The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-12-28
CHRISTMAS IN
new YORK
WEEKLY BUDGET FROM MISS
LAZARUS is OF UNUSUAL
INTEREST.

| LAZAhOo 10 Or UNUSUAL
INTEREST.
Special Correspondence to the Herald
| The advice that the average Sunday
school teacher gives his class is not
as a rule published in the newspapers
of a metropolis like this; but when
that teacher happens to be the only
son of the richest man in the world,
any of his words on occasion carry
weight. Still the warning that John
d. Rockefeller, Jr., gave to the unmar.
1 ried members of his Bible class at the
! Fifth Avenue Baptist Church last Sun.
day possesses sufficient value to be
quoted even had they been uttered by
a paupeT. Among other things, he
said: Don't marry a woman who is
not in full sympathy with your ideas.
She will be constant handicap to
you. 1t is easy for woman to make
or mar the success of her husband.
Don't marry a woman simply because
she is pretty Common sense is what
counts. If you get the right kind of
wife you viii be greatly helped If you
don't you would be better OFF without
one"
Next Sunday Bloomingdale Reform
ed Church will celebrate its centennial
The Sunday following there will be
unveiled there beautiful stained glass
window, designed by John La Fargo,
which will be memorial to the late
Mrs John Gilbert, the beloved ac-
tress.
Paint, Fad and False Frixxes.
Marie Corelli is forever saying or
doing something to keep in the pub
he eye. Her latest proclamation that
women are unfit to vote because they
are creatures of paint, pads and false
friZzes has aroused a storm OF indig-
nation among American women, even
those who have no desire for the bal
lot. Some say that Miss Corelli's as
sertions may apply to the women of
England and other lands, but not to
the women Of this country. Among
those who have through the columns
of the local press repudiated this
charge against their sex are Mrs Rose
Pastor Stokes, who thinks women are
too busy earning living or taking
care of homes to indulge in such friv-
olities; Miss Mary Shaw, the actress,
believes that as this is a man-made
werld, it is men who dictate whether
women should wear wigs and pads,
so if men conceive the fashions
and women adopt them why should
that debar her from the privileges of
suffrage? And Mrs. Clarence Burns,
president of the Little Mothers Aid
Association, declares that the Ameri-
can woman of fashion is too well fed
to be scraggy and need the aid of pads,
but even if woman We're guilty of the
charges preferred by Queen Victoria S
fayorite novelist, her right to vote is
human right not dependent upon the
way she attires herself
Many Christmas 5azaars.
Every organization that does phil
anthropic work has been holding ba.
zaar for the last fortnight, and will
do so until Christmas eve. On the Sth
instance the Little Mothers Aid AS
sociation had one in the large, bali
room Of the Waldorf-Astoria. The fea-
ture that impressed me most on this
occasion was a Maltese kitten with
diamond screws in its ears and its
neck encircled with string of pearls
which was ratified off at a dollar a
chance The Little Mothers Aid AS
ISOLATION does a noble work, namely,
giving pleasures to the little daugh-
ters of the very roor who have to
care for younger brothers and sisters
while their mothers are away from
home earning bread for them
At the bazaar of the Professional
Women's League, also held at the Wal
dorfAstoria. an sorts of things were
rallied and auctioned from kimona to
an automobile. The auctioneer in the
latter case was that favorite OF comic
opera. Adele Richie. When the bid
ding got up to 1851 30 left the scene.
for It would have tahen my entire
weeks pin money to have gone over
that sum. Like the majority of the
people there, fingered longest at the
tea booth. which was presided over
by Miss Lillian Russell. She is mar
vel. not SO much because Of her beauty
as for the wonderful way In which she
has preserved 1t. Although she owns
to atty years she does not appear
day older than twenty-five. And she