The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 11, 1915, Image 23
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TEA AT ALLENDALE.
kwlale, Not. 8.—On Friday after-
f doon of the home of Mrs.
Darlington, Jr., were thrown
>,atatea given by the Woman’*
hg club in hon^r of Mr*. Uwton
er, a bride of a few weeks, and
Mi*a Sar* Gray, a bride-elect of this
month.
The parlors were never lovelier
than in their autumn dress of yellow
chrysanthemums, which sounded the
.major note in the decorations.
Among those present were two other
brides of the near future, Misses Eva
Mae Owen* and Nina Flowers, and
the mothers of the bride and brides-
elect. * —
The guests were received at the
door by Mrs, J. H. Warren, the presi-
cent of the club, and after meeting
the guests of honor were served with
sandwiches and tea. During refresh
ments Mrs. R. 0. Montogomery played
on the piano.
v The club recieves Mrs. Maner, who
has besn a member for two years as
Missiftt^rine Ball, but regrets the
loss of Miss Gray, whose marriage will
take her away to another State.
Mrs.W. R. Darlington, Jr., entertain
ed four tables of bridge on Thursday
morning. After a spirited game a two
course luncheon was served. Miss
Agnes Lesair won first prize. Mrs.
Alfred Patterson cut the consolation.
• The
Honor Roll
D. P. Johnson, Blackville*
E. F. Boylston, “
. Blatt, “
L^V. Bodiford,
Tobin, Greer.
). Still, Hilda.
I Black.
Mrs. V. A. Woodward, Dko.
A. E. Hair, “
Miss Agatha Faust, Barnwell.
M T. Willis Denmark.
Mrs. J. T. Load holt, Jenny.
0. T Loadholt, *•
J. L Hazel, Barnwell.
C. D. Kinard, Ulmer.
R. A. Duncan, Bellinger.
J. P. Gray, Allendale.
Nick Codin spent a couple of days in
Augusta this week.
Jake Levy went over to Augusta
Tuesday night to attend the fair.
0. M. Greene, Esq., was called to
Bamberg on professional business Wed
nesday.
Medames C. A. Best sndG. M. Greene
attended the State Fair in Columbia
last week.
Barnwell and Blackville will met/>n
the latter's gridiron Friday afternoon
for a game of football.
John B. McNab left Wednesday
morning for Waynesboro. Oa., where
he will spent about thirty days.
Misses Sallie Pate and Lai Richards,
of Swansea, and Gordon Pate, of Clem-
son College, visited Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Greene last week.
Salt Water Cataracts.
There are a good many salt water
cataracts In existence. They may be
found tn Norway, southern Chile and
British Columbia, where narrow fiords,
or arms of the sea, are obstructed by
barriers of rock. The rising tide flows
over aud filters through such reefs Into
great natural reservoirs beyond,
^kth^ water Is held back at the ebb
it breaks over the obstruction In
tit Irresistible torrent Most curious
of all Is the waterfall at Canoe Pas
sage, where tbe Island of Vancouver
approaches tbe British Columbia main
land. Here the flood Ode from the
gulf of Georgia to the southward Is
^ held back at a narrow cleft between
two islands until It pours over In a
boiling cascade eighteen feet high, with
perhaps double the volume of the
Rhine. At tbe turn of the tide, how
ever, the waters from the north rush
back into the gulf, producing a cascade
of equal height and volume. The wa
terfall actually flows both ways.
Carload of Stock.
I will have in a carload of fresh stock,
direct from ther West, on Monday,
November 15th. Prospective purchas
ers are invited to make their selection
from this superb lot of Western beau
ties.
C. F. Rteer;. r
Olar, S. C.
Notice—Sale of Land.
Notice is hereby given that I will sell
at public auction in front of the Court
House in the town of Barnwell during
the legal hours of sale, upon Monday
the 6th day of December next, the same
being salesday in said month, the fol
lowing real property, known as th"
late residence an 1 lands of Maitha E.
Baxley, deceased. The sale being for
the purpose of a division among the
heirs at law: All that certain piece or
parcel of land situate, lying and being
ie town of Dunbarton and said to
Ninety Three (93) acres, more
and bounded on the North by
ttnrA! C. L. Railroad right-of-way and
lot of Denson Dicks; on tne East by lot
of Denson Dicks, B. F. Tisdall and
Hickonr Street; on the South by Mrs
F. H. Cater and on the West by lands
of T. A. Green. Walter L. Baxley,
Agent
Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to
pry for papers.
this tne 9th day of November.1915.
1 Premarital 1
*• It Was Not a Settlement ♦
e ; of- Property, kit 7
* of Principle *
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| By EDITH V. ROSS 7
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We canfaot Judge of tbe whole by a
part To say that because some peo
ples are uot fitted to govern themselves
uo people are fitted to govern them
selves is a non aequltur—that U, the
conclusion does not follow the premise.
Because some women are so interested
in home, husband and children that
they do not care to take part in poli
tics we are not jnstifled In assuming
that womea had much better leh poli
tics alone. Differences of opiuion, of
fitness, are the wheels of progress. A
people of one mind on ail subjects be
comes stagnant.
Elsie Harbeson was an example of a
girl who was tempted to enter the fray
for the rights of women without fit
ness therefor. She was n lovable crea
ture, very feminine aud not especially
gifted In a scholarly way. At any rate,
while In college she had received the
lowest possible rating, especially In
logic. She was neither nu officer of her
class nor on any of the committees.
Indeed, Miss Harbeson was not In any
way fitted for a leader In the great and
absorbing struggle for the political ad
vancement of her sex.
When Elsie met "her fate" she found
a man who was drawn to her on ac
count of tbe feminine mold in which
abe was cast rather than her aspira
tions. Tbe Scotch saying that we
would be blessed at being able to see
ourselves as others see us pertained
especially to her. To Herbert Win
ston. her lover, it was plain that the
cause of women would lose nothing by
tbe defection of tbs girl be loved. He
bad no preferences for or against tbe
cause, but be was opposed to Elsie
wasting became In a matter which
other women were far better fitted to
push than abe. But Herbert wa« giv
en to diplomacy rather than to open
opposition and had no mind to fly In
tlie face of his fiancees views. Ha
made no comments whatever on these
particular opinions. Elsls bettered
that a matter In which she was Inter
ested and upon which her fiance seem
ed indifferent should be settled be
tween them before marriage and. brae
ing herself for a straggle, opened the
subject
"Herbert." she said, "there is one
matter for us to consider before oar
marriage, a matter on which my heart
Is set. upon which you seem to be In
different. but which is liable to make
trouble unless there is a distinct un
demanding while we are still free ”
"There Is nothing to settle before
marriage, because I propose to glv#
way to you lu everything.”
•Tbat'a very sweet of you. But you
don’t seem to realize as 1 do that there
is a good deal that D practical In mar
ried life, that romance changes to com
panlonsiilp, which la far more endur
Ing. and that companionship is de-
|*endcnt upon a husband aud a wife
having the same vlewg."
"That doesn't cut any Ice In our
case. Iiecatise. ns I have told you. your
views shall be my views."
There was rather too much subservi
ency in this to suit her; but. since she
, could not find fault with it, she took
refuge in a side Issue.
“1 am sorry to see that you are be
coming slangy. It would have sound
ed better for you to say ‘make any
difference.’ But, to take up a far more
Important matter. 1 am very much in
terested in the struggle for the ernaucl-
patlun of women that has t>een going
on for many centuries. It is one of
the elements that have entered into
the civilization of Europe and Amer
ica.”
‘‘How?’*
"How? Why. Professor Howland
mentioned it In his; lecture on civiliza
tion I"
"It seems to me we are getting away
from the subject which you consider
of so much importance. I don't think
it would pay us to enter upon a dis
cussion of what goes back several
thousand years. We'd have to put off
our marriage indefinitely in order to
get down to modern times. How would
it do for us to make a compromise ou
this matter of the emancipation of wo
men—I to have no opinions concerning
It, you to have whatever opinions you
like?" .
"And express them?’’
•‘Certainly."
“Aud act Upon them?"
“Of course.”
“That's lovely of you. I didn't think
you would be so liberal.’’
“1*11 be more liberal yet If you like
I’H conch you on the arguments per
taining to the cause you are to advo
cate."
“Will you?”
“Certainly."
“When shall we begin?"
“Any time—now if you wish It”
“Very well: mention some..of the
main arguments.”
Tbi* was very mean of him. He had
no business to lead her into such a
trap. Having embarked in a straggle
to wrest from man the rights of wom
an. she now signified' her reliance ou
man by accepting his services to In
struct her as to how to go about her
wort, f ' - -
“Man.” he said, "when left to him
self. without woman’s influence, be
comes brutal. - Ergo, be has In him the
nature of a brute, which can only be
kept In anbJecU-in by hie wife. Seer
rwi 1 "' ■
te this
startling. ■
follow Jt all at once, so i
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"Please don’t nee that wort *8eer
Why not aay, ‘Do yon understand
'■or*"
"Just ae. I think R wtU be admit
ted by aay women who Is or has boon
married that keeping her hosband In
subjection requires a lot of time. Then
there Is tbe household to look after,
end tbe children, end n lot of other
things"—
“I thought you were going to glvo
me arguments In favor of the emanci
pation of women. You ari proceeding
to prove that a wife la too busy look
ing after her domestic affairs to”— She
hesitated.
“To keep her husband In subjection r
“How absurd!"
“If you don't like that argument I’ll
give you another. I presume you stud
ied |>olltical economy while in college.
, “Yes, indeed, and it made me a free
trader.”
it was now the man’s turn to be
startled. He had not been able to
fathom the free trade-protection prob
lem bimself. and be was impressed
that Elsie had succeeded in doing so.
“You know.” he went on, “that the
old political economy of a half a cen
tury ago has all been upset by mod
ern big business."
“Has it?"
“Yes. but It still holds good in small
circles—the family, for instance. You
know that the theory of the free trader
is that each community produces what
it is best fitted to produce, tbe wbofe
going Into the general market and each
community selling what it is fitted to
produce and buyiug of the others what
It doesn’t itself produce."
“i see."
“I thought you didn’t like that ex
pression.”
“They are not tbe same. You said
‘See?’ I say T see.* There to a great
difference."
"My way to more phonetic.”
“Go on."
“In tbe family, carrying out this
same principle, tbs husband does tbe
providing and tbe wtfe takes cere of
tbe household and tbe children. When
tbs husband breaks In on bis wife's
prerogatives bs's monkeying with the
bozsssw."
“Oh. beacons! What a horrid way
of putting It!"
“Anyway he's liable to get scratched."
“Worse and worse. But complete
your argument"
“Per contra, if tbe wife breaks In
upon the husband's prerogatives there
to likely to be a monkey and parrot
buslneee In tne family.'’
Seeing an opportunity to get In a
blow for her sake without inveighing
•gainst slang, sbe said quickly. “I don't
• dmit that pollthe to tbe exclusive right
of tbe husband.'' %
"In that esse but one of two roar
to open to as. Either I must give up at
tending to tbe duties of s citizen to
you or we must l«oth atteod to them.
Tbe latter course would be a violation
of the economic principle.’’
This argument resulted In silence be
tween the couple for some minutes
Elsie saw that, pretending to give her
an argument for her cause, be was
arguing on the other side. Sbe believed
that there was • valid answer to his
•tMtement. but It did uot occur to her.
“It seems to me." she said at laat.
"that we each have duties of cltlzeu
ship to attend to lu accordance with
our consciences."
"The pn>of of the pudding to hi the
eating." was hla rejoinder. "Since you
prefer that course, so ahall It be."
"But you would prefer that one or
the other of tis should attend to the
duties of citizenship for the family.”
“I believe in a division of labor or.
If you like another way of putting It
l»etter. In certain things being attend
ed to by (he wife and certain other
things being attended to by the bus
bunq. but If we both decide to go to
the 'Jodis to register our votes I have
no objection to our doing so. At any
rate, we can try It. Nevertheless I see
no use In trying to cross a bridge till
we come to it We are not married yet.
When we are all such matters will reg
ulate themselves. But I reiterate se
riously that If there is anything objec
tionable or useless in our both going to
the [>olls to vote 1 will defer to you."
"What do you mean by useless?"
"Suppose we vote on different sides.
We might in that case pair."
"Pair? What do you mean by pair?"
“We might do what we're going to
do In marrying. If we intend to vote
on different sides and neither of us
votes at all the result Is the same ns if
we voted. I, a man, and you, a wom
an, marry. There's one less bachelor
aud one less spinster. In other words,
we are paired."
"I do think." she said, lookingMip at
him with n pair of soft brown eyes,
"that you use the funniest arguments
I ever heard."
“They will be plenty good enough
when we are married."
“How is that?”
"There are only two arguments which
count for much between man and wom
an. Her best argument is tears; bis to
kisses."
With that he drew her toward him
and kissed ber.
There is no record as to Mrs. Win
ston's services in tbe cause of the
amelioration of the condition of wom
en. Winston is not reliable In his tes
timony. and what he aays should be
taken with a grain of salt. He declares
that whenever there to an election he
and his wife are on.opposite sides and
the result is a pair.
However this may be, tbe Winstons
are s very happy conple, and a fine
crop t>f children are growing np about
them.,) Mr. Winston’s statement that
it is better not to try to cron a bridge
befors reeching it has turned out te be
true. At any rate, the family differ
ences are settled amicably from day to
f 4ay.
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