The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

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Miss Lillian Constance voorhis- Lyon.
| the former society marrOn who was mar
| ried to Col. George w. Lyon, at one
| time surveyor Of che port and who more
recently has been a singer in a comic
opera chorus, is recovering in the prison
ward Of the Bellevue Hospital from the
effects Of a uose Of 100 half grain tablets
Cof morphine, taken during ''stress Of trou.
bio" in her room in the Murray Hill Ho-
tel. If her condition permits she will
attempting to commit suicide.
Among the children who attract the at
tention of strangers in New York prob
| ably none is better known than "Beebe,"
the boy violinist Of Chrystie street. Bee
He entertains the children and grown
folks of the street near the Bowery by
playing popular tunes on small violin.
! He does not play for pennies, but SIM
ply for amusement. His parents would
like to place him on the stage, but can-
not do so, because they are afraid the
Gerry Society would interfere.
The opening of bottle Of chanpa gne
on the stage of the Criterion Theater
during the performance of Iris was
too much for thirsty man in the audi
cnce. His thirst had apparently been
caused by liquids. When he saw the
stage "6 ? looking so real, he jumped
around! Don't be stingy" The house
was in an uproar for moment and then
the lights were darkened while the ushers
led the man to the door and showed him
place across the street where he could
quench his thirst. The play stopped un-
til he reached the lobby.
Jerome Siegel gave dinner to twenty
five at the Cafe Martin the other night.
The. favors were sets Of furs, and the
twelve fortunate chorus girls present
! represented all outlay for the host of
$500. That much more was spent for
the dinner. 1t began at midnight and
| was on at a very earlv-or late-hour
next morning. Mr.. Sicgel decided up
on the dinner while at the Horse
to decorate the ball room Of Martins
and three hours later everything was in
readiness for the feast. All the young
women present were from the Casino
ensemble.
There is growing feeling among the
members of mems clubs that ladies
days. women's rooms and women visit
ors in any form have no proper place or
part in the policies Of such associations.
| There are so many members who don't
want women "bothcring around" as they
express it, that the more liberal are being
led to entertain their views. At present
all Of the big downtown clubs have
rooms where the wives and daughters of
the members can come for a luncheon or
a dinner, as they choose. They seldom
come unless accompanied by club mem
bers. While there is little probability Of
this privilege being withdrawn at pres
ent, there is more and more Of ten
dency to restrict their use.
New York has a social organization
fashioned after the Whitechapel Club of
gruesome Chicago memory. 1t is called
the '"Toby Club" but its name has no
reference to the popular weed of Pitts
burg commerce. The Toby Club has
half hundred members and the usual
complement Of officers. Its rooms on
Charles street are fashioned after the
pattern of the typical Egyptian tomb.
The main room is a subterranean apart
ment-cold, uninviting and sepulchral.
There are imitation collins here and
there, and grinning skulls on shelves,
while coffin lids placed on the tops of
beer barrels serve as tables. The special
mission Of the Toby Club seems to be
the ridiculing of the grim specter, death
One of their pet diversions is drinking
from skulls and smoking from pipes
carved from human bones.
the Tombs the other day. Although he
was i'll the prison for half an hour he
did not go to the cell which was his
while he was on trial for the second
time. He chatted with the warden and
then asked to see Joseph Hackett, who
is in the prison awaiting his second trial
OH a charge of forgery. When Molineux
was confined in the prison Hackett was
permitted to do much writing for him,
aud he took from dictation one Of Mol
ineux's plays. After his visit Molineux
declined to say why he wished to see
Hackett, nor would the latter be seen.
It is believed, however, that in his
capacity as amanuensis Hackett became
conversant with much Of Molineux 8
ineUX about to begin divorce proceedings,
it was desired that Hackett should re-
frain from talking about what he knew.
New York faddists Of the social settle
ment variety are continually trying some
thing on the dog-the dog invariably be-
ing the great east side. where poverty is
POpuIAI1y SuppOSeu ~ IelSu 1ue latest
device is the vegetarian restaurant over
near Mulberry Bend. The theory of the
present enterprise is based on the postu-
late that the denizens of that quarter
are inferior because they don't know
how to eat: that physical degeneracy fol-.
lows upon too heavy consumption Of
meat. The promoters are trying to es-
tablish a regular clientele, upon which
they make observations as the effect of
vegetable diet becomes apparent. If
they find out that their customers I'M
prove on cereals. roots and water the
conclusion will probably be that salt
pork. and not the trusts, is responsible
for many of the ills which political econ
omists are trying to cure with reading
matter.
Richard Stockton Emmett, the Oldest
member in this country Of the famous
family which was identified with the re-
bellion in Ireland in 1898, resulting in
the martyrdom of Robert Emmett, died
Of heart disease at his home in New
Rochelle in his eighty year. He
was grandson Of Thomas Adds EN-
met, brother Of Robert Emmett Thomas
Adds Emmett fed from Ireland after the
execution of his brother, and came to
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