Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-09
DOLL AND TOY SHOW.
The Unique Novelties on Exhibition a
Feast Of Delight.
MENTION OF FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Recoliections OF Dickens, Poe, Canon FAR
rar, oliver Wendell Holmes, and
Others--Maryiand's Boast.
1corresponaence Of the pIspa.cAl

great brilliancy. Thtre are few contri-
vances in which the ingenuity and In
ventlye skill OF ladies are displayed to
better advantage than in the creation and
collection OF a great variety Of dolls. IL
Is astonishing how interesting a collec-
ton Of dolls can be made. ! went 10
the Academy last night 10 witness the
beautiful and unique novelties on exhi-
bltion, and II was a feast Of delight to
the lovers of beauty. To the little folks
the hall was an enchanted palace. and
while they went In continual raptures
over the wonders by the score in darlings
of wax and chra, stately matrons became
girls again and We'd with the children In
their admiration. "Oh, how cuteH' "Oh.
how loyelyr' oh how funuy!' were
some Of the eXclamations heard all
around. why. they had even sent 10
Worth In Paris, ana TO japan TO ma
something new There weSe dolls for the
girls and toys for the boys, and Santa
Claus was making thousands Of ne
elected little ones happy by the display
OF 5000 bewitching dolls And all the
beauty was not to be found In the dolls,
either; for there were Misses Lota,
Champe, and Nellie Robinson. a graceful
trio OF Virginia girls, in charge OF the
pretty flower booths, on the stage, and
Mrs. Albert Richie Q.izzie CabelD, and
Miss Lucilla Yates, of Virginia, among
the managers. as were also Mrs William
Reed. Mrs. John A. Tompkins, Mrs. Dor
sey Coale, and others. Last night the
cabinet ladies and their party from
Washington attended, including Mrs. Car
lisla, Mrs. Lamont, Mrs. Blssell. and
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston. a private
car was rendered the party by the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, through the
courtesy Of Mr.. c. o. Acull, general pas
senger agent
Mr.. Perry williams, Of Williams Wharf,
Matthews county Va, and Miss Mary
Aston Smith, OF Baltimore, were mar
ricd on Tuesday night.
GREATLY MISSED.
MIR. and Mrs William II. Fitzgerald,
who left Baltimore last spring % reside
In Richmond are missed by many friends.
Mr. Fitzgerald was treasurer Of the
Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers
Home. In which he took an active and
Jealous part In the oreunzation and
management. lie Is now commissioner OF
the Associated Railways Of Virginia and
the CarOlinas. Mrs Fitzgeralds father,
General Morrison. was the oldest officer
in the United States army at the time Of
his death ten months ago.
Rev. DR. Jere Witherspoon, the elo-
quent pastor OF the First Presbyterian
church here, is a native Virginian, as
was also his predecessor, the Rev. Mr..
LeftWiCh, who succeeded the venerable
Dr. BaclSus, who died several years ago
and was. long one OF the most hOnored
and popular pillars OF the Baltimore
clergy.
on Sunday night the Rev. Joseph \.
Vance, Of Virginia, and the popular pas
tor Of the Maryland-Avenue Presbyte-
rian church, preached very able and
impressive sermon on the "Responslbili-
ties OF Citizenship" He is a brother Of
Rev. James |. Vance, OF Norfolk, who
has recently accepted a call OK the First
Presbyterian church of Nashville, Tenn.
| One of the haudsomcst Virginia women
In Maryland Is Mrs. Senator Gibson, who
| was a LoudOun county girl, Miss Powell,
and an aunt Of Mrs. Camm and AIs.
Conway Howard of Richmond. She is
fine politician, and defends the German
tariff bin with the eloquence of a queen.
Sne has striklngly intellectual express
sion, with beautiful large black eyes that
sparkle like diamonds I'm social activity.
Some years ago Miss Lydia Howard was
9Na'NN'A " Atlt view lbIh AItItIt as n
representative of Baltimore beauty. Her
asther, Frank Key Howard, was the edit
tor OF the old Baltimore Gazette. which
paper was suppressed and its editor ar
rested in 1861. Mr. Howard and his father.
Charles Howard. were both Imprisoned
In Fort Warren, though charged with
no violation Of the laws OF the United
States, and held for fourteen months.
Both Of these heroic Marylanders arc
dead.
DICKENSS RECEPTION.
Hon. James Hodges, ex-Mayor Of Bal
timore, has many friends i'm Virginia. Mr.
Hodges comes Of an old Maryland family
which has been settled in Kent county
since the middle Of the seventeenth GEN.
tury. He gave Charles Dickens a hand
Some reception here during his second
visit 10 America In 1863, and it was at
this entertainment that Dickens was pre-
sented TO Miss Anne NJ. Crane. OF Bal
timore, (herself a gifted writer, to
whom he gave the boutonniere which
he had worn at his reading that evening
Professor Joseph III. Clarke who died in
Baltimore few years ago, was the
earliest known teacher OF Edgnr A. Poe
In September, 1915 Poe was taken TO
Professor Clarke's school where he re-
be read Caesar, Virgil, Horace. and
Cicero, In Latin. ana Xenophen and Ho-
mer, in Greek. He had no love for mathe-
MATES, but HIS poetical compositions were
striking and clever.
When Canon Farrar the eminent Eng
lish divine, visited America, he delivered
a lecture 70 the students Of Johns Hop
kin3 University, in which he said that
fifty years ago no educational establish
ment as comprehensive in its range as
the Johns Hopkins existed among the
Engllsh-speaking nations Of the world;
that, happily. however. the old systems
Of teaching then IN vogue We're more
honored In the breach than the observance;
that while some few students proiited by
the ancient system; others, bright and
clever, like Sir Walter Scott, were pro-
nounced ounces. They were taught no
English, and their Latin and Greek would
have made a Roman and Athenian school
boy laugh. Canon Farrar congratulated
the students around him that that day
had passed
VARIED EXPERIENCES.
Few Baltimoreans have had SO varied
and interesting an experience as Mr.. john
Thomas Scharf He was in both the Con-
federate army and navy, he has been an
eultOTt iuWDer merchant, picture col
iector, a lawyer. a politician, a lecturer
q historian, a compiler, and Is now Chi
nese immigrant inspector at the port OF
New York
oliver Wendell Holmes once humorously
said that Baltimore was tho gastronomic
capital Of the world, and her chief monu.
ment should be crowned with a canvas
back duck instead Of the statue OF Wash
ington. His son. Judge oliver Wendell
Holmes has secured ancillary letters OF
administration on the estate OF his father
from Surrogate Abbott, 10 prosecute
claims against residents OF Brooklyn for
infringement OF the copyrights upon THE
Autocrat OF the Breakfast Table and
Elsie Venner."
All the 'woman's pages" are givlna
directions for beautifylng the hands with
pomades and cold creams According 10 a
syndicate writer In western paper
beautiful hands are rsre." This merely
shows that syndicate writer's have so lit
tie acquaintance with ladies that the only
hands they hold are at poker.
A GREAT MAN.
Ex-Governor and ex-Unlted States Sem
ator William Pinckney Whyte has occu.
pied nearly every political position in the
/ gift OF the people OF Maryland. including
those Of Mayor and Attorney General He