The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-22
EIGHTY IN THE SHADE.

She tapped the giddy census man,
glrllsn rapping with her fan,
And, Stimulating pouting rage
She then refused to tell her age
Which age was weighty.
I'm just as old MS l may lock-
The man he read her like IL book:
Just write it down whate'er you think
Tie man he dipped his pen in ink
And stuck down so
The Brute in Town Topics.
\ lion, corner. is the latest fad. A
poet, author, artist, actor or. composer
whom one may lionize is selected, and a
late portrait of the gloritied one is hung
consplcuously and appropriately framed,
surrounded perhaps by pictures taken at
various periods of his or her existence.
An autograph letter, reproductions of the
best pictures, if an artist, or the favorite
books, If an author, enhance the value of
such corner.
At a recent dinner given in Paris by
Fred Martin for American society lead
crs. Mrs. Edward Luckemeyer tainted
and burst the string of pearls around her
neck. The pearls scattered over the floor
and five We're lost. They were worth
100000. Mrs. Luckemeyer had bought
the pearls from NJ IS Charlotte Moulton
time Mrs. Luckemeyer tainted Miss
Moulton died at Dinard. The pearls were
heirlooms of the Moulton family. and
many supeIstitious omens are credited to
them. The necklace was valued at $780,
600.
An SO-foot iron fence OF screen is to be
erected 10y the owners Of big apart
ment house in Central Park west, the
thoroughfare that looks upon Central
park. the purpose of which fence is to
shut out the view from the windows of
an adjoining house now i'll process of cree
ton. The owners of the new house call
it a ''spite" fence. Perhaps it is, for it
is to be painted black on the side fac
is to have white paint, and to be hung
with rejecting mirrors Thus does the
refinement of spite fences grow i'll this
enlightened community.
Olga Ncthcrsole sailed for Europe on
the Majestic. Her brother and Miss
Madgr Field accompanied her. While
the actress stood saying goodbys, u news
boy, who served her with daily papers
at her home, came running up and pre-
scented her with a pretty bunch of roses.
Tears came into her eyes as she thanked
him.
Miss Nethersole said: SIN many re-
spects this season has been a most try
ing che, but it has taught me what a host
Of friends have. go back to England
today richer by thousands in friends than
are i'll trouble that we learn the true
value Of SUCH"
Henry Lchr was treated to cham
payne shampoo at the farewell dinner at
Baltimore, which he and John Love ar
ranged for Louis o. Bresee, who is to
be married to Miss Vogeler. The dinner
was al fresco, and the story is that as the
wine, began to work on the young men a
number of incidents happened that had
not been prearranged. Howard Parr,
who is to be Bresee's best man, was in
tcrrupted in his speech by George X
Jones with rude remarks. Bresee eX-
tended his compliments in kind to Lehr.
;rhon thore was a skirt dance on the ia
pe DS Arthur fler,e aud another by Mr..
keck. Then, after number of speeches
had been made, Harry Lehr tried to get
the floor. He had some trouble. being
told that the brand of champagne he rep
! resented was no good for drinking pur-
poses. and that it was hair oil. Then
several stalwart members of the party
rubbed bottle Of it on his head.
! Miss Marie Allen Wilmerding, better
known as Mrs. Jack Wi!merdns. is go
ing on the stage. She is to follow the
jack Bloodgood. Mrs. Wilmerding is
best remembered on account of her stay
| at Bloomington asylum, and the efforts
to get her released, which were SO bit
terly opposed and were finally success
! full. Her divorce proceedings against
her husband also attracted considerable
attention, and altogether it is expected
est when she appears before the foot
lights. Mrs. Wilmerding is a grand
| daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt.
She and her husband Quarreled. and Mrs.
| Wilmerding. it is alleged, drank so much
that finally her nervous system gave out
and she was sent to Bloomingdale.
| A new continental note has been in
PRODUCED into America by Sherry, the
door cafe which he has just opened at
his famous hosiery in Fifth avenue. 1t
is on a terrace in the avenue side of the
building, and lest the innovation strike the
American sense Of propriety too keenly,
it is discreetly screened from the direct
gaze of the pedestrians by row of box
trees. Everybody knows that the pave
are among the sights of the place, and
are the wonder Of most American tour
lists. To sit and sip cooling beverages
and watch the ever-changing and brill.
liant crowds is fascinating pastinle, and
it has often been asked why such cafes
have never been tried on this side of the
Atlantic. One reason advanced is that
so many American men chew tobacco,
and so many others are so utterly re-
CARELESS Of the feelings of their fellows
that the sidewalk cafe would soon de-
sccnd to the level Of a corner cigar shop,
a consummation hardly to be wished.
Sherry's venture will solve the question,