The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-22
WHAT IS GOING ON.
Prospect of the Coming Autumn
Season - DebutanteS Who Have
Already Freed Their Wings.

AITSaQY r EGGG In6l1 WINGS
The summer is about over; the season is at
hand when the summer resorts win begin to
empty themselves, and will give the City back
its society people. October the 1st marks for
society," as it ever does for all else the end of
the summer season. This and next week are
the ones when the last lingering few of the
summer sojourners pack their trunks and turn
their faces resolutely toward the City with its
prospective rush and tension of the fall and
winter season: and it may be with sigh that
many of them cast last look over their Shout
ders as they say good-by to the peace, the quiet,
that country home near San Francisco GER
tainly means-if, indeed, it means, as many
think, nothing more. The closing weeks OF
the season have been marked by the suburban
people with final house parties, always so
pleasant, and now the various homes at San
Mateo Menlo Park, Burlingame, San Rafael
and Ross Valley, about which cluster our most
active coteries of summer residents, Will know
t.aern no longer.
The summer dance makes an excellent prov
ing ground for the debutante. Many a young
girl lust growing up makes the most of her cir
Gle OF acouaintances at the summer resort and
at the weekly gatherings she builds up repu-
tation for agreeable manners, establishes her
self as a good dancer, and as being not at all
burdensome partner, and when the more serl-
Gus life of society opens up before her she finds
herself we'll practiced in the art OF pleasing,
and well armed TO enter into society ana sue
coed there. Just as these dances develop the
girls SO the embryo society man, ambitious Tor
social preferment, finds in them great oppor-
tunity, and seizes upon 1t accordingly.
So the summer gatherings go, and now comes
the season when they are each and all thlng
of the past. The curtain is now rung down
on the summer and its pleasures society is
waiting with impotence tor IL 10 go up on tne
piece de resistance-the winter, win 1ts WhlrI
and rush The summer resort, the summer
dance the house parties ana even the country
beaux and bellies are now Ihlhg Oh the past
for al least eight or nine months.
San Francisco society promises 10 De quite
gay this winter owing 10 the large number OF
the debutantes, who have many enterl
ments given in their honor and Keep the Dan
of teas, receptions and dances constantly IN
motion. Then the cotillons are Always most
attractive and the Monday Evening CIub
dances, which were such success last season
and mean q pretty bail without the ltte nouIs,
so dlstasteful 10 the men, and expensive enter
tainment CT elaborate supper are always
looked forward TO with the deepest, interest,"
and pleasure-really more so than dance at
some private house, for Armory Hairs moor,
where, it is stated, the meetings Will be held
this season, IS an ideal one to have goou
dance, ana II has the reputation OF being one
OF the prettiest halls III the City where dances
are given. The patrOnesses OF the Monday Even
ing Club last season We're: Mrs. W. II. Taylor,
Mrs. James Carolan, Mrs. W. R. Smedberg, Mrs.
Southland Holman, Mrs. w. +. MeNutt, Mrs
Jerome Lincoln, Mrs. Thomas Breeze, Mrs. Pei
ham Ames, Mrs. I. c. Van Ness, Mrs. Sidney N.
Smith, Mrs. William NJ. Gwin, Mrs. George A.
Pope Mrs. George II. Lent Mrs Paul Jarboe,
Miss Goad and Miss Hobart, and it is presumed
these same ladies, except Miss Hobart, now
Mrs Lester, who goes abroad, will act this
season.
1t is much to be regretted thet society is to
lose some of its most prominent matrons and
bellies the coming season. Among them Mrs
Hager and her three daughters, who will leave
for New York, where they viii spend the entire
winter, leaving here in November. Then Mrs
Southland Hoffman and her two charming
daughters, the Misses May and Alice Hoffman,
leave on. Tuesday for New York, en- route TO
Europe, where they viii spend the winter in
travel. Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Sprague expect to