The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-17

IN lamb-like in behavior sud
| N deny roared like g lion for
| v Il brief space on Sunday
afternoon.
| When the roar came, smart
society was abroad In smart attire.
taking it's afternoon promenade and
totally UMPIRE pared for such treacti-
erous exhibition of March temper.
| one moment the sun was shining.
and all along the promenade pave
| merit there was the frou-frou Of SILL
ken skirts. the waving of birds para
disc plumes and the graceful swaying
of pretty figures in motion. Then tho
| onslaught of the west wind and the
downpour of drenching rain' Thnn
the bedragging. of the skirts and
| sables, and sad subsistence of feathers
adjoining hitherto becoming Partisan
Iconfections
Every one knows how difficult a
thing il is for woman to run from the
rain and preserve her usual intact
ness and -groomedness of appear
ancc One realized forcl.y Sunday
l.aftern oon that II is the exceptionally
beautiful among the feminine contin-
gent of humanity that can stand II
rain and wind test, and preserve un-
harmed good looks and good clothes
through IT'S ramping and dampenlng
influence.
That the Richmond women came out
of Sunday afternoons elemental tussie
as we'll as they did proves them 10
be not only what they have always
been called-the prettiest of all types
but the most quick witted resource
full and agile in a crisis of any kind,
more particularly a March crisis.
Character Ball.
A children's character ball, given
last night in Masonic Temple under
the auspices of Beth Ahabah Auxiliary,
was very pretty affair.
The committee of arrangements har
the evening included Mrs. NJ. +. Mar
cuse. Mrs Meyer Kirsh. Mrs Clarence
Milhiser. Mrs. l. l. Straue Mrs. SAM
uel Cohen. Mrs. +. n. Calsch. Mrs.
Leon Nelson, Mrs Henry Wallerstein,
Mrs. S. NJ Block. Mrs. Aaron Greenwald.
Mrs Leon Dettebach. Mrs. T.. Botting-
heimer. Mrs. Joseph Levy, Mrs. Frank
Leibermuth. Miss Rosa Fleishman. Miss
NJ n Binswanger. Mrs. j. Lichtenstein
and Miss Merle Hessbery.
The ballroom. where Kaufmann's or
chestra set the pace in music. was
filled with children. beautifully cos
tuned. passing and repasslng in the
grand march. Mr.. Henry<HutZler led
the march. with one of the prettiest
couples in the room-Samuel Bend
heim, Jr., in pink stockinet, with span
gled gauze wings and gilt bow and
arrow. the daintiest Cupid imaginable
and Flora Virginia Mitteldorfer. in
the white apron and cape collar of a
trained nurse, her pretty curles tucked
away under the nurses cap and her
sweet face serious with the RESPONSE
ell aNra1-
lent characters were: Henry Waller
stein. as flight Money; Elsie and Ed
ward Walierstein. as Red Cross
Nurse" and wounded Soldier; Maxine
Rendheim, lovely Psyche" in pink
silk and pink forget-me-no Jack
Asher and Adrian Bendhelm members
OF the Black Hand Society: Ruth
Wallerstein. as Spring; Marion Wal
lerstein. as The Press" a liberty cap
on her head and a printing press in
her hand; Marx Mitteldorfer, as
"Humpty Dumpty"; Leroy Hutzler. as
Sam Tub" Maurice Hutzler, as Mar
saleen"; Sadie Marcusc, as the centre
OF Mother Goose group. being
Mother Hubbard" and having with
her Virginia Levy, as DO Peep;
Phyllis ullman and Sylvan Straus, as
Jack and Jih"; Bessie Straus, Mother
Goose; Maurice Straus, simple ST.
non; Edward Gunst, "Llttle Boy
Blue: Mildred Caisch, "Mistress
Mary, Quite Contrary; Margaret Wal
lerstein, Little Miss Muffet; Wilmer
Calisch, Little Jack Homer
Others included Mary Kirsh as
Mary and her little lamb. Meyer Rein-
hardt and Ira stern, as Uncle sam and
Admiral Evans; Ruth Thalhimer, as
Mistress Martha Washington; Alma
Held, as Della Page; Edward Calisch
Held and Julian Dettelbach. Indians;
Eva Newman, Cotton Picker; Helen
Whitlock, Helen OF Troy: I.eona Strauss
tambourine girl Ralph Wolf, ministers;
Mary Crowcll, nurse; sam Crowell
peddler: Isabel Prag Queen OF Hearts;
Viola Ullman, paper doll; Charles
Hirshfield, flower girl; Irma Strars
Colonial girl; Daniel Stein destruction
of faro bank, Horace. Cans DIR. Cal
isch. Castor Jacobs, St Patrick Sylvan
Rothchild. as fIanz from Lauterbach;
sam Blnswanger policeman Leah
Binswanger. ska,. girl; Herold
Hofhimer, French baker; Jno MARQUEE,
policeman; Theo Rothchild Uneeda
biscuit; Regina Weinfeld, flower gill !;
Theresa Pollock, Red Riding Hood;
Julian L. Cohen. dude; Max Mitteldosl,
clown: Virginia Rosenfeld, Funston
Bachrach, fairies; Jacdue Levitt. Gentle
man OF Verona; Adele Levitt. Maud
Muller. Fin Ranb Ullman Little BOY
Blue; Henry S. Raab, clown; Joscphin"
Harbaugh, Rebecca at the We'll KUN
Caldwell shcpcrdess.
A most attractive group represehten
In song and gesture Ten Stages or
Life Tho, group was introduced ~
Floribel Eoscnbnum. carrying a pan
ner and dressed in uniform,
The first stage. ''royland," was I'M
pcrsonated by Miss Agnes May; the
second, school Days" by Miss 'rrauer-
man; tho third, college DAYS" by
Miss Alice Kahn; '"rhe Fairest Flower Of
An, by Miss Florence l.ichtenstein;
Miss Clcmencc Wallersteln sang II
Want a Gibson Man. ana MISS Heieh
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