The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-02
NEWPORT CHARMED
WITH MRS. F|SH'S
FANCY DRESS BALL
1t Is Stab at Women
Who Are Suf-
fragists.
MRS. FISH TIRED
OF "HIGH BROWS"
Says Votes for Women" and
the Problems of Sex" Make
Her Weary, SO She Finds
Mother Goose Nursery
Rhymes Refreshing
and Fine.
Especial to Tho Tlmes-Dispatch. ]

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Newport, r L, August 1.-At Cross
ways tonight Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
gave the much -heralded Mother Goose
ball There have been fancy dress
balls in Newport. but nothing SO quaint
and fairylike has ever been seen here
before.
Every cottage was lighted in honor
OF dinner parties given before the Fish
fancy dress ball. The largest Of these
was given by Mrs Herman Oelrichs TO
80 guests. Bellevue Avenue was lined
with automobiles and carriages filled
with guests en- route 10 the ball, with
the townfolks and the cottagers out
side the charmed set trying to catch
glimpses Of the guests as they alighted
from their carriages. A Gordon of po-
lice guarded each 100 yards Of hedge
that surrounds the rocky point on
which stands the great Colonial home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Fish.
les Now the 500.
Instead of limiting the guests to 400
or under, AS the social arbiters Of yester
year were wont to do. Mrs Fish had
sent out 500 invitations and over 400
guests accepted. In fact. everybody
who could be there was there and voted
1t the night OF nights of the season.
steady stream of automobiles
wended their way up the hill which
leads to Crossway's, after the breaking
Up or the late dinner parties. and il
was nearly IL o'clock-although sched-
uled for lo:3e-when the ballroom was
thrown open and the music for the
Mother Goose spectacle began. After
entering the portals of the great house
through the huge Colonial columns
the earth and all that there is in it
was forgotten for the night 1t was
fairyland, nothing more. nor less
The Erounds hedged in were lighted
every few feet with gay lanterns hung
from bamboo poles. which blew fairy
like In the cool. moist air from on
the ocean.
Ten thousand lights were used in
the gardens alone. Sprays of lights.
falry lanterns swung from fountain
arrangements on, either side of the
held lanterns hiding glowing lights. II
was just an introduction 10 what was
coming within the great doors under
Mrs. Fish Fairy Queen.
Mrs. Fish herself presided over the
original entertainment as fairy queen.
Her gown was a wonderful robe made
OF silrer-spangled net, set with various
sized brilliants draped over silver
gauze;; She wore crown OF diamonds
over the gown she had suspended n
magnificent embroidered silver cloth
train set with brilliants She carried
a, magic fairy wand OF crystals and
silver. surmounted by star, which
concealed tiny electric bulbs. which
the fairy queen could turn of and
on at Will with slight pressure of
her hand Mrs. Fish told why she had
decided TO give a Mother Goose party.
II have been tired for months OF
the continual and ceaseless cry OF sex
and suffrage" she said: votes for wo-
men and the problems of sex have been
the growing topic II seems Of all men
and women / am tired CT both. am
tired of women wanting to acquire
something they do not need and Of
giving UP the things for which they
were created. One day after reading
of some of the atrocities committed by
the militant suffragettes picked up
Mother Goose's melodies. and oh! they
this sex and suffrage twaddle. 1t oc-
cured to me that Mother Goose was
this day of women's changing stand
ards"