-U (r,ed an honorary nieni')er -.f mo Circle. After business Mrs. (’avf serv(d (ieliejous refresli- meiit:-: She wa.s attisted by her at tractive little (laiiRbier. Miss Carroll Ca\n TIii- nf-.\t meeting of the Cir cle will he on Friday, Feliruary 3rd. Anni»‘ Hi^wn will land in New Vork today from rulebra. f’ana- jiia, where she has been visiting her brother for the past six mont.h8. ^ MRS. VANDERBILT’S ^RTRAIT. fforth rarollna is alway.s interested In Mr.s. (ieorge \anderbilt as she is a now’-and-then resident of the state. There is a portrait of Mrs. Vander bilt in the studio of Haldini, the fa mous painter, in Paris, which is Raid to be the attraction of the sea son. Boldini says he has painted the por traits of many American women, but he has never had such a splendid model afi Mrs. Vanderbilt. She poses sa easily and naturally as an profes sional. Her portrait will be exhibited In the salon of the Prench artist, after which It will he sent to Balti more to adorn a picture gallery there. Mrs. Vanderbilt is well-known in Paris’ ian society. She lived there several years before her marriage to Mr. .Vanderbilt, and tbelr wedding was one of the great events of that sea son In Paris. Last year the portrait of another Mrs. Vanderbilt was on exhibition in Paris. It was that of Mrs. W. K. Van derbilt and was from the brush of the great FVancoIs. Fleming, compari sons are being made between the two portraits of the two Mesdames Vander- blit. ^ INTO NEW HOME. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Carson and sor, Mr. James Oarson, are spending their first Sunday in their elegant new home on South Tryon street. They left the' old home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glasgow moved to the Carson’s former residence tomorrow. ♦ MUSIC. ♦ ♦ ^ Tuesday evening a large and rep- resentati\e audience will gather at the .\cadery of Music for the .second Artists' convert in the series of the Charlotte Mus’cal Association -Mr. Henry Holden Huss. composer and pianist; Madam Huss. operatic so prano, and Lillian Littlehales, cel- liste. win appear In a program w’hich will be a delight to ever.v music lover and will be of a variety to please all. From the old classic composers— Scarlatti. Haydn, Sehuman—to the modern French school of Dubussy, Faure and Holmes every number is a gem. Chopjn Is not forgotten and what a charm his music weaves I O variety will bze given by having several of Mr. Hr.ss' own composi tions rendered including the beautiful A. Ma.i. Durata for cello and piano, which has been given so much praise both in New York and T^ondon. Following is the complete program. The concert will begin promptly at S::U1 o’clock: Program. 1. la) Two Prelude in g minor and a major Chopin (Huss Paraphare( Mr. Huss has combined these two preludes—the one in g minor all fiery energy and pulsing with dra matic strength, the other full of ten der grace, and in slow mazttrka rhythm—by using the a major pre lude as a middle movement, slight ly developing it. and returning to the g minor prelude. (b( (^ondoliora T.iszt l.iszi has spun an exquisitely graceful arabesque around a lilting boat song by the Cavaliere Perughi- ni Thee lose is especially charming, as the notes come in fainter frag- inerts, as if one were being carried out to ^ea, leaving Venice in the veiled distance: mingling with these, one li'^ars the deep tolled bell strik ing the mill night hor.r. ici Valse K Minor (Oeuvre Posthume) Chopin .Mr. Henry Holden Hus.s. 1*. (at SeFlodindoe fedele. ..Scarlatti (bi Hie Soldatenbrant Schumann (The Soldier's Sweetheart) (c) "My mother bids bind irv hair Haydn (di Mandoline lielmssy .\n earlier song of Debussy l)efore he delilierately abandoned all tonal ity. Fascinating in its Spanish color. te) Apres un Revo Faure (After a Dreain) (ft La Belle du Rio Holmes *Mme. Hildejrarde Hoffman Hnss C. (a) Cantilena Goitermann (!)) Spanish Dance Popper Si'anisli Dance, composed by Pop per. v.lio is considered one of the most skillful and effc'tive composers for tl'.e ’cello. Miss iJ’lian hiltlchales intermission (b) to the Xipht. op. 2'^ .'.io to; “O night, how won'rous art Thoii in Thy .^lajesty, Thy Melancholy, and thy Jlystc- ry; —Huss (c) Prelude, op. IT. a flat major. Mr. Huss. 7j. (aiTiaeume (Study for ■‘Tristan and Isolde") Wagner (Dreams) This wonderful poetic song is part ly reproduced in the second act of Wagner's in.irvellous “Tristan Isolde." (1)1 “White Larks with little wing Hnss ('on.ddered by Europe and Ameri can critics to 1)0 one of Mr. Huss’ very best songs. (c) "It was a Lover and His Lass" Huss ((1» Ashes of Roses.. Auihnr Foote (e; Provenoial Song .Dell Aqua A very difiicolt and attractive solo, replete with P'rench gaiety and vi vacious charm. Mnie. Huss. t). (a) Sonata, op. -4, for \ioloncelio and Piano Huss Allegro moderato ma vigoroso Allegro graciobo Allegro Commodo Was successfully performed last season in New York by the com poser and the great Cellist, Alwin Schroeder (many years after with the Kneisel Quartette,) and also in .luly at Mr. and Mrs. Huss’ recital in London, EnglanU, Miss Litllehales and Mr. Huss. The piano used is a Steinway. 'The association, ratner the execu tive board, will entertain the artists infoiinally. after the concert, at the home of Mrs. Minnie Wriston Smith. This will be a delightful aftermath to the concert. BELL RINGING. THEATRICAL EVENT OF WEEK. The audience wnich will greet Viola Allen this week, at the Academy of Music, will be brilliant indeed. A num ber of theatre parties are being formed amongst the ultra-fashionable set. Nearby cities, w'hose citizens will come over a year hence on the inter- urban, will be largely represented. Manager Crovo is getting orders' by mail and ’phone. There will be few such atractions offered this season as Viola Allen. Parties who saw her in Atlanta a week or so ago in a “White Sister” say she Is magnificent. AT BARTON JUNCTION Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Burwell and Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Carson and Mrs. J. S. Carson are at Barton Junction, Fla. Mrs. Coltrane, of Concord, is the guest of Mrs. Mattie Stewart. ^ BACK FROM CHESTER. Mrs. \\\ O. Niabett and Mrs. J. C. Montgomery returned last night from Chester, S. C.. where they have been visiting Miss Kate Harding. Bell ringing is, an ancient custom, says the Christian Advocate. Although bells were used in India and (’hina long before thev were lntroduc(‘d into Europe, ir is in the latttM- pla’ee that we have come to ass-oi lait' wilb them a religious signiticanee. 'I'heir history is full of dramatic incidents. Bells in Kurope have rung to an nounce victory and «;efeat, and they have ushered in some of the greatest incidents of history. 'I'he ringing of ihe church bells gave the signal for St. Bartholemew’s day in 1572, and when Nelson's victory reached Eng land the bells were joyously rung to announce the good news to the peo ple. Church bells have undergone many changes since they were first made. The earliest bel’s were mad of baked earth, and not of meal. These earth- ern bells are still found in Switzer land tinkling from the necks of the cows grazing on the slopes of the motmtains. Instead of being harsh or dull in tone, they are really »weet and clear, so that every tourist speaks of the cowbells of Switzerland tinkling away among the dales and valleys of that country. In one canton of Sw'ltzer- land and all the cowbells are alike, and if all rung at once they would make perfect harmony. But elsewhere the bells are made without any effort to secure uniformity, an dthe tinkle, tinkle makes pretty music among the rustic scenery. The oldest bells found in Scotland, Ireland and Wales were made of thin iron plates which were welded to- gethe rby hand. They are hammered and riveted carefully, and they have preserved their ton for cnturies. 1 ne ringing of the curfew has been impressed on all by the poem, w'hich nearly ever.v one knows. The curfew beyy, however, was not fii*st rung in England, but was used on the conti nent of Europe way back in the Mid dle Ages. ^ ASSOCIATION TO GIVE SILVER TEA. The local alumnae assuclatlon of the State Normal had a most pleasant meeting yesterday afternoon with Miss Jos^phine Davidson, at her home on East Seventh st’reet. This was the third meeting of the association, the other two having been hold at tiie Library in October, and with Miss Sarah Kelly in November. No meet ing was held in December. The offi cers of the association are; Presi dent. .Miss Kelly; vice-president, Miss Bertha Donnelly; treasurer. Miss Daisv Cuthberti-on.. The object of the association, like similar ones over thr state, is to build a memorial ball to Dr. Chas. D. Mc- Iver. The association decided yesterday ;o liave a Silver Tea at an early day. The place will be decidcd on later. ^ DANCING CLASS CHANGE OF DAYS. So interesting has Miss EUlott'.s dancing class become that the number Oi spectators has increased and such a number that she feels compelled to sa.'.- that in future the lessons will 1)8 ')iivate. only the motiiers of i)niiils being admitted. The children have made wonaerful jHogress. In five les sons they have learned to two-step, polka and dance the square dances. The girls wear a regulation costume of 1)!aek accordion })laited skirts, fan cy white blouses, black stockings and sii-ppers. On the boy’s account. Ali.ss Elliott has decided to change the class days to Tuesday and Friday insteaiTof Tuesday and Satuiday. S»—j- PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE NOTES. The annual mid-winter concert will l>e held in the auditorium Monday night. Jan. .'10th, at S o'clock. The program consisting of jiianaforte, vo cal. \ ioiin anrl organ music, has been carefully jirepared. The public is cor dially invited. « The next rehearsal of the Choral Society will take place Thursday, the “i(ith inst.. at 8 o'clock. The oratorio of "The Messiah” is in jn'cparation. Tomorrow night ^Ir. Henr.v F. An derson vt’ill give tiie inauguravion reci- tai on the new organ i nthe Presbyte- ian church, at Latirinburg. N. C. ]Mrs. Anderson will play several violin numbers on the program. The choir of the church will also assist. ♦ CONFEDERATE COLUMN ♦ Mrs. W. V. Marlin, Avho is visiting friends in Kentucky, will return to Charlotte about Feb. 1st.' Mrs. J. P. Caldwell and daughter, Miss Adelaide Pearson Caldwell, w-ent to Morganton this morning to remain until tomorrow’ night. TO FLORIDA THIS WEEK. Mrs. Charles Wadsworth and chil dren leave the latter part of the week for Florida, where they will visit for some weeks. A pleasant guest at Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Moseley's is Mr. R. T. Summey, of Leicester, near Asheville.. Mr. Summey is a half-brother of Mrs. Moseley. AS TO HATS IN CHURCH A lady who believes in ‘‘Lats off in church." sends me the following; Dear Mrs. Caldwell; In view of the recent agitation re garding hats in "meeting” I am send ing you a clipping I found in one of my books. It follow's; “In 17G9 the church at Andover put it to a vote whether “the parish dis approve of the female sex sitting with their hats on in the meeting-house in time of divine service as being inde cent.” In the town of Abbington, in 1775 it was voted that it was “and in decent way that the female sex do sit with their hats and bonnets on to worship God.” Still another town vot ed that it twas the “Town’s mind” that the women should take their bonnets off in meeting and “hang them on the peggs.” We do not knov/ positively, but I suspect the bonnets continued to grace the heads instead of the pegs of Andover, Abbington and other towns.” Having spent a week-end in Andover with a minister’s family makes this interesting to me. ,m. Mrs. Sutherlin. wlaow of Major W. T. Sutherlin, of Danville, died re cently. In talking to an Age-Herald man of Mrs. Sutherlin, a Virginian at present living in Birmingham, said: “I knew Major Sutherlin well and esteemed him greatly, and I had the privilege of a close personal friend ship with Mrs. Sutherlin. “I had been entertained in the stately Sutherlin mansion in Danville and the last time I was there I sat alone for a half hour or more in reverie over the last days of the w^ar. when President Davis and his cabinet were under that same roof. “Turning just now to the Jefferson Davis memorial volume by my dear friend, the late William Jones, D. D., 1 turned to page 394 and read with tender interest the narrative by a cor respondent of the Richmond Dispatch of the Confederate President’s sojourn in Danville as the guest of the Suth- erlins; and as one touching incident agrees exactly with what Mrs. Suth erlin told me when oa a visit to rel atives in Birmingham several year’s ago I will offer it for reproduction in The Age-Herald. It showed rare grace and unfeigned sympathy on the part ol; Mrs. Sutherlin and knightly grace on the part of the Confedei'acy’s chief magistrate. The correspondence, is dated Danville, Va.. December 11, 1SS9, and here is the part to which I have reference; “ ‘Making a few hurried arrange ments, Mr. Davis offered his hand to me to say good-by,’ said Mrs. Suther lin. ‘and I asked him the question: “Mr. Davis, have you anw' funds other than Confederate money?” and he re plied in the negative. “Then,” said I, offering him a Ijag of gold containing $1000, ‘take this from me.’ I offered the money without consulting Mr. Sutherlin, but knew it would be all right with him. “‘Mr. Davis took my hand and the tears streamed dow^n his face. “No,” said be. “I cannot take your money. You and yo;ir husband are young and will need your money, w^hile I am an old man,” and, adding after a pause. “I don’t suppose I shall need any- thin.g very long.” “ ‘He then put his hand in his pocket and look out a little gold pencil which he asked me to keep for his sake, and I have the little memento now'.* She then show'ed the little gift to myself and others in the room and said she had never used it. but had always pre served it as a sacred gift.” ^ Knoxville Chapter U. D. C. met in open session Thursday evening to do honor, says the Knoxville Sentinel, to the name and memory of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the two greatest heroes of the Southern Con federacy. Mr. George .Jackson Dominich de livered the address of the evening, on the subject, "The Death of Stonewall Jackson.” * The Confederate monument to be erected in the Confederate section of the National cemetery at Arlington, Va. near Washington, will be one of the handsomest works of memorial art in this country, says the Age-Herald. It is to cost $.jO.OOO, and has been de signed by Sir Moses Ezekiel, a native of Virginia, but for many .vears one of the prominent, scullors of Rome. A large part of the $50,000 has been raised, and it is hoped that the fund will be completed during the present •j^ear. The Daughters of the Confed eracy have charge of the w'ork and are lal)oring with characteristic en thusiasm. determined if possible to put the monum.ent project in such shape as to insure its execution and comple tion wiythin the next two years. To that end the Daughters wdll sell Con federate memorial stamps—beautiful in design and inexepnsive. WOMAN'S CLUB. MRS. HAGOOD’S GUEST. Mrs. Kate Harding, of Greensbor^, arrived here last evening and is the guest of Mrs. W. \Y. Hagood. ART. ^ Whistler’s Old Friend. Sixty years a^o James McNeill Whistler entered the United States Military Academy at West Point as a cadet, writes the Times-Dispatch. He was cut out for an artist rather than for a soldier, however, and he did not achieve great distinction in the science of war, but acquired w’orld-wide fame for his original and exquisite work as an artist. When Whistler entered West Point the Adjutant of the Corps of Cadets was a young man from Augus ta. Ga., 'William Robertson Boggs, and between these tw'O there grew up a lifelong friendship, which endured to the day of Whistler’s death, and which is now one of the pleasantest memor ies cherished by the brave old soldier waiting for his final call at Winston- Salem, North Carolina. ■Whistler was a peculiar genius. He did not care very much for the things in v.'hich his fellows at the Military Academy were most interested, and we do not know that he even completed his course at the Academy, so unbend ing w'ere the view's of the teaching body that found W’histler deficient in chemistry because he declared that "silicon was not a gas.” W'hile he was at the Academy, W'histler w'as taken into the affections of young Boggs who was visite^d at his double tent—Bog.gs being Adjutant of the Corps of Cadets—almost every day, and there upon scraps of paper Whist ler made some of the most characteris tic of his sketches, and these first drawings have been recently published in the Century Magazine, with the ftory of how the work was done and wliat the sketches ipeant. Two of these sketches were sugaiested by the “Pick wick Papers,” and show the remark able imagination of the artist even at that early day, and the rest of them illustrate such of the camp scenes of the Cadet Corps as applied to the artistic sense of the young fellow^, w’oh was not acquainted with some of the mysteries of chemistry. Whistler has answered his last call, but his former Adjutant still lives. MRS. MORRISON’S TRIPS Mrs. E. J. Morrison, mother of Capt. Claud Morrisoh, w'ho has been in Scranton. Pa., for some weeks, has returned home. Mrs. Morrison visited her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Stocker, who was Miss Octavia Morrison. Mrs. Mor rison has another pleasure trip ahead. She starts this week for Oko- loma. Miss., to spend some time with! her son, Mr. H. L. Morrison. The Department of Education of the Woman’s Club will meet Thursday. The program for the day is: Paper—“English in the Eighth Grade Compared With Other Schools of the State,” Mrs. F. P. Wyche. Discus-sion—“Uniform Method of Correction,” led by Mrs. J. A. Yar brough and Mrs. H. D. Burkheimer. i» I): Friday the Virginia Dare w'ill dis cuss at its meeting Hyksos Invasion, the Biblical quotation for the meeting is: “God sent me before you to pre serve you a posterity in the ekrth, and to save your lives by a great deliv erance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God. (Joseph). The program follow's: “The Hyksos or Shepherd Kings,” Mrs. Rufus Barringer. ‘•Israel in Egypt” (1730 B. C.), Mrs. J. L. Chambers. Current Events—Circle, Virgin iaf Day was never more de lightfully and appropriately kept than last week, w-hen a famous Virginia au thoress- and Richmond woman. Miss Mary Johnston, was the central figure in the literary program of the after noon and at the reception given in her honor by the members of the Wom an’s Club, notes the Times-Dispatch. Miss Johnston wore a gow^n of pom padour silk, with a corsage bouquet of violets. She gave in a reading of about three-quarters of an hour ex tracts from her writings, hitherto un published, w^hich were alive with the imaginative glow and power which Miss Johnston possesses to so wonder ful a degree, and reflected beyond ex pression the patriotism of Virginia Day and the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. Miss .Johnston was introduced by the president of the club, Mrs. Christopher Tompkins. The chocolate table was presided over by Mrs. L. R. Dashiell and Mrs. John John S, Munce, and tea was pour- ed by ]\Irs. Charles G. Bosher and Mrs. P. L. Conquest. The club parlors w'ere prettily decorated in red and white flowers and vases of red and white carnations were used on the tables and mantels in each room. The state flag and the Confederate flag were draped in rear of the rostrum, where Miss Johnston stood. I never see anything about “The City Beaut'ful,'’ or "Model Cities,” without hinking of the Civics Depart ment of the Woman’s Club. Perhaps the department will be interested in the following about “Dusseldorf,” a model city of Germany. Frederick C. Howe, in Hampton’s- Magazine, writes of the delights of this modern and eth ical community. “Of all German cities, I think Dus seldorf is easily the first,” writes Mr. Howe. "It is not an old residence city like Dresden or Munich. It is a comparatively nev/ city }ike Cleveland, Milwaukee, Indianapolis or Kansas City. Its population was but 69,000 people in 1871, It is now 300,000. “Dusseldorf, too, is an industrial city of mills, factories and workshops. It might be as unalluring as Pittsburg. It might be ruled by business men in their ov.m interest as are most of our American cities; it might be built without beauty and sutfer from the corruption that has brought shame to Pittsburg, Philadelph ia, San Francis co, Denver, Cincinnati and a score more. But none of these things is true of Dusseldorf. ^ “This industrial city is one of the best governed cities- in the world. It has dreamed dreams and dared to carry them into execution. It is al most as beautiful as Washington, as full of the joy of living as Paris, and is managed with more scrupulous hon esty, more scientific efflicency and more devoted pride than almost any American bus-iness corporation. The city is built for the comfort and con venience of its people. It is designed as master architects might design a world’s fair to wiiich all mankind was invited for education, recreation and art. “Disseldorf does more things for its people than any city I know. It owns its street railroads and the controlling interest in a system of interurban rail roads; it ow'ns its harbors and its docks and its slaughterhouses, its gas, electric light and water plants; it operates three separate banking and loan enterprises, a large wine business, several restaurants and milk depots; it owns and rents suburban villas and large apartment houses; ic is a great land speculator and city landowner; it po&sesses art galleries, an opera house, museums and exposition hall, and indirectly owns the leading hotel in the city. It has public baths and cemeteries and pawnshops. “Dusseldorf has made a beginning at homing its people. It is the owner of suburban villas and model tene ment houses, and is a stockholder in a scheme of co-operative apartment houses in which the workmen are joint owmers. “The country villas rent for from $6 to $7 a month. A three or four room apartment in the city rents for about the same sum. “These apartments are as clean and sanitary as can be. The co-operative apartments are built about courtyards which serve as playgrounds and are surrounded by flower gardens. There is free water and a scullery with ev ery flat of three rooms or more. “In order to secure an apartment in one of these desirable buildings the tenant must become a shareholder in the company, buying $5 worth of stock. The tenants are not the recipient of charity. On the contrary they are part owners and co-operate in the manage ment. “They elect a house manager, who collects the rents and repre&ents them before the company. The tenant stock holders receive 4 per cent a year on their investment and the company agrees to redeem their stock at any time on six months’ notice. There are 500 ’such apartments in the city and ten large apartment houses in process of building.’ ^ * * For it stirs the blood in an old * man’s heart, * * And it makes his pulses fly, * To catch the thrill of a happy * * voice * * And the light of a pleasant eve * . —Willis. * ♦ A TRIP TO OKLAHOMA. ♦ [Written by Miss Jean Dow'd, for The News’ Sunday Social Page.] A person starting on a long jour ney should be prepared for all kinds of adventures. missin.g connections, and irregular sleeping and eating ac commodations. I write of the trip I have just taken west—leaving Charlotte Saturday morning at 7:30. Every one wh ohas had that ride to Statesville needs no information as to the slow speed and crowded cars. One might easily go in an automobile and meet the train on returning. From Statesville to Asheville in the Pullman you are fairly comfortable, ex cept for sudden curves in going around bends in the mountains and going through long tunnels. The scenery is beautiful, especially in dead winter. I made close connec tion for a w'onder at Asheville and came near having a private car to Morristown. The station at this small town is one of those hat, stuffy places which having been subjected to once is never to be forgotten. There was lots of dirt. The rain was pour ing down. I spent an hour and a half there w'aiting for the Memphis train. I listened to babies squeel and w'atch- ed the men smoke and chew' around the red-hot stove. Some were hud dled up in corners taking cat-naps; a negro porter awoke them with a loud cry for trains going south, west and north. I felt rather ciscouraged w^hen my tr-ain was marked ten minutes late every half hour. A young w^oman told me she had been waiting for six hours. I confess that I took courage on hear ing this and thought that I would surely get out of there before dawn. Finally, my train came and I found myself located in “lower ten”—the de tective story running through my brain—I wished myself at home. Next morning I reached Memphis in time for breakfast, spent two days realsn lilhi— ,sSP- there. From Memphis to Oklahoma City I had to make no change of cars and the trip w^as very pleasaut. 1 struck up acquaintance with a young lady from Paris, Texas, who had been visiting in Memphis. There are no diners on the western trains and we had to get off for meals at Boonville for breakfast. A table was reserved especially for travelers. The scenery had now a western look, but was quite interesting—no trees, email houses and funny stores, big signs and small towns, post offices and drug stores combined. At the stations in Oklahoma state I saw' half and three-rourth Indiana loafiing around, The real fuU-blooded Indians live in tents about the coun try. It w'as dark when I reached Okla homa City. The brilliant lights re minded me off at a long distance of a southern tow'n. At Oklahoma City I changed for the Santa Fe railroad and fame to Norman—my father having joined me. W^hile traveling all of this distance one realizes the fast that there’s North Carolina friends are indeed far away. I am settled now and enjoy the free dom of western life. Yours trulv, ♦ ./ ( IN MISS FOIL’S STUDIO Sveral members of Miss Hlen Foil’s class gave the following interesting program, at her studio yesterday after noon. Paper on E. A. MacDowell. Miss Martha Howell. Reyerie Egan Miss Kate Graham. (a) Forty-eight Scale in various forms (b) Gypsy Rondo Haydn Miss Katie Lee Nixoa. (a) Exercise at the Clavier for strength and extension of hands. (b) Prelude in C minor Chopin Miss Hazel Robinson. To a Wild Rose MacDowell Miss Howell. (a) Evercise at the table for the development of wrist and arm. (b) Scotch Poem MacDowell (c) Spring Song Hollander Miss Madeline Orr. Miss Foil is one of the most thor ough musicians in the city. She has studied in New York and in Europe, and to natural talent has added unu sual advantages. PIEDMONT LADIES DAY. The ladies of Piedmont have with one accord agreed upon Thursday a& their afternoon at home. This is done so those calling on that avenue can make one trip, expecting to find the ladies at home when they reach there. D. A. R, COLUM ' a’-5 bv " •-A.O* a; ' "er , :as; ' '--ere?* in dors. 0' ; -i a /P5. I a!' :il ’lie ♦ TROUBLE BORROWERS ♦ ♦ ♦ A woman who may not be able to borrow anything else, not money, nor even an umbrella on a rainy day, can always borrow trouble. She can not only borrow it, but she is made wel come to the keeping of it, w ithout any fear as to being asked to give it bac, says a writer in the Times-Dispatch. Whenever a crisis occurs in a wo man’s life, or whenever she becames the parUcipator in and undertaking of moment' or importance, she begins to reckon up all the chances that are likely to interfere with its success. If anything occurs to justify her fore cast. she is in a w’ay miserably tri umphant, miserable because of failure and triumphant over the opportunity of saying “I told you so, I knew how' it would be from the very begin ning.” It is quite useless to oppose the predilections of such women the cold processes of logic or reason. There was never a truer saying than that ‘ a woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.” They apparently lend an unwilling ear to advice. Then their minds like pendulums swing back to the starting point and first conclusions are again rather complacently opposed to all sensible opposition. Women w'ho borrow trouble are very uncomfortable to live with, be cause they are always endeavoring to force others to help them carry v/hat they have borrowed. There is enough real inevitable trouble in the happiest woman’s life, one might think, without her feeling the necessity that imjiels her to bor row more than rightfully comes to her. ^ In the midst of the foundation of wit there arises something bitter, wiiich stings in the very flowers.—Lucretius. The 22d of Febru day of note with the |j be made especiailP, n’ Mecklenburg and ciiario The former will Sion at Mrs. A. M. .Mcf. McDonald has a lovf 'r. ' ly enlarged by an a ■ number of rooms. She - thee hapler on an o'jl..- Charlotte Chapter w- 1,. Mrs. W. A. Zv.’pier, is the anniversary marriage, si;e vd!! im;.-.. nocn delightful .soria,’. rating so happy an : , the same time enieri:)i» ter. ‘ * « « Of the thirt.v-two (■■nr.-, ,- 'D. A. R. viiich beloiu; • ' of Columbia, the Mot'ii...: with its fifty-six mem!. ;- most .rapid Increase di.r two years and a most ' in all things patriotic, jav’s • tngton Herald. The eiia! ’ ; considerable .s-ettlemeni ed the movement agai];.-^ comic supplement as ii . ago, and has donatv-i lii>, the erection and I'urti.fJhit , , tlnental Hall of tiie The meetings ai'e iieid the regent, Mrs. .\iarv i:;, The Board of Rogent;-: tion which holds in eral government the Iioi.-h ,. of George Washin.mi.n to congress' to jiroiec; 1 . charge from a proiat ,; , seems to be wanton in :i ■ there is no reason i.i r;,,: policy to justil'y it. savs . Pilot. The comniiPsiiM.t', trict of Columbia, wiii; : ternative sites-, have i purpose of ioeaiiug a r-, ;; atory for disi riot \or,\i. of land in \’irginia innv. tignous to the i)rpcin, (,>. the nation as the IimI.v c- ;. ■ the political .^iirines o- : The commissit'nors : conceniion of ihe ,■ v.iiich would be uutiiK. i pfan to be carried in: . , only answer to the r-ideration entere/i by ;i; non regency \'-as lo ■; , the “selection had be.'i; ' made and that tbe site . vantagous for 'he inr;:..,-, ■■ any in the territory a\a: ii' rebuff, left 10 the Regent bur to la.v their ;ni ■ ar.^ f congress, where, it is Ikm . u meet with a very ditiori .• : For more than half a women of the I’nited Ssv. ^ voted tireless effori m> j-.r associations that clusicr a.t tomb of Washington ai;i: m a Mecca to which Pi!,;ri!>i rf- ))air to refresh their lo',- ijijp-- and draw inspiration from -rrvan-'e of the noble virtues of h mar,;' , far have they succeeded in rh-ir plow mission that all Ameri: : : . ncnhvof the same regard (he sp ■: wl'h rovor- ence and regard it a :c!ra':i Heretofore the aimot;pii. a;.,; - fltiences of the place have ^: themselves to guard it ! ^ - a. tion. The first step in inrann , 3 cloistered quiet comes frer.i a;, ac -T of that government wl;i. i; - existence to the sacriiica; ii.imr,. i.i Washington. Congress F-hould not (kiay fo: -.c moment to save JMonm : the pollution ihrearened * *!: Apropos of a recent sta'PMir-u' effect that George Wasliiiiai.ii 's a: ficial teeth were a glarii.i: ini; i’ I’ recalled that the Fathe:- d i!i' ' try suffered from other pi;.i• backs, &ays the New oYrk ■lai'i. TsH’' the matter of legs for ins'au' ' . Wi': it can hardly be said tha? \Va;-' inc ; w’as exactly wh..t niiL-ht bt ■’spindle-shanked," it 1- w'ell established that, lii: 1^25 w're almost insignificant and irla;' proportioned to his sta' a- an es tirely. They were so inafio'iua’ unimpressive, as a maner o' farMha according to tradition, 'he ai' painted Wasiiington’s [n^rir;; • hanging in the hall of i:’ ^ representatives was so d - is* with his subject that ! ' Gen. Smith, an officer O' ’ ' tion, to lend his le.an- v-- ' the picture. Therefore, = contended, the body ; nd particuiar portrait arc t!.;!-' ington, but the legs arc- t ■ Smith. The Homeless Of'^ Go ’ong, ;Mistor Wit'iK •. ' dat’s lookin’ blue: Dar’s a gyardon over ^ sweets’ rose fer ■ Go 'long. I pa". An’ leave do You done wear on: . time is up ter . Go ’long, I tell on’ any place Wliar dere’s any wur; • time yo’ show yo’ Go on fur a'vn An’ leave de s : : . You have been ik' ’ an’ yo' time ^ —F. L. Stanton, in ’ ' stitution. ^ A PARTY IN DIXIE. ar'i id. Miss T.ella Crnwi. ■ her of friends Tlim 7 to II at her !ioi' : ■ ' and games were flu evening. The toll'"' 7.' • enjoyed » the liosp! - Brown: Misse;- !^' , rison, Irene an^l Aia-: ' ‘ and Mamie Anten. Annie Davenport. ; Garrison, .lames ^ ^ Bob Davenpoit, i:o. d . ;• Sparrow, \V'illi.= ' ton, Elbert and . Grier Bigham. Karl b " , Rov Auten and Pam P’' ^ - EMBROIDERY CLUB. The WedneP.dR' I- will meet this week Maffitt. How happy is he l' ' 1'hat pervet!) no’ \\Hiose armor is 1:':- '■ - And simple tnitli I ’ 1 fm % rjnl [. ■ 1,1 ‘.'Iforj ■: rvMpril ' ;-ondl rtii; devf .,1 ia-u.t; ? ni| ’ i I'I a i| n r. i a , - All! i fi- idf - --1 Ui t\v, Mi^.H ;i ; ■' '-2-h; f:’i ' -Mrl Ml ^ J';r.;r.nl v'ing ST'aeir an,' C(,in| tiy. ■"'iialiv ’ielgb'. ^ isar anj ■ 'i)ejj;, .■ ci^y’ - -"'■s. LiJ of alumni ''d as ' enrol All Banj li^easurer
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Jan. 22, 1911, edition 1
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