The San Francisco call., 1904-08-31
HOME AFFAIRS.
BY Zoe Green Radcliffe.

OAKLAND Aug 3O.-AIrs James Arthur
Reed Of Los Angeles is spending few pleas
ant weeks in Oakland, the guest of Mrs.
Dora Stevens. at the latter's artistic home on
the corner OF Eighteenth and Market streets.
She was the motif Of a delightful little affair
planned BY Mrs Stevens this afternoon. Mrs.
Beebe. Mrs. Walker, Mrs Stevens and Miss
NaughtOn OF Los Angeles contributed to the
general enjoyment with impromptu musical
programme.
lars. Stevens was assisted in receiving by
Mn. Reed. Mrs. c. ". Beebe, Mrs Wilbur
Walker, Mrs. Walter Hall OF San Francisco.
Mrs J. B. Stadtfeldt, Mrs. T. A Pierre, Miss
Edith Stadtfeldt
The card party planned by Miss Julia Sum
mers for next Saturday is also A promising
event, forty OF nifty guests having received
invitations. A number Of girls OF the younger
set, friends OF her sisters will assist in scor-
inG, the party including Miss Marian sum
mers, Alice Britton. frankie Daniels Mamie
stroud, Beckie Miller. Carmelita Hollis and
Saturday being the first wedding anniversary
OF Mr. and Mrs. John Bassford, they were
honored guests at a little evening affair given
by Mr. and Mrs NJ l. Broadwell at her home
on oakland avenue. Whist, music and dancing
served 10 make the occasion a very enjoyable
one In the card games three very pretty
prizes were given. the lucky winners being
Fred Dorsaz, Mrs. Dorsaz and Charles Skinner
Amaryllis blooms decorated the apartments
artisucally and among the invited guests were:
J..
c. Shankland Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cob
oledick, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Merguire Mr..
ratt, Mr and Mrs. Fred Dorsaz. Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Whitehead Mr and Mrs RartboIo-
new. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward F. Hughes, Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Sawyer, Mrs. Dora Stevenson
and Charles Skinner
Earlier in the day Mrs. Broadwell and Mrs
Parratt combined their hospltable efforts and
entertained the Harmony Club. Of which they
are members. at Mrs Broadwelrs residence.
Miss Genevieve Shankland and Miss Bessie
q in rfraur
were won by Miss Campbell and Mrs Parratt
Among the players-whist was the game-were
mrs. IL l.. whitehead, Mrs. A L. Nash, Mrs.
Rowe. Mrs; Shankland, Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs.
Campbell. Miss Campbell. Mrs. Dorsaz Mrs
Bassford, Mrs. Gonzales. Mrs. Littlefeld Miss
Milton.
The recent passing OF thousands Of wagon
loads OF microbe-lnfested earth and dirt along
harrison street has left in its wake an emf
oemlc or malaria. Numbers along that aristo-
cratic thoroughfare have recently been afflicted
with maiarial troubles and they and all
ascrlbe this sudden ailIng in a hitherto healthy
neighborhood TO the unclean debris which was
carted from the lot where the new Polytechnic
building Is being erected. the wagons passing
in daily procession along Harrison street Al
any rate II IS only since the dfrt-hauline
began that residents along the line of Darade
have fallen in and when all are afflicted in
the same way 1t is natural to aseribe it to
Stephen Gage was among the first TO fail III
and he Is just beginning to enjoy his usual
good health again. Then young De Cola
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs George F. de Cola
was stricken with typhoid fever and for sev-
eral weeks past Mrs. L. d. Yorker has been
suffering with malaria Now her mother Mrs
Dow. Is quite i'll and the physicians have had
sithcalty in wardlng off an attack of typhoid.
she is improving, however. and hopes soon
to be able TO leave Oakland for a time.
Miss Madeline Clay was again the center
Of a merry gathering Saturday evening when
theater party, with Miss ANY DinkeIsrtei
as hostess and chaperoned by Mrs DinkeII Spagl
a 0erf0 rfrnar
Opera-house San Francisco In the party were
Miss Clay Miss Susie Harold. Miss Alice Al
bright, Miss Helena Plaw, Miss Beulah Brig
ham, Miss Gladys Brigham and Miss Margaret
Sinclair.
Dr. Harry P. Carlton is nursing slight
attack Of diphtheria at his mothers home on
Harrison street. where he is in quarantine
The genial doctor likes neither the illness nor
the confinement he was. actively engaged
IN planning Tor the coming celebration He
hopes 10 be on deck by September o bo1,e,-ar
ana his friends hope to him among the
prominent participants in the knights Temp
lar parade.
William II. Richardson has returned To his
home in Austin, Tex, after a brief visit in
Oakland: Mrs. Richardson. Bessie Gage that
was. will remain for a month or two longer
and VIII doubtless be the motive Of considerable
entertaining
The many friends of Miss Lillian Remillard
viii be sorry 70 learn that she and her mother.
Mrs. p. \. Remillard, have decided to spend
the winter in San Francisco. making their their
home at the st. Francis Hotel
Miss Laura Hubble of Los Angelo, ..
guest at the Crellin home on Alice street
Miss Hubble is not an entire stranger here
having been a pupil at the once well-known
Snell's Seminary.
DR.. Pauline Nusbaumer has gone IN Pleas
anton to be with her brother. Tony schweer.
who severely injured in a runaway acct
dent a few days
Miss Mary Carr. grand president. and Mrs
7. p. Hogan. grand director Of the Catholic
Ladies' Aid Society. left yesterday for Santa
Cruz to attend the grand council at Hotel
del Mar. Much splendid work is done by this
society. and the annual council is an inter-
esting event, when philanthropfc women from
all over the State gather in the common cause
Of charity. Mrs. Margaret Dean of San Fran
CISCO Mrs NJ II. de Young's mother, is past
grand president Of the order and many other
prominent society women active mem
bers.