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The age-herald., 1897-10-28
In the Social Realm
 Of Birmingham People

Mrs. John S. Jemison has returned from a visit to Baltimore.
 Mrs George R. Ward returned Tues day from an extended visit 10 friends in North Alabama and Rome, Ga. terday afternoon after a stay of several days at Nashville.
 Mrs. M. A. Morrow is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Hagood, at Charleston, S. c.
 The lailies of the Third Presbyterian church will give candy pulling in the pailors of the Y. M. c. A. this afternoon at 3:30.
 Mrs. R. Loventhal is visiting relatives at Nashville, and enjoying the sights of the exposition. She will remain several days longer with her sister Mrs. Louis Teleck
 Miss Anna May Phelan, who has been tne ButSl Ol iitT dulrt, MiS A. I1dl- ris, at Nashville, for several days, re- turned home yesterday
 Miss Virginia Sharpe is visiting rela- lives at Talladega.
 
 Mrs James Weatherly will entertain the Cadmean Literary circle Friday af- ternoon, at o'clock.
 Miss Matte Hubbard is at South Pittsburg, Tenn, the guest of friends.
 This morning, at 10 o'clock, at the Commercial club rooms, the executive committee of the local Federation of Womens clubs will meet to transact important business appertaining to the meeting of the Federation, which oc-' CUTS in November. At the Florence hotel yesterday at o'clock. MT. G. c. Stanford. of MilldaIe.
The age-herald., 1897-10-28
TdahO's Female Governor.
 BaIfimore,s Women Preachers

While discussions are raging with more or less violence in the various parts of the country about woman's fitness for certain positions and her ability to hold certain offices, wcnen who are fit and capable are going qufstly along filling and holding without saying a word on either side of the agitation. In Idaho few days ago young woman, Frivate secretary eff one of the state officials, had sole and entiae control of tine helm of state (was. in fact governor of Idaho) for nearly a week without. any .s;rious detrimert accruing to any i-terest of the commonwealth.
 The governor of Idaho and several off, cials went off on a tour of inspection somewhere, and when it was found nec- ossaiy to a2t promptly upon ons or two queStio.s of import it was discovered that the young secretary, barely more than a girl would be compelled to sign papers, the like of which no other wo- man had ever signed before. She ac- quilted herself admirably. and upon the return of the governor everything at the capitol was found to be running as smoothly as if the brainiest nan in the state had had the charge and direction Qf affairs.
 Last Sunday. at Baltimore, where a missionary convention was in session, nineteen of the city pulpits were filled by Methodist women preachers! That this was possible in city So far south and so conservative as Baltimore naitur- ally puts the average thinker into a very rumina ting mood Those men and wo- men are the wiss.st who prepare ito mest the altered conditions with as small an amount of sntagonism as possible. From th: present. outlook, capacity and apa- tude win be the only limits to a. woman's progress.
The age-herald., 1897-10-28
The Smith, Simpson
 Wedding Yesterday Afternoon

Yesterday afternoon the South HGh- land Presbyterian church was filled with friends drawn thither by he marriage of Miss Lila Falconer Smith and MT Robert L. Simpson. which occurred at 3:30 o'clock The altar was proeus9ly decorated with palms. ferns and stately foliage plants, which formed an amtis1c background for the bridal rarty.
 Preceding the ceremony a beautiful musical programme was rendered, with Miss Mccoy at the organ. TEe vocal numbers ard organ solos were especially fine, and were in keeping with the repu- tafons of the gifted musicians who took part in the following programmes;
 1. Wedding March, from Tannhauser-- Organ; Miss Belle Mccoy.
 g. Gounod's Proceasional Manaih, @ m "Queen of Sheba'-Organ; Miss Mccoy.
 8. Vocal Solo-"1'hinla;" Mrs. H. H. h. nige
 4. Solo-"when Thou Art Near Me-" Lohr: Mir J. M. Cartwright
 5. Solo-"1'he Song That My Heart Is Singing;" Hanley; MT. c. C. Washburn.
 G. Organ Salo-"Jolly Fellows March" Miss Mccoy.
 2. Bridal Chorus, from Lohengrin; Mrs. H. H. Sinnige, Mrs. E. c. Chandler, MT. L. Luclxie, MT. J. M. Cartwrigllc, MT. c. c. Washburn, MT l.. Handley and M. J. Johns
 As the bridal chorus began tEe ushers, Messrs Lewis, Morris, F. A. Grider. Solon Jacobs, Henry Howze, Lundie Sloss, Thos. Watson, Leddy Haas and D. Luckie approached the altar from the two center aisles.
 The groom and his best man, MT. Frank Smith, who came from the yes ny room, met the bride and her maid of honor, Miss Rosa Sloss, who came in the side door of the church, at the altar Rev. pr. Barbour awaited the bridal party jusl at the altar railing, and as the soft notes of the beautiful ballad, '"Thine," came from the organ, he pro nounJed the happy couple man and wife. acordirg to the solemn service of the Presbyterian church.
 As the bride and groom left the church Miss Mccoy played Mendelssohn's inn mortal Wedding March"
 MT. a.sd Mrs. Simrs n drove immediate ly to the railway station, where they took the train for Petersburg, Washing ton and Baltimore. The bride wore a handsome dark red cloth suit, trimmed with black braid and plaid silk, with becoming dark red velvet hat, trimmed with plumes. She carried bunch of white roses.
 Miss Sloss was aatired in dark red silk gown with hat to match, and car rled a bunch of American Beauties.
 Upon their return to the city MT. and Mrs. Simpson will board at Mrs Thos. Hamilton's, in Wesi Twentieth street.
The age-herald., 1897-10-28
70 Secure Advancement
 In the Arr Of Dancing.

The excitement created in fashiona- ble circles by the stand taken by the American Society of Professors of Danc- ing concerning the waltz, has induced Pref M. B. Gilbert, president of the society, to write the following letter:
 There seems to have been a miscon- struction put upon the report of the ac- ton of the American Society of Profes- sors of Dancing. The objects of the American society are to secure advance ment in the art of dancing, an identical method of instructions. to correct and remedy existing abuss s, modify, com pose and arrange dances with suitable music The convention did not express Itself against the waltz, nor did 1t say dt should be barred from polite society. The only point of attack was upon the position in which 1t is being danced.
 The waltz has not degenerated except in the position in which it is danced by csrtain class of people. This is the class who are guilty of affectation in
 dancing. The most common of the vari- ous false positions in the waltz, and two s.ep as we'll, is that in which the man insists upon holding the woman's hand up nearly under his left ear. Students seem especially fond of this absurd po- sition. It is the result of the man talk ing the woman's hand with his palm upward, instead of keeping his palm downward, and holding her hand lightly in his pended fingers. The woman's hand should also be palm downward.
 With the mans hand palm upward and the woman's hand resting on it, the nat ural tendency of the man is to raise his hand urtil in sonB9 eases he is rgest- ling the woman's hand up and alongside his neck. He may not be conscious of the improprety of the position, which is but a natural development of ,ihe false pose first taken. This position is frequently accompanied by an upward and down. ward vibration of the hands, which grew out of the extended use of the two-atep. The expression of the two-step being a slight downward movement upon each count in the measure, influenced the movement of the hand up and down in time to the wsll-defined accent of the fwo-step music. This inelegant and iin- proper movement of the hand, when once acquired. naturally appeared in other round dances, hence is appearance in the waltz. A s:cond false position that we meet in the waltz is the side position, dn which the man holds the woman at his iight side. with her arm across his chest. This position also origina ted with the two-step. In this pose the men are
The age-herald., 1897-10-28
BICYCLING AND THE CHURCHES.
Are the Character, Beauty and Glory of the
 Sundays Passing Away.

From the New York Journal.
 Rev. Madison c. Peters, passor of the Bloomingdale Reformed church, from his pulpit Sunday, pitched into Sun day bicyclists. He represented them as one of the mosb active agencies in the depletion of church congregations, and declared that the character and beauty and glory of the Sabbath were fast pass ing away.
 "Attsndance at church is not an act of supreme religious consequence" said pr. Peters, "but it does indicate the Christian character of the person. Many faces are now missed from the pews. and more especially on the sacramental Sunday. Why the absentees? If you
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The age-herald., 1897-10-28
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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
DONKEY, DOG AND GOAT.
The Three Great Sights of Transconti
mental Journey.

The Three Great Sights of a Transconti-
mental Journey.
"The three oldest things that saw
outside of New York." said a New
Yorker who had gone overland to Den
yer and returned by water by way of
Galveston, "were a donkey, dog and
a goat. The donkey was the motive
power of the single bobtail car that
goes up the hill on South Broadway,
Denver. He was an amusing fellow.
After made my first trip up that steep
hill was astonished to see the con-
ductor unhitch the donkey and put him
aboard the car. The dashboard was fit
ted up as sort of stall, and he stood
there sideways when the Car started
back down the hill under its own i'm
petus. The donkey's face took ON de-
lighted expression as he found himself
in the role of passenger. He really
Seemed to be grinning at the conductor
and the passengers.
81 saw the dog as was about to en-
ter the Taber Opera House in Denver.
The dog was called Bill and he was
part of the outfit of cigar store in the
opera house building. He was black
spaniel. He was rugged up in Zouave
trousers and jacket trimmed with gold
braid, had tasseled fez on his head
and spectacles on his nose. The oldest
thing about him was that he sat Oh his
launches, with his paws in the air,
actually smoking cigarette like a con
frmed cigarette fiend. | found that he
had been trained to smoke the cigarettes
while the audience was going into the
theater as an advertisement of his own
er's business. That was the first time
l had ever seen dog smoking.
81 made the acquaintance of the goat
in tobacco factory i'll Key West. There
were 200 Cuban girls there, nearly all
of them pretty and all of them smokers
or chewers of tobacco. The goat was
their particular pet. He was the biggest
goat ever saw, almost as large as a
Shetland pony. with big branching
horns, and perfectly tame He playfully
butted the girls or pranced around
among them. His best trick, however,
was the larceny of their dinner baskets
He used to go nosing around until he
found particularly choice luncheon
He would knock over the basket, seize
the lunch, and dash outdoors with it,
No amount of ohastisement had ever
broken him of the trick. OF course l
saw wonderful scenery in the journey,
but the donkey and the dog and the
goat were by long odds the most inter
esting living things that encountered. "
New York Sun.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
Meek, but Vigorous.

She was the daintiest of the dainty
face, figure, air and apparel all pro-
claimed it. To be sure he had not heard
her speak as yet, but from the lips of
so pretty little patrician only pearls
and diamonds could fall. twas strange
that she should be at the races unat-
tended, but that, of course, was but the
accident Of a moment. Her husband or
brother could not be far off and would
reioin her in a moment. Time went on,
though, and still she sat alone, Pres
emily something happened. One of the
horses stumbled and fell. The jockey
was pitched headlong to the ground.
He lay white and still. The man turned
to look at her. There she sat, the color
flown from her cheeks, her lips parted,
her eyes wide and staring. He ventured
to reassure her. ooh, don't believe
he's badly hurt, )" he said. Hurt" she
repeated quick as a flash. 81 only hope
he's broke his neck. had $40 on the
little scoundrel. New York Sun.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
Our NeighbOrs.

Our neighbors generally are the peo-
pie who have houses near to our own,
that nearness varying according to the
size of the district and the number OF
householders of the same social rank as
ourselves In town they live in the
same street; in apartments they are Oh
the same corridor; In the country they
are separated by field only or a garden
wall; in sparsely tenanted places they
are at distance of mile or two miles,
OF it may be six. And the neighbor pal
excellence is the one who lives close
alongside of neutrality-suspicious. in the
other half of the semidetached house
where we have our home or just across
the road and opposite, not to the side.
This is the general idea of neighbor,
and when we use the term we rarely
mean aught else.
But in point of fact we have neigh
bors wherever we turn-men and wom-
en- to whom we are bound to render
such service of kindness as comes into
the possibilities of the time and place.
1t is not only domioile and the rates
is not only when we live divided by a
party wall one from the other at the
foot of the hill, or standing face to face
across the road, when we can signal our
goings out and our comings in and be
helpful and neighborly i'll the matter of
the garden roller and the preserving
pan. 1t is net only when we know all
the family history, and how our friends
and neighbors are impeccable as to their
grandfather and without the crooked
lines of scandal across their family
escutcheon. 1t is not necessary to be
intimate, nor even to have been intro
duced, for the obligations of neighbor-
illness to be strict and strong. For
wherever we can render a service, show
a courtesy or do kindness we have our
work cut out for us i'll the way of duty
to our neighbor, and he is our neighbor
who stands in need, great or small, of
such help as we can offer.-Philadel-
phia Times.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
Putting a Stamp INSIDE Down.

Folk in general are not nowadays so
careful as they were years ago in the
matter of affixing postage stamps to
letters and receipt stamps upon bills,
and many never note whether the
stamps are the right way up or upside
down. 1t was very different, however,
before the rush and roar of this half of
the century began, for it was next door
to crime, in the eyes of many, to affix
a stamp with the queens head the
wrong way up Many were not only
under the impression that her majesty
would feel offended, but that if she
took the matter up personally or told
officials to act punishment could fol-
low. There are still, however, many
people who look with horror upon a
postage stamp upside down. Notes and
Queries.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
PRINCESS VICTORIA.
The Simple Life of England's Queen In
Her Childhood Days.

The Simple Life of England's Queen In
Her Childhood Days.
James Cassidy has written fer st.
Nicholas an article on the "Girlhood
DAYS of England's Queen" in the
course Of which he says:
There was an occupation in which
the wee woman of seven years. wearing
a simple white gown and large straw
hat, was frequently seen engaged. 1t
was watering the garden plants. One
of those who saw her said that as he
sometimes watched her intently at
work he wondered which would get the
most water, the plants or her own little
feet.
The princess was an early riser, get
ting up at 7, frequently earlier in the
summer, and breakfasting at 8 O'Clock.
Her breakfast was just such as any
we'll cared for little girl who was not
princess might be expected to enjoy,
bread and milk and fruit, placed on
small table by her mothers side.
When breakfast was finished, the lit
tie princess went for walk or a drive,
while her half sister, Feodore, her al
most constant companion, studied with
her eoverness. From 10 to 10 the Ouch
ess instructed 'Drina, after which she
was at liberty to wander at will through
the rooms, or to play with her many
costly toys.
Two o'clock was the dinner hour of
the princess, though the luncheon hour
of the duchess. Plain food, nicely
cooked, was placed before the little
girl and she did it justice, for she was
healthy and strong and enjoyed her
meals After dinner she received assist
ance in her studies till o'clock, when
she was taken by her mother to visit a
friend or perhaps to walk or drive, or
she was permitted to ride donkey in
the gardens.
At the dinner hour Of the duchess
her little girl supped, seated next to
her mother. Then came romp with
her nurse, Mrs. Brock. By the time the
romp was finished the house party
would be at their dessert, and then the
princess would be called in to join
them.
Nine o'clock was bedtime, and she
never prolonged her day beyond that
hour. No matter whether she was at
home or at the house of a friend, "9
O'Clock bedtime was rigidly enforced.
Her little bed was placed beside her
mothers larger bed, so that by day and
night mother and daughter were never
far apart.
Regular study, regular exercise, sim
pie food and plenty of time out OF
doors, plenty of play and plenty of slceI
distinguished the upbringing of Eng
lands future queen.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
diamonds IN an EXTINCT voIcano.

An interesting discovery from a geo.
logical point of view was recently made
by an explorer in the mountains of Wit
zies Hook, Natal On the summit of an
extinct volcano, on the edge of lake
that occupies the crater, soundings re-
yealed layer of sand inclosing small
diamonds. 1t would be interesting to
know whether these diamonds were
there accidentally-that is, as the re-
suit of washing operations carried on
by the natives-or whether this -discov-
cry corresponds to an actual mine of
diamonds, for the hills of Whites Hook
are not situated in regions known to
be diamond bearing. On the last hypoth-
esis the presence of precious stones in
the crater of volcano would doubtless
throw some light on the formation of
the gems i'll nature. Genie Civil.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
RACING IN MOSCOW.
The Horses Run Not Side by Side, but In
Opposite Directions.

The Horses Run Not Side by Side, but In
Opposite Directions.
1t is a racing day in Moscow. The
course is swept free from snow and fol-
lows the wooded shores with red paint
ed ratings on each side. On one side
is stand, with seating room for sew
eral thousand people, and special box,
with tent hangings, for the governor
general, surmounted by the imperial
eagle in gold. In front of this box, low
er down, you see the prizes, consisting
of gold and silver cups, vases and orna-
mental pieces, all in Russian style and
taste.
A bell rings, the course is cleared by
mounted gendarmes and the competitors
in due order take their places in front
of the stand, but not side by side, as
they always start from opposite sides of
the course, with heads also turned in
opposite directions The usual race
course hum and noise of the betting
men are heard and increase in volume
as the bell rings the second time. They
are off And the fascination of rapid
motion, open air and strenuous exertion
throws its spell over the assembly, high
and low, for trotting is certainly the
most fashionable and beloved sport in
Russia. You cannot recognize people
just yet-the great fur collars are raised
and reach over the fur caps, leaving
only red tipped noses, beneath which
appear never missing cigarettes. The
ladies heads are almost entirely COW
cred by wooden wraps, SO here again
you can only guess who is who. To
stranger not investing his money in
backing his opinion as to winners, the
game might seem monotonous enough,
as the horses do not finish side by side,
but in the way they started. Yet the
Russians think differently, and. besides,
are there not plenty of vodka and caviare
to be had between the races?
Single horses are pitted against each
other, drawing light little sleighs, in
which the driver is seated very low
down and far away from the horse, ow-
ing to the long shafts intended to give
the horse perfect freedom of action. A
whip is not used, but ON the reins are
metal buckles over the quarters, which
are employed instead, and almost all
horses run without blinkers.
Sometimes horse is attached to the
sleigh ON one side of the trotter, who is
between the shafts. He is the pacemak>
er and gallops the whole course,
whereas, it need not be said, the trotter
must not break. Then follow pair
horses, harnessed, and lastly troikas
with three horses, sometimes four
abreast. Troikas are very barbarously
gaudy and clumsy things to look at, but
exceedingly comfortable all the same
Badminton Magazine
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
The Newborn and the Dead.

Lavater, in his ''Physiognomy, Z"
makes the following curious remarks
81 have had occasion to observe some
infants Immediately on their births and
have found an astonishing resemblance
between their profile and those of their
father. A few days after this resem-
blance almost entirely disappeared The
influence of the air and food and prob
ably the change of posture had so al
tered the design of the face that you
could have believed it a different in
dividual. l afterward saw two of these
children die, one at weeks and the
other at 4 years of age, and about
10 hours after their death they imme-
diately recovered the profile which had
struck me SO much at their birth, only
the profile of the dead child was, as
might be expected, more strongly
marked and more terse than. that of the
living"
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-15
First DueIs In Italy.

The first duels were fought in Italy,
according to Millingen, who speaks of
manuscript discovered at Cassel and de-
scribes duel between a father and a
son in the reign of the Emperor Theod-
oric. When Charlemagne forbade wager
of battle among the Lombards, he en-
countered the fiercest opposition from
the mobiles. Early in the ninth century
De Medicis, knight, defeated in single
combat the bandit Mugel, who devastat-
ed the Florentine district now called
after him, Mugello. Ohio II granted
the prayer of the nobility for the re-
establishment of wager of battle in 988.
Women and priests were not compelled
to accept it. The Normans showed less
gallantry. With them a woman had to
accept, nor could she name champion.
Her male opponent, however, was buried
to his waist in the earth. Armed with a
club, he tried to strike her as she cir
oled around him, his weapon being a
ball of iron at the end of a cord. If he
failed to touch her at the third attempt,
he was vanquished, which meant to
him death with dishonOr
Beccarin says that the reason so many
duels were fought in Italy in the early
days is that where the law does not af-
ford protection one must look to single
combat to retain the respect of ones
fellow men. In the middle ages the feroc-
ity of Italian duels passes belief. "Any
way of putting an enemy to death
('ogni modo') is good enough" says
one of their writers "When an Italian
spares his vanquished adversary, says
Brantome, 'he mains his arms and
legs and gives him as memento of his
kindness and generosity hideous cash
across the face. " Lampagnano practiced
on painted model of Galeazzo Sforza
before he stabbed him. Dueling was
called "la schema cavalleresca. -
Cornhill Magazine.