The San Francisco call., 1904-10-12
MEN IN DEMAND.
BY Zoe Green Radcliffe.

OAKLAND Oct. 11.-As the dancing clubs
are organized for the season and social activity
becomes more pronounced, a fact that has been
evident these many winters thrusts itself
again into view. 1t is the women of Oakland
who do things, not the men. Week after week
during the season the bachelors are enter
tained, frequently in an elaborate manner in
the many delightful homes of this city, and I
have yet to chronicle the first event that
seemed in any way return for all this hospi-
tality. Theater parties are invariably given by
the same people who entertain at home, and it
is the ''patronesses' who make the cotillons
successful
The bachelors balP' in San Francisco is al
ways the smartest event of the year. Have
We no>Ned Greenways here capable of engineer
ing like affair? Like the Chinaman in THE
Tenderfoot," echo answers, Sure, Mike"
There are Bud" Havens Fred Dieckmann,
Stanley Moore George Walker, Walter Lei
inert, Roland Oliver. Prentiss Selby and dozens
of other young bachelors, to say nothing of the
recently married men who have not yet OUT
grown the pleasures of a cotillon. So look
alive. boys, and give US something that will be
worth while and hat will make up for lost
opportunities.
As usual the Ebell luncheon to- day was
brilliant success and as one has grown to ex-
pect when Mrs. James G. Allen has the pro-
gramme in charge, the music was more than
ordinarily good Miss Elizabeth Simpson, a
List numbers. Lieberstraum, No. 3" and
''Valse Impromptu." Mrs. A. E. Nash. who
has very very pretty voice sang two We. German
duced TO by Schumann- Heink, and I'm
Herbst," by Joseph Franz. Miss Clara Lewys
of San Francisco has a very pleasing contralto.
and her delightful selections to-day were en-
Enthusiastically received. Her numbers We're
The Blind Girls Song from "Giaconda" and
"A Fairy Love Song" by Charles Willeby
Mrs John F. swift was guest day, and
her charming "reminiscences of the information
al conclave at Berlin which she attended were
given in the inimitable fashion for which she
has long been noted She had much praise for
the German women They were. she said
Splendid talkers-I couldn't understand a
word they said but 1 know they good
Besides Mrs. Swift the other club guests to-
G. W. Buanel president Oakland Club Mrs.
S. C. Borland president Civic Improvement
Club; Mrs ]. D. Browne: Mrs. B, s; Noyes.
Sanborn. Mrs. Bucholtz, Mrs Norris Hub
bard, Mrs. Prussia, Mrs. Mclaughlin Mrs.
Colby Mrs. Hutchinson; Mrs. A. NJ. Goodhue.
Easterbrook, Mrs. G.. SchammelI, Mrs Meehan,
Mrs. George Sperry Mrs Carl Rause. Mrs
Dora Stevens Ms. Head. Mrs. Percy Walker
Mrs. Willard. Mrs A. L. Harris. Mrs. Merritt
Mrs. Benjamin Bangs. Mrs. ]. Burnett, San
Francisco; Mrs. Caskie Dayton. Ohio; Mrs
Evans, Belvedere; Mrs. Giles Easton San
Francisco Mrs. Lyman San Francisco; Mrs.
Britain. San Carlos: Miss Elsie syle Miss
Cliff, Mrs. d. Milton, Miss Luella May Nor
gan; Mrs. j. w. OF. Los Angeles; Mrs. 1. L.
Flood San Francisco; Mrs. Henry Bergstein;
Mrs. Butler, Los Angeles.
Mrs. T. C. Coogan was chief hostess to-day
assisted by Mrs. H. P. Carlton. Mrs. S. B.
Cheek, Mrs w A. Childs Mrs. B. B. Claw
son, Mrs. Fred L. Button, DR.. Carrie Cole, Mrs.
A. w. BurreIl Mrs. L. S. Burchard. Mrs S.
w. Chubbuck, Miss Adah Brown, Mrs. c. H.
Capwell, Mrs. Fred M. Colby, Mrs. William
Cliff. Mrs. Arthur Brown Mrs. W. H. Church.
Mrs ]. R. Burnham, Mrs. s. W. Burtchael
Mrs. w. II. Chickering, Mrs. l. NJ Condit
Mrs. F. G.. Conklin, Mrs. J. t. Carothers. Miss
Glow, Mrs. Melvin Chapman.
A stag dinner was given by Dan Belden last
Saturday evening for Wgginton Greed, the
others guests being Walter Starr, Harry st.
Lawrence Farr Roland Oliver, William G.
Cooke and DR.. Percy Gaskll.
Mrs. James Ray Mckee was the guest OF
honor at a pleasant affair to-day at the home
of her hostess, Mrs. Arthur Crellin. The other
guests Miss Rose Kales, Miss Ruth
Kales Miss Alice Knowles, Miss Ruth
Knowles, Miss Jane Crellin, Miss Ethel Crel-
lin, Miss Else Schiling, Miss Lucretia Burn
ham. Miss Stone of Berkeley, Miss Edna Orr,
Miss Bessie Fillmore, Miss Irene Bangs, Miss
Edith Beck Miss Coogan Miss Isabelle Ken
dali
Several theater parties witnessed the first
performance of In the Palace of the King
at Ye Liberty last night, the A. We Burrells
entertaining party of eight. The Walter Kel-
loggs were also OF party.