Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-01

Miss ROLAND, black satin with trim
mings of pink silk and white chiffon.
Diamond and opal ornaments.
Miss Lyon, embroidered pink chiffon
over pink silk. Diamond and emerald
ornaments.
Miss Dryden, white organdie over
helotrope silk, with white lace trim
mings.
An excellent orchestra furnished
music for the dancers. and the gentle
men whose early education did not en-
brace the curriculum containing the
| terpsichorian art. occupied the time
| playing whist and gazing longingly and
enviously on the gay ball room party.
Delicate refreshments were served at a
late hour.
Mrs. j. f. Harvey has set aside every
other Thursday nightas the most proper
and acceptable time to amuse the guests
of the Alamogordo, and in future it will
be known as ''society night" Dances,
with whist parties in connection, in
terSpersed with occasional musicales and
other forms of amusements, will occupy
the society nights. The series will be
entirely complimentary to the gucst :
the hotel.
Mrs Harvey will be assisted in the
work of entertainment by Mrs. Henry
Sutherland and Mrs Gt,. G. Bryan, who
were so largely i,srUruiieEsai in ,nsaiing
the success attained at Governor Otero's
reception. Mrs. Sutherland, wife of the
chairman of the board of directors of the
Alamogordo Commercial club, entertains
considerably and is acknowledged a.
graceful and charming hostess. Mrs.
Bryan is the petite wife of the vice pres
ident of the Commercial club and is be-
loved by all who know her gentleness
and pleasing manners towards all. Mrs.
Harvey's husband is presideioa3f the
Commercial club. She is queen of en-
tertainers, and her long experience in
such matters has given her an enviable
tact and unconscious grace that readily
captivate the hearts OF her guests and
precludes the possibility of the occurrence
of those disagreeable circumstances
which spoil the pleasure of the guests
and cast gloom over the social life of
nearly all small cities.
II X
The above mention of Alamogordo
society leaders is not made with the
view of mere flattery, or the gratfica-
tion of vanity, but to show the outside
world that here is a growing city where
the wives and daughters of permanent
homeseekers will be provided with re-
fined amusement. 1t is place where
no one need suffer from ennui, nor en-
tertain the gnawing pangs of loneliness.
i 4
There is nothing hollow or empty
about AlamOgOrdo'S social status. A
real duty devolves on the wives of the
Commercial club members and they are
acquitting themselves nobly. While the
men do everything within their power to
make the city attrf ctive and gain
desirable resident element, the ladies
give the finishing touches by claiming the
visitors with bonds of friendship and
generous good will. Strangers are readi-
ly entertained and admitted to Alamo
gordo society and it is only necessary to
give evidences of chivalry and
gentlemanly or womanly bearing con-
sistent with gentilty and nobility of
character, to gain secure social foot
ing. Only 100 miles from here is large
city. The stranger in that city is welcom-
cd to nothing elevating and is forced to
shut himself in a room. Citizens there
refer to their locality with pride as "a
sporty town." but the amusements
shown the newcomer are not such as to
please anyone possessing refinement In
Alamagordo things are entirely differ
ent. One is thrown into a social whirl
marked with purity and elegance
There is no 400" no exclusive set, and
no snobbery here. A righteous char
acter, generous heart or noble DISPOSE
ton, will carry man as far as dress
suit; and an arch of welcome, invites the
stranger to come in with good people, be
good and have good time.
A Foreclosure Suit
Attorney E. A. Fske this morning
brought foreclosure suit for John G.