The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-22
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BY S. MARION WEEKEs.

The winter season is OPEN
ing wide here and society is
growing strenuous. A house-party
at Mrs. VIII Tevis's home in Bakers
field gave an impetus to a little clique
comprised of people well known to Ho-
nolulu-Mrs. w. G. Irwin, the Horace
Chases, Mountford Wilson's, and Rob-
ert Oxnards. OF this party, aside
from Mr.. and Mrs. Will Tevis and Mrs
Oxnard, each and every one has been
in Hawaii and has an aloha for the
Islands, and they all declared that the
three days spent with Mrs. Tevis was
more like a taste of Island life than
anything they had known since leav-
ing Honolulu. When a curry course
was served, the last night, Mrs. Irwin
heaved sigh and said the picture was
complete and Mrs. OXnard, as the per-
lection of its cooking delighted her
palate, said she was "enthused' Homo
luluward, even, to the point of forget
ting a prediction for Europe and Par
is gowns. By the way, it is remark
able how few people in California can
cook a dish of curry; a brown gravy
with dash of curry powder shaken in,
with more or less free hand, is their
only experience of this course, so COM
monty delicious in Hawaii
A genuine pet of society is Mrs. Maus
who will be very much missed this
winter and who had many warm
friends to see her off on the Sheridan.
Mrs. Maus looked very wistfuI hand
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and said she wished she was going TO
dear, old Honolulu instead of to Ma
Mia.
But Mrs. Ashton Potter, who sailed
for Manila, shortly before, on the ST.
IBERIA, took the situation from differ
ent standpoint, for she has heard Ash
ton falkland others talk more-and
she owns a photograph of Ashton in
a khaki suit, a lei, and a general air OF
a good time, and she does not care for
Honolulu. Mrs. Potter's first trip to
the Orient about three years ago was a
more romantic one than this, for she
was Miss McNutt then and sailed with
her mother and sister for Yokohama
where Lieutenant Potter met her. Their
acquaintance before that time had
been only of one weeks duration.
Mrs. Potter invited Miss Mary jesse
lyn to go to Manila with her and Miss
Mamie" gave the invitation careful
consideration in this wise: would a
few hours in Honolulu compensate for
a stay in Manila?' And she decided to
winter at the st. Dunstan with her
sister, Mrs. Spencer.
The Josselyn family have gone to
Europe and one charming debutante, in
the person of Marjorie Josselyn, is lost
to the San Francisco bouquet of buds.
On the same ship with Mrs. Potter
sailed the Ide girls, known generally as
"the popular Ide girls" No wonder
they are popular for they have charm
ing manners-easy, gracious, natural,
and to hear them sing Samoan songs
and to see them dance the Samoan
dance as only an Ide girl-or a Samoan
belle-can, is a revelation.
In San Francisco speculation is busy
as to how this group Of well known
women will get on; the Ide girls can
adapt themselves to any one and ev-
erything, Mrs. Maus is used to having
others adapt themselves to her, and
Mrs. Potter was never diplomatic and
only since her marriage has been in
troduced to a life that should contain
an element of diplomacy.
Judge Estee's death brought a SYM
pathetic coterie of friends about his
daughter, Mrs. Charlie Deering. Mrs.
Deering had invitations out for a
luncheon, which she of course recalled
when she heard of her fathers illness.
Charlie" is a very devoted son-in-law
to Mrs. Estee and she will find a place