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6 THE PIEDMONT, GREENVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1917.

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Society
Editor's Telephone 607. Hours 9 to 11

THE NEW YEAR

The clock struck twelve in the tall
church tower,
And the old year slipped away.
To be just in the crowd of phantom
years
In the House of Dreams just stay
All wrapped in their cloaks of gray.

Then swift and swant oe'r the door's
worn sill
Came the younger child of Time
With a gay little bow and a merry
laugh,
And a voice like bells [achime],
Challenging frost and rains.

He found there was plenty for him
to do
The strong and the weak were here.
And both held out their hands to
him
And gave him greetings dear.
Tho beautiful young New Year.

"You must bring us better days,"
they said,
"The old year was a cheat."
Which I think was mean when the
year was dead,
Such fate do dead years meet.
To be spurned by scornful feet!

"I bring you the best a year can
bring,"
The newcomer stoutly spake.
"The chance of work, the gift of
trust
And the bread of love to break,
If but my gifts you'll take."
—Margaret E. Sangster
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[Delightful?] Dance Among Younger Set

Oscar Hodges, Jr. was host at a
delightful dance last evening at his
home on North street. Those danc-
ing were:

Misses Elizabeth Riley, Aaron
Griffin, Bebe and Seline Woodside,
Annie Griffin, Mary Smyth, Martha
Duke, Katherine Tannahill, Madel Lee
Stover, Melinda Adams and Amelia
Pride, Joe Smyth, Cecil Marshall,
Ed Rose, Ed Marshall, Hamlin
Beattie, David Ebaugh, Arthur Mor-
gan, Robert Tannahill, Jack Ander-
son, Clark Cothran, Beverly Whit-
more, Walter Allen, Lewis Parker
and Townes Hodges.
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Rotary Book Club.

The Rotary Book Club will meet
with Mrs. Tom Carpenter on East
Washington street Friday morning at
eleven o'clock.
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Miss Allen Entertained in Gaffney.

Miss Elizabeth Allen of Greenville
who is the guest of Mrs. Goudelock,
has been the honor guest at a num-
ber of delightful little affairs during
her stay. Miss Sadie Lipscomb gae
a tea for her Friday evening and on
Sunday Miss Elizabeth Jeffries was
hostess of a dinner party in Miss
Allen's honor.
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Lovely Reception for Mrs. Furman
and Miss Swandale.

Mrs. Alester Gordon Furman and
Miss Furnam were charming hostes-
ses yesterday afternoon at their
home on Academy street in honor of
the former's new daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Alester Gardon Furman, Jr., and
Miss Fan Swandale, who will be an
attractive bride of the early spring.

The house was tastefully decorated
in cut flowers and lighted tapers

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against a background of potted
plants.

The guests were received at the
door by Mrs. J. B. Earle and Mrs. T.
G. Swansdale, mothers of the honor-
ees. In the front drawing room, Mrs.
Furman and Miss Furman received
with the honorees.

The guests were invited into the
library by Miss Jane Gower and Miss
Emily Earle where Miss Rebecca
Furman received with Miss Bula
Smith of Oregon, Miss Ella Hayns-
worth and Miss Mattie Ferguson of
Virginia.

Mrs. Clement Haynesworth presided
in the dining room where tea was
poured by Mrs. B. A. Morgan and
Mrs. Frank Capers and Misses Fran-
ces Earle, Earline Gilreath and
Jeanette Lewis passed sandwiches.
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Mrs. Morgan`s Party Postponed.

The party which Mrs. James H.
Morgan, Jr., was to have given on
Wednesday, has been postponed.
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Edwards-Beattie

Mrs. E. L. Clardy announces the
marriage of her daughter, Lillie
Pearl Beattie to Mr. James Earle
Edwards on December 26, 1916 in
Cincinnati.

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SOCIAL CALENDAR

TUESDAY

4 p. m.—Ladies' Working So-
ciety of St. Paul's Mehodist
church will hold a special meet-
ing at the church.

WEDNESDAY

11 a. m.—Meeting of Christ
Church Guild with Mrs. William
Beattie, on North Main street [cut off]
say will work as organizer for the
league during the month of January
1917.
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Personals

Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Dye have re-
turned from Manning, where they
spent the holidays with Mrs. Joseph
E. Davis, Mrs. Dye's sister.
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Miss Grace Brown returned last
night from Columbia where she was
the week-end guest of Miss Kathleen
Mobley.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hannon, Jr.,
have returned to their home in Pen-
dleton after a delightful visit to the
latter's sister, Mrs. Charles Welbourn
on Markley street.
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Mrs. Dick Riley will visit Mrs.
W. Kyle Davenport in Gaffney this
week.
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Robert Hammond spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Max-
well in Anderson.
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W. C. Corner of Greenwood is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Rovey
Smith.
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Patient—"Doctor, what I need is
something to stir me up, something
to put me in fighting trim. Did you
put anything like that in the pre-
scription?"

Doctor—"No, you will find that in
the bill."
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NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE AN
INVENTORY OF THE FASHIONS
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IN MILLINERY, HIGH CROWNED
HATS RULE, NOT COLLAPSIBLE
CROWNS RUN AHEAD OF STIFF
ONES—MUSCOVITE TURBAN
WITH JEWELED ORNAMENT, IS
IN THE FOREFRONT—DAHLIA
COLUMNS WILL BE CHOSEN FOR
NEW COSTUMES—EVENING
WRAPS GROW MORE BRIL-
LIANT, SHORT CHEMISES IN
GAY COLORS, INSTEAD OF
BLOUSES, WITH TAILORED
SUITS.
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(By Ann Rittenhouse)

This is the time for an inventory
on fashion. Before the new year
starts tonight, it is well to look over
the field of clothes and see what is
worn out, make up our minds as to
what is worth keeping, get a good
idea of what is necessary to discard
and take a glimpse into the immediate
future to see what France has sent
us for 1917.

Inventories are not discussions.
Commerce is not often given to phil-
osophy. The psychology of clothes
has nothing to do with stock taking.
Good resolutions made for the new
year, and bad regulations broken for
the old year, demand few words and
speedy phrasing. Therefore, the nar-
rative of this morning will be given
over to paragraphic information as
far as it is possible for a writer with
a wandering pen to stick to the nar-
row path of information.

To begin with hats:

No tilt is considered fashionable.
There are women who refuse to ad-
here to the new law of millinery se-
verity in a line that goes straight
across the forehad and above the
ears, they argue that their features,
their expressions and the general
appearance are changed by following
this new law of fashion. That, how-
ever, does not change the fact.

The correct line of the hat, wheth-
er it is large or small, simple or or-
nate, is straight on the head. It cov-
ers the forehead. It entirely discloses
the eyebrows, but it does not cover
the top of [missing words] it is a turban
it must not slide down in the back
to the nape of the neck; it must not
look as though it had been pulled on
at the last moment, after one had
started downstairs.

Whatever the hat does above the
headband is of no concern to the
headband itself. Its mission to fash-
ion is to cling to the head as closely
as a soldier's cap. It must not sink,
nor sag, nor tilt. It must show
whatever is possible of the hair or
the ears and the back, but the
straight line around the head must be
kept at all costs.

So much for the pose, which the
French say is the main point in any
hat, as it should be. Every woman
is quite capable of ruining the subtle
pose of her hat for an eighth of
an inch. America has had difficulty
in grasping this fact. France has
known it for ten centuries.

As for the shape, the hats that have
succeeded are the Russion turbans
and wide-brimmed sailors, with
an edge that curves with the grace
of a seagull's wings, and a soft col-
lapsible crown; also the elaborate
hat of tulle which has a brim that
dips slightly down in front in order
that the eyes may look through it.

There is no evidence, coming or go-
ing of hats that perch high on the
head, that show any glimpse of hair
on [ta] forehead or [tat] call for any
coiffure [tat] is not sleek, slightly

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curled, if at all, and brought down
low on the forehead.

The collapsible crown is almost a
necessity. There are few hats with-
out it. It is the artistic compromise
between the round, low crown of
1914 and the high, stiff crown of
1915. A few of the young and dar-
ing set were able to carry off the pot
hat of the Eton schoolboy and the
more graceful version of it worn by
Robespierre, but the majority could
not stand the height or the severity
of this piece of millinery.

Today, to keep in accordance with
the strict costume of the women
that have borrowed from men's
costumes in the end of the eighteen cen-
tury, there has come about the Beau
Brummel hat with its curving brim
and its silky crown that spreads wide
at the sides. This is worn well down
over the face, and it seems odd to
see a pair of enormous earrings
placed beneath its curving brim, as
one does see when the hat is worn
by smart women.

The materials that will be kept for
1917 are panne velvet, silk, beaver,
embroidered tulle and pitable fur.

The Muskovite turban has brought
about an immense jeweled design in
old silver and colored stones placed
in front.

Emphasis on the Medieval.

There is no chance that medieval-
ism will disappear from the new
gowns. Every evidence impresses
one more deeply that medieval
gowns will grow into fashion and even
become more eccentric in their work-
manship as spring advances. Straight
lines from the shoulder to heels are
sought by most of the well-dessed
women in the county.

The hint at the normal waist line
is rarely seen, except between a white
blouse and a colored skirt. The
belts that are put on outside blouses
and one-piece frocks are sometimes
placed at the normal line, but they
are loose, ornamental and do not at-
tempt to hold in the material beneath.

The one-piece frock is still run-
ning a deadly rivalry against the coat
and skirt, and the manufacturers of
clothes say that it is winning every
week. For coats, as well as long
cloth coats with lavish fur trimming,
are really responsible for the partly
successful boycott of the tailored
suit. Women have taken up the top
coat with so much eagerness that
they are willing to throw aside any
other garment that keeps them from
wearing it. The thin one-piece frock
is, therefore, the fashion of the hour,
but the sensible woman has one good
coat suit in her wardrobe.

Another reason for popularity
of the one-piece frock is the insist-
ence upon late afternoon entertain-
ing which is made by the masses of
people, and not by the few idle ones,
as heretofore.

Wraps that match frocks.

A fashion that will not be discard-
ed in 1917 is to match an evening
wrap to the gown or, if economy
holds one to only one evening wrap,
they must harmonize with one's eve-
ning frocks and, if possible, match
two of them. As peacock blue, green
and three shades of red are the col-
ors must frequently chosen for eve-
ning wraps, it shows that the evening
gowns themselves display a partiality
toward costume coloring.

The dahlia shades are rising in

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another shade of purple to contribute
to the dahlia effect. This is true in
afternoon clothes and it has gained
followers in creating clothes. Certain
smart women who come into fash-
ionable places look like dahlias in
ful bloom, as every part of their cos-
tume represents some one shade of
this flower. It may be that the early
part of 1917 will be dahlia season.
Such is the inference.

If a woman takes up this idea for
the evening, she will find that one
wrap will suit several gowns; but
there is a tendency today to have
several wraps in the wardrobe and
have them made at home out of
lengths of velvet or satin trimmed
with furs that one has or that one
can pick up at a sale.

This is a return to the fashion of
twenty years ago, when even women
with small incomes owned several
evening wraps. They are simple to
make, so they are merely capes or
capelike coats that hang full from a
yoke or from the neckband to the
edge of the gown.

The newest French evening wraps
have the entire upper part of fur and
the lower part of brillint brocade.
Several of them look like portieres
made of bright velvet and trimmed
with a broad bullion galloon. The
somber evening wrap and the black
wrap have practically disappeared.
There is, however, an immensely
good new one which has its top of
old ivory colored brocaded velvet, to
which a sweeping case of black panno
one's purse for laundry. They have
a thin lining of their own, which is a
boon to the woman who has neither
the time nor the money to arrange a
vast variety of expensive underwear
which shows through a thin white
blouse.

These outside blouses are worn
with skirts that are not of their ma-
terial or color, so this makes for econ-
omy and comfort at once. So far,
they are chiffon embroidered in
silk floss or button thread, but there
are some very smart ones coming in
colored satins. The sleeve is half
length or long, but the latter should
be chosen for every occasion except
one's own dinner table. The neck is
not in the Renaissance fashion; in
fact, the extraordinary high collar
standing or turned over, has given
way to the flat, twelfth century neck
line.

This is cut in many ways. The
dressmakers do not hold on down
to the veritable Renaissance. Jenny
has taken up the Italian decolletage
for the daytime, which is cut in the
form of a delta. A new gown which
she spreads over, which was copied
from a Rembrandt portrait and which
is of black panne velvet with girdle
and arm pieces of black satin, has no
velvet is attached in wide, fluted
pleats which as they open at the top,
disclose a lining of plain ivory velvet.
This cape is extraordinarily full, and
it is all at the sides with immensely
wide cuffs put into the slits which
serve as sleeves.

Will we change our skirts?

Every cable brings from Paris the
news that the skirts of 1917 will be
narrow. All those in the watch tow-
ers have proclaimed the coming of
this enemy to full skirts since last
September, but only in limited seg-
mets of society was the news acted
upon. The manufacturer had the
material for full skirts, the average
woman wanted full skirts, the whole-
sale houses turned them out by the
thousands, and it was only left to the
exclusive women and their dressmake-
ers to cut down the width and the length
on the hem.

Even now there are skirts that are
slightly gathered to the waist line,
and these are coming from some of
the best houses in Paris, but they
are dropped over a lower skirt that
is quite narrow. No matter what the
fullness, every skirt clings to the fig-
ure as it did in the end of the eigh-
teenth century.

Petticoats are dead, unless they are
of chiffon, crepe de chine or jersey
silk.

The question which will soon con-
front every woman is whether she
wishes to change the silhouette of
her skirt or go on wearing it until it
is ready to be discarded. One cheer-
ful feature of the return to the slim
silhouette is that a full skirt can be
cut ito a narrow one with ease.

The Outside Blouse.

That garment known as the outside
blouse, which is merely a short,
twelfth century chemise, has grown
quite important and popular since the

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large shops copied the exculsive
French models and placed them with-
in the reach of the averaage purse.
The new ones started at $85; you
can now buy them for $5 or $10 in
those shops where vast quantities of
garments are sold. They will remain
at $30 in the shops that are neither
departmental nor exclusive.

Women like them. They are more
becoming than the white shirt waist
and they do not make demands on
ornamentation at the neck line. The
velvet is cut to the base of the neck
at the back, taken out on each side to
the armpits and rise in a straight
line across the chest below the col-
larbone.

It may be safely said that the thou-
sands who are continuing to wear the
neck arrangement of the past three
years because it is becoming and com-
fortable, in this country connected
with the manufacturing of neckwear
will surely get a howl of protest
if this new style of the collarless neck
makes strong headway.

Ribbon instead of embroidery

There is a rumor that France and
America in combination will present
ribbon as a substitute for embroid-
ery. It is possible this America is
the father of this thought. The
manufacturers in this country have
ardently waited for defiinite fashions
from Paris that would feature miles
of ribbon used in any way possible to
cover the surfaces of clothes. The de-
mand for ribbon has been worked up
in Paris to such extent through
American exporters who represented
factories that could turn out ribbon
in the country, but so far all at-
temps have failed to product a real
call for this kind of ornamentation.

France is the land of embroidery.
Her women know how to do it and
they ask little for doing it. As long
as Paris keeps embroidery in fashion,
she will be able to supply thousands
of needlewomen with the means of
procurring wood and coal. She will
not, however, be able to indulge in
such good management if she throws
embroidery out of fashion and substi-
tutes ribbon.

America is not the land of em-
broidery and she does not possesss
skilled workers. Wherever it is done
the work is expensive. Therefore,
our dressmakers and shopkeepers do
not want embroidery to stay in style,
and our mills would like ribbon to
be used by the mile, instead of the
yard.

The Americans say that this latter
will be done when the spring is ush-
ered in, and it is true that Paris has
designed quite marvelous ribbons
with garlands of roses printed on col-
ored silk. There are also gold stripes
at the edges of colored ribbon, with
roses printed on the gold.

Another minor fashion which has
come into being and which calls for
embroidery is the ornamented glove.
A few women have been foolish
enough to wear hand-painted ones re-
cently at afternoon affairs, but there
will always be women foolish enough
to do anything. The glove which is
embroidered in a simple way will be
at the height of style, because Amer-
ica has learned how to do it with the
machine instead of by hand.

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[advertisement for tanlac tonic]

GAVE HER MOST
HELP AFTER ALL
OTHERS FAILED
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ENDURED HER TROUBLES TEN
YEARS—AT LAST MADE
HAPPY.
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"It did something for me that
every one of the many other medi-
cines I had taken during the ten
years I had stomach trouble so badly
failed to do, and that was to correct
my stomach and break up the
troubles," declared Mrs. A. L. Dyson,
of 203 Second St., Olympia, a suburb
of Columbia, in a statement she gave
in endorsement of Tanlac on Dec. 12.

"I suffered from stomach trouble
for ten or more years, continued
Mrs. Dyson, "and almost everything
I ate disagreed with me and caused
me untold pain. This trouble effected
me in different ways at different
times. Sometimes I would feel puffed
up as tight as a drum; at other
times it caused palpitation of the
heart and it seemed as if my heart
were running away; and sometimes I
would feel as if I were smothering
and I could hardly get my breath. I
often would wonder if I could get
another breath.

"I felt badly a lot and my health
had gradually grown worse. I took
nine bottles of Tanlac the first of
last spring and it broke up my stom-
ach trouble and this trouble has not
bothered me since. During the ten
years, though, that I had stomach
troubles, I tried ever so many medi-
cines, but continued to have the
trouble just the same.

"The relief Tanlac gave me was all
I could desire. It broke up the
troubles I had, gave me a fine appe-
tite, and strengthened my whole
system and regulated it, too. It made
a well woman out of me and it sure did
make me happy to be well again
after I had endured these troubles so
long. Really, before I took Tanlac I
often wondered if I would ever be
able to break up my troubles.

"My food agrees with me now and
I have strength to do my housework,
though I could only do a very little
of it before I took Tanlac. Tanlac
sure was a fine medicine for me and
I am glad I heard of it and I am
glad to recommend it, for it gave me
such fine results."

Tanlac, the master medicine, is
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Drug Stores, Greenville; R. F. Smith,
Easley; Greer Drug Co., Greer;
Pickens Drug Co., Pickens; West
Pelzer Drug Co., Pelzer; Hunter's
Pharmacy, Liberty; A. M. Smith,
Duncan; Suber Drug Co., Piedmont.

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[romper pattern]

DAILY PIEDMONT PATTERN

[image of child in romper]
1918
A Comfortable Play Dress.

1918—Child's Rompers with Round
Collar or Square Neck Outline, and
with Long or Short Sleeves.

Gingham, chambray, drills, galatos,
flanellette and serge are good for
this style. The pattern is composed
of a waist and bloomers which may
be pinned at the waist or buttoned on
separately. The design is cut in 3
sizes: 2, 4 and 6 years. It requires
3 yards of 36-inch material for a 4-
year size.

[order form]
PATTERN NO. 1918

A pattern of this illustration
mailed to any address on receipt
of 10 c. in silver or stamps by The
Daily Piedmont.

Size ........................... or age.......
Name .........................................
Address.......................................

ENCLOSE 10 CENTS.
TAKE NOTICE.— Patterns or-
dered through The Daily Piedmont
are mailed from Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and arrive in from seven to nine
days after the order is mailed to
this office. Publisher Piedmont.
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How Could He?

From London Tit-Bits.

"I say, Sandy," said Jack, handing
back his friend's photographs, "when
ye had these photos taken, why didn't
ye smile?"

"And them pictures costing me
twel' 'shillin's a dozen! replied San-
dy, "Are ye crazy, mon?"

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[advertisement for Greenville Grocery]

No old goods allowed to
accumulate in our stock, we
sell them while they are
fresh—Greenville Grocery
Co., Phones 647—648—649.

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Postal Recipts at
Gaffney Show a Gain

GAFFNEY, Jan. 1.—(Special) —
The receipts at the Gaffney postoffice
for the year 1916 were largely in ex-
cess of those of 1915. While the ex-
act figures are not as yet available,
Postmaster Gaffney is confident that
the receipts will show a substantial
increase. It is possible that the in-
crease will amount to a sum suffici-
ent to insure an increase in the sal-
aries of both the postmaster and as-
sistant postmaster.

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HOUSEWIFE`S DAILY
ECONOMY CALENDAR
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By Frances Marshall.
(Copyright, 1916, by the Mc-
Clure Newspaper Syndicate)
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BUYING WITH A BUDGET.

If you complain of the high cost of
living, and have not instituted the
budget system then you have no
claim to sympathy. Nor have you not
taken any trouble to institute that
great first and best aid to household
economy. Of course, strictly speak-
ing, to make a budget system per-
fect you ought to keep household ac-
counts fairly accurately for six
months or a year before you can re-
ally know how to apportion your
budget. But while you are keeping
these accounts you can make an im-
proved system that will help great-
ly.

The budget system means nothing
more nor less than the system of
knowing just how much you ought to
spend on each of the various sorts of
household expenses beforehand and
then restricting yourself to that
amount, planning with that amount
in mind and never neglecting one
kind of commodity for another. The
very first thing to do in starting out
with the budget is to know how much
money you will have to spend, and
nine housewives out of ten have a
fairly definite idea of about how
much money is coming in. There are
almost now husbands now-a-days who
do not make a household allowance
where they have reason to believe
the housewife would manage care-
fully. The husband who does keep
his wife guessing, by not telling her
what his income is and by simply ar-
ranging to pay all household bills
every month is—well, I should have
to tell those husbands personally just
what I think of them. Confidentially,
I think for one thing, that they are
very poor business men for almost
any wife will run her house much
more economically when she has a
definite income on which to run it.

Economists have drawn up rules
for the correct proportions for the
various items of household expense
that do help considerably. But as a
matter of fact, you know how much
you ought to spend on your food and
service better than those specialists
do. For you know how many there
are in your family. You know
whether you and your family are the
sort of persons who find great pleas-
ure in a home and home surround-
ings, whether you are appreciative of
a certain lavishness of the table, or
whether you do much entertaining,
or how much you spend on being well
dressed for your social or business
functions. All these things enter into
the budget apportionment. It is not
that most persons do not know how
much they ought to spend on certain
things but that they simply refuse to
face the matter squarely beforehand
and admit that they have a certain
limited income out of which a certain
limited number of things has to be
paid for. After having compared
your list of necessary expenses with
the figures you have for total income
you may see that there are more
things to pay for than there is income
to pay for them. And here comes the
housewife's art. She must decide
where the necessary curtailing must
be. Personally, I think that in most
cases the deficit may be made in the
matter of rent—not living in a less
spacious abode but living in a less
fashionable neighborhood—having a
less ornamental entrance hall in your
apartment or a less [restritted?] neigh-
borhood for your house. Often, too,
something can be made toward the
rent by permitting friends or ac-
quaintances to rent a room or so in
you home. This is always a possi-
bility. But there usually is one way
in which the housewife is extrava-
gant, and one way by which she
could cut down expenses, and she
will never discover it till she tries out
the budget system.
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We do not deliver orders
amounting to less than twen-
ty five cents. Greenville Grocery
Co., Phones 647—648—649.
__________________________________
At The Grand

"THE LITTLE CAFE"

At the Grand Opera House, Monday
night, January 6, the new musical
comedy, "The Little Cafe," will make
its first appearance direct from its
New York triumph at the New Ams-
terdam Theatre, where it outlasted
any other musical comedy production.

Theatergoers have cordially wel-
comed the two previous productions
of C. M. S. McLellan and Ivan Caryall
"The Pink Lady" and "Oh, Oh Del-
phine," and in "The Little Cafe" they
are promised a worthy successor
from all points of view, in which the
freshness and sparkle of Mr. [Caryll's]
score is equalled by the crispness and
drolery of Mr. McLellan's book and
lyrics. For the score of "The Little
Cafe," Mr. McLellan has gone to the
French as he did in his two previous
books. This time his theme is that of
Tristan Bernard's farce, "Le Petit
Cafe," which as been making Paris
laugh for the past two years.
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NEIL O`BRIEN`S MINSTRELS

One of the features of the Neil
O'Brien Minstrels is to be seen at the
Grand, January 9, in the grand street
parade which is to be given at high
noon. There are over forty who takes
part in this and the public can "count
'em," if so desired. The band, which
is said to be an excellent one quite
out of the ordinary, also give a con-
cert in front of the theater here in the
evening performance.

Manager Oscar F. Hodge promises
that everything about the O'Brien
Minstrels this season is entirely new
and indicative of the spirit of progress.
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BERNHARDT ENGAGEMENT

The Wonder Woman—Sarah Bern-
hardt, to Greenville is an event of a
sufficient importance to cause nothing
less than a furor among local thea-
ter goers. She is really the most re-
nowned woman of the times; the most
distinguished living actress; in the
opinion of many of the greatest liv-
ing woman. Her spirit is epic, idealis-
tic and courageous to a degree; age
does not deter her from her "Place in
the Sun." Of her being a vital living
factor in a workaday world, Sarah is
still Sarah and that is indeed a name
to compare with! The plays she offers
on Wednesday night, Jan. 10, are:
"Camille" and "Du Theatre au Champ
d'Honneour (from the Theatre of the
Field of Honor"). In addition to these
plays will be given the last act of
"Cleopatra" a playlet by Maurice
Bernhard, Mme. Bernhardt's son, and
Heart Calm, and The Husband's Love.
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FIRST WINTER.

With South Africa Contingent of
British Armies in France, Dec. 10.—
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press)—South African troops—men
from the mines and farms of the
gold country—are now serving their
first winter in the field in France
and are distinguishing themselves
with many deeds of daring and val-
or. Some of them fought against
Britain in the Boer war and among
them are several Americans
who have made their homes in the
African mining fields. One of the
most thrilling exploits of the South
Africans was the recent act of a
young subaltern. During a night op-
eration he became separated from
his company and found himself in-
side the German line. After a time
he picked up six more men of his
company who had become similarly
detached. When dawn came the lit-
tle group found itself practically sur-
rounded by Germans. The young
subaltern found that his rifle and
those of his comrades had become so
clogged with mud that they wouldn't
work, but he drew his revolver and
as the first German approached he
shot him dead. A German sergeant
who started forward was also killed,
and as daylight came two of the
subaltern's companions got their
rifles working and succeeded in kill-
ing twelve members of the surround-
ing party and capturing twenty-two.
Forming their German prisoners in
to a ring, the South Africans got
inside of he circle and deliberately
marched their prisoners over the
German first line and all got home
safely and great jubilation among
their comrades.
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GOT BACK COIN.

Spartanburg, Jan. 1.—When "Long
Henry" Lord came to town Satur-
day from the pantation where he
works way out in the country he was
awfully thirsty. The longer Henry
remained in town the thirstier he
grew and finally when a "town nig-
ger" came along and asked Henry
about a drink the country darkey
decided that the time had come. The
town negro agreed to sell a slug for
seventy-five cents and Henry handed
over the coin and the town aristo-
crat handed over a pint bottle.

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Henry took a slug and then he began
to look for the dispenser of the fluid
which fluid had proved to be spring
water and vinegar. The sight of a
town negro in full flight with a coun-
try negro in pursuit excited much
culiarity on Church street, but "Long
Henry" lived up to his name and in
time overtook the shrewd one. Henry
had managed to dig up a vicious
knife by the time he overtook his
quarry and his opening words were
"Nigger whar is my money." Henry's
presence and the presence of the
knife proved to be a combination too
strong for the Spartanburg negro
and he handed over change. "The
only reason you ain't dead right now
is that I ain't brung my gun to town
terday," declared Henry as he pock-
eted the money and walked away.
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W. H. Barton Here

W. H. Barton, of Clemson Col-
ledge, was a visitor in Greenville
Monday.

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Wednesday Night, Jan. 10.
The Last Visit to America.
The World's Greatest Artiste
MME. SARAH
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Under the Direction of
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