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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-18

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The Senate met at II, O'Clock, Lieuten-
ant Governor Reynolds presiding.
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SENATE.

The Senate met at IL O'Clock, Lieuten-
amt Governor Reynolds presiding.
Prayer was offered by Senator At
water.
The bill to take the government of the
penitentiary out Of the hands Of the
spresent directors came over from the
8 Mr. NIcGaskey moved to place at once
on the calendar Objection was made by
MIR. Ray. ~ 8N8sN IS
Mr.. Person moved that it take its reg
ular channel, that of being referFedgto the
judiciary Committee, s}l6
Mr.. McCaskey moved to suspend the
rules and place it upon thesealendar.
Upon this Mr.. Atwater demanded the
-roli-call. Sustained, ayes 16, noes %.
The bill was referred to the committee
onPenal Institutions 8 = 8 g
Bills and Resolutions We're introduced
as follows:cc oae tea vsas .saS94
BY Mr.. Ashburn, bin to place j. d.
Hooker on the pension roll; also to amend
CHAPTER 1874, Laws 1895, relating to pub
lie rDadp.A92 a 919lcq Il c1E
BS Mr. Tsyon, Bill to repent chapter rs,
Lays of 1891.
by Mr.. Justice, bill to amend the char
terspf the town Of Forest City, in Ruth
erford county.
Bg Mr.. Persona bill oprevfnt coIlabita-
ton between the two RACES ~ fN
BY Mr.. anderson, ITO change the line
between Bupeombe and Henderson conn
ties M = &c. sss he .48s 9 ygss@M v -
Mr.. Anthony, bin to establish q ferry
over Broad river, in Cleveland couaty.
BY Mr.. Mcneil, for the relief l6f street
railway en1pIayes: also to regulate the
loss on buildings b.. fire. SSesS
BY Mr.. Hardison, TO prohibit the sale
of liquor within two miles of Cole, in
Craven county also in four miles aof
Stumptown, 0nslow county
By Mr.. Shore, toincorporate BoonviIle.
Yadkin county.
BY Mr.. Alexander, to incorporate Eliz-
abeth College; also to give the city of
Charlotte further power in the collection
Of taxes, where a party IN believed not to
haveSmad an honest return. 8#f9
BY Mr.. Alexander, as bill to give the
city Of Charlotte the right to acquire real
estate for the better regulation Of the
water system.
by Mr. Parker, 0 bill farbidding. the.
sale ofgliquors I'M two niflesfof Big Fan.
christian church, Alamance county; also
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er the thing to be in town on Christ
mas day. The giving of a Christmas
party has become matter of so much
Importance that the mistress devotes
all her artistic taste to what shall APP
pear in the dining room and all her
cleverness to giving pleasure to her
guests. She does not just say Come
and spend Christmas with me-" but she
says, Come and be young for a week;
come and be child for a week" And
| we who are born old, like that famous
baby of Mr.. Gilbert's, accept her invi-
! tation on our best note paper, in our
best English and as quickly as posi-
BILE. She is most anxious. this Ameri-
can hostess, to follow the fashions set
by her English cousins, and it is pref
ty to see how she achieves it. especial
ly in the breakfast room.
She has an old house down in Virgin
ia. 1t is painted that peculiar yellow,
the exact tint of which is only known
to painters in Maryland and Virginia,
and there are great high pillars in front
of the house. There is a huge fireplace
in the hall, and after driving ~ miles
from the station you stop just in front
of the roaring fire and have glass of
something to warm you up. You don't
ask what it is, you simply know that
it smells like rum and tastes like nee
tar. That night everybody sits around
and talks. An occasional woman van
ishes, and you have vague idea that
she is consulting the mistress of the
mansion in regard to the doings for
Christmas night. Tomorrow morning
you lie in the soft, warm bed and lazily
watch small darby boy make your
fire. A duplicate of him, except that
it is older and feminine, helps you to
dress, and when you notice how quick
she is in her movements and how alb
solutely caressing in her touch you
wonder that you ever cared for q
French maid. Ten o'clock finds you in
the dining room. The sideboard is ex-
actly like a great huge piece OF furni-
ture that you remember seeing in an
English house. On 1t are delicious look
ing cold meats, cold game, veritable
game pies, and everybody is supposed
that is, every man body-to get up and
carve for hinaself and to help to the
good things whatever woman. body may
be at the table. The culored servants
fetch wafIles and hot buckwheat cakes
and somebody helps you to kidney,
stewed properly in madeira, while some-
body else tries to tempt you with funny
looking little sausages that are sizzling
in chatting dishes just in front of the
fire. The walls are trimmed with red
berries and green leaves. and there are
Christmas greetings wrought out in hol-
ly on them, and over every doorway
there is a huge bunch of mistletoe.
You go for drive, a whole coach
load of you, and drop in to see a neigh
Dor IS miles away and to your surprise
find you can eat plumcake and drink egg
nog as If you had had your usual break
fast of toast and tea. There is some
thing In this southern air that not only
creates an appetite, but that induces
you to eat rich food. You, who have
declared yourself dyspeptic years ago.
Home from the drive, you hang around
the big hall fire and find that this air
is so wholesome that the young men
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back duck or fat capon? Capon stuffed
with chestnuts too.
Then there comes on a salad green
one, which madame dresses after the
fashion of India, with grated cheese.
And then the servants file in, two by
two and line up by the doorway, each
holding a lighted candle, while the two
cooks, walking proudly between, one
carrying the plum pudding, in perfect
blaze of brandy, and the other holding
up an enormous mince pie. To each
one of these good retainers Is given
glass of punch, and we all stand up,
and everybody drinks to what they will,
and she darkies call out in gayest tones,
merry Christmas, missus, merry Christ
masi" And 1t is a merry Christmas.
for we all laugh later on over the
Christmas tree and jest about the little
presents, none costing much. but each
making fun, while we wonder If there
is any place quite so good as this south
land. And 1, who am of it, I wonder
If there are any people who can SO en-
tirely throw aside their cares and be-
come as little children for awhile as
can the people of the south. 1t Is a good
thing. 1 tell you. 1t keeps the women
and the men loyal 1t makes people
other-like little children. 1t is good for
us to meet this way each year and give
out greetings as sincerely as we do. 1t
means a coming out of the hard, work.
ing world and the tiresome, everyday
life and having a glimpse of something
better. 1t makes life worth having.
If you don't believe me, throw your
home wide open, open your purse
strings and ask your kindred and your
friends to come and make Christmas
with you. You will find that old friend
ships are good; you will find that 1t is
worth while to have about you the peo-
pie who have always known you and
always cared for you, and 1t is also
worth while to have a stranger within
your gates; to make a stranger. who
may be alone in this world, have some
happy hours. You know so many hum
dred years ago. when the angels sang
their song, it was to strangers. Why
should not we, in that way at least, try
to reproduce the old Christmas time
and to make glad those who have no
one to make life glad for them? You
can find them without any trouble right
in your own fashionable settle man
who would otherwise eat his dinner at
the club: the woman who would 9TH
erwise dine at hotel and those others
who, because they remembered, would
eat no Christmas dinner. Ask them to
come with you; be generous in your
hospitality and make your Christmas
a gift giving one, and then be sure you
will never want for a merry Christmas
or a New Year full of pleasure. Who
ever you are, wherever you may be, IL
you think as kindly of me as l do of
you, or even If you are Indifferent to
me, 1 wish with all my heart that God
will bless you and give you a merry
Christmas and happy New Year.
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been warm at times. but the justices
and their families have always pre-
vailed.
When Miss Bud has done her duty in
the station of social life to which she
has been called and can show at the
end of the season a clean record of
calls made and returned and entertain
ments attended, she will be fit candi-
date for a hospital cot
This year the debutantes in Washing
ton do not promise to be so many as in
past seasons. In the cabinet circle there
is only one thus far announced. She is
Miss Marie McKenna, the daughter of
the attorney general, who will soon be-
long to the supreme court and not the
cabinet circle. Judge McKenna is not
wealthy man, and he is not expected to
entertain very lavish1y in the cozy
home which he has taken recently.
The Misses Genevieve and Winifred
Mattingly are the daughters of
prominent Washington attorney and
they live in one of the fine residences
on Q street between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets. in the fashionable
northwest section. They will make their
debut together.
Miss Cotton is another of the debut
tantes. She is daughter of Colonel
Francis Cotton, who was consul gem
eral at Rome many years ago. Colonel
Coltons home is one of the finest in
Washington. 1t is on Connecticut ave-
nue., Just beyond Dupont circle. 1t lis
built of white stone and is of very i'm
posing appearance, and within it is well
arranged for entertaining. On the first
floor are the breakfast room and an
oriental room for lounging and smok-
ing. On the second floor are a large re-
ception room and library and very
large dining room. Colonel Cotton and
his family spent many years abroad
collecting the furnishings and bric-a-
brac with which the house is equipped.
The only debutantes announced in the
army and navy circle are the daughters
of Major Bates of the army. In the
senatorial circle one of the daughters
of Senator Foraker is to be debutante,
but she will spend the early part of the
winter in Cincinnati. her old home.
GRACE MUIR.
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The Pretty Buds Of Society
at the Capital Of
the Nation.
rspecial Correspondence

Washington Dec. 17.-Washington fs
the one city of the United States where
men and women make business of So
ciety. 1t is the chief occupation at the
capital. not excepting the making or
laws. In fact, the lawmakers are often
= seen in the salon when they should be
at the capitol attending a night SEES,
sion, and a call of the house has often
broken up an afternoon tea.
There is a class of nonworkers In
Washington which is not found in any
other city of the United States except
New York, and it is much smaller in
New York than it is here. These men
have nothing to do but spend time and
money on amusements and they ma
their chief recreation in making calls
and attending teas and receptions. The
women of Washington almost without
exception devote themselves to the
same form of recreation
Washington women are just prepar-
ing for the season of 1878 1t will not
open formally or officially until the LIST
of January, when the president holds
his reception at the White House and
all the members of the cabinet and the
little echoes of that function at their
homes. But the buds of Washington
cannot wait until January to burst into
bloom. In fact. many of them have al
ready turned petal or two at informal
entertainments.
No one has more serious outlook for
a winter of hard work than these
debutantes Calling and entertaining
have been reduced to a science at
Washington, but their demands are not
the less severe. 1t is merely a question
of quantity. The social output is great
er now, but the machinery and the ma
chinists work just as hard.
There Is social Washington to be con.
sidered. Social Washington is separat-
ed from official social Washington by
a very thick line. Social Washington
acknowledges no official rank as a
claim to recognition. except that of the
president A woman who Is received
in social Washington must be of the
old families here or come with excel
lent credentials Sometimes money is
a recognized credential here. as 1t is in
New York and Chicago and ST. Louis.
In official social Washington people
rank according to their official posi-
lions, or the official positions of their
husbands, fathers or brothers. Mrs.
First Assistant Superintendent of the
Back Stairs outranks Mrs. Second Dep
uty Assistant Superintendent of the
Back Stairs by just one degree. The
degrees of social distinction are many.
at the head of the column cannot see
her sister at the foot.
OF course Miss Bud. even If she be-
longs to the innermost circles of what
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
A Bridal Handkerchief.

When a young maiden is about to be
married in the Tyrol region, immedi-
ately before she steps across the thresh-
old of her old home on her way to the
church her mother solemnly gives her
a new pocket handkerchief. The bride
holds it in her hand throughout the
marriage ceremony, using it to wipe
away her tears. AS soon as the mar
riage festivities are over the young wife
lays the handkerchief aside in her linen
closet, and there it remains as long as
she lives Nothing would induce a
Tyrolese wife to use this sacred hand
kerchief. 1t may be half century or
longer before it Is taken from it's place
to fulfill the second and last part of its
mission. When the wife dies, perhaps
as a gray old grandmother, the loving
hands of the next of kin place the
bridal handkerchief over the face of the
dead. and it is buried with her in the
grave.
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WASHINGT0N'S DEBUTANTES.

hesitate to accept or even to solicit IA
vors at the official hands it despises.
So Miss Bud may have to call on a
great many official people as well as on
all the members of "our set" She will
call on the officials in an order which
follows the geography of the city. One
day she will devote to calling on Capitol
hill. another to a part of the northwest
section, and so on. This order applies
also to the unofficial people who are
receiving; for it was found necessary
long ago in the scheme of Washington
society to divide up the city into re-
ceiving districts and the people into
calling squads. and five days in the
week a squad calls, while on the sixth
1t receives visits from others. Once dur
Ing the season. after due notice through
the society columns of the papers, each
woman in society omts her regular re-
ception day that she may have an op-
portunity of making calls in the sec
ton of the city in which she lives: 9TH
erwise she would be denied the pleasure
of knowing her next door neighbor So
cially.
Interspersed with her many calls on
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tain lavishly and who do not stint the
terrapin and champagne

tain lavishly and who do not stint the
terrapin and champagne.
In the evenings Miss Bud will not
have much opportunity for the theater,
because she will have to go to so many
balls and dinners that all her time will
be fully occupied. She may go to the
Damlosch opera and pretend she likes
Wagner. because Damrosch is a fad in
Washington society. But ordinary dra-
matte entertainment, however much
she may like it, can have but a small
place in her winters programme.
If Miss Bud belongs to the official
social set, her work is mapped. out for
her in another way The rules of prece-
dence have been made in part for her
guidance. She must call on those who
rank her and wait for calls from those
whose social rank is (officially) inferior.
And if she is a member of a senator s
family she will have to wrestle with
that inevitable problem of the relative
rank of the supreme court and the SEN
ate. The members of the supreme court
hold themselves superior to every one
but the president and vice president
and their families uphold this dignity
socially, while the senators claim that
as the supreme court justices are COM
firmed by the senate justices wives
should make the first call on the wives
of the senators. The controversy has
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the FIVE days that she is not at home.
Miss Bud will find afternoon teas.
There is not u great deal of difference
between a reception and a tea. The
same people attend each There are
perhaps a few more flowers at the tea
and a band of music helps to enliven
the occasion.
At the tea or the reception Miss Bud
will meet all the other debutantes and
a great crowd of women. young and old,
new and experienced. and a select as
sortment of the idle men of Washing
ton. These men are not all younS.
though the younger men predominant.
Many of them are old admirals of the
navy and generals of the army on the
retired list, and so absorbed are some
of these veterans in the mild dissipa-
tions of society that it was said of one
of them that he differed from Farragut
only by the transposition of two let
ters-Farragut was dashed to the mast,
while this latter day sea hero was mash
ed to the last.
The younger men whom Miss Bud
will meet are the sons of prominent or
wealthy fathers. Some of them are os-
tensibly private secretaries, and the
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The Merry Season Of Song
and Story and
Good Cheer.

In the times gone by. when Christ
mas day came around. whoever had the
biggest house and the most money
gave a dinner and asked to it all her
relations-sisters cousins and aunts,
and all the, masculine contingent as
well-to eatiAhd eat and eat until eat
ing ceased to be pleasure and indiges.
ton became a certainty. That was the
day of the turkey, the mince pie and
the cranberry sauce. the big punches
of celery and the homemade sweet
pickles. the day of the heavily laden
table. warranted to take away ones
appetite at once. provided one were at
all delicate in ones tastes. But We
have grown civilized. We have chang.
ed all that nowadays. To the distant
relations we send a Christmas dinner
with a bunch of holly berries and our
compliments: then off we scamper to
the country for week and invite a
house party for that time. It Is no long
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With an Eye to Christmas.

A pretty gift for the woman who is
clever with her needle is an embroidery
set. Thimble. silk reel. scissors and
needlecase in daintiy chased silver
are Enclosed in a heart shaped case of
velvet. On the leather cover is the
monogram of the owner.
A useful present is a silver penknife.
Man uses it for what 1t was intended.
To women 1t is a far more versatile
possession. 1t is a trunk opener, scis-
sors, lead pencil sharpener, ink eraser,
paper cutter apple peeler and several
other things. In fact a silver pocket
knife is almost as useful to woman as
a hairpin.
The latest trinket for bicycle wo-
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pears without it's proper accompani-
ment. On the sideboard there is a lit
tie shoat, roasted whole. In his mouth
is a lemon, and his tail is tied with a
narrow blue ribbon, to remind you that
while he was a pig as far as eating was
concerned he never drank too much.
There are the hearts of celery; there
are roasted sweet potatoes; there are
white ones boiled, as they should be, in
their petticoats; there are delicate Jeru-
salem artichokes, any of the vegetables
that you want. But who eats vegetables
when they can have plenty of canvas
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upon the generous dimensions of some
peoples feet.
There seems to be universal desire
among pedestrians to get In the way of
the man who Is in hurry.
So long as a dog barks there is no
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danger of his biting you. This IS the
meaning of the old saw that barking
dogs never bite.
Doubtless the affiiction of the deaf
person is the most trying in the fact
that he cannot hear himself talk.
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government pays them Sc day each
for drinking punch and eating waters
all afternoon. Others of the young men
are attaches Of the foreign legations.
AS the United States is almost invaria-
bly, on exuberantly good terms with the
other nations of the earth, all that these
young men have to do for their salaries
is to look pleasant and make them
selves agreeable. This some of them
succeed in doing to such an extent that
they marry rich American girls. and
carry them away to foreign courts. But
I must warn Miss Bud that IL she ex-
poets these gentlemen to be attentive
she must be among the few who enter
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cloths also make up well, and can be
ruffied, which the other pillows can
not.
1t Is trite proposition that the whole
is greater than any of it's parts, but 1t
is hard to credit 1t when you reflect
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then will your artless friend be artless
no longer so far as his credulity in you
is concerned.
A popular material for cushions will
be fine Japanese mattings, which can
be sewed upon the machine. Awning
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committee, so that he may order the
improvement made-or request it,"
which Is the same thing where the
chairman of the district committee is
concerned. 1t may be that her father
has ambitions to represent his country
abroad or in the cabinet or on the SUI
prerne bench, for it is not to be forgot
ten that exclusive Washington does not
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FEMININE FACTS AND FANCIES.


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