The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-26
food III which there Is little waste. The
waste of even the winter months, how
ever, is vastly greater than that Of any.
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eyer. is vastly greater than that Of a, any
The SWEETEST "newsboy" who ever
wares at the entrance to-, the Brooklyn
bridge early the: other morning. With
silk-1ined overcoat and a diamond scarf
pin thisselderly man took his position at
the bridge: ! Al pair of goId-rimmed spec
tacles added dignity TO: his appearance.
policeman: He said he had been: QUITO
dinner with, friends and after, starting for
home found that he had only 3 cents.
The pawnshOps were closed, so he bought
3 cents worth. of evening papers and
started to earn his way across the bridge
Ms. Psyton,s Play house is the most
the: intention Of Mrs. Corse Payton to
make the play house fad. Hers is
great scheme; fashioned after that Of
Mrs. Robert Osborn. with certain elabo-
rations. She and her husband, the ''ten,
twent, and thirt' person, have planned
it, and the Criterion Theater, at Fulton
street and Grand avenue, has been Sc
cured as the place for the operations.
The place is being remodeled at cost Of
be given January Is. "A Royal Fam
ily'' is the play that will be presented,
with Mrs. Payton, who is known on the
stage as Eta Reed, in the role created by
Annie Russell.
One effect which the price-cutting wa:-
fare between the retail tobacco dealers
Of New York has had has been to COM
pletely change the former styles in Win
dow decorations. Heretofore the win.
dows of New York tobacco stores have
not been noted for any special pains to
which their proprietors have been to
MAKE them attractive. Now all this is
changed. Rows on rows of opened
boxes, displaying cigars of every size
and quality; piles Of packages of cigar
cites in equal variety, pipes in briar and
meerschaum and tins Of tobacco in all
shapes and many colors lure the eye,
while notices on deep red sign cards give
announcement to the fact that 15-cent
goods are 'cut to 6 cents.''
With their Japanese dog and the mon
key that has been their constant COM
Panlon for two years, but without the
Japanese maid or a valet, Putnam Brad
lee Strong and May Yohe, who is now
entitled to call herself Mrs. Strong, she
and the former army officer and son of
married by civil contract on October 3
in Buenos Ayres, Argentina, arrived here
on the steamer Umbria. According to a
report that appears to he well founded,
their return is explained by their inten-
ton to go on the stage. Whether Strong
will appear with the woman or will mere
~ act as her business manager could not
be learned. 1t is also reported that he is
about to write book.
House hunting, that bane of thousands
Of families the world over, has been
turned into most profitable employment
by an energetic woman in New York.
With no other capital than pleasing man
ners, a good address, smart walking
costume and cards engraved like fash
lonable visiting cards. except for the
words professional mouse hunter in
the lower left-hand corner, she has estab-
lished herself in business among a class
Of people who. while not the wealthiest.
are we'll enough off to live in private
houses or expensive apartments, and who
will gladly pay for comfort and conven-
fences. Other women may adapt her idea
Of circumstances.
New York has one distinct oddly in
the way of social organization. This is
the Manned Mems Club, whose eighteen
members have lost, in one way and an
other, an arm or leg. Unless you have
been properly deprived by accident OF
some useful member of the body you are
not eligible for enrolment on the books
exception Of two recently admitted men,
bers. both minus hand left on Cuban
battlefelds, most Of the men of this club
lost their limbs in railroad accidents.
One of the chief aims of the manned
men is to supply good legal talent to
prosecute careless engineers and motor
men In cases where some unfortunate
railway victim, too poor to pay lawyers
fees, seeks a monetary solace for the loss
of hand or foot.
AS mysteriously rs it disappeared
from his private apartments in his house
at East Forty-fourth street, the night
OF the personally conducted raid of Dis
trlct Attorney jerome. the $500 peach
dow vase was returned to Richard Can
field. The only difference is that while
by the police. it was returned to Mr..
Garfield by them. The vase was brought
to the station house by boy, who said
4 stranger paid him to do it. The vase
is about inches high and not more than
4, lnches IN circumference at its widest
part. 1t could easily have been carried
in the pocket Of a loose overcoat without
years old. Mr.. Garfield secured the vase
in England to match another which had
once been the property of Mrs. Mary
Jane Morgan.
Nellie Bly,, the former weli-known
newspaper woman, who is now Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Seaman. appeared in the role Of a
benefactress the other day when she ex-
tended a forgiving hand to young man
accused Of having appropriated about
$500 from the Ironclad Manufacturing
Company, of which Mrs. Seaman is the
principal directress. The young man was
brought into court under a charge of en-
bezzlement. Mrs. Seaman was an inter
esting spectator Of the court proceedings,
When the prisoner walked up to the bar
she followed him and shook his hand
warmly. They both We're smiling and
chatted merrily. 1t is believed that when
the case comes up tomorrow the charge
will be withdrawn, as it is thought, on
account of the prisoners long connection
with the company, Mrs. Seaman will not
press the complaint.
After an illness of one day Alfred l..