To-day Is the first of a week which
ends with February 14th, and where Is
the niniden or tho gallant, oven In the
twentieth century, who Is nor. thrilled
with sentimental thoughts and tender
feelings at the idoa of sending- and re?
ceiving ? possible valentine?
People of the present day affect a great
deal of matrlaJlem: at heart, they are
very much what humanity has always
been. In a different way, they express
Just the same thing as that told In highly
ornamental note paper of a half century
aeo. when the Jinglo, with many pen
flourishes, ran thus:
"Rosos are rod, and violets aro blue,
6ugar Is sweet, and so are you."
Now, the roses and violets are con?
served leaves of the ono and blossoms
o? -the ether, and they aro sent In a
crimson satin heart-shaped box with a
chubby, rosy, hand-painted cupid on the
outside, but they mean Just tho same
thing In tho one Instano? as the othor,
the difference of time makes the differ?
ence of expression; that is all.
A pretty story told of a French woman
if rank and groat beauty Is that she
Mice was sitting In her palace on Valen?
tine's Eve, wlthcall ,the splendid gifts that
had been sent her from many sources
as reminders of the festival around her.
Bhe was a little listless and wearied of
them all. nnd was walking Impatiently
to and. fro when a senrant entered,
bringing her a little basket of blue nnd
white wood ?vlolots, like theso that grew
In the forests near her childhood's homo,
and had made the"first valentine offering
she had ever,,rv?elv.ed years before. Then
she had been a. elm pie untutored girl,
and the world and worldly splendors had
no place In her mind
She stretched out her hand for the
basket and bent ojyQr"*It with a cry o?
loy, inhaling-line pierfurne of its fragrant
burden and listening with quivering lips
to the message the ivlolets gave. That
night when she moved a radiant and
Queenly flgnire amid the gay throngs at
a great court celebration, a Mar?chal of
Esanco noticed the blue and whlto violets
Bhe carried in lier hand, and with his
thoughts reverting to tho First Empire
and the Napoleonic colors, he said in?
quiringly, as ho bent beforo her. and
touched her flowers:
"For the sake of the past madame?"
She raised her eyes that might have
borrowed their hue fTom the blossoms
and thnt had In their depths the eneffablc
sweetness of an evor-present memory and
answered slowly:
"For the sake of the past, sire."
So It has always been, so It will over
be. The shrine of good Snlnt Valentine
will be heaped as high In 1903 as ever
... ^before Milady will pehaps flush rosy
'""" red with pleasuro over something that Is
very symbolical of the season, over
S which her lover has spent much earn
in selection, and which Is supposed to be
a now way of telling a story that ls as
old as humanity Itself, and yet the only
one of which humanity has naver wearied
In the telling.
Germans of The Week.
The ?Richmond Assembly had its last
germen but ono before Lent on Monday
evening of the past week. A number of
vlsiUng ladies were present, among them
Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, of Winches?
ter, In white silk net, Inserted with pink
and blue veM-et, with ruilles trimmed In
lace and velvet, roses, appliqued and
worn over accordlon-plalted pink chiffon.
Miss Molly Payne, of Harrlsonburg,
Va., In white tucked point d'esprit, a
pink rose in her-hfth-, and a corsage bou
^jjuet of : wihite -lilacs.^ ""
Miss Bessie E-oylo. if Norfolk. In white
panno crepe do chine, trimmed in ap?
plique and embroidery, a transparent yoke
and Iong**whltj}.ijilov?3
Miss Crutcli'f.eid, of Fredericksburg,
Va., In flame colored crepe, appliqued in
lace medallions.
Miss Maitland, of Froderlcksburg, in
white organdy trimmed with 'valen?
ciennes, lace bcrthe.
Miss Nina Armlstead, of Baltimore, In
whlto etamlne with white chiffon, pink
rosca.
Miss Katherine Patton, of Danvlllo, In
black net abovo black satin, back em?
broidered chiffon, benho.
^Sllss Lidie Lane, of Alabama, In pink
?ilk-etrlpod grenadine, point lace, bertho.
Miss Loworee, of ^Maryland. In white
mousseline over blue silk, blue ribbons.
Miss Powoll, of Baltimore, in black
silk net, with trimming ol black n-elvet
tlbboh.
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The Richmond german will have Its
rortnighUy cotillon in the Masonic Tem?
ple to-morrow evening. As the season is
drawing noar Ils close anil tho german
serles before Lent Is almost over, lt*"is
(believed that this dance will bo one of
the most atlractlvo of tho winter.
Among The Clubs,
Mr. Franklin Cowles Woodward, for
lmorly a prominent educator of South
Carolina, who, with his wife, Miss
?Leary, ls sponding tho winter with Major
and Mrs. James D. Pattini, will address
the members of the Woman's Club to?
morrow, February 9th, on "Tho Uses ot
Fiction."
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The Kate Wheelock Willst Club met
with Mrs Correli Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert Nelson and Mrs. ?. 10, Shop
herd scored north and south; Mrs, C. E.
Wingo and Mrs. trwlng Watklns oast and
west. Mrs. ???G??G Moore will entertain
the club next we ok,
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Mrs. Allen Lyon was the hostess of
tho Young Married Ladles' Card Club on
Friday aitornoon, Mrs. Harrv A. Gillie
and Miss Masle Bcott, of Warrenton,
Va., were Mrs. L.von's especial guests.
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Tho Richmond Chapter. Daughters of
tho Confederacy, will meet at Lee Camp
Hall Wednesday next rU 4 1'. M, for? the
election of otilct-r?. Tills eloctlon will be
by ballot according to tho constitution,
The annual report of officers for the
past year will be* read.
At a meeting of the Hebrew Memorial
. Aiinni-latii.ii In No. LIO East Franklin
Btreet, at 1 o'clock last Wednesday af?
ternoon, it wuu decided to have a tea
February ISth from G to 10 o'clock P.
M.. for the benefit of the Confederale
Bazaar Association. U?, Camp Hall,
where the lea will be bold will be decora?
ted In Confederato colors. Tho Hebrew
Memorial will meet again this week to
perfuct arrangeaient?.
Debutante Tea.
A' very pretty debutante tea and re?
ception was given lost Tuesday after?
noon from 6 to 7 o'clock by Mrs. John
Pooley, of r?o, 3H East Main Blreot, in
?Minor o? her granddaughter, Misa iSlea
?
?ora Clare Houston, a dhormlng bud of |
this season.
After the reception th* young ladles
who assisted with Miss Kloanora Citer?
Houston ongaged In a card grame.
Kuclire was played and the gamo was
marked In flowers, red and white roses,
popples and chrysanthemums being used.
'liciuc.ul hall, parlor and dining-room
d?corations wero In pink and green.
Palms were grouped In the hall; mantels
were banked with ferns as a background
for pink carnations; vasos holding pink
carnations were placed throughout the
rooms, and silver candelabra with pink
tapers and shades carried out tho color
sciiome. uno centerpiece for tho tea
tablo was a large and lovely plaque of
pink roses, veiled In moldenhelr forns.
Miss Houston's pink crepo de chino gown
harmonized most artistically with the
pink of blossoms and ??ie soft glow from
shaded laicps and tapers.
Tho CJM^aJ Con-imlttco of tho A. P.
X'. A. me^(.t the Virginia Historical So
nged by Mrs, Blankonehlp. Prizes offer?
ed were a large and beautiful heart
?hapod box, filled with confootlons; the
second a red and white blotting pad,
tied with ribbon and ornamented with
:i Gibson head In profilo; tho third, a
imall heart, hand-painted.
Protty souvenirs of the occasion wore
argo rod hearts fringed with little hearts
used ns markers. A feature of tlio af?
ternoon wns tho formation of parties of
six or seven among tho young people
who played continuously with each oth?
er.
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A Confoderato reception will bo given
under the aiiRplcos ot tho Oakwood As?
sociation February 24th In tho homo of
Mrs. C. XV. Massle, of No. 2721 East
Broad Street, Tho reception will bo held
for the benefit of tho GooTgta table, and
the following ladles have promised ric
i Mvo assistance; Mesdames M, T. Snoll
!ngs, Hughes, Massle, Beazley, Carter,
i'leasants, Oraswltt, Now, Rlddlck, Har?
wood, Green, Swalmoyor, Parker, Bow
din, Clarko, Tallcy and Moore; Misses
MISS LILLIAN KELLAM, of Northampton County,
Who is the guest of Miss Nellie Gray, nt No. 310 East Franklin Street.
cloty Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. Bryan presided.
Mrs. Bryan appointed a committee, in?
cluding Mrs. Llghtfoot, Mrs. Murray and
Mrs. .Emma Rende Ball, to attend tho
Virginia Conference of Charities and
Corrections, which convenes In Richmond
February 10th.
Mrs. Bagby roportod that recent exca?
vations at Jamestown, have laid bare the
foundation of two houses, one largo and
one small. This new discovery ls most
interesting In the light of future proba?
bilities.
Mrs. Bosher's Tea.
A charming social evont of Tuesday
afternoon and evening was the recep?
tion tea given by Mrs. Robert S. Bosh?
er.
Callers were welcomed by Mrs. Bosher,
who received with Miss Bilie Bosher, Mrs.
L. B. Janney, Mrs. Criarles Bosher, Mrs.
Casklo Cabell, Mrs. Christopher Tomp
klns, Mrs. Thomas Arnilstead and Mrs.
Charles Wortham.
Vory handsome floral decorations were
In palms, ferns, American beauties and
Tostout roses.
Bazaar Tables.
The eommittoo for the Solid South ta?
ble at the Confederate Bazaar met In
No. ??08 East Franklin Street Tuesday
nt 11 A. M. Mrs. Robert White, of
West Virginia, was present and gave a
very encouraging account of tho bazaar
work In West Virginia. Betters wore
read from Mrs. Kcado. of Now York,
promising assistance, and ono from Mls.s
Nannie Both, of Washington, offering
tn secure a miniature of General Robert
E. Lee.
Mrs. XV. F. Butler wrote, saying her
chapter would bo glail to contribute.
Miss Van Wyck. of California, will be
hero during tho bazaar with friends to
look after the California table, un annex
to the Solid South table. Mlss Manilo
Baughman and Mls.i Townes will rap
point young Indie? to take charge of the
table ouch tiny during tho bazaar.
Mrs. Baudouin Drislilcll, who Is ???
Chairman of the Louisiana table, bus bud
a most delightful letter from the Louisi?
ana Statu regent, promising to christ on
tho table, givo tlio drapery for the booth
nnd send her representative with another
lady to look after Louisiana's intorusts
during th? bazaar?
Mrs. DftShlOll'S committee includo? Mrs.
Maria Robinson, Mrs. IS. 0, Minor, Mrs.
Stewart Woodward, Mrs. 10. I,. Heinlss,
Mrs. Clayton Coleman, Mrs. ?, ?. Rob?
ertsori, Mrs. Charles Robing, Mr*n. ,t.
Parker Pashiell, Mrs. O. 11, Funs tun,
Mrs. P. I?. Conquest . -Mrs. Henry Hat
wood, Mrs. ?? A. Olllls, Miss Bernlss,
Miss Ella Cooko, Miss Ada.Ir Minor. Miss
Loullo Whillnck, M Ins Tabb, Miss Lang.
ley, Miss Scott, Miss Carrie Colernnti,
Miss Kathleen Anderson, Miss Cora Har?
rison. Mrs. George Aluslle and Mrs. Mann
B. Valentino.
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The euchre game played Saturday af?
ternoon from 1 to I o'clock for the
h'rvieflt of tbo Missouri table at the Con
(?derate Bazaar ????? one of the pleas?
anlest social affair? of tlio week. Tho
game was under thri direction of Mrs.
John Q, Hagan and Mrs. llobort M.
Bliuikeut,iiip and was splendidly man
Dobbin, Hollman, Schermerhorn, Styles
and Fergusson.
Confederate Bazaar.
A very large and interesting meeting of
tho v-oiifeclerate Bazaar Association was
held Thursday at noon with Mrs. Joseph
Bryan and Mrs. Stephen Putney present.
Vbry encouraging reports were then re?
ceived from the chairmen of the different
Stales, giving their plans for raising
money, and reporting work already dono
for tho tables. Mrs. S. D. Drewry gave
the name of tho Texas table as "Ships
That Pass In tho Night."
As tho Confederate Daughters in tho
State of Ohio have asked for space at
the bazaar, Miss Mattlo Harris was re?
quested to wrlto to the regent, Mrs.
Worcester, offering them an annex to tho
Kentucky table.
It was decided by vote that no articles
should be raffled at the bazaar, and that
nothing to drink should be sold stronger
than coffee, tea, chocolate or lemonade.
A name suggested for the Louisiana tablo
by Mrs. John B. Richardson, of New
UrleaiiH, was "Down the Bayou."
Tho linul adoption of tho badge ivas
referrod to a committee already appoint?
ed, wit liMrs. Joseph Bryan as additional
refe-reo in the matter of decision.
Hereafter the Bazaar Association will
meet overy Thursday at noon in Leo
Camp Hall. Mr. Bradley's offer In re?
gard to the publication of a paper during
the bazaar was accepted, and the details
referred to Mrs. Edgar D. 'laylor.
The question of the Confederato fair,
to be hold March 10th for tho benoflt of
the Home for Needy Confederato Women,
came up bot'oro the meeting adjourned.
The lailles regretted the matter, but, re?
cognizing that all Confederato workers
have their definito alms mid objects,
which seem to the workers all Impor?
tant, they expressed tho hope that the
Confederata fair would receive the sup?
port of tho public, while Ilio work of
the association wus being carried for?
ward, Tholr own previously given
pledge would prevent their giving moro
than their good wishes, ns at any other
timo they might havo lieon able to do.
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A banquet was given by Ilio vestry of
Grace Episcopal Church last Tuesday
evening In tho parlors and dining room
of the annex to Murphy's Hotel, In com-?
plltneiit to the voluntary choir of the
church, ono of the most elllelent and best
trained hi tho city.
Musical selections, songs, reel talions
and conversation contributed to tho en?
joyment ot all, Ilio part played in tho
programmo by Mrs. Adolphus Blair and
MIhh l'aule ?. MuClohoo proving/tho at?
traction of tho owning.
A very liniiilsomo banquet was served
at tho close of tho programme.
In Green and White.
Tho green und while ton given by Mrs.
James t. Parkinson Wednesday afternoon
was one of the daintiest nnd prottlost
mini uiitorluliinientB of tho week,
The whole lower lluor of tho Parkinson
homo, No. 9O0 West Franklin Btreet, wit?
In green und whlto, Running cedar and
Southern smllux alternated with whlto
rosos, while carnations and narcissus, that
i-eerned the Incarnation of approaching
spring and bright days. Tho table, with'
It? beautiful lui?.) cover, hud broad bunds
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FORMERLY
MAYER & PETTIT,
MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAWELL
TELLS OF HER SUCCESS
Must Work Hard and Have
Something to Say.
HER GLOUCESTER HOME
H er Work is Done In a Little Octagon
Shaped Room, Which She Calls Her
Den?One of the Most Success?
ful of Modern Writers.
Speaking ot the qualifications In a
writer which Insure financial success,
Miss Molly Elliott Seawell, tho woll
known novelist, says:
"if one works bard, secures a good pub?
lisher, and has something to say that the
public wants to hear, financial success ls
obliged to follow. The shortest road to
failure, however, ls to put financial be?
fore artistic; success."
Miss Seawell considers the present out?
look for writers exceedingly bright.
"The rewards ot literature," she says,
"have greatly increased In the last ten
years. Larger royalties aro received, and
the earnings of the writers of to-day com?
paro favorably with those of the beat
pala of other professions. The Ameri?
ca!? book market is worth five times as
much us tho English market. Tho In?
ternational copyright law has put tho
business of publishing books upon a sound?
er basis than it over before occupied. I
don't believe It operates so as to cut Eng?
lish authors off from our market, but I
believe If It wero not posslblo for them
to secure the copyright in both countries
they would prefer to secure It In the
United States, and 3 don't know any
American writer who would wish to ex?
clude them, if wo can't hold our own
with our own public we don't deserve to
succeed."
Few writers contribute bo much in a
social way to the pleasuio of tholr ac?
quaintances ?is does Miss Seawoll. Her
frequent dinners are charming oc?aniens,
?, lille her Sunday afternoons at homo, at?
tended mostly by men, bring together cul?
tured, cosmopolitan gatherings scarcely
tn bo found outside of Washington. Every
afternoon at 6 o'clock during tho week,
too, a table, frolglito? with delicate china
and colonial silver, is placed In tho bay
window of her front drawlng-?????, wlion
visitors drop In, una.ovltli "tho cup that
cheers," to promote sociability, pass a
delightful hour In conversation. Tho
ijolil bowl of each spoon Is stampo* with
a representation of "Tho Shelter," her
birth-place, In Gloucester county, Va..,
and Hcattered about tho room uro bits of
antique china and furniture, with Inter?
esting portraits handed down from tho
Sea wells and Tylers and other of hot? an
ci'Btor?. From ibis apartment one looksi
Into tho library, with Its blitzing wood'
tiro and rows uf books Interspersed with
Inherited first (?niions of tho eighteenth
ceitury. Beyond Is tho dlnliig-room, fur?
nished with old mahogany, which the
owner tells you did not como from sec
oiidrliunil ?hops, but from our tumble?
down Virginia liomo, whore, since all of
our acquaintance? had lt. wo didn't much
vnluo it, although wa Jiavo learned to
respoct It moro,"
MISS SliJAWlfllJj'S DEN.
Miss ?cawell's "den," whore sho tolls
dny after day, as Bho puts It, "llko a
cirny-liorae," is a gay little ootugoii-slmped
tU'urUuont, lu tho extremo end of the
MISS MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAWELL.
building, with a lobby attached. Hero'
a wood flro also burns; Cor (like Ollvor
Wendell Holmes, sho prefers tho hind of
a flro three-fourths of the heat from
Which gocH up tho chimney;) whllo two
Immense bright windows with deep cush?
ioned window aeatB, aild to Its cheer.
Above tho mantel is a slatuotlo of Na?
poleon, whom "alio adores," other souve?
nir.'! of him being several portraits, busts
ami medals,? with plates -which ho used
at tho Tuileries. Books contribute large?,
ly to the furnishings of this ronm. and
pictures of dear friends, notably of hor
sister, who shares her home, of .Miss
ModJesKa, Julia Marlowe, Captain Slgsbee.
and others, look down upon hor from
Its walls. Tho house, purchasod by hor
some years ago. overlooks the Spanish
legation, und ls within half a block of
Pupont Circle and a bloclt of the Lettor
rnsldenco and other soml-palatlal homes.
Lcalriihlu us it lu from ovory aia.Kijuulut,
hnwovor, It Is as a representation of tho
material capabilities of tho pon that It hua
most practical Import.
Although she has never made a phe?
nomenal "hit," Miss Sea well is one of tho
most successful of modern writers, real
icing large returns from her work, a
fuel, which somoono explains by saying
that sho has both ability nnd availability,
She seems, Indeed, to bo one of thoso
rare Instances of montai equipoise in
which tho artistici and practical side of
lho nature balance each othor, and In
examining; Into hor methoilB, one cannot
full to see how thoroughly they aro per?
intuited with tho leaven of common sonso.
Subscribing to Coquelln's theory that "It
there U such ? thing as Inspiration, tho
way to draw the flro down from htiavon is
to work liard," sho Ignorosmoods, going to
hor desk every morning with clook-lllce
regularity, nudi hedging the hours passed
thvre frgia all JntenuDtiou, To * iellow-,*
-
writer, who spoke of her limitations, she
promptly replied: "There Is no limitation
to hard work." But while she le an ex?
expltficatlon of her own doctrine, she alst
works with moderation. Rest, exorcist
and recreation have their prop or place,
and In the summer, closing her homo, she
upends the months In foreign travel 01
at some invigorating resort For a tima
from a tedious trouble with the eyes, she
employed a stenographer, and lest the ex?
periment should not be successful, she
armed her, against possible discomfiture
by saying: "You must tell your friends
that you havo takon a lady on a week's
trial." Her interest In' the struggling
among her own sex ls, Indeed, one of her
jnost patient characteristics, her sym?
pathy shaping Itself to fit the needs of
each individual case. Tbe young stenog?
rapher, "working with the regularity o?
an automaton and the tactfulness and
Intelligence of a human being," proved
??? every way satisfactory. But .although
an expert, she found It difficult to keep
pace with her dictation, and Miss Sea
Well describes herself as both a slow
and rapid writer, making the first draft
quickly, and then going over It again and
SPA?ES NO EXPENSE, '
She spares neither tro ?ble ?or expense
to gain the desired result, and while writ-,
Ing "Tho House of Egremont." for which
Bhe received $7.000 as an. advance pay-'
mont, when only a few of Its chapters,
were finished, she read) dofcens of books'
to acquaint horself with the period and
people and made a special trip to St.
Germain's, in France, to acquire the lo
cal color. Sinco tho publication ol .
Frances Ro. one of tho six best-selling !
bookB of the season, sho has written a
short story, "Tho Romance of Elfe,"
brought out by the same firm, and is .
now In treaty for the dramatic rights of '.,
It. It has been her policy to have a num?
ber of publishers, that tho failure of any
one of them might not seriously affect
her, for, as ehe quotes: "It ls a bad plan
to put all of one's eggs In tho same bas?
ket."
She confines herself to her own Une o?
work, and last winter doclined an offer
o? J500 from a Now York paper to write
"from a woman's standpoint" an account
of a sensational trial then taking place In
?Washington,
Mise Seawoll doca not know what led
her to enter literature, being much of
pogborry's opinion thnt "reading andi
writing come by nature." Nor can she
tell which of her books sho considers tho
best, having like a fond and foolish moth?
er, a soft place In her heart for each of
tho children of her brain.
Of tho authors to whom ehe ls Indebted
for Inspiration, nnd who Influenced her
during tho plastic period, ehe outf> Thank
cray first.
"Often," , sho says, "while writing a
thing, it suddenly occurs to me: Thacke?
ray would call that trash; throw it In
tho waste basket, But In the next mo?
ment comes the thought: Yes, but he
would say, 'You can do botter than that.
Try again.'
' "A good way to get a strong Infusion
of a writer Is to road him constantly for
a month .and every year or so I rend a
half-doaen ot Thackeray's books conse?
cutively,"
"J think Miicaulay, too, who I hoar Je
coming Into fashion again?he never wont
out with mo?affords excellent' study for a
Writer. Ho has auch a tremendous com?
mand of tho English language, and his?
pe wer of expression,. has boon developed
to such a high point that he cannot fall
to be helpful to those seeking to acqulr?
the art. Robert Louie Stevenson Is an?
other author's author, and while one can?
not, make one's self a great writer, ono
can by study and practico acquire a geodi
clear literary style."
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