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v j Society J ? > <$> y ?r Whatever Is?Is Best. - - ? - iii? l Know as my me grows uiutr, And mine eyes have clearer sight? That under each rank wrong, somewhere, There lies the root of Right; That each sorrow ?as a purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, ' Whatever is?is best. I know that -each sinful action, As sure as the night brings shade, ^ Is somewLere, some time punished, Tho' the hour be kmg delayed. I know that the soul is" aided Sometimes by the heart's unrest, Whatever is?is best. ? I know there are no errors in tne great eternal i>mn, + And all tilings work together For the final good of man. And I know as my soul speeds onward. In its grand Eternal quest, I shall say as I look back earthward "Whatever is?is best. ?Ella Wheeler Wilcox, j * * For 3Trs. Lathan. j Mrs. M. L. Spearman delightfully entertained for her house guest, Mrs. Lathan of Chester,on Wednesday morning at her home in College street. During the morning rbok was played, after which delightful refreshments were served. In Honor of Mrs. Fant Gilder. j On Monday afternoon (Mrs. 0. H. ' Johnson and Miss Gilder entertained most delightfully at tl:eir lovely home ' in Boundary street for Mrs. Fant Gilmt&r /-kn-o. rA th<x sAaAon's most attract ive brides. The rooms and hall -were very pretty with vases of shasta daisies and gold? en glow, where tables were arranged " for rook. * An hour or more was spent most pleasantly, after which a delicious ice course was served. # Again on Tuesday morning, Mrs. j Fant Gilder was tl:e honor guest at j a delightful rook party given by Mrs. j Robert Holmes. After several interesting games, Mrs. Ho'mes, assisted j I by Mrs. 0. McR. Holmes and Mrs. Mary i Fant, served an elegant salac course. I There were seven tables of rook, i * Far Miss Higrgins. Mrs. R. E. Leavell entertained on j Tuesday evening in honor of her niece, j Miss Gladys Higgins of Easley. ' - - ... When tie guests had assembled eacn; couple was given a topic to be dis-j cussed fcr two minutes, at the ex-; piration of ti e two minutes the couples J were changed and new topics given. After this game of conversation each 1 guest was given a picture of a hat en: in half?matching these lor par:-; cners for a hat making contest. These ihais to be made of leaves and bowers. Nancy Fox and Nat Gist, Jr., were, given the prizes for the best hat. _ - a.*_ _ j: i 'i ^ ^ ^ meanair v\a.s one 01 unusua, pleasure to the young folks. The real'party came when the hostess, assisted by Misses Mary and Bcis Burton, Mrs. J. B. Fox and Mrs. S. K. iWHght, served a delicious ice course j to the following young folks: Mar- j guente spearman, ?>utcny rant, j died Purcell, Frances Houseal, Sara Davis, Adelaide Swain, Nancy Fox, Margherita Mattfrews, Sophie Nell and Selma Crotwell,, Rhea Joynes and Mollie Slig!^;. Harry Summer, Forrest, Crotwell, Junius Fox, Ellis Williamson, Russell Swain, Clark Floyd, Ralph Xangford, Nat Gist, Jr., Foster Smith, John Floyd, Ferd Scurry, Edward Davis and Eldridge McSwain. For Miss CopelandL Miss Marian Jones entertained delightfully on Tuesday evening in honor j of her house guest, Miss Ame Cope-1 land of Clinton. Receiving with Miss Jones were Miss Copeland, Mrs. S. B. Jones, Mrs. W. H. Hunt and Mrs. J. N. McCaughrin. The rooms were filled with the choice flowers of mid summer, but the piazzas proved more alluring to the young people, here delicious punch j cool and refreshing was served during tfce evening by Mrs. J. W. Carson I 3 * f r- i t aim iyirs. xtivtrrs olvuh oi opai utuLcurs. In the dining room Mrs. J. N. Martin, Mrs. I. H. Hunt and Mrs. R. D. Smith received the guests. A tempting ice course was served by (Misses Grace Wilbur, Frances- Jones, t Boyd Wheeler and Mary Wheeler. [ The Newberry County W. C. T. U. [ convention will be held in the Lutheran I church of Prosperity next Sunday, August 1. There will be a temperance address int^e,morning by W. C. Herbert; recitations and songs by the , young people and several short talks by others in tie afternoou.7 I Dinner will be serv^i on tfoe. grounds. ' s-? ' ! ' * 4 ? 4 <? r 4 <? 4 3> ! - x;?> THE IDLER | s}> <?> $ <?> $><?><$><$ <? <$?<$<$ <y I read a little while ago a tribute i to ti e girl who works. It do not now ! rooall the norvPr from w.hifVh T read it, ^but it was credited to the Raleigh, X. C., News and Observer. Any way it is a very beautiful tribute and I think a very true and deserved one. Every one admires the girl, or the boy for that matter, who works and wt':o smiles at his or her task. She is an inspiration. You know, it is true that there was a time in this Southland of ! ours when it was not considered tJ:e | best breeding or the highest type of the upper class for the girl to work. All of us old people who remember the days before the war will recall that this is true. But things have changed and now it is considered much more respectable, and rightly so, to earn an honest living by honest toil, than it is to sit down and do nothing. In many a household of ti is land of curs there are girls who are the mainstay of the family and as a rule they go about their tasks with a much more sv svi* ? <? * *- cmiln rVlOn r V? q An/} if U- 1U O ajli :ic uaaii uic k/\ss%j. .ahu ?? has always been a little strange to me why a man should be paid more tiian a woman for the identical same task, and many times the woman would do the job much better than the man. But I started out to quote ti at tribute to the working girl and give it my endorsement, and here it is: "Gci bless the girl who works. She is not too proud to earn her own living, not ashamed to be caught at her daHy tasks. Sl:e smiles at you from behind the desk, counter, or printer's case. There is a sweet memory of her in everything she touches. She is like a brave mountaineer, already far up the precipice, climbing, struggling, rejoicing. It is an .honor to know tl':is girl and be worthy of her esteem. Lift your that to her, young man, as she passes by. She is a queen in the realm of womanhood. She is a princess among the toilers. Her hands may be stained by dish washing, sweeping, - ? !v.1r nx fo/ifnrw crroocix hut pi lllLCI s lun., ui lctvivi j vwjv, ?uv they are lionest hands.^ They stay misfortune from the Lome, they are moving, patient shields that protect many a family from the poor house. Gou bless and protect the girl who works."' Then there i as been another strange thing to me, speaking about the working girl, why it is that we have to pass so many laws to regulate the hours, and so on, of ti e boys and girls who work. Why is it the men wh6 employ these girls, should not of their own accord have some regard for t! e ordinary rules of health and. comfort. But, you know, some years ago there was a great to do about the cnild labor law, and it was finally passed and new no one would think of desiring or even permitting the law to be changed. Of course, it may be violated occasionally, but as a ru?e everyone admits it is a good thing. Then only a few years ago the legislature passed4a law requiring U:at the merchants who employed girls should provide seats so that the girls would not have to be on their feet all day long. And then there was a law passed regulating tr.e number of hours these girls should work. And that they should | not work afterra certain hour on Sat urday nignt. And only tne omer aay I saw in the paper wliere a big Charleston merchant In King street had been arrested for violating this law. i I can not understand why it should be necessary to have any such laws, because the people wi:o employ girls should not desire for them to work too long hours, for they do not get the best service wfyen they do. Then as to keeping open stores on Saturday nig):.ts, or any other nights, that is a matter for the merchant, but he should let his girl clerks go home early, and I believe it is not the best for ihim and his welfare to keep any of tfcem * 1 ? T f TITOnt +A CtOlT r?TW>n IUU IV/JlI 5 11 liC "O-utj wv wjf vu. all night that is his business, and not mine, but the 'best thought of the land f:as said it is not best to have such long hours, and the government does not permit its employes to work more than a certain number of hours each day. Certainly the girl clerks should not be kept late hours at night, Aether it be Saturday night or any other. And if those who employ them will not voluntarily let them off and ob serve the ordinary rules of fc-ealth, then they-may expect the thing to be regulated by law. I have just received the following note'from the editor. Well, I am really and truly sorry that I could not get out to the opening of tl'^e park, but the weather was not favorable and I am not young any more, and was not feeling well, and besides the young folk who have taken up the park development for which I am very grateful, and Iwant tJhem to know that they have my Goodspeed in tie good work, yet they did not give me a special invitation to be there, and after all that ! I kave, toe..I.iust, p&f - ?em-roe, -I^loww tfcat" I .sSkkJ? ,&ot be so sensitiv e, but as we grow oid we will get just a little bit that wa'.. 1 didn't want anything or any credit far anything, but after having written as much about the park as 1 have, and j the thing being so near and dear to my j heart. 1 just felt sajiei ow that a -little I something was due an old person who I i had labored so hard and faithfully with j the means at hand. I know ti at it is ! money that counts and that builds j parks and other things, but then there i is something called sentiment ' at j helps to build up, and without which i we can not get very far in the risht ! direction and accomplish anything that I will last. And now they say of all the | I f 'nrao cncotorc nrvn o nf thpm PVPT1 I l"i Vt- C^VUIWi O UV44V v* V-- V . W.. ( made a brief reference to the labor 1 [ have spent on the park development j except President Harms. It was onlyj an incidental reference, so tl e editor j says, but God bless him for ti at. It j i does my old soul good that even mv i j name should be thought of in such a! presence, even tnougi:i no reierences; further should be made to it. Now, I ! hope no one will misunderstand me, j because there is no one in Newberry ? ' who i9 prouder that the park is i. ere | than am I, and there is no one who I will do more to help it along than I j will. If you will look back o.er wl.al I have nad to say about it for the past ' fifteen years you will see that I was | after the park and did not worry about ! anything else. You will recall that once I suggested that t):e best monu; ment that the Johnstone children could j erect to their father w;ould be to turn | the Jocnstone woods over to the town ! and make a park of it and call it the I Job Johnstone park. But of course they | did not look with favor on the propo-; i sition and probably considered it imj pudence on my part to suggest it.: I Anyway I knew that the town and; county Lad been very good and kind to the family for generations, and I: thought it would be a fitting recogni-| I tion of some of this kindness to do something hke that, but they didn't think so, I reckon. Really, tl:ough, it would be nice to have a park out on i.that side of town, and they tell me in ! these woods there is a beautiful spring and there is no prettier place in the, ! town for a park. I! ave no doubt some' of these days this will be made a park.' ' ' i j But here is the note I received from, 'the editor. I wish he had taken the1 speeches in short hand, but tlien he | can't do tl at. There should have been j ten thousand people there from the \ j town and country. This is really the ; biggest thing that has come to Xew: berry in a long time and I am pleased i t; at there are others who think so: i also: i , ?- | i My Dear Idler: : I regret that you could not be pres-! ! ent at the opening of the park on last Thursday night. It was a great time, i There were two to three thousand peo' ?* - a 4. A- 1? -A rm. ? i pje irom u..-e nisi tu m&l. iub ing clouds kept some from going-out; j and some left soon after getting there. ! The crowd kept going and coming up to the time I left. I felt you were , entitled to know something of the pro-j j ceedings and what was said, as I know j you are deeply interested in the park.! ! So I thougi-t I would write you a linei and tell you a little something about it. | The swings and the see-saws and the i | ; joggling boards and other amusements \ j were there for the diildren, and they were having a good time. The ladies were selling cream and cake ana 11 am told they sold out and made a nice sum of money to buy more playthings for the park. Then a table was placed on tl':e bridge that crosses or l spans the creek and at 9 o'clock the , speaking began. | Mr. iM. L. Spearman, who is presidi dent of the association, presided. I sat on the bridge in the moonlight and lictpnp^ trv the sneecLes.. Mr. j Spearman told me afterwards that Ihe | was frightened nearly to death, but he ! didn't look scared a bit and made a pretty good speech. He told how it just occurred to a few men and good women of tfce civic association that a park was needed and they went out and got the money and rented the | place for a year, and he was proud that the park was open. It was a great thing for Newberry. He explained the way in wfcich the park was obtained | j ana told now mucn sucn a piace was needed for the children of the community, and he considered this night j ti e most important in the annals of! Newberry. He said many more nice' things which I can't recall. He then ! introduced Mayor Wright. Mr. Spear-! man told me the next day that l-e had { a pretty tribute in> his speech about | ''I 1 A I : the good worK you naa a one, urn uc : i just forgot it when f:e was up speak-1 ing, and he was very sorry, because he' felt that to you and Mr. Homer Schum-! pert more credit was due than to any others. Mr. Schumpert helped to get up some of the playthings, and Mr. Spearman forgot to mention either one. Mr. Wright made a pretty speech also and was not in the least embarrassed. He talked about tfre budding Sowers and the beautiful grass and the bofcbling brook and the sweet singing wHitouwreifc j. .lookMter *fce,<*srforts aod pkaanree SPECIJ! CUTLERY WUTWKSBSBBBBESmBBBBrntBKKKMSM $s.oc Will Be I_ VII For every bl Pocket Knife Bring your d expert cutler KUTTER" fat brands of po carving kniv FREE i Summ< N^-ur Hnmp nf A ^V ?T A AVAAAW w* of the children and how lie would S rather see the town growing up in py 'Tgimsen" weeds and the streets in; on ditches than that the money for beau- wit tifully paved streets and sidewalks ?< s> ould come from the establishment ]eSj of a dispensary, and told all about wa how you should train the child and tie what he should have to make a good j she and useful citizen. Mayor Wright re-! ^ ceived applause on his reference to; ^ ti.e dispensary, though I did not see J Qn just what it had to do with the opening j of the park except that it had refer- ^ ence to the rearing of children. Mr. Wright made a nice speeds. He also j X)0? told me afterward that he had a pretty ] i g reference to you, but he forgot it. Dr. Harms said the night was so threatening that he knew tfce people ^ did not care to listen to long speeches, , but he felt this occasion was a great thing and would be a blessing to the children and a great place for the recreation of t):e older people. He said that since his return to Newberry he ^ I (X had observed that in a local paper there was a scribe who had been writ- ^ ing, who signed himself The Idler, and De< he had heard notning but park and split log drag from this scribe. With these speeches and tine an- ^ nounc^ment by Mr. Spearman of the ^ hour for the opening of the park, the ? J' T'Viz-v WitAT exercises ciostru. j.uc g ?o? j I am glad that tl-e park had such Bui an auspicious opening and I sincerely 1 hope that it will prove a great blessing to the people of this community Ma and I believe it will and if it is properly managed as I know it will be the 1 people will wonder why they waited Am so long to make a start. Now let every T one cooperate and help make it t)':e ' ideal place it should be. There is a Jus lot of work yet to be done but by a lit- F tie help from each one the burden will Wh be light and no one will feel it and L Newberry will have one of the prettiest little parks of any town in tfoe State. Foi The Idler. 0 * So <?> <S>! <S> I>* MEtfORIAM. <S> j It i <$> <s> jt <8><e><$><$><e><S><e><S><5><$><$><8><S><S><8><8><S>' Bu1 In loving remembrance of little Evey C Mathews, the four-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. W. Mathews. Wh She was only sick for about twelve "V (hours after having been vaccinated for Jot typhoid fever. J i?er raiffcrfog j *b?rt!43;ir4tion. ;j I*1*! iL TOOL DEMONSTR ) In G Hiwri At Our 5 *y, July ade of a "KEEN KU that will not hold ai i *i * ?17 lull knives, w e y man from the *ory who will sh cket knives, but< es, scissors an< OF CHA sr Bros. Keen Cutter Tools and ihe was a bright, cheerful and hap- In tft little child, never tired of waiting From tl some one else and helping "mamma" -vy;aer( h everything she !:ad to do. Little Evey" was never satisfied un- Tejj , s she was doing something or There tching after or attending to her litnineteen-months-old brother, wlbom ^ p in I was just a little moti-er to. ^or ^ ivey was born March 23, 1911, and d .July 16, 1915, just a little over -ou] . -r oftor tVio nf hpr father, i Mamn ; > CC41 OX i IV i r W. Mathews, who died on the 20th An(* ^ June, 1914. 1 wil1 I ir little Evey, ho\vr we've missed you ! All you: iince from eart)a your spirit hath j How 1 flown, They w t in heaven we long to greet >ou tl 'here around that great white Wher< hrone. th w little "J. D." has longed to see [ But ma] you, ti is he roams from place to place. Press* >king for his little sister Fondly md her dear little loving face. And 1. ir little darling, mamma knows, pare W( dear, Fare' 'hat in heaven you are at rest, i with angels there to love you, j 'here with angels ever blest. Farewel t, my darling, how can I stay Ifcere, when n this world so sad and drear? There ( t I pray my heavenly father [ pk0un( ^hat your spirit will hover near. , y you always guide me onward, upward 'o that home so fair and bright, 3 in heaven we'll meet together, Vtoere there'll be no tears nor night. " - A _ J5 ... 1 i Exami it one weeK ago touay >uu leu u? j 'or that home of mansions bright; a at rejoicing there with "Dada," if your -oving in the Saviour's sight. d0i Satis! you wished so much to see him? ^ , j + j Omce o iften said you wished to die, you could go and see your "Dada" In that home up in the sky." ** m We 1 is oh so sad and lonely lere on eartih for us to stay, : we know that soon we'll meet you >n that bright and happy day. He ere we'll meet and sing Hosanna Fri ?ith all the angels in the sky, ning hand in hand together, |yj#| 'raising God ice were "horn to die.'* 1V1.II c&iryou baek.-tty^rifaig, andI at10n told Store 31 st TIE" / 11 edge have an s "KEEN t arpen all cher and I shears JnHjJL I Co. I Cutlery ???????????* is world of sin and strife, lat one high in heaven, e all is love and ligat. ur "Dada" I am coming both to join some day, leaven w'll live together, esus says we may. r little toys and playthings aa put t'aem all away, en "J. D." grows up bigger give them to him to play. L aoiis ana nine trmKets, they remind us of the past, ere scattered when you left tern * you loved and played with tern last. uma found and gathered all of lem, ! ed them to her aching breast, kissed and caressed them, aid tliem all to rest. v ? jll, darling, oh, my angel, thee well, my little one, r mi c 1 /nt't y> rr r lUVIlig opilll me till this life is done. i % 11, darling, ah, my angel, my earthly task is done, ah there, we'll live together,. 3 our Father's glorious throne. !3, 1915. Mamma. F. C. MARTIN , SIGHT IV; # J Specialist J ines Eyes, Fits Glasses nd Artificial Eyes eyes are giving you trouble n't fail to consult him. Paction Guaranteed j iver Anderson's Dry Goods J Store. irv /tin M ray lash for gs, dozen - 15c JS ins, pound 10c iers, pound - 12c I ler Brothers | . J