The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-21

IS very delightful to hear. One moon
ligbt eveninC-it was the very last NOON
light evening we had-all seventeen OF
the Venetian gondOiers were on the
Lagoon. and each had. II one can judge
from appearances a bridal couple in his
eondola. And as they glided along they
sang I'm unison n lovely swiss melody.
Just what the words were In Swiss no
one seemed 10 know. Eut this is what
they sounded like I'm English:
on, list 20 the gay gondolier!
Oh, list TO the gay goI dolier!
lie si0geth his lay
TO a new bride each day.
Oh list 10 the gay gondoler!
The tune was something like the my
Sweethcarts the Man in the Moon But
the line:
81 am going TO marry him soon"
was repeated and changed TO a rollick-
ing measure I'm the next line.
Tho log calm in the Wooded Island
IS another favorite spot with honey
mOoners. They wander into II, and
around 10, and seem TO be thinking how
perfectly idealisUc II would be TO live
there all alone I'm rustic simplicity with
the city within such easy reach
10 is not hOneymooners alone who tud
this wooded island an attractive place
at the Fair. but old settlers. too. and
people who began life I'm just this way
but who have since grown rich i'm West
crn mines and lands. The chin is a very
quaint little structure. perhaps - feet
long by - feet wide, and is fashioned af-
ter the log cabin in which Nancy Hanks,
the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was
born. II is finished off i'm true back
woods style and there is never an hour
in the day when it is not visited by peo-
pie who lived in such "A cabin at some
time I'm their lives.
10 is said that the cabin, beside being
fac-simile Of the one I'm which the mother
Of the martyr President lived, is very
like the one in which Mrs. Silver King
Mackay lived when among the Rockies,
while her husband was building the
Southern Pacific railroad
II any one had told Mrs. Mackay at
that time that the railroad would make
her husband one of the richest men in
the world. she would have kept the cabin
as memento Of her early struggles and
would no doubt now have il gracing the
lawn of her magnificent London home.
But the log cabins passed away with the
days Of the struggle, and il is only here
and there that one can be found 10 serve
as a model for showing how they used
20 DE.
Mrs Elizabeth Custer is another person
who will visit the log cabin of the wooded
island. and for whom special preparations
are TO De made. Mrs. Custer viii sail
there in the cushioned gondola made like
that of the dorc Of Venice. And she will
enjoy it along with the bridal couples and
tine old settlers. If the anticipated prepa-
Tatious are carried out she will be
greeted by a display Of flags and either
music or a military salute. It was in a
house like this that Mrs. Custer was liv-
ing before her husbands last fatal In
dian encounter. and the sight of it. and,
indeed. the journey through the West
brings 10 all SO forCbly TO her mind that
she is very 10th 10 accept the invitation
extended 90 her 90 visit the Fair and be a
part of lbs programme
But the bridal couples! They are so
numerous ON the wooded island that one
stops counting them and numbers them
as part of the scenery Of the island
along with the black swans and the white
geese. They seem to prefer its simplicity
to the gilded elegance of the Admnistra-
tion Building or the gold and white of the
public reception rooms.
The Midway Plaisance is another
charming place at the Fair. 1t is as