The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-04

The Minnette Club, its annual reception
Debut OF Miss Lily Mckay, go Ohio
street.
Friday-soiree Franchise at the home
OF Mrs. John G. Coleman, 1ls Richie
place.
Saturday-Mrs. Charles Gilman Smith
20 Calumet avenue. tea. Mrs. Frederick
w. Peck. 1896 Michigan avenue, a lunch
con.
Among the debutantes who will be intro
duced In the Newport season are Miss
Virginia Fair. Miss Sibyl Sherman and
Miss Elsie Clews. Miss Sherman is one
of the youthful cousins of the Countess
OF Craven. and is a daughter Of Mr.. VIII
liam Watts sherman. Miss Clews is the
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clews.
one or the most distinguished visitors
az LenoX the coming season will be the
Russian Minister, Prince Cantacuzne,
who has leased the Andrew cottage for
the season. Baron Fava and Prince Rus
poll are expected to spend good part Of
the season in Lenox.
Miss Clementina Furnlss. who Is one
OF the wealthiest women In this country,
IS completing a trip around the world,
ana VIII return I'm time for the Lenox
season. Her house will, as usual, be one
VI AiiN bd@t est IN tulS ATTRACTIVE ftSOii.
Mrs. +. Nelson, Mr.. Fred. Gebhard's
sister. has taken cottage for the greater
part Of the season. Her brother VIII not
spend the season at Lenox.
The first reception which II Is known
will be given I'm honor OF the Infanta
Eulalie during her stay I'm Chicago will
be rendered her by Mrs. Potter Palmer
and will be held at the Palmer residence
on the Lake Shore drive The date set
for the affair Is Monday evening. June
5th, and the hours will probably be from
10 TIL ~ o'clock. The entertainment will
doubtless be most beautiful and perfect
In all it's details, and the only guests 10
be permitted outside OF Mrs Palmers
friends are a few Of the distinguished
visitors who may be In the city.
The rehabilitation OF Thackeray's
Becky Sharp" was begun by James
Payn. II now seams to be complete.
Mr.. Payn, In considering which OF the
heroines of fiction he would prefer 10
take down 10 dinner, confessed that he
would be very much bored If his hostess
assigned him TO Amelia Sedley. 10
Clarissa. 10 Rebecca, or even TO Laura
Pendennis. that worthy wife and mother.
lect from all the company Becky
sharp" and feel confident that he would
have an enjoyable dinner.
Moro recently another writer. discus
sing on tact in women speaks of Becky
Sharp" in this respect as a model woman.
He commends her compani0nship as Of
the sort priced by all men. 1t is to be
remarked that praise Of Mrs. Becky is
all accompanied by sighting observations
about the virtues OF her friend Amelia.
The same writer says that the devotion
Of Amelia Sedley was milestone about
the neck OF her husband, and that the
Irritation of George Osborne with Mrs.
Rawdon Crawley was, under the circum-
stances, most pardonabie. Another, still
more frank. freely confesses that one is
I'm love much more for the faults or the
person loved than for her virtues. be-
cause they individualize her more. She
is q new woman with every turn OF her
head, with every glance Of her eye. All
this will be suggestive and instructive TO
women when the sole object Of life be-
comes to please.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan L. Mott, OF New
York, will start early in June on a sal
mon-dshing expedition in Canada. Later
they will 20 for awhile TO Bar Harbor-
Mrs. Motifs cousin, Mrs. Leslie, and her
husband, who is a son OF Sir John Leslie,
Of Ireland, win come over In August TO
visit her and then both families will
go together to the Worlds Fair. IT will
be remembered that Mrs. Leslie was q
Miss Jerome and is a sister of Lady Ran
dolph Churchill and Lady Lister Kaye.
Among those who will sail Wednesday
for Europe are Mr.. and Mrs Bradley
4 IL
will probably be many years before the
young countess will return to her native
land. but she is so young that she VIII
scarcely feel the change and, like Lady
Randolph Churchill who left America
when she was but twelve years old, will
soon merge her nationality in that OF her
husband and never know the pangs Of
home-sickness.
The creation OF cooperative homes for
bachelors and cooperative homes for
spinsters, in London, has been followed
by such brisk demand for the advantages
these establishments offer that their sue
cess is assured. And now Mr.. Stead
comes forward with the original idea that
the bachelors and spinsters should COM
blne their housekeeping arrangements.
Instead OF the modern monasteries and
nunneries. such as Toynbee Hall and
Chimes-street chambers, or IN addition
to them, Mr.. Stead recommends homes
where families Of young persons Of both
sexes might live together always, with an
experienced lady house-keeper at the
head, or, perhaps, a married couple with
not more than one or two children. There
should be common dining and drawing
rooms but each tenant should have his
or hgr mr. ha
adds that Mrs. Grundy would have no
more reason TO be shocked at his "Co-
operative Homes for the Unmarried" than
she now has at the ordinary boarding
house. which is true enough. Men are
the heirs 10 the ideas Of all the ages IN
most professions, while socially men are
more advantageously placed than women.
IL is the same over here Except In what
is called "the social world" men and
women meet very infrequently. The
plant OF a bright and brainy woman
that she did not know how 10 talk 10 Il
man, did not know what would interest
him, is too we'll founded. why" said
another woman, II was counting up the
other day, and out OF forty married
women whom l know well and see often.
/ have met only eighteen OF the husbands.
and except in one or two cases, MET them
out once. Inc mixed CLUBS shOuld De
II only TO put the coming man
and the coming woman on speaking terms.
A private letter from England states
that the Duke OF Edinburgh evinces ex-
grief over the sudden death
u Captain Arthur Brooke. The gallant
officer could not be more sincerely mourn
ID IL he were His Grace's brother. Brooke, |
however, was an extraordinarily agreeable |
and lOvable fellow, and il IS easy to under |
stand that his intimate friend takes his |
loss much 10 heart. The captains life |