The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-17
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL


1t seems from the present indications
that society diversions for the coming
season will include all games of cards,
bridge whist, duplicate whist, the main
and the subdivisions OF euchre, hearts,
stop and Newmarket.
In out-of-door sports. golf and polo
take an easy lead. Polo is not yet af-
fected by the Smart set of Richmond.
but the number of fair players on the
Hermitage golf link will vouch for the
local popularity OF this Scotch-American
game.
Aver the Horse Show, on which all
minds are at present bent, Is disposed
of, five o'clock and reception teas will
resume their sway, and ''the clatter Of
cups and insincerity'' will begin to vex
the righteous soul of that man to whom
It's retrospective details are mistaAngly
confided.
September is an ideal month for riding
and driving, and this is a pastime in
which Richmond people are never weary
of indulging. The boulevards around the
city are filed each afternoon with roll
oe carria ges. and rnilady's bright face
looks engagingly forth upon the passer by.
That society and good works are closely
connected is recalled by the fact that
Mrs. Stephen Beverage and other ladies'
prominently connected with the Oakwood
Memorial Association are to be much
congratulated upon the appropriate and
patriotic end to which they have applied
the five hundred dollar appropriation
granted them by the last meeting of the
Virginia Legislature. The money has
been used in placing marble headstones
at each grave in the soldiers section OF
Oakwood Cemetery. the wooden slabs
which formerly marked the mounds l1av-
ing fallen down from decay. The con-
tract for these stones was awarded Mr..
Goodltffe, who is located near lakewood
He has promised to have a large num-
Der Of the stones placed by the first of
December. They will be numbered, the
number in each instance corresponding
with the name on the Association chart
It is hoped by the ladies who have worked
so untiringly to care for the Confederate
graves, that the example furnished by
the Virginia Legislature will be followed
in other Southern States, and so large
a fund raised that their efforts In SO far
as the headstones are concerned may
reach speedy and successful consum-
nation.
Mrs. Luther G. Warren left yesterday
morning for Warm Springs. Va She has
leased her residence, No. 300 East Frank
lin, to Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Jackson,
and will spend a part of the winter in
her old home at Augusta, Ga.
The ante-nuptial house party which
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dryer Moran are
entertaining at Comyn Hall. including a
large company Of Westinghouse. who
will arrive in Charlottesville Wednesday
to be present at the Hudgins-Moran we'd
ding the next day, will be entertained
at n cotillon Wednesday evening. ten
dcred by Mrs. Carl Mayhoff, at Month
cello. Monticello Is looking its loveliest
in its September garb, and It's spacious
ball room, filled with song and mirth and
dance will be a. goodly thing to see.
Mrs. Franklin Stearns. who has been
visiting in Harrisonburg. has returned
home, much improved in health
Mrs. Courtney E. Jenkins and Miss
Annabe1 jenkins will arrive in Richmond
from Waynesboro on "Wednesday next.
Miss Lena Hancock, who has been sum
mering at Saratoga, is now at Virginia
Beach. She expects to return to Rich
1nond in a few days.
Miss Belle Frommer is enjoying a de-
lightful visit to Toronto Canada.
Miss Elizabeth Wittkamp has returned
to Richmond from an extended Northern
tour.
Mrs. Robert Page Grymes will return
t. Richmond from the Virginia noun
talns and will be at No. 215 East Frank
lin street for the winter.
Friends Of Mr.. Henry Watkins will
-, 70 Of ,ic cjcI,nacc
He returned to Richmond from Norfolk
last week. and has been confined to his
apartments at the Mount Vernon since.
DR.. Nicholas I. Ardan. the popular
young physician at the Virginia Hospital.
left yesterday to spend his vacation WIS.,
iting in the North.
Miss Marie Newheiser, who has been
s;ck in Washington, where she was on
a visit, Is very much improved.
Miss Estelle Rankin has returned
from visit to Canada, much improved
in health.
Miss Mabel Phillips has returned home
after very pleasant visit TOT the coun-
try.
Miss Florence Tyler will leave Satur-
day to pay a visit of some weeks to Mrs.
Gunther. of Baltimore
The choir of st. Johns Episcopal
Church has reorganized for the winter
with Miss Grace Schermerhorn Miss
Burnett, Miss Cun1bie and the Misses
Gentry as sopranos: Mrs. Ludwell Miller
and Miss Barbour contraltos; Mr.. Nor
gan B. Shepherd and Mr. Richard Dyer
bassos, and Messrs. Frank Digges. T. ].
Jackson. Markham and McLuckey.
tenors. Mr.. John Yarbrough will Off
ciate as organist and Mrs. Kate Barbour
Howard will be the efficient choir direc-
tress and soprano soloist-
Mr.. and Mrs. D. c. Richardson have
been warmly welcomed back by their
friends from a western tour, which ex-
tended over month and included sight
seeing In California, the National Park
and other picturesque points and western
cities of note.
Mrs. John r. Charlton. who has been
visiting in WythevilIe, Va. will be in