The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-14

r HERE'S only one question sgitating
the other people. and that is Why
are the temporary members OF the
club barred from the tennis contest?
A romantic feature Of a recent we'd
ding ii which Salt Lake people were
more OF less Interested was a honey
moon spent on a camping trip made by
automobile a distance OF some hun
dreds Of miles.
Soda Springs. the old-time resort for
All salt Lakes elite. is no more. That
IS, Il IS open only as to its rooms, and
because Of the beef trouble viii prob
ably not be open as to its table service
this season. Time was when It was OF
ali summer spots the choice Its cool
air and excellent living made It ideal
for season and to its natural charm
il added that Of having congenial souls
from all the corners Of the earth.
A new amusement in society circles
IN some eastern cities, and one to
which the debutantes are said to take
kindly, is a progressive giggiing party.
The plan is TO have the giggling begin
by bell as in other progressive games,
and the couple capable Of performing
the most marvellous feats in the gig
Cling line move up to the next table.
AfIC NOulQ lullh the dSSi5llliS
would have need of eternal vigilance,
Apropos OF the chapeHone system.
read the following. It's certainly II
the point and justifies the ideas of the
bachelor girls admirably:
An Englishman has been writing 70
q London periodical on the subject OF
the French spinster, who, poor thing,
appears to have no end of a dTeary lot,
If she happen to be born to the purple.
Such a condition Of dependence as is
characteristic OF the unmarried woman
Of 80 in fashionable society in England
and this country is unknown. There
are no separate establishments, no trips
10 Europe. no taking Of houses and dis
pensing OF hospitality. Chaperoned
from her infancy, and without the priv
lIege of spending a sou, except under
direction, the girl is incapable Of in
dividuaI action even If the opinion of
her set permitted il. This pecuniary
dependence. Of course. reacts unfaTor-
ably upon the girl who is unfit even
when left the last of her race TO attend
10 practical affairs. There being no pro-
vision in French social life for the
spinster of the upper classes, she goes
III drOves to converts and to convent
boarding houses. Sometimes an elder
daughter may betake herself out of the
way that her share of the family for
tunes may be added to that OF d young
er brother or sister. These are the ex-
ception. however; the majority find IL
refuge from a dTeaTy life Those
spinsters may not realize the sIll bar
rennness of the lives they lead in the
world, but at least, the convent does
not seem undesirable by contrast, which
fact shows how empty the lives of the
majority must be- For IL must be re-
membered the women are only in the
rarest Of cases actuated by religious
impulse A recent census shows that
there are $4,000 women in France in
converts. Fortunately the stultifying
conditions that prevail in the upper
circle are not to be found among the
middle and lower classes. Girls in these
social circles take up trades and pro-
LESSONS and have a free social life.
Those Americans who so passi0natly
advocate the chaperOne system have in
French society an opportunity Of see
ing what il produces when fully car
ried out The French spinster Of the
upper class is an interesting study in
social atrophy.
DOHIs RARET