UNDER ST.

MICHAEL'S CHIMES And where St.Michael's chimes The fragrant hours exquisitely tell, Making the world one loveliness, like a true poet's rhymes.
-- RICHARD WATSON GILDER.
It has been said--by Mrs.T.P.

O'Connor, I think--that whereas twenty-five letters of introduction for New York may produce one invitation to dinner, one letter of introduction for Charleston will produce twenty-five dinner invitations.

If this be an exaggeration it is, at least, exaggeration in the right direction; that is, along the lines of truth.

For though Charleston's famed "exclusiveness" is very real, making letters of introduction very necessary to strangers desiring to see something of the city's social life, such letters produce, in Charleston, as Mrs.O'Connor suggests, results definite and delightful.
Immediately upon our arrival, my companion and I sent out several letters we had brought with us, and presently calling cards began to arrive for us at the hotel.