Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-20
The Wills Reception,

The following account OF the reception
at DR.. Wills's residence has been handed
in for publication "Primum oficium de-
inde yoluptas" The bard of Venusium
used to get off many bon mot, especially
after a few cups of an old vintage of
Massic or Falernian, and frequently in
his odes and satires is seen the sparks
of epigrammatic but sage advice like
that above quoted To what class of
people is it more of necessity than to
any other that it should be as the gay
Horace wrote, First business, after
wards pleasure" than to physicians,
and often, when they take few minutes
for the latter, they are dragged back by
the heels, as it were, to the former. But
when they once get away from their
practices, for instance, when they as
semble in Los Angeles for scientific dis
cussions, then how readily do they
throw off all professional reserve, and
how rapidly do they and their families
become acquainted; and how often are
delightful and lasting friendships thus
formed. Verify, from the number OF
charming young ladies who were
with the delegates, and the
hosts OF bright young bachelor
physicians who were dancing attendance
on them, we might prophesy something
more disastrous than friendship. Why,
we have even known people to go out
of the estate of single blessedness into
the house OF bondage from just such
meetings Could lovelier scene be pre-
sented for the beginning of romance
than the brilliant reception given to the
society by DR.. William LeMoyne Wills,
at his elegant home on Fort hill, on
Tuesday night. The spacious mansion
was most tastefully garlanded, the work
of nature mingling with the works of art
to make vision of great beauty-a very
poem OF flowers, paintings and en-
cravings.
The doctor is fortunately, or I'M
| fortunately, bachelor, but his
tact and well-known and oft-tested
genius for making things 90 off
smoothly were again shown. The
hospitable atmosphere made all at ease
Immediately. and almost everyon, re-
manned during the whole reception and
all were unwilling to depart, for we felt
the comfort OF home with the freedom of
out-of-doors. But how could it be
otherwise where Mrs and Miss Wills,
| both so famous among the most
/ CllbCI ldillClS vi lOS ADStltS,
were seconding the doctor so thoroughly
and were assisted by such delightful
ladies as Mesdames Chas. DeSzigethy,
W. q. Cochran, Walter Lindley, Jirah
ID. Cole and Miss Hamilton Among
the multitude present your correspond
ent saw the courtly Cluness, his wife
and daughter; the energetic Hunting
ton, chief surgeon OF the S. p, and his
handsome wife; DR.. Parkinson, of the
Sacramento Medical Journal, and Dr.
Briggs, all Of Sacramento the far-famed
and scholarlyWytheo of Oakland Dr., Mrs
and Miss Bailache. DIR. and Mrs. Ander-
son, DR.. and Mrs. Kerr, DIR. and Mrs
Gibbons, DIR. M. Regensburger, wife and
mother, and Drs. McNutt, Shiels, Mer
ritt, Lowrie and Lawler, all widel,
known in San Francisco; DR.. w. A. Ed
wards, of San Diego, formerly OF Phila.
delphia, one of the greatest accessions t.
the ranks of California physicians DR.
Robertson, Siskiyou county; DR.. Daw
son, st. Helena; DIR. Rodebaugh, Pasa
dena; DIR. Doren, Vernondale, and many
of the best known in local medica
circles, of whom we can only mention
Drs. and Mesdames Lindley, Cochran
Davisson, Maynard, DeSzigethy ant
Utley, and Drs. MacGowan, Follansbee
Babcock, Hamilton, Ellis, Bullard, Fitz
gerald, ETC., etc. VoLUPTAs.