The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-08-03
THE HOUSE PARTY.
Tho Charming Young Ladies Royalty En-
tertnlntd at Oat,huTstr

present were: Misses Alice Cannon
jamie Cannon, Anita Davidson, Agne
Summer and Bette Neal, of Ncwberry
Sarah Matthews, Of Lccsville, Mamie
Clardy, Of I.aurcps, and Annie Bccks
of CarOnaca. These were all charming
young ladies and made things very
pleasant for tho young men who had
The pleasure of calling ut Oakhurst
| during their stay. | was invited out
on several occasions and found nothing
lacking on the part of the girls or Mr..
and Mrs. B. G.. Matthews to make us
! enjoy ourselves immensely. We were
! u little green ourselves and were some
what timid in meeting tho girls, but
their charming manners and tho open
hospitality Of the host and hostess soon
caused us to dispcl our bashfulness.
Among the amnsemcnts on tho several
evenings woe: "lassing the Bottle
"Progressive Love Making" "Mystery
Tea" and Il "Good-Bye Party
Passing the bottle consisted Of cigh-
teen small bottles prcttily done up in
yellow tissue paper aud each bottle
containing different liquid. These
were passed among the guests who
were called upon " smell the contents
and to decide whether it were catnip,
peppermint, ammonia, parcgoric, va.
hilla, asafac;iia, on what not. The
various decisions written down on Ga
yellow paper bottle with which each
guest was provided. The smelling ana
the guessing created no end Of melri-
mcnt, and tho prize, Il beautiful silver
paper set WAS won by Mrs. II. II. CNL-
non, who most correctly discriminate
among the various extracts. The
Perry Simpson and Miss Agnes Sum-
mcr.
After the game refreshments were
served which consisted Of cake, ice
cream, shcrbtrt and fruits. The part
nCrs were d,awn by fitting together
cards variousiH cut and containing the
name Of some poet.
On the following evening (Tucsday)
"Progressvc Love Making' was on
the program, and from what the girls
told me the Noys progressed very well
along that Inc eve" though they had
only five minutes tn make love to each
girl. According 70 the vote Of the
girls Nr. Wiucman OF the Carolina
Manufacturing Co. WIS urcidcd the
! ucst in the ;.rt Of love making and
was consequently nwar,!cN the prize
which WAS Il beautiful silver mounted
paper knife. l.. II. Dom mick, Esq,
presented the prize in II v,ry graceful
and appropriate manner and wished
Mr.. Widcman rs much success in cut
ting paper as he had been in cutting
out the boys. Mr.. }. G. Wilson, Jr.,
received the consolation r"iZc.
Mystery Tea was on the program for
the following evening aud VIC accepted
our Invitations and went. We selected
| our partner hy drawing !. bow Of ribbon
and hunting Il girl to match. After
drawing our jar'nrr we repaired to the
table and were presented with the fol-
lowing neatly printed menu:
MENU.
1. What asthmatic people are.
>. IntGXiuatcd bovine.
). Food Of the spinning wheel.
i. Boston overthrow.
5. What most people need
&. Woman Of grit.
/. Springs iierings.
APrETIZEEs;.
| s. Salmagurdi.
o. What & hjy calls his sweetheart.
| 10. Unru(y .Ncmhrr.
| II. Fruit OF tAc vine.
| T.. Taboy's party.
DESERT.
| l3. Musical cOufrc!ion.
| H. ivory manipuiators.
| 10. What | do when mash my fin
ger.
| Is. Changcahlc politicians.
| II. n wise beverage.
| We checked of "F0od Of the spin
| ming Wheel "l50%ion overthrow" and
| "Woman OF grit.' Back came the
waiter bringing nice rolls, tea and
sandwiches. The rolls and sandwiches
were delicious but to our surprise we
| found that our tea contained no sugar.
| We thought we could fix that all right
since Il boy sometimes calls his sweet
heart "sugar" and so we checked or
| No. ., but the waiter came back aud
| brought us 4 nice dish Of honey. We
! then decided TO set our tea aside and
so checked oir "Unluly member"
| "What DO when wash my iingcra,"
| "Ivory manipuator*:' and received
| tongue, ice cream aud tooth picks.
| Since we hal missed our tea by its
| having no sugar in il we decided to
end our supper with "a wise bcvc,
rage" and here came the waiter with
two large glasses OF sage tea. This
also was sugarlcss and We were almost
tempted to DO as one yonnG man did do
| swcctcn with honey. We then looked