Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-21
SHE'S NO CHICKEN.
THE IDLER TELLS Or PIcTU.
RESCUE OLD WILLIAMSBURG.
BOTH QUAINT And BEAUTIFUL.
Family Trees and Forest MOnnrchs-
4 Land of Sunshine, Buttercups,
pus and Library.


lauShing-not at my own frantic efforts
at humor, but at joke Of its own and OF
which / was the supposed butt. In
thoughtless moment / stated that i in
tended 10 take a little trip to Williams
burg, that ancient city where great In
sane hospital is located. and, Of course,
everybody remarked that l could not Sc
lect more appropriate place; that l
ought to have gone there long ago, ana
so forth. Now this Joke is so rank, ana
noary, and messy, and stale, and poor
that / wouldn't have the audaclty 10 per-
petrate il on a Filipino. The city OF WIZ
liamsburg itself, which on account OF us
antiquity would DC JUSTIFIED IN appearing
in a public ballet-dance, Is mere BABE
I'm point OF years when compared 10 TINS
bearded chestnut, but the JOKE sun lINc9
and fiourishes with perennial VlSor. Anu
it Furthermore serves TO show that even
some Of my abortiye efforts at iuh al
| iustinable in the face of such compeu-
| ton.
Be this as it may, ] have visited the
town which for over two hundred years
| has been patiently awaiting my advent
! and never murmuring because l continu-
ally kept postponing my trip. In idct'
Williamsburg is nothing If not patient.
| II quietly stays down there in James CITY
county-a land of sunshine and butter
cups-and never seeks TO rush lhlo print
| or TO toot its own horn. 1t lets other
cities blow and brag and have murder
trials. and divorce suits, and municlpai
reforms. and smallpox, and tempestuous
storms. without so much as putting IN us
mouth. And yet in this beautiful place
there are more true Virginia aristocrats
and fine Shanghai rOosters and FEWER Po
white folk than in any town l know o.
Family trees are lying around as thick
as nine logs in Z ood-yard, and what
is better still, Williamsburg people I'VE
up to them. 1t is no place for parveh ues
and iacklcgs and vulgar citizens. lou w
got TO be genteel in Williamsburg, and 10
have good rearing and historical knoWl-
edge and cuurtly manners. And you We
got 70 be hospitable and to have spring
chickens hopping around throughout tne
wear. so that If a guest drops in nell DE
treated right and made 10 feel at nome
Fatted calves never get cnance 70 NV
over two months, so great is the hospl-
tally of people in this vicinity
In the course of a long and checkered
| career | have scratched my name WIN d
nenknife on a reserved seat in the COILS
| The walls of the room where SNAKES
Deare was born, eXpectorated on th'
/ former site of the Bastie IN Paris, throWi
| a cigarette stump on the floor Of West
minister Abbey, and bought req crdN",
an the Bowerv of New York, but never ye'
nave anchored myself in a 'Durs
which pleased me more than Nlllaiils
| burg. ..-,. 81,
| last week when 1 strolled through the
| quaint streets of this urban grandmotnel
| and meandered among its adjacent helu'
| | felt as if some great wave OF llsPii q =
| tion had come over me. Here, shd
in an eloquent soliloquy, sis the kinder
garden of politicians; the great SrlsV
mill that turned out lawyers and states
men who subsequently kicked up so mucl
dust that King Georges throat became
| as dry as bones. Here continued
sis the nursery Of Virginia legislatures
tho emorv-stone that polished up IN
rougb diamonds who were subsequent
to glitter in history. Here" | concluded
us the place where Old Dominion societ!
first saw its dawn and flourisned an
prospered, until some of the young Gao
! got too big fer their clothing anu move
| tn Richmond thereby purifying Williams
burg and causing William BYRD 10 es
tabiish several jails in the former city
In short | trod a spot where every squai
foot of real-estate was hallowed Wher
everything had history; where even IN
ROSTERS traced their origin to a proto
nlasmic globule. And better still l wa
in the region of gentlemen, and feI
that people did not treat me kindly o
account Of my wealth or beauty or sociS
null but on account Of my true wort
and sweet traits Of character
When l say that Williamsburg has at
tanned her majority and is now justiiie
in wearing long dresses and combing he
hair on the top Of her head. l do no
mean (as when / make similar allusion
10 women that she is effete and has sec
her best days On the contrary, the plac
annears to be unusually prosperous an
improvements are continually going or
mt these useful additions to her toilt
make her but more attractive old dow
aqer and do not suggest rouge an
nowder on "A superannuated bag Every
thing looks as prosperous as II the van
Mckinley prosperity had struck the tow
and nut ND at the best hotel. The stree
are well laid of, eXcellently lighted, an
kent at neat as the house OF a Woma
Who has just been married three month