The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-28
RICHMOND SOCIETY
H NOW TURNING EYES
II TOWARD EXPOSITION
1Iany Brilliant Functions Being
6 Planned for the Coming
Weeks.
The REUNION ALSO COMING
Fine Lecture To-Morrow Even.
ing Under Auspices OF Woman's
Club-Otilcr Matters.

From gray days there has been an
serncrgence into soft sunshine and
sweet airs. People have taken heart
of grace and realized that spring, the
laggard. has at length made herself
manifest
Wednesday next is May Day, cele-
brated in song and story since early
English times, when Spenscr wrote:
''Then came fair May, the sayest mayd
on ground.
Deckt all with dainties of the sea-
sons pryde.'
The May-pol., and the dancing
around it have gone out of fashion.
but the flowers and verdure render
May ideal in is beauty. and the latter
characteristic has given 1t the title
of the -emerald month
It is the most important month in
the history of the State, because on
May 18th the first permanent English
,xettlement planted at Jamestown
Island laid the foundations for the
future of a great Commonwealth.
At the jamestown Exposition the
date of the First landing of the Eng
ish colonists was splendidly marked
OH Friday last April Goth, when the
Chief Executive of the American ma
siGn came to do honor to the occa-
sion, and the warships of many ma
lions gathered to form one of the
handsomest naval displays ever wit
messed in the waters adjacent to the
Exposition Grounds.
The scene at the Virginia State
Building on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, when IL was formally opened
TO the States people, was brilliant in
the extreme. Mrs. Swanson as hostess,
did the honors of the building and
the occasion in such a graceful fash
ion that size won all hearts and made
other Virginia women glad that the
wife of the Chief Executive of the
State was one calculated to do them
and Virginia all coveted honor and
credit. The reception to the visiting
Governors of different States and their
wives demonstrated the beauty and
spaciousness of the State Building
and Mrs. Swanson's fine taste as to
its interior decorations and appoint
ments. The draping of the Virginia
flag and Old Glory throughout the
lower floor, and the lavish use of
the State flower. the rose; the music,
the lights, the jewels and the lovely
gowns worn conspired to render the
evening of April 25th memorable
date in Virginia's social calendar of
1907
Underlying the stirring of State
pride aroused by the precautionary
celebration comes the deeper, tenderer
realization that May is. throughout
Virginia and the South, memorial
month when the memory of its heroes
awakes to expression in song and
flowers, and the annual tribute to
fallen yalor Is paid.
In Richmond memorial month this
year is also to be reunion month. The
thinning line of gray will gather once
again, hand will clasp hand once more,
and. in the unveiling of a great monu-
ment to the President of the Con-
federacy, the comradeship of years ago
will be pledged afresh
The women of the South, represented
by the officers and members of their
memorial organizations, and by the
United daughters of the Confederacy.
who have labored in the erection of
this monument and carried 1t on to
successful completion, will sec in it
the fruition of faithful effort and
hope long delayed.
The social features of the reunion
VIII be unusually attractive. Mrs.
Lizzie George Henderson, president of
the United Daughters OF the Confed-