The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-28
IN GAY NEW YORK.
ON HER TEA TABLE.


tea table our Bess set up,
Twas dainty as could be
For four short weeks, then chaos reigned,
And now here's what you see:
Three cups-one cracked-and saucers four,
OF Delft or Sevres frail;
pen, two pencils-somcwhat chewed-
rose that's sere and pale: =.
Two olive stones strand Of silk,
Some illoilograils, Toms Cigarette
Ali these-ho more, The Kettles gone
Bess cares hot when nor where.
She has it's lamp, with which she heats
The tongs to curl her hdir Puck.
1Hi5 BACHELORS HNvHKiH:
What with ali these wedding gifts;
Giving bridal couples lifts.
Soon ri have TIE i)atie!6rs cufse-
Worst of evils-sihpty purse:
Only one way to tecoup-
Join the matrimonial troop;
Wed a girl that has q dot; J.,
All the fish are not yet caught:
One of the girls presented at the last
drawing room in London was Miss Utica
Celestial Welles, Il New Yorker who is
said to be only II years old. and who at
tracted particular attention when it be-
came known that she is lawyer and
was graduated from /; law school III New
York city. She is described as Il niece
of Lady Cook, and her father, who is iiv-
ing in London now, is said to be a physi-
clan. The previous lists ut drawing rooms
never included a lawyer, so this young
New Yorker is unique in the series of
Americans, or, for that matter, Euro
peans who have enjoyed the privilege Of
a presentation.
1T is wel-recognizcd practice i'll most
HI Gil che in, n
allow brides to exchange unmarked we'd
ding presents that they don't want for
things that they do said man en-
loyed in one of these places, but new
wrinkle was worked OIL me not long ago.
A bride came here with Il cabload of our
boxes which had held wedding presents
and asked us to exchange them for silver
ware. She said that she kept all of her
silver in safe constructed for it and
that the boxes were useless to her. These
boxes were worth all the way from 80
cents each up to IS and Sc and we took
them back ut reduced price and made
the exchange. Such gifts as spoons and
forks are frequently duplicated and we
are perfectly willing to take them back,
if they are not marked, and give some
thing else in exchange
Some ladies who wear the new style
of ball gown with the off-thc-shoultler
bodice, and sleeve that resembles an
Egyptian girls bracelet, compromise
with Mr.. Comstock by crossing the chest
with gold diamond-studdcd chain. The
chain starts somewhere under the right
shoulder blade, and comes glittering
down to the left, where it disappears in
the direction of the cardiac region. There
is sort of hold up that lends moral
Sr,pDOrt fNtA wDHrpr Well.
When the trunks of woman which
fell into the hands of the police several
months ago were examined number OF
articles bearing the name Of Il we'll
known hotel were found, and it was as
srmed that second charge of theft
would he made against her. This charge,
this hotel gave list of the spoons, forks,
knives and small articles of table service
which had been lost or stolen or lust
taken as souvenirs" during the past year
in January, and the aggregate was large.
Most Of these articles were merely sill
ver-plated, but their value to the people
who took them was iii the hotel stamp
with which each was marked. 1t would
not pay professional thief who was
in the business TOR revenue, not senti-
ment, to steal such articles, and the
wise hotelkceper who takes account of
stock and finds such things missing does
not charge them up as total loss. If
they have been taken US souvenirs they
serve us an advertisement OF the hotel.
An oyster house was opened five or six
years ago on Broadway with a table
service which ut first excited the SllS-
picions of it's guests. Five or six we'll
known hotels were represented in this
service. There were napkins from one,
S,vNr -ko1vlS fr,1,Y another Nnl IN fNcf
every article capable of being marked
on the tables bore the stamp of some
hotel. They were well-worn and they
had come into the hands of the propric
tor legitimately. He had purchased
them secondhand. This mixed table
service may have suggested that the pro-
l,rietor resortct to other secondhand de-
vices. for his restaurant proved to be a
failure. =
The 1st day of May brings utmost as
many changes in New York's church
.choirs rs it docs Id. its apartment houses.
On that day the year begins for these
singers, and in few churches does the