The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17

country. There will be just one
 big affcr during April-the bachelors ball at the Palace Hotel
 With the coming of the first May blossoms the fashionable world and his wife will hie themselves to green fields and rural delights. Drawn blinds and storm doors will proclaim the family out of town.
 The time remaining before the ex- odus begins will be divided between the dressmakers, the milliners and shopping. For the summer outing is always more or less a dreSSup affair. Last year riding, boating and golf crowded out all other amusements The hops at the big hotels were dismal failures. Moonlight drives and strolls were preferred to tripping the light fantastic.
 A social forecast reveals some new phenomena on this summers horizon. light breeze of anglo-maniacism is predicted. It is awaited with pleasure, for 1t is not the malignant sort, but, to the contrary, promises to be a refresh ing innovation.
 The big hotels and fashionable sum mer resorts are going to be given the cold shoulder. Following the example of our English cousins across the pond, lilc pIOpeI LILLE WILL Dc to spend the summer either at your own place" or to be an invited guest at somebody else's place" It will be one round of house parties. And the danger of mon- otony is entirely eliminated by the fact that the summer homes are close enough together to make it possible to combine in the jaunts and festivities. Then, too, the limit of a guests visit will be from one to three weeks, so that will al hn orrixr lc liven things bit.
 There is no doubt that th.s is infin- itely more enjoyable than hotel life with its innumerable cliques, the sacred inner circle, the exposure of those on the outer edges.
 All these disagreeable drawbacks are responsible for the adoption of the English way of .doing things" A fine place, a good cook, spirited horses and a hospitable host-these are drawing cards that cannot fail to attract The much-sought-after guest will be the one who can help the host entertain and suggest ways and means of ban ishing dull care. With the country homes in such close proximity there will be a spirit of rivalry in getting up affairs that will assure an element of originality.
 Society has put on it's thinking cap and many are tn, novel ideas slowed away that will cause fiutter when they are brought to the light of fulfill ment. There Is always riding, swim ming, boating, wheeling and golf to while away the hours with. but the place that would establish for itself the title of peer of entertainers will have to offer it's guests something new and decidedly out of the ordinary. That is the delightful part of the innovation.
 One particularly brilliant suggestion is a cake-walk cotillon. It would be impossible to give one in town, but in the country, where cast-iron restraint is thrown to the winds, 1t is bound to be the Init" of the season. At first thought 1t is hard to understand just how cake walk could be introduced in cotillon. But it is not difficult to arrange. The first figure Is a follow your leader" affair. The couples form line and follow the leaders only in point of direction, each couple intro ducing individual steps and poses. The grotesque features = the real cake