The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-09

where she knows only brutality and neg
lect and Is entirely deprived of the joys
and pleasures naturally belonging TO
childhood.
life of which those around her can form
no conception She sees visions ana
hears voices and, one night, obeyins what
she conceives to be the call or Jesus.
she wonders out fails INTO lah e., a tita
is only rescued from drowning ny the
timely interposition of the village schools
He is kind and tender to the lonely little
waif and becomes to her the enpoo'-
ment OF all that she has ever experienced
OF goodness in humanity. during the
illness that follows upon her railing INTO
the lake, however, as the child lies taaing
away from life day by day, her mother,
touched by late repentance. comes to her
bedside. like Magdalen of old, saying:
81 have washed His feet with my tears.
and wiped them with the hairs of my
head. and / am here to love and tend
YOU"
The vision of the death angel looking
upon her with kind, benignant eyes, ana
holding out arms within which she may
be lulled to sleep gives assurance of
peace to her mind. She has another
vision higher and holier one, in which
Christ Himself stands beside her, only
| Christ comes with the form ana Iea-
| lures of the schoolmaster, the one who
first taught her the meaning Of goodness
| and love dwelling In the hearts of men.
The drama Is filed with the highest
| and purest idealsm the Hottest spirit
| ualty. and Is considered by competent
| critics in America and Europe TO be the
| most striking exposition known of the
psychologist power made manifest In child
| hood.
Mira. Well gives her readings in sit
! ting posture and uses no gestures, de-
pend for her wonderful Interpretation of
| the authors meaning upon her splendidly
| trained voice. which is vibrant With every
shade OF feeling and reproduces with re-
markable depth and accuracy the scenes,
| the surroundings, the personages and the
pathos, which she transfers from the page
before her into the consciousness OF her
| hearers.
The afternoons programme owed q
/ large measure of it's attractiveness to
Miss Roberta Allen and the skill with
which her violin heightened the meaning
of many passages of the drama.
4 The art with which several ancient
Z hymns We're blended into and interviewer
4 with the strains of Gonnod's Ave
Maria" heralding the coming of the
mother to the bedside of the child; the
IcHulliCh u Lie ttiIiiSA az NHc Nisipi
of Christ dawned upon the dying eyes
and the triumphant strains that spoke OF
! a soul borne by the angels to It's heav-
emily home, attestcd the perfect compre.
, hension and sympathy between the au'
thor, the reader and the musician.
The guests Of the afternoon were Mrs
w. H. Adams Miss Marianne Meade
Miss Lucy Coleman, the Rev. Frank
| Meade and Mrs, Meade. Admiral Web
ster. Mrs. Kate VIM, Mrs. Lightfoo
!, and Mrs. Claybrook.
Norfolk Woman Club.
On Thursday afternoon next, from 8 t
n, Princess Amelia Toubetzkoy will b
rendered a reception at the club an
7. viii be glad to meet all the members o
! the club at that time.
The first entertainment under tn
auspices of the Norfolk Woman's Clut
q will begin by Mr.. Preston w. Searcl
who has ii wide reputation as u lecturer
5 His subject viii be 1.-The Music of tn
: Fatherland," and will embrace u con
a prehensive study of Wagner and othe
a German composers. Miss Tllie Vail wi
n accompany him as pianist, and MOI
n folk baritone will assist in the solos. III
& lecture viii be given on January 1911
WOMEN'S MEETING.