The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-18

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Society has been one grand BIZ Of stu
pidity the past week but IL The weather
VIII Try and see its way clear the COM
ing week there viii be few things Of m
/ usual importance 10 smuse ;h. neonle ma,
the dead Mr.. McAl!ister called the Four
hundred. things that come bur once a
year ana then don't stay any longer than
they should. Any one who knows about
/ society is aware of the coming tennis
/ tournament and of the tennis ball which
Will really be the society feature of I'M.
tournament. The weather should try and
make itself agreeable this week for II is
not often that one mas a chance TO ses. a
big representative gathering OF society
folk in this town. Unlike San Francisco.
seattle is not "a jay town.. bur never
thsless IL IS only once a year that one can
catch glimpse of society in all of its
goodness and loneliness. That Is AT th,.
tennis ball The charity ball should b. a
great big society affair in this town. but
II Is not. Why il is not. is a matter that
might he told when the charity people
give their next ball-if they ever give an
( other-but suffice 1t to say one does not
( ind society at the charity bah as il Is
4 TO be found at the Tennis ball Go 20 the
i tennis hall--if you are inyited-ansl there
4 you VIII ind thorough society people who
; are TO be found at no other dancing az
fair during the year. Other things will
: impress you. Women whose husbands
are not in the klondikc and who are
therefore not in position to dress as
iuxuriously as they might wish are con-
tent 10 wear at ordinary events gowns
I that have been worn before" but when
III comes 10 the tennis ball il is different.
/ Then they must have new gowns
woman not only improves her looks and
her appearance when she wears robes
/ that grace ner figure for the first time.
but she behaves better: she does better
the little things that are expected Of her
( when she appears at a swell society func-
I ton. There is nothing strange about IL:
I 1t Is simply human nature. 4 woman has
almost as much vanity as a man She
knows when she looks well. Adorn her
J with fine gowns, and IL won't seem like
the same old smile"
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! for pretty gowns and pretty women and
fine music. and good looking men. and
men who are not good looking but agree
able and a hundred or more other things
that go towards making big events seem
/ bigger than they are. Every other place
/ in the city where society affairs take place
has dreariness scrs tched on the floor
when You compare II with the Seattle
theater. 1t may be true-it IS true-that
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for the feet while one is INDUCING in the
/ glores OF an easy dreamy waltz or
king Cotton two-Step. However. some
folks dance with the grace and ease dis
] played in a football game. They never
think about the floor But people who
know how to dance admit that the floor
/ is not everything TO be taken into con-
/ sideration, Rich music has something
+ 10 do with ii: the decorations and the
natural condition of the place where the
( affair is held are to he taken into con-
sideration
AT the Seattle theater during the tennis
/ ball the stage is extended over a part OF
the parquet On either side Of the stage
are the elegant boxes whore those who
do not care to dance may sit and look
on" When the dazzling light from the
hundreds of little incandescents. which
poke their heads out of every conceivable
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il creates a picture as pleasing TO the
eye as the stage setting during the pro-
tluction of any modern society play
Then, too Seattle society is in q position
to DO some decorating in the summer
time and those who have the tennis ball
under their official wing always attempt.
and with success, to make the theater
look prettier than at any other time of
the year.
That older society VIII be al the ball in
big numbers every one Is aware but the
past week has developed the question:
How about younger society? In this
town there Is a numbe~ If voting women
who are identified With older society
They take part IN all ot It's doings. and
when You speak OF them socially it Is a.
members of the elder society set Then
there are other young women-1ust as
Young and lust as o,a as the Young
women Of the older society sat--who are
on the go all the time. They attend about
all the aNars that come and 20 in a
wear. but they are not The members OF The
older society set. They are IF The Young
set Trey recognize as members of their
set young men who are not N the cider
set.
And II IS this young sat about whom
the question ls asked Niu iis members
attend the tennis hane Last wear onlv a
war tho mafArits Of them v-i.l receive in
vitations. II they 50. many of me young
women VIII e. Il they stay az home. srma
of tn. Young women s-sI 60 Inst The
same. Others viii stay r.; home.
Il IS conceded that the Young men arc
fortunate in receiving invitations 70 what
Is undoubtedly this town great annual
sacf-tv carnival II theE don't go il IS
probably because they nave noi Sufficient
gold - usa for society purposes Yet
his wear the tennis nais VIII not Ne as
.xra,stra 4v il was Hast year For the
beu 81 -; tickets were s. a couple. this
wear .h.4y are bat s.. \ week ago II Vas
not generally knowp ihat younger society
was 20 bs invited A, ira tine many oT
the Young men 'ildnt think" they would
ga That answer was 1}Ff0 before they
ko--v whether ar unt their c1n.nas as
members ~ ;he g3aiof s' Nere - he
RECOGNIZED. The annouD anr+nG taat they
are ,. ~ Invited NAV result En- r change
oe rr,lra II they 81 ;hey w.N sae more
--..-.res sentative gathering M society fels
han 4bav have ever before seen ta ,his
tour. unless they have attended tennis
balls u the past
This town has gone So klonaikc crazy
thsf the fever has worked IFS way irto tee
,r{nss 81 society people ana a soc!ety u1sn
-eu1arkAsf q few days axe That ne could
ma. make 4 cali these day withcuz being
e,gls.i uuor IN tell wnaf he snu~e about
,s,.s. era, Alaska coG try. Young women
want 10 know where il * and how 1onz &c
sakas 10 get there. aui how maav unaes
month the Walia Wall2 goea there. Soma
say it's too had the river bsl0n ~ to IAN.
\ few think that the klcnGlke IS or wnie
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