Southern ladies' journal., July 02, 1887, Page 3, Image 3

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SOCIETY.
Mrs. Miller, nee Miss Bessie Urquhart,
spend the summer with her mother
j n New York.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Goodrich, of this
city, will leave August Ist for Roane
Mountains, N. C., where they will so
journ for a month or two.
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Mr. and Mrs. Traylor, of New Orleans,
were pleasantly greeted this month by
friends in this city. They are en route to
some new springs near Eureka Springs,
that are said to have some fine medicinal
qualities.
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Mr. Godbold a prominent planter of
this State, is spending the summer at
Fortress Monroe, Va. This gentleman
has lately added by purchase to his plan
tation enterprises, the handsome Rob
Boy plantation, a magnificent acreage of
cotton fields near Pine Bluff.
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Miss Mary Hughes, who has lately re
turned from Notre Dame Convent, near
Cincinnati, is gratifying her friends by
the compass of her clear soprano voice.
Miss Hughes, as a music lover, has a
pleasant future before her in the enjoy
ment of a voice of rare quality.
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A very pleasant feature of the golden
wedding anniversary of Judge and Mrs.
Wharton, of Jackson, Miss., were the
floral decoration and offerings of their
children. Many true friends wish this
noble pair many years in the mellow and
golden light of a serene old age.
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Miss Corinne Trezevant, of this city,
writes some very pleasing accounts of
her position as a spectator of the pageant
of the Queen’s Jubilee in London. Miss
Trezevant could not be under better
chaperonage than that of her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Trezevant, who
have spent so much time abroad.
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Mrs.W. J. Thompson,with her daugh
ters, Misses Willie and Ada, are spend
ing the summer in the invigorating air
of Mounteagle, in the Tennessee Moun
tains. The young ladies, having culti
vated tastes, will doubtless enjoy the
summer lectures that are so agreeable a
feature of this Southern Chautauqua.
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The ladies of Vicksburg, in generous
and grateful remembrance of the Mis
souri Brigade, who formed a part of
their defenders during the siege, have
tendered their aid, through the Missouri
Historical Society, in raising a monument
to the brave Missouri soldiers who died
ln the ditches and upon the intrench
nients, in defense of the besieged city.
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Mrs. Ammelia Adams, with her little
son, John D., is visiting friends in Vir
ginia. Before leaving Lewisville for her
summer in Virginia, Mrs. Adams received
a very beautiful testimonial from a club of
young people in that place, whose mu-
sical culture had been much forwarded
by Mrs. Adams’ instruction. We hope
soon to give the very beautiful note, with
the names of the donors of this elegant
gift.
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The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gray Car
roll will be pleased to learn that Mrs.
Carroll, during her sojourn at Nimrod’s
Lake, in the mountains of Virginia, has
almost entirely regained her health.
This Nimrod’s Lake, by the way, is an
old-time fishing ground of the gentlemen
of Richmond and Baltimore. While be
side the game, pheasant, turkey and
deer, one has from this mountain height
fine scenery and a beautiful air, clear
and invigorating.
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Miss Louise Taylor, who has so often
visited Little Rock as the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Logan Roots, is spending the
summer with her parents at Eureka
Springs. Miss Taylor recently tendered
a very beautiful evening at the Crescent
Hotel to her friends in Eureka. The
amusements consisted of progressive
euchre, music and dancing. There is a
journalistic rumor that this young lady
will soon become the bride of a St. Louis
physician.
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The fine young son of Hon. J. M. Hud
son, of this State,who graduated this year
at the Annapolis Naval Academy,was as
signed to the American now
in the Mediterranean sea. After a pleas
ant little European tour, on arrival at
his station Mr. Hudson was assigned to
the ‘‘flag ship.” His friends are glad to
learn of this honor conferred upon a
young representative of our State. Some
day the Southern Ladies’ Journal is
going to mention the many “Fine young
Arkansas gentlemen” who are holding
prominent positions in foreign countries.
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Saline county, in this State, is having
a boom that is about to become a jubilee.
Some mines have become developed that
promise immense fortunes to their own
ers. Among the fortunate investors in
Saline county is Lieut. Fletcher, now
stationed at Fort Stanton, N. M. We
congratulate Lieut, and Mrs. Fletcher
upon this fortunate investment. Mrs.
Fletcher, as well as many other army
ladies, has been an earnest friend of the
Ladies’ Journal, and we trust that not
only a four-leaf clover, but a golden
horseshoe, may be added to their store
of bric-a-brac.
A writer in an exchange tells us
of the English skylark, as it has been
brought to Long Island. He says:
I heard for the first time this “assisted
emigrant,” whose advent (heaven be
praised!) our laws have not opposed. I
was walking near a field, not of grass,
nor grain, nor vegetables, but of weeds—
a desolate waste, from which none would
expect a melody to arise whose beauty
has been proclaimed to the corners of
the earth. But I was soon reminded
that to the lark, as to other birds, weeds
are not weeds; for a new voice rose out
of the desert; and looking in the direc-
tion of the sound, I beheld a bird of me
dium size, with eager, fluttering wings,
only a few feet above the ground, and
rising by short, quick flights. He poured
forth a flood of notes as he went upward.
The voice had something in it—some
thing indescribable—that made it differ
ent from any bird song of ours. Then,
too, it sang while rising. This could be
none other than the European skylark,
especially as I had been told that he
could be heard in that neighborhood.
It is wonderfully inspiring to hear a
bird sing as he mounts heavenward, yet
with the skylark (dare I say it?) the first
feeling of the listener is apt to be one of
disappointment. For the quality of
tone and the character of particular
notes is what engrosses the attention
at the outset, and the observer calls to
mind a large number of singers whose
notes are equal to these. He can even
name several whose voices surpass this
new voice from the Old Yorld.
But do not insist too much up n ’
quality. Wait and listen. The
grows upon you. You wonder wi ire
any creature can find the power to si:ig
so rapturously and continuously while
mounting into the sky. There is no
pause at all between the notes. They
are almost as rapid as those of the bobo
link, though less impetuous, with less
bubbling exuberance. This is truly
the joy song of a blithe spirit borne
aloft into the sky.
For inspirational quality and for con
tinuance of song this bird passes any
bird of ours, or rather ’et us say any na
tive bird, for he has become ours. We
have assimilated him, as we have assim
ilated so much more of the world; and
he seems content to stay with us. Some
of the thrushes sing as long—the mock
ing-bird, the song-thrush or brown
thrush, the cat-bird, the robin—but their
songs are not continuous. They are
many notes, with rests between them.
For beauty of tone this song is not very
remarkable; and as for beauty of inter
val, I have not discovered any. Our
wood-thrush (to name only one) far ex
cels the lark in the first quality, and is
without an equal among American birds
in the second. In fact, if we judge by
the quality of the tone alone, we shall
find that our English friend has long
been associated with lieaven’s gate, our
wood-thrush has a a perch much nearer
those everlasting doors than the lark’s
wings ever carry him. His song is truly
heavenly. It is the voice of a spirit
serenely contemplating dwelling in a re
gion of calm joy. Yet I doubt that any
listener will be as strongly moved by it
as by this new voice; this rain of melody
showered down in profuse strains of un
premeditated art.
White cloth dresses trimmed with
gold braid are most fashionable,buttbey
are costly, because they require to be
made by a tailor, and only the best gold
braid used, or it will soon tarnish. Those
to whom money is no object spend large
sums on buttons, which are engraved
with initials or monograms. On such
dresses as these the buttons are gold, but
on the yatching dresses they are tortoise
(shell, with the engraving only in gold.
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