The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06


Turkey Is Free!'' "A Charity Tree!"
Presents for All in Need!"
E"Salvati0n Dinner for Every Slnner!'
Z "Come Right Inside and Feed!'
Glad was his stare ut the placards there,
w The h M,mg H OF the vag rant Wets;
At the top OF his trouserettes.
; He worked his way for the whole, glad day
/. From feeding place to place,
Till the sight Of a turk was worse thar
+ ~, work,
And pie he refused to face.
His jaws. rebelled but he ate and swelled.
A burst Of thunder sound!
Somewhere, afar, near the uttermost star.
His fragments may be found
john O'Keefe In New York Press
A former stage beauty has succumbed
to her failing once more. Pearl Eytinge
is now in gold-cure institution, and il
said to be in critical condition.
! AS a souvenir of her son, Mrs. Hamil
ton Fish has sent to every member oil
Troop I, Roosevelt's Rough Riders, in
which young Fish was sergeant, a silver
mounted knife. 1t is of beautiful work
|manship and is inscribed LAS Guasimas
June "a, 1885," and on the other, Sou
venir of Hamilton Fish to his comrades in
Troop I. r. r. r."
The big University Club building al
Fifth avenue aud Fifty-fourth street is
now one of the structural sights of that
entertaining thoroughfare. It looks like
Il huge apartment house, with roof gar
den attachment. The basement contains
plunge. and Turkish baths, bowling alleys
and a complete steam and electric plant
In the extension basement are the bicycle
storage rooms and the wine cellars. The
ground on which the new clubhouse
stands was bought at a cost Of $500, 900
and the building, with it's rich and arts
tic furniture and decorations, will cos
about 100000 additional. 1t will be
ready for occupancy next spring.
One of the ghastliest sights ON Lower
Bowery is in front of a dentists office
A wax head in a showcase opens its
mouth in as pleasant grin as wax faces
teeth and displays a legend, ''As 1 iook
with my new teeth" Then the face
shuts it's mouth and opens it again with
an awful set of decayed teeth brought
to view, and the legend, CAS- l looked
with my old teeth"
Teaching blind persons at their homes
how to read is the latest step in progress
made by the New York Free Circulating
library. This departure by the library
was made possible by the liberality of ;
charitable woman, who volunteered tC
pay the expenses of teacher for a year
On Christmas eve, William P. Vain
wright, Il prosperous New Yorker, started
to walk down Broadway from Forty-sec
ond street, with the intention Of giving
70 cents to every neWsboy who addressed
him. His pocket was soon empty OF
quarters, and he stepped into store tt
get a SIS bill changed. He took a SIC
pill out of his purse, and one of the news
boys at his elbow said: ''I'll get thai
handed him the bill, and the boy darted
away with it. He did not return. "Tha,
ends it, said Mr.. Wainwright. II won't
give them any more. The boys don'1
have much Christmas, but [ guess have
done my share for tonight
|. There are about 125 wholesale cand,
firms i'll New York. and the business is
reported to be tlourishing and profitable
The confectionery trade for the metrop
Oils for 4 single year amounts to $4,000,
spend on pure luxury, but Ame1icans
like their European brothers and sisters
must have the sweets of life, even if they
have to pay dearly for them.
Thomas Q. Seabrooke, the actor, has
formally declared himself q bankrupt witt
-S$39, V75.36 liabilities. "A scarfpin is thu
only item of property exempt under the
law.
No more than the politest reticence OF
secrecy surrounds the engagement of Will
liam X. Vanderbilt. Jr., and Miss Vir
ginia Fair. For the public, which has nc
time to concern itself with polite pre-
lenses, there need be no secret at all
For society, which has been talking about
it for long time, a decorous betrotha
announcement will be made very soon
probably next Saturday.
The custom of using the advertising col
umns of the daily papers for the purpose
of making announcements relative to the
affairs of society is becoming more gen
eral and is being adopted by persons who
once regarded this means of conveying
personal information to their friends al
rather too public. But the practical utili
ty OF those advertised announcements
has overcome any adverse views as tt
their propriety. An interesting example
of this growing custom is furnished by the
Richard Hoffman among the marriage no
tees that they regretted the illness of DR.
William X. Draper obliged them to recall
the invitations for the wedding of thci
daughter, Helen Fidelia, at the Church
of the Heavenly Rest on December %
and that the wedding would take place il
private at the residence of DR.. William
X. Draper.
The sheathIike dress skirt. with it's re
vival of the no-pocket defect, has result
cd in another revival-the rocket in tn,
petticoat. Examples of this latter revi
val were to be seen by the score amons
the New York holiday shopping contin
gent. 1T may not look elegant, but it,
the only way" said one woman but latel,
succumbed to the practice Besides, witt
such pretty petticoats as we wear today
there seems to me nothing inelegant o.
immodest in displaying them now ant
then in behalf of so very practical a pur
pose.' Woman ever finds the way.
Miss Julia Arthur, owing to her illness
has Cancelled her engagement at Wallack'
theater, and will not appear in New Yorl
again this season.
The winter festivities at Biltmorc arr
over, and the house has been closed unit
next year. Mr.. and Mrs. George Wander
bilt are on the Teutonic bound for Liver
pool, and will pass the winter and sprin,
abroad.
One woman who takes flyers in TIN
street has the familiar racetrack habit O
the sex-punching holes in the programm,
with a pin and playing the horse who's,
name is punctured. She knows not on,
stock from another, but sits beside til,
ticker armed with a pin, which from tim
to time she sticks through the tape. If i
happen that the pin penetrates Missouri
Pacific, she orders her broker to buy O.
sell 100 shares, as the notion strikes her
If it goes through Metropolitan Stree
Railway it is buy or sell 100 of that.
Clubwomen of New York are taking N
the cudgel for Miss Georgia Cayvan
Sorosis, 1.-The mother of clubs" so name,
because it. was the first women's club il
America, and which stood the brunt o
ridicule and paved the way for the thou