Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-19

ments. This they did in the kindest and most amiable way, which indicated not only good hearts, but the best instincts and breeding, and this second request will no doubt be viewed in the same light. It is matter that concerns the young ladies more than their beauX, and the result rests almost entirely with them. It is nothing more nor less than the propEiety of young ladies refusing to allow their. escorts to go to the ex- 'pense of furnishing carriages for their use at every evening function. Of course indictment weather necessitates vehicle, so that condition does not enter into this discussion But that is no reason that any girl whose health is sufficiently good to permit of her constant attendance upon social functions should find 1t es- sential to ride always to and from an evening entertainment, when we have ex- cellent car and dummy lines penetrating all parts of our town and suburbs. They are clean, well kept cars as rule, quite as clean as the, majority of hired hacks, and there is no reason that they should not be more used by our young people in the evening. Just from a selfish stand point, the adoption of car lines instead of carriages should be made, for the girls would find many more young gen. tlemen equal to the demands of society if this fearful expense of hack hire was eliminated. Some of the most attractive and worthy of our young men hesitate
 
 upon their limited incomes from the rent of carriages, purchase of flowers, etc. Very few men can afford these luxur.eS constantly in any southern city, and the fashion of riding girls to all evening functions, which now obtains with us, is an injustice to belles and beaux in sev- eral ways. A man has to be very much enamored of girl to be willing to pay so much for her qualification, and, if he is not, it is the cause of many a regret -t1 fa-I II have entailed upon him this expense. It has been suggested that a number of our swellest young gentlemen inaugurate this reform and begin at once to do away with carriages, except in disagreeable weather, and my word for it there is not a sweet sensible Birmingham girl who will enter a protest against the change. You can always depend upon the south ern girls to do the right thing at the right time, and, young ladies, the time has come when you should request your escorts not to go to the unnecessary ex- pense of paying from $5 to $10 for your pleasure every time they ask you to go out with them. Few men can afford it; it is a miserable waste of money and an effort to initiate the style of certain cities where wealth abounds Which one. of our lovely girls will be the first to take proper stand in this important matter?
 
 The recent death of Mrs. James Roy of our city removed from our midst one of the most thorough women, one of the most intellectual and cultivated women, and also one of the most attractive and congenial companions. She won her way into the esteem and confidence of her friends because of her broad, noble con- scientious attributes, as well as by her wonderfully magnetic personality She was well poised and possessed an amount of reserve force that made an impress sion never to be forgotten upon her ac- Quaintances and friends She was typ ical wife and mother and at the same time a woman of all the sweetest graces that charm and fascinate. Her death with it's awful -suddenness came like terrific blow to those who loved her. She had lived in Birmingham about seven years, coming here with her husband, mother and only son from Aberdeen, Miss. Mrs. Roy was a native of Aber- deen, but the larger portion of her life was spent in Alabama. She was previous to her marriage Miss Annie Dearing and was educated and spent most of her life in Tuskaloosa with her grandparents, Col. and Mrs. James Dearing. After completing her education she returned to her mother at Aberdeen and there met and married MT. James Roy. She lived. number of years in Mississippi after her marriage and came to Birmingham m several years ago. Her fatal illness was a speedy and sudden one, wholly unex- pected by those who tenderly nursed her through an ordinary surgical opera tion, from which she was recovering, when, with a shock which almost stunned her family, 1t was discovered that she had developed in an alarming form acute Bright's disease. Then the end came speedily, and she gently, with the sweetness of a child, fell asleep, leav- ing the world darker and lonelier, be- cause one of the truest and best women had left it. Mrs. Roy was a Christian of the most elevated type; every tie and re- laton of her daily existence felt the pow CT of her uprightness and the tenderness of her perfect and absolute Christianity. The sympathies of our entire town go out to her husband, son and mother in this time of their great distress.
 Another death that brought unspeaka- ble sadness to a large circle of Birming- ham friends was that of MT. Edward Turpin Boggs which occurred in Atlanta on the 11th instant Much has been said by the press of Birmingham and Atlanta of this splendidly endowed young man, who was just entering. fully equipped, the limits of the land of promise, where awaited him success in many alluring forms, but too much cannot be told of him, for he was one who united in his well-rounded, brilliant personality all the attributes that make men noble and great His future was assured; he had but to walk forward and grasp the re- wards that were within his reach. But s from Pisgah's height he was only per- mitted to catch glimpse of this promise land ere his life came to an untimely close. But when the end came he met death as he had lived, with the bravery, the trust and the faith of a follower of Christ.
 Whatever may prove an inspiration to others, 1t gives me pleasure to chronicle in these columns. and therefore I refer to "a prize that has been won by little Miss Lucia Worl, eldest daughter of MT. and Mrs. l.. P. Worl. She Is only 9h years old now, and she won the prize for the excellent making Of set Of doll clothes when she was six months young CT, competing with girls 12 years old. The Ladies Home Journal offered a reward last summer to the little. girl who would make the best set of doll clothes. the work to be done with the fingers. and not by machine. Miss Lucia's were so remarkably we'll done, the hemming. fell ing and stitching were so unusual for a child of her age. that she was awarded one of the best prizes. She also em-