The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-08

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,rhe darkness deepens. a Lord With With me, me
abide, }t u n 4. d iS5
& The Fathers benedlctlon falls: the ser ser
vice ends. oil NJ
Beginning Of Lent.
vs. Tod AZ is Ash wednesday and Lent
begins. After long season which, IN
Richmond has been fun of gayety..555s a
number Of entertainments In the wa y OF
fashionable wedding breakfasts, lunch
cons and receptions, card parties, d. bu-
tante teas. fancy dress affairs elegant
cotillons, hunt breakfasts, dinners and
balls have succeeded each other with be-
awildering rapldity, and have been 5un-
paralleled in the beauty OF their APP
II pointments and the thought expended IN
their detail. as Fl AZ q fl 3s III \, s&
Now that. n tardy spring is coming tho
tide Of thought is beginning to turn To-
ward foreign travel and the south Of
France, where the beauty of the climate
and THE attractions Of the MI Careme
FESTIVAL hold many inducem ents for tour
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Mr.. and Mrs. Bennehan Cameron, Of
North Carolina are here for the purpose
Of saying goodbye 70 Mr.. and Mrs F. Fl. s
Mayo before the latter start for q Eu-.5
sropean trip. n Mrs +. N. 81 Y aug CHAN, Miss
Vaughan and other members Of the fam-s
4ily,&wh are now making their home at
Ashland, Va, Will leave early in the sum-
g11er to spend four months abroad. Miss
Nellie Dickinson, Of this city has already
sailed 5elnd will remain In Europe for
some months. ~ 81 H. .35g
n Ash Wednesday, services emphasize the
beginning Of Lent, and are always oe-
svoutlyS TENDED. Even the memories Of
"a gay Mardi Gras are put aside and
foru ha Of 5flaVOtiOn
with a feryor "a that u carries hcr quite
away from the world and It's friyolities. ~
Apropos y Of Mardi Gras, Miss N1adge
Freddy Is enjoying the far South gwlthsa
party that intended, in leaving Richmond,
Ito witness the carnival season in N w
Orleans. Miss Freddy has been one Of
the agreeable thostesscs OF the past win
Y ter and her friends note WITH interest
Y her intention to build n resld ence on
Monument Avenue during the present
year. Egi 4i 81 "A s8s
Hiss Elise Parkinson who has been
spending the winter at the Hotel Ponci-s
ana, Palm Beach, Is still lingering in
Florida, and probably will not return
to Richmond until April.
I, Mr.. Young at Club.
& Mr.. James Young, OF the yiolas Allen
9 Company. who made such fine impress
sion at the Woman's Club last year, when
Z he gave tho club members an intcrpreta-
ton Of the character Of "Shylock, = Will
repeat his visit on Thursday afternoon
next, at $50 o'clock. when he will talk
q on Hamlet. Ss.5 n III Il
Mr.. Young possesses great charm Of
manner and expression, and his coming
Ito the club is looked forward to with
great interest. #
Benefit Of Confederate Home.
1ndependently4ofSth theta that Colonel
Alexander x ell ley. Nj Clure Is TO give his
lecture on "Our Country" In the Acad-
envy Of Music, March 14th, for the benefit
of the Needy Confederate Woman's
Home, the personality of the dstin-
h g,lished lecturer and his tried and long
continued friendship for the South will,
insure him representative audience and
an enthusiastic welcome. A Richmond
woman Of known ability and a very
graceful writer, says concerning Colonel
1 Mcclure; S
MANY pregnant years have elapsed
since this brilliant scholar editor and
author swept the battle-scarrcd South
from Virginia to Texas with his clear,
unimpassoncd vision, and gave to the
world some candid views OF Its industrial,
i financial and political condition. From
criticism, keen as the surgeons knife,
hut wlthal as wholesome. Colonel Mcclure
passed TO q bright optimistic view OF the
future for our Southland, which few
could then see after four years Of sac
rlhce and desolation, One may quote
almost at random. and the brave worus
OF the past write themselves into pro-
phecIcs fulfilled in the peaceful security
( OF the twentieth century"
## In 1856 this accomplished author writcs:
|, rtl,nr M hG1n tn I'M, ANN mi,
Of more than twenty years ago; Its war
Iiors of blue and gray are rapidly pass
( Ing to Join the great majority that mas
gone before, and new generation is fast
filling the places OF the men of me gem
Grafton that fought the most heroic bat
ties of history. The victories Of peace
arelnowi to become. their chaplets, and the
i surplus capital and industry of the North
will soon be inseparably interviewer with
the new South
Tickets procured for the lecture should