The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-26
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL.
A Wornar's Answer.

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"A Womar's Answer.
I will not let YOU say q womahs part
Must BIO to give exclusive love a4ohei
Dearest, although ! love you 49, so, my near.
your own. IA
/ iovo-what do not lover Earth and
Find space within my heart and myriad
VI things \.
you would not detgn to heed are cherished
And yibrato on It's very nrnost strings.
+ love the summer, with her ebb and flow
or light and warmth and music, that
have ntirscd
Her tender buds to blossoms
and you know
It xa4 IN summer that saw you first
4, I love tho winter dearly, too
but then
II owe 1t 80 much; on q winters day, II
Bleak, cold and stormy, you returned
8af again, 5
N When you had been those weary months
liz away. & &i
love the stars like friends; 50 many
. nights
I gazed at them, when you were far
from me. la4 g
Till grew blind with tears
those far-off lights IN.
Could watch YOU, whom longed in vait,
to see.
love the flowers; happy hours lie
ii Shut up within their petals close and
fast; 5!4 Ig6ffaE \
You have forgotten. dear. but they and
Keep every fragment OF the golden past
love, too to be loved; all loving praise
Is Seems Ike a crown upon my ltfe-to
make IN
Il better worth tho giving. and to raise
# Still nearer to your own the heart you
take. ttas
love all good and noble souls; but l
heard E
Ono speak Of you but lately, and for
M5 days. 9sti. II i.s
u Only to think OF It, my soul was stirred
I'm tender memory Of such generous
praise.
Il love all those who love You, all who'
Comfort to you; and can find regret
Even for those poorer hearts who once
could know,
And once could love you, and can now
forget.
we'll, is my heart SO narrow-I who spare
Love for all these? DO not even hold
My favorite books in special tender care.
And prize them as a miser does his
gold7
Tho poets that you used to read to me
"A while summer twilghts faded in the
sky; 4
But most OF all think aurora Leigh"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS you remember
why?
Il Will you be jealous? Did you guess boz
loved SO many thtngs?-st you the
best W
Dearest remember that I&lovo you more,
@ on, moro thousand times, than all
81 tho rest! e
Adelaide Ann Proctor.
Miss Bowrnan's Birthday.
Miss Florence Bowman, OF Chestnut
Hill. celebrated her tenth birthday by
a delightful party on Friday from four
10 seven There were recitations. music
and games. followed by donkey party
and fishing pond. In the former, Miss
ruth Marlborough and Miss Helen Wilder
H captured the prizes; while in the latter,
each child carried away some dainty
souvenir OF tho OCCASION. After this All
repaired to the dining-room which had
been deliberately decorated in pink and
white. Streamcrs OF the same colors
fluttered from tho chandelier to the four
corners OF the table, while In bank
4 OF carnations and smiax was the daint.
lest birthday cake, with ten pink and
white candles. The menu consisted or
creams, Ices, cake, fruit. bon-bon, nuts
and other daintcs. The number OF beau
t,ful presents little Miss Bowman re-
ceIyed fully proves her popularity.
Among those present were. MISSES
Tholma Livesay Cowlin Woods, Con-
stance Redd, Ruth and Lois Marlborough.
Adeline Bayne. Elizabeth and Ruth Bow
man, Marguerite, Sarah Dad sorhio
slaughter, Marguerite Gibbons. MRrle
Williams, Mamie Fleming, Huth Jeh-
nngs. Helen Wilder. Marguerite 13ahlke,
virginia Clements, Isabel Fuller. Bessie
Taylor, Constance Kinney, Emily HUN
tor. Lucille and Adelaide Pelouze, Alma
e. Vaughn, Minerva Adams. Eleanor ana
Margaret Enslow, Elizabeth Spralley, sue
ana Marion Starke Flora Goodman, Mas
ters Manson Grubbs, Walter Burch, Bar
clay Walthall, Thomas Gibbons Allen
slaughtor. Ray and Charles Bowman
Henry Fuller, Walker Huxter George
Bnyne. John Gallesple, Harold Wilder, W.
Allen Clements, Herbert Bahlke, Rich
y ard Hitler. 81,
WEDDINGS.