The Virginia enterprise., 1899-06-30

Moon company these days. The female
members of the company have been for
hidden to wear rings Or other lewclry on
the stage. Vioiutors will be dismissed.
The management recently has been sinlp-
ly dazzlcd by the blaze Of diamonds on
the fingers of the waits who were sup.
posed to be too poor TO purchase decent
clothing and who would, therefore, mo, no'
be likely to be sporting diamonds. Inc
management declares it has no objection
TO the young women wearing diamonds,
but in the sacred name of art has drawn
the line at factory girls flashing costly
iewelry at the audience and detracting
from the performance. The company
has secured special officer TO see tilat
.o harm comes to the wealth or gems
while their owners are before the toot
lights.
"Our married life might have been
happy had she not insisted ON eating PIE
in he middle of the night. Then at day
break | always had. TO run for a doctor:
I demonstrated with her frequently about
this pie habit, but could never break hei
of it, Thus testified Thomas II. dail'
silk manufactures OF Jersey Ilty. IT'S
wife Virginia Carey Smith Hall, was
sn;nS him for divorce before Vice
Chancellor Stevens on the ground OF eX-
trcnc cruelty. He became aggresslveiy
elouucut when he told of Mrs. Halls M
ordinate craving for pie. She ate all
kinds-apple, peach and mince-thc Wild
pie hunger coming upon her at ! a. M
'"rhen when the specialist came to tfea'
her for pie disease said MT. Han re,
proachfully, instead of dressing up III Ia d
Mother Hubbard and looking poor she
put on her sealskin sacGue and her "a ila,
monds and he charged So visit. Ihal
eXaspcrated me.
Just why Manager Boldt had all the
help at the Waldorf-Astoria vaccln!tet
| has come to light. 1t is rather start!lhs
! but nevertheless true, that all OF tht
guests at the swell hostelry within thu
past two months have been in danger OF
smallpox. Manager Boldt got Il quiet III
from London. acted promptly and kept !
all to himself When the Bradley Mar
! fins arrived there after their elaborate
dinner at the Waldorf their butler wa:
| i'll with black smallpox and shortly alter
| ward died He was ailing at the time o
| the dinner, although the nature OF th'
| disease was never suspected while here
| or during the voyage. The Bradley Mar
| tins were all yaccinated after their az
rival in London, and that is why IN
| Waldorf walters are going down or the'
| knees in pain when they reach out TO
tips these days. 1t may have been clos
shave for the hotel guests, or. possibly
the butler didn't contract smallpox unit
he got on the ship.
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., is buildin:
a squash court at Newport. 1t il quit
+ the sensat ton of the hour in that city b!
the sea, and is to cost $1,000. Squasl
and badminton will be the reigning fad
of the season. Squash is the familia
English game called fves, only instead o
being played with the hand 5: regula
tennis racket is used to bat the bal
game one must have the proper building
1t consists OF a long hall, oblong II
shape. with solid wooden floors. callin::
and walls Around the room r,iis gal
lery for lookers-on. The game is usual
| ly played by two persons, who are sep
aratcd from one another by line marked
! on the floors. One of these, the server
strikes the ball against the wall, within
a certain line marked also cn the walls
| His companion catches it on the boun'
with his racket and he in turn throws
against the walls, and so on. until tn
ball falls. Around the top of the build
| ing are little windows covered with net
| ting. If the ball strikes one of thes
| that PLAY is 'out,' also if it strikes ;
! band of sbeet-iron that runs around tn
building. The game is not only slmp
but eXhilarating.
| Frederick A. Hubbard, the lawye
through whom Perry Belmont and Mrs
Sloane arranged for their marriage b.
Rev. Walter NJ. Barrows, d. d.. object
| to the charge that he practiced deception
on his own pastor in order to gel. tn
clergyman to unite the two in marriage
He said today:
81 called on DR.. Barrows on the Thurs
day preceding the wedding and told hin
| would give him $3.50 to perform wed
ding ceremony. The only question IL
asked me was if it would be proper t
marry them. l said to him that tn
bride would be divorcce when she az
rived at the parsonage, and that tn
only bad thing connected with the atfai
would be the notoriety. which would ex
tend from Dan to Beersheba. The mex
morning l went out of town, and MI
Barrows called on my wife and told he
he had decided not to perform the ccre
mony.
.'That day Mr.. Sullivan, from Lawye
Delaney Nicoll's Office in New York
called OH DIR. Barrows. Mr.. Sullivan
SAYS he asked Mr.. Barrows to perform
the ceremony that night, and when h