The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-20

on the Sunday question, and was one OF
the first in her city to set the fashion
which, unfortunately, is becoming quite
preyaent-of giving dinners and receiV-
ing on Sunday afternoons and evenings
The idea that music possesses an actuai
healing power, says an exchange. -
about TO be tested in London. The Guiio
of 81. Cecilia Is about TO build n iarse
hall in which musicians specially trained
10 sing and play the very soft music
which alone should be administered 10
those whose nerves are weakened by
illness shall perform by day and nisht,
felephones to connect this composite ana
continuous music room with certain
wards of the chief London hospitals.
Records and data Of conditions and ef-
fects are to be kept and conclusions ar
rived at.
One OF the oldest dancing halls in
Paris. the "Elysee Montmartre.' is about
to disappear, like the Mobile. the IT,
wolf. and the ClOserie des Lilac. 1t en-
joyed it's most palmy days during the
Empire, and produced among other ce-
lebritles. La Gonlue" and Grille
Egout."
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is regarded as
n bright and shining light at Saint Bar
tholemew's church. Rain or fair, there
he IS in his pew off the central aisle.
looking placid and happy. He passes
around one of the plates, and with his
assistants often hands to the rector sew
eral thousand dollars a Sunday. With
Mr. Vanderbilt always are his wife.
three. and sometimes four, of his five
-, ffa.ra ri lhl
arrayed in the painest of street habili-
ments Of cloth, with hat or bonnet to
match.
Count Tolstoi is lamentlng the growth
of vicious tendencies in society, ana IN
bred sin in all countries. He was asked
By an interviewer the other day what
people become most abnormal in this re-
spect. He replied: AT any rate, not the
Americans. To their credit must be put
the immense national sef-love, which
cannot exist In an abnormal people. l
one day wrote an article on America ana
the Americans, in which | did not par
ticularly overload the latter with flattery.
Nevertheless l sent the manuscript over
the ocean, thinking it would be accepted
by any paper as eagerly as my other
productions. Not bit Of it. The trans
lator took it to fourteen editors without
getting it accepted, and finally, it had to
be sent to England"
Saws the Louisville "Courier-Journal:"
| Thomas Nelson Page, who recently mar
| ried Mrs Fields, of Chicago, left with
his wife and family for Europe in April.
] The handsome house secured by him Tor
a Washington residence has been the
! cio
| occunation last October. Chdren's dis
| cases claimed different members Of the
| nursery. while Mrs. Page has been the
| last 10 succumb. Physicians recommend
| n prolonged visit to various continental
| resorts Mr. Page has declared his IN
| tention of deyoting himself to writing, and
| OF leaving reading and the lecture busi-
! ness entirely. Mrs. IIOdgsOn Burnett lett
for Europe about the same time. Tier
| only son. Vivian, Is fitting himself FOR
| Harvard College His tastes and pref
] erencos are decidedly American, notWith-
I standing his maternal relations are all
| English born and bred.
| Women are found to-day In many an
emplOvment. which Until very recently
was regarded as the exclusive privilege
| Of man For insxnce. one or the most
successful ranch owners in Kansas Is
not a robust and able-boded man. but
n woman. fair OF face, petite In FORM
and not more than thirty years old.
The gentleman who knows the later day
mandates does not wear cane with
evening dress. Yet this IS one OF the
favorite breaks" of the fashion-piate
curios. The reason for discardirg the
cane is that one must have both hands
at his disposal, for the bouquet fan'
wrap. or opera cloak. the iorgnette, or
opera glasses Of the ladye fayre.
81 have new remedy for insomnia,
said the nervous member, as he entered
the clubrooms this morning.
"If il is good, tell us about H.
at is very simple. Just go to bed, ana
take the most comfortable position for
sleeping. Then slowly open and close
YOUR eyes. II. after forty winks, you are
not asleep then try forty more. the
great difficulty with victims Of insomnia
is that they almost always fall TO think
ing of the events OF the day. This may
he prevented by persistent counting but
that is. itself, a mental effort. and wakes
III A.NllE