The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-25

formal invitations for Sunday night din
ners. Card playing became more promi
nent- Indeed, one family devotes Sunday
afternoons and evenings to bridge-whis
parties. and sometimes the play lasts in
TO Monday daylight.
When the weather is favorable auto
mobile, coaching, riding and driving
parties are organized for Sunday, will
a country club as an objective point
where elaborate luncheons and timers arr
are served.
In fact. Sunday is the gayest day OF
the week at the country clubs, especial
ly the Chevy Chase Club which is the
most fashionable.
Senator Hale. of Maine. who is the
President of the Country Club, give:
many Sunday breakfasts at that secluded
retreat Sometimes they are informal
the guests being invited by telephone
the night before. At other times he has
invitations Engraved, and the feast is a
most elaborate one. Several weeks age
he gave q Sunday breakfast in honor OF
Lord Charles Beresford, which was at
tended by Cabinet officers, Senators, Dip
lomats and others whose names are
known the country over
1t would have been impossible to Sc
cure a list of the guests, because the
legislators might have a difficult time
explaining to their constituents in the
religious communities they represent.
On the same day Mrs. ]. Howard King
of Albany, gave a breakfast party for
her daughters at the Chevy Chase Club
to some thirty or thirty-five young people.
The day was afterward devoted to golf
ing and other amusements customary
in the country.
That same evening the Danish Minister
entertained a party of sixteen at dinner
at theclub.
That was not an exceptional Sunday,
either. In fact, it was a usual one. The
only variation is in the entertainers.
There have been instances when the
guests have INDUCED in informal dancing
after these country club dinners.
While is is weell understood that many
hostesses, like Mrs. William r. Merriam,
---rs. Francis B. Loring, Mrs. Thomas
F. Walsh Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger,
Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page and others,
are known to be at home on Sunday
afternoon. Mrs. Reginald d Koven is
the only American society woman in
Washington who has thee fact printed
on her cards. Mrs. De Koven serves tea
from o'clock until s, and this is followed
by dinner to a dozen or sixteen guests.
Afterward their home is open to a con-
tinuous stream of callers. some indulg-
ing in bridge and other games
For several years Mrs. Robert r. Hit.
the wife OF the representative from
Illinois. has entertained a small circle
of friends on Sunday evening, but her
parties are different from the others.
1t is Mrs. Hits ambition to establish a
salon.
The members of the official set do not
often appear as entertainers in these
Sunday festivities, and when lney at
tend tn m they do not like to have the
fact chronicled. The voter at home has
always to be reckoned with, and as a
rule the voter has a high regard for 1.-THE
sanctity of the Anglo-Saxon Sabbath"
Those who are trying to introduce the
Continental Sunday receive no encour-
agement from the President, for he and
Mrs. Roosevelt are scrupulous in their
observance of the sacred day. 1t is true
that some persons think to the contra ry
for not long ago he received a most Wig
orous letter of protest from a Woman
who condemned him for desecrating the
Sabbath. To this he replied that he
went to church on Sunday mornings
on Sunday afternoons he went riding or
driving with his family. Then he asked:
ITO which of these pastimes do you
object?'
1t is truue that occasional guests are
invited to the Presidents Sunday night
dinner, but these are restricted to rela-
tives and the closest family friends.