The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-09
Mi aAy 1lEpHR1MENT. 7
Conducted by vERNA v1L11ERs" e 9ll
AFTER FIVE YEARS.

AFTER FIVE YEARS.
There are milestones five in the road, sweet
The road OF the years that runneth down
Fromthe chancel-rail of the church, sweet
heart
The quiet church in the quiet town.
Where we met and plighted our VOWS and
looked
Far out on the sheen flies broad sea-
Where our beauteous ship at anchor lay
Its white sails reckoning you and me.
There were tears in my eyes that eve, sweet
My voice was choked, and my cheeks were
pale,
And my Slim hand trembled in yours ,sweet-
heart,
AS you held it there at the chancel-rail;
For | knew that our ship was outward
It's untried sails on an unknown sea,
with Love at the helm and Hope aloft,
It's haven the far-of Yet-to-Be.
But our ship has sailed on the sea, sweet
heart,
Where islands slope to a shining strand;
We live in the breath of flowers, sweetheart,
That bloom forever in Loves own land.
The hopes OF our youth are crowned with
gold,
The harvest ripened through storm and
shine;
Not a dream was broken in all the years
Because of that deathless love of thine.
There are milestones five on the road sweet
The road of the years that runneth down
From the chRncel-rail of the church, sweet
heart
The quiet church in the quiet town,
Where our VOWS were pighted, our lives
Where we tried the waves of Lifc's wide sea
Aud we found in the land of Love and Song
The blessed haven that was to be.
NERNA VILLERs.
W.
A Word to the Readers of the "woman's
Department.
The summer has gone, and the sea-
son of fading leaves come, since we
were last with the sunny household
of the HERALD, but we are now go
ing to try to fill our old place among
you and win back the friends whom
by our silence, perhaps, we may have
lost; and by way of "A good begin
ming, we will write on the first day
Of our favOrite month, October, who
now dOns her brilliant crown, while
the 'leaves are turning brown" A
sojourn at Fernvale Springs and
among the "kinnery" in Williamson
county; brief trip to our child
hoods home at CulleOka, and an
hours stay in the quiet Gem etery be-
side the graves of our loved ones
who have journeyed across the dark
some river to the echOless shore be-
yond visit to Bear Creek friends,
and several weeks illness in our
family, is an epitome of our life dur
ing the two months past. Now, that
the vacation is over, we are back at
our post to give our thoughts and
energies to the "duty that lies near
est, " and we hope to make these col
Kingdoms" are favorite departments
in many of the newspapers, and in
this one, our own especial, we sim
eerely trust that old and young may
be interested-that women, tired of
the practical positions of their mo-
notonous lives, will be glad to find
something new to think of-some
words to strengthen.
To ali our friends we send greet
ing, especially "ZuIan "Orestra, ~
Barbara, ""Raven Locks, ~" Effie, ;"
and last, but by no means least, dear
"Substitute.n
Nv
Fashion Notes.
The stores are now fairly aglow
with beautiful new millinery and
dainty dress goods. Something
wholly definite in the realm of
Fashion is at the moment lost to
view in the endless variety of de-
signs and wonderful combinations of
color. There is satisfaction, how
ever, in the reflection that the
changing processes that the seasons
bring, must sooner or later reveal a
simplicity of style which during the
summer past, has seemed out OF
question.
Bustles are to the fore again. Nc
woman of fashion is now without one
Broadcloth is to be the "swagger'
material for autumn frocks, and the
light shades of pinkish tan, mauve
and tobac brown are the predomina-
ting cOlors. For travelling and street
dresses the stiff material known as
hOp-sacking ls already shown as al
autumn novelty. That sleeves will
closely encase the arm by the win
ter season is hardly to be doubted
During the autumn the compromise
puff of moderate dimensions, series
of very frilly rutfles, vandyke caps
and draped effects will be added Il
the tops of sleeves, these mitigating
considerably the appearance of the
close untrimmed, unbecoming Goa
sleeves which are quite too extreme
to be adopted at once by American
women.
The musk-melon puff is the lates
French finish to the tops of sleeves
made tight from wrist to shoulder
The puff is short and full, and shir
red into crescent shaped ridges a
equal distances apart. There is lit
tie or no fullness just under tn,
arms. The puff is lined with tatfet'
silk before it is shirred into its melol
shape.
Some of the little wraps for autumn
are exceedingly smart and re
cherche. Not a few reach only below
the shoulders, but they are extreme
ly full. Other models come to thu
waist line and are exceptionally ele
CANT. Nearly all the new mode
costumes for the late autumn wea