The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-01
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The flrst day | arrived there was
Il sense of pity in my heart for the SEEM
Ing duties OF the under-rich.
Mr.. billiard in the mysteries OF
II business and money markets, which
meant his entire life, and Mrs. Dil-
markets and a fashionable showing
Of religion among their set, were
slaves OF 81 struggling supremacy.
/ came ameng them as a novelty,
and was expected to make sensa-
ton. which ! did.
Mabel Dillar said she had told her
a husband she was TO have something
new when | came.
"A told him / was to- have girl
with a conscience. which was inherit
ed from Mayaiower ancestry, which
had raised you ON cane seated prin-
ripies and ramrod tea
~And What chance did he see for
me ," / asked
..He said he would advise YOU to
leave the little tenor voice at home,
as he might get oyerworked with our
stage settings; but ne admitted my
chances for social victory. introduce
ing such a sensational figure."
l knew people who considered the
billiards q most enriable couple. In
their beautiful surroundings card
to one of their lavish entertainments
was a coveted bit of pasteboard
BY numerous dearest friends they
were said to adore each other Could
there be anything lacking
Ny first Introduction was AT one OF
Mabel billiards. excellent Ginings.
She told me she had nursed an am
hilton towards creditable dinpgs until
\ she felt hers had merited the adjec-
tive of choice
She sifted her attractions; the pen
pie YOU wanted to know were your
II xis-a-viss the people you could find
out the most things from Mere your
side companions, and, in the matter
of guests. her selection OF material
was Jndiriol1s.
Table Ncighbors.
| was ''filnng' for conversational
B sandwich between two willing takers
and worked up a corner fl, interro.
cations for my own benefit.
/ learned that the girl across from
me WAS very fast, but correspondence
\ clever and much sought for at al
social functions; the married wo.
man at the end of the table Was able
to buy many more gowns az elaborat,
and Frenehy as the one now PARTIAL,
visible with her bridge winning
My ignorance just here was pitt
gambling in properly polite homes
The man at the lower end of tn.
table, / WAS informed. was divorced
from three wives, n most graceful
leader of the german and a grea
farorite with women. whether be
fore or after divorce MAS not men
fioned.)
| learned a young lady who wa
my yss-a-vis had spent thousands o
Gfsf3 r4zf in0 oil
no one felt called upon to listen Il
her sing.
Those musical "stunts" are only In
tended, you know. to invite people t.
Il do not recall whether riot or con
Yersation was terined.)
Well Bred Fermentation.
/ detected an undercurrent o
amusement. | seemed to be hand
round curiosity from the fact of m.
appalling ignorance and unusua
views.
| began by denying knowledge
of SO many things that / becam,
enough confused on facts To havt
denied the reality of Christopher Co
lambus IL any one there had remem
bered MIN
If ! had been hindered from sleer
as Emerson admitted he was. by IN
meeting of new personalities I thin
] should never have closed my eye
again
i was only a few miles from homt
I but saw new world.
man directly opposite me ha
studied me tntentiy ever since III
dinner began, showing a blank cour
tenance to his entertaining neighbo
| asked for his sketch" of my dir
B ner partner who replied: why. SURE
IL YOU know Norman Writing?"
Impulse, which is often as inev
table and responsible as death, mac
me ask: who was he7"
why. let me see-~something
long clothes once.
And isn't he something in lor
clothes now o.
Here slight ripple over the hea'
Ing sea of probation reached me ar
knew i was arriving after fasl
Ion towards the success l was c.
pected To reach.
mean, doesn't he do things TIL
are worth while"
Il am afraid you are coming to
dIsa ppontment when you try to figu
on ans supposition of me-" | heal
from across the table which mae
me suddenly examine my plate, ar
then / looked squarely at my emba
RAISING opposite and said: "Yol
looks convey the impression of s.
perior things"
same the inspiration"
or course, it WAS said with the ca
concern OF a man of modern cond
tons, which would naturally give lie
force 10 his words, but the look whi'
81 he gave with the words was electr
raj
4 Friend In Glance.
We have been strangers, but SUI
denly. as a lightning fash shows Il