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VOL. VHL WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. No. 31 Ladies’ Gloria Umbrellas We have captured another lot of astonishing bargains in steel rod black Gloria Umbrellas', lovely novelty handles, worth $1.50 to $2 each. Come tomorrow and see them rush away at only $1 each Free Monday We have taken the agency in Waco for the leading Fashion Journal of America. Xe (Bostume 1Ro\>al And as sample copies we will give away to our customers tomorrow one hundred August numbers FREE—to ladies only. Ee Costume Royal sells regularly at 35 cents a copy, but our price for future numbers will be only 15 cents. No lady who wishes to dress uptodate can be with out it. Children's Hose We are showing a new line of misses’, children’s, boys and girls Fast Black Ribbed Hose, such as sell usually at 25 cents a pair. All sizes 5 to go at only 15 cents a pair We will give a new pair for any that do not give entire satisfaction. Ladies' Neckwear If you want to freshen up your stock of pretty neckwear here is a good opportunity. Tomorrow we show some nice Embroidered Yokes or Collars in handsome designs worth $1 to $1.50 each, and give you choice at only 75 cents Ladies' Chamois Gloves Tomorrow we throw out our entire line of real Chamois Gloves in natural and white, worth $1 and $1.25 a pair, and make the special price only 75 cents Every pair warranted to wash. Solid Lawns We have received ten pieces solid blue and red Lawns, of nice gauge, but which do not come up to our standard of quality. They are just such goods as sell at 15c a yard in other stores, but as stated above, they are not up to our high quality mark, and we give them away this week at only 4 cents a yard Towels Some hundred odds and ends in Linen Damask and Huck Towels, regular values at 25c, 30c and 35c each. This week we run IQ. them out at only........................ IOC Table Linen Pretty Red Damask, 60 inches wide worth 35 cents a yard, at Oil only................................................. Cream and White Damask, 62 inch wide, worth 65 cents a yard A Q _ at only.......................................... 40C Remnants Short pieces in White and Red Table Damask, in cuts 2, 2j4 and 3 yard lengths; all go now at about Half Price Great Dress Goods Smash Sixty pieces pretty prime and perfect Wash Fabrics closed out at fraction of cost. We are clearing for battle, our fall goods will soon be coming in, and we will want counter room. Summer goods must go at any sacrifice. Here is one of the best bargains of the season; 20 Pieces lovely French Organdies, in choicest colors and most delicate patterns, worth 25 cents to JA 50 cents a yard............................................................................... HH 20 Pieces fine fancy Lawns and colored dotted H I Swisses, worth 25 to 35 cents a yard................................... ™ ™ 20 Pieces Striped Linen and colored Piques, , worth 25 to 50 cents a yard...................................................... " *^**D Every piece of this lovely, stylish and seasonable goods worth 25 to 50 cents a yard, will be offered this week at only 11 cents a yard. If r every yard is not sdld out in a hurry then Waco ladies do not want s anything in this line. No duplicates when these sixty pieces are gone. Sheets Fine Hemstitched Sheets, sizes 81 by 90, sell at 90 cents each in the run of stores, our present prices only.................................. Q9G Covers Chenille Table Covers, full six quarter size, worth $1.50 QC. each, at only.............................. OvG Feathers We will supply you with Feather Pillows, in plain or fancy tick, at less price than you can buy the feathers. Some good values “TC* at only a pair............................ f 9C Anyone can use a pretty Sofa Cushion at pleasant prices. Come and see us this week. Half Price Silks This week will be a merry one to Silk buyers. Note these prices and be sure to see the goods. Black Brocaded Taffeta, just right for summer skirts, worth 80c a yard, at only 40 cents a yard Dress Skirts Tomorrow we show on second floor some half hundred ladies’ and misses’ colored and fancy Dress Skirts in pretty colors, plain,checks and stripes, worth $1.50 to $2 each. They go as a hummer at only 99 cents Limit one to a customer. Remember these are in both ladies’ and misses’ sizes. Ladies' Wrappers This week we close out broken lots of ladies’ Wrappers worth |{A. $1 and $1.2S, at only............... UwG Another good line of real pretty and well made Wrappers, which have been selling at $1.50 QA. each, will go at only............. W«f G Half Price Silks Fish Nets are always goods. We close out three pieces this week in Pink, Canary and Nile Green. Worth anybody’s 40c a yard, but this week we want only 20 cents a yard Half Price Silks Iron Frame Grenadines worth 75c a yard, go this week at only....................... Small lot of Silk Mulls, regular 40c goods, given away this week at............... Tinsel Gauze in a few shades, but good shades, worth 65c a yard, at only 37^ 20c 33c An Event of Events This week we eclipse anything ever attempted in Waco of \ its kind. We will make a 1 Wonderful Waist Sale | That will be the talk of the town for months to come. Lven custom \ ers who are well acquainted with our famous slaughter of prices will 4 be astonished at this utter annihilation of values and sacrifice of profits. $ 39c 3 On front counters on first floor we will show hundreds of ladies’ 3 j lovely Waists in many styles and in every color, worth 75c to $1.75 i s each, and they all go at 39c each. Limit to each customer. Remember s £ the Waists will be there Monday and how long* they remain there 3 £ depends upon your appreciation of the bigest bargains of the year. > Ladies' Underwear This week we offer one of our best values in ladies’ fine Muslin and Cambric Underwear at 89 cents Embroidered and Lace trimmed Gowns, Skirts, Chemise, Drawers and Corset Covers, worth $1 and $1.25 each. Take your choice at 89 cents Children's Dresses Some pretty white and colored children’s Dresses, a little line we want to close out. Prices yesterday 75c and $1 each. Tomorrow and until closed they go at only 49 cents Surely at this price you can use one or two, and we will not sell you more than two. Stop and think, woith $1 go at only 49 cents. Boys' Waists Only a few Boys’ Patriotic Waists, made in handsome and novel styles, worth $1.50 each, closed out at.......................................... f QG Ladies' Waists All our finest ladies’ white and col’d I Cft Pique Waists, worth $2.50 each, at ... . liWU These are very nobby. Mexican Drawn Work Wisely supply yourself with these lovely [goods now. Mr. Granat left his stock with us while he made a flying trip to the City of Mexico. He will return to the state, and as soon as he does, the balance of these goods will be shipped to him. Better buy at once. No such lovely pieces were ever seen in Waco or sold so cheap. Ladies' Sailors We are closing out all our present stock of Millinery. Any $1 Ladies’ Straw Sailor goes now at 50c All our pretty 50c Straw Sailors go at 25c If you can use any fancy Ribbons we will sell them to you now at much below regular price. Cheap Reading 500 volumes popular fiction, story and song, by the best authors, the regular 25 cent edition for only 8 Cents Small Things Novelty Stick Pins, worth 10 C* to 15 cents, at.................................... Jll Pretty Flag, Button and Ribbon Badges, worth 10 cents each, L at only................................................. JU Belt Holders and Skirt Suppor C a ters, worth 10 cents, at............... Ju Large 10 cent bottle Bicycle or C. Sewing Machine Oil at............... JU Japanese Umbrellas, pretty for house or lawn decorations, |f|n worth 25c, at.................................... IUU Moth Ball Destroyer, worth 10 Cp cents a box, at.................................. JU &2. lO We will distribute this number of the finest Ladies’ Shoes in Waco among our customers this week. This can hardly be called a sale for practically we give them away. Ladies’ Southern Button Oxfords, Ladies’ Hand Turns at only............................ ................................................... The finest Black, Green, Purple and Chocolate that can be made eiither in patent tip or the new stock tip. All sizes and any width. Regular values, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 a pair. Your choice this w^ek at only $2.10 a pair. Romember you get $4.00 worth of the finest footwear for only half price. A Fine Dress Every piece of our finest imported fancy Organdies, lovely colorings, and designs, worth 50 to 75 cents a yard, go now at only a Q/I « yard................................................... tHu Silk Sashes Fancy Silk Sashes, very handsome worth $3.50 and $4.00 each, 0 Cfl closed out at only..................... 4iJu Ladies' Gloves Kid Gauntlets, all colors and Cfjn any size, at only......................... JUU Val Laces We are showing several hundred pieces of new patterns Valencienne Laces at 5 cents and 25 cents a yard. Very handsome. Social anb Current ^Events. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEKMOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW. (All items of a social and personal nature will please be sent to 924 Columbus street. Telephone Artesia 167. No itsms received later than 9 o’clock Saturday morning, and to insure attention, should be received Friday. Y trophy door! Trash, nonsense, i T 1 call it what you will, it still remains a most agreeable subject for maiden mediation. Yet, I have not a trophy door, but a trophy screen which sits before my fire place and greets every comer into my parlor, and I often see eyes wandering towards its motley hangings. Simple little bits of cardboard, quaint little designs, and only patches of color, yet the reminder of many gay hours and the acceptable companion to as many hours of agreeable retrospection. Even the screen itself brings to mind the beautiful mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee whose hardy settlers have furnished the material upon which Charles Egbert Craddock and others have built their literary fame. And again mountains whose resorts have so often harbored our Waeo refugees from a summer heat. Here nature’s beauties are without end, and here art treasures have exhausted themselves in the palatial pile that represents the world famed possessions of George Vanderbilt at Asheville. When in their pristine beauty, these hills were glorious in their wealth of the rhododendron after whose roots the mountaineer trod many a mile, and from them he fashioned mystic designs to beguile the fancy and to extract the dollar from the tourist. Such is my screen—a frame of knots and gnarls, polished and latticed and stretched with the trophies of other days. The center spot is covered by a beautiful valentine, with Cupid perched with pointed arrow, a dainty marine sketch and the acrostic: Kings might walk in ermine robes And envy thy estate Thy hand unlocks ‘Aktesia’s’ door Enter we elate.” I am a woman, therefore I am curious, and many a time have I wondered who could have given me anonymously so much that was beautiful and a trophy so much appreciated. The Texas flag, small to be sure, waves over my trophy screen, a pleasant reminder of Mrs. R. M. Russell’s exceedinlgy pretty card party, where the nation’s flags and the national flowers provoked so much admiration. There was the harp of Erin and the lone star, done in natural flowers, the beginning and the end of the tables with tulip, rose and windmill boxes to hold the neapolitan ice. Of course I chose the Texas flag, so it remains a sentinel just by the Cupid’s bow which sweet little Marie Clark pinned upon me when I went to her brilliant birthday dancing party of May ’97. Butterflies have sought a vantage point here and there on my trophy screen, and I can almost see them now, a perfect flock of all colors in brilliant spots and gay tones with their mammoth wings outstretched over Mrs. J. E. Mayo’s party, the last she gave before relinquishing her cosy little home into other hands. Mrs. P. H. Dean carried her butterfly idea still further in converting her house into a spring bower, although the breath of winter was hovering with out. The effect was that the whole world of these idle loiterers had paused paused upon the palm branches and balustrades or had come to do homage to the pretty scene. A tiny stocking in crepe paper, now what can that be? Why, that is all, save the sweet memory that is left of Mrs. Charles Hamilton’s Christmas game of euchre, where everybody caught the holiday spirit and made merry through an afternoon. Two red, red hearts, arrow pierced, were innocently made to suggest that the Misses Neumegen entertained their friends with a valentine dance, but after details have developed the fact that Saint Valentine was more seriously at work as a late announcement verifies. An S, ribbontied and lightly traced with maiden hair brings fresh into memory the spring game of cards with Mrs. W. W. Seley. How well I remember that it was the first outing for the summer frocks of ’97, and I can now almost revive the fragrance of the exquisite maiden blush carnations as they were pinned on me for tne lone hands. I remember, too, that Mrs. Mayo, Mrs. George Byrne and Mrs. Russell received the very handsome souvenirs of the afternoon. There is a tiny spray of forgetmenot nestled amid this curious array, to give the same message that sweet Julia Gardner gave to her girl friends when she hid the delicate spray beneath the folds of the napkin when she had her girls tea. She did not tell it then, but soon it became known that Mr. Wallace was to take her a bride into his far away home, and she was indulging a sweet sentiment in her tiny favor. “Their Majesties, The King and Queen of Winter, are ready to receive their loyal subjects in their Cave of Ice. Come catch betimes with joyful eyes and clear One radiant vista of the realm before us.’ January 9, 1896.” How refreshing to think of that cool cave, wheer glittered all that could be simulated from the realm of'old Boreas and laid as a tribute of magnificence upon the evening reception and cotillion of Mrs. George Clark. Miss Katharine Padgitt and Master Albert Clifton were the glittering majesties in the cave, while Miss Marshall gave the relief picture as queen of the roses in a spring bower where the punch was brewed. All society was set agog over this notable event. “If you cannot play euchre, play Diogenes” is another reminder of Mrs. Clark’s unparalleled hospitality. It reminds me, too, that I played the entire evening with charming little Mrs. Ralli of New York and that the .quotation is made from the night candle which came as my booby prize. It was the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Russell’s farewell before sailing for Europe, and each guest was requested to write a verse for Mrs. Russell’s souvenir booklet, presented by Mrs. Clark. Mr. Sam Sanger was voted the poet laureate of the evening, his verse reading: While you sail across the briny deep, We’ll stay at home and ‘Russell.’ ” Mr. Sanger’s wits seemed unusually sharp upon this occasion, for he was the victor of the game. A tricolored rosette with streamers yellow, red and black crepe tell of the presence of the Memphis Zouaves, enroute to the San Antonio drill. Miss Willie Baker, the sponsor and her bevy of maids devoted their entire day towards entertaining the young men. The drill at the park with the zouaves’ colors flying and the ladies quite in evidence was a gala midsummer happening. A glint of the Christmas berry and a Christmas couplet is one of my coveted souvenirs of Mrs. A1 Cowan’s elaborate card party, the first intimation last season that jolly Kris Knight was on his rounds. Who can have forgotten the glistening tree which stood in the bay window niche of the Sturgis home and held a card for every player and trinkets galore for the winners of the lone hands? Everybody was there. The balcony landing held professional musicians, and beautiful favors were given Miss Pace, Mrs. Charles Hamilton and Miss Friend. A dainty little square of cardboard, handdecorated in a clawhammer’s nest, and the motto, .“Events today are history tomorrow,” tell of the initial session for the season of the Texas Woman’s Press Club with Mrs. Hallie Dunklin. With music, readings and impromptu pictures an afternoon was most pleasantly diverted. A quaint bonneted head, done in ink, peeps at me from the background, and I wonder how it came there?—Oh, yes! it was a favor presented by Mrs. Rounsavall at her afternoon with the Literary tea. I don’t think she just understood my inquiry as to whether the quoted lines were apropos to each guest, else she would not have said so promptly, “Indeed they are,” for
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Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 8 No. 31, Sunday, July 31, 1898 |
Date | 1898-07-31 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 31 |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Publisher | Artesia Publishing Company |
Language | English |
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OCR - Transcript | VOL. VHL WACO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. No. 31 Ladies’ Gloria Umbrellas We have captured another lot of astonishing bargains in steel rod black Gloria Umbrellas', lovely novelty handles, worth $1.50 to $2 each. Come tomorrow and see them rush away at only $1 each Free Monday We have taken the agency in Waco for the leading Fashion Journal of America. Xe (Bostume 1Ro\>al And as sample copies we will give away to our customers tomorrow one hundred August numbers FREE—to ladies only. Ee Costume Royal sells regularly at 35 cents a copy, but our price for future numbers will be only 15 cents. No lady who wishes to dress uptodate can be with out it. Children's Hose We are showing a new line of misses’, children’s, boys and girls Fast Black Ribbed Hose, such as sell usually at 25 cents a pair. All sizes 5 to go at only 15 cents a pair We will give a new pair for any that do not give entire satisfaction. Ladies' Neckwear If you want to freshen up your stock of pretty neckwear here is a good opportunity. Tomorrow we show some nice Embroidered Yokes or Collars in handsome designs worth $1 to $1.50 each, and give you choice at only 75 cents Ladies' Chamois Gloves Tomorrow we throw out our entire line of real Chamois Gloves in natural and white, worth $1 and $1.25 a pair, and make the special price only 75 cents Every pair warranted to wash. Solid Lawns We have received ten pieces solid blue and red Lawns, of nice gauge, but which do not come up to our standard of quality. They are just such goods as sell at 15c a yard in other stores, but as stated above, they are not up to our high quality mark, and we give them away this week at only 4 cents a yard Towels Some hundred odds and ends in Linen Damask and Huck Towels, regular values at 25c, 30c and 35c each. This week we run IQ. them out at only........................ IOC Table Linen Pretty Red Damask, 60 inches wide worth 35 cents a yard, at Oil only................................................. Cream and White Damask, 62 inch wide, worth 65 cents a yard A Q _ at only.......................................... 40C Remnants Short pieces in White and Red Table Damask, in cuts 2, 2j4 and 3 yard lengths; all go now at about Half Price Great Dress Goods Smash Sixty pieces pretty prime and perfect Wash Fabrics closed out at fraction of cost. We are clearing for battle, our fall goods will soon be coming in, and we will want counter room. Summer goods must go at any sacrifice. Here is one of the best bargains of the season; 20 Pieces lovely French Organdies, in choicest colors and most delicate patterns, worth 25 cents to JA 50 cents a yard............................................................................... HH 20 Pieces fine fancy Lawns and colored dotted H I Swisses, worth 25 to 35 cents a yard................................... ™ ™ 20 Pieces Striped Linen and colored Piques, , worth 25 to 50 cents a yard...................................................... " *^**D Every piece of this lovely, stylish and seasonable goods worth 25 to 50 cents a yard, will be offered this week at only 11 cents a yard. If r every yard is not sdld out in a hurry then Waco ladies do not want s anything in this line. No duplicates when these sixty pieces are gone. Sheets Fine Hemstitched Sheets, sizes 81 by 90, sell at 90 cents each in the run of stores, our present prices only.................................. Q9G Covers Chenille Table Covers, full six quarter size, worth $1.50 QC. each, at only.............................. OvG Feathers We will supply you with Feather Pillows, in plain or fancy tick, at less price than you can buy the feathers. Some good values “TC* at only a pair............................ f 9C Anyone can use a pretty Sofa Cushion at pleasant prices. Come and see us this week. Half Price Silks This week will be a merry one to Silk buyers. Note these prices and be sure to see the goods. Black Brocaded Taffeta, just right for summer skirts, worth 80c a yard, at only 40 cents a yard Dress Skirts Tomorrow we show on second floor some half hundred ladies’ and misses’ colored and fancy Dress Skirts in pretty colors, plain,checks and stripes, worth $1.50 to $2 each. They go as a hummer at only 99 cents Limit one to a customer. Remember these are in both ladies’ and misses’ sizes. Ladies' Wrappers This week we close out broken lots of ladies’ Wrappers worth |{A. $1 and $1.2S, at only............... UwG Another good line of real pretty and well made Wrappers, which have been selling at $1.50 QA. each, will go at only............. W«f G Half Price Silks Fish Nets are always goods. We close out three pieces this week in Pink, Canary and Nile Green. Worth anybody’s 40c a yard, but this week we want only 20 cents a yard Half Price Silks Iron Frame Grenadines worth 75c a yard, go this week at only....................... Small lot of Silk Mulls, regular 40c goods, given away this week at............... Tinsel Gauze in a few shades, but good shades, worth 65c a yard, at only 37^ 20c 33c An Event of Events This week we eclipse anything ever attempted in Waco of \ its kind. We will make a 1 Wonderful Waist Sale | That will be the talk of the town for months to come. Lven custom \ ers who are well acquainted with our famous slaughter of prices will 4 be astonished at this utter annihilation of values and sacrifice of profits. $ 39c 3 On front counters on first floor we will show hundreds of ladies’ 3 j lovely Waists in many styles and in every color, worth 75c to $1.75 i s each, and they all go at 39c each. Limit to each customer. Remember s £ the Waists will be there Monday and how long* they remain there 3 £ depends upon your appreciation of the bigest bargains of the year. > Ladies' Underwear This week we offer one of our best values in ladies’ fine Muslin and Cambric Underwear at 89 cents Embroidered and Lace trimmed Gowns, Skirts, Chemise, Drawers and Corset Covers, worth $1 and $1.25 each. Take your choice at 89 cents Children's Dresses Some pretty white and colored children’s Dresses, a little line we want to close out. Prices yesterday 75c and $1 each. Tomorrow and until closed they go at only 49 cents Surely at this price you can use one or two, and we will not sell you more than two. Stop and think, woith $1 go at only 49 cents. Boys' Waists Only a few Boys’ Patriotic Waists, made in handsome and novel styles, worth $1.50 each, closed out at.......................................... f QG Ladies' Waists All our finest ladies’ white and col’d I Cft Pique Waists, worth $2.50 each, at ... . liWU These are very nobby. Mexican Drawn Work Wisely supply yourself with these lovely [goods now. Mr. Granat left his stock with us while he made a flying trip to the City of Mexico. He will return to the state, and as soon as he does, the balance of these goods will be shipped to him. Better buy at once. No such lovely pieces were ever seen in Waco or sold so cheap. Ladies' Sailors We are closing out all our present stock of Millinery. Any $1 Ladies’ Straw Sailor goes now at 50c All our pretty 50c Straw Sailors go at 25c If you can use any fancy Ribbons we will sell them to you now at much below regular price. Cheap Reading 500 volumes popular fiction, story and song, by the best authors, the regular 25 cent edition for only 8 Cents Small Things Novelty Stick Pins, worth 10 C* to 15 cents, at.................................... Jll Pretty Flag, Button and Ribbon Badges, worth 10 cents each, L at only................................................. JU Belt Holders and Skirt Suppor C a ters, worth 10 cents, at............... Ju Large 10 cent bottle Bicycle or C. Sewing Machine Oil at............... JU Japanese Umbrellas, pretty for house or lawn decorations, |f|n worth 25c, at.................................... IUU Moth Ball Destroyer, worth 10 Cp cents a box, at.................................. JU &2. lO We will distribute this number of the finest Ladies’ Shoes in Waco among our customers this week. This can hardly be called a sale for practically we give them away. Ladies’ Southern Button Oxfords, Ladies’ Hand Turns at only............................ ................................................... The finest Black, Green, Purple and Chocolate that can be made eiither in patent tip or the new stock tip. All sizes and any width. Regular values, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 a pair. Your choice this w^ek at only $2.10 a pair. Romember you get $4.00 worth of the finest footwear for only half price. A Fine Dress Every piece of our finest imported fancy Organdies, lovely colorings, and designs, worth 50 to 75 cents a yard, go now at only a Q/I « yard................................................... tHu Silk Sashes Fancy Silk Sashes, very handsome worth $3.50 and $4.00 each, 0 Cfl closed out at only..................... 4iJu Ladies' Gloves Kid Gauntlets, all colors and Cfjn any size, at only......................... JUU Val Laces We are showing several hundred pieces of new patterns Valencienne Laces at 5 cents and 25 cents a yard. Very handsome. Social anb Current ^Events. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEKMOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE YOU KNOW. (All items of a social and personal nature will please be sent to 924 Columbus street. Telephone Artesia 167. No itsms received later than 9 o’clock Saturday morning, and to insure attention, should be received Friday. Y trophy door! Trash, nonsense, i T 1 call it what you will, it still remains a most agreeable subject for maiden mediation. Yet, I have not a trophy door, but a trophy screen which sits before my fire place and greets every comer into my parlor, and I often see eyes wandering towards its motley hangings. Simple little bits of cardboard, quaint little designs, and only patches of color, yet the reminder of many gay hours and the acceptable companion to as many hours of agreeable retrospection. Even the screen itself brings to mind the beautiful mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee whose hardy settlers have furnished the material upon which Charles Egbert Craddock and others have built their literary fame. And again mountains whose resorts have so often harbored our Waeo refugees from a summer heat. Here nature’s beauties are without end, and here art treasures have exhausted themselves in the palatial pile that represents the world famed possessions of George Vanderbilt at Asheville. When in their pristine beauty, these hills were glorious in their wealth of the rhododendron after whose roots the mountaineer trod many a mile, and from them he fashioned mystic designs to beguile the fancy and to extract the dollar from the tourist. Such is my screen—a frame of knots and gnarls, polished and latticed and stretched with the trophies of other days. The center spot is covered by a beautiful valentine, with Cupid perched with pointed arrow, a dainty marine sketch and the acrostic: Kings might walk in ermine robes And envy thy estate Thy hand unlocks ‘Aktesia’s’ door Enter we elate.” I am a woman, therefore I am curious, and many a time have I wondered who could have given me anonymously so much that was beautiful and a trophy so much appreciated. The Texas flag, small to be sure, waves over my trophy screen, a pleasant reminder of Mrs. R. M. Russell’s exceedinlgy pretty card party, where the nation’s flags and the national flowers provoked so much admiration. There was the harp of Erin and the lone star, done in natural flowers, the beginning and the end of the tables with tulip, rose and windmill boxes to hold the neapolitan ice. Of course I chose the Texas flag, so it remains a sentinel just by the Cupid’s bow which sweet little Marie Clark pinned upon me when I went to her brilliant birthday dancing party of May ’97. Butterflies have sought a vantage point here and there on my trophy screen, and I can almost see them now, a perfect flock of all colors in brilliant spots and gay tones with their mammoth wings outstretched over Mrs. J. E. Mayo’s party, the last she gave before relinquishing her cosy little home into other hands. Mrs. P. H. Dean carried her butterfly idea still further in converting her house into a spring bower, although the breath of winter was hovering with out. The effect was that the whole world of these idle loiterers had paused paused upon the palm branches and balustrades or had come to do homage to the pretty scene. A tiny stocking in crepe paper, now what can that be? Why, that is all, save the sweet memory that is left of Mrs. Charles Hamilton’s Christmas game of euchre, where everybody caught the holiday spirit and made merry through an afternoon. Two red, red hearts, arrow pierced, were innocently made to suggest that the Misses Neumegen entertained their friends with a valentine dance, but after details have developed the fact that Saint Valentine was more seriously at work as a late announcement verifies. An S, ribbontied and lightly traced with maiden hair brings fresh into memory the spring game of cards with Mrs. W. W. Seley. How well I remember that it was the first outing for the summer frocks of ’97, and I can now almost revive the fragrance of the exquisite maiden blush carnations as they were pinned on me for tne lone hands. I remember, too, that Mrs. Mayo, Mrs. George Byrne and Mrs. Russell received the very handsome souvenirs of the afternoon. There is a tiny spray of forgetmenot nestled amid this curious array, to give the same message that sweet Julia Gardner gave to her girl friends when she hid the delicate spray beneath the folds of the napkin when she had her girls tea. She did not tell it then, but soon it became known that Mr. Wallace was to take her a bride into his far away home, and she was indulging a sweet sentiment in her tiny favor. “Their Majesties, The King and Queen of Winter, are ready to receive their loyal subjects in their Cave of Ice. Come catch betimes with joyful eyes and clear One radiant vista of the realm before us.’ January 9, 1896.” How refreshing to think of that cool cave, wheer glittered all that could be simulated from the realm of'old Boreas and laid as a tribute of magnificence upon the evening reception and cotillion of Mrs. George Clark. Miss Katharine Padgitt and Master Albert Clifton were the glittering majesties in the cave, while Miss Marshall gave the relief picture as queen of the roses in a spring bower where the punch was brewed. All society was set agog over this notable event. “If you cannot play euchre, play Diogenes” is another reminder of Mrs. Clark’s unparalleled hospitality. It reminds me, too, that I played the entire evening with charming little Mrs. Ralli of New York and that the .quotation is made from the night candle which came as my booby prize. It was the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Russell’s farewell before sailing for Europe, and each guest was requested to write a verse for Mrs. Russell’s souvenir booklet, presented by Mrs. Clark. Mr. Sam Sanger was voted the poet laureate of the evening, his verse reading: While you sail across the briny deep, We’ll stay at home and ‘Russell.’ ” Mr. Sanger’s wits seemed unusually sharp upon this occasion, for he was the victor of the game. A tricolored rosette with streamers yellow, red and black crepe tell of the presence of the Memphis Zouaves, enroute to the San Antonio drill. Miss Willie Baker, the sponsor and her bevy of maids devoted their entire day towards entertaining the young men. The drill at the park with the zouaves’ colors flying and the ladies quite in evidence was a gala midsummer happening. A glint of the Christmas berry and a Christmas couplet is one of my coveted souvenirs of Mrs. A1 Cowan’s elaborate card party, the first intimation last season that jolly Kris Knight was on his rounds. Who can have forgotten the glistening tree which stood in the bay window niche of the Sturgis home and held a card for every player and trinkets galore for the winners of the lone hands? Everybody was there. The balcony landing held professional musicians, and beautiful favors were given Miss Pace, Mrs. Charles Hamilton and Miss Friend. A dainty little square of cardboard, handdecorated in a clawhammer’s nest, and the motto, .“Events today are history tomorrow,” tell of the initial session for the season of the Texas Woman’s Press Club with Mrs. Hallie Dunklin. With music, readings and impromptu pictures an afternoon was most pleasantly diverted. A quaint bonneted head, done in ink, peeps at me from the background, and I wonder how it came there?—Oh, yes! it was a favor presented by Mrs. Rounsavall at her afternoon with the Literary tea. I don’t think she just understood my inquiry as to whether the quoted lines were apropos to each guest, else she would not have said so promptly, “Indeed they are,” for |
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