The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-11

steam can take her, should not dare 70 o.
vI}lge her secret She is a wit mainly because
she has made a study of the thing. She says
that when she first began TO go INTO soGleeSii
she found herself shy, and small-talk was almose
an impossibility for her 30 she SET ABOUT rem
edying her defects, and this Is now she olo IL.
She bought large blank book, ana Tiny note
hook. and every evening she entered In the large
book her notes of the day.. All the really good
stories she heard, all the clever bits OF, re-
partee, all the funny happenings she saw went
into her book She made notes OF clever speech,
es to open a conversation, and witty ways OF
closing it. She classified her material when she
had enough of it, and adds to 1t all the while.
When she is to dine out, she looks over her
hook and refreshes her memory in regard to
few appropriate stories. She selects anecdotes
that will be suitable for the company ohe nn i
studied under dramatic teacher the art Oh .ei'
ING stories and she tells them admirably AS
told YOU to begin with, she has great reputation
as teller of funny stories, and she says she owes
her social success wholly TO her system. IL IL
so entertaining to know, that think her pau
is one that might profitably be followed ny tot
great many of her sisters. and / don't say tiidI
the conversation OF her brothers w9nd dst hGi
1t is that Chicago woman who has been telling nv
me--indeed, I'm not sure 1t Ism Ihlns Sc
down in her book-of the sayings Oh 'etf ;s a
thy citizen they have out in her town. lie - d
member of the park board, and not so very long
ago the question OF buying some gohooias W
| beautify the waters of Lincoln Park was uhoer
ny, H. 4
'sHow many gondoas shall we have|' asked
somebody at the board meeting.
| "Eight or ten,' answered the man VINO hau
suggested the scheme. A.
The estimable gentleman nave feierreo ~
| rose. - s. =.
| mfr. President" said he, Il am in favor o.
having them gondolas, but don't think we neeo
| as many as eight or ten. 1t would DE eAlraVa
| gance to buy SO many and umecessar! oe i :
| An we need to do, gentlemen, is just to buy
| pair of them, and after that-Well, aller 'h''
| lust let nature manage the rest.
dainty souvenir of a fortnight at blowing
Rock last summer has just been issued 10 eaCn
of the members of the party given peio". ~ LII
lsists of series of amateur photographs spectai,
haunted in the form of a booklet. Inc oao
met" was party OF gentlemen VINO c, arrd ii
outings for the honorary members. ine "00''
LET is prefaced by the following verses. 49,.
"a souvenir of leaflets recalling pleasant DAYS
MIA mountain peaks of purple and wales Oh
| emerald green; ,, do1;obt
And re rev fondly fingers around each happy
scene.
s.Mayhap in years advancing the Cabinet may
| meet, -. 40
And sagely cogitatlng, more pleasure 'iip' 'e
If il may not, in memory the heart each heart
| will greet, ~
And live again in day dreams, through the sum
mer 3d." - -,
Frank W Stedman, Hal W. Aver, Henry John
ston, John F. Wiley, Fred W. Maher.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Miss Margaret Holt, Miss Matte Philips, Mis-
Florence Holt, Miss Josephine HOLT, MISS flzs
Busbee Miss Mary Pruden Miss Mary thompson
Miss Sophie Busbee, Miss Lille Hicks, Miss Sail'
Seaton Mrs. Hal Wood"