The San Francisco call., 1898-12-11

A@ HE holiday season, usudny so
 prolific in charitable entertain
 ments, has been no exception
 this year. The principal affair
 JS of the week at which society
 poured tea and cut loaves for sweet charity was the reception and sale of fancy goods yesterday at the residence of Miss Murison, 2234 Pacific avenue, for the benefit of the furnishing fund or the new St. Lukes church.
 Art also has been engaging much of the time and attention of fashionable femin- inity the past seven days, the smart set having turned out in large numbers to view the paintings at the Art Institute and at the Bohemian Club. There have also been few private exhibitions. One of the most notable of these was the re- ception at the studio of Miss Alice Her rick and Mrs. Mary Ross, when Miss Herricks collection of painted porcelain and the sketches and paintings of Mrs. Ross were admired by many fashionable lovers of art.
 The event of the week, of course, was the first party of the season of the Fri dav Night Club under the able leadership of MT. Greenway This being a fait ac- compli, the social season may now be said to be in full swing.
 The last on the list of debutantes has made her bow to the gay world, MISS Maud Mullins having been formally intro duced to society at a tea wnch her mother. Mrs Charles F. Mullins, gave 1,aeterdav afternoon at her residence, 1899 Cough street.
 The ranks of the debutantes are about to be depleted by the departure on Satu:- dav next of Miss Adelaide Murphy. Miss Murphy will accompany her aunt HiIs Swift East, and later on to Europe.
 te- h for the present week. The dances or tne Fntre Nous Club, the Friday and the Sal nrday Fortnightlies being all that have been listed so Tar
 One of the gayest of the dinners or the week was that given by Frederick A Greenwood at his home on Pacinc ave. pne There Were Mre at reepwood eao1e % and his sis fer. Miss Jane Greenwood: Miss OIve Toibrook Miss Therese Morgan, Miss Gertrude Forman, Harry Holbrook, Ed ward H. Sheldon and Edward M. Green Mir and Mrs James Cooper gave a the- ater party at the AcaZar on Monday Miss Ethel Cooper. A supper was c,.s, en- joyed afterward at the University Club. The others in the party were: Mrs. Mon Mon roe Salisbury, Miss Kate Salisbury, Miss Margaret Salisbury, Miss Josephine Loughborough, Miss Susan Banding, Miss Lillian Follis, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss
  Harry M Holbrook, Clarence Follis, J. King, Percy King, Isaac Upham Jr., MT. Knight, A. D. Reyes, Howard Veeder, Mr. Hamilton and Dr. Gibbons.
 
 MT. and Mrs Samuel G. Murphy gave an elaborate dinner party in the Red room at the Bohemian Club on WedneS- day evening in honor of Mrs. E. C. Swift and Miss Swift, who came from the East a few weeks ago to attend the wedding of Miss Ethel Murphy and Mir. Riddle. The room was handsomely decorated with tropical palms and ferns, and the table with fragrant blossoms. The party comprised: MT. and Mrs. Samuel G Murphy, Mrs E. C. Swift, Miss Mabel Swift. Miss Adelaide Murphy. Miss Alice Moffatt, Miss Mary Bell Gwin Miss The rese Morgan, Miss Olive Holbrook, John G. Follansbee, MT. Moffatt. k. M. Green way, Robert M. Eyre, Edward H. Shel- don, Peter D. Martin, James D. Phelan and Walter Magee.
 Mir. and Mrs. William G. Irwin enter tained number of friends at the Califor- mia Theater on Saturday evening, De- cember 8. After the performance a SUD- per was enjoyed at the 'home of the host and hostess on Van Ness avenue. Their guests were Miss Gertrude Carroll, Miss Grace Spreckels, Miss Carrie Taylor. Miss Therese Morgan, Miss Bertha Sidney