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Alex,,,.tria 6azettf.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY is, 1855,

A RoMANcE.-News was received in
Richmond yesterday of the romantic
wedding in Reno, New, of Mrs. May
Talley, of that city, and Mr.. George I.
Rives, of San Francisco.
The marriage was the denouement
Of charming romance in real life. 1t
had its beginning many years ago,
when the bride was little May Patrick,
of Danville, and the groom was
sprightly lad who lived across the
street and carrie d her books to school
and PLAYED dolls with her when school
was out.
Mr.. Rives was always the devoted
dmirer of Miss May, and when she
gave her hand to another he said GOOD
i've with sad heart and went west.
That was twenty-three long years ago,
and in all that time they had not met:
Last Christmas Mrs. Talley received
a letter from the far west in which was
inclosed little Christmas card like this !:
Yours, as in other days. GEORGE.
The little messenger awakened
flood of recollections, and perhaps
something in her own heart which she
had not known was there. At any
rate, she did not treat the card with in,
difference, but wrote little note in
which she made delicate reference to a
possible "Mrs. George"
AS quickly as the mails could bring
it came the answer that there was no
''Mrs. George but there was some
body in the world who ought to have
been "Mrs. George" many years ago,
and that the proposition was still open.
The rest is soon told. Explanations
were made and an engagement follow
ed. Mr. Rives being too busy to come
to Virginia, Mrs. Talley suggested that
she would 60 to him. Accordingly,
her mother, Mrs L. a. Patrick, of Dali
vile, came to Richmond and helped
Mrs. Talley to wind up Ter affairs. and
on Thursday last she started for the
west 10 give heart and hand to the
sweetheart of her childhood. who had
been SO faithful in all the years that
had gone by since they met.
The groom is q son of Gen. Rives,
who lost his life in the Confederacy' s
cause, and the bride the daughter Of
the late DR.. 7. 1. Patrick, of Danville.
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Byo'Neal & Lunt. Auctioners.
DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF Trust
ID made by Presley Diggs and wife, 10 the
subscribers. as trustees of the German Co
operative Building Association, No. . Of
Alexandria, Virginia, dated the 4th day Of
January, 1898. and of record in the .ui
records of the city of Alexandria, Virgins
in deed book No. %, folio 443, they. the sub
scribers, trustees as aforesaid, will, by the
order Of the Board of Directors of the said
association, duly made. expose for sale at pub.
lie auction, on
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SATURDAY.
the 25th day of Nav. 1895.

SATURDAY.
the 25th day of May, 1895,
at o'clock NJ. at the Royal street entrance
to the Market Building in TIE said CITY OF
Alexandria, the PROPERTY conveyed
the said deed Of trust; to wit:
A LOT OF GROUND with the 3. I'D.
INGS thereon in the said city OF A e1sncra
bounded as follows; to wit: Beginning on
the north side of Wolfe street 63 feet D inchls
east of Fairfax street, and running cas, on
Wolfe street % feet 6 inches thence ortb
81 feet; thence west 3 feet; thence north 81
feet to 10-feet alley; thence west on SAID
alley 20 feet, and thence south 100 feet to
the beginning with all appurtenances.
Terms of sale: Cash.
JOSEPH KAUfMANN.
GEORGE w. FISHER, Trustees
WORTH HULFISH,
my9 eodts
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Rr O,Neal & Lunt. Auctioneers.

By O'Neal s. Lunt, Auctioneers.
DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST,
ID dated the first day of February. 1895,
executed by Samuel Il. Devsughn, the un
designed trustee named therein, at the re
quest of the party secured thereby, default
having been made by the said Samuel Ii. De-
vaughn under the provisions of said deed
will offer for sale at public auction, at twelve
o'clock noon on
SATURDAY. NAY 18th, 1895,
at No. 416 south Fairfax street, alexandria,
Va, the following property; to wit: Brus-
sells Carpets, = Bureaus, Wristbands. Side
board, ! Parfor Suit consisting o: Chairs,
Sofa, 2 Rockers and / Marb!e-top Table,,
Extension Table, 1 common Table 2 Rugs,
Refrigerator, 1 lot of Mating and one half
dozen Silver Spoons.
Terms of sale: Cash.
CHARLES H. MILLER,
ts
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Ticket Office, northeast corner Of 18th
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and at the
station, Sixth and B Streets, where orders can
be left for the checking of baggage to destins-
ton from hotels and residences.
s. N. PROVOST, J.R. WOOD;
General Manager General Passenger Agent
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expensive. The manners, costumes.
and speeches Of these athletic bellies are
matters of surprising interest to the
less fortunate country cousins. AS to
their speech 1t must be confessed that
bits of masculine slang are already
creeping in and forming landmarks of
their progress. 1t has been discovered
that "bully" is more expressive than
lovely, and in extreme cases by Jove"
has been substituted for 30 Dear!'
But the report that when a fair, young
hunter fails to take her fence, or comes
in too late for the finish. the sun Is
forthwith obscured by deep blue
vapor, is to be regarded as the mali
cious fancy Of an envious brain.
The women of the Westchester club
are quite as enthusiastic riders as the
the male members. Mrs. ]. b. Harri-
man and Miss Kate Cary are always to
be found at the meet, regardless Of
wind or weather. Possibly some of
the men can ride to the finish as
straight as Mrs. Hartman, but it is
an open question If any one of them
can equal her in appearance as she
clears ditch or takes the stiffeSt fence
alike with perfect grace and uncon-
Germ.
Mrs. Hartman is large, blonde wo-
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concrete and beautiful example.

concrete and beautiful example.
1t was one of a trio Of lovable exam
pies seen in third tier box at the
Horse Show-and the Horse Show is
of the three swell gowning places of
the world, the Ascot and the Grand
Prize being the others, quite equally
"horsey." The other two examples
were as different as can be. One show
ed bodice of printed dark green vel
vet with patterns in cream and touch
of red, with a square yoke filed in with
sheeny silk of palest apple green. And
the same pale green showed between
the perpendicular folds in which the
heavier material was arranged. And
the sleeves, about which 1 really start
ed to tell, were not sloping at all. but
sprang right from the edge of the yoke
to the elbow and bounded thence in a
smaller puff nearly to the wrist. A
wide band of the velvet emphasized
the sleeves, which were mainly of the
lighter green. And the sleeves of the
third girl-well, think they were of
nearly the same shape. except that they
were a little longer and without the
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improvement In the side saddle that
affords an opportunity of Tightening or
loosening the girth and regulating the
stirrup without dismounting.
The new woman insists that women
should ride astride; but the new wo-
man is still so very new that her judy
ment is apt to be a little crude. The
fashion has not yet gained the unqual-
flied sanction Of the physician, and
does not obtain at all even among the
ultra progressive women Of the smart
set
No doubt the fatigue of a rough
steeple-chase is much less when the
rider is privileged to accurately balance
his weight; but women who are in the
habit Of being long in the saddle are
rapidly learning to appreciate the mer-
it's Of the reversible pummel. The i'm.
mense popularity Of this saddle In En-
gland is no doubt partially due to it's
advocacy by tn Princess of Wales; and
as she Is an expert hOrse-woman her
opinion ought to count for something
Miss A. G. Bracket set the fashion for
it on American fields. and 1t is now
used for all extended rides through the
mountains, for a long jaunt with coach
ing parties and occasionally even for
riding with the hounds. Miss Gerry,
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man mugnlncently athletic both in ply
sique and carriage, and ranks as one
Of the best feminine athletes in the
country. In the recent Gymkhana
games she was pitted against some Of
the strongest men In the club; but she
proved equally skillful at managing a
four-in-hand, guiding a tandem, and
controlling the too naughty spirit Of a
vicious polo pony. She can spring in
to a saddle with the ease and quickness
of a cowboy in an Indian district and
dismount without touching the curved
hand of her escort.
The women who are oftenest at the
'kill'' at the Meadowbrook Hunt are
Mrs. James L. Kernochan. Lady Ken
yon Stowe, and Mrs. Adolph Laden
burg. The latter was the only lady
who rode to the finish at the recent run
of the Meadowbrook hounds when the
Duke of Marlborough was the guest
of honor.
Mrs. Kernochan is born horsewoman
and is often in the saddle eight and
nine hours day. To ride from meet
to finish, clearing every ditch with easy
skill, taking fence that is suggestive
of cropper even to a novice, and then
to canter gayly home with the we'll
earned brush dangling from the POM
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sieur Worms, the master, is not yet
here; but this petted favorite does not
disturb his dejeuner for the insignifi-
cant beginners; not that he bestirs him
self much more for men who have sue
ceeded;-his role in life is that of an au
tocrat, which happily does not prevent
him from being an excellent teacher
One of his pupils who obtained first
mention in comedy. Mile. Rabuteau,
has much talent. To begin with, she
is endowed with brains, and really
turns them to account in studying her
roles. She has Il spice of originality in
her also, from the quick way in which
she turns her blonde head, to the grace
full gestures in which she dareS to use
the full length of her arms. Mile.
Rabuteau is very young, not over
seventeen certainly, and yet her emo
tons stand ready to be summoned for
any scene. Sometimes one trembles
slightly and looks in the direction Of
the cool gray-headed mother among the
listeners, whose eyes never leave her
daughter, and who, one concludes,
must make an excellent guardian for
this erratic young maiden. Personally
Mile. Rabuteau seems to me to possess
the most talent of any one in the
school; she comes the nearest to being
a genius, and for that very reason she
may overStep the mark and never be
heard of more.
All the while there has been a con-
slant babel in the corridor of the Con-
servatoire. and the director has for
born to say "En arriere. Mesdemoi-
selles. en- arriere." Everybody is al
lowed to stand around and talk, blessed
privilege that it is! And when sud
den silence falls there can be but one
explanation,-Mons Worms, who
is stepping out of the directors office.
His carriage has left him at the back
entrance and he stopped to say few
mildly sarcastic things to Monsieur lie
Director. AS the actor passes along
the men raise their hats and the girls
bow. and Mile. Lara and her mother,
who have just entered, stop to shake
hands with the master. Mile Lara,
you. must understand, took the first
prize in comedy; she is niece of Sarah
Bernhardt,s, although she bears no
possible resemblance to her noted rel
alive. The young actress is short ana
slender, with an air of good breeding
which permeates everything she does.
she mas Il pledSduC, SUI NolSc Wiehou'
much power; indeed she is not re-
markable, but at least she is not vul-
gar. During her course at the Con-
servatoire she has gained the respect
and admiration of the whole class be-
cause of her irreproachable bearing.
lie Journal" speaking of the differ
ent prize winners said, Now, young
men and young women, go to sleep and
dream,-dream that in few years you
will be really great artists, individual
artists, giving to the crowdsn new emo
ton or a new laugh; and it will be we'll
if the dream of single one comes
true" That is cynicism-some of them
will succeed in the natural course of
events. I could help Fortune choose
her favorites if she would allow me;
but alas! that goddess rules alone.
Meanwhile Monsieur Worms and his
pupils. new and old, walk up the stairs
and the work for the new year begins.
HELENA CRUMETT LEE.
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Of cut and shaping grow more refined.
Now we mass our colors, and break
them, If need be, with bands of lace ap-
pliqued and rich garniture Of Jet and
embroidery. There are shades Of
blue and green so deity combined that
it is hard to say to which color they in
cline, and these Of course are used in
combination with their kindred on
either side.
One hears very little about riding
habits this fall, less perhaps than ever
before, for so hath the bicycle decreed;
but habits are green, even to sage green,
but of course remain severely plain and
simple of cut. A new London wrinkle
is safety breadth so fastened in the
skirt, as to come out and remain hang
ing on the pommel if the rider be
thrown.
OF course there is no dress like the
tailor-made, for what is known as the
Zine woman" ELLEN OSBORN.
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A PRIZE WINNER IN TRAGEDY.
digious stick, the whole capped by a
face of the common French type;
brown hair worn pompadour, brown
eyes which looked many things, and
full, SenSuous mouth.
He comes forward. shaking hands
with the men, but always looking in
the direction of the group of girls, to-
wards whom he did not walk, how
ever. In Paris one never finds young
men talking with young girls in the
way so universal is America. They
look and look at each other and have
already progressed far towards &C
workmanship before word has been
spoken. So Monsieur Ravet changed
from one foot to the other as he smiled
and bowed, first to one girl and then to
another; and whatever he did there
was an air of self-consciousneSs about
it, This had been noticed in his Or
este" which gained him the first men-
ton in tragedy; later in the programme
he had turned this characteristic into
a help in the role of Lebonard in the
"Visite de Noces;" and the audience
clapped their hands and murmured.
Tres gentil-tres gentil" when the
jury awarded MIN the second prize IN
comedy.
You see any aspirant for honors can
compete for both prizes-comedy and
tragedy. If he fails in one the chance
still remains of his having better luck
in the other
The man who obtained one Of the
prizes in comedy this year was Mon
sieur Coste, pupil of Monsieur De-
launay-a fellow who understood how
to study, but who brought no special
talent to his work. He gave a scene
from the Marriage Force" and as one
paper remarked. He knew very we'll
how the scene was played at the Come
die Franchise. and he played it no
worse than another.
"Eh bien-Eh bien!" Monsieur ST.
blot said. bounding in unnoticed until
The herald., 1895-11-17
THE CORRECT RIDING HABIT.

L he CORIIOI ltIDlA>S lIADAL
mel is day of ideal enjoyment to this
lover of outdoor sports.
Other enthusiastic members of the
Meadowbrook club are Mrs. August
Belmont, Mrs. Butler Duncan, jr., Mrs.
Charles Carroll, and Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer Kennedy.
The Ballston hounds have been in
full cry since the beginning of the hunt
ing season. Even during the intense
heat in September sufficient number
of devOtees were found for short run.
Some fine riding has been done this
fall by the women of the Ballston
Springs club who own their own hunt
ers. Miss Helen Potter on Raleigh,
Miss Grace Vassar on Rarus, and Miss
Bessie Vassar on the favOrite Bismarck
are usually in at the death; and as Il
consequence they have Il fine collection
of hunting trophies.
Another fearless rider Is Miss Helen
Page. daughter of ]. Seaver Page of
the Richmond County club. On more
than one occasion her straight riding
has entitled her to the glory of the
brush or the lesser honor of the pad.
While up in the Genesee Valley Miss
Fitzhugh and Miss Kane bid fair to
outrank even English sportswomen in
the remarkable GOODNESS and pluck they
manifest in a difficult cross-country
run.
Now that American women have
actually gone in for riding as leglti-
mate pleasure, it is not enough that
they understand the good points in
horse flesh as well as any jockey, nor
that they are as well posted in eques-
trian etiquette as an Accomplished rid
ing-master; they must needs compre-
bend every intricacy in the manufac-
ture of saddle and bride, and are no
longer willing to trust their safety to
the care of the hostler or the watch
fulness of Providence.
Nine. Guerra, of Paris, has done
much to tighten the responsibility OF
the hostler at least, by the recent in.
vention she has just patented. 1t is an
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coming more and more dressy as New
York becomes more cosmopolitan. One
wears now, if she has it, even in the Or
chestra chairs of good theatre such
a cloak as | saw last night at "The
Shopgirl, and, by the way, that curl
Gus farce interests not only the Yam
kee shop girl but the Yankee shopper,
as well it might, since the odd old pro-
prietor of 'Whitely's" great store in
London is, as l happen TO know, the
original of "Hooley" in the play.
But the cloaks the thing, not the
play. And the cloak wasn't a cloak at
all, but an extra long and voluminous
cape of-guess.-of peach and blue bro
cade topped with smaller cape of Sa-
bic and that again with still smaller
cape of peach and blue which opened
with a wide rolling collar to show a
lining of sable again. 1t has to be very
warm, indeed, to compel a woman to
throw off a cape like that, unless her
dress bodice happens to be equally
pretty.
In racing over generalities one is apt
TO trip. But there comes from Paris n
great wave of gossip about the ostrich
plume for millinery, and from London
the first of a monstrOusly ugly sack
coat as shapeless as shoe box but of
modish, if of the finest velvet, and
from Paris again of glorified blouses in
the paleSt of tints for the SWEETEST of
occasions; and from everywhere of
the persuasive beauty of three shades
of tan and three hundred shades. or so
it seems, of green. For the air is full
of green. 1t is the tint of the season.
1t goes with everything, from white
10 black and makes its way with each.
And man, the slavish imitator, is put
ting green into his suit of day clothing
and green and red into his tie and the
same cOlors even into the enamel of
his cuff links. Man has no originality!
And of course where there is green
there is yellow. Green in the skirt, vel
low in the blouse. Color effects grow
holder, gear by year, even as effects
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forming a background OF changing
scarlet and gold.
The incessant echo Of the gun over
meadow and moor has taught the most
innocent birds wary tricks. Already
the partridge flies low, and the SOUR
rels dash out of sight IL a nut falls
with unaccustomed vigor.
Far and wide, wherever Dame
Fashion has rent roll, the horn OF
the hunter is heard in the land for the
hunting season is now in full swing,
and spirited runs with the hounds are
almost daily occurrences.
At the Meadowbrook Hunt at Tuxe-
do at Ballston Springs, and at the
Westchester County Club, women are
seen in the saddle at every meet. For,
since our American bellies have tasted
the lows of cross-country riding over
English meadows and lanes, they have
entered into the sport at home with
their customary enthusiasm and aban-
don, proving themselves fine equestri-
ennes and true SpOrtswomen.
The present generation of fashiona-
bile women have been trained to sit a
horse from the time they could be
mounted with safety. Their education
in the riding academy has been quite
as thorough as in the gymnasium, the
conservatory or in the vital study of
social ethics. They are as proud of
their ability to distinguish a thorough
bred horse or Homeland they have the
ability-as they are of their knowledge
of old pictures or good music.
Many wealthy women now own IA
nous horses and enter them for prizes
at the various horse shows,-and, what
is every frequently win the prizes.
Undoubtedly hunting, in the English
sense of following the hounds. out
ranks all other outdoor sports for wo-
men as well as men. The mental cheer
and physical exhilaration that comes
with a run with the hounds over fine
country in glorious autumn weather is
such a JOY to the soul of women that
n greater can scarcely be imagined.
The old cry that women should not
be permitted to join in these so-called
masculine sports has choked on its own
absurdity, and society is actually con-
graduating itself that it's feminine
members can boast health as well as
style.-muscles that will not dent. and
a complexion that is genuine if rather
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second puff, but 1 really don't know.
For my eyes were all for black and
yellow dress, which may have symbol
lied Princeton's victory of the week
before-a skirt of black silk, and tiny
zouave jacket of the same with velvet
tabs and jet ornaments. and sleeves
and blouse of rich, yellow satin netted
with black thread and dotted with jet.
And there were fringed shoulder bands
and jetted waistband of black velvet,
and demurely cut collar and epaulets
of yellow velvet, secured with a big
bow tie. Yellow gloves and a big min
iature brooch and dear little toque Of
yellow and black and
I'm glad the show is over!
That cunning jacket l shall remem-
Der at least week, though other scenes
are pressing hard upon us. There is
the theatre, for instance, which, is be-
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his grunted "Eh bien" caused every
one to turn. Then there was a mad
rush. ''Siblot-It's Siblot, mama,"
the young girls said to their chaper-
ones; and everybody was shaking
hands with everybody else, while Mon
sieur Siblot stood back and said, Il
don't seem to be in it," Really how
ever the whole demonstration was in
tended for this favorite- the reproduc
ton in larger mould of Monsieur Got,
and the favorite man-pupil of the whole
Ecole. Monsieur Siblot was under
Monsieur Got until last year, when
Monsieur de Feraudy took the masters
place. The young Siblot has profited
by the good instruction which he was
privileged to have, and he does unusu-
ally solid. honest work. Perhaps there
is a little too much imitation in it to
please an American. but the professors
and students and the press are all in
dulgent to the coming comedian. In
the roles of old men, which are what he
chooses mostly, Monsieur Siblot does
some very good work. His face is a large
and fiabby, with the peculiar thick
Tipped changeful mouth which is one
of Monsieur Cots characteristics; and
he is invariably good natured and Sc
rene, disposition not to be lightly
valued in a profession where every
body is more or less of a firebrand.
Five minutes past eleven and Mon
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Their maintains a school for the educa-
ton of actors and actresses. This insti-
tuition is called the Ecole de Declama-
ton, and forms part of the great con-
Servatoire of Paris.
Each year contests take place at
which prizes are awarded in comedy
and tragedy; and those obtaining the
first prizes in each are engaged for a
year at the Odeon, the second national
theatre.
The opening of the school in October
always sees a coming together of the
contestants of the previous June. 1t
is sort of reunion after lies vacances,"
and usually a commiseration meeting
as well. to condole with each other on
the smallness of the parts which Mon
sieur Marx, villain" director of the
Odeon. has given these new artists.
1t is Monday morning, and ten min
utes of eleven by the clock in the quaint
gray court of the Conservatoire. The
concierge is running about here and
there in his odd little black silk cap,
which he touches unceremoniously to
those pupils whom he fancies,- for the
Bohcmianism of the place has pene-
trated even to the concierge's loge. The
door opens.