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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-06
HANNIBAL.

HANNIBAL. Ohio, October 5.-Dr.
J. NJ. Boice and daughter. Miss Vada.
of Sistersville, stopped in town Tues
day evening on their way home from
Woodsfield, Ohio.
Miss Mary Cline was at New Mata
morss Sunday attending the funeral
of her cousin. Lois Burglaker, a young
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Burg
baker.
George Braunlich, of Marietta, Ohio,
spent Sunday at his home here.
Mrs. Frank Haldren and two chill
dren. of Elizabeth, w. Va, and Misses
May and Emma Haldren, of Leith, o..
were visitors of j. w. Alexander and
family the past week.
Marcellus Strain has left for Scio to
attend college.
w. B. O'Neill, of Marietta, was in
town Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. John Dopler and Mrs. John
Ueltschy, of Proctor, were visitors Of
Mrs. Sarah Strain Monday.
J. F. Neuenschwander was at Wheel
ing Monday.
The U. f. M. S. met with Mrs. J. II.
O'NeHl on Tuesday evening.
Thomas and Tony Day, of String
town, are visitors of Mr.. and Mrs Geo.
Day.
j. E. Bare and two sisters, Misses
Sara and Mary, were Wheeling visi-
itors Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. F. Noll and Miss
Ida Noll returned to their home at
Marietta Wednesday after a pleasant
visit with Miss Rena Noll
Mr. and Mrs. Brady Suter and Mrs
Hunter came home Wednesday after a
short visit with Mr.. and Mrs Herman
Hess, ct Moundsville.
crowd of young folks drove to
Darlington Tuesday evening and re-
port a pleasant time.
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royalties. etc, costing good hard cash.
The Players have come out ahead
financially, we believe. Certainly
they have drawn packed houses, and
deseryedIy so, since the performances
OF these clever amateurs have com
pared fayorably with that of the best
professional companies. especially in
light comedy, displaying finish and
delicacy and attention to technique
and detail that would do credit to any
professional stage.
The Register trusts that The Play
ers will get together and reorganize
for the season just opening, and we
guarantee their success financially, as
it always has been artistically.
The Players, by the way. should keep
in training so as to be in trim to open
Wheeling's new Court Theatre when
that splendid playhouse is finished.
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Ger on his Face. He forsook the low
down Grocery Trade and decided TO go on
the Stage He changed his name from
Wesley Fink to Ormond Dupont and had
'Thoater' painted on his Trunk. After
that all he needed in order to be IN Ae-
tor. was an Engagement. He packed up
and headed for the Rialto with all the
Photographs OF himself and the Notice
from the Home Paper. The Managers and
Agents turned him down and waved him
away and kept him sitting in Waiting
Rooms for hours at time, but they
could not drive Ormonde back TO the
Canned Fruit Business. He was going 20
Act whether or no.
So finally he signed with Company
presenting a Problem Play entitled, "A
Wet Dog" In the First Act he brought
Ia the Trunk. In the Second Act he had
to walk right out in the Glare Of the
Footligbts and ask, Did you Ring?' In
the Third Act he was Number -Four from
the Rieht End. And now all hts old
Friends In the Grocery Trade can gay
that they know some one who is really
on the Stage.
MORAIl-A Word of encouragement at
the right Moment often determines a
Career
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ing and hearing. Also she notes that
men are more liable than women to
defects of vision, although that has
nothing TO do with the question as TO
which has the finer organization.
Many men are color blind" she says,
"and few or no women are so affiict-
ed"
As our Philadelphia contemporary
states. it is hardly fair to make posi-
tive affirmations on the basis Of men
and women as they are found by those
who make the investigations. Social
conditions determine how far the deli
cacy of the special senses may be de-
veloped and hitherto it has been all
most exclusively the male who has
had the burden of supporting the fam
lily, and who has had an incentive TO
develop his skill in many directions.
When. however, it becomes necessary
for woman to apply herself directly
and persistently to the training of a
sense she shows herself to be at least
as capable as is the man of achieving
refinement. In the two conspicuous
cases in which the sense Of touch has
been extremely developed the subjects
have been women. Laura Bridgeman
ana Helen Keller have established
standard of sense education which no
man has reached. With only the sense
of touch to rely on Miss Keller, like
Laura Bridgeman. has acquired an ed
ueation which is possessed by few
women who have all their senses in
tact. 1t is because most women have
no incentive to become skilled in the
manipulation of instruments and be-
cause they escape much Of the nervous
wear and tear which keeps mems
nerves tense that they are less re-
sponsve to Impressions
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ST. GAINESVILLE.

ST. GAINESVILLE, O., October s.
Miss Pearl aylor, of Hendrysburg, IS
visiting with relatives here.
Miss Nay Baugh is the guest of rel
atiyes at BelIaire this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Bowie. of Bridge
port, spent Friday Of this week with
Mr. and Mrs. L. q. Emerson.
Mrs. Jesse S. Troll went on Monday
to Marysyille O., where she will visit
her parents for short time.
Miss Irene Terrell. teacher in the
public schools here, went to Bellaire on
Friday evening and will remain over
Sunday.
Mrs. Hill, Of Bridgeport. was visiting
relatives here the fore part OF the
week.
Mrs Mary J. West returned Thurs
day from a visit at Moundsville and
McMechen, W. Va. She WIS aecompa-
MED home by Miss Agnes West, who
has been at Moundsyille for some time.
n. X. Kennon has been spending the
past week at the Pan-American expo
sition.
John Baugh. Jr., the efficient carrier
of the Sunday Register at this place.
attended the X. of z. Carnival at Bell
aire on Friday and Saturday.
|. II. CASTOR made a business trip to
Columbus this week.
Mr.. William d. Bumgarner, of this
place. and Miss Mabel Smith, of Aetna
VILE were married here on Thursday
evening, Rev. j. b. Eakins performing
the ceremony. The groom is son of
Assistant Postmaster George p. Bum
garner and is one of cur most popular
young men.
Mrs. G. c. Carroll. of Washington. D.
c., is here for an extended visit with
relatives.
. Mrs D. Fl. Milligan went to Chicago
on Monday and will visit relatives in
Illinois for some time.
Mrs. w. w. Obaugh. of Columbus,
has been visiting with her sister, Mrs.
j. p PAUL, the past week.
DR. S. L. West and Otto Giffen re-
turned on Monday from a trip to the
Pan American exposition. They also
went over to Albany and down the
Hudson to New York City.
Miss Martha Longley, of Wheeling,
has been visiting her parents here this
week.
Mrs DR.. Mcfarland, of Wellsville,
visited with relatives here during the
past week.
Mrs. Iona Spencer, who has been liv-
ing in the Dysart property on Marietta
street for several months past, removed
to GAINESVILLE this week.
Miss Maud Winters visited with rel
atives in Wheeling the past week.
Miss Blanch Harrison has been Wis
iting with relatives in Bellaire the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs Wheeler Johnson, Of
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aware"
The first is individually an important
qualification; the last requires tact.
constituencies, and innate good breed
ing, lest the young subject or her
management be compromised in TIE
very least.
Society requires a certain amount Of
manipulation and clever handling, it
is said, except by those who are born
within its penetralia, but one should
not 'Stoop to conquer
1t is quite legitimate. however. and
consistent with the dignity of the
older woman as well as the younger
that some mountaineering should be
ayerted and others fostered.
Especially at summer hotels eternal
vigilance should not be relaxed. In
judicious picnics, long walks, with OPP
portunities for tete-a-tetes. excursions
of all kinds, make the responsibility
of chaperonage sometimes an onerous
one
The abuse of the chaperon con-
vegs a double entete." With one ac-
ceptation of the word we are all famil-
lar, but it has another signifcation.
A woman who makes the position
an excuse for going into gay society
for her own amusement or advance
ment is an unfit person with whom to
trust a young and inexperienced girl.
A pleasant manner. magnetic, gra-
cious, is a desirable endowment or ac-
QUESTION, but self should always BE
secondary to the interest and pleasure
of the young people. There are those,
however, who put forth efforts to at
tract admiration or attention to them
selves. Such chaperonage is an injus-
tiee to the girl.
If chaperon be not old enough to
be the mother of her charge. she
should at least have such dignity Of
character as to suggest maturity, and
so Pave no doubt of the conventions
being satisfied
1t is bad form to send several gay
girls to ball with very young chap
eron, perhaps one of their own number
who has just been married. Such ma
tronhing is a farce. burlesque. and
no real chaperonage at all.
Upon coaching parties to races. foot
bali matches. visits to country clubs.
picnics, studio teas. boating parties,
or any festivity where merriment and
gay spirits may tempt the overstep-
ping of the bounds of strictly good
Erecting. the matron of the party
should be carefully chosen. l have
aaen c1nanofonaf who d eefle<7 fhnnar0n.
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and old may meet upon common ground
and talk with naturalness and enthu-
siasm-Dooks. music. art, the play
charming people, authors, artists, lee
tGrers. travel, amateur photography,
bicycling. golf. tennis, botanizing-
minds and souls have no age.
When young girls are asked to be
guests unaccompanied by an older wo-
man, the hostess assumes the Office
and responsibility of chaperon at
house parties, dances, etc.
At a ball the chaperon enters the
room with her charge at her left, and
steps slightly in advance of her to greet
their hostess. She takes her seat in
the row of seats against the wall, and
her protege sits in front of her In
Europe at all large balls the walls of
the room are lined with red velvet so
fas wherein the chaperons are seated
often on raised dias, with their young
people upon chairs at their feet The
elder women, dressed with elegance
and wearing many jewels. make an ef-
fective background for the costumes OF
their charges, whose youth and fresh
ness are the more emphasized by con-
trast.
The chaperon should dress as unlike
the young girls as Dossible-for her
the ve.vets, stiff brocades, and toilets
suggesting richness, even sumptuous-
ness; for them diaphanous draperies
and artistic simplicity. No language
can be too severe, too scathing, to con-
denim the woman whose attire is lacking
in modesty; but never is it so blame
worthy as when she is in charge OF
young and innocent girls.
The ehaperon should endeavor to see
that her protege is provided with a
partner for the cotillion, using the ad-
vantages of her position, her acquaint-
ance. or the feeling of Indebtedness to-
ward her, for the benefit of her charge
Always to be found in the same
place. the young girl may go to her be-
tween dances, and so be relieved OF
the dreaded feeling that she is impos-
ed upon a man longer than she is
welcome. A young chaperon should
not dance. while her charge is unprovid-
ed with a partner.
Many think that a chaperon Should
be possessed OF what they call the
! social talent" knowing how
to bar all approaches towards
girls acquaintance from the
ranks Of the undesirables as well as
the objectionables, and beguiling the
eligibles into an agreeable atmosphere
OF congeniality and intimacy that
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ing more than the young people in
their charge.
All the obligation is not on the one
side, however.
1t is always an evidence of refined
breeding as well as kindness of heart
that a girl should show her chap
eron at ball or elsewhere that
she is not unmindful of her
presence. She should present
to her the young men whom she meets,
II they are standing near. and it is al
ways compliment to a man to he
brought to the mother or chaperon for
special Introduction. She should re-
ciprocate the interest of the chaperon
in her pleasures by showing some So
hcltude for the comfort and enjoyment
OF that lady, noticing whether or not
she has some one to talk with, and
with her better opportunities of seeing
the room, may manage to insure that
she be more agreeably seated. If she
be overlooked at supper, the girl may
ask her own partner TO provide for
her, and IL he is a gentleman, he will
think the better of her for her thought
full considerateness and perform the lit
tie service with readiness.
The chaperon is sometimes a young
mother, feeling scarcely older than her
daughter but obliged to take perma-
nent seat against the wall, while her
own feet tingle with the desire to do
- her daughter is doing.
A girl may associate her mother in
her pleasures and enlist her interest
by being q little confidential about
what she hears and the people whor~
she meets, sure at least of a discreet
confidante.
Little attentions are never more APP
preciated than when shown by a girl
to her mother or chaperon in public,
such as being careful to give that lady
precedence, anticipating her wishes in
trif1ing acts, watchful about draughts
or discomfort in any form-not after
the patronizing manner that | have
sometimes seen, of looking after some
incompetent too old or too stupid to
care for herself, but with loving con-
siderateness and gentle Difference This
is the manner inculcated in European
girls. and in this land OF assertive
democratic opinions we are In danger
of losing some of the graces that come
of reverent attitude towards those
whose superiority in any forr, I'VE acf
knowledge. In all relations enitymen0
is enhanced by reciprocity. 'HAppt
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invitations to men should be given in
the name of the mother or chaperon.
In travelling through Europe young
girls may go almost anywhere under
proper chaperonage - % theatres,
operas. studios, and into society, Only
when intrenched within the dignified
position of a worker can young wo-
man dispense with the demand of eti-
quette for a chaperon.
A young man regardful of the pro-
prieties never asks a girl to accompany
him to any place of amusement with
out either extending the invitation to
her mother or chaperon, or asking
some married woman of suitable age
and position to accompany them.
Under exceptional circumstances a
young brother has sometimes been al
lowed to fill the position of duenna.
probably because of boys we'll known
reputation of allowing nothing to es-
cape his observation, and reticence not
being a conspicuous characteristic.
A theatre party of young persons
unchaperoned would be considered as
quite beyond the pale of good society
III New VI
he host calls first for the chaperon
before going for the young woman, un-
less it is arranged that they are to
meet at her house. At a supper after
the theatre he seats that lady first, and
treats her as the guest of honor.
An entertainment at a mans bach
elor apartments, at the annex of his
club. or at a restaurant of reputation,
may be enjoyed by young girls proper
" chaperoned. One of his own mar
rled kinswomen would give much dig
nifty to the gayety.
When lady is invited to be
chaperon for special occasion, a
carriage is always sent to take
her to the place appointed. if the host
does not call for her, and returns TO
take her home.
A chaperon should endeayor to make
herself so agreeable that her society
will not be more of a penanee to the
young man who falls to her lot than
she can help. She need not talk
down" to him, and in her conversation
she should remember that the young
do not enjoy grave subjects when mer-
riment has been the object OF Their
meeting. Neither should she try to
place herself on his level and assume
,air@ Of juFenility. She will only APP
pear ridiculous to the keen young eyes
that will ferciIessly Judge her. There
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likely to be remembered" asked one
clever woman of another. Those in
! which we forgot ourselves" was the
answer given in a sigh
A girl is sometimes glad to intrench
herself behind the bulwarks that So
ciety has reared about her, to defend
herself from unwelcome devotion or at
tentions.
The Proper Chaperon.
A ehaperon should be an example to
her young charges in tho conventions,
and all social questions should be re-
ferred to her. She should therefore
be emphatically gentlewoman, know
ing the usages of polite society; her
! reputation, of course, above question.
A European father who had lost his
wife would never place young unmar-
ried daughter at the head of his house
without a resident chaperon, and the
! Improperly of doing so is now ac-
knowledged with us.
There are not wanting, in this coun-
try of financial ups and downs, ladies
who are qualified in every way for
such position. She should be treat
ed by every one in the house
hold as though she We're the
social equal and entitled to the same
Difference as the lady of the house
whom she represents Then, and only
then, can she do justice to the posi-
ton and give to the young girl what
she needs.
The chaperon should endeavor to see
that hospitable doors are open to her
charge, that well-bred and agreeable
young men are presented to her, and it
in her responsibility that the girl re-
ciprocates the attentions that she re-
ceives in a manner BETTING her posi-
ton.
/ Much tact is necessary not to draw
/ the rein too tightly. A leading-strap
would be the better figure: that leaves
/ the young subject free, but checks
! readily when it is necessary. A chap
+ eron must be careful never to antag-
+ onize her charge or appear to watch
/ her She should respect the privacy
of her letters. and never take the OPP
portunity to rebuke or condemn when
/ a confidence is given. Indeed her only
I chance of success is to win the girls
real respect and affection. and then
encourage confidence in order to be
| able to act for her good and advantage
! and never from personal motives or
curiosity. 1t is her duty, however, to
reproye her charge II she is careless
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his Hair on the wrong side and an
other kept his Hands in his Pockets and
another walked on the of side of the
Street.
For Years she sat W th the Lace Cur
tains parted. keeping a keen lookout
for old Perfection She knew that
there were some Real Gentlemen in the
World, bcause she had read about them
in Laura Jean Libbey.
At last she began to lean against
the chilly Fact that the Tide had gone
out and left her tangled in the Sea-
Weed. So she went ont and put UP
a Sign in the Front Yard: Man want
ed White one preferred"
MORAL; Marry him first and remove
the Kinks afterward
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and modesty the girls felt quite COM
petent to take care of themselves, and
the young men resented the suggestion
of chaperon as an insult to their hon
or, From their mental attitude, their
self-respecting standpoint, and the GUS
toms of their environment, they were
justified and there are not wanting
many yet. to hold these opinions
To such I would say that chaper-
onage is a representative thing. 1t ty-
pifies the sheltering care, the jealous
protection, Of something very precious.
What Il Caperon stands For.
Il sets higher value upon the object
by protecting and hedging it rolTl IN
the eyes of others. and particularly in
those of young men who are apt TO
sigh for the fruit that hangs highest
The Value of "A shaperon.
There is no doubt. also. that the
presence of a chaperon greatly i'm
proves the manners of the young peo-
pie.
There are girls who are inherently
well bred but who, having the natural,
instructive desire to please, sometimes
fear to be considered prim, proper, and
goody-goody." if they do not join in
the FRANKS and initiate the manners of
those who seem to be oyer-much al
their ease in young mems society. To
such the presence of a chaperon is new
er an unwelcome restraint.
A lou, laugh, familiar manners, I'M
restrained attitudes, are net attractive;
and in the freedom OF the club men
discuss these matters, and those who
fancy that such recommend them are
held cheap.
A vivacious girl, with the high spir-
its Of youth and its Ignorance of the
world and its ways, has sometimes
been misunderstood and placed in a
false position which the presence of a
chaperon would have averted.
Many a girl would give the world to
I efface memories of indiscretions of
+ conduct that bring a blush when re-
! called. Motherless and brotherless
girls are especially in danger Of mis-
conception. The often rough criticism
of other girls from a brother is a les
son in manners that usually makes an
impression.
If ehaperon is what she should be
her presence will not wet-blanket the
merrinient and spontaneity. but mere
! ly touchdown the excessive exuberance;
the girls will not be. less winsome but
less ", with m7lners high bred
i no. cuous.
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Copyright, 1901. by Doubleday, Page & Co
when a general distribution of ha
los takes place" once said bright
woman, 1.-THE head of the willing and
unsung martyr, known as a chaperon,
will be found crowned too. l am per-
suaded, among the worlds elect"
Not many OF US will be found wor
thy to wear one of greater radiance
If cheerfulness, an absolute disregard Of
self. ingenuity in improyising pleasures
in which she takes but an observers
part. and an unBearied amiability that
keeps her sweet, smiling, and wakeful
until her young charge has had her fill
of pleasure, be any qualification for
such a reward. The post is no sine
cure, and its duties are often a thank
less, unenviable task.
OF course, the natural chaperon of a
girl is her own mother, whose interest
in all that in any way concerns her
child makes the position an easy one
and all her labor Of love; but one whose
presence Is imposed to play proprie-
ty'' where no such necessity is recog-
mixed, naturally feels the embarrass-
ment Of being unweleome. 1t is there
fore butrfair that her position should
be understood and defined.
In Europe, and in those parts Of
America which have felt the influence
OF old-world customs, the first demand
Of polished society is that young girls
shall be properly chaperoned. Il is
considered one Of the elegances of life.
one Of the graces of the best society,
and an evidence Of the tender respect
with which young womanhood is le-
garded; such a formality being held
10 safeguard il from all chance of ev
Or the appearance OF it.
The world has grown too small.
through the closer Intercourse of It's
Civilized peoples. for any TO escape its
inherited traditions and prejudiees.
Time was when We We're so provin-
rial and ineonspieuous that we could
make our own social laws. and we We're
proud OF the freedom that could exist
between our young women and theii
kmen acGuaintances, and protested
gaiIst the duenna system as a re.
ection upon yeir trustworthiness.
Strong in their mate sense of pro
w. n