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

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s Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday I
I Life in the Paris of Americ,. =
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LOGIC is LOGIC.
If wealth bequeathed one by his pa
Is called his patrimony.
Ihat one lnheritS from ones ma
Must be his matrimony.
-Elliott's Magazine.
WASTED LOCKS.
Now l am bald sit and sigh
Ger fGllies Of my days gone by;
70 girls gavc-oh, wild regret,
Big locks | might he wearing yet
indianapolis Journ H.
TRANSITION.
How swift are things which we revere
To lower levels sunk.
1t was Il bicycle last year.
And this year it is junk.
Washington Star,
The newest thing in connection with
ice cream is the miniature freezer, war
ranted to ''ice' cream in three minutes.
1t is dainty affair, which can be placed
W d vi d MAhS looIll tstDlc ana set TO work
there while you wait The freezer is OK
actly like the large ones except as to size.
and 1t has capacity Of one pint 1t is
becoming the fad at afternoon teas to
have one Of these little frecZers among
the Tea equipage and to serve ice cream
that he guests see manufactured before
their eyes.
1t is probable that the Fifth Avenue
hotei Will give place to IL large office
building, if the leases are not renewed
on August 1, 1903, on satisfactory terms.
William L. Emo is ut the head of the new
syndicate. He says he will not consider
a department store, and that plans are
already made for the. office building. 1t
Too sen1i"hy 1"pvltcu Il "eeh Two asu
that one of the bestknown department
store owners in the country would OBJ
tain the property and build il store Of i'm
mensc proportions Oh the site
An uptown milliner said, in answer to
question, that dotted wells were the
swagger thing to wear with the big new
picture hats that are becoming so popN-
lar. She added that the veil should be
OF coarse, but loose, crOSs-barred white
net mesh, with large black chenille dots
not any nearer than an inch and half
apart: Doctors may talk about the
ophthalmic ailments, and cynical men
may declare that the black dots look like
spots of SCOT, but it makes no difference
to the woman who means to be in the
fashion, because she knows that the wells
are becoming with large hats, and the
most fault-fnding man is obliged to agree
with her.
Miss Mae Rogers, youngest daughter
of II. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil
company and one of New Works multi
millionaircs, is to be married next Mon
day afternoon to William Il. Coe of this
city. The groom-clect is an Englshman
by birth. 81 years of age. a WidOwer, en-
gagged in the insurance business and a
member of the leading local clubs. The
bride to be is not yet 25 years old and
has been married once before. When
she was II years old she eloped with
son of rich broker. The marriage
proved to he an unhappy one and two
years after Mrs Mott secured a divorce
and resumed her maiden name Her fa
theirs fortune is estimated ut 500. (tN
600. 'N''
There are se:eral restaurants in the
Bowery where coffee is sold at 2 cents
| cup, and these establishments are dis
pooeu ~ tahe oHelSe at the popular SUP
position that the Squirrel inn, which is
to furnish cheap meals under the aus
pieces of church societies, will give poor
people better food at the price than they
ever have had. One of the cheap restau-
rant keepers said today that he pays ~
| cents a pound for his coffee at Wholesale.
and that he gives good beverage at ,
cents. One can pay any price for meals
III New York, but judging from the large
custom at the cheap Bowery restaurants
the 2-cent coffee is as satisfactory to
their patrons as the aromatic mixture
that costs five times as much in q swell
uptown hotel.
A check which passed through the New
York clearing house a few days ago is
| said to be the largest ever drawn in l,
is for the payment of $17,5G4, 44444. 1t
is one of two bearing the signatures of
Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co.. the purchasers of
$50, 100000 1 per cent. Third Avenue
| railroad bonds, and is drawn in favor OF
the Morton Trust company, representing
the new owners of that road. Despite
the sum involved the payment was sim
drawee have accounts in the National
Bank of Commerce, where the check was
drawn. A second check for ST., O0O, OOO
was negotiated through the National City
bank and was collected through the clear
ing-housc ON Monday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Deming Duer King,
who was formerly prominent in New
York society, is dead at Newport, aged
80 years. She was descendant of Viii
| liam Alexander, known as Lord Sterling,
the Revolutionary hero. Her last APP
pearance in formal social gathering
was ut Ward McAlisters famous Cen.
tennial New Years ball, where she
danced in a genuine old-time mjnuet, as
she danced it in her young days. Mrs. Nj.
King Van Rensselaer, and Mrs. Freder-
ick Bronson of New York city are daugh-
tiers of Mrs. King. William Duer. whose
daughter recently married Clarence
Mackay, is nephew of Mrs. King, Will,
her connections in the Oracle, King.
Duer and Van Rensselaer, families here
are almost countless.
Newport society has been surprised by
the announcement that Miss Elizabeth
Hunter, daughter Of Mrs. Thomas
Hunter, has decided to adopt the stage as
profession and has declared her inten-
ton of becoming a member of the Earl
of Yarmouth's company, which is to APP
pear at the Newport Casino this summer.
Surprise does not consist so much in the
fact that Miss Hunter is going on the
stage as in the suddenness of it. as it
had been frequently reported before,
though strenuously denied by herself
and intimate friends. Miss Hunter be.
q l6nfyS f0 one Of the oldest Newunrt f ami