The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1899-11-04
Matters Social.


honor of the many guests who add in
terest to social life at this time. This
famous coterie Of entertainers has laid
the younger society of Knoxville under
more obligations and done more for the
pleasure of young lady visitors than can
be readily computed. However the
club membership may change and Gu
pid has made dire inroads since it's
founding-the same courtesy and desire
to add it's full quota to Knoxville's hos
pitality still dominates the Cotillion
Club.
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The meeting of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy at Richmond, No
vember SIP, excites almost universal
interest. The unwilling of the Winnie
Davis monument, secured by cOntribu-
tions from the U. D. G. and personal
friends of Miss Davis, and through the
earnest efforts of the Richmond Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy, of whom Mrs.
N. V. Randolph, president of the Rich
mond Chapter, was the chief worker.
Through the interest of the railways, on
this occasion delightful trip has been
arranged not only by the Southern
through the picturesque North Carolina
scenery, but also by the Norfolk and
Western. A special correspondent will
report the proceedings for THE ECHO
and also give series of letters on the
many interesting features of this his
toric city. Richmond is full of rare
traditions and is unique in it's social
customs, differing perhaps from any
other Southern town.
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Tuesday was made memorable in town
annals by it's strong hint of winter in a
sudden chill wind, leaden clouds that
held shiver in their cold grey, an ac-
companying fall of the mercury, and
the Sanford reception. Within this
charming home has summer warmth
and richness that shamed the bleakness
outside. Mrs. Sanford's reception par
lor would make even a plain woman
look handsome, and forming as it did a
background for the semi-circle of mat
ronly and girlish beauty shown by the
receiving line, it was like gorgeous
frame to picture those who saw are
not likely to forget. 1t is something
out of the usual and therefore to be re-
membered, to see mother in line with
her five daughters, and composing in
her own lovely personality all their
charm and grace and beauty. Mrs.
Woodruff was like rare miniature in
her soft tinting, with regal poise of
head just sprinkled lightly with the
frost that deity sifted but adds new
charm to a fair face. Never had Mrs.
Sanford, Mrs. Meek, Miss Woodruff,
the glowing young ''bride-elect, " and
Margaret, the last if not least in the
quintette Of daughters, looked SO alto
gether stunning. Miss Mary Sanford,
in her tall stateliness, ended this beauty
curve admirably-as an ending should
always be. Back of this attractive
group glowed the rich American beauty
tints in brocatelle hangings, and in
walls above which freize of peoples
nodding splendidly, carried the color
scheme to the cream ceiling. This re-
ception was rendered in honor of the
fourth daughter, Katherine, whose mar
riage to Mr.. Cable, of Iowa, November
9th, snaps one link in the chain of united
home life. All of Knoxville's social
contingent were there between the
hours of four and six.
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1t has been the fashion to deride the
taste in dress of all club or public
women. So soon as woman turned
her attention to anything other than
children and housekeeping, with an
occasional indulgence in the shape of a
social or church function, she was sup
posed of necessity to become trump
with all ''frump's" lack of the gentler
graces. But this, like many other
belief-bubbles has been pricked by the
conviction of its unlikeness to the real
facts. A peep into the Assembly Hall,
Woman's Building, on Monday, would
have proven it fallacy. Presidents
Day, one of the Ossoli gala days, brought
out representative audience of inter.
ested, eager, up-to-date women, and TIC
be up-to-date means to be well dressed
in this day of materialism. To be sure
it may be the sex of the entertainer had
something to do with the array of new
feminine toggery. It's queer thing,
when you come to think of it, that when
woman's club wants to serve up some.
thing specially rich, rare and racy in
the line of entertainment, nine cases
out of ten it puts forward as its drawing
card not woman, but man; and al.
though he was ''alone in that club will.
derness" he yet held his own with q
cheerful endurance of his environment.
Somebody suggests and the points
well taken-that DR.. Duncan ought TIC
be on the honorary roll of all the Knox