The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-09-17
LIFE In VANITY FAIR.
E<RLY SEPTEMBER DAYS At THE
VARIOUS sPRIS0S.
The Continuous Gsety That Cha rsctsrised
the Midsummer Season IL Followed
by Quieter Enjoyment.

WHITE SULPHER SPRINGS, w. VA.
Sept. 1s-special.-The gay season or
brilliant Germans when the fair maid hid
sweet smiles beneath gorgeous banquets,
OF handsome card parties when the ma
iron arrayed in point-lace and diamonds
charmed those VINO surrounded her. is
now over. Yet where is the person who
does not find life altogether worth liv-
ing at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs to-day?
The weather now is simply perfect, and
while these crisp. delightfully."- cool days
remind some that the fall Is almost here
yet there are still several hundred guests
at the White. who remain to enjoy these
Indian summer days. many intending TO
remain until frost
Now is the time when the never-failing,
ever-hospitabie place of entertainment for
all, the famous old White Sulphur Spring.
Is most appreciated, many Of the guests
making the trip to the Spring three times
day in order TO reap the full benef1t OF the
famous "medicine-water," as the Indian
tribes In days OF old used 10 call this In
MIGRATING sulphur water.
Now is the time when the girls. soon af-
ter breakfast. spend several hours in lazy
Incidence on the lawn, and in thinking Of
their summer conquests, sweet memories
OF the by-gone days, are reminded of the
coming campaign, the gay season to be
spent in the city. and almost daily they
stroll down 10 the bath-house for hot
sulphur BATH surmisiug as TO what they
might do were they 10 carry back home
the beautiful complexion that famous
beauties in days Of old are said TO have
brought back from the White.
| Every evening the large parior is dotted
with tables and congenial parties are
made UP to play whist, six-handed euchre
and stop"
The ballroom in the evening with It's
music and dancing is stu attractive and
the young people all flock there soon after
| supper. There are many unsteady gifted
women among the guests. Mrs. Calderon
| Carlisle, from Washington, and Mrs. War
rem G.. Elliott have voices that are both
sweet and rich in tone and perfectly cui-
tivated Mrs Geo. Stevens plays sweetly
on the harp and in the evening she often
renders classical and operate selections
on the piano, delightfully."- accompanied
by Professor Laube. During the past
week there have been several deer hunts;
among those who have been most enthu-
sastic I'm the chase have been Messrs.
c. Tariatan Goldthwaite, John Freeland
and Trevelyan Townsend, from New York,
and the Messrs. Tenant from Petersburg.
Mr. Benjamin Valentine from Richmond
charmed a party Of hearers one morning
last week by reciting some OF his original
dialect pieces in the parlor.
Misses Gertrude and Annie Leigh Camm
arrived here Wednesday from Hawks
Nest w. Va. They are on their way TO
join their mother, Mrs. A. b. Camm, In
Chicago.
During the past week. DR.. Fielding 1ay-
lor, from New York. has been acting as res
ident physician In the absence OF DIR. W.
G. Dabney, who is now In New York.
Services were held both morning and
evening last Sunday at ST. Thomas Epis-
opal church by the Rev. II. d. Paller, OK
West Virginia.
Large numbers OF tourists stop
here every day on their way to and from
Chicago Many stay over several days In
order 10 get taste OF the life that In led
at the White. Many Richmond men have
figured among the quota OF guests during
the past week. Among them Messrs. John
Rutherford, John Price, Sam. wallace.
Aston Cabell. f. w. Hannewlnckei,
Eugene Massle and Granville q. Vaien-
tine