The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-21

10. day I met lior--sprng NJ
render, rAnturous, sweet. dipped thing!
il kjssed her eyes aud she smiled agaii',
Smiled through hcr tears as s,,nlit rain raj
4 t've walked with her all this wondrous
day, IS "a y. III IA
whispering secrets, lover-way:
ghe knows the pail, OF my Winter heart,
Poisoned In grim town walls. apart
From the rotous, vngabond god, young
Pan 'ht .
whose child i've been since the world
Il began; " IA 81 s ;f
Knows how my fretted spirit crieHa.
For upland hopes. green spaces wluc il 4
4 laid my hand on her perf,lned breast,
iWhera the early blossoms cling sole '
IN pressed. W
Ana the sky seemed set Will, violets--
Oh Love remembers and Love forgcts.i
Could you not hear handspring
Bidding the homesck birds to slng7
You did not sec her face, you say!
The BIRDS were mute, the skies vera
gray7
Poor holden sense!-she called to the
Till / thrilled with passionate ecstasy.
To-day l met her--Sprng--
Wild alluring, flower eyed thing!
I,olbIc, III 1lilo'. N'SS'
/ To-day any woman may live a glo-
d rio,,s and splendid life. She may choose
her work or profession and follow 1T,
alternating her occupations with all the
outdoor sports aid athletics she chooses,
and none shall cfsticise. The twentieth
century maid who bsdes Mt home III ler
fathers castle may not sit all day at a
\ window looking to the cast. waiting for
Z her knight to como. If she would DO
worthy of her knight when he comes
sho must learn well the art OF living IN
her own home, the better to live in his.
at is the duty Of the twentieth CEN
tury maid to be intelligent, but her In
tellectuality should be leavened with
4 many grains of common sense. Let the
maid understand that as Mallocls says:
the aim OF culture is to make OF the
soul a musical instrument which may
Weld music to itself orr others at any
impulse from without, and the more ella
borate the culture, the richer and more
composite the music. The aim Of culture
is to make us better company for men and
women of the world. I
Mammon's Match.
Mr. James Branch Cabell, who has come
to be recognized as an accomplished
writer Of short stories, as well as OF
books has a Enthusiastically delightful
composition, "NIammon's Match, IN the
March number of the Smart Set.
The story is full OF bright cleverness
ceiyod and developed. The scene Is laid
ut "selwoode," the environment being
ali the moro interesting because familiar
to Mr.. Cabell's readers through former
Individual trick OF style which Mr.. Cabell
has, is the linking together In identity
OF what he writes, by the reappearance
IN new chapters of character personages
which have played part III former
pages, SO that whenever one gives a
greeting to a new friend. one has also
pleasant remembrance brought about.
through mention or 1ncldent. lor al S,oio
one.
..AIammons Match has to do with
what in America is called society, or
rather with two members of 1T, the third
who serves as a equity lay figure and
some others whose names are Just mem
toned zen passant.'' not counting at all
I Next to the reho and heroine OF Mann
mons Match the Italians American gar
den which was their frysting place alb
serbs the greater part OF Mr. Cabells at
/ tenuon, he being a very pretty artist in
deed when he turns to the contenpia-
\ ton OF nature. OF her on a clear May
morning in this formal bit Of landscap-
Ing, he writes: "And about them, Spring
was lnarshalling her pageant, and from
divers hooks the eather-stained nymphs
and faunB stared at them with candid,
considerable gaze; and above them the
clipped ilex-t whispered knowingly.
AS for the birds, they twittered to one
another with point; for more favored OF
chance than imperial Solomon. they have
been the coafidants in any number OF
such affairs, and regard the way OF a
man with a maid as one Of the simplest
matters in tho world.
.Mystery" they shrlled. Pouf! See
( how they meet. see how they greet! All,
sweet, sweet sweet to meet IN the
Spring"
.'Mammons Match" owes the interest
OF it's plot to doubly mistaken indemnity.
\ The revelation of reality in name and char
acter shows the: animating principle OF
true love- in the Casting away of worldl-
ness and the awakening of nobler pur-
poses and higher aims. In so many and
such diver, manners is 1t made apparent
that OF the three great spiritralties--
faith, hope and love-love Is ever the
greatest.
Annual Meeting.
The annual mass meeting OF the Hill
suenot Society will be held IN the Second
Presbyterian Church this afternoon at i
o'clock DR.. Russell Cecil, the president
OF the society. will conduct the meet
ing. and the address will be mnde BY
the Rev. rhorton Whaling. who comes
from Lexington, Va, for the purpose.
Or. Whaling IL well known as one 81
the best orators in the Presbyterian
church. He formerly filled the chair. q
philosophy in the Southwestern Presby
terrain University, at ClarksVille, Tenn,
and has succeeded Or. Kerr as presiden
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