Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-29
TYPICAL BOSTON WOMEN.
At the Whis,-Table and at the Flow OF
soul at Luncheon Time.
fChicarn naiiY Trihune.1


Az in other provincial towns. there are
some of the most charming persons III the
world TO be found at Cambridge, and from
time 10 time they come over TO Boston for
serial refreshment, Just as whale has 10
come TO the surface to breathe. IL ~ un-
derstood-although this give Us mere re-
port and hearsay, since personally only
know that this Is the view OF certain Ia lies
who are prominent IN Cambridge society
that the feeling among all true Canta-
hrioians is that il Is waste OF time to
NAV whist. which, If not positively
wicked. is at least lamentably frivolous.
The nersons who come over TO Boston,
however. are apt to conform to the Gus
toms of the town while they are visiting
here. and thus it came about that not
LONG since a Cambridge woman was one OF
the guests at o whlst-tunctlon on Com
monwealth avenue. Her account or the
affair IL interesting. since IL SHOWS now we
appear to the jewellers in remote parts OF
| the earth. a..
1--WE we're invited for IL o'clock III the
forenoon she said, land when got there
al three minutes past they were all sitting
| down M the whist-tables. The whist was
| NJ that kind that makes your blood run
| cold turns your black hair gray, and
keeps you awake nights tor mont
afterward. trying to think what you dlu
that was awful. 1t makes me shudder now
TO think OF the plays that made, and my
partner SAT there, no matter which one
nlaved with, and took it without qulVei
of the eyelid 10 show that she knew now
badly was doing it. 1t was lesson that
would last young girl Lifetime 10 see
how those gentle women-and there wa
MOI one of them that did not play superb
game-allowed me to lose points for them
and carried il oil of az II 1t were merely
the luck of the cards. IL was uay VI
anguish for me. though, assure you
"Ihen at luncheon they sat and talked
and they passed in review the growth OF
| recent Spanish literature. and from that
they went on TO church history and famou;
beresies that never heard of before ana
never expect 10 hear or again; they hau
GOOD natured little tilt over the moral IN
auence of Tess of the dUrbervilles.
winch one lady thought EVIL III IL
tendencies as likely to lead men te
the feeling that social transsres
thing as il had always been looked
mon in a man; then casually they had
| trifinc dash of social news; came ou'
| throurh a profound discussion OF mind
| cura to n consideration of the character
a~d conduct OF Nine. Blavatsky; went OF
10 dissect Laurence Ohphant; ana IN some
way cot around in the end 10 the ne"
| Theatre of Arts ana Letters III Nc" .oin
II was enough TO ma Ike ones head SWIM I,
hear them, and the beauty Oh ~ was as,l tu "a"
| thev really knew what they were talhih'
ahont and were Interested in It,: lheN
were not in the least doing it for effect;
""Then they dropped all these hIst
themes and went back to whist, and fol
the rest of the afternoon they played as J
thew md never known q thought outside
Of the consideration of the game. IL wa
wonderful. and 1t gave mo new iisn, OF
the typical Boston woman I.o, one iSh'
myth; she is marvellous reaLi'y. :. IN,
,;,erai transcript of tho Cambridge wo
o man, account of her day in Boston.
have extenuated nausht and set dowI
,ar,,bt in malice, and while lido not. o
course, frequent ladies' luncheons, | car II
vonch for the substantial truthfulness o
| the picture.