, 1899-03-25
lin SOCIAL CIRCLES
SOCIAL AND CARD PARTY GIVEN
BY THE FRATERNAL UNION
OF AMERICA.
w. C. T. U. Discusses Domestic Edu-
cation of Children"-Novel Party
at Cheyenne-Birthday Club Meets
-Lenten Tea-Ladies of Catholic
Church Ball-Other Events.

One of the largest and most success
full public card parties that has been
given this winter was held at G. A. r.
hall on Thursday evening of this week.
1t was the initial entertainment of the
Fraternal Union of America and the
members of the lodge proved them
selves hospitable entertainers, There
were twelve tables, at which progress
sive Might've was played. The hand
some prizes were won respectively by
Mesdames Beltz, Gardner, Grant, and
Messrs. Beltz, Ruprecht and Askin. A
fire collation. was served by the ladies
of the order.
Those who attended were: Mr.. and
Mrs. E. T. Beltz, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Denig, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Converse,
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. j. Bell, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Askin, DR.. and Mrs. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Ruprecht, Mesdames. Breiten-
stein, Lovett. McCutcheon, VIM. Har-
ris, George Harris, Reid, Gardner,
Travel, P. Mathison. Leroy Grant,
Ashley, Bloom, Nettie Jones, Costin;
Misses Rose Graham, Ida McClary, Ida
Martin, Kate Ringert, Bloom. Nellie
Dean; Messrs. S~ettele, Abrams, Cordi-
ner, Wilson, Bradbury, McClary, Hur-
ley, Holiday, Congdon. Hodgeman,
Miller, Hassett, Wright.
900
Fashionable dancing parties are no
longer chaperoned. That is out of date.
Nowadays the cotillion, or German,
or hop is "matronized" by Mrs. Very
Richie, Mrs. De Style and other mothers
of the Four Hundred.
900
The Lenten Tea was entertained at
the home of Mrs. Hamilton. Mrs. Grant
cards.
n ShiN'isiis Ddi1ilS NliD, DO Kill
nounced, held it's hop on Thursday
evening. The following were present:
Misses Pearl johnson, Jennie Goodale
Alice Holiday, Mile Thompson, Hook.
er, Cora Gray, Laura Coutant, Alice
and Nellie Marsh, Maud johnson, Allie
Knott, Katie Roach, Elizabeth Holli-
day, Harriet Fox, Blanche, Hilda and
Jean Durlacher. Agnes G%reenbaum,
Blanche Davies, Edythe McClarey, Hell
en- Manasse, Nellie Dean, Maud Moudy;
Mesdames Gross, Knight, Roach,
Marsh, Gray; Messrs. Atherly, Paul
son, Spalding, Langheldt, Cordiner,
Downey, Lee, Frank and Harry Brett
enstein, Scott. Denig, Coutanit, Hous-
ton, Campbell, Moudy, Bradbury,
Congdon, Gilmore, Rife, Peterson,
Hesse, Murphy, Beach. Holiday, Gray,
Schilling, Washburn, Sudduth.
After the party was over, a number
of the dancers went oven to the G. A.
R. hall, where the F~raternal Union Of
America served supper.
900
The Shakespeare club will meet at
the residence of Mrs. Durlacher next
Tuesday evening.
900
By invitation of Mrs. Preston the w.
c. T. U. met with that lady last Thurs
day afternoon. Mrs. Lee read an X
cellent article on the Domestic Edu-
cation of Children" showing the i'm
portance of thorough instruction in
home making.
Danger to Our Girls was the sub
ject of a leaflet read by Mrs. Nelson
The responsibilities of womanhood and
motherhood were clearly shown. The
writer said: The veal of humanity
rests so heavily upon womanhood that
we must guard well this spring of the
life of our race" In treating of the
early formation of character the writer
warned mothers against the too fire.
quent practice of absorption in the
baby's outfit rather than in the quail
ties of heart and mind which she alone
can give it. She quoted Frances Will
ard, who said: Put your wealth into
the arteries, store it away in the brain
cells and heart fibres of your children.
Necessity of training girls to be self
RELIANT was illustrated by the fact that
$40 girls and women were arrested and
lodged in one police station, in Chi
cago, some years ago, and, of this num-
ber, only 1870 could sew or do house
work and nom had ever learned a
trade.
Mrs. Preston spoke interestingly con-
corning the Educational Influence of
Temperance Mass Meetings" She gave
the RESULT OF such meetings in her
former home In Kansas. Mrs. Preston's
husband introduced the first prohi-
Ibitory bill In the Kansas legislature.
900
The Maennerchor society gives a
hop this evening.
The Laramie Dancing club gave Its
last hop Of the season at North Staa
hail last evening. This club was organ
iized early in the seaso and has given