The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-02-10

SlSnt TOT the favored ones TO return nome
| with their arms laden with really most
given by Mr.. and Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane in George Nanderblt's house. go
Fifth avenue. for their daughters, Miss
| Emily Sloane and Miss Lila Sloane The
| favOrS were very attractive. consisting of
brocaded silk muffs. Louis XIV walking
| sticks, artificial orchids fastened on long.
| gilded wands jeweled orders. golf-stick>.
| tennis racquets and boutonnieres.
SUPREME ..
The cable man scorn. forsooth
And exc the naughty waiter:
But cringe before the lordly youth
Who runs the elevator.
! The first will of Importance offered for
| probate since Nassau county became a
| reality was that of Mrs. Bessie II. Bel
mont, wife of August Belmont, the bank
er, which was filed at Mineola. Mrs.
| Belmont died in Paris few months ago
By the will, made on May IL. 1896. the
| estate worth about 100000, is left to
Mr.. Belmont.
An entertainment designed to be an
exhibition of the real, old-fashioned,
down South darkey in his happier moods.
will be given at the Grand Central palace
| on Monday evening, February g. There
will be the usual cakewalk for a prize,
buck and wing dancing, Waiting, drum
| majors competition and singing. \
| novel feature will bc u parade of colored
| couples on bicycles.
Chinese restaurants and chop-Sucy
! have become such a fad this winter that
! Il week or so ago there was a dearth of
| the indescribable material of which the
mysterious Monaghan compound is made.
Bat the fear of chop-suey famine Is
over now, for there is q steamer unload
| ing at a South street wharf, and in her
hold there are 640O cases of the dried
! sprouts and other Chinese delicacies. 1t
is the largest consignment of the kind
| that has ever come to New York.
| The hosiery in the department store
windows is growing decidedly more
| frisky than ever. Plain black stockings.
once so universally favored, have no
place, apparently, in the up-to-date WON.
airs wardrobe. Plain colors are still
worn, but they would shame Joseph's
coat when it comes to gaudiness. Black
| Isle thread stockings have intricate
| stripes and plaids and zig-zag lines inter
woven in silk in such combinations as
| yellow, blue and green, coral. turquoise
! and lavender, and those of black silk are
deliberately embroidered.
| The marriage of William X. Wander
bilt. Jr, and Miss Virginia Fair has
been FASTENED. The day fixed for the
wedding is Tuesday. April 1. which falls
in Easter week. The ceremony will be
performed at the residence of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Herman Oelrichs. at Fifth avenue
| and Fifty-seventh street. Originally the
! young couple chose June as the month
in which they would be married and Sc
lected Newport as the place. Under the
changed plans the ceremony will be per
formed at noon on April by ArchbiSh-
op Corrigan. Ever since the engagement
of the young couple the father of the
| prospective bridegroom, William IL. Van
derbilt. has advocated as early Il mar
riage as possible. The dra wing room
floor of the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs is particularly we'll adapt
ed for a large gathering. The wedding
will be as smart an affair in all appoint
ments as possible. Neither parent of
the bride-elect is living. Easter week is
to be a busy one for the NandeEbilts
The marriage of Miss Emily Vanderbilt
Sloane and Henry H. Hammond will
take place only a couple Of days later
| than that of her cousin.
To meet legacy requirements the ref
about $2,OOO,O0O worth of real estate
about February 1. 1t is not probable
that the larger parcels. such as the Fifth
Avenue hotel and the Madison-Square
theater will be included in the offering.
The coral ring is seen in the smart jew
! elers' of upper Broadway and Fifth
avenue. 1t did no, appear as soon as the
coral chain, but promises to equal that
ornament in popularity. 1t is set band
fashion, with three or five stones, or with
| gray pearls or diamonds.
| Thomas q. Sherman. one of the most
| active men in Plymouth church aud
chairman of the joint committee of the
| church and society who sent the call to
| the Rev DIR. Hills to become pastor of
| Plymouth church, denies most emphati-
cally the report that one of the induce
ments held out to DR.. Hills to accept the
| call was that Plymouth would build Il
new church for him. Mr.. Sherman said
| that the associations connected with the
present edifice are so dear that he did not
believe dozen votes would be given to
build a new church.
| Bachelor cooks are the coming innova-
ton. The Household Economic associa-
| ton. which is buSily reforming all classes
of the community in its school of domes-
tic science ut Forty-thlrd street and Lex
ington avenue, is about to start n cook
ing class for men. The bachelor apart
ment of the future will be neatly decora-
ted with skiiiets and stew pans and Ia
dies. There the potato masher will find
a place, the rolling pin hang in a con-
| venient corner. and simple laundry ar
/ engagements make the new man an en-
| franchised being IN the best sense of the
| word. - go 6
"You know it's old enough and familiar
enough" said fat dweler, but it's
striking, all the same, to hear the whistle
blow in the Kitchen from somebody in
the" cellar at the elevator, and maybe
| at the same time to hearSile bell ring
from somebody at, the front door to the
elevator shaft to be ready to receive the
things that the man is sending UP from
| below, and she swings around and presses
| the button and opens door far away
and in still another part Of the house.
All is simple enough, but 1t interests me
all the same. 1t seems sort OF like rum
ming the steamer from the bridge. or like
| throwing the levers IN the switchh0use
and controlling switches far away: 1t
seems like business; IFS modern and up
ts date, ...5s s.