The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-07

some few persons whom he believes merit
such distinction. The brevet, or patent
sets forth the meaning of the order and
the necessity that the owner shall live
up to it's traditions. r. - = ~. q
general meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria
last evening. 1t was also to have a COLA
ton at IS per person, but this was ADAM
dOned. One reason was the cost and the
other was a difference of opinion as to
what the food should include.
1--WE are all cranks,' said the bright
est young woman there-a young woman
who was professor of Latin in an ad-
vanced school long before she was 80
and has marvelously-b and we'll
trained mind. 1--WE are the people who
are in everything. l am going to live
100 years.
The Hundred Year club is an organiza-
ton for the study of longevity. Those
who started it don't expect that they will
live that long. They think it will take
several generations before the result is
accomplished.
There were about $50 people in the AS
tor gallery. They listened to speeches
by fellow-"cranks' OH longevity and it's
various phases.
An upper Broadway florist decked his
show window with a mass of glowing
golden primroses. Passersby stopped to
admire. Some of them smiled when they
looked at the assertive sign placed amid
the mass of yellow blooms, calling them
English cowslips;;" but many purchased
the blooms for the latter and didn't know
the difference.
Work has been commenced OH the Vic
turia roof garden, which is to surpass
anything in that line ever shown in New
York. When finished, the Victoria roof
garden will seat 5000 people at one time.
it will be ready by the time the theaters
close their doors for the summer season.
Club life in the "coon town" of New
York is an interesting study. The negro,
uniniatitive even in his pleasures, has
gone daft on the club idea. The two
things necessary to the social equipment
of New York colored club is, first,
drink, and second, music. Here you get
the ''darkey'' joke in it's mellowest tone,
and hear 'coon" songs sung as they are
not sung at any theater: In t! the execg-
nent. There is no lack of hospitality.
When ''ladies' night" rolls around and
the white visitors come after their the
alter parties, it is just as much a social
factor as ladies night in the swell
four hundred. Some OF these clubs are
very exclusive, others can be entered by
buying a drink. Several of the streets
on the west side, near Sixth avenue, are
entirely given over to the clubs, where
the colored population can be seen as it
really is, and not as it is depicted upon
the stage.
In Brooklyn bridge train, among Il
score of other passengers, were two men
apparently lame. AS the car approached
the end of the bridge one of them, with
the most preposterous limp ever seen,
made his way through the car, depositing
in the lap of each passenger a card upon
which was printed tale Of woe unut-
terable and an appeal, Give what you
CAM The lame man in the center re-
ceived the card with ostentatious SYM
by pocketbook, from which he extracted
one penny, to be held in readiness for
the return trip of his pal" In the
meantime, the lame man returned to his
end of the car, but did not resume his
seat. He chung to strap, as erect and
lusty chap as ever you saw, and giving
not the least evidence that lone of his
legs was longer" Or shorter than it real
:ly ought to be. When the train reached
the tower on the NEW 1Ofk size ne mace
his return trip through the car and gath
cred UP the cards and pennies and nick
els. 10 his fellow-lame man he gave an
extra acknowledgment in the form of a
blessing. The pair reaped quite a har-
vest.
/. The retirement of the stages from
Fifth avenue in favor Of the electric on
,nibuses will be viewed with sorrow, no
doubt, by lovers of ancient relics. 1t is
conceded by good judges, however, that
the horses cannot by any possibility wear
d more grieved aspect than they do ut
present, and the change will be welcomed
from humanitarian standpoint
. Every afternoon, between the hours Of
2 and 3, a woman may be seen hurrying
down Rector street as If intent upons
catching an elevated train or Sandy.
Hook boat. She wear a widows weeds.
Her face is like that Of julia Marlowe,
though less pretty. There lis trouble in
Her nose and eyelids are usually
Mddish Ter lips ARE thin md tight,
l4er earss are bl % q mar o.. She comes