The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-25
THE WHIRL-
OF SOCIETY.
What so Finds TO Entertain Our
Sunday Readers.
THE PAST WEEK HAS BEEN A
GAY ONE IN SOME RESPECTS
THE CIRCUS AND BASEBALL d.
vIDED HONoRS-THE ANNIvER-
sARY CELEBRATION BY THE
SHAKESPEARE CLUB WAS A
CONSPICUOUS EVENT = MANY
AFTERNOON TEAS.

AFTERNOON TEAS.
The usual crowd attended the circus
yesterday and the usual crowd OF sight
seers and pleasure seekers got full and
went home satisfied with their perform
ance us we'll as that of the circus The
parade was conspicuous by its absence,
rs were also the fakirs. A circus without
parade may manage to get along very
well. but they can not hope to succeed
without some one to lend the unwary and
there are lots of them, with wild long
ing for revenge and ''iust one more
chance. The fakir is as much part of
the show as the ticket man and is about
rs hard to get around. However this
circus was said to be up to the average.
If it is true that V. p. l. bows thought
they could stroll over to Roanoke and
pick up II little snap game of bali with
the Allegheny team, after playing n
game the day before and one yesterday
morning before reaching here, they were
much mistaken. 1t mny be that they were
playing off in order to fool the " NJ. /.
boys with whom they are to play later,
but one thing is sure they went down and
not gracefully either. Whether Little
Handy, Ballentine, "Chaperon" Duke,
AgOstine and our own Weary Wiggles''
Withers were in the scheme to throw
dust in the eyes of the V. NJ. l. team we
do not know 1t certainly did not look
So The game was very slow, with none
Of the good old time roofing that goes so
far towards making II college match in
tcresting.
All the newspaper criticism to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, the library play
on Tuesday evening was good. 1t was
more. It was bright and interesting,
which is something that cannot be said
Of amateur performances in general The
topical songs by Mr.. Miller were we'll
rendered and decidedly we'll written. The
play made most favorable impression
because there is something in il and
would probably he worth II second per-
formnnce. The receipts were- not large
but the result was encouraging.
The Tuesday Evening" Whist Club
has again resumed it's me etings after the
Lenten season. There are eight members
in the club. 1t held it's first meeting OH
Thursday evening and played seven hand.
ed euchre. This looks II little remarkable
but may be due to the ''cod storage
from which it has just emerged. ''Freeze
out" would be IL good game.
The Misses Kilhy entertained at II very
pleasant little tea ut their home on South
Jefferson etreet on Tuesday afternoon
from five to seven o'clock The rooms
were prettily decorated in pink and green.
Miss Lizzie Taliafcrro, Miss Pauline
Massie and Miss Rust assisted the Misses
Kilby in receiving and Mrs. Schick pre-
sided at the tea table. There were many
of these little afternoon "teas'' in the
winter and we are glad to see that they
N n frntn 70 ,al
Mrs. Carey Ludwig entertained IL few
of her friends at heart party OH Thurs
day afternoon. There were four tables
The prizes were Won by Miss Dorney and
Mrs. Morris. Those present we're Mrs.
Koehler, Mrs. Ferguson, Miss Funk
houser, Mrs. Carpenter, Mrs John Nor
ris, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Hammond, Mrs.
Anderson, Mrs. Dorney, Miss Dorney,
Mrs. McHugh. Mrs. S. X. Campbell, Mrs.
Stnrkey, Miss Tnliaferro, Mrs. Sarvay and
Mrs. HILL
The commemoratcn of the three hun.
dred and thirty third anniversary of the
birth of Shakespeare by the Shakespeare
Club at the home of Mrs. Lucian Cooke
on Friday afternoon was most interesting
besides being decidedly pretty and
unique. The house which has large and
we'll adapted rooms for such entertain
ments was handsomely decorated with
cut flowers and.sgrowing plants. At the
entrance was fac smile of the sign at
tht.old!tavern, ''Ye Falcon Inn, frequent
ed by shakespeare and his comrades.
Judge William Gordon Robertson, who
had been invited to address the club was
briefly and most happily introduced in
words from Shakespeare by Mrs. JOS w.
Coke, the honor falling TO her by reason
OF her being the leader of the readings of
the club at this time.
Judge Robertson's subject was 1.-THE
Drama and Shakespeare, the greatest of
all dramatists and the master mind of all
nations He stood under a shrine erected
to the poet, over which were the words,
He was not for an age, but for all time. .
At the close of his address. which was a
splendid effort and closely. attended, he
was presented with n basket filled with
and made of violets. The violet is the
chosen flower of the club The only re
greet was that the entertainment was not
made more public. Among the many
present we're Mrs. Leigh Buckner, Mrs.
Allen Watts, Mrs. Charles Hill, Miss
Mary Robertson, Mrs Daw, Mrs. Lind
say, Mrs. J. + Yonge, Mrs. West, Miss
Palmer, Miss Massie, Mrs. Coc, Miss
Chrisman, Mrs. Samuel .Jamison, Miss
Jamison, Mrs. 5. p. Christian. Miss Chris.
tan, Miss Ravenel. Mrs. William Gordon
Robertson. Miss .Yonge, Miss Breckin.
ridge, Mrs. Soule, Mrs. Bransford, Mrs.
Schick, Mrs. Taliaferro. Miss Taliaferro,
Miss Gamble, the Misses Terry, Miss
Caroline Preston, Mrs Henderson and
Mrs. Edward Perkins.