The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-11

I This has been the gayest day since
Ash Wednesday and Mrs. Weed Mum
70 and Mrs. Edwin w Gould were
the hostesses at the first large re-
ception which has been given for sew
eral weeks. 1t was at the home Of
Mrs. Gould on Humboldt avenue S
decorations. The dining-room was
in pink and the other rooms showed
4 red blossoms among the green.
Mines. Munroe and Gould received
alone and assisting thru the rooms
We're Mines: G. III. Bicknell, John
Henry Newhall, Simmons and Taylor
Of st. Paul. The young women in the
dining-room were the Misses DeCamp,
Misses Bliss, Madeira and Oliver.
The guests came and went from 3 un-
til 6 o'clock.
The first of the many pretty affairs
which have been planned for Miss
Helen Hughes, in the days preceding
her wedding, was given this afternoon
when Miss Amy Laramee had tea at
her home on Highland avenue. The
parlors were festooned with vines and
palms furnished a pretty background.
Red flowers were In the library,
where frappe was served by Miss
Lucas and in the dining-room a bas-
l1et Of yellow roses gave the color
mote for the decorations. Mines. Paul
at the table and Miss Blanche Strong
and Mrs. H. c. Brace assisted thru
the rooms. Miss : Grace Jungen
and Miss Tubbs gave several musical
numbers during the afternoon.
Miss Grace Jungen and Miss Kath-
crime Norton will be hostesses at the
chocolatiere which will be given for
] Miss Hughes Thursday morning from
10 to IL o'clock at the home of Miss
Norton.
Miss Grace Gray was the guest of
honor at the thimible bee which Mrs.
G.. G. weston gave this afternoon at
her home on Colfax avenue S. The
decorations were all in green with
palms and ferns and vines arranged
thru the rooms. About eighteen Of
the young women had been hidden to
bring their thimbles and they spent
an hour hemming towels for the bride.
When they were finished they were
placed in a prettily decorated basket
and handed to Miss Gray, who found
that the basket also held a dainty box
tied with white ribbons and contain
course, for those who sewed the best
and the poorest and then luncheon was
served by Misses Helen Little, Flor
ence and Pearl Weston. Mrs. J. War
rem Little also assisted Mrs. Weston.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. Little will
give an informal tea for Miss Gray
and her sister, Miss Marshall of Chi
cago, will assist her.
Everybody is looking forward to
next week and Baron Humbug.' Z, The
men who take part in the play are all
so well known and they all have such
hosts of friends that the metropolitan
theater will bloom like a big flower
garden with pretty women in pretty
| gowns. Any number Of theater par
I ties have been planned and the boxes
/ Cavour S: Langdon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Pillsbury, Mr.. and Mrs. George
H. Partridge, Mr.. and Mrs. fSeWall D..
Andrews, Horace Lowry, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. J. Scanlon, Miss Alice Pillsbury,
Howard Commons. Charles F. Hep
burn, Ned Pierson, Stuart W. Wells,
Henry M. Little, Charles Ireys, Mr.. and
Mrs. James F. Bell, Karl De Laittre,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Wood and Miss
Helen Pillsbury. The Stanley Hall
girls will occupy five boxes for one
I of the performances. and the Delta
Kappa Epsilon men have three boxes
! for another evening.
Wednesday, March so, has been an
nounced as the wedding day Of Miss
Elizabeth Oswald, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Oswald, and Fred Manthey,
and the service will be read at the
home of the bride, 1885 Aldrich ave-
| nue. N.
Miss Matte McAllister will enter
tain for Miss Oswald Friday evening,
and last Tuesday Mrs. Oscsar F. G.
! Day had a thinbIe bee for her, and
the members of the Minerva Circle
were the guests They were Misses
Grace and Sadie De Laittre, Matte
and Beulah McAllister, Sop1ronia o.
valid. Nora Saunders and Mabelle
Mahla.
The wedding of Miss Marie Helen
Zeglin and Albert Henry LeDoux will
take place at the home of Mr. and
Mrs Reinhold Zeglin, 2119 Elliott ave-
|nue, Wednesday afternoon, March %.
Miss Helen Colclazer of Chicago has
l-been visiting in the city for several
weeks and there has been much quiet
Tentertaining for her. Tomorrow aft
Eernoon Mrs. Edward W. Backus will
have a group of Miss Colclazer's
friends in for o'clock coffee at her
home on Oak Grove street.
On Tuesday Mrs..W. W. Redfield Of
Portland avenue gave the last of a
series Of thimble bees, at each of
which she entertained about twenty
guests. Each afternoon the hostess
was assisted by her daughter and a
group of young women in serving a
delicious collation. after the dainty
|needleWork had been tucked away in
pretty bags.
Mrs. William G.. Tubbs has issued
invitations for Thursday, March "a,
when Mrs. Ruth B. Ridges will talk on
ideals and Character and there will
be several musical numbers.
One of the girls has as Lenten re-
minder a big card printed in red and
For the next forty days shall try
To stop worrying,
To stop scolding.
To stop grumbling,
To stop gossiping,
To fear nothing.
II 70 work earnestly .s
To speak kindly or keep silence
To think of my own faults before
those Of Others ss
1The chances are I won't be any
/ the worse for it?'' she said, with :