The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-31
A Steady Social WhirI During
Holiday Week.
LITTLE ONE HAD AN INNING
Christmas Feasts and Trees-DIn-
ners, Receptions and Dances.
Beach Afternoon.

Honolulu has been Christmas ike in
cheer, good viii and gaiety, if it has
not in atmosphere. There were Christ
mas trees up the valley, Christmas
trees on the Plains. Christmas trees at
! the Observation-Disclosures from one end OF
! the Islands TO the other. not to speak
! OF in between. 1t was no wonder that
imported trees gave out, and that our
old friend, the algeroba, was at last
robbed of his branches and, instead OF
| his usual summer aspect, was convert
| ed into winter with spangles, and
candles, and tinsel, and pop-corn-in
: fact dressing straight from Santa Claus.
| The Christmas tree party given by
| Miss Harriet and Master GiIchrist
| Hatch TO thirty OF their little friends,
was one of the largest After a delic-
ious supper on the lanai at o'clock.
| the tree was lit up inside the house.
and the children hocked in. 1t is not
necessary to add that the evening was
an enjoyable one. as the society art
icles do about grown up parties.
Christmas evening there was dinner
for sixteen and a dance after for fifty
or sixty guests, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold NJ. Sewal, at Waikiki.
This dance saw Christmas day in, al
though the day was prOpOrtionately as
young as the hour when goodbye was
said, was wee and sma'. So everybody
was ready for stockings bright and
early the next morning, and Honolulu
had few empty ones.
Sunday night there were several dim
nerS; one at Mrs. SwanZy's for twenty,
another at Mrs. HaywOOd's, and several
besides. There was scarcely a strang
er in town who was allowed to eat tur-
key and plum pudding alone.
Monday night there was dance at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. May. Tues
day night Mr.. and Mrs. Swanzy gave
a dinner for young people Wednes-
day night Dr. and Mrs. Cooper invited
about forty of their friends to chowd-
er supper up Tantalus. The moonlight
drive home afterwards was a feature of
the evening, for it was perfect night.
Tantalus belied tradition and every
body was surprised not to meet any
drenching showers.
Perhaps the most charming enter
tainment of the week was Mrs. James
Castles tea Thursday afternoon to
about a hundred Of her friends. Each
of the other social gatherings had been
a pleasant anticipation and fund of
agreeable "reminiscences, but each had
been only to a comparative few. Mrs
Castles, being more general, was a
source of pleasure to several elements
and alike enjoyable to all.
\ quaint little Japanese maid led
the ladies, from the front of the house.
Il = 1,0 do ,,nI
into the large lanai at the back. Here
they came upon a gay and pretty scene.
The sunlight filtered softly through
bamboo curtains, hung TO form a
screen which shut off the dazzling light
of the sun shining on the ocean, but
through which the dancing waves and
vast stretch of ripping waters glim
mered family, with all the effect of the
fairy scenes at the theaters, where
transparent veilings heighten the
beauties that lie beyond. Magnificent
palms, their rich, green leaves reach
ing to the ceiling, further subdued the
glare from the sea, and formed an eff
fective background for the dainty table,
upon which were delicacies that would
have made even the most Satiated So
ciety butterfly wonder afresh at the ap-
pellatiOn tea" An exquisite Japanese
silk table cloth, with clover leaves and
chrysanthemums embroidered in deli
cate greens and pinks in a graceful
border above a tasselled fringe, a big
bowl of blush and nephetOS roses in
the center, cut glass bowls of ice cream
and strawberries, silver dishes full OF
cakes and candies, the handsome silver
coffee service, the fine glass ware and
piles of plates of choicest design, made
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Further over in one corner Of the
lanai. was the quintette club, their
charming music lending animation to
the conversation and inspiration TO its
pauses. Mrs. Castle was just inside the
enclosed lanai, which led from the open
one, and with her was Mrs. f. NJ.
Hatch. who assisted her in receiving.
At the pretty tea table were Mrs. G. B.
Cooper. and Mrs. Henry Castle, with
Mrs. Swanzy. Miss Nellie White, and
Miss Jessie kaufman TO assist in serv-
ing the guests.
Sitting or standing in groups about
the lanai were, at one time Mrs Hay
wood. Mrs. H. p. Carter, Mrs. Charles
Carter. Mrs. Du ROi, Mrs. Sewan, Mrs.
Alexander. Mrs Mitchell, Miss Judd,
Mrs Anterior. Mrs. StOckbridge. Mrs.
Gilman, Mrs. Give Davies, Mrs. +. c.
Damon, Mrs. 5. M.DamOn, Mrs. Schaet-
fer, Mrs. Renjes, Mrs. FOcke, Mrs. En-
lily Judd, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Henry Coop
er, Mrs. Fuller. Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Won
Holt Mrs. ThurstOn, Mrs. George Car
ter, Mrs. McGrew. Mrs. Andrews, Mrs.
Hopper, Mrs. Coleman: others who
We're arriving exclaimed at the deHc-
ious effect of the light gowns, the gay
hats. the palms. the sweet scent of the
flowers, the faint murmur of the sea,
the cool breeze stirring gently, the soft
footed attendants passing about with
their dainty trays, the tempered light,
the music of the boys" whose sweet
voices rose and sank to the accOmpa-
niment of their tinkIing instruments.
and beyond, the sea, the sky, and
mountains.