The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-12
SOCIETY Is SERIOUS.
fashionable People Seem to Be
Going in for Culture.
trnLETlcs. BEADING AND ART.
= cssss Tse Mach Hsnsy 60 Give ana
Go TO Balls. Receptions. Dtnners
snd Card Parties.

so<isty seems TO be making q virtue Of
eecessity and 10 gong in for engtgge. Ii
essss money 70 give and go 60 balls, reccp-
fons, dinners aud cayd parties, aud as ms
xralth Of those 1ho move IN fashionable
xssies rests In unmArketahIe lands. stocks.
<snds and goods. none IL made TO feel the
rsa<h or hard times more than TIE society
xasnAn. She develops an appetite for sen
etson. for going somewhere, or doing
S eneshIng which wIII make her heart beat
slittls faster or perhaps little slower.
- be deprived Of the means Of obtaining
desc successive sensations IL for time TO
tssg heavily on her Idle hands In this
sasygency wornan's fertility Of resource
ezpes TO her rescue and shs deyoses her
~ 10 reading. athletics. study and art.
5ssging By the social happenings Of the
pssf few weeks nearly all of the fashion
sble people have betaken themselves 10
rersous pursuits 81 one sort or another,
1nd only the younger ana frrepresssbis
esemens have been able 10 find the time
sd occasion for gayety.
Reception To Rev. and Mrs. :. w. Read.
On Thursday evening the members OF the
Market Street Baptist church rendered 10
he Rev. and Mrs l. w. Read o farewell
reception. Mr.. Read has been pastor Of
the church for the last four years, hut had
hndered hiss resignation. TO take effect on
<fbs EST inst. The reception was one Of
fbe most successful affairs of the kind ever
fssn In the city. the church being taxed
% It's utmost capacity 90 Accommodates
lhnse present About 10 o'clock refresh
lat If . 80
church. Rev b. ID. Sinclair, pastor OF the
calvary Presbyterian church. when csiled
rpon for a speech took the platform and
spoke OF his personal high regard for Mr..
Read. the work he had done. and how he
would be missed by many he had aided
spiritually and temporarily in Seattle. His
femarks evidently voiced the sentiment Of
the large audience. as the frequent bursts
81 applause would indicate. Mr.. Read in
rssponse spoke feeiingly Of his labor in
Eeattle, of the many happy days he had
aren't here. and how he and his wife would
Always have warm spot in their hearts
tor their Seattle friends.
AZ business meeting of the church
held later in The evening the following
fssousions were adopted:
.NHEREAs. The Rev. ". Read became the
pastor Of the Market street Baptist church In
November of iss9, when the mem bership of said
church wa eight psrs0ns: and,
"NHRREAs. BY his esraest and Eealous work
iof his Master. 90 ably seconded BY his wife. and
b. their pure and godIy life they have been the
insruments 10 Gods hands Of bringing into the
thufch during their connection Herewith s3i:
and.
sWHEREAs. BY their labor We are today one OF
De strongest churches ia the Northwest: and,
& sHHgRKAs, He has voluntarily severed his
eonnectiou with Us our pastor. his reason for
y doing belug belief that he can accom- piish a
greater work IN sons Hew tisid. aud,
"NMKREAs. We real ixe that IL viii be difficult
tr "a 10 secure "a his successor pastor who
sill SO Thoroughly devote himself TO the in
tfest Of the church. forgetting self, yet belisv-
.ag that q We pat our trust IN God he will send
o. some one 20 carry on the work 80 well aud
sslthiui uegun. therefore. be- 10
~Res0ired. That We feel keenly the ioss of
hsotheF head 81 our pastor. aud Of his vile. aud
nat We pray God bis choicest and richest bless
lngs may be ahowerci upon shom ans theirs
snd that The new Geld % which they 50 may bs
Fips Cor the harvest snd they D. pcrmittef 20
sstheT maay theAyes ioS their LABOR tbstsln
ard b. IL further
aRds8lrea that q cory OF these nesoiu t.ous -
gives 20 HrotheF Read and that The eisrk spread
sson she nliautes Of the caufca = sopy 81 ths
ans