The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-18
SENATE TO HOLD FULL
DAYS SESSION SO THE
VOTE MAY BE REACHED
Kiwanians Discuss
Flora and Fauna
With Jno. Radcliffe

SPARKLING weather. with the pros
pect Of an appetizing ride IN the
warming sun and the surlty OF
something to appease the appetite ~
the end of the journey drew twenty
FIVE or thirty entries To the race Tor
food at John L. Rateliffe's Greenoaie
manee The twenty-five or thirty
automobiles carried an unusually
large delegation Of kiwanians to the
scene of the feasting, but Johns af-
fair was in no sense exclusive,
Among the invited guests were
William Dahney known throughout
the breadth Of the land as Windy
Bill and John c. Easiey, president
of tho chamber of commerce, who
usurped some retiring kiwanian as
oral or vocal booster Mr.. Easley
was not officially cast for the part
on the program but the burden OF
his song was that ~ deal with GER
tain banking institutions of the city
was soothing 70 the soM and would
undoubtedly insure wof iy prosper
ity.
william pahney spoke entertain
ingiy. As to the subject of his
weighty remarks we can only hum
with the popular Mr.. Jolsor, Every
thing
~ The distinguished guests ate right
along with the Kiwanians in The
House OF Eiolets." n was apparent
from the start that the, caterer had
done his duty as he seen fit" At the
o,rtset, it was feared that the aes-
thetic atmosphere engendered by the
deep purple odor from the thousands
cf shrinking yioletS would cause the
dormant souls of the hardened money
changers to rise in their threats and
interfere with the free and rapid pas
sage IF food
1t was a trying situation. The out
ward and Tisable sign of the battle
for supremacy, which was raging be
tween the feeble souls and adult ar-
petites IF the hesitant diners was a
deepening of facial crevices and con-
vuisive clenehing of palms
Torn between the fresh. crushing
fragrance of the vblet and the all
pervasdine perfume Of steaming vic
tuals. the olfactory organs gave of
nothing bur discordant sounds
Kiwanian John had either contrfved
flemish situation or been guilty OF
criminal negligence. s,-.s.-e---u--
As Ia most often the case. the In
evitabIe happened. With sudden
weakening of resolve. every trencher-
man seized MS kn1le ana sought 10
drown his conscience in a sea of
gravy. Some few equipped them
selves with forks also.
After the orgy was over, the bet
ter nature of each well-fed gentle
man asserted itself kiwanian John
led the way through walls of Grim
son clover and orchids to. the hot
houses where ho1lyhock hobnobbed
with sagittaria and OF hyancinth
growing and told many sad tales OF
the tragedies and troubles which be
set The patch of every innocent
ecruh
With monrnfui n1ien. he agitated
his hearers with accounts of how the
T4s ssasa%s,Yx sssssa TsIssac Il. Meth eteo
M on the pale swaying Pha laenopsis
in the dark hours ri the night and
.ccomplish its destruction before aid
can he summoned.
OF the rapacious Trlunrulin' g
cruel passion for chrysa nthe NUNS
how it will eat. nothing else. even
though II starNe to death
With the sympathetic touch ~ a
true artist he rapidly sketched n
word picture of glorious summer
in the ffora fanaily---the
nora farily-the dryopteris, pinks
and proud pipsisse was unfolding
their lovely petals 10 greet the