Early in the history of the Unitarian Church, the home of which was a former Presbyterian Church building, in Archdale Street, Dr.Samuel Gilman, a young minister from Gloucester, Massachusetts, became its pastor.

This was the same Dr.
Gilman who wrote "Fair Harvard." * * * * * In only one instance did the letters of introduction we sent out produce a response of the kind one would not be surprised at receiving in some rushing city of the North: a telephone call.

A lady, not a native Charlestonian, but one who has lived actively about the world, rang us up, bade us welcome, and invited us to dinner.
But she was a very modern sort of lady, as witness not only her use of the telephone--an instrument which seems in Charleston almost an anachronism; as, for that matter, the automobile does, too--but her dinner hour, which was eight o'clock.

Very few Charleston families dine at night.

Dinner invitations are usually for three, or perhaps half-past three or four, in the afternoon, and there is a light supper in the evening.