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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-09
/" Saved Ny Life and Kept
Ne from Insane Asylum"
Mrs. Wilcox Is Now in
Perfect Health Through No
Other Agency Than
Paine's Celery
Compound

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genuine invigorator and health giver in
the spring season is deeply impressed on
the mind of every thinking and intelli-
gent man and woman.
The happy cure of Mrs. j. Z. Wilcox,
of Winters, Cal, through the use of
Paine's Celery Compound, created wide
spread establishment and joy amongst her
friends and neighbors who We're exceed
ingly anxious regarding her condition.
The best medical treatment failed even
to give Mrs. Wilcox a few days of relief
from her sufferings of mind and body. At
last, Paines Celery Compound saved her
from a terrible end and planted herr feet
firmly on the rock of health.
Read Mrs. Wilcoxs letter of testimony,
dear reader, and if you remain obdurate
and unbelieving after such an earnest
and convincing confession of cure, moth
ing but direct act of Providence can
snatch you from the dangers and perils
of your position. Mrs. Wilcox says:
Il feel it my duty to tell you what
Paine's Celery Compound did for me.
Some years ago my head troubled me so
that it seemed l should be crazy 1t
was caused by overstudy. | asked the
advice of two doctors who gave me medi-
cine to no effect, and l did not know what
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one everything seemed so strange. |
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me, and / felt badly, but before / had
taken half of one bottle Of Paine's Celery
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saved my life and kept me from imprison-
ment in an insane asylum, which is as
bad as death"
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Attention B. P. 0. Elks.

Regular meeting of Raleigh Lodge will
be held this CThursday evening at sis
O'Clock. Installation of officers. Every
member urged to be present.
By order of f. r.
j. f. JORDAN, Secretary.
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Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to D. m. tonight: Thursday, fair.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday: Max
imum temperature, TO- minimum temper
allure, So; mean temperature, Ga; total
rainfall, %.
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WANTED.-AN EXPERIENCED Or
gan Salesman at once TO sell from wa
gon. Answer stating salary expected,
with references. Woodland Copeland
& Bum, Spring Hope, N. c.
4-5-tf
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FOR SALE-LARGE LAW LIBRARY,
including history. E. B. Morris, Raj
eigh, n. c.
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SEED CORN.-WILL PRO
duce seven full ears to the
stalk. Certificate with each
purchase. Price $t00 per peck.
Address, Augustus Bradley. r.
0. Box II. Burlington. n. c.
AID. If,
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SMOKE la Josephine" and "Young
Fritz
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Chairman Russ, of the city Democrati
Executive Committee, announces that h
is ready to pay any and all bills due TO
the conducting of the Democratic pri
mary 'Tell those we owe to come am
get their money" is what he says.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-09

The State Museum has many visitors
each day and much interest is shown In
the Hall of History. 1T is estimated
that there is an average of about seventy
five visitors day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-09

The trustees of the Baptist Femal'
University will meet here on the four
teenth of this month.
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Rev. j. T. Jenkins. of the Sunda!
School tour party, now canvassing thu
State, spent Tuesday night in the city
and left yesterday for Enfield. where h
will join the other members of the party
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A neat wire fence is being put up around
the grass plot to the south of the court
house, in order to prevent the grass from
being trampled down.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-09

The young people o. the Hillsboro
Street Christian church will give can
tata the first of next week.
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The next term of Wake Superior court
begins on the twentieth of this month
Judge H. r. Bryan will preside and only
civil cases will be heard.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-09

Daniel White was up before Magistrate
Helm yesterday morning for not sup
porting his children He was acquitted
of the charge and his wife, Mary White
who prosecuted him. had to pay the costs
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Mr.. c. B. Edwards returned to the city
yesterday from Goldsboro. where he at
tended the meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Odd Fellows Orphanage.
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The second label was registered yes
terday by the Secretary of State. This
one, as well as the first, was for corn
whiskey.
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Mayor Pro Tenn. Andrews did not hay
O single case yesterday to try his judicia
temperament
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Men and Women's
Hosiery

The fancy colored and Lace Lisle Hose,
Hermsdorf, dye, in great variety of de-
signs and coloring. Is, rs, SO & $1.O0
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Col. John Nichols has gone to Frank
lington to hear some Federal cases fo
Commissioner Brett, who is sick.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

The fad for artistic effects in the
modes of lighting modern homes and
the growing tendency to abandon the
heavy chandelier, which for years
has been an object of utility rather
than of beauty, has resulted in num-
berless exquisite works of art in china,
glass, bronze, brass, silver and other
materials.
In appliques for the wall, lamps and
candlesticks, the fashionable method of
lighting a room by means of side lights
is carried out in many old conceits and
in articles especially fashioned to Or
nament the rooms in which they are
used.
Drawing rooms furnished in the
French style have superb appliques
and wall brackets of brass, costing
many hundreds of dollars, and made
in the most graceful and elaborate
style known to the brassworker's art.
Libraries, halls, smoking and bill
lard rooms are fitted up with all man.
ner of quaint wall brackets, lanterns
and candlesticks wrought in medieval
shapes and odd fancies. Old Eng
fish lanterns and great brass and
bronze candlesticks, with the heads of
monks, bears and boars supporting
them, are much in evidence. Hanging
lights for, such rooms have spiked
balls of iron or brass suspended on
chains. The lights are below these,
and pieces of old armor are arranged
upon the chains.
Many persons can gather enough
old brass. and iron candlesticks from
their atticks, with forgotten weapons,
susceptible of decorative effects, to
make charming hall and den light
fixtures. In some of these, gas is ar
ranged and in other electricity, but
oil lamps are just as pretty where it is
not convenient to have anything else.
There is a big demand for old Rus
sian, Roman, French, English and
Colonial candlesticks and candelabra,
and these beautiful objects in silver,
copper and brass can be picked up
cheaply by the industrious seeker for
antiques in old curiosity shops and
auction rooms. Here, too, are to be
found great candlesticks, as tall as a
man, which are used to decorate and
illuminate dusky corners in handsome
homes.
Beaded glass globes are much in
vogue lOT CEILING ugnJS IN rooms OF
state and for electric lamps on small
stands. The modern dome lights,
which are especially used in libraries,
dining and smoking rooms, have
taken the place of the chandelier. and
the homes lend themselves to ex-
quisite color effects and decorations in
American art glass, combined with
wrought metal. Most of them have
glass panels around the side for
depth of four or more inches, or fringes
of glass beads, or fiat pieces of stained
glass in pendants.
Fringes of glass beads continue to
grow in popularity in connection with
lights, because of their daintiness and
beauty and their power to give greater
refulgence to the light. They are used
upon the little candle-shades of tissue
paper, silk, painted delft, or fanciful
Japanese manufacture, and also upon
the large lamp shades, except those
where flower petals form a fringe or
border. In most instances the beads
are very small and are clear glass,
looking like the dewdrops which cob
webs string upon the grass IA the morn
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

whether he should wear a dress suit
and high hat at 4 o'clock p. M, or re-
tain his business suit with his favorite
red tie. He usually appears in a mot
ley assortment of clothes, having tried
to effect a compromise, shakes hands
awkwardly with his hostess, stands
about for a bit, and wishes he had not
come. But he usually goes again, and,
after awhile, learns something of the
conventtonalities. The type is omni-
present. The women as a rule are
more adaptable and make fewer blum
ders.
Then there is, too, the eternal visit
ing, floating population seeing Wash
ington, who find 1t nice to return to
their rural homes and tell their friends
that they attended this or that recep-
ton. In many cases they make the
same laughable mistake of not going
as casual onlookers in Street attire.
Among other interesting sets is one
that consists of small army of young
women who represent the four Sec
tons of the country-well-b girls.
daughters of men of wealth, who
spend winter after winter in Wash
ington at some finishing school"
They ostensibly take a course in this
or that thing, but their real motive is
to enjoy the social functions to which
they can obtain the entire.
One of the best known, and perhaps
the most successful and popular Of
these schools" has as Its head a
Southern woman of infinite tact and
good breeding. She has personally, by
birth and breeding, an entire 10 many
OF the most exclusive affairs irrespec.
tive OF the social on Official status OF
the entertainer, and her girls. thus
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peated at the tops of the puffed sleeves.
Lace cuffs draw these in also Just be-
low the elbow.
The prettiest feature of this costume
is a wisp of black tulle used only on
the waist. 1t is folded in a light roll.
which surrounds the neck below mar
row lace CAMP. another roll appearing
between the shirrings of the sleeves.
The effect is highly artistic and
"Frenchy" in the extreme for with all
their fondness for confections in one
tone the French are still given to
touches of black.
Curious to relate, the French are at
tributing many of their styles to our
country. The decolletage which brings
the cut of the bodice in a straight line
about the shoulders, without a support
of any sort. is called the American
neck" This is just now much admired
in Paris, as we'll as numerous other lit
tie wrinkles supposed to have been orig
mated by American beauty.
For those who must have the sup
port, there are chains and straps of va
rious sorts which suspend the bodice
from the shoulders and do away with
the danger of it's slipping off entirely.
These preserve the straight neck line,
which has been found so enhancing to
beautiful shoulders. and. if chains are
employed, they afford additional oppor-
tunity for the gems now worn in such
profusion.
A stunning little dinner bodice is held
on the shoulders by chains of coral and
gold beads. Similar strings are looped
in decorative way at the front of the
waist. which is of dead white chiffon
and lace. The lace is put on in a
straight shoulder band. with hounces
of deep edging at the top of the sleeves
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

never in the history of fashion was it
employed in more delightful ways.
Every variety known to the mind
of man is worn, but those which imi-
tate the rich crochets made by the
peasants of Ireland are especially
favored In all-over patterns, entire
deux and entire flounces these are seen
in combination with the thinnest tex
tiles.
Tulle bodices-several layers over
a silk foundation-are covered with
these elegant MEETINGS, which are COM
monty in a dead white More fragile
dentelles, for these laces are of
very durable sort, appear with organ
dies painted muslins, figured chiffons,
and plain and fancy nets of many
sorts, all of which materials are used
for the Southern frocks.
Some of the laces are of a most in
expensive variety, and the experienced
may recognize the 25-cent quality in
more than one sweet gown. With
such the frock material is likewise
modest as to price, but since the max
ing is the most important item of the
costume in the end it may be anything
but cheap.
A batch of dainty toilettes give ex-
cellent ideas for the home dressmak-
er for charming designs for summer.
Maize-colored organdy and white
French lace compose a charming even
ing frock designed for a pretty blonde
girl. The trained skirt is made with
deep Spanish flounce put on with
ten rows of fine stirring. The lace
bars it in two rows at the front-one
of which points in a deep Wand
three at the back. At the top of the
skirt, which is here gathered full at
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

An edge of bias coral velvet. with four
pretty bows at the front, is the neck
finish.
Even for the maid in her first teens
the cut of the evening bodice is a
much considered matter. She, like
her older sisters. may have all of her
little shoulders on view, but cuts more
childish in effect are more admired.
A dress of plain and embroidered
yellow batiste displays the neck cut
approved for young school girls. This
decolletage is extremely shallow, show
ing more of the shoulders than the
neck. A band of fine shirring, extend
ing at the shoulders to the sleeve tops,
outlines il. Below this. back and front
Of the blouse bodice, are bertha strips
of embroidery, between whose points
are more shirring. The figured batiste
forms the bodice and top part of the
skirt. The fiounce and sleeves are of
the plain.
The newest of the CAMP frocks for
smaller girls, the really little tots, are
likewise cut round at the neck. Elk
quisite needlework bedeck the wash
materials, which are preferred for all
children under 6. Maids of this age
Will go short-sleeved during the hotter
days of summer, and dresses for baby
boys will have the usual bishop sleeves
finishing with only a lace or embroid-
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ran. and in their limited circle are
wheels within wheel. the watching of
which gives the humble outsider social
vertigo.
The Troubles of Entertaining.
In the matter of formal entertaining.
particularly in giving dinners, the host
ess is frequently confronted by the
question of precedence in its most for
midable form. 1t takes infinite tact to
seat those whose knowledge of their So
cial rights seems for the time being
their most absorbing problem. While
rights of procedure go to foreign am
bassadors and ministers, should a chief
justice and his aides be present. they
hold equal social rank. The senate
rial contingent claims the same posi-
ton; hence, the only safe path for the
hostess to follow is to avoid entertain
ing officials of equal rank at the same
dinner
Men may be too busy to make a So
cial mountain out of a mole hill, but
with women il is a burning question.
1t Is still debated whether the wives of
cabinet ministers should call on the
wives of the members of the Supreme
Court or vice versa, and at all dinners
daughters OF justices and senator's ex-
pect to precede daughters of private cit
liens. Many heart burnings and the
severing of friendships have followed
infringement OF this rule II may be
interesting also to learn that strangers
call upon the ladies of the official world
first.
Mrs. ROOseyeit's Musical Coterie.
Probably the most enjoyable OF the
sets now Va existence is Mrs. Roose-
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the sides and back, is a novel hip-yoke
of the lace, a piece on the lower part
of the bodice suggesting with this
a corset look.
The baby waist is also gathered full
and cut out at the neck to produce an
almost straight line. 1t is bordered
with the closely massed shirring, which
likewise shapes a band cuff for the
pulled elbow sleeves. White taffeta silk,
cut bias and folded in shape. forms the
belt.
Another delicious little evening frock
is of shimmer-green silk muslin and
brownish-y yellow lace. Wide shirrings
achieve the hip yoke of the skirt, a
single row appearing half way down.
Below this runs a threading of black
velvet, slipped through button-ho1ed
openings in the skirt, which a lace
fiounce, put on with a gathered head
ing, finishes The gathered bodice is
also trimmed with the shirrings and
velvet. and is less cut out than the 9TH
er. The trimmings form a straight ber-
tina band. which becoming line is re-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15
BY AMY R. HASKELL.
Copyright, 1908, by Amy R. Haskell.

| Velt's private musical coterie, in which
are found many of her friends, ire
spective of rank or condition-an in
novation which may surely be granted
the first lady of tht land for she
may not show partiality or special
friendliness to any one when fulfilling
her official duties. AS the wife of the
President she never infringes upon the
unwritten laws of precedence, but as
Mrs. Roosevelt she opens her parlors
occasionally to those who appeal to
her personally. These affairs are of
the simplest sort. and Mrs. Roose-
welt is usually assisted by Miss Hag-
her and Miss Alice Roosevelt
Second comes the clique composed
of private citizens, who make UP
small portion of Washington's smart
set" These people are of large means,
entertain lavishly, and, having no
axes to grind, choose their friends from
any of the antagonistic official circles.
The most exclusive set-and the
smallest in point of numbers-is COM
posed of the old Washingtonians, who
regard with aversion the official ele-
ment Their social functions consist
of quiet teas and dinners, given with
out ostentation or display.
The nearest approach to aristocracy
in Washington may be found among
the army and navy people. Genera
ton after generation, drawing pres
tige from deeds of valor in many
wars, have gone to Annapolis or West
Point. No more polished men are to
be found in America, and they hold
their own matters of etiquette and
ceremonials with the foreign repre-
sentatives. Social opportunities abroad
and the indefinable polish which is
The men marry women Of wealth and
family, and while among themselves
they adopt a less stringent code, at
official functions they are sticklers for
the prestige and precedence due their
rank.
The Congressional Clique Friendly.
In both the senatorial and congress
sional cliques there is much friendli-
ness. This is due probably to the fact
that so many of the various members,
with their families, came from the
same portions of the country and were
friends or acquaintance prior to the
exodus to Washington official life.
Again there is, especially among the
newcomers, a bond of sympathy be-
tween the women in their struggle for
recognition, all meeting the same
formidable unknown etiquette of Off
cial rules in Washington.
1t must not be forgotten, too, that
there is a vast army of lesser govern
ment employees who flock to the Off
cial public receptions and balls, and
who fancy that they are enjoying the
highest of social life. This set prob
ably contains the oldest and most
amusing of the types. The callow
youth who has recently acquired an
appointment, and who attends his first
reception" is not quite certain
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Blest is the woman who can afford
the airy fineries which are being worn
at the Southern resorts just now. For,
even though she may not be able to
winter in the land of sunshine, these
light and dainty things will come in
handy a little later on for summer
wear As these textures for hot
weather wear show the novelties
which later on may not be found at
all, and since, like the premieres of
spring. models are now smiling from
every shop window it is an excellent
time to do your summer buying.
Maids who love transparent frocks
and bodices cut out at the neck should
be in their glory. Colors vie with the
pink crane, the coral. the szalia.
Maize, straw, lemon and sulphur are
some of the yellows, while lace-never
was lace used in vaster quantities, and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-15

ing sunlight. Often gilt, amber and
other colors of beads are used, the am
Der, however, being next in popularity
to clear glass.
1t is quite easy to manufacture for
10 to Is cents small lamp shades that
cost 81 in the Shops. The brass hold
ers cost cents. and less than that
when purchased in quantity; the tissue
paper or silk petals for flowers just
few cents more. and the beads only
few pennies, SO that little ingenuity
will produce charming results. jap
aneSe grass cloth, touched here and
there with brightly painted designs and
gilt is used extensively in making
shades of all sizes, while satin and silk,
painted to initiate stained glass, and
stained glass shades are also very pop
ular.
The large floral lamp shades lean to
golden effects and elegant simplicity.
Great flower petals, in fringes, or large
roses, or peoples, are muchin evidence,
and are made of liberty silk delicately
crinkled and tinted.
Hand-painted globes are much in
favor for lamps, and the work on these
is very fine and artistic. When a real
work of art is out of the question. the
woman of taste selects a plain shade,
tinted in the color desired, with, per-
haps, an heraldic design in gold upon
one side.
Since originality is one of the desira-
BILE features in lamp and candle shades,
the expense of materials need not be
considered, as cheap materials of many
sorts are ready for deft fingers to fash
ion. In some. a bit of lace applique Is
sufficient, in others a bead fringe, while
the woman clever with her brush has
an almost unlimited field in which to
work
Wherever it is possible modern
shades should be yellow or green, but
colors must always be chosen with re-
gard to the color scheme of the room
in which the shade is to go.