The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-10
more artistic lieutenants. bring about
combinations that guests find most at
tractive and stimulating to- conversation.

! more aftlSllc neUtenantS. bring about
combinations that guests find most at
tractive and stimulating to- conversation.
! Some splendid specimens Of the jewell
er.S art are to be seen in the show cases
| where golden lorgnettIS are exhibited
! Ono OF these semi-u$rful bauhlcs is of
! chiselcd gold, with a huge opal and an
equally large amethyst set in the rovovo
frame: Il monogram in tiny diamonds or
namentS the handle. Another iorgnette
mas perfectly round frames of smooth,
dull gold. On one side. is /; serpent OF
| emcraldS, whose head is formed of one
big diamond; on the other side the taper
ing tail of the same serpent appears
Lorgnettcs of gtin metal, divided, into
squares by lines OF gilt, and in each
square Il pearl OF purest color and sheen,
are new and handsome.
1t has been discovered by the holiday
; makers summCring at Manhattan beach
that the sun is an excellent hair tonic
\ baldheaded man last summer got the
top Of his Uranium badly sunburned. but
found that Il new crop OF hair had taken
root, and before the end of the season
he was as: we'll matched as he, could de-
sire. This is the. story seashore leunyers
are telling each other, and now it is the
fashion for women to go in bathing and
other fad is to acquire as rich !; covering
of tan Oh the face and arms as possible.
1t is declared that q tanned face will be
regarded as an evidence Of distinction
when the bathing season is over.
The "shirt- waist man''-that is, the
! man who goes about in neglige shirt,
! WITHOUT a toat-is becoming more numer-
GUS in public places in New York every
day.: Down town, i'm the: field financial
district. you may see on any hot day
scores of the .best-known. brokers and
bankers walking about without coats.
In the roof gardens it is becoming tho
sleeves. 1t is thought that by next sum
fler the fashion will have established it.
self thoroughly. At present it takes
little nerve and the knowledge that the
fit of ones Shirt haberdashery and trous-
ers is perfect to enable man to prone
made Broadway in Il costume that until
now has been regarded as impossible dis
habile.
"The Casino Boy new burlesque
was produced , Iuesd LAY; nj night at the Ca:
mirth and melody the mediocre cast, the
Indifferent stage effects and costumes
hampered it's success Robert B. Smith
wrote the book, his first effort For
beginning it is promising His story is
based on the sending of a box of alleged
spring. In solving the stage mystery he
introduced burles1ueS of Olga Neither.
sole's role of "Sapho." Edmund Lyons
Nero" and William Gillctte's "Sher-
h lock Hol%fs The idess were well
the music. 1t is light, but catchy. The
choruses were especially spirited "Mo-
bile Gal.' duet, was the most tuneful
of all the numbers. The Countess Won
Hatzfe]dt, who essayed Il boys role, was
out of her element.
Il dare you to take my picture.' yelled
William X. Vanderbilt Jr.. at |; young
man with a camera in front of the Ca
sino at Newport the other morning.
There We're three angry men in the
group-Mr. Vanderbilt, Herman Oel-
richS and the camera fend from, New
York. A police officer was there, for
tunate]y, for Mr.. Vanderbilt had his fists
clenched and Mr.. Oelrichs looked very
angry. The young man might have tax
en- the dare, but just then Mr.: Oclrichs
kicked the camera out of his hand and
broke it into an hundred pieces. The
man, who declined to give his name, say:
he will sue Oelrichs. This was the sec
ond scene in the drama. Earlier in the
day the man poked his camera into Mrs
Oelrich's face and made a snapshot at
Mrs. Vanderbilt. The women Went
| anu tOlu lHt'lI uuSUiuUS anu llle
latter overlook the man and smashed the
camera and thus destroyed the plates
containing the photographs of the::'
pretty wives.
Chinese restaurant proprietors in Mott
street thus far have been the seyerest
financial sufferers from the disturbances
which have broken out in their native
country. The number of Summing par
ties, which have been source OF con-
siderable revenue to them, has been no.
ticcably reduced. 1t did not take the
restaurant proprietors long to find out
that one Summing party would spend
more money in their places in an hour
than their regular customers would spend
ali day, and they were not slow to take
advantage of their opportunities. They
) bought a collection of vases and fans.
which they willingly sold as souvenirs
! at prices about three times as much as
their value. Rice wine, which normally
sold for or 10 cents for a small bowl,
could be served to the Summing parties
for 10 and 20 cents, as an extremely rare
drink. Hardly night passed without
one or two such parties, but during the
: past month Mott street has been forced
to get along without them.
Electricity Increases Thundefstorms.
. Electricity has many advantages, but
, if the theory advanced in a Bombay jour
nal be correct, then we shall not be in
such a vast hurry as we have been to
light and travel and cook and wash by
electricity The installation of electric
light in certain places in India has been
noticeably succeeded by an increase in
the number Of thunderstorms; what is
!: more, they have been more severe.