The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-04
CALI TAG DAY
FOR RICHMOND
Citizens Beautifully Contribute to
Good Cause and Wear
Emblems.
BUSY ON MAIN STREET
Young Society Ladies Throng
Business Thoroughfare and
Aid in Work.
BUSY ON MAIN STREET

Tags galore are Haunted to the
breezes in stately old Richmond on
| this day. Monday as prescribed by
the calendar. Tag Day as prescribed
by the danes and maids of Rich
mond, and, as all men will agree VINO
| have but poked their heads out OF
the safe retreat of their home sweet
homes, IL il the women who have
ruled. Unless you fee to the still
seclusion OF retired hooks tn shady
| byways, 1t Is impossible to elude the
vigiiant "taggers." and having once
been caught in their nets. it Is feat,
recurring supernatural skill to dis
entangIe ones SELF from its mesnes
not that the women are persistent Oh
eantalizing but their charms are ire
slstIuie, ana what are charms worth,
I II Ingy uUu EeII tugs nc VeuUers
sI-4.Aevsy-Aalla-S&-As s<~ I1sta1t -ta+s--tAsS
paying DusAfiecs IN Fsitnnonu to-uay,
nave tneir instructions To ask passers-
W once onIy 10 wear d Tag anu IL
wearing a lag, not to ask them at ali,
so that inc same respect Tor the Mt
ness OF tnlnxS that mas always CHAR
actertzed the Efforts OF the Insuuc-
ave visluns Nurses Association is
| apparent asaln-ia- the Tag baS Oh
tsIV.
everything and Everybody Tagged.
At one O oiocK nearly aii the eedes-
| TRANS OF klcnmond were taskeu, the
| uni asnionap Die ones VINO We're tas
less being lew and far between. Not
only -the-Hf-H- tagged but even
the brute beasts have not escaped.
! Dociie little dogs trot around wagsiaa
their tails anu naunc.ng req tags. WITH
every appearance OF the WISDOM OF a
scion. wniie even the whips of spick
| and span turnouts wear the crest
OF the day. doubtless bringing fear
to the equine minds, as the little red
symbol Is fiourisned above them, that
| the witches are IN Pursuit and the ride
of Tam o. Shanter a living reality
! Tags for Nothing and Drinks.
A young man whom we Will deSig-
nate as Howard made a wager with
| several friends that he could be tag
ged fer nothing, and. IL he succeeded
/ they were TO set up to drinks. HAY
ing encountered the vigilance of the
"tagxers,n Towards friends accepted
the wager and awaited results, while
| he boldly marched across the street,
| bargained with a bewitchtng damsei "
| let him have tag for nothing, and
! to come back in about an hour. pay
for the tag and bring gold mine with
/ him In the form of his friends who
| would purchase tags in lump All
went well, Howard got a tag for
nothing. drinks for the crowd. and
turned several stray dollars into the
Golfers OF the obhging young maid.
Tickets for Emancipation Parade.
One enterprising young girl evolved
| "A fetching scheme and told the mil
/ lion darkies. more or less, who are
swarming the streets to-day, that they
must be tagged If they wanted 10 see
| the emancipation parade After a
! while an old nanny came up to her
| and said: Lady, does you sell tickets
/ 10 see the PARADE" and stratghtway
/ maid her one remaining cent for the
| ticket"
/ Tags. Net Men, far sale:
! A bfg-hearted, en-handed citixen
| of Richmond approached one of the
| tag stations, and heard another citi-
/ gen decline very discourteously to he
/ tagged Win his customary warm
| heartedness, he said: "Give me two
! tags, one for myself and another for
/ him"
The unwilling subject grouehiiy re-
| piled: Il am able to buy my own
! tag and to buy you out any day"
I'm not for sale; the tags are,
courteously replied his would-be hene-
| factor.
Tags Selling Fast.
| There are few. Ii any, refusals to
buy tags where there Is the where
| withal to buy them with. Contribu-
ions vary from the welcome penny
| by school children to the dollar bills
| OF the. Croesuses In our midst. most
Of them being quarter. however
When they do decline to buy tag.
| there is some good reason. One Wa
man said, upon refusing tag: MY
husband has already invested" and
| TO this the pretty maid replied. u
hope 1t viii pay him heavy interest, "
| A man from Pittsburg began the
days collections In one box by drop
ding In 50 hill and then went straight
to the telegraph oflice and wired a
| friend Of his out In the country to
| send In a contribution.
BY night, 1t is the generally opin-
| ion gathered from various stations
I that the receipts will rival those Of
] previous years, and that large sum
| win be realised with which to carry
on the work Of relief done by the
Instructive Whiting Nurses Associa-
ton. to whom Tag Dag belongs.