The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-08

| ton of the St. Peter street Hos
teIry-Mrs. A. shimOnek Enter
taina at Her Home ON Laurel
Avenue.
The management Of the Colonnade gave
an informal house warming party last
night, which was attended by 200 invited
guests. During the past three months
| the house has been refnished inside and
handsomely decorated. The workmen
| were delayed in completing the contract,
| interfering with the plans to give
| formal party, and on the completion Of
the work a few days ago, the manage
ment decided to issue invitations for an
| informal affair to take the place of the
more pretentious event previously
| planned
The reception rooms were decorated
| with cut flowers and plants, and after .
o'clock the guests assembled, while dur
| ing an hour reception was in progress.
The dining room, which has been REIN
ished in way to give it an unusually at
| tractive interior, was cleared for the dan
| cling. An orchestra stationed in one Of the
alcoves furnished music, and the guests
enjoyed long programme, with several
extras. During the latter part Of the
evening refreshments were served from
| tables in the rear of the dining room.
| Among the invited guests were:
Messrs. and Mesdames M A Shea, W.
| G. Edwards, P. Mcdonnell, Beasley, j.
| H. Kimball, Mcmillan, J. A. Simmons,
J. Rothschild. Charles SohIey, William
Smith, of Boston; A. Jay Rudd, Fisher
! Tenny, Stern, of Minneapolis; ]. E. Geld
rich, A. S. Bloom, George Trimerr. W. B.
DR., Goodrich, S. J. johnson, W. J. Han
cock; Mesdames E. P. Fowler, 3. A.
Hyde, Hood, Burgess; Misses Ollie Jones,
Sh9teld F. Campbe e,1 Moore Mat RoFb
Shear, simonson; Lila Mcmillan, Stella
Rothshild, of Salt Lake City; Messrs.
H c. Castelar, Drake, E. ]. Evans, w.
]. Fordyce, T. A. Wheeler, w. j. Holly,
Herbert S, J. Johnson, E. ~ LGovejoy. T. q.
F. Riddle, ]. E. Howe, Ben Hirschmann,
F. M Hirsch, w. A. Rudd, A. j. Flour
noy, J. w. Crow, J. E. Elhcott, B. Tay-
lor, A. D. Ward, DR.. Loveberry and Ru-
Mrs Anton Shimonek gave a small tea
yesterday afternoon from to + at her
home on Laurel avenue. A pretty floral
scheme was carried out in the different
rooms. Palms and yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS were used in the reception room.
the library in red, and the dining room in
pink and green. The side board and man
tel were banked with pink chrysanthe..
NUNS. The center piece was bowl Of
sisted in receiving by Mrs. Stewart L.
| Moore Mrs. William Begg, Mrs. H. w.
Albert Moore, Mrs: Archibald Guthrie,
Mrs. Chamberlin, Mrs. Megroth, Mrs.
WiIlius,, Miss Otis. Miss Brill, Miss Sin;
clair Miss Lake. Miss Ruth Myers and
fr1ld Ne {rlF Grc
| and Miss Edith Brill served punch in the
library. Mrs. E. J. Abbott poured coffee,
| and Mrs. H. R. Brill and Mrs George P.
Tuthill served Ice cream
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the Central
afternoon in the church parlors. Mrs
Benjamin Longley presided An election
Of officers resulted as follows: President,
Mrs. Longley; vice president, Miss Belle
Morrison; recording secretary, Mrs. L. B.
Turner; treasurer, Mrs. M. J. Russell;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. j.
Thorne Mrs Longley and Miss Quinby
were appointed a committee to arrange a
programme for the years work. China
Will be the country studied for the next
six months at least 1t was decided that
during the winter months the meetings Of
the society would be held at the home of
the different members. The society will
meet next month with Miss Belle Morri-
son, Canada street.
The district meeting of the Minneapolis
branch, Woman's Foreign Missionary So
city OF the METHODIST Lis Church, will be held
church. 1t will be an all day meeting.
| -
The st. Paul mission class held its reg
uIar monthly meeting yesterday after
noon in the guild room of Christ Episco-
pal church. Mrs. Henry Hale presided.
An interesting talk on Alaska was
given by Miss Holmes, a member of AS
cenSion church congregation. Miss Holmes
used map to illustrate her talk. Mrs
Bass read extracts from the official pa
per of the society. entitled Spirit of Mis-
sions." The selections she read dealt en-
tirely with missionary work in Japan
About thirty ladies were present yestar-
day.
The Ladies Social Circle Of the Peo-
pies Church held its regular all-day meet
ing yesterday in the parlors of the church
Mrs. George F. Clifford and Mrs Asa F.
Goodrich had charge of the noon lunch
con; The ladies are planning a fair to
be held from 8 to 10 Thursday evening,
Dec. Z, in the church parlors No article
on sale will exceed in price 81, and no
article will be sold for less than five
cents.
general public: Mrs. E. ]. Hodgson will
have charge of the supper.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. 2. Ford gave a large
euchre party last evening at their home,
No Crocus place, in honor of Mr. and
Elliott, Of Duluth. The different rooms
were decorated with chrysanthemums
roses, cosmas and palms. All the man
tells were banked with chrysanthemums
and the fire place were filled in with them.
Euchre was played at twenty tables. Mrs.
Ford was assisted by Mrs. Franklin
EIoete; Mrs. Judson Wade Bishop, Mrs.
Fred Wright, Mrs. w. s. Wright Mrs.
W.. II. Vittum, Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg,
and Mrs. George B. Thompson. After the
euchre playing there was an Informal
taance, St Anthony Hill orchestra play
The board of directors of the day nurs-
cry met yesterday. Mrs. Emma p.
White and Mrs J. r. Jewett were an
pointed visitors for November. Durins
October go children were cared for. a
Thanksgiving dinner is being planned nv
THEY ARE CONVINCING