The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-15

JoohiNG CLUBS AND TWENTY -FlNE GENT
FEASTS.
A breakfast class of twelve. with the linn
tatlon at each feast fixed at So thus making
t Imperative on the hostess to provide
course breakfast at % cents per capita, was
one OF the short lived experimental organl-
satons of last season which will hardly be
revived this Lent Another similar organ
cation, known as the breakfast club with
The limitation of So for expenditure on each
occasion, was likewise Inflated. Born In
merrleSt laughter, it was doomed to expire
IN much crashing of teeth IN which envy,
hatred, malice, and all manner OF uncharlt-
ableness had part. The initial breakfasts
were voted great successes and then the
little rift within the Lutte was formed by the
from one of the organizers that
things were not being conducted on that
scale of strict honesty and economy which
had characterized her feasts. These accu-
sations taking definite forms were to the
effect that the various butchers, bakers and
candlestick makers patronized by certain
hostesses had upon close questioning ad-
mltted the fact that although the choice
cuts of meat and dollhouse vegetables fur
nished by them had really been sold at the
absurdly small price indicated on the bill OF
fare, the circulation of which among the
guests at the close Of the meal was one of
the iron-clad rules of the class, matters had |
been equalized on the private bills subse |
quently rendered. Here was a state of !
things calling for reform on the most APP |
proved civil service principles and accord !
lngly resolving herself into committee of
one on law and order, the irate organizer |
proceeded to deliver lengthy sermon to |
the members of the breakfast club taking |
for her text the time honored axiom as to
honesty being the best policy. This dis
course, though meeting with that courteous
could require, had the effect of bringing to
a sudden termination the breakfast club.
A SENSIBLE CLUB.
The emergency class. one having a very
practically useful bearing as the object, was
through series of lectures to instruct the
fashionable audience on the Speediest and
most efficacious remedies to be employed in
the case of sudden bruises, burns or broken
limbs where the immediate attendance of a
physician is not practicable Mrs. Harri-
son, Mrs Morton, Madame Romero, Mrs.
Senator Mcmillan and Mrs. John w. Foster
were among the large number of interested
listeners who gathered once a week to listen
to the eXtemporaneous lectures of the young
physician selected for that purpose. At
these meetings the ladies were questioned
in regard to the subject previously dis
cussed and such of them as cared to do so
assisted the physician in the adjustment of
bandages, supports and straps for keeping
the broken limbs in proper position until
the services OF a doctor could be secured.
For this purpose it was customary to en-
gage as model some ragged urchin to
whom the money paid for his services in
this respect seemed small fortune Ac-
counts of these meetings having gotten into
the papers, the young physician found him
self beSieged In all quarters from people
living in remote country districts to have
his talks to the emergency class embodied
in pamphlet form in order that the practl-
cal application of his suggestions might be
available to those who stood in actual need
of just such lectures.
EUCHER AND POKER.
The eucher class leads in the list Of card
parties incident to Lent. The meetings are
held On Monday evenings and the member
ship includes DR.. and Mrs. William a. Ham
mond, DR.. and Mrs. Alexander Magruder,
Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson Harris,
Mrs Philip Phillips, Mrs. and Miss Phenix
and Lieutenant and Mrs. William Hill.
A poker class, which has resolved itself
into state of innocuous desuetude, attained
during the period of its existence such no
toriety that even now the audacity of the
leading lady is mentioned with bated breath
at the metropolitan and meridian cluDs,
several of the members of which have rea-
SUI 10 r0ul0HU6F JHe 1Glle uc6IluSS
which they first attended in blissful ignor-
ance that they were other than the pleas
antly social affairs they purported to be.
/ The woman whose name formerly appeared
| in every list of prominent society was a
! born tinancer, her transfers of stocks and
| bonds finally reaching such figures as bid
| fair at an early date to rival the wizard of
Wall street. One night, however, young
lamb was shorn so close that his pitiful
! laoti far ol-.ar no of
sounded through the walls of the club
house and the lady was waited upon by
several indignant elders whose conversation
teemed with impairment suggestions as to
! her trying the effects of speedy change of
! climate. So convincing were the arguments
that tue charming little house in the West
End was closed the same day, and shaking
! the dust of the city from her feet, the lady
babe an abrupt farewell TO the nation S
capital.
! THE BELLIES OF THE KITCHEN.
Matrimonially considered, the cooking
class gotten up some half a dozen years
since by party of pretty young girls who
dubbed themselves Bellies of the Kitchen, -
was the most successful of the many classes
begun, continued or. ended in Lent. These
queens of gastronomy acquitted themselves
so well of their self-imposed task that be-
fore the close of the second season every
member had married or become engaged.
No restrictions were made as to the amount
/ or number Of dishes served at the luncheons
given by the Bellies of the Kitchen One
all important stipulation, however, was
that each and every dish should be person
ally prepared by the hostess of the day. AS
each girl was given the privilege of inviting
some man of her acquaintance to the lunch
cons, the parties gradually narrowed down
to the same guests each time. That the
men so selected fully appreciated the honor
shown them is evident from the fact already
recorded that in less than two seasons the
clatter of deity welded soup ladies' had
changed to the tuneful chimes of wedding
bells.
THE CLUBS OF WICKED MEN.
Washington is becoming club city more
men here at the capital spend thousands
every year at their clubs and there are {
dozen and more aristocratlc ones. The
SWEETEST of all is the metropolitan club tt
which all the diplomats and the men abou
town belong and the happenings of which
seldom get into the newspapers. The cos
mos club is more of scientific club and it:
club rooms are in the house which Dolly
Madison occupied after her husband death
The members of the Smithsonian InsJitu
tion, artists and others belong to it and i
pretends to have a continuous feast of rea
son and flow of soul. The grid-iron club i.
made up of newspaper men. 1t is the
daughter of the clover club, of Philadel
} phia, and is quite as famous as its mother
1t gives elegant spreads once month ant
there is hardly noted man in the country
!, who has not been dined at it. Presiden
Harrison was one of the invited guests thi
winter, but Secretary WINDOWS death pre-
vented his attendance. The six o'clock clul
is another dining club whose motto is sail
to be ''Grub and Cab" and whose dinner
cost 81 plate. The grid-iro dinners cos
: all the way from s. upwards plate ant
though there is plenty of good wine there i