The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-05

Richmond had famous visitor last
week One OF the sort Of women who
make UP books. She is a character, such
as one meets not often in lifetime,
mis- Madame Charlotte dc Golliere DaV-
export
Madame Davenport is a native of Po-
land a scholar of the famous Charcot
of Paris and is herself a noted expounder
vi the doctrine of physical training. Her
suppose in visiting the different cities is
10 acauaint the people with her wonder
full method so that when she opens her
school in Boston, as she intends doing,
she will be known all over the country.
Madame Davenport married a NirEinlan
William H. Davenport She has eleven
sons, is seventy years old. although 1t is
hard to believe that she has passed that
comfortably boundary line OF forty she
IS a master of seven languages, has been
n physical trainer To the Empress OF Aus
tria. Madame Me1ba, Sarah Bernhard
and other notabies. is the only woman
rho enjoys the distinction of the degree
of fencing master and has made by her
own efforts half a million dollars. But
there was Just one thing lacking in the
,nake-,,p Of this exceptionally brilliant
woman.
DIDN'T LIKE RICHMOND.
She didn't like Richmond she came
ele saw, but she didn't conquer, and she
couldn't appreciate Richmond's unappre-
,,ia.iyeness. Madame Davenport came With
3ntroductions of the highest order. She
bore cards from Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. AS
tor. the Goulds and others of the four
hundred but when she went to call on
one of the Richmond ladies TO whom she
had been sent, and the dusky ruler OF
the kitchen announced that her mistress
was excused and refused to unbar the
door before even so august a parsonage
as Madame de Golliere Davenport, why
that lady became jncensed that she. the
famous, should be dismissed and by
negro servant. One of her greatest objec-
lions to this city seemed to be that white
servants didn't open the doors, but that
colored ones closed them to her. She
said it wasn't treating her with common
courtesy That she had been told in
Washington she would find the Richmond
people hospiiable but stupid and she
had found them both inhospitable and
dull.
That was the beginning Then Moth
ing pleased. The Jefferson even, failed
10 suit; things weren't worked on the
rapid-transit plan enough to meet her de-
nands. she rated the bell boys. she talk
ed at the elevator men. she tried to run
things to suit her own sweet will, and as
sha couldn't succeed in any direction
she took the next train Tor Norfolk and
left Before leaving she strolied into "a
newspaper Office. talked about hygiene
to a newspaper man and wound up by
telling him he was too good looking
man to be SO ugly.
ECCENTRIC GENIUS.
She certainly had all the eccentricity
of genius and more than her share OF
presumption from the stories she related
r( II
most prominent clubs of Boston, she lis
tened to the Current Events class cri-
ticise everything from Shakespeare down
10 the most talled-of politician and at
last she could stand It no longer, so she
arose and said: Ladies. -you have crlu-
cised almost everything ON earth IN the
last few hours. / would like for a few
moments to comment on you. Why DO
you have such yellow compleXions and
such languid walks?
In another city Madame Davenport de-
clared that at the most prominent No-
r,,an,s Club, she heard the ladies for three
hours discuss the grave and momentous
subject: 1.-The Morals Of Henry VIII y
And when the president turned to her
aud asked if it wasn't splendid. she an
swered: mo. madame, am too busy
thinking of the morals of my husband
and my eleven sons, to spend three hours
over the lack of morals OF any dead
King of England
There are two sorts OF women fo:'
when Madame Davenport expressed Tie
greatest dis.ilse-fat women and stupid
ones. She told that she was lecturing
1c fat class in one of the large cities.
where her audience was large in every
sense of the word, and after dilati1g for
TWO hours on the necessity of abstaining
from starchy or farinaceous food if one
wished to be less a1nplitudious a maiden
more than passing stout questioned:
Madame, what dc YOU think of po-
tatoesp' "Potatoes!" cried the instruc-
tor, why Mademoiselle, when l look at
you, think of a potato!''
REGULAR PESSIAIIST.
But If Madame Davenport has bad
opinion OF her husbands country, she
expresses a worse one Of her own. Rus
.1,a cot MI NOD hot