The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-03-28
Contest Closes
March 81.
AS 1T IS TALKED.

II you visit young lady friend and see
pretty enameieI cup and saucer on the
table do not let your curiosity get the
better of you and impel you TO ask what
they are, whence they came, etc. III you
do you will get into trouble ten chances
TO one, for she will sweetly inform you
that lit is n souvenir cup" and you can
give me one il you like, should be most
charmed" etc. That settles it, and you
must perforce visit a fashionable crock
cry store or forfeit your place IN the good
esteem of your far friend. Souvenir
spoons have long been pitfall for the
curious visitor, but now that cups have
come into favor one must tread carefully.
There are all sorts Of these cups Yale
cups. Harvard cups, Brown cups One
young miss OF my acquaintance has
Brown cup. painted with forget-me
knots. Another has spoon which
haunts the Yale fl " In blue enamel and
has the forget-me not in the bowl. An
other cup is wreathed round with pan
sizes and the spoon has the heart flower
for a handle.
Colonel John G. Wyman. Worlds fair
executive com missioner, who Will start
in few days for Chicago to look after
Rhode Islands interest, Is preparing TO
give TO he ssembled world pretty
good idea OF the Importance
of the state that he represents. He. will
show the people of the West that the
East is not 30 effete as they have been led
to think. Instead of putting up at IA
costly MOTEL. surrounded by bellDoys AMI
machine n ade home comforts, Colonel
tyil la ia hAH m "a
Island state building aud wait upon MIN
self. This Jeffersonian simplicity will
probably strike the westerner as very re-
markable. but Colonel Wyman is going
| in for comfort and not for style.
Everybody knows all about the old gun
In trout of the state house. The disa-
| bled relic OF the battle OF Gettysburg. but
everybody does IT know that the man
! who had charge of IL when the fatal
ball struck and killed the Gunners is
living in tie city and has ben
a res dent of Providence ever since the
close OF the wan Such is the case, how
ever. His name is G.. A. Brown, and he
lives on Gladstone avenue He is a
IA nter by trade, and never tires OF tell
ing about the thrilling circumstances at
tendaut upon hat terrible day that saw
the old brass cannon silenced forever.
Mr.. j. Frank Lynn has suggested to
me that the name High would be a good
substitute for Atwells avenue. Why
not?
A friend OF mine, q ranqer in Provi-
dence, and q thorough musician, who ac-
companied me to the theatre last night.
was profuse in his praises of the excel
lence OF the work OF the orchestra. 81
dou't know Of superior theatre orches-
ira in New England" he said ''and the q
are few orchestras in Bostol which equal
it," Last nights pro1ram was an es-
pecially excellent one aud was in
terpreted with volume of tone andIt pre-.
cision OF execution which was surprising
TO my friend Professor Felix Wendell
scnaier is an admirable conductor who
attends strictly to business ana keeps his
baud well in hand without affectation or
apparent effort. His violin obligatos are
artistically given aud he seems TO put
his whole soul into his work. How
hai dsome he is the matinee girl whc
wishes he were not compelled by his
duties to turn his back upoa them
knows and will tell, too, II you ask her
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