The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-25

well known all over the country. II Will
be remembered that Miss Emily Wander
Tilt Shepard, daughter Of the late Elliot
Shepard, scandalized her family by being
quietly married TO David Hennen Morris,
OF the famous Louisiana Morris family,
two months ago in New York city.
Right after the marriage the mother OF
the bride gathered UP her remaining
daughter and fed to the Sloane retreat
at Lcnox. Mrs. Sloane tried TO comfort
her sister, but all in vain.
one day a mutual friend visited the
Morris bridal pair at Bar Harbor and
told a story of the Illness Of Mrs. Shep-
ard at Lenox. I'VE will go TO her at
once" exclaimed the bride and when
she sees how happy we are she VIII for
give-she Will forgive!"
Up to LenOX they travelled and crept
in under the elms at dusk to break in
upon the weeping but stubborn mother
as she was breaking her toast in her In
vald's apartment. More woepings, more
explanations and much endearment fol-
lowed, and now "ails well that ends
we'll" The Morrises and the Shep-
ards are coming to Lenox in a day or
two for a fall visit ere the bridegroom
goes back 10 college.
Lenox society is terribly exercised over
the future OF the bicycle. II is unani-
mously agreed that the whole of the
Newport. Bar Harbor and Narragansett
summer colonies are to September here.
but what will become Of the bicycle?
NEW INcITEMfN1.
Lcnox is all hills, and few have the
muscle TO attack them. Miss Fair. whose
muscle IS equal to her sprightliness Of
spirit. will have no trouble, nor Mrs.
Henry Clews. the ex-champion; nor yet
Miss McAlistor, who promises TO come
here for two weeks; but there are others
hundreds Of others-who can neither
coast" nor climb, and who grieve as
those without hope hen they think Of
living month with the little wheel
1t is understood and made creditahly
certain that several small Inventions
for urging the machines UP hill viii be
tested at Lencx between now and the
fall of the leaves. and unless Mr.. Edison
hurries in his promise TO harness cleo
tricity 10 the cycle going up hill he
viii be forestalled by some simple
strengthening device.
There is always n small blight upon
the rose that mars its fair heart, and so
it Is with the utmost disgust that the
wealthy cottagers drive through their
broad roadways and cut upon the mag
nihCently kept public drives, past a
small wooden structure little more than
i q pig pen in size and surrounded by
| sunnowers. cabIages and chickens.
The cottage belongs to a primitive
Lenoxite who VIII not SELL lie owns a
few acres. for which he has been Of
fered $4,000. but ike George Wander
bits obstinate neighbor, he prefers his
little ancestral pigpen 10 thousands in
the bank, lie barely makes MS fodder,
but like the Miller Of the Dee, he sings
all day. and none so happy as he. The
Westinghouse. in their great marble
palaces that stand alone in the midst
OF many acres like mausoleums in a
baronial heritage, lock disconnected com
pared tc this singing intruder.
The Westinghouse village is a most
picturesque one The white stone barns.
the gas house upon the side hill. the
great windmill. the arbors the towers,
and finally the mansion, are marveis or
beauty and will stand as castles" when
all else has crumbled.
Nobody ever walks at Lenox. and u Is
here the bellies come TO learn the arts OF
the four-in-hand which they would not
practice in Central Park. Driving takes
IN all the day until dinner. when there
is a great spread. a dance always. and
then a long. healihful sleep. Twice a
week there are picnics into somebody 6
valley and for a little exercise after
wards and to make their cheeks red, the
bellies climb the mountain-sde and take
a short difficult path home.
Ienox's natural beauties surprise Wis
lting foreigners more than Newport. As
the very sagacious little Count de Cas-
tellane remarked to the lady who intro
duced him there. "lf we had this in
France we would advertise it as n ma
tlonal wonder and charge Americans a
fortune to come and see it,"
HARRY GERMAiNE.