Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-05
CONVICTION.
The Woes OF n CorrespOndent-sep
TENDER Guests.

TENDER Guests.
| INTERMONT. CONVICTION, VA,
| September 4-(Speclal) 1.-The moral ef-
| feet upon the company at summer
resort of reading a breezy letter from
that place of all its happenings Is won
| derful. We think that there must De
fewer agreeable people, amusements.
beaux, beauties, and all that goes to
make the pleasure OF resorts, at ours
than at others, and begin to wonder
| Why we did not turn our steps I'm other
irectlons, when the Sunday papers
cveal to us through the resort letter
at we are having a charming time,
and that OF all places ours is the one
% meet delightful people and do de-
lghtfu things. A popular exchange
was a delicious trayesty upon this, IN
tho little dialogue between two girjs
who are ranked among pleasure-seek-
ers: isn't this dreadful? | never was
so bored in my life-there Is simply no.
thing TO do Let's go and read the
newspapers about tho gay time we are
having up here" So is the poor cor
respondent driven to the extremity OF
exercising a vivid imagination. or have
her resort set down upon the black
letter list OF stupid places. one fact is
always forgotten about pleasure resorts.
Most people leave home and go to them
to do nothing, and their pleasure is to
take the long-needed rest, each in his
or her own fashion-not entering into
q ceaseless round Of amusements that
do not amuse. SO 1t IS often more en-
tertaining to read about the pleasures
than 70 enter into them-and the lot OF
the correspondent is to please equally
those who read and those who actively
participate To be in disgrace because
Of the sins OF omission which every cor
respondent has to assume Is but
small part of the difficulties, for how
could she hope 10 please the proprietor,
the guests, individually and collective
ly, and the editors, all? OF course, she
never pleases herself. and 80 the work
begins and ends with the uncomfort-
able consciousness that, with all her
efforts. nobody Is pleased. She must
look for reward only in that land OF
pure delight where congregations ne'er
break up" for I'm spite Of all her best
efforts, they will disintegrate when the
leaves begin TO fall Intermont holds
it's own, gathering from White Sulphur
Old Sweet, and Chalybeate in round
numbers, until the choice rooms are
filed or bespoken.
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee Miss Lee. Misses
Anne Fitzhugh, and Virginia Lee, ar
rived on Wednesday evening from Char
lottesyille. Va. and Miss Annie Leigh
Camm from New York.
Mrs Alice II. Legare, OF Charleston, s. |
c., also returned from the Hot Springs,
where she had been making visit.
A party spent Monday at Hot Springs.
comprising Captain and Mrs. Sydney !
Stewart. Misses Livingston, Mrs. Nc
Rary and Miss Virgins.
Miss jamie Strange, the attractive
daughter OF Mrs. John Wilder Atkinson, |
OF Wilmington. N. c., who has been al
White Sulphur has joined here her |
friends. Miss Virgins and Mrs. McRary.
Mrs. Brooks Johnston and Mrs. X. u. |
Weight. OF Norfolk. entertained number
of lady friends at very Jolly chafing-
dish-room party on Friday evening at |
IL o'clock. Among the guests were Mrs |
Fitzhugh Lee, Mrs. Girardeau. Mrs
Legare, Mrs. .Smythe, Mrs. Camm. Mrs
Etchison, Mrs. Agelasto. Mrs. Peyton, |
Mrs. Tebault Misses Ellen and Anne
Fitzhugh Lee, Alice Peyton. Mary Hume. |
Mama Godfrey, Gertrude and Annie |!
Leigh Camm.
Mrs. Legare. Mrs. Weight, Mrs. John |
ston Misses Graham. Camm. Godfrey. |
and Mr., venable. played a series OF COM
petitive games OF euchre. at which Mrs.
Legare came out victor.
Mrs. Rhode Ill., Of Atlanta, q lady Of
culture and conversational gifts. was an |
honored guest OF the lnteFment during