The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-19
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
The Events of a Week in
New York.
DINNER DANCES IN VOGUE.
Californians Visiting Eastern Friends.
Plot of Oscar WiIde's New
Play.
DINNER DANCES IN VOGUE
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL.

Not even in the Century Dictionary is
there an invective sufficiently comprehen-
siye with which to rail against the weather
New Workers are enduring and have been
enduring all this winter. The gay jewellers
in pleasuredom have not. however. allowed
snow, hail or sleet to affect their round of
merry-makings. Tonight, despite the fact
that the insOlent wind drives sharp bullets
Of ice against the cheek, or in the ear or
eye, 400 at least will brave the storm TO at
tend the last Patriarchs' ball at Del
mOnco's.
The dinper-dance idea so popular here
this winter has found favor in the eyes of
Ward McAllister, and dinner, including a
company of $50, will precede the Patri-
archs' ball. Dir. Ward McAlliSter has not
looked with gracious cemency on the din
ner-dance. because, forsooth, he has not
been invited TO these exclusive affairs. "1f
people wish to be exclusive they give din
ner parties. If they wish to be informally
exclusive they give cotillon dinners" said
the high chief of the Four Hundred with
ill-c0ncealed disapproval. He proposes to
close the season with brilliant dinner
dance, which will eclipse all that have pre-
ceded il in Swelldom this winter. Among
the Californians who will attend the ball
will be Miss Maud Howard, daughter of
Mrs. Charles Webb Howard. She has
spent the greater part of the winter at the
Windsor Hotel, and has been the recipient
OF much attention III the golden circle of the
social elect.
Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills being In mourn
ing for Mr.. Edgar Mills will not attend the
ball. They have gone to Staatburgs-on-
the Hudson, where is situated the beauti-
ful old Livingston mansion, built by Mrs.
Ogden Mills father
One of the most charming homes in New
York is that of Mrs. Frederick Sharon of
1913 Fifth avenue She entertains delight
fully. but beirg distinctively "a household
queen" and ayerse TO appearing in print
only those privileged to be her friends
know what charming hostess she is.
Mr.. W. A. Morris of Fowler, Cal, has
come to New 0rk to live permanently.
He is going into business here. His father
has one of the big raisin vineyards in
Southern California.
Mr. +. II. Drew is at the Coleman, and
is chasing in and out of the furnishing
goods stores, Notwithstanding the fact that
the weather is not like that of ''the glori-
Gus climate of California"
Mr. George r. Wheaton of the firm of
Wheaton u Luhrs Is also at the Coleman.
He is intent on business. too.
s. II. Rowland of Jackson, CAL, and Will
liam Jacobs are here selling mines.
Benjamin r. Woodwork is visiting his
mother In Boston and talking up'' the
vineyards OF Fresno County.
James A. Waymirs and Thomas j. Car
ran are the latest arrivals at the Holland
House. Mr. Carran is landowner in Los
Angeles.
T, T. Williams is domiciled at the Hotel
Imperial.
All the Hutchinsons seem to have ar
rived in town. There are e. c. Hutchin-
son, j. ). Hutchinson and l.. Hutchinson
stopping at the ST. James.
The latest play of interest In the theatri-
cal world is Lady Windermere's Fam" by
Oscar Wilde. The plot goes for little, but
the dialogue is provokingIy clever. A
wealthy husband marrles an innocent and
beautiful girl who suppOses her mother is
dead. Her mother Is an adventures. very
much alive. When she discovers her
daughter has welded money and position
the daughters husband is besought by
the adventures for money. He gives
1t and then seeks to restore the
woman's lost reputation by having
his wife receive her at one OF their SWEETEST
receptions. The wife, of course, does not
know the woman is her mother, and refuses
to Invite her. After an alteration the bus-
band sends the adventures all nvtation.
The wife insists that when the woman en-
tiers she Will slap her In the face with her
fan, and charges the servt0r to be sure to
call out the names distinctly. She does not
do this rash thing, however. The adven-
turesS comes in, very cIeverly portrayed by
the way by Miss May Brooklyn. She holds
her own by her brilliant wit and mastery |
selt-pOise. The wife, outraged to madness. |
finally flies to the apartments of Lord OAR |
lDgt0n, a character gracefully sustained by |
Barrymore, who has importuned her to fly |
from q husband who neglects her The |
mother reads the note the young wife has |
left for her husband. and Is filled with re- |
morse. The words are the very ones she |
used twenty years before to her own hus-
band. She races after the girl 10 send her |
home. Before she can persuade the girl
wife to 90 home TO her husband she hears |
Lord Darlington coming. The women hide |
in different rooms. Mrs. ErIynne, the ad-
promising to face the expose
and charges Lady WIndermere to escape at
the first chance. Lord Darlington brings in
most Of his c0nfreres from the ball. among |
them Lord WindeImere, who is brought |
in by Lord Lorton, sutton of Mrs. ErIynne, |
whom she has told to keep Lord Winder-
mere out of his own home il possible the |
greater part OF the night The men group
in easy nOnchalance, and drink.
ing and smoking airiy toss epigrams at
one another IN this wise: MEN become |
old, but they never become good" Good |
people do great deal of harm in the world.
They make badness Of such Importance"
"a cynlc Is a man who knows the price |
OF everything and the value of nothing"
"A sentimentalist is a man who gives an |
absurd value in everything and doesn't |
know the market price of any single thing"
Experiences is the name man usually |
gives to his mistakes" II can resist every |
temptation" These wicked |
sallies arc interrupted by one of the gay |
gallants discovering Lady Wlndermere's |
fan in the room. Lord Wndemere, in a |
fury. rushes toward it. While everybody |
is looking at the fan the wife slips out be- |
hind them, and Mrs Erlyune bursts out of |
a room on the side, and claims she left the |
fan there by mistake. This is the strongest |
scene in the play. 1t ends happily enough. |
Lady Wiudermere never discovers the |
woman is her mother, and declares she is "a |
goou woman" her sacrifice was so great. |
Lord Lorton. delightful old idiot. marries |
Mrs. ErlyDne, who "eXpalus everything"
at least so he thinks.
According to Mr. Oscar Wilde the London |
society set are quite wicked. The social |
world of New York have given their cachet |
to the play. Oscar certainly writes as if |
fl ON the inside" and has suggested the |
face that In societydom there are many who |
indulge in '';he JOYS that KILL"
A mother IN society here, when discussing !
a fashionable marriage, said lightly: The |
mother Of the girl is such devout church. |
woman she will have everything rigidly |
proper at tho ceremony. 1t is distressing |
the way people act at weddings this season. |
There Is no reverence shown. People |
should pray" 'Wby, mamma, should | |
pray?" said her daughter, who was to be q |
bridesmaid. "Of course, my.dear. every one |
Of the bridesmaids should pray as hard as |
she can; no girl who marries nowadays |
expects to keep her marriage vows" 1t is |
of a subtle flattery-as they de- |
clare "Ahf He knows mr. world 20 The |