Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-01

and to those who knew her well tho
Kindness OF heart. To-day che ia Mrs.
William Royal, of Richmond, who
looks so handsome in tho embroidered
mulls sho 20 much likes, and who is as
much interested in what the girls are do
ing and as eager to help them have
good time Ok If she we're still among
them. This ia a pretty phase, this
mother feeling. Somebody said there
were no mothers in fiction, but evidently
be forgot the stories of southern life,
for even when Thackery came TO write
OF Tho Nirglnians be made the
mother heart Of Nine. Edmond re-
spond when her boys were in trouble
and always beat most lovingly for the
one who suffered the most
WHERE MES ARE PLENTIFUL.
Men Plenty of them. There is never
any scarcity down here. They come
season after season as bachelors, bene-
diets. and fathers There are few old
beaux who might have lived when George
the Fourth Was king, and whose cachct
is usually given to the girl who wears
the crown OF honor for the scasOn. These
old beaux like it here, they play at
wbist and count tho honoB they com
pliment a mother on her daughter and
the daughter on her resemblance to her
mother They are not scoffed at as they
would be il they were Gt Saratoga, and
the garnet brocaded velvet waistcOat re-
cciyes as much admiration as II were
low one Of the latest style.
HOW SOUTHERN GIRLS AVOID SCANDAL.
Most Of the girls ride, anl ride well,
hut their habits are not as masculine
looking as those We see in the Park, and
they do not live up to the standard which
requires them 10 look like n man from
their waists up Instead, they have a
liking for great, soft felt hats caught up
at one side with "a fancy buckle or bird s
wing, and they can putthem on in way
that makes them look Ike the Duchess
OF Devonshire herself. Gossip may exist,
but scandal is frOwne1. When there
are the babies and Nancy and that young
nOrtherner, and what papa has written
from Richmond, ami what grandpapa has
written from Louisville, and the dread
ful mistakes that peoples cooks do make,
and the inhospltality IN not offering n
visitor glass OF wine and bit Of cake
TO talk about, how can there be scandal !?
That's 1t, my friend. If you and ! and
my neighbOr concern ourselves only
about our own affairs scandal will be-
come disease as seldom found ns lepro-
sv. and the scandGl-mOnger Will need TO
10 treated as the loper is-put oil on an
island by herself
wHERE MEN CAN FIND GOOD WIVES.
DO | then think the girl at the cold
White the most desra0lcOf all ? Yes,
/ do. Do ] think her without faults =?
No, DO not. But they are faults that
are essentially womanly- faults that are
wiped out In time by her many virtues
faults that when she is good wife
and good mother nro forgotten, and
she il certain 70 he these. Her
quick temper will be invaluable in
her rule over the kitchen and also
little subducd; it will serve
to make her train up her children in the
way they should 20. Her sentimental
ity lessons as she grows older, but there
is always enough Of it to make her hus-
band feel that she values his love. SO
that, after all, the mcnin search OF n wife
Ind better come here. where the mir Is
clear and where he viii have the eXtreme
pleasure Of seeking the girl rather than
letting her regard him as her prey.
And men want to do the hunting, don't
they? BAB.