The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-30


richs is one of the most proficie.
dents of art that ever graced Newell
society. Not that she paints and sketcI.
merely. although her work In that lin.
has attracted attention. but she is deemed
one OF the best Informed women In the
city OF the technique OF art and on the
various points OF difference among the va
rious Italian schools. She has made a
deep study of the old masters and Ra-
phael she particularly admires. The Mar
quand women are also authorities on art.
Their home is said to contain more gems
In this line than many "A dwelling OF aes-
thetic renown In Europe There is, In
deed, facetous report In circulation con-
corning the Marquands. to the effect that
they dare not keep cat In the house be.
cause the creature could not move with
out knocking down n roomful Of bric-a-
brac In short, instances might be cited
all through the list Of ladies' whom too
many Gothamites deem mere MASTERS OF
time. Fashionable women I'm the metro
polls are not frivolous by any means. In
one respect, however. New York is led
by the women Of London. Class cal learn
ing Is almost unknown to them. In all
the -Four Hundred there is not a woman
who. like the Princess OF Wales and Lady
Cadogan. is a Latin or Greek scholar.
The largest kitchen in the world Is in
that great Partisan store, the Bon Marche,
which has 1900 employees. The smallest
kettle contains 100 quarts and the largest
500.
Judge Wellhouse. OF Leavenworth coun-
~. Mas, is the great American apple
raiser. He has 400 acres Of trees set out,
and they have yielded Il ga bushels OF
fruit this year and made net profit Of
$1,000.
Probably no man has ever suffered more
than Byron from unhappy domestic ante
cedents The son Of mother with whom
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them mutually insupportable TO each 9TH
err the son of a father whose early death
was the best boon he could have con-
ferred on his infant heir, Byron had no
kin on either side TO fill the void which,
nature abhors, and which an especially
emotional nature like his Graves 10 have
filled. " nile from earlier ancestry tan
gle of embarrassment was demised TO him,
and his noble guardian showed him the
cold shoulder Of distasteful superciEous-
ness. he had "a heart which, though
faulty, was feeling" and sensitively sus-
ceptible Of all the mischief which this
array of mischances could produce.
With manifold charms Of person. voice
and manner, and with features which
flashed a mobile mirror of emotion ana
Intellect he was dashed and marred by
one malformaton' when, whlle u moru-
fed vanity. undermined physical health.
Too conscious of his besetting corpulent
tendencies-these again being due to a
maternal sOurce-he would prosecute MS
constitution ana eXdceFDdte tne puHstnCy
Of his caprices by extreme dietary treat
ynent. by fits of self-starvation and un-
wholesome counter agents 10 the dreaded
obesity.
by means Of tobacco chewing. green
tea drinking breaking a long fast on bis
cults and soda water by an outbreak on
potatoes. fsh-stale fish, one biosrapner
states-and vinegar, he CARED on an I'M
natural self-cOcrcion, a struggle between
vanity and avOrdupois. The loss OF
stone of flesh weight gla1dened him more
than all the sold copies OF the "Corsar.
II was Adonis-but Adonis boiteuX-pitted
against Sir John Falstaff in the same
capr.cious personality and even If he for
a while conquered the flesh he re-
tanned the "frailties." The consequences
were stomach in rebellion. liver stagna-
lion. and temper ever at full cock of re-
bellous versatility, while his minor habits
were TO the last degree vagrant ana nom
domestic. What subject Tor mitrlmony'
Us risky mass of conflicting eccentrici-
tiesi