The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-19

Ho,t6av preparations last week dealt so
ciety affairs a blow. The Nestover-
wyckoy wedding have the upper ten the
only society food they had during the
week. There were few very snasii al
fairs. hut the fashionable ones did not
give them much attention. They were
too busy looking after their Christmas
shopping
The only large party booked for the
near future is the one 10 be- given az the
Queen Anne club house New Years eve
by the young men Of the Nesika Club.
Many members OF older society viii at
tend aud the affair should from present
promises give society q smart New Years
eve to talk about fer many weeks. The
members Of the old Gayne and Knot A
Gain sets are not likely To meet at So
ciaI function until after Christmas, when
Miss Nuzent will entertain the young
women OF the Tuesday Afternoon Cinch
Club At card and dancing party.
" u "
Any one who expects ttat society will
go Ia for any great festivities from now
on until after the holidays may
as well drop into the channel OF
disappointment. The Lerten season
does not create q greater dearth
OF genuine society events than does the
holiday season- True, the society girl
prays and whistles sacred airs while Lent
is on. and INDUCES In things just the OPP
posite during the days preceding Christ
mas and New Years. But so far as going
In for society events during this gay period.
she does not think of II any more than al
Lenten time. She has too many things 10
engage her attention. 1t is acknowledged
that all fashionable functions are of dur
ing ths holiday weeks The ladies who
give Us the charity ball each and every
year talked OF having 1t during the holi
days Some OF them said that II IL took
place just before Christmas there would
be a turnout the like of which was never
seen at another society gathering in the
city. But there were cooler heads who
saw things In a different light They in
sisted that the society man. but more par
ticularly tbs society girl. was bubbling
over with work. night work and day WORK.
before the holidays and that no time could
be found to devote to charity ball And
80 the ball WAS disposed OF before the holl-
day weeks. 1t Is all right TO have these
affairs take place Christmas eve, or
New Years eve. after the preparations
for the holidays have been completed but
10 offer them four or five days or even
week, before Christmas means their rejac-
ton.
Last week local society did not do any
thing, which could be turned into society
news Meet society girl and mention So
ciety and she laughed al you. Talk to me
about IL after the holidays" said one deb
utanse. Il have no time to discuss such
foolish frivolities at present. / have been
on the go night and day for "a week and
still my presents are not ready TO go to
those who Will receive them. Why. the
majority OF us have friends and relatives
In the East and for weeks before Christmas
We struggle to get our Eastern boxes
ready. Then we find that we have neglect
II nh tfsta 10
ents to our local friends. It's all right for
the men to talk society In times as busy
az these. but the society girl must work
The average man. unless he has something
of effeminacy about him. buys his pres
ents- He has only six or seven friends
whom he cares to remember
But so different Is 1t with the very
foolish young woman. She meets A
siri for the first time, they ex-
change a few words, and see the
inside OF each others homes few
times and they are friends. When Christ
mas comes along that foolish woman
would ignore her mother rather than fail
TO remember that girl. When you take into
consideration the fact that during a whole
year that foolish young woman has about
thirty or forty experiences such as have
related. you viii realize why We feel a bit
tGnny when man comes along at this
time or the year and asks us II there is
anything new In society. No. there Is
nothing new, and there won't be. and If
there should be will not be there / have
10 sew. and paint and cut and work nv
little Intellect from now until New
Years"
IL any one doubts that the society girl
Is working herself to death 1t is because
the stores were not visited last week She
was either on the streets or In the shops
Morning saw her there and afternoon.
IL she were too tired TO turn out In the ay-
ening she scnt her sister or her little,
brother. Some heads of business houses
SO so far as 10 say that the society girl
Is not a desirable customer, while the hol-
tday rush is on. ''fs's this way" said one
business man. When "A pretty girl enters
the store the clerks fight for the oppor-
taaits TO do her bidding There NAV he a
dozen other people waiting 20 do business
With the store. bat the pretty girl gets the
crowd OF clerks. And what does she buy ,
Nothing in which there Is any profit;
she Ia always looking Tor oddities. Like,
all OF them she wants 30 be new. original.
she wants something that no one else hes
bought. She cries for fads and W. trx To
accommodate her. She finds something
she thinks sac likes. II Is what she wlll
Tell You Is chic. rs she Is about 70 nav tor
u she wants 10 know ii that Is the only nne
we purchased I'm the East No We mr.
chased others. hut they were TO, the
same color. Then she changes her mind
The oddtty Ia aa oddly no longer. the fa.i
has ceased g be a iad-wtth he!-ana Sl4,
sussses she viii try somewhere else and If
She can't get what she wants she Viii
eeuae back. The clerk smiles. the pretty
Gft leaves The store. We see heF IA, rnor,,
and saturday night we psy the clerk his
salary for waiting on customers
i don't say that all society girls ara
Ike the enc | have described Pat there
are many, "a great many q them. So,pa
OF ceers" buy expensive things and ar,
satisfied with what they huy-others were
bern 10 buy that which is not in bt f,s8
There i one SRI in town y no is known
a. a fsddisG. She came 10 NE weeks aso
afsd advised me To buy a certain Hra ~
ssseds In The East. She said tn4t they hag
excited the Eastern girl and would aa q,
great demand in the West. / tool, hp- All
vice. gos what she wanted ana TIE l1,St
DAY sac saw them they were the lay,ssSt
Wings she had ever seen Yes. tles yys.-.,
beautiful This swell ana pretty creature.
Eased upca them as though they were me,
sle said Sha would gtv,, her order letor
STE dropped into the S;ors after that ara
said she guessed she would make a s..,.4c-
'ten- She dia 50 ard tn the course ~ f,ir
conversation she inquired Il Their ez,3 1.s,,,,
demand for the things had ,,sr,hasex,
At her suggestion. / salf hrr thai So
eai three left. Immediately shA ss@eoy-
cred that the Tires were not thv hI-sa s,.,
wanted. Haven't you any Of ihe 4sr',nr
TED ones she asked Are. No. the tarltnr
Ted ores were goae- she WAS s,s sarr,. H.
cause the rcd ores were FAST what shs DE-
sired We haa 80 snore and she bought
something else
New have noe sela this because : v,.<n
I" score a point sEalns; the ssrA ON tha
SSAn1FarE. she Is A sweet Etgl aa3 h.er snr.
session brought nae In Some fysot1sv. Rqs
Mani 10 show VOC that the girl fas,gtst Il
creature you cannst 6epena upon. Ss.