The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1904, Page 20

~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, MARCH 13 N b s s th those not of the orthodox giving of a luncheon, a card ad r in Lent'is no attack citadel of their consclence, hence macy. But a§ to weddings, be merely eivil ceremonies. of chureh people must consuit law—which frowns strong:y cbration of nuptials during days of sackeloth and ashes forbearance of the hosts till the dawn of Easter, when the church but nature fis with joy and benedictions. avalanche of Easter brides— there are grooms, too. Bessie Center ion on Tues- tance of a the vener- “anterbury, under performed the ng assidu- importunate us the ng of Miss Steen in I wher er instance—nearer home—will he nuptials of Miss Belle Coulter John Posey of Los Angeles, both ell knowr the San Francisco smart set, whos: riage is set for next week Irs Oliver F Posey—that’s an t sey, isn’t it?— iherents of the =outhern city h disconcerted of the wedding, ludes such elab- T T -— THREE YOUNG WOMEN PROMINENT IN SOCIETY. oration as she would devoutly admire at nuptials of her But being Lent, and the young folk in- . a quiet wedding is anticipated mpromise measure weddings are not all of life. There are a few other relaxations for the devoted son ha ady committed the ny—luncheons, dinners here was the plece de re- sistance—the Mi-Careme at Blingum, with Mrs. Carolan and Mrs. Andrew McCreery hos! And last—and perhaps sweetest—are the functions on the cards in the fra- grant name of charity—the circus and horse show of the Doctor’s Daughters, on March 25 the Riding Academy at the park; the Indian pow-wow at the Jackson-street residence of Mrs. George Law Smith, on the 18th and 19th, for the benefit of the Animals’ Refuge; the cafd party at Native Sons’ Hall for the benefit of the Nursery for Homeless children, and—but this barely escapes the Lenten hour—the garden party of Miss Mollie Phelan for the benefit of the St. Ignatius Girls’ Training Home. e The following is a brief roster of the leafling affaire of the week, the Mi- Careme towering mightily over its fellows Monday—Mrs. Joseph Chancellor en- tertained Mr. and Mrs. Meclntosh of Chicago at dinner at the Palace; Mrs. McAneny, hostess at a dinner at the Palace. Tuesday—Mrs. Walter Martin enter- tained at luncheon in the palm garden: Mrs. John Charles Adams, hostess at Juncheon at her home in Oakiand. Wednesday—Wedding of Miss Elsie Smith and Thomas H. Storke. Thursday—Mi-Careme at Burlingame Clubhouse; Mrs. 1. 8. Lewis’ card party i < at the Palace; Mre. John E. Medau's tea in honor of Miss Henrietta Moffat. Friday — Lancheon given by Miss Helen Bowie in honor of Miss Frances Harris; reception at the Sketch Club; Mrs. McAneny's dinner at the Palace. Saturday—Miss Jane Wilshire's card Mrs, Albert Woodburn Scott, * afternoon; Mrs. R. G. Han- Silver Slipper” party. L ford's It takes no Tennyson to hear the jingle of the wedding bells of the glad- some Easter hour. Herewith are a few of the imminent affairs: Miss Frances Harris and Ernest Albert Stent, April 6. And on the same date Miss Ethel Kent and Lieutenant Gilbert Allen, U. 8. A, will be wedded in Grace Church. It will be an evening affair, with all the eclat of an evening func- tion—for who will deny that daylight weddings with all their accompanying fripperies is tawdry? They certainly lack atmosphere—but secretly, me- thinks what they most lack is shadow and the kindly light of commerce. Heavings! What a wrench, a splotch on the nose of a fair bride or freckles on the brow of her maid give one, revealed under the hateful light of day. And those are mere trifles under gas- light—and with the divine aid of the masseuse, who knows how. Therefore, let us have more night weddings, since we are growing to be more and more an artistic people. Be- sides; even the guests look better. On April 4 Miss Eleanor Eckart, caughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bckart, will become the bride of Ed- ward Hume, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hume of Piedmont. The wedding is to be rather an elah- orate affair. Miss. Georgie Spieker and Miss Mabel Donaldson : serving as 3 bridesmaids and Mrs, Benjamin Thomas as matron of honor. On the same day Miss Kathro Bur- ton, youngest daughter of General and Mrs. Burton, will be wedded in Wash- ington, D. C., to Lieutenant George Lee, son of General Fitzhugh Lee. Who is there among the Presidio Lochinvars who does not remember chic, coquettish little Kathro Burton? And there aré a few "sighing swains among the townsfolk who remember well the dark depths of her violet eyes. Miss Pearl Sabin will officiate as bridesmaid—likewise the stunning sis- ter of the groom, Miss F. Lee. while Mrs. Wells, sister. of the bride, will serve as matron of honor. As Mr. Lee is an exponent of the cavalry, the color scheme of the wed- ding will be yellow—gowns, flowers and all the trappings that go to make-a fashionable wedding. 5w 4 ¥, Likewise will the nuptials of Miss May Burdge and Bernard Miller occur during the same glad month at Arbor Villa in Oakland. This fair bride is to be supported by eight .equally fair maids. What a bewildering picture they will make! Miss Burdge has se- lected the following young ladies to see her safely into the hands of her future protector: Miss Grace Sperry, Miss Florence Nightingale, Miss Mary Bar- ker, Miss Evelyn Ellis, Miss Florence ‘White, Miss Marion Goodfellow, Miss Carolyn Oliver and Miss May Coogan. The groom will be supported by Clay Gooding—but doesn’t the support seem inadequate in contrast to that of the bride? Do you think the custom will ever arrive wherein the groom may have six or eight friends at his back to brace him up? If the bride has the privilege, why not the groom? ‘Well, here’s to the groom—and his one attendant. Likewise to the pretty bride and her-eight! o u e There is a distinct picture in my mind of a recent noon wedding—than which nothing could have been more carefully planned as to elegance of detail, both as to gowning of the bridal party and decorations, but alas! for the dinginess of the limp c}flflon, the white coats and the white frou-frous of the assembled guests? Having done duty for a heavy season of functions, they were distinctly not the proper 7 caper for a daylight wedding. . On Saturday, the 9th of next month, the Phelan grounds on Valencia street will hold a gay and festive gathering on charity—or curiosity—bent, when a fete will be on, with booths, grab bags and fish ponds—for the benefit of St. Ignatius Training School. This splen- did institution is situated at 406 Eighth street, near Harrison, where 200 girls are instructed in the arts of cookery, sewing and general housewifery. The funds sought to be raised are to perpet- uate this scheme for an evolution of the gerving-maid question—quite as se- rious as any of the sociological ques- tions of the day—likewise to prepare girls for usefulness in their parental or their future homes as neat and thrifty homemalkers. The fete is in the hands of Mrs. L. W. Kinstry, president of the Training School; Miss Mellis, vice president; Miss Alice Hager, principal; Miss Alice Butler, treasurer; Miss Douglass, sec- retary; the directors are Miss Grace Buckley, Miss Charlotte Moulder, Miss Grace”Martin, Mrs. Walter Dean, Miss Peyton, Miss Ada Sullivan, Miss Co- vode, Miss Frances McKinstry, Misses Cabrera, Miss Ruth Allen, Miss Beth Allen, Miss Helen de Young, Mrs. Bo- wie-Detrick, Mrs. Harriet Barnett and Miss Dottie Collfer. . v e The Ralph Harts are among the most interesting of the recent intrepid in- vaders of the matrimonial elysium. Their nuptlals last week were without display, being witnessed only by mem- bers of the bride’s family. Mr. Hart is a Chicago man—which Is the only grudge soclety has against him, as he is strongly suspected of planning to carry away his bride to the Windy City. e Syl Mrs. Bruguiere, mere, is contemplat- ing a continental tour next month, and it is said that she will take the Emil Bruguleres with her. The blandish- ments of New York and Newport have quite won: the love of Madam Bru- guiere, and thither she will return— perhaps to make her home. The Pedar Brugieres are living in a sumptuously appointed flat on Va- 1lejo street, blissfully happy in the pos- session of a dear little babe—the pic- ture of his beautiful mother, who was the picturesque Miss Marion Andrews. wita e ‘What family within the scope of our memory has reared within its hosom four such beautiful women as the Voor- hies? There's Miss Marie, who is in Manila as a guest of Governor and Mrs. Luke Wright, Mrs. Guy Scott (who, by the way, became entitled to the proud title of “mamma’ two weeks ago), Mrs. Thomas Porter Bishop and Mrs. J. Malcolm Henry of Washington, D. C.,, who has been as popular in the smart set this winter as a debutante. . e e The Truxtun Beales are soon to visit their beautiful home in the national capital. . e e It's really becoming an affair df se- rious moment—the future intentions of the debonnair Dr. Harry Tevis. Not a word says he of throwing up the sponge and yielding to the blandish- ments of some fair Felice, but rumors are rife and they will not down. And now, as corroborative evidence, the Tevis home is being refurbighed, pillar- ed and otherwise beautified, and really, now, don’t things begin to look suspi- cious? It's distinctly not nice of this otherwise charming bon vivant not to let us in on his little secret—well, be- cause—because Miss Ames is too far away to answer for herself, don't you know. s e . Our democratic country is soon to be honored by the return to its shores of the erstwhile queen’s alternate in In- dia, Lady Curzon, who at the present moment is lapped in the luxury of London. With her is her daring and pretty sister, Daisy Leiter, with both en route to Washington, D. C. That the national capitalites will welcome their compatriots back to their native soil {8 a foregone conclusion— for just see how near, how very near, Lady Mary came to being the real thing in the way of royalty. But list ye, merry welcomers! Beware that ye pronounce not the vulgarian word “vicereine” as the feminine construc- tion for Viceroy, for there is no femin- ine correlative to Viceroy—save “wife of the Viceroy.” She’s just plain Lady Mary—but the handsomest woman that ever rode a white elephant in the streets of beautiful Bombay. What inflammatory ldeas she must possess after having figured as “lead- ing lady” in the Durbar—said to be the most gorgeous spectacle witnessed in modern . times—where pearls. dia- monds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and all the mineral flowers of the earth figured by the peck! A ‘What d'ye think Ulysses 8. Grant would say if he were summoned to at- tend the council of the Grant Family Association held last week in New York? Jesse Grant and Miss Grant went on from San Diego to the national conclave of Grants, finding on their arrival sixty of the kinsmen. The pro- jectors of this valuable body. aver that there are 12,000 descendants of Matthew and Priscilla Grant, who were the founders of the family in America. & St Has it occurred to you to ponder upon what San Francisco would do with “Parsifal” if put on here in its entirety as it has . been in New York at the Metropolitan? The performance is parted in the middle—beginning at 2 or 2:30 and lasting till 6; then resum- ing where the break began and play- ing on till 11. Now, doesn’t that strike you as work? However, those friends who have heard it say that the sub- limity of the opera awes one into for- getting self, time, dinner and all other grosser things, and that applause is wholly unknown—that sounds of ap- proval would be as fit in a cathedral. Do you think we of the West have ar- rived at that stage of civilization? Perhaps the Twentieth Century Club might save us from eternal condemna- tion. However, we are eminently safe, for Heinrich Conried is too sane a di- rector to spring such a stupendoua work upon us just yet, albeit strange things have happened out here in the West. e aie Of the circus and horse show of the Doctor’s: Daughters on the 25th trick riding is to be a feature. Just watch pretty Miss Hogg do her tandem stunt. There isn’'t a day—save that roof- raising day—that the horsewomen haven't been seen on the road with their handsome mounts. Miss Florence Callaghan is one of the clever women who know a good horse when they see one—she who is to be the bride of Vincent de Laveaga. On Friday and Saturday, during the afternoons and evenings of March 18 and 19, Mrs. George Law Smith and her daughter, Miss Maude Smith, will open their home at 2226 Jackson street for an Indian tea—the Animals’ Refuge to be the beneficiary. The invitations of birch bark are symbolic of the Indian atmosphere of the function, on which appear in the aboriginal colors an Indian chief and his dog. He thinks, transported to that equal sky, His faithful dog will bear him company All the maids and matrons who will assist Mrs. Smith will wear the gaudy garb of Indian maids—and the men folk will fare forth as Hiawatha, Rain-in-the-Face, Broken Arm, Shot- in-the-Eye, Spotted Face and hosts of other historic scalp-lifters—who will sing, dance, perform the ceremonial rights, practice soothsaying and ex- plain the hidden pcetry in the three hundred rare baskets in Mrs. Smith's collection, likewise the latest mys- teries of one hundred and fifty pipes, itrinkets, ete. That the affair will offer delightful entertainment is assured—for who of us is on a friendly footing with Indian lore? Not many, I fear. Besides, the animals, our dear, devoted dumb friends, will be benefited thereby. - . . Miss Cora Kirk of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. Carolan at her Bur- lingame home. She dtesses smartly, is a good whip and talks well. There are in the Blingum set now daughters of three opulent Chicago- ans—Mrs. Jack Casserly, Mrs. Frank Carolan, who was one of the Pullmans, and pretty Miss Kirk. Would it not be a nice thing for some clever chap to induce Miss Kirk to remain always? Her manners are really charming, and she would make really a delightful addition to the rural smart set. tip. . . . Miss Henrietta Moffat, second daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moffat, is preparing to make a tour of Europe, accompanied by the Misses Bull. Miss Moffat is an exceptionally clever girl, caring but little for the flippancies of society, but enjoying thoroughly the in- tellectual set with which she is identi- fied, and the same is true of her voung- Chappies, here's a_ S — er sister, Miss Emma Moffat, who has recently completed a post-graduate course at the iversity of California. On Thursday Mrs. John Medau was hostess at a tea in homor of the fair wanderer, at which the following ladies assisted in receiving: Mrs. Charles Francis Jackson, Mrs. Alfred Rulofson, Mrs. William R. Cluness Jr., Mrs. Fra chester, Miss Emma Moffat, Miss Rilla Murdock, Miss Marie Bull and Mrs. Herman Hadenfeldt. Miss Pearl Landers is setting the Los Angeles chaps by the ears—and even so, the women folk like her im- mensely. She’s visiting her cousin, Mrs. Jack Johnston, and a merry palr they are. Though keeping up a sem- blance of Lenten circumspection, they are entertaining and being enter- tained. - - - Mrs. Mackay's book is out, and not a single sensation in it save the one that Mrs. Mackay wrote the book. Since a girl she had a predilection for scrib- bling, and when quite young wrote a little book of aphorisms and epigrams which really were not half bad. And, by the way, on her father’s side she comes from a witty and clever race, Lady Kitty Duer, for whom Mrs. Mackay was named, being a noted wit of her day. But the “Stone of Destiny" 1s not a problem book, nor does it pos- sess the elementary base for a novel—it lacks action. It is written in short, didactic sentences, that scarcely belong to that type of work. It is said that the young wife of the millionaire cares but little for society, eschews fiction reading and devotes much time to the twin pursuits of psychology and so- clology. When Mayor Schmitz was visiting in New York Miss Mackay in- vited him to luncheon that he might talk to her of the labor conditions in the West and the condition of the la- barers there. The Mayor was much amazed at the amount of information his hostess already possessed, a#hd on his return to this city he sent her sev- eral books on the subjects interesting her. This courtesy brought forth a most charming little note of acceptance and gratification at the information gained. Thus it will be seen that the young woman is serious minded and practical, and hardly the type of mind to evolve a great imaginative novel. But, good or bad, her example of work is a splen- did one. It establislies a purpose of ltv- ing for members of the dawdling set. But I doubt much that they will take notice, for many of them are insufi- ciently equipped with the brain matter that takes noti Miss Cherry Bender entertained the Browning Club last week at her home on Green street, when a clever little musical programme was offered. Among the members are Mrs. George Oulton, Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Josephine Norris de Greayer, Mrs. Norris—all thoughtful women and clever. Miss Helen de Young is a fearless whip. She handles the ribbons with the dexterity of a Rocky Mountain stage driver, and with about as much temerity. SR et What simple, pretty. frocks Miss Constance de Young wears! And Miss Helen, too, for that matter. For two young women who have at their come mand the gratification of any reason- able whim, they are really surprising. And as for charm and simplicity of manner, would that a few young wo- men of lesser station would take ne- tice. Snobbishness in San Francisco society? Well, not very much of it, but what there is, is where it fits the worst. i ety The announcement of Miss Elizabeth Mills' recovery has brought much pleasure to a host of friends and friends’ friends. & rete William Watson was host at an in- formal bowling party om Thursday evening. His guests were Miss May- lita Pease, Miss Edna Middleton, Lieu- tenant Victor Lewis, U. 8. A., and Mrs. R. H. Pease Jr. . 9 e On Morday evening Miss May Sharon entertained a party of friends at bowi- ing, following the sport by a delightful supper at the Palaf® Hotel. Cherry blossoms, maidenhair ferns and pink blossoms gladdened the round table, from which pink shaded candela- bra shed a roseate glow, Those present were: Opal Pierce, Miss Jean Pedlar, s Jessie Burns, M Ada Clark, Miss Ruth Clark, Mi Line Miss Daisy Lin- coln, Mrs. Edward Moore and Dr. Ni erson Ferece, Dr. Homer Craig, Dr. Robert Burns, Marshall Dill, James Irvine, Thomas Churchill, Horace Stoll, Dr. H. M. Simmons and Frank South- ach.