The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12

the end OF the hall, full OF vernon Gall
incredibly bony. stony, harsh middle
aged, specialized and each with her bag
of papersl were suddenly appalled, to
see the strong minded chairman Din
congruously get up in a hand down.
cheapest of the cheap mans suit. and
a couture of early Victorian string
lets) rap smartly with her gavel and
society .tdoods near the door know
anything worth our hearing they now
have chance to say It," whereupon
they simply slumped and clattered
down long fight of stairs in per-
feet panic.
The benighted thought this delicious
ly funny, till the gavel was again
heard and the chairman said, The
lady from Virginia will now address
the meeting" The poor girl was hor-
rifed. She turned scarlet. She pushed
back her chair. She cried out, 20!
couldn't: really Couldn't I have
never spoken in public in my life. You
really must excuse me, ma-am."
Are there no women in Virginia."
queried the chatrwo.nan angrtly.
20! yes. plenty" said the benighted
in low tones, as red IS peony
Have they no voice." asked the
chairwonan, with asperity.
| Well, I don't know whether you
| would call 1t a voice or not. but they
talk lot" murmured the goaded be-
! nighted.
'Ah, my sisters" sighen the chair
woman those poor Virginia women.
We know, have no voice"
A sympathetic grim circle reflected
her distress; then with a sudden saw
age turn she called out, Don't you
know anything down there that. intel
ligent people would care to hear?"
The benighted lost her head complete
~ and mutted, Not thing"
since She declares: IL have laid awake
at nights inventing and rehearsing
the things L ought to have said in
praise. OF my own people, but at the
tune l was too scared to think at
all. had only one idea-to get away.
woman OF sixty sang Tosti's The Kiss
and | fed. And when l got back to
the house / said TO myself L just
love Christmas, and 1 have been
of the world, and all the men L know
are Just lovely 10 me. and always have
been, and to all the Others too. and /
hate a woman in mans clothes. and !
lifted SO am going home and I
telegraphed for sleepcrs and packed
my trunk. Boston was too much for
me- I remembered the stranger who
people of mind and / thought my eX-
perences had ended. But there was
a young man there that had taken me
to church once, and had called three
UP Beacon Street one Sunday, and he
was as stiff as poker. and ] didn't
care a pin about him. and only knew
him that formally. and what do you
he felt compromised by showing me
SO much attention, and hadn't been TO
the house for two weeks because his
family We're making inquiries about
ever since that Sunday walk on Beacon
Street after church, because In Bos-
ton that was equivalent to an on
sasenent announced. First 7 nared
Good Lord' and sat down and laughed
myself into Mysteries almost over his
feeling compromised by three formal
calls and one walk. And then my
q, serious matter with great levity--
Southern girls were dreadful nirts
And | just thought that If / couldn't
llnd anything to say in Boston but
5000 Lord" had better come back
did that very thing"
The English Bishop.
My Young friend was like tho ia
said to him when no was dying: my
country than this" "Tut. tut, john john
replied the bishop. ENGLAND is good
enough for me-" In like manner Vir-
ginia was good enough for tho BE-
nighted,
"The Land of the southn
In Thibet this means paradise. What
an intellectual people they must be
10 have found that out! It is really
quite remarkable. The BULLETIN de
fAsie,' OF Paris, has recently publish
90 n very entertaining ACCOUNT of
france as viewed by Adiub Gumbo. tho
Ihlbetan guide and Interpreter or Jac-
cues Bacot, the French explorer. He
came back to France with Monsie,,,
Bacot, after tour through 'rhibet and
down the Irawaddy River, Adjub re- re-.
marked that tho vessel went faster,
than the wind, made n noise like tIun.
def and from time to time screh rnad
loud enough to be heard AZ a distnrcn
or three days march"
Ihera were many English aboard
VINO, he said, by movements --of ~
nanos and foet showed him that he.
Wns expected 10 take II bath" rrho
I EhEilsh are all Companions Of thcc
d pntiL) , On arriving at MarsollIes, Mon.
niour bacot took Ad1ub Gumbo la
n nrsat, @here q, the proper time. he
p 90 va himself, gave thanks for n
aaie VOYAGE and declnred no folk IN
for 30 arc pious acts rewarded wv
VI tho elevator there he said that
ne SAT IN, n little house that rose TO
nv holRlN OF q mountain before no
could sneeze" He said OF NInrasilIcst
~ mas more people than three MIN.
etah provinces, All AFRO rich. ,rherc
are no poor All the money In ,rhibet
soulu not buy one OF these houses.
EVERY meal is q sumptuou. banoust,
LANG pc!ore every meal II IL ihQ sus,