The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-13

! " the season, IS IlOl 81 lavish ia SAAO
bestowing of her favors here, as in those
! lands across the waters where already
over the fields the wild flowers are riot
/ ing and the air is filled with the futter
OF falling petals from the orchard trees
whose branches are outlined in snowy
white or pink or palest rose-still, Eas-
Ter, in this tropic land of ours, was ush-
cred in with a glory and sunny bright
ness of ferns and trailing vines and
notwithstanding creepers.
At the various churches throughout the
City willing hands had transformed the
interiors. No one was more beautifully
decorated than Central Union Church;
and to Miss Alice Jones and her assist
ant, Miss Kate Patty, must be given all
credit for the artistic result of their eff
fort.
AT the left of the pulpit huge banana
plants massed their ragged leaves into
depth of green that suggested an indef1-
mite vista of verdure. over the organ
were banks of starry marguerites, while
woven in and out among the meshes of
i hidden net, We're myriad sprays of
white oleanders lying against their back
ground of ferns. A cross of white was
brought into beautiful contrast by the
deep red lilies massed on the opposite
side of the pulpit.
For society, Casters coming has meant
the open sesame of gayety's door. OF
course we do not observe the Lenten
season here as in those far away coun-
tries where it is a time emblematic OF
quiet piety only, where even calls are
never made during Holy week, where the
women's faces are yelled upon the
streets, on which they go only when
making their trips to and from church,
where no friendly greetings between the
sexes-indeed, not even recognition of
each other-is made in public, and where
high and low alike unite in a spirit of
sacred observance of religious ceremo-
MES. Still, the rush and whin with
which society's wheel has been turning
this week is suggestive of a past cessa-
ton. Teas, luncheons, dinners, card and
even baby parties have been upon the
tapis j
At her musicale of Monday, the sfh,
Mrs. Selma Kinney was assisted ipFre-
ceiving by Mrs. C. Hedeman ahd Miss
Blooma. During the short but MIST de-
lightful program, the guests we've given
seats upon the picturesque lanai, which,
screened at the sunny corner, but with
the makai side open to chance breezes
from the sea, made an agreeably cool
retreat upon a very warm afternoon.
Miss BARRIERS violin solos, rendered
with the expression and fine technique
which characterizes all of her work,
We're most thoroughly enjoyed. vocal
solo by Miss Hyde, given with her usual
finished taste, was followed by an in
strumental solo by Miss Kinney and Miss
Kinney's playing always delights her
! hearers. Delicious refreshments were
served by a number of young ladies
gowned in the prevailing colors used for
the afternoons decorations, palest pink.
green and white, which colors were car
ried out even in the delicately tinted ices
4 making part of the refreshments Among
| those present We're: Mesdames G. H.
Atherton, E. w. Jordan, A. Tucker, A.
J. Derby, Allan White, Tenny Peck,
Saito, Harry Won Holt, Theo. Richards,
B. F. Dillingham;, Walter Frear, Smith
Misses Haverlaine, Needham, Blooma,
Zeigler, Gertrude Scott, Ella Stansbury
| Hyde, Jordan and others.
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Miss Craig, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Hale at Waikiki, is the recipient of the
same amount Of attention which was the
portion of her sister, Miss Pattie Craig
while on her visit to the Islands last
year with her parents, Major and Mrs.
Craig. Tuesday afternoon Miss Craig,
Miss Chamberlain and Miss Taylor, chap
eroned by Mrs. j. T. Mcdonald, took
tea with Mr.. A. S. Cleghorn The stran-
gers We're most enthusiastic over the
beauties of Ainahou.
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Her Honolulu friends will be\slad 10
hear news of Miss Clare Kelley, daaah-
ter of Mrs. Helen Kelley, who IS at
present studying Horticulture at griar
Cliff Manor, New York Miss Clare is
making rapid strides with her work
and being so far away from home is
made easier for her by the fact of the
near proximity of her sister, Miss Edna
Kelley. The latter is having her voice
trained in the city of New York, just
a few miles from Briar Cliff, so that the
sisters spend part of each week together.
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| Miss Bloona of Germany is visiting
Mrs c. Hedeman at Waikiki.
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II Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. A. IS.
Humphreys progressive euchre patty
there We're six tables. The Humphreys
pretty home is well adapted for eFter-
4 tanning and the hostess was assisted in
! her untiring efforts for the pleasure of
| her guests by Miss Zoe Atkinson, Mrs.
H. Morton Riggs and little Miss Dagmar
Sorenson, whose duty it was-a duty per-
formed in most gracefully pretty man
| the close of the games. A.rs. Arthur
Brown was the lady champion of the aft
ernoon, winning first honors in the shape
of an exquisite Dresden plate; Mrs. Chas.
B. Cooper following close upon her foot
steps, carried off the second prize of a
dainty cup and saucer. Mrs. S. M. Da-
mons prize was such a beautiful cut
glass bowl that that genial lady confess
d perfect content in occupying the un-
usual 0or herr position of one needing
"eonsolation." Among Mrs. Humphreys
guests were Mesdames Geo. H Herbert,
}Ardrew Fuller, Philip Andrews, j. T.
Mel nald, NJ. NJ. Estee, F. Deering,
earn "hael, s. Wilder, H. Lewis. Gard
lner Wider, Chas. Wilder, F. A. Schae-
fer, c. B. Wood, Paul Neumann, It.
Lansing, NJ. Phillips; Misses Walker,
Belle Walker, Mamie Wid1.neld. Ella
Stansbury. May Damon, Sorenson and
Maggie MacIntyre.
Miss Scriminger of Maui is spending
her weeks vacation in Honolulu.
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Miss Rodgers, who has been the lead
ing soprano of the Centenary Methodist
Church of San Francisco Is now In Ho-