The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-04-08
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Once she worshipped Padererwski,
She was PROSTATE at his feet;
Once she wildly gushed DER Hobson,
And she called Joe Wheeler sweet. :"
She cheered lot for Dewey,
She liked the Gobson girl,
And Richard Harding Davis
Once set her heart a-whirl.
She used to talk of Kipling.
She praised the things he wrote;
Once she proudly showed button
From Rough Rider Teddy's coat.
But shes given up the heroes
That she wildly praised before,
She's forgotten all about them
They have charms for her no mora,
Just year ago tomorrow
Merry wedding bells rang out,
And today a nine-pound heros
All she cares to talk about.
One more week of rest and work and
society will again bloom forth. The
spring season will be more brilliant than
that of the past winter and the young
people are promising themselves some of
the most delightful functions that have
been given in Raleigh. The Euchre Club
will give an evening meeting, the We'd
nesday Afternoon Euchre Club members
are thinking of breaking their custom
and giving an affair to which their beauX
may be invited and the Monday After
noon Card Club will have a meeting that
will prove enjoyable. The Whist Club,
the Card Club and the Klondyke Clubs
will revive their delightful manner of en-
PERTAINING and a series of social affairs
will begin that will end only by the ex-
odus of society to the summer resorts.
The various Book Clubs, which have kept
up their meetings throughout the Lenten
Season, will continue to hold bi-weekly
meetings and the serving of dainties will
be once more a feature of the entertain
ing.
The Kenntniss Club was delightfully."-
entertained on last Thursday afternoon
by Miss Elizabeth Briggs.
The Book Club met last Monday after
noon with Mrs. Thomas NJ. Ashe. The
subject for discussion were "a Double
Thread and 1.-The Fowler The after
noon was much enjoyed by all.
Miss Kathryn Thompson gave party
on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate her
fifth birthday. 1t was delightfully."- anti
cipated in by number of her little
friends.
Miss Beulah Wilson who has been visit
ing Misses Anna and Alice Stronach, left
for her home yesterday afternoon.
1t is promised by number of young
women that the spring season will find
many visitors here. A dance is to be
given by the Capital Club, one by the A.
& NJ. College German Club, and it is ex-
pected that a subscription German will
add to the Joys of the past lenten sea-
son.
The flower show which was announced
by the young women of the Presbyterian
church for the Saturday-befere Easter has
been indefinitely postponed.
Miss Catherine Farnsworth, of New
Jersey, who was the guest of Miss Elean-
or Vass on Edenton street, left early in
the week for Norfolk, where she is visit
ing friends.
The rehearsals for "Powhatan" have
proven most enjoyable to the young peo-
pie who are to take part in that opera.
Rehearsals are held three times a week,
and already the preparations for the pre-
sentation of the prettiest of Indian Operas
have reached such a stage that the at
traction must be a success.
The meeting of the Epworth League of
the Methodist church has been the occa-
sion of a number of informal social af-
fairs which have proven most enjoyable
to the visitors. A number of dinner part
les have been given complimentary to the
Young people in attendance on the League
Conference, and one or two elaborate sup
pers were spread for more than fifteen
covers.
Invitations were issued during the past
week to the marriage of Miss Vernon
Powell, daughter of Mayor A. M. Powell
and Mrs. Powells to Mr.. Repton Hall
Merritt, in the Edenton Street Methodist
church on Wednesday afternoon, the 18th
of April, at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
The ceremony will be performed by the
Rev. G. F. Smith, pastor of the Edenton
Street church. Miss Powell is one of
Raleigh's most popular and accomplished
young women and is esteemed by large
circle of friends. Mr.. Merritt numbers
among his friends many acquaintance in
this city, all of whom will extend con-
CALCULATIONS to him at this happy event.
Mrs. James Fairfax Payne, of Whining
ton, has issued invitations to the mar
riage of her daughter, Miss Fairinda
Washington, to Mr.. Cameron Farquhar
MacRae, which is to be solemnized in St.
James Episcopal church, Wilmington,
Wednesday, April 18th. Miss Payne is