The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-24
IN MIS- 5OULA.

MIssoULA, Feb. 23.-The past few days
have most forcibly demonstrated that
Missoula is in the swim. The soft-eyed
chinook is here and nature is In a melting
mood. Sloppy streets and drabbled skirts,
wet boots and soaked hosiery are in evil
dence. Pedestrianism is not a lost art in
MIssoula, and rain or shine, thaw or
freeze, we manage to get there-socially
and every other way.
Quiet festivities have been going on Sc
renely. The winter seems moro than
usually satisfactory in regard to small
gatherings where ones best known and
most congenial acquaintance are sure to
be met. Nor are cards the only amuse-
ment. Music-and good music-is a
great feature of our amusements. A
double quartet is one of the institutions
soon to be made permanent; future
oratorio society and n guitar club may
come into being and flourish before tho
idea reaches the outside world. There is
a talented guitar teacher who has several
unusually promising pupils who would be
a credit, as a club, to any larger city than
Missoula. At any rate, all these projects
are we'll formulated, and, literary and
musical as our people are, to try is to sue
coed. We are actors, we are musicians
we are blase society and club men, liter
airy lights-anything and all things as the
fancy prompts us; our failures may be
counted on the fingers of one hand and
then have one finger to spare.
The hospitalities of the Lotus club have
not yet been sufficiently pressing, it
seems, no day having been yet fixed when
the young ladies may don fetching cos
tune, wildly swing an Indian club or
hang from her pretty pink toes without
clutchinG at anything in sight, like
drowning man at a straw. But as tho Lo-
tus membership comprises exceptionally
gallant young men-and some older
ones-the day can't be far distant when
ladies may enjoy the club advantages.
No more delightful entertainment was
ever given in the social history of Missoula
than the reception gwen at the Hotel Mar
garet at Bonner Wednesday evening by
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. FenwIck and Miss
Hammond. The beautiful hotel was ar
tistically decorated with flowers and ever
greens and presented a decidedly attrac-
tive appearance. Tho dining room and
Office we're used as ballroom. the orches-
ira being stationed so that the effect of
the music was delightful. Lunch was
served in the ladies' ordinary, the tables
being beautifully decorated. Each table
had its distinctive color, an immense
bank of flowers in the center, surrounded
by smilax and arranged on a mirror,
which heightened the effect, being the
central feature, while broad rib
bons, harmonizng in tint with
the flowers, extended from tue
center to the corners. In the coy parlors
up stairs tables were arranged for whist,
where those too old to dance euioyel
themselves. \ special train was run from
MIssoula TO the hotel for the accommoda-
ton Of guests from this city. Those p!es-
ent were: Mr.. aud Mrs. G.. 4. Bsckwl,u,
Mr. and Mrs. d. Il. Ross. Mr.. and Mrs. d.
NJ. keith, Alr. and Mrs. Il. b. Thomson,
DR.. and Mrs. Robinson, DR.. and Mrs. Ham
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Graham, SIR.
aud Mrs. J.. {. Marshall. Mrs. Bishop. J.
=. Garter aud Miss Carter. Y. r. Roman
aud Miss Roman, NJ sses Miles. -.1auc.
Hathaway, >iraugha, Reeves, Allie Reeves,
BeckwItl, Emma Beckwith, Sadie Beck
with, Graham, Crimson, Hord, Robinson,