Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-17

Emsio Icgram, Halle Cooke Leila Cray,
Mary McCaw, Kathleen Anderson Rachel
Cooke, Marian Robins. Mary Rogers.
Nepc Glasgow Marianne Meade, Mary
liill, with Misses Allng. Carpenter
Ship. and Johnston. who are visiting in
the city. Some OF the gentlemen were
Messrs. Edward Grant. Cham. Peasants.
John Currie, Victor Williams Armistead.
Joel Perrin. OTIS Alfriend. George Reid.
Randolph Darlington. Harrison Blair Ed.
Benson. St George Cooke. Granville Grey,
Bidgood, Anderson, Carlton, McKenney.
Young, Douglas Adair. Greer Baughman.
Corrtsworth Pinckney, George Lathrop.
and others.
One OF the prettiest home weddings
which has ever taken place In Richmond
occurred al the residence OF Mr. A. l..
HUNT, 80 Park avenue, Thursday night,
when Mr.. Frank Henry Andrews. OF Mis-
sissippi. was the fortunate groom. and
Miss Mary +. HUNT the lovely bride
The three parlors. thrown into one. by
means OF double doors. gave a spacious
ness and elegance that few houses are
capable Of. and banks OF palms and
flowers in every available alcove and
point OF vantage made the scene one OF
unusual beauty. The bride entered with
her father from the rear room and ad-
vancing through an aisle formed by white
ribbons. was met at the improvised altar
by the groom and his best man, Mr..
Jordan Leake. OF Richmond.
There Is no adjective with which TO
describe the pure simplicity Of the altar
before which they stood, with its soft
drapery OF spotless white and the CLEAN
of silver candelabra. which seemed to
spread their rays over the happy pair
in gentle bencdiction. The place was
NGf ~ ana
mated from an orchestra concealed
amidst the tropical loneliness of palms
and ferns, and the delicious fragrance OF
American Beauty roses added TO the
sweet melody Of I'm the Fragrant Sum-
mer Time" typifed "the years that stand
waiting 10 welcome" The ribbons
were held by Messrs. william Hunt.
brother of the bride; Mac. McCabe, Otis
Alfriend, and Frank Potts, while little
Miss Sallie Huntt held the brides bouquet
during the ceremony, which was impress
lively performed by Rev. DR.. Hartley
Carmichael. OF st. Paul's Episcopal
church. The ceremony over an elegant
supper was served.
Mr.. Andrews Is well known In Virginia
and Richmond. having attended the Uni
versity, and once been q resident Of
this city. He now holds a position of
prominence in banking circles at Vicks-
burg, and is highly esteemed among the
businessmen Of that place.
The literary evenings at the Woman's
Club-always full of instructive and. at
the same time. pleasureable features
reached its climax on Monday afternoon,
when that masterpiece Of German litera-
ture and queen regnant OF dramatic
and tragedic poetry, Goethe's Faust"
was presented to the club in its triune
bearing as a beautiful narrative, a moral
treatise, and a psychological, political,
and philosophical study. The papers
were read by Mrs. +. c. Minor, chair
man OF the evening; Miss Annie Empie
Sheppard. and DIR. Russell Pemberton,
of Philadelphia, and were both able and
polished, deserving to be preserved in
the archives of the club as choice pro-
auctions of richly-cultivated minds.
The story of Faust gained impress
siveness and charm as told by Mrs.
Minor, and Miss Sheppards introduction
to her paper, on 1.-THE First Part Of
Faust" was but the dawn Of bril-
liant sunburst II should be quoted
wherever opportunity offers. reading, as
IL does: IN existence there are Two
warning elements-the human and the
divine-the delight of the senses and
that pang which is symbolized by the
desire of the moth for the STAR" 1t
seems the special mission of poetry to
harmonic those two Earring notes, un-
I'll the winged and immortal thought,
transfused with light and color, palpi-
tating with music, mounting ever higher,
at last 'gainst radiant ether, and the
moth and the star have met. Accepting
the proposition that a mans poetry re-
fleets his spiritual and sensuous nature,
while his philosophy indicates the type
Of mental organization, we must look
upon Goethes great masterpiece-the
dramatic poem of Faust'-as the I'M
conscious revelation. first, Of his spiritual
being, and. later, of the progress of his
intellectual life"
The last paper, on "The Second Part
of Faust" was to have been read by
Mrs. r. William Pemberton, but, with a
modesty which was indicated by the
statement In her introduction-that the
chief merits of the paper must be ac-
corded to a certain fair-haired youth.
who sat beside her during a presenta-
ton Of the play. which she witnessed
while I'm Germany, and Justffiable
pride. I'm the scholarly attachments OF
that certain youth"-she delegated the
pleasant duty to her son, DR.. Russell
Pemberton, whose paper as an entirety
was a thoughtful, instructive, and finish
ed essay, a short extract from which
will give some slight idea of the beauty
of its rhetoric. OF Faust" and its au-
thor, he says: Conceived in his youth,
appropriated with the poetic fancies of
his earlier manhood, elaborated with all
the force and vigor of his mature years,
pruned and perfected by the last strokes
of his master hand. it comes to us as
a biography-a record not after the fash
ion OF a dairy, but (what is more valu-
able. a record Of his thought-life."
There was a very large attendance In
response to the charming programme, ana
an unusual number Of visitors present
The guests Of the chairman were: MISS
Carrie Minor, Mrs. w. w. Archer, MISS
Fitznatrick. DR.. Russell Pemberton, Miss
Olga Branch. Miss Juliet Lee, Mrs. Hart
well Mrs. Annie Gordon, Mrs. John How
ard Southall.
Among the courtesies being extended TO
Miss Leila Garrett, Of Norfolk, during her
stay i'm Richmond is a post-german sup
per given last Tuesday night by Misses
Lucy and Empsie Pegram, which num-
bered among the guests Misses Mary Nc
Cav. Marianne Meade, Judith Deane,
Johnson. Carpenter, Ella jackson, Mabel
and Inlie Walker, Kathleen Anderson,
ReDe Glasgow, NHSlild hSLcOu' 'N''
Saunders, Annie Lee Alfriend, and Messrs.
Ed. Robinson, Frank Potts, James Ruin
erfoord, Horace Halves. Grant, Carlton
McKenney, William HUNT, Arlington
Pinclsney. Horace Halves, Otis Alfriend'
ed Harrison, Cham. Peasants, 81.
George Cooke, Frank Blankenship.
One of the most notable events in this
seasons social doings will be the re-
ception to be given by the Old Dominion
C,ha nter Of the Daughters of the Ameri-