Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-03

iAiAtNfN Ni'tAhr - ~
tige will soon begin to wanc
BAsE-BALL
have It on the best authority that the
New York Base liall Club will remsin at
the Polo ground this year : that, IN other
words. At the eleventh hour IN arrange
ment will he patched up. IN the event
Of the inevitable turning mp, however.
staten Island will be the future home OF
tne Giants.
The ella. sfcation rule will give all the
clubs q great deal of trouble next yesr
There il great deal oi Aichin4 among
most OF the players that have uoeu
showed peg further down ami there Is
sure 20 he an outbreak.
The roa3s in tlie vicinity have been
in such condition dunny the pasf week
that there has Deon but liitlc driving,
and consequently tro.tu1g auI road Cos
sip has been confined principally to the
forthcoming sales. Tho CalliOruln con
tinRent, which is - bc disposed Of OF the
American Institute thi- week, WI create
IA sensation.
SWELL Gil.Ls ~ LITERAL RE-.
am permitted 70 Announce an occur
renee ~ New OK society which is tine
most uniquo and significant oil the sea
son. 10 is that SIX huas nave agreed to
write for publication in one Of the city
weekly journals eacn an Autobiography
cal articied 10 be entitled he EApe-
rcnces Of Debutante." This indicates
beyond doubt q transition period iu
American fashionable s0ciety. over
in Europe society people have
LONG contributed 10 current hterl
ture. ant received cold cash
therefor, tie payment not hoing re-
ceiycd for charity either, but Tor tine pur
pose Of sweliDg their 0Hn incomes
Many names might bee mentioned. ODt
II Us sufficient 10 Instance the ihct tIHt
Oscar Wide employs on hrs magazine
twenty titled women. 20 whom he pays
laIge sums for coutributinns. and whose
names appear at the loot ~ the texts
In New York. If q society imam should
20 into literature and receive money for
publications she would ut any time prOr
10 this have been looked Gt a-kance, and
very soon dropped from the ranks.
WRITES NEGLECTED.
We must infer this from the NEGLECT of
writinQ Of literary women OF distinction
who publish. and by the general habit Of
New ork society, although there hH9
been on exception in the case OF Mrs.
John Sherwood 4 few member Of Our
h0uf tim write. bnt they haven't distinct
ly understood that 1t is only Tor amns"-
mont aud that no proiane eye over
Qazos upon tae results. The Mar
Quise LAMA. the daughter OF br.
Hammond, writes very graceful SOU
nets; not lonQ ago since She got ont an
ca,fi0u dc L,cc of them for distribution
amone her friends Nrs, Willie Astor
hos written sOmo ESSAYS which have been
read 10 aesembhcs OF friends, and Mrs.
Willie Vanderbilt has written q book
which details her own experience ON
shphoard. called "1he Log of the
Ava, by "Aiga, for private crcula-
ton. Miss -allie HargOus. the belle of
Tie present season also has done some
thing in the way Of vcr-emaklng, but
only for the entertainment of hor &C..
qnaiutances thus il Will be seen that
the o,Ln0utcs by writing for puniIca-
ton are taking the bits in their mouths
and are making an entirely new depar-
ture.
QUEEN VICTORIA
makes a bosom companion of Mrs. Oil
phant. and insists on that writer living
with her at Windsor, and tire Princess
Alice vas warm friend of Mary Crp'u-
ter. the author aud philautLropist bat
flc American hpuf t,lI finds 10 necessary
20 draw strict line between itself and
those wage earncrs who might claim soc
cial fraternity on thescOre Of Intelligence
and culture. Fashion stoops down cheer
fully to the beeRar on the rurhstone, be-
cause there can he no MISTAKE about tins
net being one OF CondcscensIon hut
one cannot condesccnd % brains
greater than ones Owl. In self
defence, therefore my lady excludes her
self from public gaze and surrounds her-
self with mystery. In England photo
graphs of society people, from the Prin-
ccss oi Wales down. aIe on sale IN every
shop. and NAV he bought on Broadvay,
hut New York women viii not allOwthclr
pictures To- be- sold, and woe betIde the
photographer who displays one. 4 few
Americans onlv who have lived in Lon
don tolerate the fale If their pictures.
Among them ere Mrs. Burke Roche ami
Lady Randolph Churchill and her sister.
The patents Of society in this country
are new. and It's instinct Of self-prcaerya-
ton keeps It fromindulging IN such yani-
tics: keeps it also from recognizing
women brain-Worlcrs, and from doing
any professional work itself
A CONTRAST
Doubtless fashionable and literary
life have not many points OF sympathy,
for the higher one rises IN the intel
lectual life the more trihmg and dis
tasteful seem the occupations Of fashions,
and. on the other side. the fashion rou-
tine is AL absorbing and eXhausting busl-
ness. admitting Of little time for side IT,
sues. The society woman cannot enter
tain everybody, and If she overlooks the
hcr0fcl0' she only overlooks the one
who would put least value upon her in
vitations Still. III Europe, not only
does society work for pay, but there is
more mingling between people III the
two vocauons than here. HE rea-
sons are that their social positions
are fixed. aud women dare to do
as they please. They may eNpectinvita-
tons and neglect to entertain, and so get
time for other pursuits. More leisure
comes to them, too, in the way Of better
trained servants and household matters
running III smoother grooves. Here. #
a woman absents herself from the IS.
sembly balls people wonder If she vas
not invited, and why, and the effect may
he that she is dropped from invitation
lists. for she has no WAY of maintaining
her position but by holding actively and
aegrcssively on to 1t. Then, too, ku-
ropean aristocracy has become such in
some measure through literary chan
nels. and it is permeated with literary
traditions. while our h0W ton is risen
almost exclusively from trade, which
sufficiently accounts for its having no
natural prediction for literature.
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