The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-17
w oman and and Society


dwell in these parts see how they have
! been portrayed by these would-be author
/ esses, social life in Raleigh might sud
denly awake, for in one way at least
i it may re said TO ne sleeping.
The woman who has set the pace in the
matter Of story writing is Mrs. William
/ E. Shipp, formerly Miss Margie Bus
bee. Of Raleigh. Mrs. Ship has writ
| ten Il Number Of short stories which
have been welcomed by critics Of some
Of the best American magazines. She
il an unusually brilliant woman and l.;
naturally gifted in the art of story-tell-
| ing. Raleigh people have been much
! interested in the writings of Mrs Ship;
/ and also in the stories OF Colonial life
now appearing in the Ladies' Home
| Journal from the pen of Sara Beall-
| mont Kennedy, a sister-in-law Of Col
| L. a. Olds, of this city.
Once upon a tine-but il wasn't SO long
| ago that even the youngest in Raleigh
society cannot remember-'a Charity Ball
| was given and it was a success. In fact
| it was such d success from Il financial
every comfort and the attendance of the
most skilled physicians and surgeons our
| country affords to young wife who had
been murdered at her home 10y a drunk
EN- husband. Everybody remembers thu
sad death of Ada Pearce, just two years
ago, the last day of the year.
But that lis not what is brought to
mind at present by the words Charity
Ball" Some people see only Il dark side
to such festivities, and this Charity Ball
to which the smart set has been in
vited to come and show your style on
the 10Th inst. may he the subject for
several sensational sermons and Raj
eigh may once more be called a Sodom
However, since eight pulpits are in an
unsettled condition ON account of a most
remarkable coincidence of designations,
this unpleasant and unnecessary clash
may be avoided.
There is young man in Raleigh who
is bitterly opposed TO the use of kodaks,
notwithstanding the fact that he used
to be a fiend The cause of the oppo-
sition 10 the fad has lately been whis-
pered about among his friends as an
explanation for his present blueness,
and it is something Ike this: He re-
Gently left the city for some purpose
or ether and just before leaving flor sew
eral reasons we win say to Durham
one of which Is that it wasn't Durhanl)
said goodbye to a very deer friend Of
the other sex, whom he knew had per-
feet confidence in hanl-for she, ne
thought, was Of the clinging-vine type.
When he returned to Raleigh, some
days later lie made straight way to the
home of the dear friend, expecting to
pick up the thread whore he dropped
it, and continue the old relations
He found the clinging-vine qualities
gone, and that ne had not only lost the
thread but the whole spool.
Where have you been 50 long, snel
asked in a pleasant, interested man
ner.
'.Durhain, and business kept ME So
confined that | didn't see a single
friend was The reply.
See Miss Browns"
NO. ! said | saw no one
'.IIow IL Miss BrownY" she asked
again as only the coquette that she is
could ask.
4 don't know" he replied. somewhat
nettled that she should thus cross anes-
ton him, when she had always believed
everything ne said.
well" she tlrolled slowly, and taking
a kodak photograph from book nearby,
she continued, Maybe you are right.
but I'm not so blind as ! appear" And
then She placed before his eyes his pic
ture as he stood on the STEPS at GER
tain home in a certain town with dear
Miss Brown on the step above, her
hands resting lightly On his shoulders,
her eyes laughing down into his
lyon may destroy that if you wish,
She said, laughing. u have another"
lie said goodnight and now he is
saying a good many ether things.
During the last State Fair the ex-
preston That's where You come in be-
came quite popular, but, alas, it has met
its fate-it has succrmbed to a better
phrase-''That's where You got on.
There is quite a spicey little story which
has made this slang current. The scene
of the first chapter is a town on the
North Carolina Railroad: the characters
a Raleigh man on the train, an umbrella
III q back yard of a certain home;
dress suit case Isl Il hotel; and broken
heart-somewhere The scene of the
second chapter Is Raleigh. The man is
off the train and the whereabouts Of the
umbrella, dress-suit case, etcetera, are
unknown. The climax Of the story IS
when the conductor tells OF race for
life witnessed up the country, and few
days later, while passing through the
suburbs Of a town, saying to passen~
ger, who has become a frequenter of that
portion of the road, That's where YOU
got on"
"The Chimes of Normandy viii be
repeated next week by the '.Home Opera
Company" This performance will be
for the Ministering Circle of this city,
and without discouraging the other cir
cles it is safe to say that no espoused
cause Of the women of Raleigh is nobler
than this. This presentation of the OPP
era comes luckily during the holidays
and those from distance who will be ut
home will have an opportunity to see
the good work of Raleigh's talented
opera company The music is tuneful
the singing good, the dancing excellent