Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-07
BRISK AND BREEZY AT BLUE RIDGE
The Future Unfoided to Fair Damsels BY a
Charming Fortune-reiIer.


Charming Fortune-reiler.
fcorrespondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
BLUE RrpaE SPRINGS, August GA trife
late in the season has the crowd been IN
assembling, but it is here now, lively,
CHEEKY. aud on pleasure bent This week
brings us the food-tide of gayety, and as
the flotsam and jetsam mark the height
of the tide when thrown on the shore, so
the lawn, bowling-alley. tennis courts,
and ballroom evidence that the activity
of the human wave has reached fiood-tide
also. and we feel that it will not ebb ex-
cept to rise with each morning sun until
August is gone and the golden days OF
September are come.
one feels that old Father Time must have
borrowed young Mercury's winged shoes.
80 quickly do they go.
EUoHRE PARTY.
very beautiful progressive-euchre
party was given here last Saturday. The
ballroom was the battle-ground upon
which the players met. Merry contestants
made hastv comparisons of taily-cards
when the bell rang TO 60 in and down, zoo,
for half of US luckless mortals. Refresh
ments were served during the game. the
prizes being won by DIR. Holland, OF Balti-
more, O repOuSse silver ash-tray, and Miss
Petit silver sourenir spoon. Mrs. Brou-
seau Zone of the most charming among a
bevy of New Orleans people, carried of
the second prize. and Mrs. Castle, OF
Roanoke. is in the proud possession OF the
books.
The german Wednesday evening was
brilliant affair. II was skilfully led by
DIR. Holland, with Miss Frayser. Among
the dancers were Misses Ellie Williams,
Virqie CABOT. Louise and Lima Mayo. Sallie
Alfriend, Maud Stokes. Helen Lea, Leila
GRAY, Anne GRAY. Hilda FOrman, Ethel
Forinan, Louie Lyons. Katie Butord, and
Mrs. Henry BONNER. Jr. Messrs. Charles
Williams, Jr., Tyler Brock, Otis Alfriend.
Lewis Cardoza, Gillespie of Kentucky,
Scott. Sp.cer. Allison, Kemp, and Glas-
gov.
The chaperons, who dignifed the oc-
casion by their presence, were Mesdames
Iafferty, Charles Stokes, Thomas Alfriend,
Fowler, Mckinney, and Beale.
FoRTUNE-TELLISG.
Mrs. Macfarlane, one OF the most popu-
lar, entertaining, and cultivated of our
matrons. invited some twenty-five fair
damsels to her porch that she might I'M
fold the future to their wondering view.
Not little nervous were we as this charm
ing fortune-teler drew aside the veil that
separates the present from that which IS
TO come. Much laughter was provoked
when. as was frequently the case, tne nan
was struck upon the head so aptly..
Mrs. Lucy Preston Beale, III the interest
OF the Mt Vernon exhibit at the Colum-
ban Fair, spent two days here. She is a
typical Virginian, fayorlte in Richmond
society, whose charms of person are only
exceeded by those of mind. She will re-
turn 10 the meeting of the Virginia Execu-
tive Board for the Worlds Fair TO be held
here next week. Under her auspices will
be given a concert and german. She pro-
ceeds to swell that fund in which every
patriotic woman of our grand old State
should feel pride.
ARRIVALS.
Among the weeks arrivals are Mrs. Cadet
and Miss Virgie CABOT, Mr.. Harris and the
Misses Harris. Mr.. Read and the Misses
Read. Messrs. Arthur Wvlie. J. Is. Miller,
Allison, Otis Alfriend. Tyler Brock. and
Charles u. Williams. Jr., Miss Lulie Lyons,
Mrs. Henry BONNER. Jr.. and Mrs. Fowler.
The last two as far as facts 90 are matrons,
but actually they are among the merriest
of the young people and popular with
every one.