Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-07-15
GOODNIGHT PICNIC.
Second Event of the Kind Complimen-
tary TO the X. Y. 2. Club.

Inc social history OF BRENNAN
is confined almost exclusively to
club records. Individual efforts
at entertainment are seldom
made, and sat homes" are the
exception and not the rule.
Society depends on organized
efforts and leans on club aus
pices. Through the instrument
tality of social unions the supply
of entertainment has been kept
on parity with the demand,
and with the strength which
union engenders a high standard
of social functions has been
maintained. Perhaps, nay,
certainly, none of the unions
whose objects are the promotion
of social intercourse and the en-
joyments incident thereto have
succeeded to a greater degree
than an aggregation of the city's
young ladies bonded together
under the name of the final let
tiers OF the alphabet-the X. Y.
2. Club. To this organization
the young gentlemen of the city
are indebted for divers enjoyable
events in the past, and in a re-
taliatory spirit they, the young
men, have arranged a series of
moonlight picnics for the mem
bers of the club which will occur
once in each month throughout
the summer. For a moonlight
picnic no place affords such a
variety of advantages as that
great Carlsbad of BRENNAN,
Watson's Natatorium. The
second event of the kind referred
to occurred there Friday evening
with some twenty members of the
organization and their admirers
in attendance. To make use of
a common platitude the occasion
was one of rare enjoyment to all
present. 1t is almost as hard for
a picnic reporter to avoid the use
of insipid SMILES and dull des-
cription as it is for his readers to
peruse them afterwards. To
hammer one golden grain of wit
into a sheet of infinite platitudes
is the style nowadays.
A poet on such an occasion
would have found no difficulty in
apostrophizing the beautiful sill
YER mouthed stars and the moon
with the brows of gold. A
traveller who had visited the cities
of classical fame would doubtless
have discovered a Venetian re-
semblance in the ripping waves
and the gliding gondolas. The
writer has never been in Venice,
and wouldn't know for certain a
gondolas from a steam barge. If
in Tennysonian mood a graphic
reporter might suggest that on
such an occasion aAtRis a young
mans fancy might be expected
to lightly turn to thoughts of
love. But observation would
fail to bear out the statement.
After all that has gone before it
is just as difficult to describe the
whimsical medley of ideas that
throng ones mind after indulg-
ing in such a panoramic scene.
Ones attention is distracted be-
tween greater and lesser objects,
each of which, perhaps, awakens
an equally delightful train of re-
membranes. The enthusiasm
which so much good company
and so many pleasant surround
ings create is none the less deep
felt because it is mute. A moon
light picnic amid the lordly re-
pose of stately groves, where the
air breathes of leafy woodland,
honey-suckle hedges and cher
ished woodbine, and everybody
sees that everybody else has a
good time was not made to be de-
scribed except in the concrete,
and we desist. These made up
the picnic party:
Miss Isabel Winston, C. B.
Fielder; Miss Mary Brown, Lee
Norris; Miss Boeman, VIM.
NORRIS; Miss Pendleton, J. D.
Giddings; Miss Fannie Hill, John
Ratley; Miss Mamie Bolts, j. c.
Harris; Miss Molina Campbell,
Ed. Healy; Miss Stella Young,
j. O. VanNess; Miss Mabel Gid
dings, Burney Dunlap; Miss
Matte Giddings, T. A. Low; Miss
Zephyr Crozier, Chas. Carlisle;
Miss Beulah Kennedy, c. B.
Gillespie; Miss Bessie Buster,
Earnest Young; Miss Mary Nor
riss, DR.. T. F. Cox; Misses Irene
Crozier, Edna Kennedy, Ethel