FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1938 SOCIETY MRS. THRO. & DAVIS, Editor Pleat* tend local or personal items to the RECORD shop by Tuesday night, if possible. PRAYER FOR A NEW MOTHER The things she knew let her for get again— The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold, The gaping shepherds and the queer old men Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold. Let her have laughter with her little one; Teach her the endless, tuneless songs to sing; Grant her the right to whisper to her son The foolish names one dare not call a king. Keep from her dreams the rumble of a crowd, • The smell of rough-cut wood, the trail of red, The thick and chilly whiteness of the shroud That wraps the strange new body of the dead. Ah, let her go, kind Lord, where mothers go And boast his pretty words and ways, and plan The proud and happy years that they shall know Together when her son is grown a man. Dorothy Parker. Mr. Roland Price of Durham visited his sister, Mrs. Robert Phillips, Saturday night. Mr. Douglas Cooke of Fort Bragg spent the week end in the home of Mrs. Will Liles where Mrs. Cooke has been staying since being sick. She is better now. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Na than Horton is very much im proved in appearance since being painted. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Richson will soon move near Bailey with Mrs Richson’s father. The Irby Gills and the Robert Dawsons have moved into their attractive new homes on North St. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Comer, Sr., of Raleigh with their son and daugh ter, Bruce and Ethel visited their son, J. B. Comer, Jr., and family here Sunday. The Ted Davises of Goldsboro and baby daughter, Lynne, visited in the Theo. Davis home Satur day night and Sunday. The J. M. Potters of Raleigh and their sons, Jack, Bob, and Eric, were also in the Davis home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Venable and sons, Woodson and Joe, have taken an apartment at the Philette sta tion and will keep house, after hav ing spent some time visiting rela tives since their return from the I