Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-04
EBELL MEMBERS
ENJOY FEAST
Z ANNUAL BREAKFAST BRIL-
LIANT FUNCTION
DECORATIONS ARE ELABORATE
Club Women Gather Around Festive
Board and Exchange Greet
Ines-Many Speeches
Made

BY far the most brilliant social func-
tion of the week was the annual
breakfast given by the Ebell club yes
terday. Beautiful Cumnock hall~Ruld
hardly have been more beautiful than
it was yesterday with it's wealth of
beautiful blossoms, beautiful gowns
and bright faced women. At 12 o'clock
the guests began TO gather in the re-
ception halls and club rooms, which
were one mass of blossoms, and from
then until 10 o'clock, when they were
ushered into the dining room, there
was a merry interchanging of greet
ings.
What would the men say If they
could hear this noise?" asked one of
the women as she entered the hall
with a companion. The next minute
she was lost in the crowd of women and
helping to swell the sound of merry
voices. Two hundred and fifty women
can be pardoned for creating something
very suggestive of the Tower of Babel
Wnen Inere is an anniversary 10 De
celebrated and everyone is happy.
Though the reception halls, with their
mantels banked high with yellow
flowers and ferns, were beautiful, it
was not until the company entered the
main auditorium where breakfast was
served that the guests learned what
the genius of certain Ebell club women
is. Eighteen tables dotted over the
room, every one of them laden with
baskets filled with golden blossoms.
Every table differently arranged and
yet the same idea carried out through
the whole.
In the center of the room was the
officers table, presided over by Mrs.
Frank King, the president. Here a
centerpiece of Matilda poppies in the
most delicate of yellow was built
around the silver candelabra. Chiffon
ribbon gave a feathery touch and
dainty little baskets tied with jaunty
bows of yellow tulle We're at each place
The place cards, containing a list of
toasts, were in white, ornamented with
gilt lettering and bearing on the cover
the monogram of the Ebell club
Seated at the presidents table were
Madam Caroline Severance; the toast
mistress, Mrs. c. Aubrey Davidson, and
other officers, including Mesdames
Flint, Stearns, Porter, Wilkes, Bur-
dette, Pettigrew, Hawks. Pragger
TORY and Hunt, Dr. Burcham and
Misses Meurice and Parsons.
Surrounding the center tables were
those at which the other guests were
seated and hostesses at these were
Mesdames 7. j. Cochrane, T. 7. knight
c. e. Delter A. L. Danskin, Laura
Armstrong, Rosalind Peasley, Philip
Gengrembre Hubert r. B. Hallett. C.
b. Boothe, G. B. Crary, Lewis Clark
Carlisle. A. j. Chandler, w. F. Pleas,
c. e. Payne, Matthew Robertson,
Frank Brooks, C. NJ. Seeley and J. T.
Fitzgerald.
Some of these tables had for their
decoration California poppies, while on
others were yellow Mariposa lilies and
on still others Matilda poppies and
cereopsis. Asparagus plumosus and
maidenhair trailed gracefully over the
cloths and bows of yellow and white
tulle added to the effect. Two hundred
handsomely gowned and bonneted wo-
men gave the finishing touch
After a seven course breakfast Mrs.
Frank King arose and in few well
chosen words introduced the toast
mistress, Mrs. c. Aubrey Davidson.
Mrs. Davidson with all her usual grace
and charm filled this office to the de-