The founding of the colony of Virginia was the subject of t¥o further papers read at the Americas Woman's Club on Tuesday afternoon Although several studies of the colony have already been hard by members, the wealth of interest which the matter yields enabled the speakers yesterday, Mra. W. Nance and Mrs, T. A. Hearn, fill in the details of " fascinstins story, and their papers were very much appreciated.
Mrs. Nance outlined the histor of the Elizabethan "London Com a classic example of the British habit of "muddling through" from precarious—begit nings to substantial muocess. Lom doners hastened to the new colony, dazzled with tales of the Parsdive in the west—o set of "ment vagabonds," most of them expec ing to return to England laden with gold after twelve months Eldorado. Instead of planting corn, they set up vines, because of the poor quality of the wine sat to them from England, The
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