The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO - CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST Weddings Predicted $o o = - | come to me and asked | on and put them in | Husbands as well as | xious to belong, too. As | have already seen Mr. | , and he says he can take the Palace. It will seem times to be there. He 100x40, and the grill can be used for sup- we never go in until late. nged with him for my November Novem- is birthday anni- on Sunday this year, so ipate a little. I feel sure of a good season for the club. I don't know any out the other clubs, but we are certainly going ahead. The first club dance will be on December 7 and the next on December 21. The latter being so near Christmas will make the occasion all the merrier. “I don’t believe that the times will | effect things very much as regards the appearances. Most of the men saved their clothes or can get others, and, of course, the girls always have things. Just one feature of the Fri- day Nights will be changed, and that the men have insisted upon. They all want earlier hours. There was great complaint of the late hours of begin- ning and closing of last year, and now the men say that there is so much work to be done that they must be fresh for business the next morning. So new rules are to be made as to this, and the hours of the dances {will be from 9 o'clock, which gives . {any one ample time to finish dinner, = 9 | or ought to, until 1 or 2 o'clock. There has been serious deba_te as t.o “Before, it was very hard on the fi AEE $8r Suetr men to hang around the clubs until 11 ion seems to be | ., jclock before going to the 4 a!arm. Py o | dances, but if they went before that . ¥ hm.ng built which | time they found no one there. There will be of sufficient 5‘7f | were not so many dinners given, but | the others knmew that the diners-out Mr. Greenway Hopeful | would be late, and so they, too, wait- E r | the men would in- as om, first date on ber which 4 my ough is the icy Gwin Coleman and h numbers its members Miss Chri Miss Dorot Eel wk winter, that | ces g probabili warming little Several of d or are to no the be longer and others to reorganize . * M. Greenway, who is the |ed. Some of on such matters, has|tend going to the dances, but Friday Nights: {would get discouraged and go “Yes, I am going to have my dances 3hom: instead. I think our dances this year, and I expect to begin, just | will be pretty much _as they as al, with my own birthday dinner | were before except as to the place and dance in November. My reasons {they are given. I think there is for continuing the club are that there | money enough in the community for s so much depression and gloom here | things to go on as if nothing had now that people need some gayety, | happened. i " something to cheer them up, and they ‘ “I can’t say much about the debu- want the dances to go on. People |tantes as yet. At the close of last who have not ~been in the club f(‘lscason this was supposed to be a very | extent have the of Lohengrin and | s CREEN A » AUFDED HUNTER, VOOoRiES — & | o'clock, giving jus big year for debutantes, but now I lost everything, but there are not sui don’t know. I hear of a number of | many of those. San Francisco is not 3 | : gowns thdt are being made, but I|so much worse off, in a way. People also hear that the girls that are East | who had money before have it now or abroad expect to stay away. think, though, that there will be a good many and that, like all Califor- nians, those who are away will want to return. Yes, the social outlook is good, and there will be a great many informal entertainments, I belivee.” * * * Mrs. Voorhies Opinion Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhies, who is so prominent in San Francisco so- ciety, is well known as the leading spirit in the Assemblies and as the | originator as well of the annual Charity Ball for the benefit of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. Voorhies, like Mr. Greenway, is hope- ful for the future of San Francisco society and is able to give a valuable opinion on the subject, having seen just such troublous times, or even worse, for the social world after the war in the South, Mrs. Voorhies says: “There will be no question, I think, as to the Assemblies being again or- ganized, although nothing definite has been arranged as yet. I expect to have a meeting of the ladies inter- ested some time soon to decide the matter. There is no particular hurry, as I do not think there is any im- mediate need for the club yet. I think that people will entertain right along, just about as they did before. ‘Those families who were so wealthy have lost a great deal, to be sure, but they all have large fortunes left, certainly enough to go into society in San Francisco. There are some who have been unfortunate, of course, and have 1] | things are not so very different. or will very soon have it again. “When you look into the matter It was the same after the war. I don't think that conditions change people so very much. Those who did noth- ing before won't now, but the people who loved going out and have always entertained will continue to do so. Environment does influence, but heredity and training can do more. I think this will be much the same as other winters. “There is just as much entertain- ing now as before, but of a different type just at present. There is no Palace or St. Francis to go to for dinners or luncheons, and there are no tneaters, but people do other things. Going to the Chutes is not noted as going to the Columbia was, but it is done just about as much. Din- ners are given and any other form of entertaining that was ever done here during the summer. There will be a few who will drop out, of course, but friendships, which are the real basis of entertaining, are not de- stroyed by earthquake or fire.” e T Mrs. White's Views Mrs. Ynez Shorb White is another society woman qualified to judge as to what society will do and whether it will exist at all this winter, and she looks forward with enthusiasm to the pleasures that are to come. Mss. White has during the past two seasons organized a charming dancing club along rather wnique | | { going to have a great deal of simple are going nk that there - ry reason that is making the only change jn the Greenway dances. Mrs. White's | - e o ) } they danccs‘.. which are known as the }r‘, Jconting: Bome: - So mamy who Fved day .\1gh.t Cotillons, begin at hali- T Dakats Haases &re past 8 o'clock and are over at 1 Raving ties in: fimding as mar pieasure, but ending in tim ness men to get enough rest befc taking up the next day’'s work. !\<V.xr> of | - bidi t sure where I will have my dance >bably . at the It 4 Palace Hotel, if they have a large has been, too, rather more distinc- 3 s e 3 ) ‘ % encugh room. - There will be several tively for ths young people, and has AR d but 1 fewer names of married peopld Palice. be iest its list than either the Greenways or the Assemblies. When asked as to her opinion of the White said: “I certainly think it is very good There are so many reasons why it should be and one of the best is that more men want to go out than I have ever seen before. Every man seems more interested, and I have seen and talked with a good many on the sub- "dances will be ab. tober « Oc- r the first part of November, and the same rules that applied last end of outlook Mrs. year will go on. the debutantes possible to tell and who isa't. 1 I don’t know about yet. It seems im- coming out t believe they and are just happens. be an important of the city this wh do: know thems yet iting to see w e army wi part of the soc ject. The men say that they need r. 1 think e are to be'a reaction after the gloom and worry | ber of the officers of the Twenty- of down-town life which they are i Infantr tioned at the Pre- now undergoing and -which will last | all winter. There are so few theaters, and they all say that social life is the only thing that will make things sidio, I hear, as well as the regular officers of that post, and there are to | Be hops given regul ther affairs. f men dance really bearable here. 2 ’ ; so well that t dances are always The funny thing is that so many |jgoked forward to with great pleas- of the young people have spoken to ly beside Most - |ure, and they en n well, too. me and said that they wished they “Everything is going to be much could Have a dance right now. Peo-|gimpler, I think. The young gitls ple have so much to worry them that | o< - weill ‘dress mimch lons-etalion they need a little pleasure mixed in 1§ that it will with it, and this year I think we are change. There | will be so many year who must dress more inexpensively that it will {not be considered very good taste |to dress handsomely, even by those who can ord it. n the East young ch simpler gowns than , N0 matter how wealthy may be, and I am glad the custom will prevail entertaining. I am going to have my dances, and the only change from last year will be that I intend to have five instead of four. “My patronesses, among whom are Mrs. W. B. Collier, my mother, Mrs. Shorb, Mrs. Lawrénce Poole, James Langhorne, Mrs. Eleanor Mar- tin and Miss Gwin, will probably be the same as last year, although I have not spoken to any of them as yet on the subject. their parents to think that i 3 p here., There is going to be much | general entertaining this winter, but everything is to be marked by ex- I will have to begin all | treme simplicity. In consequence lines, which has made a decided “hit” | over again, and there will be a great | there is going to be more of it.”