Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-11
BEARHAVEN QUARTET.
wBITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR TIE EVENING
STAR BY RODNEY CLARKE

Grand event Of :he season, The Bearhaven Quartet
viii give . concert in Town Hall, August 3. at s
O'Clock This quartet is famous for its fine rendering
ofCouess SONGS Negro Melodies. popular airs. &c.
Admission. Is and DC"
NNHE ABOVE POSTER, PRINTED IN FLAM-
- ing red and black letters, appealed to the
pssser-by from every available fence in the
sleepy old town of Wiledon, while minor
posters Of similar import depended from the
windows OF its three principal stores. Wiledon
was really pretty village. Main street was
arched by huge elrns. which shielded man and
beast from the scorching rays Of the summer
sun and lent picturesqueness to the quaint
old houses which stood behind them. The
lower end of the street was devoted to the
exclusive use of the post Office. Murray's
grocery establishment and two rival shoe stores.
What could not be purchased at any Of the
stores was for sale at the post Office, from
dry goods to drugs. At the extremity
Of the street stood the railroad station.
Dwelling houses, mostly of antique
architecture, but Of perfect neatness, with
here and there q cottage of Queen Anne style
or mansion of recent date, occupied the upper
portion of the IhOroughfare. A shady read
branched OF from the post Office and found Its
terminus at the beach, two miles distant
Along this few summer visitors had lad out
beautiful grounds and erected handsome
houses, which were left unoccupied during the
winter months. In one of these residences Mr..
VeIisse, his daughter Mabel and his sister.
Mrs Mention, spent the months of July and
August, finding quiet enjoyment IN the cool
breszes and delightful bathing afforded them
by Wiledon and its beach Once in q while
very warm day would make its appearance,
and then it was that Hiss Yenisse would
sconce herself in her hammock on the front
porch and would con the pages of some novel
holt
mile beyond. A charming picture, too, she
made, with her auburn hair cooled loosely
upon her white neck. her deep, large brown
eyes, which always greeted you with a smile in
them. and her white lawn dress, gathered at
the waist with pink sash She an only
daughter and perhaps a trIfe spoiled, but she
was pretty, winning, altogether irresistible.
Mr.. Nenisse was a merchant of high standing
in the city of +. He married when very
young a beautiful girl who was taken from
him when his little daughter was born, leaving
him a broken-hearted man. His grief was so
severe that it required all the tact the ply
slcians coCld command to remind him that his
child must be cared for, but when he recov-
cred at last from his paroxysm Of sorrow he
sent at once for his widowed sister, Mrs. Men
ton. who lived with him and brought I'D the
mOtheriess girl as carefully and tenderly if
she were her own daughter. After the death
Of his wife Mr.. Venisse conferred all his affec-
tons on his little one, who had now grown to
be q lovely girl Of eighteen, witty in CONVEX
sation and belle everywhere she went. She
found Wiledon rather quiet, there being no
beaux there to do her homage, and thus it wac
that any little entertainment which visited the
sleepy old place was always incomplete unless
the pretty miss from the beach road was
among those present.
Ii was the morning Of the Sd Of August,
ard Miss Venisse turned the corner By the post
Office and drove along Main street in her pony
phaeton, past fence whereon one Of the
posters had been fastened 1t caught her eve
and 1t was but a few moments before she
silghted at Town Hall, purchased two bright
blue paste board slips with admit one in
scribed upon each, and returned to the post
Office; and. having got the mail "a daily excite
meIt to the Wiledon folk, disappeared down
the beach road. Several people had now
oheyed the instructions of the BILL and the
village felt that it would rouse up and be enter
tanned for An evening.