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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-26
THE AMERICAN WIVES.
BY ALFRED CECIL.

A recent article of mine on the much discussed question of marriage and di- vorce has produced a storm of protest because of the statement that the Ameri- can girl was not the best adapted to con serve the interests of the home-that IS to make the best of wives. I repeat it.
 There are three classes of young women who are wives and mothers to whom [ object. They are respectively: First, the wife who finds her joy in either entertain ing her friends or by them being enter tained; secondly, the wife who negIects her home and her children for outside employments, occupations recreations and amusements and. thirdly. the wife and mother who so devotes herself to her home and children that she takes no in- terest in the world in which she lives
 Of the second have little to say save that the woman who neglects home and children because, she has other duties 10 perform is at heart a bachelor woman, and should have lived and died spin ster. I do not refer to women who have employments because they must be bread winners. refer to the class who feel they possess executive ability and work oll lHSli energy III SllteI- prises or in some grand theatre of "re'- form or hospital or charity work
 Of these the first and third are the most numerous. How many of these we all know. What can the influence they exert be on the home? Is it not self evident. Can a woman who finds her chief happi- ness in life in the society of others than her husband in pleasures that are not domestic, contribute much to the home, or stimulate In the husband the love that induced him to wed her? Or can wo- man who in her complete surrender to the duties of a mother and a wife, for gets she has other duties to her husband than to manage nursery and household, expect to retain the love that induced him to wed her? The former is fond of ad- miration, of attention, of social success,
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and makes willing sacrifice; the latter delights in the duties of her home and makes a willing sacrifice of herself to maintain it.
 Assuming that Paul and Virginia be- came man and wife for love of each other, it is not difficult to picture the result Of a union should Virginia develop into a 'society woman" on one hand or "a working housekeeper'' on the other. We have all been witnesses to the wrecks that have taken place. Should Virginia become vain and frivolous Paul is at first pleased, is later bored and finally allows her to go her way and he goes his; on the other hand,if Virginia becomes an in- dustrious drudge, Paul enjoys the com forts of his we'll cared for home, and af- ter dinner "goes out for an hour or so.- Is it to be wondered at, that the matri- IIioIiiai double harness cnafes, that di- vorces follows.
 Now what did Paul see in Virginia; what did Virginia see in Paul? Beach had attractions for the other. They were lovers before marriage why did they cease to love after marriage? In true unions the love before marriage is noth- ing as compared to the love that comes with each succeeding year. The Ameri- can girl knows how to make herself at tractive to her lover, she knows how 10 be bright, tender, w;nsome. But after marriage she discards these gentle arts and becomes intensely commonplace practical and matter of fact She no longer aims to attract. In one of the instances cited she aspires to attract oth- CTS, in the latter she has no thought of being attractive and frequently ceases to be.
 Let the wife keep her husband her lover in the first year of her married life erd shs can keep him her lover all the days of her life. No woman becomes commonplace and unattractive to her husband-if ke be man-if she be de- termined to keep him her lover. Love grows. Beauty may fade the rosy tint of youth may escape from the complexion, the figure may loose it's lines. the hair may be tinged with gray, care may chase
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laughter from the lips and sorrow may draw the corners of the mouth but these do not detract. They glorify where love is. The maiden was the one companion of her youthful lover; the young wife was the one companion of the young husband. what caused the companionsnfp to cease to be? When did the husband cease to be considerate and affectionate; when did the wife cease to be winsome and attrac- tive7 The love of a maid in her teens is as nothing to the love of a woman in the forties. No wife need lose the heart of the man who has won her if it be worth the keeping
 The reason why so many couples wno once loved each other fall out, is due to the fact that they cease to be lovers. As to those who married without loving eacn other no discussion is necessary. Such marriages are contracts based on frauds and are barren of the greatest joy that can be given to the human being. namely. the enduring love of man and woman which remains young and strong amid all the changes which are wrought by time and circumstances.
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Shetland floss, per pound. .$1.1e Saxon Yarn, all colors, skein. .7c Stamped turnover collar strips. lie All linen Battenberg thread spool .4c Fancy cord for tr'mg sofa pillows. .sc Linen tray cloths, plain or striped 25c
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very Royeraftie, even if they don't give any Light"
 Next she started in on the Din ing Room.
 Rule No. for making Home more Cheerful is to put in a Shelf wherever there is room for one. After which the Shelf is loaded down with Etruscan Growlers and Antique Jugs.
 The low-browed Husband could not tell the difference between High Art and Junk.
 The female Bradleyite covered the Walls with about 400 Plates, each with Blue Curly-Cue on it. They looked very cheap to him until he received the Bill and then he learned that they were Old Delft and came to $11 apiece.
 In fact, after his Wife had been haunting the Secondhand Places for a while he learned that any Article which happened to be old and shop-worn and cracked was the one that commanded the Top Price.
 She never let up until she made the whole House Artistic.
 Her Women Acquaintances would come in and she would show them the Dark Oak Effects and the Sea-Green Frescoes and the Monastery Settee with the Sole-Leather Bottom in it and the corroded Tea-Pot that she had bought for $96, and the Table Spread made from Overall Mate rial with just one Yellow Poppy in the Middle, and they would have 37 different kinds of Duck Fits and say that it was Grand, and that her Taste was simply Faultless. After that she wouldn't care what Husband said.
 He was a fairly patient Man and all he complained of was that when he sat down he dislocated his Spine, while the Brass Knobs wore black-and-blue Spots on him; and the dining-room Table should have had a couple of Holes for him to put his Legs through; and he couldn't find a Place in which to stretch out: and he needed A Derrick in order to move one of the Chairs; and at Night when the Moonlight came into his Room and he saw all the bunny Bean-Pots lined up on the Foot-Board and the Instruments of Torture staring from him at every corner of the Room he would crawl down under the Covers and dream of his Child hood Home, with the old-fashioned Sofas and the deep Rocking Chairs and the big Bureaus that were meant to hold Things and not to look at.
 However, he has been unable to arrest the reaching-out after the Beautiful, for only last Week she purchased has-been Clock-price $115.
 MORAL: There is no Place like Home and some Illus sands are glad of it.
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one Candle in here, it will make a Swell Effect
 q feel that we are going to be very Happy" he said, and then he went out and sat behind the Barn where he could smoke his Pipe and mediate on the Uncertainties of Life.
 Next Day he discovred that she had condemned his Rocking Chair and the old-style Center Table on which he used to stack his Read ing Matter and keep a Plate of Apples handy.
 When he entered the improved and modernized Living Room, he found himself up against a Job lot of, Beauty and no Mistake.
 All the Furniture was straight up and down. It seemed to have been chopped out with an Axe and was meant to hold up Members of the Rhinoceros Family.
 On the High Shelf was a Row of double-handed Shaving Mugs, crip- pied Beer Steins, undersized Coal Scuttles and various Copper Ket- ties that had seen Better Days.
 At last we have a Room that satisfies every Craving of my Soul" said the Wife.
 II am more than Satisfied" ob- served the Treasurer. "I am de- lirious with Joy. My only Regret is that an all-wise Providence did not mold me into a different Shape so that I might sit down in some of these Chairs. What are those Iron Dinkuses sticking out from the Wall"
 Those are Florentine Lan- terns," she replied, "and they are
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MODERN FABLES BY GEORGE ADE.
he Modern Fable of The High Art That Was Little Too High @ for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills S St
sY eEoR oE ADe-copyabt 1902 by Robert Howard

to read those Magazines that tell how to beautify the Home.
 Her first Play vas to take out all the Carpets ard have the Floors massaged until they were as slick as Glass. so that when the Bread-Winner stepped on one of the Okra or Bokhara Rugs he usu- ally gave an Imitation of a Player trying to reach Second.
 He told her that he did not care to live in Rink, but what he said cut very few Lemons with the Side-Partner. She was looking at the half-tone Pictures of up-to-date Homes and beginning to realize that the Wall-Paper, Steel Engrav- ings and the Enlarged Photographs of Tap Relatives would have to go.
 One Day when the Proyider struck the Premises he found the Workmen putting Red Burlap on the Walls of the Sitting-Room.
 Why the Gunny- -Sack?" he asked. Cant we afford Wall Paper?"
 Love of Art Is the True Es- sence of the Higher Life," said the Aesthete, and she began to read Booklet bound in the same Paper that the Butcher uses when he wraps up Soup Bone.
 Come again" said the Wage Farmer, who was slow at catching these Ruskin Twisters.
 This is Art Burlap and not the kind that they use for sacking Peanuts" explained the Disciple of Beauty. Above the Burlap will be Shelf of Weathered Oak and then above that a Frieze of Blue Jimson Flowers. Then when we draw all of the Curtains and light
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Black Goods.
Wool WaiStingS

Wool WaiStlngS
 27-inch Tricot Flannel, in all the most elaborate colors; goods worth 49c per yard. OEo Special sale. e........... 6cO
 27inch striped Flannels in red, blue, green, gray, Ako etc, for this sale. Spcl EcO
 25-inch ready tucked" Elan nels in all the new colors; goods worth 75 cents per yard kQo Special .. ......... cOO
 French Flannels in all IOo colors, at. ..'........ ECO
 Satin striped Challies in all colors, worth 50 cents. 0Eo Special. ..... jJO
 Beautiful Persian design vel vets; goods that we have sold cor S1.00. Special for QQo HIS Sale. .......
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WOmen'S Stylish Apparel

Just hint from the vast number of up-to-date attire we show at our rec. ognized money saving prices. Our dis. play of finer and better grades in high-class apparel, is more extensive this year than ever before.
 Women's Norfolk waIkinu suits, made from all-wool fancy gray mixed material, including snow flakes in black and white, and blue and white, satin lined, Norfolk jacket, plaited skirt. regular 10 OO
 Women's blouse walking suits, in stylish novelty mixed materials, silk lined waists, with double top cape Regular price $20.00, Mon 1-En
 Women's cheviot blouse suits, waist and. skirt. trimmed. with. stitched bands, finely tailored and perfect fitting; Mondays price OO An only.... .... .... .... ... .SOsOV
 Women's 32-inch box coats, in ker sey pebble cheviots and other heavy fabrics, in black and Oxford gray, fly front style, velvet collar, C.OU
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Special Drives This week in Table Linens, Towels,
 COmfOrtabIeS and Blankets

Colored Table DamaSk, in red and white and red and green, the 35c quality, for, yard. .... ... .25c
 Bleached Table Damask, the 50c quality, for... .... ........3 .37Lac
 German Damask, pure linen. 49c
 72-inch German Damask, pure linen, extra heavy, the 75c quality,
 Bleached Table Damask, all pure linen, the 69c quality, for. .5ec 72-inch Double Satin Damask, new patterns, the 9Sc quality, for.... .... .... FOG
 72-inch Irish Satin Damask. grass bleached, all pure linen, the $1.35 quality, for.... .... ... .9ec
 Bleached Huck Towels, 19x4O. for, each. ... .... .... ....... loc
 Turkish Bath Towels, 22x44, for, each.... -... .... i</2c
 Extra large size Turkish Bath Towels, 45x27, the 35c quality, for. each. .... .... .... ..... .zoc
 A good Comfort for. .... ... .osc
 OuT 9l.A0 QudllIy Ol SOnlOi Io, Silkoline covering, filled with fine cotton and tackled by hand, Ior.... ..-. .....- .-..@i'oo
 Our large size, S1.75 quality of Silkoline Covering, filled with soft Egyptian cotton, for. ..... ...$1.5o
 Your chance now for a fine, heavy Eiderdown Comfort, ruffled with fine Satine coverings, worth $9.98, for.... ..... .$o.o0 A full size Fancy Blanket, guar anteed all pure wool, the $3.9S quality, for.... .... .... ... .$2.79
 An large size pure Western wool Blanket, and the best in the city for the price,. ..... ...... $500 An extra size California Blanket, pure wool, $7.50 quality, for. $500 Children's Crib Blankets always in stock.
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Uncovered Sofa Pillows filled with
 down and feathers mixed, 22 and "A inch. Special. ......... .4se All linen Rsttenbers Braid, bolt of ss yards.... .... .... ..... .2sc 100 linen Battenberg Rings. ..... .25c
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" forts.
 He would walk around an Angel Cake any old Time to get action on some Farm Sausage. He was not very strong for Romaine Salad or any Speckled Cheese left over from Year before last, but he did a very neat Vanishing Act with a Sirloin Steak and he had the Cof- fee come right along in large Cup. He refused to daily with the Demi-I -Iasse. For this True Ameri- can the Course Dinner was a weak Invention of the benighted For eigner When he squared up to his Food he cut out all of the Trimmings.
 This is the kind of Husband who peels his Coat in the Evening and gets himself all spread out in a Rocking Chair with a fat Cushion under him.
 He lives to wear old Velvet Slippers with pink Roses worked on the Toes and the Heels run over.
 Give him about two Cigars that pull freely and a Daily Paper and he is Fixed for the Session.
 Along about 10:30, if he can connect with Triangle of Dessi- cated Apple Pie and a Goblet of Milk, he is ready to sink back on the Husks feeling simply Im- mense.
 Now this Husband had Fire side that suited him nearly to Death until the Better Half began
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NOTICE
ccs ccf iIssttttiFis of Steel Bridge at cordova
 Walker County, Alabama.

The county commissioners of Walker county will receive bids up to 8 o'clocJ, Wednesday, November 5. at the court house in said coutny, to build a steel bridge over Cone Creek at cordova
 Plans and specifications on file in tha office of the judge of probate, the right to reject any or all bids reserved by the court By order of commissioners court
 J. w. SHEPHERD,
 Judge of Probate. October 3, 1902. 10-4-30t
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\ ov ng picture films bought anA sold. J. D. Van Epps,
 4l6 18th St.
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Repudlates It.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where did that child get her man. ners?"
 Not from my side of the house. ''Why not2"
 Because she hasn't any"
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Wash Goods Dept.

Op0CIdI OdIG UT EIQGTUOWnS
 Chnchlla Worsted Ederdown colors blue pink Navy, deep worth soc per yard, special Qk price per yard, oCS
 All wool Eiderdown all coors worth 35c per yard OIo plain fleece must be sold at special price yard fC
 Teasedown heavy quality ounging robes kmonas dressing fancy coors stripes and figures 1Qo We have just received the latest variety Latest novelty Wastngs Rich Oxford and Eomine This the first introduction this novelty goods There has anything like this beautiful rich fabric shown to the A
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-01-30
Died in Baltimore.

Last week the presence here Of
Capt. Phil Aston and wife. of Centre
Vile, on their way to Baltimore, was
mentioned in these columns. They
were going for Mrs. Aston to be
operated upon for gall stones of the
liver. She had been in bad health
for some time and her condition had
become quite critical. Those who
saw her had grave apprehension Of
her returning home alive. An opera
ton was performed and Mrs. Aston
died. The body reached Henderson
Sunday night, and Monday morning
it was taken through the country to
Franklin county for burial.
Mrs. Alstbn was truly good wo-
man in every relation of life and will
be sadly missed in the neighborhood
where she lived as we'll as by her own
immediate family. She was de-
voted wife and indulgent mother,
true friend and kind ncighbor and
above all a consecrated and consis-
tent Christian. Mrs. Aston was the
eldest daughter of Mr.. Arch bald B
Williams, of Franklin county. and
a sister Of Mrs. Rosa Bryan. of Hem
derson. She leaves several children
beside her husband to mourn her
death.
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R. {. |. BUNCH.
The Youngest General Passenger
Agent in the World.

The last issue Of Hayper'S Weekly
contains the following sketch of Gen
eral Passenger Agent r. F.. l.. Bunch,
Of the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
together with handsome half-tone
likeness. Mr.. Bunch is a native of
Raleigh and is well known and E>:y
popular in social as we'll as railroad
circles throughout the State:
The youngest general passenger
agent of railway in the world is
Robert Z. l.. Bunch, the North Caro-
linian who presides over the interests
of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, at
Portsmouth, Va. The destinies of
this comparatively independent sys-
tenn among Southern railroads have
frequently been asitated among New
Workers in the course OF the dramatic
contests for control waged between
John SHELTON Williams, of Richmond.
and Thomas F. Ryan, of New York.
but with all the newspaper discus
sions and stock manipulations and
litigations in the courts which for q
time kept the Seaboard Air Line in
the public prints, its business affairs
continued to be carefully and con-
sistently managed, and the passenger
service, under the direction of this
general agent of only 30 years. has
increased until it must now be
reckoned as considerable factor.
Mr.. Bunch was educated in the COM
mon schools of the Tar Heel State,
entered railway service in 1887 as
mail clerk in the office of the Rich
mond and Danville road in Raleigh
and has been steadily promoted in
the line of the Southern Railway, I'M
til the general passenger agency of
the SeabOard Air Line Railway was
offered to him simultaneously with
the assistent general passenger agency
of the Southern
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Attraction Extraordinary.

From all that can be learned 'Rail-
road Jack" the attraction TO be pre-
scented at Cooper Opera House Friday
night, will be one of the best things
of the season. This organization car
ries an enormous black named South
African man eating lion, the most
ferocious as we'll as the king of beasts.
Duke, as he is called, occupies one of
the most important parts during the
action of the play. A large sum of
monsy is paid to a travelling circus
manager to use this blood thirsty
animal to devour young lady who is
the only living heir to large fortune
of which she is kept in ignorance by
the villain who plans for her destruc-
ton, that he may gain possession of
it, Tho lady is cast inlo the lions
den in full view of the audience, and
is rescued from under the lions very
paws by the tramp, who was in years
past lion tanner, and at one time
the trainer Of Duke; the tramp hap
pens on the scene just as the huge
beast makes his mad leap which
means death and destruction to the
heiress, but at the sound of the
tramp's voice be becomes as mild and
docile as lamb. During this part Of
the play there is also a great tornado
scene takes place, a circus tent is
blown to pieces in full view OF the
audience, one of the most sensational
and realistic scenes on the American
stage. Specialties are interpreted
during the play. consisting Of songs
and dances, quartettes, trios, trick
scenery, etc, making one of the most
pleasing entertainments to visit Hen
derson this season. Prices. 75c.,
SOC 25c
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| THE STATE GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
0overor Aycock Issues the Call for
February I2th and 18TH.

Governor Aycock has issued a call
for the State Good Roads Convention
to be held in Raleigh Febr. 18th and
18th, and in his proclamation points
out some of the advantages OF good
roads. 1t follows:
Whereas. The people of the State OF
North Carolina have pledged their best
endeavors to the cause OF education, the
upbulding of our State and the develop
ment and utilization OF her natural re-
sources: and
Whereas, The farmers need etter,roads
both for their children to travel over daily
on their way to the school house, and for
themselves and their families to use to
reach their churches to worship Almighty
God, as well as for the prompt and early
delivery OF their mail by the carriers of
the United States Government, and the
transportation OF their products and pur-
chase.; and the citizens living in towns
and cities need good streets for the same
purposes; and
Whereas. In those counties OF our State
where the greatest progress has been
made in substantial good road building
there has been the greatest industrial ad-
vancement, as well as the largest in
crease in the value of farm lands. due to
being thereby placed nearer to the towns
and cities: and
Whereas. The National Good Roads
Association of America will, during the
week OF February 10th to 18th. 1902. in
the City of Raleigh. give an exhibition of
modern and approved road building, to
which all citizens who are interested in
that commendable work are invited to
come;
Now, therefore |, Charles B. Aycock
Governor of the State of North Carolina,
do hereby issue my proclamation calling
a good rOads convention to be held in the
City of Raleigh on Wednesday. February
18th. and Thursday, February 18th,
1902; to which are appointed delegates
from the various sections of the State.
requesting them and all other good citi-
zens. whose convenience will permit, to
attend said convention.
Done at our City of Raleigh this twenty
second day of January in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
two, and in the one hundred and twenty
sixth year of our American Independence
CHARLES b. AYCOCk.
BY the Governor:
II. NJ. PEARsALL.
Private Secretary.
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Oakland Dairy Butter.

People who are particular about the
quality of butter they use-and most
people are-should use Oakland Dairy
Butter. Oakland Dairy Butter is a
superior article-equal to the best
butter produced anywhere. Every
effort has been made to raise it to the
highest standard of butter excellence,
and it is believed that the acme of
perfection has been attained. Try it
and Judge for yourself. Oakland Dairy
Butter is sold in Henderson by the
Davis G Watkins Co.