The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-16

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The occasion was indeed one OF the most
| charming of the season. and quite dis
tanced In every way the Vaudeville din
ner recently given by Lispenard Stewart
and Lanfear Norrie.
Gayety Is certainly very brisk and Wig
orous when crowd OF young people can
indulge In a morning german ana make
a success of II, yet that was accom-
plished on a warm morning not very long
since. The sight Of it was enough TO
make one wilt. but those handsome girls
and athletic young men seemed to think
1t great fun, and kept II up Tor hours
Old Point was never more festive tnan
on that occasion. The hotel was damned,
and apparently with nothing but lively
young people, who wanted to dance all
day and all night. Added to the army
and navy contingent OF beaux was
rollicking group Of Yale boys, consist
ing the College Glee Club and their
friends. When these arrived at the hotel
the neighborhood took on still another
tint Of brightness. and 1t was slow work
picking ones way through the dense
crowd OF jewellers. The ballroom was
a riotous garden of beauty. and the long
Railways were converted into so many
lovers lanes by professions of fluttering
maidens and gallants. Perhaps there is
no other place in America where the en-
thusiasm and freshness Of youth are so
continually and abundantly expressed as
at the Hygeia, and certainly there never
was a hotel before in which dancing and
love-making were so spontaneous.
The invasion OF the Vanderbilts at Bar
Harbor has begun, and the Hilly Sloanes,
we hear will go there at once upon their
return from abroad. Although George
Vanderbilt has been a cottage owner at
Bar Harbor for several years, his pres
ence there made very little difference
TO the community at large. Last sum-
mer the Webbs spent n few weeks In
Malvern cottage, and the Shepherds eX-
changed the air Of the hot Hudson for
a Whit of Maine breezes, but now the
Sloanes have taken house for the sea-
son. and the prospect is open for an
utter runation of anything like former
moderate prices for living at that most
charming of summer resorts.
Mr.. Cleveland has again called forth
nothing but appreciation from all sides
by his selection Of Mr. Bayard for the
mission to the Court of St. James But
one opinion seems TO exist, even among
his political opponents, that Mr.. Bayard
IS the right man for the right place.
Having not only his own personal charm
and magnetism TO uphold him In his fu-
ture diplomatic career. Mr.. Bayard is
supported by one Of the loyeliest women
that ever graced Washington society.
AS Miss May Clymer. Mrs. Bayard was
the most sought after and most popular
woman I'm all the different sets (and ,hey
are many at the capital Upon her mar
rage to Mr.. Bayard everyone felt she
would grace any position he might call
upon her to fill, and during their quiet
life at Wilmington for the Iast four
years Mrs Bayard has attracted all who
surrounded her in her husbands native
place. That she will be equally popular
I'm London goes without saying, and as
OF late years the wives of this coun-
trys representatives at the Court Of st.
James have not cared greatly TO 90 into
society it will remain for Mrs. Bayard
to fill the position of our Ambassadors
wife with the tact and grace that have
hitherto been her special attributes.
New York might have been shocked
the other day at seeing the Earl OF
Craven putting away at a big black cigar
while driving up Fifth avenue in an open
carriage opposite to his fance and pros
pective mother-in-law, had II not known
that Englishmen OF his class are not
educated. as we are on this side OF the
water, 10 regard 1t as extremely disre-
spectfu TO smoke In the presence or
ladies' II Is a country whore gentlemen
wear their hats within doors, while Ia
dies are about. and courtesy in public
is only observed by shop keepers and
sWoepers. It is thoroughly good |
form 10 smoke while driving with the fair |
sex. and naturally Mrs. Martin and her
daughter could not expect the Earl 10 |
abandon any of the transatlantic Gus |
toms Of the aristocracy.
There is n certain prejudice among |
against subscribing toward |
the Tabernacle fund, because II Is believed |
Or. Talmace is the only one benefited by |
either II or his preaching. and from the |
fact that he is considered able 10 pay |
the debt himself. 1t Is known that he
sells his sermons 10 n newspaper syndi-
cate "A week i'm advance of their delivery, |
and that they are sent by express I'm |
boiler plate matter to be published by |
country sheets rs special
-elceraphic news. curious blunders are
said to result from this, an instance |
Of which was the publication not long |
ago in "a Pennsylvania weekly known as |
The Reynoldsville Volunteer Of Or. Tai
mage's sermon, four days before 1t was
The makeup man. it seems,
had got the sermons mixed. and the
papers readers. if there were any who
read the sermon were considerably I'm
idvance Of the members Of the Tabernacle
who pay high prices for
)ews.
The Boston fashionable set IS already
itself with the Waukesha Club
'or a soiourn in Chicago this summer. !
Among the subscribers FOR membership
re the Dennie Boardmans. the r. G. Hoop
RS. the Augustus Hemenways. the Mont
yomery Searses, the Fred Princes. Her
,crt Searses. Joe lasigi, Van Rensselaer,
rhayer and family. the Walter Hume
wells, Cabots. Reginald Gray and family,
he Ex-Governor Ameses, Gardiner Lane,
charles Getting and David Lorins.
Jane Hadng has been helping an In
lian Prince TO get control OF a Partisan
lccent. There were no vulgar rates for
ution but the olive-tinted putocrat
rom India CALAMITY paid some Of Madame
Jading's bills for lingerie stockings,
doves and such trifes. one pair Of silk
tockings cost one hundred francs. OF
curse we cannot all afford TO wear $50
ilk stockings. but we know that when
he Jersey Lily" was first I'm America
me Of her gentleman admirers. whom
ne must suppose to have been figuratiye-
y very much at her feet" ordered a
air OF open-work clicked silken hose
o be constructed, for Mrs. Langtry. and
aid So for them without wink. They |