The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-13

with Mr. Lapham, and Mr.. Dearborn
| Oscar being the only unmarried man
| OF the party was perhaps the fayori+a
at least with the girls, and the leis he
wore when he sailed from Honolulu
were, as he expressed it. ''embarrass-
ing." But he married San Rafaa,
blonde maid, Miss Josephine Crosby
and his wife has accompanied him from
New York to visit her family.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Spra que, and The
Dennis Searleses arrived home on the
China. full of enthusiasm about their
trip. MIR. and Mrs. SearIes are at the
I Nordhon until summer when they hs,saI
secured a house at NIenIo Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague are visiting
Mrs. Richard Sprague, Mr.. Sprague's
| mother. and are having a round of en-
tertainnsents in their honor. Their
home is to be in Oxnard, California. So
family and friends are trying to crowd
lot of pleasure into the two weeks The
young couple Will be in town.
Blanche Bates, the handsome actress.
so we'll known to Honolulu both artfs-
tically and socially, is organizing. or
proposing TO organize, a corps of
trained nurses to go to the assistance Of
the Japanese forces. Her offer is ten
dered through DR.. Nicholas Sem. also
expected to have charge of the field
hospital work of the japanese army.
The corps of nurses is to be organized
at the expense of Miss Bates who lived
in Japan for four years and who de-
clares she is warmly attached to the
FIowery Kingdom.
Mrs. Frank behring's latest success
in a social line, was q head-dress dinner
at which some of the coiffures We're
very we'll carried out. Mrs Deering
wore a Normandy cap and gauzy veil
and looked very handsome Frank
Deering had the wig and whislzers of a
chief Justice A Chinaman was particu-
larly well done, and a Martha Wash
ington was a picture of rosy prettiness
under her white hair. Through one of
the courses each guest was requested
to live up to his, or her, character and
the burlesqued result provoked a good
deal of laughter.
That beau ideal of good looks-to the
bread-and- butter age,-Jim Dunphy, is
divorced after a month of married life.
And this probably conveys little to Ho-
nolulu until, to go back, the fact is
recalled that for three or four years
Jim Dunphy was engaged to be married
to EIida Wilbur, beautiful girl who
visited Honolulu some years ago. Jim
Dunphy is a Catholic and having been
married before, the wedding was con-
stantly being postponed because the
Pope would not give dispensation."
One night there was a lovers quarrel
and the next morning Elida Wilbur was
found lying on a sofa, the gas turned
on. She did not die for over a year,
but fingered IN a state of absolute I'M
consciousness that baffied the doctors.
Finally death came to release her and
the mystery remains unsolved as to
what happened that night, whence the
quarrel, whether she intended to kill
herself, and why she remained I'M
conscious for so long when asphyxi-
alton kills within short time, or else
the poison is eliminated from the sys-
tenn and the victim RECEIVERS.
Mrs. Sydney-Smith and her attractive
daughters, Mrs. Lansdale, Helen and
Bertha Sydney-Smith, have spent the
winter in Egypt where Mrs. Lansdale
has taken some attractive photographs
of places they have visited. Mrs. Lans-
dale is one of the most expert amateur
photographers.