Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08
Society

more correct-and this is what 7 over
heard him say to a fellow tourist. an
Englishman, also spending the winter
here: II am often amazed at the in
discriminate use of lady and gentleman
here in the west, are not your" To this
the Briton agreed. Now, with us few,
IL any, but servants use the terms lady
and gentleman. Our men and women
are men and women under any and all
circumstances and our young women
are young women.
Imagine my surprise recently on
conversing in drawing room with one
of the matrons here to observe her at
first refer to certain actress as
leading woman, and then say paren-
thetically, oh, / beg pardon; 1 should
say leading lady
"The custom obtains favor nowhere
but west of the Rocky mountains ac-
cording to the observations of travel
ers, and it puzzles me to know why it
should have supplanted something so
much more substantial. Not long since
] met a young woman, one of the best
set here, who was delightful to gaze
upon and whose manners were equally
as charming as her personality. But,
with all charity for the mistakes of
others-none of us are without them
it grieved me to hear her refer to her
young gentlemen friends"
The popular thing, however, despite
the observations of the unknown and
or tn hA oh ne
writer is "a swell fellow" or "fellar."
The flourishing Shakespeare classes
are to have a week of festivities in cell
ebration of the bards birthday in April
and everybody is looking forward to
six days of unalloyed pleasure. Barring
one thing with which the clubs are
menaced--a Shakespearean play by a
number of very young and very anna
teursh girls chosen from the ranks of
the dramatic classes
The recommendation for the proceed
ing was made by one of the instructors
who is without peer in her knowledge
of history and the Shakespearean
drama, but it is rather doubtful as to
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youthful amateur.
The older members are not as enthu-
siastic--in point of fact, they are not
enthusiastic at all. and when Mme In
structor is not looking they wiring their
hands in feigned agony over the pros
pect.
An aspiring young man or woman is
a delight If kept trifle in the back
ground and taken in homeopathic doses,
but when girls not out of their teens
attempt the Interpretation of charac-
ters which great actors have baked at
there is always too much of demand
for sympathy rather than admiration
from the suffering audience.
The audience suffers really.
OF course, one must go If one is in
vited but any way, there is no use
dwelling on awful things. The sun
still shines and perhaps the powers to
be may yet be dissuaded.
see DR.. A. H. Giannini of San Fran
cisco and Leontine Denker, his brother,
were guests of honor recently at AN
affair given by Mr.. and Mrs. Will q.
Maier of 14OS Rich street.
DR.. Giannini is one of San Francisco
heroes. but there are few who are
familiar with the facts surrounding his
being exalted to that height.
Several years ago when the young
physician was but just entering on his
professional work and was making his
initiation in the medical world as an
inferno at the county hospital in San
Francisco, a poor patient was suddenly
stricken with something for which the
doctors could find no diagnosis. He
was in DR.. Giannmi's ward, and, as the
symptoms progressed and became APP
parently those of some frightful plague,
he was removed to a tent within the
grounds. The malady was pronounced
by the leading physicians of the city to
be the rarest of the contagious dis
eases, the much dreaded typhus.
Another case had never been known
older and wiser heads it was more fatal
than anything else with which the
human body could be attacked.
A man nurse, the patient and faithful
DIR, Giannini were left to themselves,
for they were exiled, although visitors
were permitted within a safe distance.
None of the trio felt any alarm but
death called both the patient and nurse
and all through the illness of the latter
the young doctor who had been his
steady companion, not only attended
him but was his nurse beside.
He has been the idol ever since of the
whole hospital corps and of half San
Francisco beside.
Miss Scatena and her brother DR..
Giannini. were guests of honor Friday
evening at an informal affair given by
Mr. and Mrs. George Lichtenberger and
Mr.. ana Mrs. Louis Lichtenberger at
the home of the former 1923 Romeo
street. Among complimentary affairs
planned in honor of the visitors for the
coming week is a luncheon to be given