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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03
Chr iist1rlas Thoughts.

The festive season is now drawing and he thoughts Of
one and all drifting into the happy channel Of conferrng
pleasure to The hearts e Others The all absorbing question Of
the next three weeks is: What shall give? This problem j,
easily solved by taking look at the large and varied stock
now shown such advantage my newly fitted up store
NY thoughts are: What shall do to help you in This busy
Time Of getting ready for the coming Christmas season. sim
ply offer for your inspection beautiful and great array Of
Christmas goods Watches, Clocks, Lockets, Chains La
valeres, Rings Pins Cuff Buttons Silver Purses, hmbles;
gold and silver Bracelets and everything in the ewey line.
Novelties handsome Leather Hand Bags Card Cases. Play
irg Cards in cases. Wallets Bill Books Cigar Cases. Jewel
Boxes Mirrors hand painted China, Cut Glass, Sveware
ETC. Something can be found to suit father mother brother
sister, husband vile and last but least sweetheart Prices
are nght and courteous attention will be shown to ALL
Watch windows for display Of new goods.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

(. Every Dem ocrat, regardless Of how
ne voted on the recent tariff sched-
ules, must line up for tariff reform.
The people are entitled to this, and
1t should be given them by the DEM
ocrats as soon as possible. The peo-
pie have been plundered long
enough.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

The editorial we published on
Thursday from the Columbia Record
on the two awful crimes recently
committed in this State has the right
ring to it, and Is most heartily en-
dorsed by The Times and Democrat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

LanI Sale.-See me For a bargain.
l offer in adjoining tracts Of LOG
and 80 acres with dwellings and
barns together or seperate. These
lands are on Limestone and are
fine for cotton and corn. E ~.
Scoville. 9.29-tf.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

Cor Sale.-...Georgia Cane Syrup al
IS cents per gallon in 35 gallon
gar at 20 cents per gallon, fine
grape cider at 35 cents per gallo1.
In 16 gallon kegs. ". H. Davis,
1908 Taylor street. Columbia, S.
C.. 10-25-St.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

NJ. BRAND. the French premier.
may consider himself fortunate In
having been the victim or brutal
bodily assault by a royalist. M. Bri-
and has had a strenuous time of 1t
lately and his government had be-
come somewhat weakened. The
physical attack upon him will be
sure to gain him plenty Of sympathy
and strengthen his position. Bodily
assaults invariably help the cause
they are intended to injure.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

Wanted-Improved farm Of 100 to
$50 acres on public road within
three miles of Orangeburg. Any
one desiring to sell advise fully
regarding place. location and
price. Frank E. Smith. Orange.
burg, S.. C. 6-30-tf.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

For Sale-Five hundred acres land
two miles from Cope, on R. r.
Side track on place. Will sell at
bargain, ]. D. Cieckley, Cope,
S. G.. 1865
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

5 Before taking any action in the
Pink Franklin case Gov. Ansel should
look we'll into it. After doing SO, ne
will let the law take its course.
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CLASSIFIED COLUMN
One-haH Cent a Wora
Found Notices Free.

For Sale.-A horse, safe, sound and
gentle. Work anywhere. Plow,
buggy and wagon. 3. NJ. Fore
man. 11-5-1m+
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-03

II. L. J. Blumc, Necces, pays highest
prices for cotton, cotton seed and
peas. Also keeps supply cotton
seed, cotton seed meal and hulls.
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Let everyone start to do their
Christmas shopping.
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Subscription Rates.

Remittanres should be made by reg
astered letter. check. money order OF
express order. payable to The Times
and Democrat. Orangeburg, S. c.
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Gas. L. Sims. Editor and Proprietor.
Jas. Izlar Sims, Publisher.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-29
Making the Most of Closet Room.

\ + one is short Of closet room a very
/ good plan is to hang skirts sideways in
tho closet instead of hanging skirts.
frocks and coats all fat against the back
wall of the closet. Frocks may also be
hung sideways, leaving only the coats 20
be stretched on hangers and suspended
from the back wall of the closet In order
10 hang garments sideways II is necessary
TO have shelf across the top Of tho
closet and 10 screw small hooks on tho
under side of this shelf The hooks ara
arranged in pairs along the under side oil
the shelf, each pair Of hooks being meant
for a single skirt OF frock Two loops or
braid are scwed in each skirt band and
two in each froci1 at the waist line, ono
loop being hung on ench hook. The gar
ments arc much more easily gotten at in
this way than when they are hung one
over another st the back of the closet.
This method OF hanging nlso permits the
garments to hang perfectly straight, and
makes il possible to store large guam
tity of clothes In one closet If tho closet
is deep enough the coats also may DC
suspended on strotchcrs from the she'll
This is an ideal arrangement, Tor IT leaves
tbe closet door free for pier glass, which
is n most useful adjunct 10 girl roo"'
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Pocket Manicure Sets.

JUDGING by the number of pocket
manicure sets that now are carried.
one might imagine that finger bcauti-
flying Is considered of far more import
ancc than is teeth preservation. Hollow
buffers, three inches long, of celluloid.
silver. ivory. pearl, gold or gun. have
spring equipped lids. which fly open and
reveal case containing tiny file, cuticlc
knife and orange stick.
What looks precisely Ike the barrel OF
q fountain pom when closed. but which
actually contains all the utcpsils and ma
tcrials necessary for polishing the nails,
is made of black celluloid, plain or silver
embossed ebony or cnamclcd wood. Like
the buffer manicure case. this pen shaped
affair may readily be accommodated in a
change purse, but IL hand bag Is usr.
ally carried IL is better 10 have one al
the nail sets, which come in IA case sized
aud shaped Ike q mans pocket match
safe. These cases, made OF material.
similar Ia those used for buffers and
fountain pen bnrrcls, arc compactly fllcd
with manicure scissors, a flexible nail file
orange stick, cuticle knife and nail hn(fcr
Finger fin sbapers, which now accom-.
panv every high class set OF manicure
tools are to be snapped on whcnevpr
the opportunity presents itself. for by thi.
means 40 il is said, blunt edged digit.
may he made 10 taper. These aids n
lhnnd bea1ity. composed Of silver or pickc
pluted metal aud chamois lined. ore fnye,
tin shaped clasps equipped with springs
so adiEstnd thar they may readily y,
adapted 10 tue diGlts OF any hand u
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-29
Old Fashioned Jewelry Modernized
Well Over

n Id fashioned Jewelry has become a
" priced possession. Whatever has
been lying away in departed grand
mothers box has acquired virtue from
the mere fact that il was a possession of
two generations previous. and in some
way or another it is to be used.
Many OF the trinkcts can be worn on
long watch chains as ornaments. Those
old slender gold pencils, the handles deli
catcly engraved and q colored stone sunk
in the end. are prizes to he Haunted at
the girdlc of any who finds the ornameot.
Lockcts have leaped into favor; while as
for earrings they are worn i'll other ways
than from the cars. s.
4 charming chain has been evolved, by
ono gr. its ornaments heing two old ear
rings made in the form OF tasscls. Tic
fringe of each is seed pearls. closely
strung. more pearls being sunk into the
6ne gold near the Top. One larger pearl
at the end of bill of gold wire forms q
cappcr. She uses these merely By put
ting one into each end Of very slender
gold chain which is long enough TO pass
around the neck and hang about at the
bust line. The chain has not catch, the
whole being tied in one loose knot. which
iI.a pendants prevent from coming undonc.
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Any Of the long earrings that our grand
mothers so priced may be adapted in this
fashion. and absolutely 20 expense is in
volved. for the hooks at The top arc sim
ply passed through the eud links.
Canoes are another fGvoritc Of old that
heVe come agnIn into popularity Brooches
make beautiful belt buckles; earrings may
form the heads Of most effective hat pins.
Bracelets of many heads strung together
with short loops may he proudly flourished
on the wrists OF treated MS one girl has
recently done with one belonging to her
ercat-graDdmother. There arc twelve
beads in the band. These have becu sep
arted md joined by links, top aud bot
tom, a distance OF mn inch apart. Ear
rings of the same canoes, but a couple OF
sizes smaller, form the clasp. The whole
is so adjusted as TO make tight collar.
and very smart looking one it is.
Those old. tight gold bracelets, without
which several generations anteeedcnt CON
sdcrcd themselves unfinished when dressed
for the afternoon, arc highly prizcd by
girls who are old enough to wear them.
Que is moi oil each wrist, as formerly, but
both together ARE used. aud when the dress
sleeve is mouspuetaire tue CLINT of yellow
metal among the fulness is extremely
pretty.
One girl has taken two very wide ban
giles and had them bent SO that they sur
round the neck as a collar. Two ends are
claspcd together, and the other two just
meet at the back.
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y designing rooms for young girls
aoted decorators usually employ aowerI
and fairy motives. with here aud there
charming suggestions of woods, gardens
ard rivers. Some of the most charming
designs Of this sort arc from European
decorators and artists of importance. The
carpets, drapcrics and furniture used in
such rooms are all made to order, but al
though this is rather moro OF an eX-
pcnditnrc than most young girls are aple
20 make for their rooms. many charming
IDEAS may be gathered from these cX-
ouisite apartments which may be applied
10 less expensive methods of furnishing
One very lovely room for young eirl
designed recently was furnished III pale
bluc and natural maple and white. with
marcucrites for the decorative motif,
There was maple wainscoting about
lthree-quarters the height of the room, and
labove this n plain wall of blue. The
chairs and sofa, of maple, were upholstered
lin blue and trimmed with two lines of
white military braid. The bed was placed
-
Embroidered with a conventional design
of margueriteS The bed coverings were
lentircly of white, and over the head of
the bed n very beautiful copy of the Ger
man Madonna was set into the wall. Tie
carpet was of blue. bordercd with mar
gueritcs. and tho hnngincs in similar de-
lsigu One side OF the room was given up
to long, shallow window of stained
gluss. which carried out the design OF
imargucrites. grasses and blue sky.
Blue, rose and white were the colcrs
used in another most charming bedroom.
The designs were large roses. green
vines and fights of white birds. The
floor and furniture were uf oak aud the
woodwork and wainscotine Of white
enamel The four post bed was draped
in blue linen embroidered with deep
border OF roses and green vines. Above
this was group of white birds in fight.
The curtains were lined with rose color.
The bedspread matched the banginss. bur
the straight piece around the top of tho
bed was OF white material embroidered
with roses.
The blue walls had shallow border of
large roses on q white ground. A long
seat WAS upholstered in plain blue, while
some OF the chairs were covered with
blue aud rose chiDtZ. Tho rugs were
plain blue and the latticcd windows were
alrapcd with blue embroidered in roscs.
Jf the cmbroidcrics were omitted from
such a design and it were carried out cn-
tircly in blue aud rose cbiDtz with oak
furniture of plain style 1t need not ncces-
sarly make an expensive apartment.
Another beautiful room was in French
gray with subtle harmonics Of blue and
green and designs oil wood doves. fairies
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Improvised Chatelaine.

JV RRANGING some of her silver OF
II naments to be especially usefui Is
4 y the work Of q girl who has JUST sohe
into mourning and does not wish to BUY
nice black purse bag. Considering tna'
silver was permissible with black III
which there was no crepe, she evolved
chatelaine, using an o1idized silver cham
on which to string them
The chain was one that had been used
for KEYS by the departed relative. and, I'D
order that the cable il represented should
bc formed into hook. the girl removed
Tho original fastening and substituted
small silver slip ring, through which eac1
end of the chain passed, Theu II 70
manned only for her TO put OH siive
card case. which depends frop, shor
cba;n of its own; silver coin purse
tinv box of the same metal, ~ wllicn sns
"a rrics Il powder pun, and Il silver oaehco
ivory memorandum tablet.
In her card case she keeps suen OF nct
money rs is in bills, the coins, OF coupsc'
roinc into the tiny purse When MY
STishes TO have the case for ITS orisinh,
nnrpose, III the afternoon. she nus ong
70 opcu the slip riag aud on comes the
short chain-
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-29
SOCIAL AMENITIES FOR s
THE SCHOOL GIRL

reply is mailed on the same day you re-
DO i, on the same day you must accom-
piish it on the morrow. Good form re-
nuircs that au answer be sent within
twenty -four hours.
You will not think such promptncSs
silly" or allow yourself 10 procrastinaie
if you givc the matter thought For, you
see, IL all the guests invited to II luncheon.
say. or to Il theatre party, or. indeed 10
anything, accept. then the party is com
plotc. But if you decline some ono is
usually asked in your place. and time
should bc given to do this. And if you
neglect to reply promptly you keep your
hostess in suspense. and them if you
decline at tho eleventh hour. it is often
too lnte for her TO get n substitute. This
is selfish and most unkiud way 10 treat
any one who offers you hospitality.
Invitations must be answered in the
form in which they are sent If you
receive q written invitation from girl
even II she is an intimate friend. you
must not run to the telephone TO reply
The telephone is a temptation, for il save,
the bother" of writing. but 1t is moi
courteous of you to use IL in this instance
Sometimes in written invitation thu
hostess will say that she would Ike tc
have you telephone your reply. Then, o
course, you do so. But the telephone i:
not RS much used for invitations as wa;
once the case. for it is so easy to mis-
understand arrangements over the wire
and frequently the day and the hour nr,
forgotten when taken in this casual WAY
Whether you go about much OF little
you should have an engagement book O
pad, and make II a hard and fast ruI
to put everything down. Consult it who,
any one telephones you an invitation an.
ut once register your acceptance IL yol
? do accept Do not accept and then r
about all day or for several days saying
"Oh. / must put that invitation down.
. and never do anything of the sort. so tha
b perhaps after while you really forr,
0 the exact date or the hour. and becom
r 20 altogether hazy about it tLat YOU hay
9 TO consult your friend to know wbe
e You really arc expected
J. Sometimes n Girl hostess will write be
j notes in TOO much Of a hulry and mai
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down a day md date that do not cor.
respond For instance. she Will ask Won
for Thursday. the tenth, when she meant
Thursday, the eleventh. Now, IL is safc
to assume that she means the day men
TONED rather than tho date. but in social
matters where engagements are concerned
there must be no doubt. and so the proper
thing is for You to write and ask her
which OF the two she means. She viii
be grateful TO you for calling her atten-
ton to slip Of the pen which. pRrtic-
ulnrly If she has made it to others as
we'll as to you, might wofully mix up her
party. Even experienced elders some.
times make this error, and so it is well
both in writing and in accepting invita-
tions 10 always be sure that the day and
the date correspond
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Bag for Sewing Silk Spools.

separately and not be all jumbIed in TO-
Gcthcr, Care must be taken also to fasten
each end of silk oh the spool before plac-
ing II back in It's bag or box among its
fellows or else disastrous tanglcs will in
evitnbly result.
Instead of only two pieces of ribbon Of
different widths being used to make tho
bag described above it may be fashioned
from the lengths of several pieces of diff.
tercnt colorcd ribbon each nn inch and a
half in width. These ribbons are either
ovcrhandod or feather stitched together,
the pieces for the inside of the bag being
but two inches in length. while for the
bag itself six to seven inches must he
allowed, for the ribbon being used in the
length will thus have no selvagc for tho
ruflle at the top and must be turned in
and neatly bemmed. The idea in the diff
ferent colored ribbons is that each spool
shall fit in a nest oG its own hue-whitc,
pink. blue, mnuvc. green, yellow. &c.
To make the pockets for this bag tn.
ribbon need only be turned over at one
end and fastened down along the border
tho required two inches At the top tn.
end of tho ribbon may also be hcmmcd
down and thcu feather stitched about an
inch when the hem is fastened thus
doing away with tho silk binding through
which to insert the ribbon strings.
II pretty colorS nrc selected one oi
these rainbow bags will prove exception
ally pretty. The model, of course, NAV
be improved upon and elaborated with
satin lining and gold lace ruchinG OF in
any way that the maker may originate
bur however altered the original desise
is an excellent one to start with.
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movement and the way rider feels tho
pony through the medium OF the rcins

pony through the medium of the rcins
II IL girls begin riding "stFide, 1t is
~ the only sensible way, instructors say.
and does not interfere in the least
with a change to side saddle later on if
the cross saddle is not liked.
Small side saddles are not easy TO find
Ia 6t young girls, and besides girls grow so
rapidly that they would hnyc to own 4
whole series of these saddles if they were
To start III with them There is always
chance OF girls growing ono sided, too. if
they ride sideways and DO not have a
reversible saddle Those who prefer the
more conventional lnShion ride one day
on the left side and the following day on
The right, thus avoiding the hip enlarge
ment which is sure TO result from follow
ing one way exclusively when the rider is
quite young Even girls who are fourteen
Gr sixteen have TO be very careful about
this one-hip development if they ride side
ways,
Jumping Genes after the pupil has
learned to cnnter and do the ordinary
gates. Hurdles are placed in the ring and
the pony is led to the low bars to make
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" y attractive little bag for spools OF
~ sewing silk can be made from two
short lengths of ribbon of different
widths. The narrower ribbon-about
an inch and n half or two inches-is
Sewed to ono side OF the wider piece
about five inches long-folded up against
the wider piece and then at intervals OF
about an inch and a half the two pieces
are Joined firmly together by horizontal
rows Of feather stitching, Each pocket
thus marc between the feather stitched
rows is for n spool of silk. The
two pieces of ribbon now Joined together
are next stitched Ia firm foundation OF
cardboard made by covering two disks
with ribbon like the rest of the bag These
two disks, one forming the lining, the
other the outside of the bag, may be hrst
! glued together. although If neatly scwed
the result will be more satisfactory. y
band of wide silk binding scwed about the
rulnc. through which a ribbon cr silkcn
cord drawing string is run, is the last
stage OF thus little bag, is easy TO make, SO
useful and 80 very ornamental when I'm
ishcd.
II q boY IS preferred to a soft bag ior
the stray spools OF silk it is generally
possible la secure Il round cardboard box
of desired size that can be covered
with silk OF chintz the correct color to
harmonic with the hangings and paper
in the room. A bag or box set aside
for the extra spools will be found the
greatest possible convenience 10 turn to
whenever there is a rip or teur to be
mcndcd But this box should be of size
and shape to allow of the spoolS standing
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itstR nhp die W E'l
7 about little in the scmi.forlua
way permissible before they are
really out should take great
pains TO study social observapces
and bc apt ond ready 10 conform
10 social laws, not only bccause things
lre thus made smoother sailing for them
el.cs and their chaperops, but because
hcy win the approval of onlookcrs by
~ doing.
Many do not realize it, yet IL is never
bclcSs true, that we arc constantly under
.urvcillance of one sort OF another. At
lome our elders arc watching us, and
frequently the younger members OF the
amily arc observing. either TO initiate or
% condemn. There is nothing that viii
Better keep o conscientious girl mp To n
high standard of conduct than the rcaliza-
lion that younger sister looks up 10 her.
Of course no right minded girl wishes 10
sc held UP as n pattern OF all the virtues
And il she is so foolish as TO consider
,crscif so, she is prig. her consciousness
IF virtues destroying their value and maxi
az her An object of dislike.
Perhaps nothing 80 prcjudces one girl
against another as to have her held up as
! paragon. \ mother sometimes says TO
| daughter Gertrude IL such model girl
Why can't you be like herr" Thereupon
laughter hates Gertrude" and flies to
he naughty extreme of making herself
Is unlike her aS possible. One may say
his should not be. Yet il is and always
WilI be. For human nature is so con
tituted that il sbrinks with aversion from
lnvidious comparisons. Above nil, com
parisons never should be made by
mother regarding her childrrn. To hol1
NJ one child as superior 10 tic others, OF
10 hold up child as an example OF wha
is pcUcrsc. is fatal to the bond OF aii"e
lion and respect SO Deccssar! TO the unit!
Of family life.
AS soon as yom begin to receive writtcl
or engraved invitations reply to them VIII
despatch. II you have begun 10 do
little entertaining yourself you will bctto
rculize how important this Is IL you ar
still going TO school you, of course, nav
6nOt leisure TO attend 10 yonr corTcsp'nu
Deuce in tho morning, but you should IN
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selves with the birdie, the saddle and the
horse Girls are quicker 10 learn thau
boys, according TO one of the instructors
nt the Tichcnor-Grand Riding School, al
SiXty-6rst street and Broadway, New
York.
Mr. w. ii. Madison has many children
among his pupils, and he admitted thai
girls arc easier to teach than boys and
girls have more pluck and moro nerve
when they are young than boys Of tho
same age he added. You take a girl OF
twelve and she VIII do and dare much