The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09
WOMAN and
...SOCIETY...
Thank God for clothes!

ter rude
Not that they foster social rectitude,
And cloak deficiencies-for none OF
those;
But for the warm uplift that furbe-
lows
Can kindle in this sorry human clay
The glory and the strut of fine array;
Thank God for clothes!
Thank God for dress!
That through the darkest day can send
CLEAN,
When some long pondered frock
comes home a dream;
That glorifies the marriage rites, and.
yes,
Lends to bereavement craped becom-
ingness;
That gives us courage to confront our
Illusions shattered, but our hat on
straight!
Thank God for dress!
Thank God for frills!
/ praise
That still there turks enchantment In
my days
While shops are bright with raiment;
that the thrills
Of purple and fine raiment nothing
kills:
That though I die to music, drama
art
Still will a silken rustic rouse my
heart!
Thank God for frills!
-Julies w I. rhompkins'
Miss Triba Womble went to New
Hill yesterday.
Mrs Eva M. Allen passed through
on her way to Henderson after trip
in the eastern part of the State.
To- t. Tor n,.rfxz AA
in the city from Atlanta yesterday.
Miss Cecil Hudson left for Rich
mond yesterday where her father
makes his future home as superintend-
ent of the first division of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Gooch have
returned from Lylesville.
Capt. and Mrs. C. NJ. Lassiter and
children and Miss Florence Lassiter,
have returned to the city from Merry
Oaks.
Mrs ]. O. B. Palmer and Mrs. S.
F. Palmer, of Cleburn. Texas, passed
through yesterday on their way to the
western part of the State.
Mrs. A. S. Merrimon, Mrs. Jno B.
Kenney and little Merrimon Kenney,
have returned to the city after visit
to western North Carolina.
Miss Conway, who has been visit
ing Miss Gladys Harris, returned TO
Franklinton yesterday.
Miss Sallie Neill, of Maryland,
who has been visiting Mrs. f. II. Bus
bee went to Richmond yesterday.
Miss Eta Harris left yesterday
to attend the District Conference at
Banks.
Mrs NJ C. Maxwell has returned
from Sanford where she has been Wis
iting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Bridgers
have returned to the city from Talla-
hassee, Fla
Miss /. E. Skinner has gone to the
western part of the State for months
vacation.
Miss Elizabeth Carver has return
ed to Ormondsville. where she taught
last year. to resume her duties.
Miss Lizzie Fenner, of Halifax,
passed through on her way to Lilling-
ton yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs J. C. Allen, of Wake
Forest, are in the city.
Mrs r. c. Goodwin, after a visit
to friends and relatives here. has re-
turned to Merry Oaks.
Miss Belle Hall, of Charlotte, at
ter visit to Mr.. and Mrs. George b.
Crater, went to Sumter, S. c., yester-
day.
Mrs j. S. Jeffries and children re-
turned yesterday from visit to Can
ada.
Mr. and Mrs. Fl. c. Dockery, Miss
Nettie Dockery and Miss Bessie Ey-
erett, of Rockingham, after visit to
Put-in-Bay, Ohio. where Mr.. Dockery
attended a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Royal Arcanum,
later making a trip to points in
places, returned yesterday. Miss
Dockery is at the hotel with Judge
and Mrs Plat d. Walker, and the
othes of the party have gone to Rock
ingham.
Mrs ]. d. Johnson of Merry
Oaks, who has been visiting Mrs.
Haughton left for her home yester-
day afternoon.
Mrs. S. w. Boushall. who has been
visiting Mrs. John Simpson, return
ed yesterday to her home in Dur
ham.
Miss Jennie Allen. of Neuse, and
Miss Martha Allen, of Lumberton,
were here yesterday.
Miss Traywick Womble, of Dur
ham, was in the city yesterday morn
ing on her way to New Hill to visit
friends
Miss Norma S. Hardy left last
evening for Atlanta Ga, where sh :
goes to visit her friends, DR.. and Mrs.
Henry r. Donaldson, and the family
of her brother, Mr.. George p. Hardy.
Miss Martha Allen. of Lumberton,
who was here yesterday, has gone to
Salem to enter the Salem Female
Academy.
The many friends of Mrs. A. w.
Goodwin will regret to learn that she
was badly injured about the arm
Tuesday night by a fall on the floor Of
her home, No. 220 Hillsboro street.
She was doing we'll yesterday.
Mrs. L. j. Holland and little
daughter, Cecilia, returned to their
home in Durham yesterday afternoon
after visiting relatives in the city.
Miss lola Farley of Portsmouth,
Va. who has been visiting Mrs. w. E
Foster went to Charlotte yesterday
afternoon to visit friends and rela-
tives.
Mrs. c. NJ Cook and Miss Eliza
beth Cook, of Louisburg, were in the
city yesterday on their way home
from Cleveland Springs, where they
have been spending the summer
Miss Cecil Hudson left for Rich
mond yesterday morning, where she
will reside.
Mrs Samuel Kramer Of Durha M