The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-15

ways desired to go on the stage, she de-
| ierrd the step out Of consideration for
her mother. Now that Mrs. Hunter has
consenaed there appears no barrier
Lillian Russell, when shown the dis
| patch which stated that she was to close
her engagement at Boston and would
soon thereafter be married to William
{. Whitney, was highly indignant. 1T
r.. ,s:a an outrageous lie" said Miss Russell.
Il do not know Mr.. Whitney. never
spoke to him in my life. and it is as in
famous to him to tell this story as it is
to me- Miss Russell asked that it be
denied in tn" most emphatic manner. She
said her professional engagement for the
s. ason would close Saturday night. but
that she is already under contract for
next year to the managers she is now
with.
| The engagement Of Miss Elsie Clcwx,
only daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
| CleWS. to Herbet Parsons. only son of
John q. Parsons, the we!l-known New
York lawyer, has just been announced.
Miss CleWS, although she inheritS the
beauty Of her mother, has devoted little
of her time to the frivolities of dinner
parties and balls. She is of a literary
turn, and. since her graduation from
structor i'll that institution She has
studied for and secured the degree of
doctor of philosophy from Columbia uni
verSity. and only last July she was ap-
pointed school inspector in the Four
teenth district. She is prominent mem,
her of the League for Political Educa-
ton. Mr.. Parsons was graduated from
~ IN y~n rS-I{v 4lD -,
IS lawyer. He makes his home with
his father at 80 East Thirty-Sixth street.
and during the summer at Lennox, Mass.
Women are pursuing new fad. They
are asking their male acuuaintances NOT
to throw away their silk ties and scarfs.
but to save them for window curtains
ana porflerss does r i1e in Ffty;nint
strips. sew, the ends together and roll
them into balls. They are woven into
really beautiful draperies. One young
swell turned over to his ''hest girl'' 300
ties that showed no sign of wear. and
she now accuses him of silly extrava-
gancc i'll buying brand new stock for
her sake. He exonerates himself by say
ing hat no gentleman would be guilty of
sending Soiled or worn tie to his sweet
heart. even though it were to be woven
into a carpet Let's see: Your heavy
swell pays never less than s. for his
commoncst tie, so at the bottom price
he has spent 5000 for Miss So-and- s
portierc. She can hardly refuse to mar
ray him after that, and use the portere
for (, quilt.
Travelling incognito and attended only
by lady in waiting. the Princess Aribert
of .Anhalt, eldest daughter of her royal
highness the Princess Christian and
granddaughter of Queen Victoria. arrived
in New York on the Majestic Her high
ness went to the Waldorf Astoria, whAre
she is registered as the Countess of Nun.
sterberg, and her ladv-in-waiting as Frau.
lein Won Chappins. 1t is the first visit the
princess has made to America, and hel
coming has been known only to few
personal friends of herself and her moth
er, the Princess Christian, who before
her marriage to Prince Christian OF
Observation-Disclosures, was the Princess He
lena Augusta. second daughter of the
Queen. The Princess Aribert is here as
ii tourist, solely for pleasure, and has pro
fcrred to remain incOgnito, but as she
leaves New York tomorrow for Washing
ton, where she is to be received at the
British legation. her identity can scarcely
be kept a secret hereafter. After a visit
to the national capital the princess ex
poets to return to New York to remain
three or four days, after which she will
visit Canada.
The Church Temperance society has
opened Squirrel inn, at 131 Bowery
Squirrel inn is on the east side of the
! BOwCry, one door above Grand street
1t occupies the basement and first two
floors Of five-stcry building, the three
upper floors of which are to be fitted up
as soon as plans for their use are formu
lated. On the first floor is an up-to-date
restaurant, where Il palatable luncheon
may be had for a dime and where sat
isfying meal-either breakfast dinner OF
supper-will be served for Is cents. The
menu card shows that the cost of small
steaks will be 10 cents; veal outlets, nut
ton or pork chops, omelettes. or thres
fried or boiled eggs, with bread and but
I ter, the same. In the rear is the kitchen
as completely equipped as that of any
first-class hotel. Equally attractive i
tho second floor, which is to be devoted
to the purposes Of a free library ant
reading room. On the shelves of the
bookcase are 500 volumes. presented t.
the society by w. r. Hearst, and more
than score of choice pictures, also the
gift of Mr.. Hearst, adorn the walls
| There was an informal reception at the
inn Rt Rev. Bishop H. C. Potter
Rev. William X. Huntington, rector oil
Grace Episcopal church; Rt. Rev
Bishop Coleman of Delaware, and Others
made addresses.
Clarence Mackey, one of the chief lun
tums of New York, may be considered tt
have opened officially the straw-hat sea
son. He appeared OH the avenue, CORE
|spondent writes, with a new starw hat OF
substantial and comfortable rather thar
modish appearance. The suggestion thai
he had bought it somewhere on Long is
land. near his country place, was dis
missed with scorn by one of the group Of
men watching HIM from a window of 4
hotel cafe Yet there was suggestion
of bucolic simplicity about the hat thai
seemed to prove that it had never beer
bought in New York. The crown wa.
high, the brim rather broad, the straw
smooth and shiny and the neat little
black ribbon had a cOnquetish edglng o.
satin on either side. Straw hats are still
rare and the attention attracted by Mr.
1 N1ackey was not alone due to its peculiar
/ tiles. 1t was decided by the men discuss
ing it that Mr. Mackey's hat could never
i be taken as a model for intending pur
chasers, tor the fashion this summer viii
be of quite different character. Fine
narrow straw will be no more fashionable
this year than it has been for season:
past. There never was, indeed, a yea
in which men who were particular abOu
such matters ever bought smooth finisl
/, hats with the idea that they were modish
Rough straws, generally larger thar
those popular in the last three or fOu
4 ve,rs md with higher crowns and broad