The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1896, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 9 < 3, 1896 {\HE embitter dicted tie ¢ d augurs who dead cold fre the joyous laughter of the many guests at the most successiul ball ever given in San Francisco rin ingly in their ears. In fact, the success of the Maradi bal masque surpassed the hopes of even the most sanguine. The scene was brilliant beyond-d | tion, and, although character costuming was in the decided m ment was made by the many eleg: | gowns and jewels worn by fairest repre-y sentatives of San Francisco society. Several elegant and co number of original costum ried the | dull monotony of the and white and { | | , full ator = sponding blue dominos. There were two “Trilbys,” in the fetching, military costume Maynard and Mrs. Jimr to these two ladies should certain awarded the palm for the bestsu character, The elder married ladies particularly distinguished themselves by their magnifi- cent gowns, and more elegant lace was seen on Tuesday evening than on any other previous fashionable gather; Although the majority of the men wore theconventicnal evening dress suit a num- ber of “‘gentlemen of the cour re seen, and now and then a stray football-player. The Burlingame set wore its “‘pink coats’ and the army and navy was resplendent with bras: tons. Long before the evening was over the | revelers tired of the tiny masks which con- | cealed so zealously their identity and un- | masking was in order. Thus one of the most fascinatiriz pleasures of the bal | ma the mystery, done away with. | Another delightful dance was’ the ( ningham cotillon Mon evening. on There were about fifty young people pres- ent, and Miss Houghiton led with ease and grace. The decorations of the handsome | drawing-rooms were much admired, espe- ciatly the huge armchair of fragrant Par- ma violets. ' The luncheon given by the Misses Boss and Farquharson, respectively, at the University Club on Monday afternoon were most delightful affairs. The table decorations were exquisite, the company most congenial and the menu elaborate and delicious. With commendable spirit the Doctor's Daughters decided that the first Lenten entertainment should be for charity, and the entertainment, tableaux vivants, at the residence of Mrs. Clark Crocker on Thurs- day evening, proved a financiai as well as a social sucecess. The victures were arranged with most careful attention to detail and the results were most artistic and satisfactory. The Gibson pictures were especially 'beautiful and the fair counterparts most admirably adapted to represent those stunning Ameri- can girls. The old-fashioned Dutch picture, “The Letter,” which was one of the main fea- tures at the recent ““living-pictures” enter- tainment given by Mrs. Paul Jarboe and Mrs. Joseph Tobin, again attracted much favorable criticism. There were several dinners on Thursday eveninug and a pretty home wedding. Mrs. Geo. C. Shreve entertained several friends at dinner at her residence on Pine street. Her guests were: Mr. and Mrs. George R. Buoreve, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Woods, Mr. and Mrs, George Lent, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knight, Miss Shreve, Miss Hooker, Miss Houghton, Henry Houghton, Harry Hol- brook and Mr. Bonny. Mrs. E. Heller gave the last of her series’ of dinners on Thursday evening. The table decorations were elegant and the menu elaborate. Covers were laid for twenty. On Thursday evening, the wedding of Miss Bertha A. Fuller, youngest aaughter of Mrs. Margaret Fuller and the late W. P, Fuller, and Charles A. Kinkelin of the Lon. don, Paris and American Bank, was quietly solemnized at the residence of the bride’s mother, 839 O'Farrell street. Only the immediate relatives of both the | high contracting parties witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. Dr. Horatio Stebbins. There were no attendants. After the ceremony a bridal dinner was served, after which there was a family dance, the young | tainment was arranged. couple leading in the good old “Virgima Reel.”” bride wore a very handsome gown of iotrope silk and white satin. The jupe was madeen train of the heliotrope silk and the bo dice was of white satin embroidered with violets. Mr. and Mrs. Kinkelin have left for a southern bridal tour. On Thursday Miss Agznes Brandenstein entertained thirty-five young ladies at an elaborate luncheon at her residence on the corner of Gough and California streets. The guests were seated at three tables, one of which was éecorated in pink blos soms, another in green and white and the third with yellow eschscholtzias. After the luncheon a delightful enter- Miss Rose Adler and Miss Moroney gave an act from “Hans and Gretel” and Mrs. Lenstroth recited. luncheon 2t her residence, corner nd Pine streets. Covers were laid for thirty. The Verein and California clubs will join forces for a high jinks on Saturday evening, February ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNOED. eparations for a Large Number of Easter Weddings, There has just been announced in Eastern soeie circles the engagement of Miss Pris- cilla, ton of Concord, N. H., to William Mc- Leod McKay of Eureka, Cal. The young lady is the representative of two of the oldest and families of staid New England and has, N, ed the advantages of a finished education and the best society that the public affords. The gentleman is one of our foremost workers in se education and has hosts of pa, Placer and Santa Clara coun- engagement is announced of Gustay rmann and Miss Emma Mengel, young- < Josie Studwick and s announced. > nuptials of Mrs. Sophie Martin and Julius Leibes will e soleranized ou the Lst of March. The marriage of Miss Beckie Sickel and Albert Jacobs of Santa Rosa will take place on Suanday evening, February 23, atthe home of the bride’s mother. WEDDINGS, Several Pretty Home Weddings Oelebrated Dauring the Week, The wedding of Miss Minna Robinett, daughter of Mrs. John Robinett, and C. H. Herrington, a popular attorney of San Jose, tly solemnized on February 6 at the residence of the bride’s mother, 101634 Twen- tieth street. Only relatives and a limited number of inthnate friends were present at the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Herrington are mak- ing their home at San Jose, and are located at 336 North Sixth street. A quiet home wedding took place last Sun- day evening at the residence of Mr. and M, Roach, 865 Eighteenth street, Oakland, the principals in the affair being Miss Mayne Smith of Osxland and Philip Bradbury, the wall-known traveling-man for the California Casket Company. The parlors were tastefully decorated with smilex and lilics. The bride presented a most charming appearance in a gown of light gray material, trimmed at the' throat with white chiffon. Only intimate friends were invited, among whom were: Mrs. L. B. Ayers, Mr. and Mrs. Roach, Mrs. J. F. Creamer and daughter, Edward, Smith, Mrs, Grace Mestayer, Frank Hount, Miss Gladys Houpt, Mr. and the Misses Campbell, Andrew Campbell and wife, Bieun- tenant Kennedy and brother, the latter acting a8 best man, and Miss Emma King of Sacra. mento, the bridesmaid. The ‘happy couple will spend their honey- moon traveling in the nortd, and will make their home in this City. HOME PARTIES. of Bt in Honor Day. A most enjoyable party was given by the Misses Daisy and Grace Wiener at their resi- dence, 162814 Geary street, on St. Valentine's eve. The invitations, which were in two heart. shaped cards pierced by an arrow, contained the mystifying announcement, “Coming events cast their shadows before.” This was ex- plained when on the arrival of the guests and before seeing each otheér the boys were required o ch their partoers for supper by the shadow cast on & sheet suspended between the two rooms which separated the boys from the girls, A pleasant time was spent in dancing and playing games. Miss Del Valle favored the guests with a vocel s0lo, which was greatly applauded, and Miss Dennery gave with fine exccution a recitation. Hearts predominated in the decorations of the rooms, the prevailing colors being red and gold. After supper dancing was continued, the valentine box opened and the valentines distributed. Those present were: Misses Ray Del Valle, Leslie Grinpell, Nettfe Robitischer, Daisy Denmery, Edith Kohlberg, Daisy Holje, Rose Holje, Zeldd Wiener, Reua Trigg, Rita Merrill, Faunie Red- lick, Key Cohn, Corn:lia Duperu, Dais Wiener and Grace Wiener; Messrs, Adolp! Judeil, Harry Kahn, Will Duperu, Fred Day, Receptions Valentine's Miss | Miss Minnie Leb Pullen, Dan Del Valle, Will Kohlberg, Ed Wiener, Aléx Meyer, Dewitt McDonald, Harold Fo]rlbes, Emmanuel Wiener and Harry Grin- nell. Last Friday evening Miss Nellie King gave a vaientine party at her home to the members of the Young Ladies’ Leap-Year Club of '96. The last part of the evening was spent in voeal and musical selections rendered by Miss Julia Grass and Miss Pauline Cohn, after which the guests partook of a very tempfing repast, each receiving a handsome valentine. Those pres- ent were: Miss Nellie King, Miss Jessie Ketcham, Miss Julin Grass, Miss Rose Conhn, imma Nerbaugh, Miss Amy Ketcham, Cohn, Miks Lettie Canney, Miss Pauline Cohn and Miss Mamie Ryan. At the invitation of Superintendent Bab- cock Miss Lillian O’Connell gave on Wednes- day, at the Washington Grammar School, one of “her lecture-recitals upon colonial life in America. Without any apparent effort Miss O'Connell held the close attention of the crowded audience of teachers and pupils for more than an hour as she discoursed upon the habits of life in Puritan times, exciting by turns laughterand tears. At the conclusion of the entertainment a vote of thanks to Miss O'Conuell from the principals and teachers of public schools who Were present was enthusi- estically offered. Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel gave an inter- esting literary and musical matinee at her elegant residence, 1060 Fulton street, on Wednesday afternoon. The following literary and musical numbers were very much enjoye; by the invited guests: _Elegy, “Where Thou Art,” and “Brown Eyed Nell” (Roeckel), Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel; violin solo, “Habanera and Romance” (Srasate), ATthur Johannsen accompanied by Mrs. Johannsen; recitation, “The Visitor” and “The Wind in’ the Chimney,” Mrs. Douglas Adam; cavating (Rossini), Mile. Elena Roeckel; | contralto -solo, “Ah,’Tis a Dream” (Hawley) Miss Dora Cohn; irand seene from *“Aida,’ Mme. Coursen-Roeckel and Miss Nell Couch; Lied, «Sym: R * Mon Torno” (Mattié), Senorita de Galvez; “Walting” (Millard), Miss Grace Sherry; aria, “Nabucodonosor” (Verd1), Miss Annette Miley; “Prelude and Star Spangled Banner,"” Mrs, Lewis ana chorus. Ice cream and choice delicacies were served during the interludes. 'The guests present were: Mrs. Captain S. E. Wallace, Mr. Thor- ington C. Chase, Mre. Douglas Adam, Miss Helen Johnson, Mrs. William B. Hunt, Mrs, Toby G. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Arihur Johanne sen,” Mrs. C. N. Currie, Miss Jeanie Currie, Miss Annette Miley, Mrs. Gilbert Whitaker, Miss Nell Couch, Miss Gri Sherry, Mrs. Will- 1am Shew, Miss Rose Packard, Senorita Adela de Galvez, Senorita Victoria Menendez. Senorita P. Hermendez, Miss Eckfeldt; Miss Maud Hall, Miss Lilly Hémme, Miss Eva Bolger, Miss Simonds, Miss Tillfe Miley, Miss Dora'Cohn, and Mrs. H. Lewis. CLUB GATHERINGS, 8t. Andrew’s Society and Whist Clubs En- tertain, The St. Andrew’s Society gave one of its pop- | ular open meetings at Scottisn Hall, 111 Lar- | kin street, on Monday evening, February 17, which was largely attended by members ana | friends, who were very agreeably entertained by the excellent rendition ofi the following | | programme: Violin solo, Wellington Grege; song, “When | Thou Art Here, Love,” Miss Florence Lane; duet, “The Minute Gun at Sea,” Mrs. George Center and Sam Booth; piano solo, “The Deiile March,” Miss Clement; song, “Flora Macdon- ald’s Lament,” W. C. Co song, “Mary of Argyle,” Miss Jessie Finnie; song, * A Sam Booth; musical selections by the Trinity Quintet (Elbert Cowan, Wiliiam H. Bursh, Jaques Harding, Robert C. Reid and Miss Annie M. Reid); duet, “Owert Thou in the Cauld Blast,” Mrs. L. £, Anderson and W, Cook; viol David H. Finnie; musical selections, Trinity | Quintet; “Aald Lang Syne,” James Sullivan, James Scoble, John MeLaren and W. C. Cook. President Andrew Wilkie presided over the meeting, and Mrs. L. S. Anderson pleyed the | piano accompaniments. | The executive council of the Companions | of the Forest of America were most agreeably enteriained by Mrs. Helene Worms at her resi- dence, 707% McAllister street, Sunday aiter- noon.” At12:30 o'clock the guests were ush- ered into the dining-room, where an elaborate menu awaited them. The hours were most pleasantly spent in doing justice to a delicious repast, interspersed with speeches and toasts. Those present were: Mrs. A. B. Andreus, grand chief companion; Mrs. M. A. Duke, grand chief companion; Mrs. J. R.” Himes, grand treasurer; Mrs. 'Emma Harrington, grand irustee; Mrs. M. E. Read, grand trustce; Mrs. Helene Worms, grand inside guard; B. Worms, the Misses Palmyre, Irene and Alice Worms! They regretted very much the enforced ab- sence of Miss Agnes D. Bremer, grand secre- tary, and Mrs. N. Green, grand trustee. The Aloha Whist Club gaye another of its en- joyable theater parties and barquet last even- Among those present were: Mr. Lacy, Mr. 'and Mrs. Keiser, Mrs. McMullin, Colglncl 18, Shourb, Miss Johnson, Mrs. Andreis, Jones, Th. H. H. Andrews and E. Norman, The' final gathering of the Tuesday Whist Club was held at the residence * and Mrs, John Lee Jr., 614 Steiner street, on Tuesday evening last. The following were the successiul contesta : Mr. Scott, first gentle- man’s prize; Mr. Lee, second gentieman’s prize; | Miss Hubbell and Miss S. Lee, second and first ladies’ prizes respectively. A BIRTHDAY PARTY. Miss Nina Boyle Celebrates Her Eleventh Birthday. Miss Nina Boyle entertained a number of her little friends on_Saturday aiternoon, February 15, at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Boyle, 2027 Vallejo street. The occasion of the gathering was Miss Nina’s eleventh birthday and she and her numerous little friends celebrated the day in royal style. Flowers, ferns and palms deco- rated the drawing-rooms, dining-hall and cor- ridor, and the entire house was placed at the disposal of the little guests. Games and music helped to make the time ass pleasantly, the little ones having rare fun n putting the wily heathen, ‘“Little Ah Sid’s” tail in place. For the successful accomplish- ment of this feat prizes were awarded, Miss Maggie Boyle capturing the first prize and Miss Bessie Glover the booby prize. The Misses Maggie and Anita Boyle con- tributed to the enjoyment of the aiternoon by Klaymg & piano duet, and Miss Lillie Boyd and Miss Vola Simon contributed several” vocal s0l0s. At 3:30 the little ones repaired to the dining- room, where elshorate refreshments were served, aiter which games were continued until 6:30 o’clock. Those present were: the Misses Rita and Marion Fouratt, the Misses Maggie and Anita Boyle, the Misses Inez and Millie Byrne, the Misses Alida and Beth Vail, Miss Viola Simon, Miss Bessie Glover, Miss Edith Byram, Miss Tonv Goldstein, Miss Annie Kahler, Miss Liliie Boyd, Miss Selma Lutticken, Miss Gretta Wat- terman and Miss Nina Boy SURPRISE PARTIES. Pleasant Home Gatherings for Young People and Children, A very enjoyable surprise party was ten- dered to Miss Mabel Benher at her residence, 105 Francisco street, Saturday enening. Miss Ella Hennebey received the guests. A pleas- antevening was spent in games and dancing. At midnight supper was served, and at a late hour in the morping the party broke up. Among those invited were: Miss Lillie Hune- man, Miss Emma Schober, Miss Agnes Henne- bey, Miss Rose Nage!, Miss Sophie Schober, Miss Bessie Dixon, Miss Ida Henschin, Miss Jennie Sellery, Miss Louise Dagneau, Miss Lucy Dagneau, Miss Bertie Day, Miss Jennie Clark, Bertie Devon, Percy Henshew. Emile Anderson, Fred Taff, Henry Low, Joseph Dag- neau, Eddie Adams, Robert Aspen, Daniel Cavanagh, Thomas Homeberg and George Benfrer. Miss Maggie Sporvart was tendered a most delightful surprise party on last Baturday evening at her residence, 713 Bush streot, in honor of her birthday and also her near de- parture for & vacation to Vancouver Island. The evening was spent most delightfully in dancing, singing and_games, which was kept up until 11 o'clock, when all assembled in the dining-room to do justice to the feast spread before them. The m#in feature of the evening was the electrified cake. A battery was attached to the birthday cake and when the young lady cut the cake she got an electric shock, much to the amusement of the guests. After the repast the suests assembled in the parlors and resumed their dancing and games, which were kept up until daybreak, when all dispersed. The music was furnisbed by Walter E. West and W. MeKillip. Mme. von Lindemann fur- nished choice selections on the piano. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. David Sporvart Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gale, Mr. and Mrs. Dayid Sporvart Jr., Mr. and Mrs, Walter Hanfey, Mr. and Mrs. John J. !lurpllf, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Rosa, Miss Maggle Sporvart, Mme. von Lindemann, Miss Hannah Kelly, Miss Anna Rosa, Miss Mollie Quigley, Miss Lizzie Quigley, Miss Jennie Ramsey, Miss Lizzie Ramsey, Miss Kute Hartford and many others, Mrs. given M. E. Berry of 138 Gough street was asurprise party on her birthday, Febru- a1y 14, by about_twenty-five of her friends. The evening closed with an elegantly appointed supper served at tete-a-tete tables. The guests Were: Mr. and Mrs. John Fenton, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell, Mr. and Mrs. McFee, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, Mr. and Mrs. J. Williston, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Larimer, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Holcomb, Mr. and Mrs. W, McAllister, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Dooley, Mrs. Floy Urquhart, Mrs. Fanny Igo, Mr. and Mrs. R. Berry. A surprise party was tendered to Miss May Finley by her parents at her residence, 811 Minnesota street, Potrero, on Thursday even- ing, February 13.” A very enjoyable evening was spent. The ladies and gentlemen present Were: Misses M. Daly, A. Daly, L. Finley, L. McDermott, C. Mine, M. Finley: Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Finley, Mrs. M. McCann, Mrs. L. Christen- sen; Messrs. D. Cronin, J. Sheehan, E. 0'Don- nell, J. Keegan, J. Cronin, Stewart, J. Pugh, R. Puck, J. Daly, J. Keefe, ¥. Barron, H. Finley, Mr. Finley. A surprise hop was given to George Robert Smith last Wednesday evening by his fellow medical students, after which refreshments were served. Toasts were delivered and an- swered. Dr. Smith gaye a very pointed lecture on Q'The evils of eating onions on Saturday night.” ast Saturday evening, February 15, a few of the many friends of Master Charles Spinks tendered him a surprise party at the residence of his parents, 1527 Leavenworth street. The guests essembled at the house while Master Spinks was out visiting a friend. Upon his re- turn he was greatly amazed to see so_many of his associates and schoolmates ready to sur- prisehim. Games and singing were indulged in till midnight, when all present adjourned to the conservatory, where an elegant iable ar- ranged by the Misses Murray was in_ readiness and & bountiful repast was indulged in. Among those present were: Miss Tessa Rust, Miss Violet Spinks, Miss Addle Wrede, Miss Alice Kenny, Miss Aggie McAuliffe, Miss Lucy Hartnett, Miss Grace Kenny, Miss Maggie Hartnett, Miss Dollie McAul Miss Pemp- ridge, Miss Kenny, Miss Lucy Murray, Miss Hattie Murray, Miss Kathryn Nolan, Miss Margarette Miloglav, Miss Kittie Murray, Miss garah Murray, Gharles Spinks, Jimzie Rochs, Waltie Horton, Hazelton Scott, Guthrie Scott, Ssmmie Hartnett, Johny Lombard, George Guun, John Curtis, Willie McKune, Richard Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Spin Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stabens were the re. cipients of a pleasant surprise party tendered them by the Club of Eleven on the occasion of the first anniversary of their wedding. The happy couple were taken by surprise end the evening was enjoyably srent in dancing and vocal and instrumental selections. Credit is due to Miss Flora Green, Jacob Nathan and Mrs. Reuben Cohn for the efficient manner in Wwhich they made the arrangements. AT CORONADO, A Week of Festivities at This Popular Re- sort. A lively round of sports filled the week at Coronado. Teunis, polo, sailing, driving, shooting, races, chases, Visits to the warships, army and nayy drills, hops and dinner parties were & few of the host of diversions outlined for just six days of winter “idleness.” Lieutenant C. L. Collins, U. §. A., who is at Coronado with his wife, is director of the tennis tournaments which take place daily on the hotel court. Lieutenant Harry R. Lee, U. S. A., Mrs. Lee and Lieutenant-Commander Wadham of the Monterey and Mrs. Wadham are making their head auarters at Coronado. Mrs, Lester A. Beardslee and Mrs. George N. Stoney, representing Hotel del Coronado, with Mrs. Jesse Grant of San Diego, assisted Mrs. Charles Nordhoff in receiving at the pretty re- ception she gave last week in compliment to Admiral Beardslee and party. Tke attractive home on Tolita avenue was toronged with be- tween 100 and 200 people, including several prominent in San Francisco, paving their respects to the noted host and nostess and their guests of honor. A novel entertainment, which will be a children’s piano_ benefit, is to take place next week in the Hotel del Coronado ballroom. An intricate figure march in costume, a mamual of arms drill with wands and living pictures are being rehearsed by the happy young folks Last week's chase was ome of the most spirited that ever went out to capture rabbits. E. S. Babcock was master of hounds, a1 there was a large followiug of ladies and gentlemen, both mounted and in carriages. IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Social Clubs Arnounce Entertainments, Re- ceptions and Dances. On next Saturday evening, February 29,a complimentary benefit will be tendered to James E.Donshue at B'nai B'rith Hall, 121 Eddy street. Mr. Donahue has for the past three years appeared at charitable and other functions, both as a barytone vocalist and whistling solofst. This benefit is given by his many friends es a recognition of past favors, A good programme will be presented, to con- clude with a grand ball. Captain L.Siebe has issued invitations for the opening picnic at Shell Mound Pars, Sun- day, March 18. There will be_a concert from 10°A. M. to 12 . and dancing from 1 to 6:15 F. . tanford Parlor will give its tenth anniver- sary party on Friday evening, February 21, at tive Sons’ Hall, Mason street, between Geary and Post. The third concert of the nineteenth season of the Loring Club will be given in Odd Fel- lows' Hall on Thursdag evening, the 27th inst., when, judging from the present demand for tickets, the likelihood is that the audience will prove equally large to those of the two former concerts of this season, when the hall was filled to overflowing. The artistic success of these last two concerts was complete and seems to have inspired the club to still greater effort. The programme of this concert includes some very strong male voice choral numbers, and additional interest is glven to it by the fact that Miss Ardella Mills will appear as soloist. The club has also en- gaged the services of B. Mollenhauer, violinist, and is always to be congratulated upon having such an able accompanist as Mrs. Carmichael- Cerr. D. P. Hughes, the director of the club, will conduct. The Golden Gates will give their fourteenth porty at California Hall, ‘620 Bush street, on hursday evening, February 20. The Verdi Cotillon Club gives its fourteenth perty at Union Square Hallon Friday, Febru- ary 28. PERSONAL NOTES. Mrs. Will Tevis has returned after an ex- tended stay at her place at Bakersfield. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Minor are located at the Colonial, corner of Pine and Jones streets. Mr. and Mrs. 8, Morely Jackson, who are visiting Mrs. Jackson’s parents, Dr. and Mrs, Williams, leave by steamer on Saturday next for their home in Tacoma. Solomon Hirsch, ex-Minister to Turkey, and his daughter, Miss Eila Hirsch, who have been visiting friends in this City, returned yester- day to their home in Portland, Or. Mrs. Theodore Lunstedt is the guest of Mrs, F. Jellison at Fair View farmin Oakville, a County. 3 rs. Judge Cornish of 8t Paul, Minn,, is visitng her sister, Mrs. Paris Kilburn, at 1117 Taylor street. Mrs, J. E. Goody has arrived from Southern Califorma and is sufilping with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, George H. Lee, 625 Golden Gatg avenue. Carrie Roma, formerly a Tivoli prima donna, arrived home from New York Sunday, called to California by her mother’s serious illness, Miss Roma has canceled all Eastern engage. ments and will remain here & few months. Mr. and Mrs. Rothchild have returned from thelr visit to Portland, Or. Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Seymour of San Francisco returned to town from Los Angeles the first of this week and are nguln at_their apartment suite in the Baldwin Hotel. The heated term that prevailed around about the southern sec- tion of our State deterred them from visitin NewiOrleans to ses the Mardi Gras carniyal ther, fearing to meet a hot spell along the line to the Gulf City. Mrs. Susenna Seymour is an hospitable hostess and entertained at luncheon soon after her arrival hither Signor sSanchez, from Santa Ana. IT WAS HIS FATHER. Mrs. Elizabeth Geralde Denies That Her Son Ts an Ex-Convict. Mrs. Elizabeth Geralde indignantly de- nies the charze made by her son-in-law, Fred Bray, that she keeps a disorderly house. The daughter, whom ‘Bray ac- cuses of being a dissolute woman, Mrs. Geralde states, has worked in a factory for nearly ten years, has led an Lonest life and, with her brother, been the chief sup- ort of her mother. Mrs. Geralde further enies emphatically that her son, whom she describes as a good, hard-working boy, is an ex-convict. She makes the counter charge—and supports it with official-look- ing documents—that Bray’s father served aterm in San Quentin in 1868, and that his uncle, August J. Reboul, served two terms in a military prison in 1877, and was dishonorably discharged. The controversy about pedigrees was brought about through the father’s desire to place their daughter, Hazel, in charge of the Sociery for the Prevention of Cruelty Sporyart, Miss Mabel Sporvart, Miss Mamie to Children, BAB ON LATE GIRL FADS, They All Now Belong to the School of Vingtieme Siecle. FIRST STEP IS NATURALNESS. The Next Progression Is to Marry a Man Ten Years their Junior. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1896.— If you want to be fashionable just now you must be an optimist. Everything that we connect with the word fin de siecle is out of form, and anybody who is anybody says that one is vingtieme siecle. You wouldn’t think the change in words would make so much difference, but it does. The fin de siecle girl was given over to many bad habits—cigarette-smoking, lolling about in teagowns and darkened rooms, mooning over erotic poets or ana- lytical novels, arid, in fact, belonging to the school of Aubrey Beardsley, who is cleverly enough making money at fooling the world. And up to its bent. By the by, Mr. Beardsley has just added to his fame—is it fame or notoriety ? —by painting a picture of the “Virgin and Child,” and his conception of the Holy Mother shows her 1n a hooped gown of red velvet, looped with pink roses. And London laughs, bat still it buys his books. He has just announced that the woman who is most exquisitely shaped, oras he uts it, “divinely tall,”’ should measure rom the hip to the bend of the knee twenty-two inches, and from the knee to the heel twenty-two inches. Curiosity Jed me to measure a friend who is of medium_ height, with the result that she measured from the hip to the bend of the knee twenty-three inches, and from the bend of the knee to the heel eighteen inches. Mr. Beardsley’s measure- ments probably cause him to be so im- mensely off in his drawings. About his color can say nothing, but-I shonld think he needed to be ireated as the Howling Swell said his uncle was, that is, “You see, dear boy, he did not know red from black, but he went to a Johnny doc- tor, paid his fee, and now he can see as well as anybody.” That?is what is.needed for the Beardsley school to go to a Johnny doctor and get 1ts seeing apparatus straightened so that their women w.ll not look like rcund bathtubs put on clothes- poles and topped with a tea cup and sau- cer. But to return to the girls, The fin de siecle girl liked to talk about death, about its joys, about the painful pleasures of life, and she changed her religion quite as often as she did her washerwoman, in her efforts to zet one fiited to her poor little soul. Such a miserable little soul! It has been haggled over, put out on exhibition, its possibilities discussed by long-haired men and short-haired women until, absolutely, I doubt its being worth dedicating to any- thing., All the women who knew nothing talked about the daughter of the unknown. And all the wise women stood off and wondered if, when Congress was over, the fool-killer would come around. But we have changed all that. The girl thatis vingtieme siecle must, first of all, be natural. She eats well, she enjoys her- self heartily and she finds an immense pleasure in telling the truth. Sometimes she embarrasses you with her great truthfulness. She is rich in opwnions about bonnets, about books, about babies, about pictures and about men. She is particularly fond of announcing her age. She atronizes the _youth of 20, whose father has allowed him to go out alone in his first dress-clothes, by saying to him: *“Now, my dear boy, I am ages older than you—I am quite 28—old enough to be your mother! Let me introduce you to that nice little blond, Miss Giddy, who is just 17, and you two lovely young things can have a beautiful time together.” That wasn’t what he came for. Under his breath he wishes that Giddy girl was in heaven, and he tells Miss Theodora Truth that he would much rather stay with her. Of course, she expected this, but still, when he has acted like a goose and proposed to her, she is able to say to the women of his family: ‘I never tried to get him; I told him that I was older than he was; I said I could be a mother, but not a sweetheart, to him, ana I offered to introduce him to no end of pretty girls. But he would hang about me.” She of the vingtieme siecle may tell the truth, but the truth, dressed or in its nudity, is as dangerous to handle as nitro- glycerine. What is the consequence? You pick up your morning paper and you say: “‘Gracious goodness! Paul Smith, that boy of Kitty's, has married one of those Fornace girls. Why, she is at least ten years older than he 1s.”’ The answer, a little languidly spoken, is: “Oh, my dear, it is getting to be such an old story for men to marry women older than they are. The son of the richest man in the world is desperately in love with a young lady who, if we used the horrid old terms we used to, would be called an old maid, and I don’t think he is 21, Then the famous divorcee ; married a man younger than herself by some- thing Jike eight years, and, personally, I think that the idea has gou into the heads of the Johnnies that they can save themselves muneg and time by marry- ing the woman who has had the experi- ence which is unknown to them. and who would, in view of their youth, be less selfish than a young girl, and so would maie the man’s happiness the first con- sideration.” I listened with a bit of sur- grise. because I had not credited the ohnnies with so much bram, but is it a rabbit, or which small beast, that has al- niost as much brain as a man? If the girl of the vingtieme siecle is writing a book, and, of course, she makes some mis- takes, itis on the subject of ‘“‘How to en- joy vourself twenty-three hours out of twenty-four.”” And if she has been led astray and induced to write a play that will cause the curtain to go up at least once, you can be pretty certain that the story involved is one of true love, and all the people in it are good and are having a zomr time. The villain is never anything ‘worse than the cook; but then a bad cook is a villain whose ways are secret and in- tense. Just at present the girl of the twentieth century is saying to herself, “Why should 1 spend my doliars, zood American dollars, earned by a jolly, good, generous American man, on an [talian woman who says she despises this country ?”’ Oh, my dear girl, 1 do hope you and every other woman in this country will say to yourself: “Not a dollar shall that woman get from me.’* It is an insult, you know, to our brains, for an actress to say ‘I despise America.” (By the by, she did not say it to me, but she is quoied by the best newspapers as having said it.) ! £ If her hatred for America is so intense, she had better extend ner dislike to Amer- ican dollars and remain in Italy, where she will probnblfi find greater appreciation, but where she will certainly make less money. Have a bitof courage and tell the truth. Unless you understand French or Italian very well, what is the use of pay- ing $3 or $3 50 to listen toa woman talk in the tongue unknown to you? Take the case of Sarah Bernhardt. The papers can write all they want about her retaining her good looks. She does’look better, but—it is because she is fat. She objected always to stays, and the result is that when she wears a frock that fits her like a glove, she man- ages to achieve a series.of curves that may be feminine and are_ elderly, but they are certainly not beautiful, We are greatly given to talking what I call the tommy Tot of the day, “That is slang, I know, but some slang is classical. I would be willing to bet that three- quarters of the audience who go to see Sarah or Duse do not understand one word either of them says. Mme. Bernhardt speaks beautiful French, but she speaks very rapidly, and one has to listen keenly to get each v ord and the full value of each word. I consider her a great actress, but— simply because Mrs. Millionaire, who be- longs to two or three French classes, and who likes to make you think she is a fine linguist, pays her money and goes and laughs and cries at the proper points, why shou!d you take your $3 and trot to a mat- inee simply because it is done by her! Possibly you know the story becguse you saw Fanny Davenport play 1t, or else be- cause you have heard Calve sing it, and then you talk about the perfect emotion of Bernhardt or Duse, and how one did not need to understand the words, their art and their soulfulness making the story in- telligible. Bosh. Or, perhaps, you have a smattering of the language. In tbat case you weep or laugh when it isdesirable, and you tell your friends how sorry you feel for them 1n their ignorance. This nonsense about the art and the soul telling the story 1s another bit of tommy rot. With a picture it is different. Tt tells one episode in a life, not the story of a lifetime. How in the mischief are you to know whether the curl on a French- man’s forehead means that be is in the depths of despair, or that he is joyful be- cause he is going to run away with his friend’s wife that night? 3 " When Sarah rustles her petticoats you listen to the frou-frou and say, “She looks as if her soul were go- ing from her, .and escaping to an- other and a better world.” = Whereas she shakes it so vou may realize that it is silk. 1If she raises one arm in the air and droops her head, you whisper that that is concealed love! And then if she folds her arms, you hintat it meaning a mur- derous, passionate love that wouldn’t hesi- tate at killing an audience. Go to see Sarah all you want if you_enjoy her—for- tunately her repertoire is composed of vlays that are well known here, inasmuch as they were presented by Miss Davenport with a better company, better clothes and a decidedly better stage-setting than any French company ever gave, but don’t buy even an admission ticket to see Duse. Give her a chance to appreciate what Amer- ica can do when a woman insults it by pro- nouncing her distike publiely. the giving of a pair of stays, which haa been general, was no longer in vogue. For the last four years when a missionary was shy on souls he presented a pair of corsets toa lady from the happy land of Ma-ha-to-la-ni, after she announced her willingness to join the sact he repre- sented; she insfantly retired to assume the stays, which she put on over the “altogether,” but during the assumption she required two of the strongest warriors | in camp to pull the strings. 1 have always longed for a picture of the simple soul, yearning for civilization as expressed by stays, when she paraded the camp with a warrior on each side of ber, the stays en- circling her person, a hymn book in her hand and an apoplectic color in her face. Now. the gentle missionary offers pow- der and rouge. The heathen lady read the bock on culture, at least some of the mis- sionary family read it to-her, and she de- clined to give her soul for a pair of stays, remarking, ‘‘No take stays; no able to wriggle!’ But she eagerly grasps the powder and rouge, and looks almost as does the fashionable girl who ¢ ‘ntr}buteid to the collection, and pnts her faith in missionaries and make-ups. X A woman needs a lot of things besides those in the bottles and boxes on her dressing case. At this present period, when the openings are to the fore, she is | certain that she neeas a new bonnet. She always needs a bunch of violets, a box of sweets, and all the agreeable things that the brain of man can invent and the tongue of man can speak. She needs information about the Monroe doctrine; she thinks jt has something to do with baptism by immersion or sprink- ling, and she also needs to know why, when messenger service is cheaper than it used to be, orris powder is justas ex- pensive. g She needs to learn to smile and caress, and even to kiss, when a tired man doesn’t | remember that dressmakers want tneir bills settled within a month. She needs to be a little bit more careful about the things she says: the tongue is & divine organ, but the devil often plays upon it. pShe needs to improve her manners, to lower her voice, to laugh rather than to Eigg!e& and to learn to speak English un- efiled. 3 She needs to do so mang things, poor soul, and she wants so many things. But Perhaps my opinion in regard to Duse and her acting is worthless, but I give you my word, dreadful as it sounds, I should have had a much better time if I had spent that afternoon with “Chimmie Fad- den.” and I would have been in a dollar and a half. Tam perfectly willing to ac- | knowiedge her greatness, if it will please anybody, but she isdreadfully tiresome, and though the critics are given to talking about her congealed emotion and great sorrow, she looks to me as if her liver were not quite right, and I could not but wonder what early spring medicine would be adapted to her, and whether, since she goes 1n so strongly for realism, it would be proper to send her a bottle of “Doctor Dinkey’s Drivelling Drink’’ instead of roses. Flowers fade, but the liver and its medicines are always with her. Bother! let’s be truthful and seek in the theater what we enjoy and what we understand. | I want an evening that makes me feel, when I get home, as if I had had a good time, and not one wher= I have to strain ears and eyes to catch a little of the strange language, and grow weary during the long waits. There are plenty people who will say, “Bab is stupid, we under- | stand French.” All right; go to the French play then whenever you wish to. But I am perfectly certain that not three- uarters of the average American au- saying. By the by, the girl of the twentieth cen- | tury is tilting her hat down, down, down over her eyes until it _nearly touches her nose, and looks, well. I must confess, if it is the right shape hat, that it looks ex- tremely coquettish. The new springtime hats_are coquettish and she of the sum- | ‘mertime will be quite as pretty as a pict- ure when she puts them on. Iam told by people interesied in missionary work that | with one church collection went a book on | you physical culture to the missionary, so that | months .on the Stirabout.’”’ to gain a convert, after reading this book, | accordingly.—Spare Moment: I think she will get them since sheisa oman, and an American. I tell you that something to be proud of, for even at- the north pole there is a_society that has for its leader an American woman, And, go where you will, she has been before you. Sometimes she is too rapid a walker—she arrives too soon. The thing to learn, after all, is the value of medioc- rity—perhaps you think that has_been achieved by Bas. It is strange when but one pair of eyes is all a person is allowed on thisearth that so little care is taken of them. There are all sorts and conditions of prohibitory rules floating about to no puypose, but here are half a score which are insisted on by a leading oculist: Don’t read in railway trains or in vehicles in_motion. Don’t read lying down or in & constrained position. Don’t read by firelight, moonlight or twi- light. ; Don’t read by flickering gaslight or candle- light. Don’t read books printed on thin paper.. Don’t read books which have no appreciable $pace between the lines. Don't read for more than fifty minutes with- v 4 T | out stopping, whether the eyes are tired or not. ience, outside of New Orlesns, under- | stand what these strange goddesses are | Don’t hold the reading close to the eyes. Don’t study at night, but in the morning when the eyes are fresh. Don’t select your own glasses at the outset. - It Was Something New. Magistrate (to prisoner): * You are charged with loitering. 'What is your | name?” Prisoner: “Johnny Walkabout.” “What do you do for a living?" | *“Runabout.” . “Well,” said the magistrate, “to give a change, your sentence is three Transferred NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. %fi/d%y, e L7 o 107=109 POST sSsTREET, 1220=1222.1224 MARKET STREET. —They— That Once to trade w again. our store Come ith us come often Novelties are first seen in We do not buy in- ferior qualities. We sell the bestonly as cheap as the oftentimes cheaper than best can be sold. inferior qualities are sold for elsewhere. Here are a few real BARGAINS IN SPRING NOVELTIES. Prices like these show us to be the truest bar= ain-givers in town. hese are all New Weaves, strictly re- liable in every way. Market-st. store only for Dress Goods. 1896 Dress Goods. $2.00 Full pattern of GRANITE CHEVIOT, & spring designs, tans, grays, browns, Suit, Davys,ete., made of wool and mohair. * Would be cheap at $3. Full_pattern of FANCY MOHATR $2.75 B i ninn od eeets, arge Suit, range of new coloriugs, serviceable, stylish. A bargain at $4. $3.50 Full pattern of NOVELTY CHEVRON oS SUITING, warraned all wosl, new . spring colorings, checks, diagonal SUIL.. e ol $5 8 sait not too much’ for these. $7.50 Full patterns of SICILTAN NOVEL- ? TIES OR FIGURED MOHATIRS IN Suit., BLACK, wool and mohair only, hest fast black, latest weaves and newest designs. price. Exceptional value at the The stocks grow lagger every day now. The coliection includes every new idea in silk- 1896 Dress weaving. The $1 25 Silks. Warp Printed Taffetas - are the talk of the town. Both stores for Dress. Silks. $1.00 NEW BLACK BROCADES, opened - last week, 22 inones wide, designs Yard, sbown in the West for first time, heavy, durable, best Three grades—$l, $1 15 and $1 25 a yard. WARP PRINT SILKS, in Dresdes 75¢ Chiine and Persian effects, eventng cot ors, season's highest novelties. Two Yard. grades—75c and $1 the yard, A few ‘ ,l;lx‘a‘lc: of the $2 grade at $1 25 still re- Market-st, store only’ for Table Linens and Some Towels, ‘There will be 5 risk selling there this Linen week if prices like these mean anything to econ= Chances. oGt 40c GERMAN TABLE LINEN, pure linen, soft-finished, silver white, 64 inches Yard. ide. newest designs. A grade that formerly sold at 50¢ a yard. DAMASK TABLE NAPKINS, 54 75¢ < size, very handsome patterns. Threa Dozen. srades have been reduced 33 in price— now 75¢, §1 and $1 50 dozen. DAMASK TABLE NAPKINS, full f)l 25 designs.” A good valut lmbe-‘ . Vers special ac $1 25 dozen. Sl O B Eraics 3176, 83, 2 50 Aud $6. 25¢ GERMAN DAMASK TOWELS, 20x 40 inches. knotted fringe, colored or Each. 'xvlhlv.o borders, open worked. Worth o. L Curtains, Portieres and Il Draperies at bot ace 5 We re- Curtain A of Specials. o “ae “Postosirent establishment. Sc NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, 3 7 yards by 48 inchies, ecru or white, Very Pair., aesi 5Nu patterns. Instead of $1 we say 75¢ pair. 814 yards by 54 inches, were $2, now $1 50, 4 yards bv 56 inches, were £3, now $2. IRISH POINT CURTAINS, 100 pairs $2.00 hat have been slightly dlmfig»d Pair. In stamping the pattern, marks can only be seen on ciose inspection, 3 rds lonz and worth $3 50 a pair. nly 100 pairs, so come at once. WA pair. erfect in_every way, , §3 50, 84 and $5 &