Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-27
CHILDREN HAVE FUN
~ -Four Little Dlvsnpofts CIls Thsl,
Friends 1 Rive, Outing.
THE DAY At WARWICK PARK.
the Company Of Juveniles Enjoy Rompins
About and Engaging In Out
of.Dcor spors.

A merrier and happier party was never
gotten together than that which sailed
away" TO Warwick Park yesterday morn
ing.
The occasion was river-outing given
by AIR. and Mrs. Gideon Davenport, OF
No. west Franklin street, 10 the little
friends of their ehiidren--''thc four little
Dsvenports" Rutherford. Mamie. Eliza
beth. and Elsie.
The affair had beea the talk In Juvenile
society for some days. and was looked
forward to with the greatest delight.
THOSE WHO WERE INVITED.
\ The list OF those hidden Is as follows
Emilie Addison, Annie Lee Alfriend,
Mary Addison, Rutherford Addison,
Sally Reid. Ellen g.. Elsie. and Dorsey
Anderson. Marie Archer. Carrie
Armistead. Ida. Bertie. Elizabeth, and
Thomas Atkinson. Ellen Bagby. Louise
end Violet Barbour. Evelyn and Annie
Baylor. Ella Binfori. Lillian Guy, VOL
folk Binford, George and Irwin Blair,
Leila Blair. Randolph Boiling. Preston
and Aubin Boulware. Matte and Russell
Bowie. Jenny and Daisy Boyd. Goodwin,
Robert and Edward Boykin, John A.
and James Branch. Lizzie Brander. LEILA
Bridges, Thomas Bryan, May, Sidney
and Erskine Buford. Howard Bruce Ella
Buek. Florence Cabell, John and Robert
cabcli. Jeanne,te and Flora Cameron,
Margaret Cameron. Ellie. May, and Ora.
ham Carmichael, Anna Dean, Margaret
harrington. Lily and Lacius Cary Otway
Charley. Helen and Jack Christian. Her,
bert Claiborne, Bernard Cooke. John
Coke, pieasanton Conquest, Jennie Con-
rad, Aiieen. James. Charles. and Henry
Cowardin, Winifred ana Octayia Cren-
shaw, Courtney Crump. Archer ana
frank Christian, Fred. Scott Campbell,
Robert Daniel. Seppie and William
DoSaussnre. Bessie Dunlop. Annie ana
Mary Drewry. Tazewell Elicit, Tazewell,
Fleming, Edna Forbes, Gladys and Bessie
Fyazier, lack White Fuller. Evelyn Cor
don, Avis Percy Grant, Purcell and Alfred
Gray. Thomas Haxall Grundy. Alex Cub
gon, Blair and Sarah Harvie, Lucy Hayes,
LILY Hin. Saliie, Fannie. Carydon, and
Archer Hobson, Alice Hotchkiss, Venable
Johnson Julia and Archer Joynes. Bessie
and William Jackson, Mary and Louise
JAMES Emslie and Conway Knox, Katie
and Henry Lancaster. Mamie and Phyllis
g.anghorne. Helen, and Barkesdale
pickett Lathrop. Mary and Moore La
throp. Nora. John, and Thomas Leary,
Palmer Lee, Helena lie Froy, Fannie
Lewis. May Lynch, Henningham and
Writ Lyons. Fairfax Loving Louise IIar-
rlson. Louise and Thomas McAdams.
Annie Mccaw, Gertie Mcclure. Helen and
Kate McIntirc, Virginia Mcleod. Robert
Martin, Annie Mayo, Kate and Posie
Meredith. Edith Merrill. Adair Minor,
Percy, Neville. and IneZ Montague, Nan
ME. Meredith. and Triplett MONTAGUE,
Mary Moore. Blythe Moore. Page Nor
ton. Robert Munford. Margaret Moran.
Mary and Thomas Moulin. Mamie Gar
nett Mccarthy, Julie, Richard, and
Adolph Osterloh, Helen OFerrall. Ethel
Pace. Gabrielle Page. Elise Parkinson.
Archie Pattison, Mamie Patton. Criswald
Perkins, Ramsey peytOn. Marie Potts'
Pauline Powers, Elizabeth Preston,
Louise. Willie. and Eddie Price. Louise
Purcell. Clelland Randolph, Bessie and
Addison Reynolds. Martha Robinson.
Hugh and rutherford Rose, Page and
Annie Emile Royal, Laura and Gwen
dolin Rutherford. Mary Street. Kate
Seldom. james and Vonable Seldom Sue
Grey SkipwIth, Mamie. Ida, and Mary
Stegcr, Evelyn Stiles, Aline and Charlie
Stoke. Sadie Sutton. Grace Shields.
Charles Talbot. Charlie Talbot. Annie,
Nettie and Willie Talbot, Maggie Au-
g,Ista. Martha. and Leonora Tinsley,
Charles Todd. Della, Nellie, Bessie, and
McCaw Tompkins. Willie and Berthe
Trlgg, Willie Tyler Dan Talley, Bessie.
Alfred, and Willie Upshur. Lily Urduhart.
Fred. Valentine, Robert and Dugald Wal
ker. Maxwell Wallace. Margaret and
Byrd Warwick. Elsie Watkins. Bessie
Watkins, Mcdonald and Landon Well
ford. John Worth. Elizabeth, Frances. and
James Wheat. LulIe, Elizabeth, and
Charles WhitlOck. Mamie and Davenport
Williams. Bertha Williams. Maria VIII
liams. Marguerite, Alec. and Richard VIII
llams. jamie Wlngo. james Wise, Douglas
Wise Brent Witt, George West Norman
Yarbrough, Maggie and Lima Shields,
Mamie Lee.
THE INVITATIONS.
The invitations were printed IN gold.
under a picture Of three Brownies en-
gagad in fishing. and read
rutherford Mamie, Elizabeth. and Elise.
Are four little Davcnports and all wish
90 please,
They dwell at No. C FRANKLIN street west,
And TO make you happy they will do their
very best
So TO have picnic have decided will be
gay,
on Saturday next, the 2Gth Of May.
Their picnic viii h. at Warwick Park,
So hasten TO be ready. as happy as a lark.
For At Rockets your friends you Will
meet,
Each one with hearty welcome we will
sure TO greet
As the clock strikes 10. we will not tarry
long,
But on the Ariel embark with music and
song.
ALL REPLIED IN VERSE.
II was whispered about-from what
source no one knows. perhaps a bird told
IL, for children never talk-that the first
little one 10 respond had given the four
little Dayenports "a Roland for .helr oil
ver-that Is. had replied 20 the invita- ton
I'm verse Then II appears conspias,
or something like unto e was formed for
rythmic bomhardment, Every mother
son and daughter OF those invited
whether accepting or declining. responded
In verse. and the four little Davenport
have a barrel OF poetry. From the two
hundred and more responses the Dispatch
wives the abjoined specimens:
Your nice invitation was quite neat.
Mind, conSiderate, and very sweet
ANA ,he four wee Davenporis would like
The four little Davenports OF Franklin
street
But Helen o'Ferrall is awfully sad:
shes not very well, ana is feeling quite
Yes. indeed. It would much delight me to
love to have fun. and / like pic-nics
But our doctor stern man. won't give me
show:
slow
know IN get mad. and slam the door.
Ana wriggle about til l fall on the floor.
But dear little friends wish you much
You three little girls aud one little boy.
May Heaven Smilc on your picnic.
Despite the fact that lm sad and sick.
There were three little Talbotts that said
IneN would much rather be put TO bed
Than ever TO miss
Such visions OF bliss,
AS the paVenporis put in their head.
O, III 80, yes indeed. I'm sure TO be
there;
That is II don't change my mind:
my dress suits my taste, II the weather
Is fair
And II thcre're no more IFS can find.
Fannie l.. Jenkins.
Elise:
We ffink it's mighty feet OF you
~ Nite us 10 your picnic, too;
Nh0 we would bofe dess love 20 co.
but Me'se wight little dlfs, and so
shf muVycrE fTink well have to droy
sess little blgger bigger men dat We
IAN 80 out lots In 'ci-e-ty!
~, whns we'Se bofe 80 very small