The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-24
THE REALM OF SOCIETY.
Fact and Fiction, Two Opposing
Views, by Col. Ingersoll and
Mr.. Jerome.
The Past, Present and Future OF
Pie and Other Good
Things.
"Drsams Of Fair Women" With tho ReAl
ity Prcsent-social Notes At Home
aud Elsewhere.

One distinguished guest Of the week says
that this would be q wonderful world il we
all only stated facts. Put Jerome X. jerome
declares that fact and truth have become
o~ld-fashioned and out Of date. appear
ance and not reality is what the clever dog
grasps at in tsase clever days. And the
child of Prince Imposture and Princess
Pretenss, King Humbug, rules the world of
society! And ls is the jolly old cove, il he,
before whom We are really paying homage.
A mighty monarch. without bone and sinew
of his own, whom, il we do not keep pulled
up with airy n%othingness. will burat-as all
bubbles do. Alas, what would become OF
the society column? However, one ia com
forted with the reminder that there ID the
summer girl not far in the hazy future, and
40 one knows how near to the throne of his
majesty King Humbug she may stand; and
NO one will ever know, for she IL one Of the
~''clevsr, etc" So. perhaps, we may yet de-
pend upon her.
All who are Interested in fair women,
some of whom are divinely tall and all di-
vinely fair, will want to attend the entertain
ment to be given On Tuesday evening by the
Congregational church at the rooms of tho
exchange, Electric building. The first thing
on the programme is a good, substantial
supper, which is promised to be ready at
$3.50. There are to be three tables devoted
respectively to the lenses Of Past, Present
and Future. The dishes on the Past table
are to be of the old blue china of the grand
mothers and their contents will be cooked
after the manner of those good old days.
Uh1tA thA Unitora nrn tn nQor lrnGdGa rf
fashions corr%espondingly old. Upon the
Present table will be found the delicacies
of the day, and the Future is to be devoted
to the great unknown, which, of course,
every one will want to know first.
Ihe entertainment will begin at $50,
when Miss Leona Murray will read Jenny
sons Dream of Fair Women" which the
following young lodies %personify the char
acters: Miss Grace Smite, Jeptha's
daughter; Miss Walter, Queen Eleanor;
Miss Carrie Lehman, Cleopatra; Miss Edith
Lehman, Margaret More; Miss Lena Cur
d'Arc. The male quartette will sing during
the evening. Mr.. Hoeing Is the soloist OF
the evening, and Miss Murray will give a
recitation.
Little Aubrey and Percy Hotter enter
tanned their friends yesterday afternoon,
and a royal time they had on the beautiful
avn 0IOuAu VIC IlOlU6T WaUSiOI. uSlC
and games we're INDUCED in, and while a
grand march was beng played the little
ones joined hands and marched around the
spacious parlors. In the meantime
two large "Jack Horner'' pies were
greeted with delight, and as they marched
each boy and girl pulled a string and pulled
out q toy instead of a plum. The souvenirs
were boxes of candy. The invitations were
unique little cards, ornamented very pref.
tily, and the simple words, Come to my
party" 1t is safe to say that these little
fellows have we'll copied the genial hospi-
tally of their parents. Among those pres
emit were the little Misses Brunell,
Kenneth, Sizer. Hunt, Buck, Kellogg,
Thompson, of Butte. Landue, Barbour,
Steele, Pope, Fisk. Ward, Sanders, Booker,
Eslsr, Colbert. Scott, Murta, Hudnell,
Greenfield, Webb, and Masters Phelps,
Cox, SWEET, Lamberton, Wilson, Hotter,
Gibson, Haut, Buck, Blair, Scott. Ward,
Fisk, Pope, Davidson, Walker, Greenfield,
Parchen, Steele, Esler, Catrum and Lobe re-.
Friday evening Sam Langho rne, Jr., and
Lyman Matthews gave their schoolmates an
entertainment, which was given at the
home Of the former on Fifth avenue. Mu-
sic and dancing were the features, and the
girls and boys enjoyed themselves as boys
and girls know how SO we'll. Refreshments
were served about $3.50. Those present
were Misses Mills, Swope, Littlefelds, Nor
ris. Matheson. Scott, Brown, Dickens;
Masters Whitley. FretZ, Gamer, Matthews,
Wickes, Pelletier, Hershberg. Armitage,
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