The San Francisco call., 1904-06-19
A WAY FROM HOME
BY Zoe Green Radcliffe.

OAKLAND, June 1S.-Oaklanders
are distributing themselves very i'm
partially among the various resorts,
mountain, valley or seaside, seeking
any place where the good old sum-
mer time" may be most agreeably
spent But home has it's attractions,
too. Never have so many people re-
mained in town, making little Satur-
day to Monday trips that are really
more satisfactory than a months So
journ in some fashionable resort,
where one has to dress three or four
times day and sleep on a hard bed
at night. Those who have their own
country homes are to be envied, for
not only they, but their friends, may
enjoy rusticating comfortably.
Foremost among these fortunate
ones are the Chabots. who entertain
the jolliest house parties every year at
Villaremi. The f. A. Herons' country
home at Ben Lomond is really a
mansion. Near by DIR. and Mrs. Harry
P. Carlton keep open house in a cozy
little bungalow. Mrs. Sumner Bugbee
is spending the summer in her cot
tage at Santa Monica, and Mrs. Sam
Breck is there, also, as her guest. The
H. A. Buffers usually entertain large
house parties at "Constantia." their
summer home, but this year they have
rented a cottage at Santa Barbara
and will remain in the south for two
months.
Many who have been East are
hurrying to Oakland, glad to get back,
on account of the insupportable heat
beyond the Rockies. Among those
who have recently been welcomed
home are Senator Perkins and Miss
Pansy Perkins. Travel has done much
for Miss Perkins. The schoolgirl who
went away has returned a charming
and attractive young woman. General
and Mrs. Oscar Long are coming to
Oakland for their summer and are
expected here Monday. Highlands
is all agog over the promised home
coming.
Congressman Victor H. MetcaIf and
Mrs. Metcalf are enjoying a visit
home.
The very words pupils recital are
commonly sufficient to scare away the
most ardent lover of music but some
HOW MI. olSMdTL anu MT. NGICalI
seem to have solved the problem of
placing their pupils before the public
and having that same dear public
really enjoy it. BY giving a series of
recitals-one every week during this
month-what is usually long drawn
out, tiresome affair has been divided
into quite enjoyable little musicales.
Last night Kohler e. Chase Hall was
crowded, a fact at once pleasing and
appalling to the inexperienced mu-
sicians who had to play. Most of
those on the programme were very
evidently nervous. Nevertheless they
acquitted themselves handsomely.
The programme was as follows:
Sonata opus 1877, No. 8, for piano
and violin (Schubert), allegro andante.
menuetto, allegro moderate, Miss Flor
ence Crandell and Charles H. Blank;
piano "Kamennoi Ostrow" (Rubin-
stein), Miss Abbie Sanborn; vocal,
"Out in the Open Meadow Oh. ].
Stewart), Miss Leona Shaw, Miss
Annie Davies accompanist; violin
(Wieniawski), Souvenir de Posen,"
Charles H. Blank; piano, Spinning
Song (Wagner-L -Lszt), Miss Anna Moir;
Medication George A.
Mietze), (b) 'Mazurka" (Weiniaw-
ski), Miss Winnie Bruce, Miss Edna
Ford accompanist; vocal, Song of
Love" (Beach). Miss Leona Shaw;
prelude G major, (b)
Polonaise minor, op 40 (Chopin),
Mrs. Pauline Powell-Burns.
Next Friday evening the closing re-
cital will be given. The pupils will be
assisted by Mrs Robert Hughes.
pianist, and Mrs. A. E. Nash, con-
tralto.
John Frederick La Velle, the ef-