The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-20
THE TIMES. DsPATcH RICHMOND VA SUNDAY 1910

allowed to be idle for hours OF every
day In Europe) Well do ! remember
ono SUCH and It's friendliness In the
Bernese oberland, and there are doz-
ems there.
Il PretcntiOuyn
ostentation got severe rebuke
some years since In. or rather near,
certain big American city. a very
enormously rich man. who had made
his really colossal fortune IN whiskey
ned and built for himself In the SUI
pi Hies gallery aiYlpyVO stables hot houses
ball room, theatre, fifteen bath rooms,
coach houses, garage, gardens or
fine library and everything to match.
And when 1t was done. his heart
swelled with the pride Of such pos
session, and he put up huge sign
board near the imposing front en-
trance of arch and pillars and Milan
csc ironwors, with this inscription
| "Agincourt." Hardly the title for a
successful tradesman to have adopted
Well, 1t passed, unchallenged, for sew
and painted a period after "A and
one after gin" and one after court
So there. was new signboard on that
place mighty soon and some highly.
small one that seems to have been
Tooieyries." having been built by a
MT. Tooley, but that was only a stupid
gross pretension. THE villa skewton"
IS small wooden hut upon one of
the Thousand Islands. with a lean
TO and huge skylight and big porch.
the e., 4, studio Of clever artist bursting
with pictures and overflowing with
books It has u big backwoods fire.
place and Is q great place in which
to smoke and talk, when filled with
the right people. 1t is really only. one
M hna fssS ts @e sTem
with her head In the parlor and her
feet In the kitchen" over the fire.
place ts painted in old English text:
Here the women cease from troubling
and the wicked are at rest" Only
stag parties are ever entertained at
the villa Skewton, and everybody who
has had the luck to be invited there
cannot SO much as mention 1t without
q hearty laugh, SO it must be pleas
SIMS Souci.
This Is not the Sans Souci" Of Fred
erick the Great, the magnificent palace
which he loaned to Peter the Great and
guests and which was SO full of
grease. OF dirt. of the smell of caviare,
OF broken furniture and injured walls
that It had to be completely refur-
nlshed and redecorated at great cost
when they left. Not at all. 1t is
pretty cottage on the southern Allan
tic coast. owned by hardened bache-
Tor, who Is very clever. we'll born
and gifted man; who says that he
hates society, and has found that 1t
spells safety but says that he loves
"companionship" and fishing and shoot
Ing and smoking and sailing; so. hav-
ing wide acquaintance an immense
connection. and small fixed income.
he has Officially" instituted Sans Souci
for the numerous perfectly delightful
and admirable and thoroughly charm
Ing gentlefolk, male and female. who
are sans six sous" AS side issue, he
is clever scientist. and he has writ
ten q book on deep-sea dredging that
reads like a romance. He gives "ele-
mental stone-age parties" He invites
only chosen and cherished friends. A
perhaps will be boatman for six weeks;
B will act as groom: C as coachman
D as cook: E as butler; Mrs. A will be
housemaid: Miss B house and parlor
maid; z, F and G will act as guides"
Women will please bring their sew
Ing, knitting. aprons, and will oblige