The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-09

/ cards and tables We're furnished.
AT $50 the music sounded and the
grand march of the first annual state
ball given by women began. 1t was
headed by Mrs. Jennie E. Nelson with
Hon. John F. Chidester, who were fol-
| lowed by an array of representative
people from all over Weber county
such as has never before been gathered
together As the gay lines marched
and countermarched swaying rythIIli-
cally to the music and making a daZ-
zling scene of ever shifting colors one
received an impression pleasing in the
extreme.
The entire programme of twenty two
numbers was danced through including
two extras, when the gentlemen had
choice.
AT y o'clock a supper, which might
even be termed a banquet, was served
in the lower rooms of the same build
ing. 1t was not until o'clock that the
strains Of 'Home Sweet Home" an
nounced that the first state ball of
the w S. a. of Utah was memory of
the past
Among those present were: Misses
Nettle Wilson, Clara Chambers, Ma
ME Littlefield, Annise Brown, Mile
Halverson, Nellie Halverson, Belle
Salmon, Mamie Robbins, Anna Larson,
Miss Robbins, Ethel Shurtliff, Nell
/ y Dung, May Brown, Rosa Garfield,
MISS Parmeley, Grace Zigler, Kate
i Stevens. Miss Markell, Miss Kertz, Miss
thatcher of Logan. Edith Ashmore,
MISS Blair, Miss Ferrill, Miss Brown,
MISS lyric, Maggie Chambers, Hattie
packard, Ada Barratt and Maud Alex
ander
Mesdames Hattie e. Grifiths, Jennie
e. Nelson, William Eccles, David Ec-
cles, Joseph Stanford, William e. Dri-
Yer, Douglas Watson, DR.. Anderson,
Joseph Scowcroft, Lucy Clark of Davis
county. Mat Browning, II. E. Gibson,
A. Il. Hayes, Thomas Schoonover, Mr..
! watson Mr.. Goodwin, j. s. Clark, c.
A. Nelson. Mr.. Anderson. Mr.. Wood
mansee, c. c. Brown.
Hon. Joseph Stanford, Hon. Joseph
Clark, Hon. William Driver, Hon. Sid
ney Stevens, Hon. Joseph Barton, Hon.
Senator Chidester. Hon. A. B. Hayos,
Or Driver, George Hansen, J. B. Coray
fred HalVerSon, c. j. Ross, T. Stan
foro, Fred Massa, NJ. Madsen. Mr..
SchnoVeI, Mr.. Duncan, Mr. Thomas,
MT Clark, Mr.. Edsau, Mr.. Packard
- A. Nelson, Mr.. McQuarrie, Squire
coop, Mr.. Hall, DR.. Baker, NJ. s. Brown
Mr.. Proudft,
Wednesday evening at I. o. O. F
nail card party was given by Ogden
lodge No D. a good sized crowd was
present and a general social time was
mad until about u o'clock. Thirteen
card tables were used for the nro-
gfessive high five game. The ladies'
IIFSt prize, rolled gold necklace. was
Won by Mrs. Kate Huss and the gen
t Lleitieh hrst prize, consisting of
NAM dozen handlerchiefs. went to r
A. Edwards. The other two nrizeS
were won by Mrs. J. Huss and A. 7
Johnson. -
Tuesday evening the Third ward
choir repeated the concert given under
It's direction on the previous Friday
several new features were added to the
programme and the singing of tbe
cholr was even better than on the
previous occasion. a still larger crowd
greeted the second rendition A1noos+
every participant received at least one
encore so that it was quite late ere
the programme was finished,
La Coterie.
AT the coy home of Mrs. Gideon the
members of La Coterie assembled 1as+
Tuesday. There were present as guests
the following ladies: Mesdames John
son. Waters, H. Durbrow, George DIR
brow L. DurDrow Robinson. Bel.
Coulter. and Miss Baldwin, Mrs. L. B.
Auaf rs presented the historical topic of
the day, The Merry Monarch in a
charming manner. Notwithstanding her
bright allusion to the tbistIes nnder te-
SSons9e all Of which added interest to the
ocotcn SUBJECT. While she faithfully
portrayed the weaknesses of that CAV
INCIDENT pleasure-loving Charles II. She
also enlisted and held our sympathies
Whle she showed him in the role of an
n nd loy
aIler the restoration, when, surrounded
Dy wealth and court hatterers, living
oniy 10 be amused, she made his better
nature Gor he was richly endowed
raturally( appeal to US, emphasized as it
was by the pathetic death scene of this |
bonny Prince Charlie SO dear to The
hearts of the Scottish peoule.
The next number was a paper bv Mrs
emerson. The Puritan Women" Surely !
thls SUBJECT must have a place near to |
me the heart Of one who can treat it so !
hood can be judged by this high tribute |
pald to one of them. She was a woman. |
rarely rarely endowed with many gifts, and not |
given to many words"
We dWelt again with LongfelloW in tho |
primitive days of John Alden and
Priscilla when she asks, why don't !
you speak for yourself John?' lit may |
nave been a leap year, and are remind |
ed by the result that what you would |
self. '0Ni
nv pen plCluIeS OIL CnOSe pure sweet |
lives. could but inspire her hearers to
iTe ai pbndd nobgF lives ana initiate true
Puritan mothers. Nor can we have
aught but admiration for the virtues of
those New England fathers at whose ex-
pense DR.. Wayland said the worthy
matrons have an especial claim upon our
consideration in view of the fact that
they had to endure the Puritan faith
ers in addition to all else that
fell TO their lot, but God had sifted
three Kingdoms to find the wheat for
this planting. Then had sifted the wheat
as the living seed of a nation"
Still another literary treat was in store
for us in the paper on uses and Abuses
of Reading" by Mrs. kimbal where she
excuses the itch for scribbling" that
has become epidemic on the ground that
It's pleasant. sure to see ones name
in print. books a book although
there's nothing in it. She recommends
some excellent antidotes for too much
Indulgence in light literature, TO be taken
in the form of such intellectual cruel as
the Encyclopedia Britannica affords on