The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-17

orchestra played for several figures,
which included the winding of rib
hons stretched from the roof OF the
structure. Those receiving for the
club last evening were Governor and
Mrs. Henry C. stuart, who were guests
Of honor, Colonel and Mrs. Fred Pleas
ants, Mrs. walter =. Mcneil. Mrs John
q. Miller.
Amone those dancing were. Miss
Dorothy Harrison with MIR. Walter
Leake, Miss Charlotte Jones with Mr..
William Jerman, Mss Margaret Har
mon with Mr.. Harold Threadcroft. Miss
Sarah Oppenhimer with Mr.. jefferson
Stubs Miss sylvia Petrovic, of Ra-
pusa, Austria. with Mr.. Stuart i<eal<e
Miss Virginia Robinson, OF DanVille,
with Mr.. James Gwatkin: Miss Nora
Randolph with Mr.. Ed1oe Donnan, Miss
Liesa Atkinson with Colonel 10. Lane
Stern, Miss Katherine Haean with Mr..
Hodges Mann. Miss Emma Conquest
with Mr., Travis. Epes, Miss Beatrice. of
BROOKLYN n. ". with Mr. Morris Ar
instead; Miss Mary Ball Saunders with
Mr.. Catesby Jones. Miss Mary Raglan
Bertrand with Mr.. George Hodson,
Miss Fanny Scott with Mr., Fitzhugh
white. Miss Harriet Gum with MIR.
Peyton Fleming. Miss Mary Nicholas
Ainslie with Mir. James Patton, Jr;
T. Oppenhimer Miss Phyllis Lavell
Taylor with Or. Il. S. Preston, Miss
Florence Hagney. of Hagerstown, Md,
with Mr.. A. Il. Hagner, Jr.; Mrs. Ber-
nard Jones with MIR. Jones, Miss Nir-
ginia Chesterman with Mr., William
Miller. Miss Sidney Boyco with Mr..
Hobart Dovle. Miss Marie Stuart
Sands with Mr.. John y. Lea, Miss Alice
Reed with MIR. Lewis IAarus, Miss Julia
1oynes with Mr.. John Cary, Miss
Evelyn Harrison OF Norfolk, with Mr..
Harry Augustine, Miss Martha Roberts
with Mr.. George Fitzgerald. Miss kath-
crime Prentiss with Mr.. Harvey Haines,
Miss Mary Caring ton Evans with Mr..
Carl Fleming, Miss Lena Miller with
MIR Harry Roe, Miss Nell Potts with
AIR Alexander Donnan
At the Woman's Club.
one of the most delightful lectures
heard at the Womans club this sea-
SON was given yesterday afternoon by
Miss Anna Seaton- Schmidt, of Boston.
when she spoke on French Art and
the Modery Spirit" Mrs. Jecry Mon
taRue, chairman of the afternoon. in
troduced the speaker. Miss Schmidt
started out by saying this was her first
visit to Richmond and what a won
derful inspiration she had gotten from
the history of the place and how
proud we should be of the great men
who have made Richmond what 1t is
today. She then touched on French
art and gave several interesting illus
trations of what Americans owe the
French In the way of art. She says
the French people are born with the
love of art In their souls. and that
the whole world turns to Paris for its
fashions. In other words she tells us
that Paris is the Mecca of art.
Miss Schmidt then spoke at length
on the impressionis.. cubs and futuris,
and said after talking TO most OF the
greatest artists in Paris and getting
opinions from most noted In
America, that she had come to the
conclusion that there was nothing to
this modern spirit--and that it was
simply the unrest of the twentieth
century; the seeking for something
new. She says 1t is the opinion OF the
French artists that we have accepted
too seriously The French artists
do not believe the cubs and futuris to
be sincere, and sincerity must be the
keynote OF art. However she SAYS
we must not condemn this modern art
and IL we can find anything in il to
cling TO it. Art must have the spirit
of beauty, says Miss Schmidt, and must
raise our thoughts TO higher things