The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-14

HTTHER And IONDER.
News Notes About Notabllities Gcner-
ally.

Rhapsodles' Hongroises on ice and
Beethoven glace are served In periodical
spasms at the Music Hall Of the World s
Fair building The temperature
has never reached melting sche-
dule since the first OF May
1t IS damp and humid as the tomb OF
Bach, and souvenirs i'm the shape OF fve
grain quinine capsules are prospective
necessities in each promised menu. II
Will be q great blot upon this glorious
festival II music is 10 be the one impotent
attraction. Thus far the undigniiied com
mcrcial color to all squabbles between
the supposed promoters of harmony has
offended a truer class Of song worsnippers.
That assiddous and repeutive catalepsy
is TO be one Of the main eXcitemcnts IN
the Woman's building, is. Of course. the
inevitable surmise. band Of hysterical
females invested with imaginary titles,
and liable TO break into protracted meet
ings every thirty days must be allowed the
feminine privilege Of alternately snarling
and weeping and lauding and embracing
with emotional irregularity. but certainty.
All the diverting episodes Of the last few
sessions I'm this ebullient organization
have been infantile, but comparatively
harmless. Everybody has kissed every
body else. except the indubitable Phoebe
and she is neither kssable nor amiabe
under the present epidemic of complicated
spleen and servile slush.
Miss Phoebe, by the way, insists that
she has not adjourned. and from the
talk that is going on, we judge she is
correct in this statement. Some day,
however a rather elderly gentleman
mounted on a dapple gray gelding, and
carrying a scythe jauntily on his right
arm, will come along and adjourn Phoebe.
Nothing else will.
One Of those lovable old innocents in a
neat black bonnet and ante-date basque
fronts came I'm the gate early one morn
ing last week indefinitely beaming upon
the Worlds Fair in general, and the
variegated guard I'm wondering particular.
Finally to set her delighted mind at rest,
she respectfully approached one Of the
gilded uniforms and said: Il want to
know. be you one Of the different tribes
or anything?" The blue receptacie Of
mulutudnous interrogaions thought
solemnly for a second, then ventured.
Wen, now, ma'am, | couldn't say for
shure; I'm Connaught man. though. if
mats any help to ye." you don't saw
answered the dear, little old wanderer
wei. / didn't know but what you might
be a knight OF Pythus or sunthin' kind
Of odd like" She was approaching the
transportation palace, and eyed that
prlsmatic structure with considerable mild
disapproval, then whispered TO the Con-
haught knight, as If the complaint had
echolng tongues: ITS like Jacobs coat
more than anything / ever see since sllas
hemingway painted his own barn. Amt
them angels little bit square fur lust
pain angels?"
THESE critics a fIf.
strom OF affeotation that haunfs paIler,os
poses on the peristyle and Tolls In The
gondolas. The untutOred infant &c on
omnipresent and irreprcssible factor I'm
the crowd every day. He Shrieks for the
gold world I'm the hand Of Rcpublc
mounts furious tigers. munches unnro-
tending douehnuts under the namnloth
legs or heroes and brutcs. makes SAGE and
frequent remarks calculated to irritate
and rebels obstreperousy TO extended
tours throughout art galleries and gov
ernmental trophy exhibits. one small
thinker yawning near the turnstfle at
/. NJ. Saturday awakened hope i'm a
possible American school of art His
father took him up I'm his arms and said.
what was the incest thing you saw to- !
day.? Strengthening his pretty shoulders !
back and widening his eyes the baby
said In n voice pitched low and rounded. |
as If TO compass the dignity of his an
nouncement: DE great big bull-cows by !
de river" If half the grown people could /
give as lucid and promising a criticism the |
fair might educate more successfully.
One fact which has stood forth with |
painful distinctness in all the accounts |
of the first week OF the Fair is that |
the Chicago women are still addicted TO |
white stockings. Alasli!
Chicago girls who have been engaged |
TO sell Turkish edibles and drinkabes at
the Worlds Fair, threaten to strike be- |
cause their employer wants them 10 wear |
the BoomereSque costume common TO |
female Turkey. IL the conflict comes of. |
members Of the Ladies' Dress Reform |
Association will have the opportunity OF |
their lives.
New York is one ahead this time. Her
sidewalk flower vendors cry: "Paderew- |
ski roses, two for a nickel"
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin return !
TO New York from Chicago May nth |
and will sail for England May 3lst &c
companied by the Earl of Craven and his
bride. Hon. Rupert Craven, the Earl's |
brother, will precede them to Engllnd.
BY the way. the Earl OF Craven pres mt
ed each or the bridesmaids with very |
elegant pearl and diamond brooch. de-
signed as a sprig of flowers with an earl's
coronet. To his brother. the Hon. Rupert |
Cecil Craven. who served him as best |
man. his lordship presented a diamond
and ruby double-heart pin, surmounsed |
by a diamond coronet. All Of the pins
were designed and made by Henry Lewis |
& Co.. of New Bond street, London, Jew
elers 10 the Queen, who also supplied
many Of the handsome and valuable Jew
els which formed part Of the wedding
presents OF the Countess.
Among the prominent people who will
spend the summer at Beverly are Mr..
William G. Whitney, Colonel Jerome n.
Bonaparte, the Eustises. Mr.. Tom Hitch
cock. Jr.. Mr.. Bryce Alan and Mr.. and
Mrs. jefferson Coolidge. with their SON
in-law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred.
X. Sears, Jr.
The Duchess Of Marlborough. who is
spending the early days OF her widowhood
at Brighton. can hardly be classed as
a full -fiedgsd emigrant. since by her
with the late Duke she became
an English subject: still she ekes out
an existence over there on the interest
Of six millions OF American dollars. we'll
invested. the estate Of her first husband. !