All sorts of impromptu costumes are worn by women digging in their back yard; and wily colored men go about their streets with spades and rakes in their hands, reckoning upon your desire for aid. "Parle Laçares" without number will plan your sweet peas and plums and plums and marvels for the rose that never did a thing last year. Spring in Richmond is gardening time, whether one bar a plantation or a window box, and it is a thoroughly charming scene. Wednesday evening the ballroom of the Jefferson Hotel will be crowded to the door; to let Dr. William Brady once grow "Id and flourishing it." Everybody's "Victory." The very subject is the most entrancing thing in the world. If it is the one thing in the world that nearly everyone must or later, and it goes with saying that the lecture will be a success. The affair is for the benefit of the Girls' Club, the Belle Bryan Day Nursery, and the Metropolitan will introduce the lecture.

Thursday evening the weekly supper will take place at the Westmore Hotel from 11:30 to 11:30 o'clock.  The orchestra will play for the dancing. The affairs of the week will be in the usual dinner and in the hop at the fountain of Virginia. BRENT WITT. Dinner for the host. 