The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-25

SANsFRANCsICO
SOCIETY EVENTS
BY S. MARION wEEKEs.


Fashions have the floor just now and
while the men are talking politics, the
women are evolving gowns for the
winter. Apropos of fashions, the swell
modiste of San Francisco. who today
considers herself, and rightly too, on q
par with New York's best artistic, is
indignant over the fact that the Sar
Francisco 400 still clings to the idea
that an imported gown is the ALTO
Be-Desired, just as it was in the ole
days when San Francisco didn't get the
fashions until year after. Womer
will boast of an imported gown, and
be far more skillful. cannot get the
prestige.
Last winter Lurline Spreckels and her
Paris frockS made a sensation and
even Lily Lawlor with her more modest
wardrobe, aroused envy because hel
gowns came from abroad. Nobody
stopped to reflect that if Lily had her
clothes constructed by the little dress
maker in her own house, when she
made her home in San Francisco, that
perhaps she did the same in France
One woman remarked to another, after
greeting Lily in a down town store one
day:
az wonder if it is good taste the way
Lily Lawlor wears huge paste dia-
mond stuck in her front hair, with q
big picture hat we'll back on her head
so as not to obscure a view of the
jewell
"Oh, of course it is all right replied
the other. "They must do it in Paris!
Lurline Spreckels, with perfumed chif.
fons trailing behind her, swept up to a
society belle at one of the cotillions
last winter, and said:
'.Oh, how pretty How chic! Whose
model are you wearing? Is it Paouir
or Ducet?''
"It is not a model at ALL said the
San Francisco belle,-and this one
boasts the courage of her convictions
This gown was made by my dress,
maker here; I'll be glad to give you hel
address,
But Lurline Spreckels and her chif'
fons, still true to Paquin and Ducet
faded away without the address.
Lily and Grace Spreckels have gone
to New York. for two months, with
their father and Of course will come
back with importations to last the win
ter and cause San Francisco to gnast
it's tooth.
Kate Dillon has returned with a lot
of exquisite costumes and lacy neg
.ligees that are dreams of art in their
careless effect.
To go back to Lurline Spreckels,-the
general idea prevails that she will mar
ry this winter; she has discovered thai
the young girl is handicapped in Paris
so she persuaded her mother to spend
this coming winter in New York. But
Mrs. Gus loves Paris and will, in al
probability, want to return there next
year. So Lurline, in addition to the
temptation of good proposals, has the
incentive of escaping Paris as an -un-
married damsel.
There are many Honolulu people who
will be very much Sin it, with the new
Mayor, should he prove to be Henry
Croker, for the Crockers never cease
to recall their visit to Hawaii and the
hospitality with which they were treat
ed. Mrs. Croker would be a very at
tractive Lady Mayoress and would un-
doubtedly invest the position of Mayor
with touch of the social that should
be part of it. She seems to be one
of the few women who can combine
a society and home life. She is drawn
into the social vortex by reason of her
INT
she is known to be a devoted mother
and seems to find plenty of time to de-
vote to her six small children.
OF course Therese Morgan's wedding
to Norris Davis and the agements
of both the popular Harrington girls
to naval officers are the topics of the
day. Many of the girls here wonder if
Mr.. Niblack's engagement will disap-
point the Honolulu girls. Certainly he
is an attractive and popular fellow and
he has always been a great favorite
with the fair sex. His fiancee is a tall
slim girl with luxurious, reddish hair
and the poise that travel, and the other
good things of life, are apt to give
She has gracious manner and is pecu-
liarly fitted to be a naval officers wife
for many reasons, not the least OF
which is her ability to pick up and
go'' at a moments notice. She is a
good traveller and makes friends wher-
ever she goes. Her singing of course
makes her additionally charming, for
she has remarkably good, and well
trained voice. The Harrington girls
have been much in demand at Mare
ium a few weeks since, has been re-
moved to her home erea tlv imnroved