The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-27
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hamilton W.
Alabe delivered an interesting lecture TO
the members of the Woman's Club. The
Auditorium was well filed and from be-
ginning to end the speaker held the rapt
attention of the audience MI. Mabie SPOKE
on Beauty as a Public Necessity His
English is so pure. his expressions 50 terSe
and episran1matic, his sentences SO frausht
with wisdom that the audience was verify
spell-bound.
Mr.. Mahie said that beauty is not luxu-
~, but a, necessity; that no one can afford
to disregard that ugliness is a sin when
you know that il is ugly. and that to
create something uniovely when you might
create something beautiful was positively
immoral
People of course, have to be educated
up to The beautiful. The reason the Greeks
did not endure said the speaker, was on
account Of incompleteness. because the eN-
cess OF beauty predominated over charac-
ter.
There are three things necessary:
Right thinking. right acting, right speak
ing. and beauty is right speaking.
lima gination." the lecturer further said,
lis the one thing by which we live I'M
agina ton is the creator OF everything
beautiful; it is the window in our lives
through which God enters and through
which we so out: it is the window through
which we look 10 the infinite. We are told
that the industrial cataclysm is coming,
but the industrial cataclysm will never
come until the window Of ina sination is
closed
Mr.. Mabie said he wanted to 81 ak to
the ladies specifically about the things
needed in our municipal government. He
said that women are coming into greater
responsibility SHAT they have already ar
rived
our municipal government is just a sys-
TEN of housekeeping, and very bad house
keeping.
We are in the barbarous ages of muni-
opal government. Our soN-rnment is
crude and will be until we learn that
government is not only to preserve order.
We ought to have such beautiful build
ings, such clean streets, MUSEUMS open
all things SO beautiful-that boy OF the
streets VINO never went TO school might
grow up good and pure and noble. Mr.
Mabie closed with a beautiful tribute to
Washington and Gladstone, whose liHes,
he sad, We're the greatest good fortune
to our country and to England.
Mrs. L. f. Dashell introduced the
speaker Afterwards an informal recep-
ton was held.
Miss Blanche Morgan served tea, and
was assisted by Mrs. Howard Hoge
TIE guests of the evening were: Pro-
sianard, Mrs. Edward J. Willis, Miss Annie
Minor and Mr.. Henry ". Anderson.
Among the out-of-town guests We're:
Mss Ella Slingluff, CT Baltimore. Mrs.
Rob TT Watson Prince, .of Chapel Hill.
n. c.: Miss Mary Taylor, of Fauqu.er
county: Miss Lilly Stearns. Cu!peper; Miss
Hlndman, of Louisville. Ky; Mrs. L. r.
Lowering, of Racine; Mrs. G. L. Nicolson.
GEORGETOWN. D. c., Mrs. John B. Goode,
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Miss Susie Morris, Athens, Ga; Miss T.
Powers, Va. Miss Mary Arson. Windsor.
England and Mr. William Gordon Robert
son, Roanoke.
Mrs. A. j. Brodnare and Mrs. W. F.
Brodnare, OF Wilmington. n. c., are the
guests of Major and Mrs. N a. Gregory.
No. So East Grace STREET.
There will be an important meeting in
Lee Camp Hall to-day of the Daughters
OF the Confederacy. All members are re-
quested TO be present.
Mr.. Lee Morris and DR.. William e. An
6erson, of Farmville, have returned
from Europe and We're in Richmond yes
terday They spent two months on the
continent. devoting much OF the time
to the Paris Exposition. Mr.. Morris
saws the show at the French capital is
not as fine as the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago in 1888 was
Mr.. w. r. Woodson and bride, nee
Miss Leigh Dowdy, OF Slate River Mills.
Buckingham county. have arrived in the
city. and are stopping for a few days at
the home of the srooms father. Mr.. j.
I. L. Woodson, l1e Randolph Street, be-
fore taking up Their residence on Church,
Hill.
Mr.. Woodson has lived in Richmond
number of years, and has hosts of friends
who extend congratulations.
Mr.. Clarence G. Jones and Miss Flor.
ence Barnes. of this CITY, We're ma:rr,ei.