The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-11
DOINGS IN VANITY FAIR
WEEK ABOUNDING IN OUT OF
DOOR PLEASURES.
Two Exceedingly Enjoyable Tug Parties
in which Many Society Favorites
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Tho weather this past week has en-
bodied in It's delightful self all the love
lest things attributed to the month oil
roses by James Russell Lowell and has
hsen prodigal in sunshine and pleasant
temperature Therefore. society win
Characteristic alertness, took time by the
forelock and gave a tug party, chartering
the steamer Ariel as the best and most
available means to that end. Those TAX
ing liberties with the traditional tress
Of the ancient gentleman OF the scythe
were: Chaperons, Mrs. Moncure Perkins,
Mrs. Frank Deane. Mrs. Alexander
Archer, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Saunders,
and Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Cullen, Misses
Adele Archer, Carrie and Florence Tai
bott, Louise Brander, Annie Henry Nor-
folk, Lucille Knby (Staunton), Ray
brewer (Vineland, ". j.. Grass Phila-
delphia), Ntue Peasants Petersburg,
Roselle MERCER augusta, Ga), Rhea
Walk r. Ellen Mercer Cooke, Maggie
and saaie Stokes, Maude Stokes. Emily
Cary, Mary NJ. Gillian. Julia Morton,
Evie and Lulie Walker. Sallie and Judith
Deane, Madge Ould. Bertha Dorsey (Balu-
more) Lizzie Bridges, Marianne Meade.
Stanley Atkins, Eva and Sallie Talbot,
Mary McCaw, Julia Lee Stewart Bradley,
Lucy Pegram, Annie and Leila Gray,
Helen Lee. Leila Hill, Nellie Boykln,
Nellie Perrin. Daisy Wilson, Eva Bowe.
Ense Radcliffe; Messrs. John Boisseau,
Adolphus Blair, Julien Binford, Ran
dolph Darlington. Knox Wilson. Dabney
Carr. Richard Gwathmey. Philip Powers,
Edward Robertson. Charles McHenry,
Graham Hobson. Hoge Gillian, Frank
Blankenship, Willoughley Newton JEFF.
Archer Mac Archer, Tom Armistead,
Frank Powers Edmund Woodbridge,
Charles Skinker. Robert Croxton, Paul
blanchard. Nellie Weisiger, Wortham,
Clay Drewry. Jack Gregory, Austin and
Smith Brockenbrough, j. Ran. Marshall
and many others.
Robert Buchanan, replying TO those
who declare that modern literature OF all
kinds is at a very low-ebb, SAYS: "The
gentlemen who affirm that all the great
writer's have departed are descendants
Of the gentlemen who thought Coleridge
"driveller," Wordsworth an "old
woman" and Shelley a 'moonstruck
noodle" and who bewailed the golden
age Of Pope and Cowper." Then he adds:
They tormented and insulted Robert
Browning for forty years, and then when
Westminster opened TO him. cried How
great he vast how sane and how good!"
Frederick Harrison has some more bit
yer things about art in the June Forum.
Though he took back in a recent letter
what he had seemed to say so flercely on
Inc Decadence OF Romance" yet he
allowed to stand that most Objectionable
o. an his sentences, the one which stated
uat there IS no living novelist Of the
n.At rank to-day" But this is his dab
- realism IN the rev article:
raw lad who. except that he can
wit about brush, has as little intel
,es1Nil training as an errand boy, solemn
- warns us, That is what I sect That
Nhat likep This and that arc what
: snow Put what If the visions OF his
sooth, MS likes and dlslikes-even what
&c calls his Joys and his passions
wholly without interest or value TO
~ fauonal and cultivated man? What
- the queer things he may have learned
~ some obscure hole are tedious, may be
.auseous' 10 thinking people who want
10 such experience7'
what week OF weddngsl The daily |
..'poilers have exhausted their brilliant |
.N'eihSences 10 secure figures by which |
20 Illustrate the havoc the small god has !
S'eh doing here in Richmond. so they |
nave LEFT us nothing but a bald statement |
iacts. AS usual, II was the woman's |
triumph, for few women ever look pref |
yer than on their wedding day. They |
year the ceremony as IL IL were their
Hsht while poor man in his formal dark |
oiothes Is duly regarded as a side-show.
Sute necessary 10 the occasion, OF course. |
NH nth
out otherwise uninteresting. Perhaps the |
most prominent OF the weddings last week |
was that OF Miss Mollie Minor and Mr.. |
Nharles Buxton Hobbs. which was sue
eeeded by reception at the residence Of /
the bride. The parlors were beautifully |
decorated with palms. ferns and white
roses. and attesfed exquisite taste. Mrs.
BAILEY Saunders presided at the punch /
sssl, and the GAIA frspps was served by /