The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
Causes Of Discomfort

AIS principal residence streets and
within. city limits. offers little in the
way OF opportunity or pleasure.
FORMERLY said a Richmond woman
or consequence. living on West Frank
lin Street. formerly midsummer found
our neighborhood as quiet and peace
1ui as IL we were not indwellers OF a
city community. Neighbors came in
after tea. pleasant gossip was enliven-
ing and as one could raise ones par
Tor windows without having rugs
hangings and furniture destroyed by
dust, pair OF sweethearts might find
friendly corner TO themselves to ex-
change their all important condolences.
FOR there are girls who used TO re-
main In Richmond by preference some
lines, even in midsummer.
NOW. what with the honkIng and
the constant scooting backward and
Forward of automobiles, with their
stirling odors and the germ laden dust
clouds they raise. one has to scream
10 be heard and piazzas are no more
the centre of delightful sociability as
was the case some decade or more OF
years ago.
THE automobiles arc no doubt
convenience to professional and bust
ness men," continued the fair speaker
They may possess charms for the toy
riding contingent which one might
Judge TO be large but they are
nuisance when exploited for hours
along the line of street. where ci,i-
gems who are property owners are or
should be considered TO have some
privileges and inmunities.
I'm short, concluded tho anti-auto-
mobilst. Il am altogether tired Of ma
chimes except for utilitafian purposes
! should no more prefer TO have one
than 1 should to use postal card in
siTaf- 1t.
carry on u conversation over the tcle-
phone. The postal card and the tele-
phone have their use and their place.
md in the category where they belong
should like to put the automobile
and keep # there"
Norway Like Louisiana
Ruth McEnery Stuart. who has heen
travelling through the. Scandinavian
peninsula and browsing about in the
1bsen country" has discovered a re-
Iation between Norwegian conditions
md those In Louisiana. She writes:
or course. in Christiana, and. of
course. here. as In every city of size
and circumstance. there is always a
1mnll contingent of the upper classes
who. for one reason or another, remain
In town Here tho reason is generally
the limited purse. for many OF tho
oldest ana best folk are become poor.
But real caste counts In Norway, and
enany OF the young women have gone
put from some OF the substantial
shabby old homes, taking positions in
the shops without loss Of social place.
The situation reminded me fire.
Guently OF that OF the South after
our Civil War. Indeed, in NV Orleans
even yet one may occasionally meet a
pallid well-bred woman OF the old re-
lEme behind n counter in depart
Inent shop. and she Will probebly have
tcome from ono of those close -mout n cd
old homes down in the third" where
II thick vine-covered wall preserves
the privacy OF court garden. over
grown with INTENDED flowers turned
wild. but as non-committal and dig
rined rs its mistress. She will sell
sou a pair OF stockings or bottle OF
Tetivert perfume. recommending IT In
my one of three tongues according
10 your initiative.
The stories are somewhat the same
DIN Norway and Observation-Disclosures at
odds and high bred defeat. In the
South, a lady is still lady when she
goes from house to house taking
orders for orange and fig preserves.
And a near-lady is only near-la dy.
no matter how far-reaching the double
appeal to the senses of her motor
and her otherwise perfumed person
hlity.
or course. you will have to be NOV
ing.
Madame Brisson's Salon.
Among the Paris Solons of to-day,
writes Elizabeth Dryden, that of Mad
anne Adolphe Brisson may he counted
an very unique way as holding the
most prominent place. Madame Bris-
ron is the daughter of Francisque
Earcey, the great dramatic and literary
critic of the last generation, and her
husband. Il Is perhaps needless to say.
has succeeded him in the title.
Many OF the illustrious lights that
Frequent her home have. therefore,
known Madame Rrisson since her girl
mood These men regard with real
affection the daughter OF him TO whom
not n few of them owe their first
recognition. Mlngling with the greater
celebrities is n younger generation yet
on the borderland OF fame-Monsieur
Brisson's proteges--young men and
women whose star Is Just rising. They
IRE, perhaps the most impatient of all
those who eagerly await the Adolphc
Brisson feuilleton IN the Temps each
Monday morning. The land which to
day makes the most of the drama
counts this exquisite critique as the
literary event of the week.
In the home OF It's eminent author
md his wife great poets and play
wrights and historians. great actors
and actresses and singers. gather In
curious French familiarity, like one
hugo family. to talk the shop of tho
arts, rather than to mako historic re-
partee. to disseci the latest literary
landmark with the same degree of
Sang froid" that they would the
latest sauce at Marguery's. without
heing misunderstood. fine hospital
fly Is the secret OF Madame Bisson's
salon. we may be sure 1t was OF
those OF Julie Recamier and Madame
de Sevigne.
That their mantle should have fallen
upon the daughter Of the first critic
of his day and the wife of the first
critic of our day seems very natural
when we remember the high position
Of tho critic both In French literature
and in French life. Only In the form