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debutante circus winning attraction.
But ouce the debutante has entered the
ring. she takes the responsibilities and
the chances Of success upon her own
shoulders as surely as the hurdle jumper
takes the leap.
Her Isolation.
No one is altogether prepossessed in the
dcbutante's favor except the men who are
too old to be eligible and the women who
are too matured to be rivals. The senior
society girls look down from dizzy heights
of experience upon the social freshman;
the juniors ignore her and the sophomores
are consumedly jealous because she has
matriculated before they have the matri
monial degree in sight. With men she
stands a better chance for favoritism, but
as it is the women who have to be pro-
pitiated in society; the men do not count.
II the debutante is an only child, her
first season is rather of lone handed
game She must force her own trumps
and expect no favorable leads. The best
thing she can do is to develop violent
intimacies with other girls, cultivate
bosoms TO which she can flee in the hour
when dancing partners fail and some 9TH
er girls picture appears oftener than her
own.
Stranded at Dance.
Nothing is more forlorn than for 4
debutante to be stranded a a dance or un-
apportioned for the cotillion IL she hasn't
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AS dificult to persuade people

4 II
that your motives are entirely
i disinterested as 1t is to convince
them that the curl which nestles
confdingly on your left shoulder has any
connection with your scalp" sighed the
Huffy-haired girl.
"Humph; that sounds as If you had done
something disinterested and been found
out" smiled the girl in the picture hat.
We'll, / can sympathize. u
Il have been trying TO do Grayce
good turn with the result that she is con-
fined to the house with the doctor and the
florist in attendance, and that my father
refuses TO speak to me. just when l want
10 approach him most atfcctionately on
the subject OF q new gown. And that is
not alli''
Il fear not, dear. A girl with a sprain-
cd ankle and the kind of eyelashes
Grayce possesses Is as dangerous q rival
as q passe widow with no encumbrances,
a substantial bank account and a bad
cough"
Il know It is; know it is" walled the
fluffy haired girl. Many man has
passed safely through teaching a girl to
play golf, only to iall victim to fire
light, an easy chair, ard little sigh Of
pain. Oh. dear. am the most unfortu-
nate girl in the world, and it is all be-
cause / happened to be out when Law
renee called the other day"
"0h. was that the, way you did Grayce
a good turn? Well. never mind, II that
is all, she would probably have done her
self as good one before long"
We'll. IL was this way: I was out when
he called, and / know as well as / know
that everybody saye myself has the date
of my birth wrong. that he came to ask
me to go to the concert given by the
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Lived Among Talky People.

ooh we'll, dear, there is one comfort;
with an amateur chauffeur the life OF an
automobile is usually as short as that OF
a good d-natured anecdote."
Yes; THAT isl have reason to sup
pose something OF the kind. Well, as
was saying, papa invited me to ride with
him that morning and / accepted, with
the feeling that the post of honor is the
post of danger However. as we rode along
and nothing really serious happened.
began to see how easy the thing Is 10
manage. You just"
Don't bother to tell me. dear. Life is
too sweet for me to have any desire to
learn how to manage an automobile
rs it? Well, finally. l coaxed papa to
let me see if could drive it. and | did
for at least two blocks. While l was
still flushed with pardonable pride, papa
stopped at the Office for moment,
and
81 know The kind Of moment for
which one drops in at dry goods shop
when the spring things are first opened.
Did you-''
"Mhm: while sat there Grayce passed
and l called to her to stop and let me
fix her VEIL
"Was anything wrong
with It? Well-er-not much; bat she
could not know that without mirror.
She climbed in and while 1 was reaching
up to fasten 1t and deciding how to make
her think that 1 was delighted to have
her take Lawrence off my hands OCCASION
ally, IL must have pressed something or
other accidentally and the auto started
down the street. Grayce screamed and
wanted to jump, but well. didn't want
to confess, and / said that I would just
take her for little drive. as we might
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get chilled sitting there in the wind"

get chilled sitting there in the wind"
Yes, but
papa calling to me, but l could no more
have stopped that awful machine than
could stop another girl from saying some
thing l did not want to hear.
''Ye-es Besides. it would have to stop
of it's own accord some time"
at would. l tried everything. but eau
tiously. so that Grayce would not know.
But papa says an automobile displays ~
almost feminine intelligence in having its
own way. Once or twice / did thirgs
which made it run on one wheel, AMI
then
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glee club of his college. AS | say. / was
out and he happened to meet Grayce in
the next block. You know the rest"
II know, Grayce. dear But IL that Is
all the claim you have to her graft
tude-"
1T isn't. I-er-didnt expect TO see
her at the concert with Lawrence but
Aunt Louise and | sat just across from
them and the oficious manner in which
Grayce leaned over and explained to me
why one OF the banjoists was Kissing
made me-
"Of course it did; you needn't stop TO
explain that. But when did you get a
chance to-er-make her regret what she
had dope?'
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The debutante with a desirable grand
mother is always in luck. When Miss
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HID you ever stop to think that a
rosebud is surrounded by quite
as many thorns as a full blown
flower?
II Nature really respected the fitness
of things, she might sprout little thorns
for little blossoms, but Nature is some
thing like Society, in that she has her
thorn crop ready grown and trained to
prick when the rose-buds take their first
peep at the world.
After a girl has left school, and before
she is matrimonially placed. she has to
travel through forest of social thorns,
and though her tender little heart may be
hurt to bleeding, and her illusions laid
bare by the sharp points of the worlds
contact, no one is the wiser, for she goes
bravely on through the forest, and smiles
as sweetly as though the thorns had
caressed instead OF pricked.
Not Simple Thing.
If anyone thinks it is a simple thing
TO do the debutante act-unless, Of course,
she has happened to be born an Alice
Roosevelt-only let that some one try it
through a January and February in Wash
ington society.
debutante's entrance into the world
of fashion depends largely upon her
mother. who has to be the brass band and
the grand entrance parade, as well as the
side-show barker, in order to make the
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T-well. 1t happened this way: Papa
took me out with him in his new auto
mobile the very next morning"
"Oh, did he? Well, at any rate. you are
alive; be thankful for that. And as l
saw no crepe on the door as came In.
conclude that he is. too. By the way,
l met your mother the other day. She
was paying a number Of calls while your
father was taking his first run without
his teacher. She said she didn't know
when she might get another chance"
Yes: poor mamma, she says she has
been through the measles. amateur
photography. and the study Of French, but
an automobile in the family is worse than
any OF them"
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"You told Grayce that you were merely
giving her an exhibition of fancy driy-
ing?"
II did: she said she wished I wouldn't;
so did l. Somehow. we kept getting up
speed all the time, and finally policeman
ran into the road to stop us. When he
saw me. however, he cried: It's woman
driving,' and ran for his life, though l
called to him that was perfectly willins
to be stopped.
well. I'm sure it was his duty to ar
rest you, if"
II was passing the speed limit? Yes;
called that back to him. but he was out
of hearing. All this time Grayce kept
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girl was beautiful, the reporter wrote her
down Clever" according to the law of
compensation.
Handicapped Wit, Famous Sisters.
When a debutante is handicapped with
famous sisters, she is to be pitied. Fam
lily perfection is such a mountainous
precedent to stand up against. Last win
ter delightful girl made her debut in
Washington society. She was beautiful.
bright, wealthy, and everyone remarked
at her coming-out reception how much
she resembied her sister, who had made
a brilliant match in New York the year
before They said: "One could well mis-
take Jean for Julia, only Jean, poor girl,
lacks her sisters animation and is not
much at conversation
Lived Among Tally People.
The truth was, Julia had lived all her
life among talky. society people. She had
peeped behind the scenes long before she
had appeared in public and had grown
into her society manner she had grown
into her long skirts, whereas Jean had
been shut up in a convent until feW
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friends Of sufficient nearness to cover her
retreat behind a billow of petticoats in
the corner. Many a girl has been seized
with convenient. If not convincing. in
disposition at her first Bachelors. and
gone home in tears at the thought of be-
ing wall flower.
Alice Rochester, Miss Condit-smith,
Marie Mattingly, and Mary McComas We're
girls that made a point of having their
men friends favor neglected debutantes in
preference to themselves, but such un-
selfshness is rare at the present time.
The milk of human kindness so often con-
geals in winter.
"a Clever Girl"
A send-off in the newspapers doesn't
necessarily increase debutante's S chances
of success, and only this season one Of
the handsomest of the buds was barely
mentioned in a society column as
"clever girl, of literary turn because
the interviewing reporter failed to see
the girl herself and her mother was too
modest to answer truthfully the point
blank question whether or not her daugh-
ter was beauty. Not being told the
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Bell made her debut she had practically
time, and she was the envy of her less
fortunate friends. Relatives certainly
count-the more OF them the better-in
girls first season. Certainly Josephine
Eddy was bright and clever, and pretty
and popular enough to carry of her debu-
tante honors this winter with only the
assistance of her charming mother. yet
everyonexsaid. "Howslovely to have Mrs.
Summers for an aunt!'
Must Learn to Talk.
Primarily it is necessary for bud to
learn how to talk before she pays formal
visits. When she can enter drawing
room and find as many pleasantly bright
things to say as Olive Gale, she is fitted
perfectly to society's pattern.
debutante must also preserve her
effervescent girlishness. When Hildegarde
McKenna and Mabel Hume came out they
were just too irresistibly gay, with the
school gayety under polite bonds. and
never failed to put lunch table in good
humor.
Do you imagine it is a simple thing to
possess and flourish every charm peculiar
to the debutante estate, remain natural
and unconscious, and be harassed in
wardly with the thought that one may
not be doing the right thing after all,
likely as not one has stroked the fur the
wrong instead of the right way, and that
ores gown may fail to come home in time
for tonight's dance and that fifty new
names day may not be tucked away sys-
tematically in ones brain cells for future
use?
Her Life Is Strenuous.
The life OF debutante is strenuous,
and only the spirit of intrepid womanhood
is equal to it. Though she expects a
great deal from society, she doesn't al
ways get it. Adola Greely came out and
was a pronounced success, but after cae
season she went back to college. Elsie
Curtis and Daisy Cotton had each one
happy for year of travel. When she
takes a post-debutante course in society.
a girl must be extremely original to re-
tain her reputation for success. She need
not go in for freaky charities. like the
women of England, neither can she ex-
pect pretty talent with her voice or
brush to carry her along in the social
wave, as was the case with her mother.
A Femininized St. Paul.
She has to be femininized ST. Paul
and possess every talent to appeal to all
men. She must be Iinguist, not to trip
in the diplomatic set; she must know
how to brew an incompatible cup of tea
and mix the latest thing in drinks; tell
a cleves dinner story and drive her
horses and golf balls with the skill OF
her brother, read the newspapers, ulaga-
zines. and new books and devise original
methods OF entertaining and laying
lunch table.
With it all, she must remain mothers
innocent darling. fathers comfort, and
brothers ideal and still guard that little
holy -holies within her heart that is
one day to open to just the right man
when she has passed beyond the thorn
pricks of debutantehood.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-06
To HANDICAP
TRAP SHOOTERS
Ashland Gun Club Aranges for
a Championship Shoot on
July 18th.

The Ashland Gun Club has arranged
a. great shoot for Saturday, July 18th.
which shall test the new system Of dis
lance handicapping 1t clay pigeons.
The shoot is something new in the way
of trap Shooting, and no doubt viii be
largely attended by the crack shots OF
this part of the State.
The shoot will be for the Henry Clay
CUP and distance handicap champion
ship OF the State. It is now on eXhi-
bition at the store of T. ". Tignor's
Sons, No. 1919 East Main Street.
This cup carries the distance handicap
championship at 100 targets. Open to
all Virginia amateurs. Tickets for this
event including railroad fare for the
round trip, Richmond to Ashland and
return. dinner or supper at the Henry
Clay Inn, and targets, $3.50; for sale by
Tignors and Harris, flippen 6, Company.
Starting at Il yards for an average OF
60 per cent, and penalizinS one yard for
each additional per cent, will string
the guns as follows: 66 per cent, 10
yards; 70 per cent, IL yards; a Per cent
II yards; rs per cent. IS yards; 81 per
cent. 10 wards; So per cent, 20 yards;
90 per cent, q yards: and "a per cent.
% yards.
The very evident injustice in allowing
a nercentage of targets as broken. not
shot at. has often appealed to target
shooters To thoroughly test the new
systera OF distance handicapping. the
Ashland Gun Club has offered this cham
pionship cup as an incentive to the
sportsmen OF this State, to test their skill
at targets under the new conditions. In
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sisters in no way akin to hts usually
sunny nature.
Not even a. brothers. pleadtngs were
sufficient TO restrain the ambition of the
Taylor sisters 10 win a reputation equal
70 that OF their distinguished brothers.
The ambition to lecture conquered every
other eonsidera ton. and not a great while
agt, the sisters announced that they had
a dual lecture to spring upon the public
LECTURING TWINS
Since that time these ladies' have SUIT
rendered the duties OF home and family
and are on 4 lecture tour. portraying life
from two stZndpofuts-'The Real ana
THE IDEAL
Mrs. Reeves whose disposition is rath~
CT ike that Of her brother ALI. discusses
the affairs az humanity from the stan6~
point of the real. while Mrs Jabe, not
withstandiUg tina. she mas had the care
OF thirteen children In her family, good
numoredty discusses The Ideal, and
for hearts and minds whose Inspiration fS
the ideal
The Taylor sisters viii hardly meet with
that high degree of favor on the Lectures
platform that has been the happy fortune
Of the bro thers. and ALI IS quoted as In,
timating that they Will get back TO the11s
proper sphere soon enough
The sisters. It is said. do not reaiizs
that they might properly be made OBJ
iects OF criticism and 50. knowing tbs
attitude, of their brothers toward then
venture when perchance they receive an
t,nfriendlyr criticism. they attribute IL to-
n Nemesis. which they feel that Bob an6
All have set upon their trail
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For More than Two Hundred years Has Been the Seat Of Judicial
Procedure and Has Been Called by its Present Name for
More than Centuy-Its Water Supply Single Spring
for Many Years-A Fine Courthouse and An
nual Fair Two Leading Features
: Chris tepn eS' Ec2 CO.

the clerks office. which stood near the
present site of Wells harness shop. lost
its occupation when the new courthouse
was opened for use, there having been
provided IN the latter building two fire
proof rooms for the clerk and records
The deserted Office, though now removed
was long used as an oyster saloon under
the management Of Joseph Burrows.
The present most efficient and courteous
clerk of Northumberland, is Mr.. William
S. Cralle.
During the year 1900. the supervisors of
Northumberland ordered the remodeliJg
of the courthouse, because of its made
quacy, to cost not more than 5000, -nsk-
ing latter-day improvements. changing
the courtroom from down stairs up and
the old courtroom made into smaller
rooms, which are used as offices, chang
ing the entrance from the north to the
eastern side and facing the Confederate
soldiers, monument.
Heathsville like many other towns of
Virginia, has a fairgrounds where an
nual fairs are held. These fairs last three
days and large crowds from all parts of
down the dusty roads from early dawn
to late in the day toward the fair
ground. where they all anticipate spend
Ing a day of pleasure. Men are enthu-
siastic over horse racing while fair ma
irons and maids enjoy the exhibits of
agricultural products and culinary arts,
which are to be seen in profusion. One
of the greatest improvements, which
HeathSville has undergone in recent years
is the making Of the courthouse park,
where the villages gather as the sun fades
in the west and the young folk whisper
their love tales.
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ar Is bfs brother. Alfred. who formerly

er IS his brother Alfred. who formerly
represented the First Tennessee District
In Congress. Aft. Taylors first effort
brought him only scant praise, mixed with
UNPLEASANT criticism. He was not wholly
discouraged, however. but felt that his
talent was deserving of q kindlier fate
So. after the tour of the brothers IN
yankee Doodle and Dixie" Of which
Bob received all the praise Alf. went to
his cabin home On the banks OF the
Chuckey river IN Washington county,
Tennessee and prepared q new Lecture
which he styled Poetry and Pearls rms
new lecture was all that It's title suggest
ed and more too, being noted for It's grace
of expression and beauty or thought
With it. Aft Taylor has been g conquer
or in the most pleasing sense of the term
FAMILY AFFAIR. .
Bob always felt that he had me ups
on Aft as a lecturer and he really has
and whether or not in point OF merit, he
certainly continues TO lead in the public
mind So Bob has been perfectly Wiling
to tolerate ALI as a lecturer. but when It
comes to a. pair OF sisters In the same
family having aspirations to share the
Ionors Of the platform, there's Where
Bod draws the line.
Months ago he gained an mixing triat
his sisters, Mrs. Rhoda Taylor Reeves ana
Mrs Eva Taylor Jobe, twins, and each q
mother at the head of family, mad
dreamed OF renown in the lecture field
II seemed to him Ike q pretaonitlon
that. whatever reputation the family had
earned as orators was to DO swept away
nv an unseernly vision Of twins, who We're
aid enough TO know better. and he is
said to have conjured up q frown Tor the
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warded him from the clerks office here
for his consideration. The brief term OF
the court to have been held here. was
to wind up the business of the recent
term.
Judge Golf Is suffering from
trouble affecting his left eye,
which has given him considerable
trouble during the past few months.
a short while ago his physinians advised
that he take complete rest. which would
enable him to take up his regular work
by July LIST.
and he writes that on account OF his
health he will be unable to hold the adj
tourned term here
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BRISTOL, TENN. July 1.-The an
nouncenent recently that the genial ex-
Governor Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, had
contracted with a lyceum bureau II the
State of New York to deliver one hun
bred lectures the coming season for
SO, coo and expenses, calls to mind that
the d-headed lecturer, whose venture
has been a triumphant one from the
start, is not the only member of the Tay-
lor family that would seek fame and tor
tune through the gift of talk.
Bob Taylors father, Colonel Nathaniel
G.. Taylor was one OF the, finest orators
of his day, but to use his powers as an
orator in acquiring wealth, probably
never entered his mind He was given to
just such vigorous word-paintins and bold
flights as his son Bob. VINO played many
a day in childhood upon the banks OF the
beautiful Watauga, unconsclously 1mbip-
ing the inspiration Of the wonderful scenic
effects, embracing mountain, valley and
stream in region Of many charms.
COLONEL NATHANIEL TAYLOR.
Col. Nathaniel Taylors eloquence was
heard on many a public occasion. at pic
mics, school exhibitions, church gather
ings, etc, and while he must have appre-
ciated in a degree his influence over an
audience. it remained for his son. dis
gusted with political clamor and abashed
at the ntidelty OF political friends. to
seek the lecture field as a realm which
possibly might be to him g. kingdom, and
holding for him a throne.
How Bob Taylor has found life upon
the rostrum is well known to the People or
the South. Next to him as an entertain
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suffering from
Roanoke College.

The catalogue Of the forty-nfnth year
of Roanoke College shows that students
were enrolled from fourteen States and
from Porto Rico. England and Korea
The session closed successfully on June
18th, and the widely known college has
now entered upon its fftieth year. In
connection with the semi cell
ebration next June, two buildings are
projected. To the full courses in ancient
and modern languages, Spanish has been
added. Improved facilities viii be pro-
vided In the commercial department, in
which students may also enjoy the lit
erary advantages of the college. Or.
julius D. Dreher, of Salem. Va, Is prest-
dent Of the college.
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Southside GLIB Picnic.

The southside Social Club gave thelr
second annual picnic at Five Mile Locks
on July 18th. Music was rendered by Mr..
j. E. Davis and others. Many amuse-
manss were engaged In. such as fishing.
target shooting. berry picking and other
sports. Among those who helped to
make the day enjoyable Were Misses
Florence Garnett. annie Groon1s. Lottya
Groome Mary Lucord, Belle Shepherd.
Copeland Rawlstt, Sadie Sneai and
Ethel Richardson: Msssrs. John Lucord.
n. Michaeis, j. Davis. II. Gibson. A.
Minter, NJ Hatton, I. Moore. Z. cierr-.
ents and Baughan. The ehaperans wera
Mrs. Graves. Mrs. and MI. FEapk.in.
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Y. m. G. AS Invitation.

The following unique invitation has;
been issued by the Y. NJ G. a for the
Bible class this afternoon:
Every man is cordially invited to the
Conversational Bible Study. held Sun
day afternoon at $50 o'clock, you
SHOULD be careful to grasp the opPor-
tunity of Sunday, July 9Th. General Sec
rotary Mckee viii lead the big family
in {, heart chat, taken from one OF the
smallest books in the Bible
what he drinks has much 10 do with
a. mans reputation; just so with where
he goes Come and enjoy the cnat, the
social half hour following, the ian cooled
air and the lemonade Chat held at Z.
NJ. C. a. parlor. Come, and firing a
friend"