The San Francisco call., 1898-01-17
Some New Development in the Sails bury-W els
 Case.
Gossip Has Merry Time AprOpOs of the Latest
 Scandal
wHOBOUGHTA A BELLEDOM7
A Pair of Sleiqhbells Lost and a Pair of Sleighbells
 Found.

And still the merry social war con- tinues the tumultuous tenor of its way, leaving no gory trail to mark course strewn with spicy bits of gossip, point CTS for the uninitiated, authenticated tales from the inside" and pointed aphorisms born of the occasion and the hour.
 MT Wells drops not into poetry, but sententious phrases and says: He who runs society for his own personal benefit, who considers society an asset purely personal with him, makes big mistake"
 Mrs Salisbury, the leading lady in this social farce, evidently considers her role a strong thinking part, for she says nothing at all, maintaining the same dignity that has always hereto fore characterized her, and treating the entire tale of commercial belledom with highbred silent contempt
 Dame Gossip naturally has taken hand in the game and drawn the beau as well as the belle into the conflict. With a more than usual justice she ac credits the full grown man" with some backbone but unInercifully grills the poor, harmless, necessary dancing brownie.
 Says the worthy unreliable dame:
 Mrs Salisbury insists that all her men-the men who lead and dance at her cOtillOns, pay court to her. She is at home on Sundays and there they are ali expected to call. 4 big process sion of men is imposing; it looks as if her daughters were admired to within an inch of their lives. Woe betide the poor little dancer who fails to make his weekly call And they go. Every one of them. Have to. They are ac- tually afraid not to.
 f f1T1l ervrC i- fl different. They belong to the Fort nightly for the very same reason that the brownie pays his weekly duty call but they draw the line at paying court to the Czarina.
 Further" says interesting but un- trustworthy gossip, ''motherless belles were a great source of revenue. Doting fathers with plethoric purses readily saw the necessity of a reliable social guide of unqUestioned birth and breed ing and they paid handsomely for the same" We could, if we would, but either they can't or they won't, for they stop provokingly short right in the most exciting part.
 Then there is a story of sleighbells, mixed up in it, although to the un- initiated it is not quite clear what sleighbells have to do with dancing belles. But the tale comes from MT Greenway and some how or other it does not seem quite proper 70 nave a social story in which MT. Greenway's S name does not appear. Thus runs the fable-it must be a fable, for 1t Is sup posed to have a moral:
 Once upon time MT. Greenway, at a great personal expense, imported from Baltimore, the worthy home of the suc- ulent bivalve, a pair of sleigh bells. These same imported bells were used at a Christmas cOtillon and then, like the jewels of farewell tour diva, were reported missing. Sleuths were put upon the track, but the bells left no telltale tinkle behind them. Time sped on and MT. Herrin gave a cotillon. Handsome Kate Salisbury led and one of the most taking features was the sleighbeH figure. The rest of the fable is wrapt in mystery, and the moral hard to discern. However it concludes with a vulgar refrain: Where did you get those sleighbells?"
 And while the unconcerned are enjoy ing themselves so thoroughly Mir Wells, who unintentionalIy let loose the dogs of war, is overwhelmed with a great pity for the unfortunate organizer of the Fortnightly.
 "She is a good mother" he says. Re gently her actions have been peculiar, but I fear she is not responsible for what she says or does.''