The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-14
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SAN FRANCISCO 90.
SOCIETY EVENTS 7Ssl
nv 6 MApi0N WEEKES. - - -

BY S. MARION WEEKEs.

All the women, and some of the men,
are adopting the cordial bow this sea-
son: bow that is not merely a nod
of the head, a perfunctory smile, and
glance of the eye, but instead gracious
inclination from the waist. sunny
smile and a direct. interested gaze
Think over your acquaintances ana
their bows as they meet you in the
street Are there many whose reeognl-
lions you recall as fIattering to your
self: is there one whom you feel con-
WINGED was glad to meet you? Just as
society has relegated to the past the
blase, the languid attitude, the hand
shake in the air, so it is with the bow.
Be cordial and you'll be remembered.
Who has forgotten that Mrs. Cleveland
was the most popular first lady of the
land and all because she had the facul-
ty of making the merest stranger feel
that he was looked at, and not looked
over.
Apropos of following this fashion,
one of ..our girls met a man down
town one day recently and her bow
was according to the standard set by
fashfon,-onIy more so. In fact so
gracious was it, that it might have en-
eouraged the most timid of lovers to
point of audacity, and when it daWned
upon this belle that instead of greeting
a brass button beau" as she had
thought, she had warmed the cookies of
the heart of Mrs. Twins butler-an un-
deniably good-looking fellow by the
way,-she realized that this was the
hour when to gauge a bow and to meas
ure ones man was one of the fine arts.
A popular woman whose manner is
cordial, though not gushing, and easy,
but digniffed, is Mrs. Harold Sewall,
who is here on a visit TO her mother.
Mrs. Ashe. Mrs. Sewa1l is accompanied
by her small daughter, Emma Kaiula-
nj, who was born in Honolulu, and this
same little miss has developed into
beauty, though as a baby the Honolulu
matrons predicted that she would never
have her mothers looks. Mrs. Sewall,
though threatened with a serious heart
trouble for the last few years which
forced her to lead the life of an in
valid, is almost restored to health
again. She is stout but is the same
good-looking woman with the same in
fictitious laugh that is known so well TO
Honolulu. Life in Bath, Maine, must
agree with the Sewa1ls, for Mrs. Sewall
tells with pride that her husband has
gained thirty pounds and is almost fat
and placid. Mrs. Irwin and Mrs. Sewall
have enjoyed the usual "reminiscences
of Hawaii and Mrs. Sewan declares
she is home-sick for Waikiki now that
she has reached San Francisco and
seems almost ION the way"
Mr. and Mrs. z. NJ. Hatch visited the
Sewalls in their home in Maine, before
i f-,, -
she reports them both: ''Well and jol
ly, and having the best kind of trip
Mrs Sewall has always enjoyed the
reputation of being the most popular,
and the most widely entertained matron
who ever visited San Francisco, after
marrying and leaving her home there
to live elsewhere. But she must hence
forth share this reputation with Mrs.
Harry Macfarlane who has been lunch
ed, tea'd, dined, theater PARTED, and
variously entertained ever since the
hour of her arrival. Everybody speaks
of how WELL how pretty, and how
happy Mrs. Macfarlane looks, and even
the many feasts in her honor do not
seem to weary this jolly, young matron
for whom the good things of life seem
especially made.
Mrs. Perkins was another very much
entertained and admired visitor, who
left here with host of warm friends
to regret her departure for her Island
home.
It is hard for man to realize the
difficulty in the clothes question to a
woman visitor here from the tropics.
Winter garments for few weeks, or
even months, means not only expense
first, but care afterwards, for we all
Of
ergetic he is in land where energy is
not always the most distinguishing
feature. But Mrs. Macfarlane and Mrs.
Perkins have both been looking hand
somer than ever in their rich winter
gowns.
Extravaganza this winter seems to
have reached a climax, for we are all
ION velvet or in velvet, which must