The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-08
IN GAY NEW YORK.

| THEY DARE NOT TELL HER.
She had five hundred dollars to invest In
hats and frocks
But sudden inspiration made her specu.
She studied Ger the market for the ones
| that she'd prefer,
And when she fad invested there was no
| more peace for her;
| she walked the floor at midnight she
| r., walked the floor by day;
one promenaded Wall street in a most
| Shed stand beside the ticker full OF pains
| , or stunned with fright,
I'LL ner friends became suspicious and de-
| clared she wasn't right
| But she saw five dollars profit so she sold
| out like q fash
And IN joyous frenzy, she's exhibiting the
If she held" just two hours longer she'd
! have cleared a hundred fat:
but s nne 81 given to hysterics-so they dare
New York Herald.
| A Maiden lane diamond merchant saws
that diamonds are 80 per cent. higher
in price than they were a year ago. More
than that, he says that they will proba-
bly, 90 still higher.
With plants worth $40 a piece grow
ing in the open air in Prospect park, it
is natural that the authorities should
keep close watch on them to guard
them against thieves. One man was
f'ne' $40 the other day for stealing a pink
lotus, and other piferers have been
| caught from time to time Of late
| The long passenger lists Of the arriy-
ing Atlantic liners are good evidences of
the fact that the flood tide of travel from
Europe has now well set in These lists
will grow larger each week from now on
until November. Word comes from Lon
don and Paris that thousands of Ameri-
cans in those cities cannot obtain pas
sage home for weeks to come and that
much anxiety and worry is being occa-
! stoned thereby. 1t is curious that Amer
leans who go abroad can never seem to
realize that it is impossible even for the
| ships OF the now Observation-Disclosures
Atlantic feet to carry home in a short
| SIX weeks or two months the thousands
upon thousands who 80 over during the
space Of four months.
| There is woman i'll New York who
earns fairly-good income by going from
home to home treating women who have
| bad feet. She is a skillful chiropodist
and added to this knowledge has a fund
| of learning on nervous diseases, and her
theory is that the feet are the nerve cen
| tiers. This chirOpOdist commands for her
patients, who are almost entirely nervous
women, plenty of fresh air every day
and sun baths for their feet. She be-
lieves cramped feet produce wrinkles,
gray hair and all the premature signs of
! old age. Nine. Calve, when anxious
about her work, slips off her slippers and
hose and wriggles her toes in the sun,
after which she takes run up and down
the room to stretch the soles, following
| with a massage and nap.
Much interest has been aroused by the
mooted engagement of Miss Susan Will
ing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward s.
Willing. to Frank Lawrence of New
York, the news of which comes down
from Newport, where the Willings are at
present living. She returned from Eu-
rope with her mother about month ago
and has been taking rather a more prom
| lnent part in the Newport festivities than
she has usually. She is the sister of Mrs.
John Jacob Astor, it will be remembered,
and has probably gone out more in New
York than in Philadelphia since her sis
| ter became member of the metropolitan
family. Mr.. Lawrence Is well-known
| club man, belonging to all the clubs of
Gotham that are dubbed swell" and
figuring conspicuously in the dUings OF
the fashionable world. This is the first
season in two years he has spent at New
port, having passed the greater part OF
last summer in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mrs Grant and
Miss Grant hope that Prince Cantacu-
zene's first impression of America will be
favorable. and so they are seeking to pre-
vent his being an object of curiosity
when the steamer reaches New York. 1t
was said that the prince had already left
on his journey to Newport, and, more
over. there are statements that he is on
one Of the incoming steamers, probably
travelling incognito, all of which greatly
creased the interest in the prince and bis
coming. When at length it is time for
the prince to arrive, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs
Grant, Miss Grant and Potter Palmer
Jr., will go to New York to meet him
and upon their return to Newport there
will follow round of gayety in honor of
Palmer, including entertainments h!
Mrs. n. Devereaux Clapp. Mrs. William
Post. Mrs. Charles H. Baldwin and Mrs.
Francis O. French. Miss Grants en-
| gagement ring is very curious one,
being a peculiar sort of green stone, set
in deep-carved gold. 1t is an heirloom in
Prince Cantacuzehe's family:
An engagement of no small interest to
| olu A\SN just ptVH
nounccd. 1t is that of Miss Alice Duer,
youngest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
james Gore King Duer, to Henry Wise
Miller. Miss Duer has not only been
we'll known in the social world but in
the literary world Also being an author
css of merit. She is a sister of Mrs. Jo-
,opn Laroque and of Miss Caroline Duer.
Shrr inherits. much Of the beauty of her
fathers family, is tall with fair hair and
| l1:1r oveS and very fine fipnrp Mr.
Miller is the only son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob W. Miller. who was Miss Kath-
crime Wise from Washington. ID. {. His
father was in the United States navy
until a few years ago. He is Il graduate
Of Harvard university. class of 90. The
Miller residence, when in town, is 113
East Thirtieth street. Miss Duer and
Mr.. Miller will be married on October
in Grace church, and their wedding will
be one of the largest of the early autumn
season. The bride and groom will go to
Costa Rica, where Mr.. Miller has large
business interests. and where they will
make their permanent home.
From Baltimore comes the news that
the celebrated beauty, Miss Virginia Nc,
lavish, is again to visit America this
September. Last year. it will be renlenl-
bered, she came over and spent a short
time among her old friends on this side
of the Atlantic. and when she departed
she stirred up the whole country by tax
ing a small cargo of terrapin with which
to charm the delicate palateS of her
French friends. But. sad to relate, the
Gauls did not take kindly to the great
American delicacy. and Miss McTavish
was in despair. Her dinners in Paris
where she has lived for some years. have
become famous among the gastronomes
even of Paris, and it was little disap
pointing to have them turn aside from
the dainty she had imported with much
difficulty for their espeeia!! dedication
search of some other native delicacy to
try a second time to win French favor
for new DISH rune; doe, does not say but
hoe cake might fill the bill. in which the
terrapin failed so ANONYMOUSLY. A big
dish of steaming hoe cake. good fat
'possum and a shiny "brack" nanny te
fetch it on would be an innovation, even
in fin de steele Paris.