The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-14
WOMAN and !.
SOCIETY.

Dear Aunt! if 1 only would take her
advice
But 1 like my own way, and l find it
SO nice!
And besides / forget half the things |
But they will come back to me-when
/ am old.
If youth passes by it may happen, no
doubt,
He may chance to look in as l chance
to look out;
She would never endure an impertl-
nent stare;
1t is horrid she says, and / mustn't
sit there.
A walk i'm the moonlight has pleasure.
/ own,
But it isn't quite safe to be walking
alone;
So 1 take lads arm-just for safety,
you know;
But Aunt Tabitha tells me, they didn't
do so.
How wicked. we are, and how good
they were then.
They kept at arms length those de-
testable men;
What an era of virtue she lived in
but stay
Were the men such rogues in Aunt
Tabitha's day?
If the men were so wicked-Ill ask
my papa
How he dared to propose to my dar-
ling mama?
Was he like the rest of them? good
nessi who knows
And what shall / say, il a wretch
should propose?
1 am thinking if aunt knew so little
of sin,
What a wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt
must have been?
And her grandaunt--it scares me
how shOckingly sad
That we girls of today are SO fright
fully bad!
A martyr will save us, and nothing
else can;
Let US perish to rescue some wretched
young man!
Though, when to the ,altar a vktim
go,
Aunt Tabithan tell me-she never did
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Miss Emmie Drewry left yesterday
to visit friends in Charlotte.
Miss Flora Long of Buie's Creek,
was in the city yesterday.
: Miss Villa Norris left yesterday
morning for Fayetteville to visit Miss
Slocumb.
DIR. and Mrs A. B. Hawkins and
Miss Matte Bailey are visiting in Hen
derson.
Miss Bessie Burt. who has been
teaching at the Baptist Female Uni
versity for Women. has returned to
her home in Wilmington.
Miss Mamie Dinwiddie and Mrs
Margaret Busbee Shipp expect to sail
for Europe in a few days. Mrs. Shipp
will join friends and spend the sum-
mer in Scotland.
Miss Kate Glazebrook, of Law
renceville, Va, who has been visiting
Miss Marine. Rogers left yesterday
morning for home, accompanied by
Miss Rogers.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs John C.
Drewry regret to learn of the illness
of John C. Jr., their young son. As
soon as he improves Mr.. and Mrs.
Drewry will take him to the seashore
for his health.
Misses Petite Powell and Jessie
Powell we're registered at the Var
borough yesterday from Jacksonville,
Fla.
Mrs. w. H. Speight Is visiting her
Miss Hattie Crimson. of Colds
boro, is visiting Mrs. E. C. Duncan on
North Wilmington street.
Rescue Circle.
The annual meeting of the Rescue
Circle will be held this afternoon at
five o'clock with Mrs. C. c.. Mcdonald.
All members are earnestly requested
to be present as this is the meeting for
the election of officers.
Ward-Murchison.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. C. Murchison, of
LAGRANGE, n. c., have issued invita-
tions to the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Ethel, and Rev. A. Norman Ward,
of Washington, ID. c. The wedding
will take place at the home of the
bride June 28th.
Two Attractive Young Women.
Wilson, June 13.-Miss Fannie
Brodie, charming young lady of this
city, has gone to Louisville, KY, where
she will be maid of honor to Miss
Bessie Bum. daughter of Hon. B. II.
Bum, of Rocky Mount, who is spon-
sor OF Metz brigade of Confederate
veterans. Miss Brodie will visit Mrs.
Wilson, who resides at Danville,
Kentucky. and will be away about
month.
Will Wed Today.
Durham, N. c., June 13.-Tomorrow
morning there will DE happy we'd
ding solemnized at Trinity Methodist
church; that of Miss Irene Hedgepeth
and Mr.. Fred C. Woodward. They
will leave at once for a bridal trip to
Washington and Baltimore. Miss
Hedgepeth is a very popular young
woman, and her intended husband is
well known and popular. He is son
of City Clerk C.. w. Woodward.
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Hildebrand- Goodwill Wedding.
Asheville. N. c.. June 13.-On We'd
nesday Mr.. Walter Hildebrand, editor
of the Asheville Gazette News and Miss
Helen Marietta Goodwill, of Washing
ton, d. c., are to be married at the
home of the brides aunt, Mrs. M. E.
Shattuck, of Worcester, Mass. The
bride is the daugher of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bradley Goodwill, of Washington, and
she is prominent in the social circles