The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-26
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NWdIu even IlOIe eagerly w oho Sn"A ~
ball tomorrow evening as 1t will be
given in the big, beautiful hall that that
makes such an ideal ballroom. The
charity ball has always been the favor
3ite party Of the year to many people,
for SO many seasons that it is sure to
he attended by everybody. Mrs. George
Porter and Miss Emily Mcmillan, the
committee on decoration, has arranged
to" have the same decorations that were
used at the hostesses ball, and you can
mot imagine how beautiful they were.
The Fort Smelling band will play the
program Of dances and a most efficient
floor committee, formed of large
group of well-known men will look after
Fthe ballroom. Tickets for the ball have
found ready sale, and they may be OBJ
tained at Hudson s or Eustis' store.
You hear lot about the debutants,
but very little Of the men who are
also making their entrance into formal
society this winter. But there are some
men who left school and college last
summer and are home to go into bust
ness and incidentally take their proper
place in society, altho they slip In so
unostentatiously, without any coming
ont receptions and bother, that no one
knows who they are. To be sure the
list is wofully small, one hostess who
Is planning dancing party and is rack
ing her thought for men to invite ex-
claimed in despair that she did not be-
3ieve Minneapolis men ever did get thru
college, for they never seemed to come
back when they once went away.
The hostesses' ball showed several
new faces among the younger masculine
quests. There was Anson Jackson, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Jackson. Tho
MIR. Jackson is only home from Yale on
what might be termed sick leave -
and expects to 80 back after the holi-
days, while he Is here he is taking a
prominent part in the affairs for the
buds. Cyrus Brown is university
man, the eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
IS. Brown, and he has already won local
fame as the author Of the play that the
Roosevelt club will put on this winter.
Edwin W. Coan, a nephew of Mrs. E.
&. Carpenter, has come from Clinton,
Iowa. and will be member of the
young ger set. Then there is Randolph
Edgar, son of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Ed
gar. Tracy Fairchild, a graduate Of the
university last June, and a son of E. K.
Fairchild. Edwin Brown, a Harvard
man, was in Minneapolis occasionally
last winter, but he has recently come
here to reside, and now has apartments
with Edward Stanley Waters.
Not very long list is it9 No won
der the hostesses are complaining, and
wondering how they can ever do their
share in the seasons entertaining If
they cannot find men for the evening
affairs.
At every large reception this fall, if
you have been observing, you will have
noticed dining-room hostess. Do
you know what her duties are? The
title is not purely honorary and neither
does it hold such laborious duties as
used to attend woman when hostess
invited her to preside at the table and
serve ices or pour coffee for two or
three hours. The dining room hostess
is a special frined of the woman who is
giving the reception and it is her pleas
ant duty to see that the friend who is
presiding at the table is relieved every
half hour. This gives the hostess of
the afternoon a chance to ask more of
her friends to assist her and makes the
honor of presiding pleasure instead of
a burden, for it is no sinecure to pour
coffee for three hours and keep up a
constant chatter to the people who
come and go thru the dining-room.
Most social observances have a grain
of common sense as the foundation and
the dining-room hostess is useful as
well as honorary innovation.
Did you notice that there was not a
flower used at the hostessess ball9 The
decorations were entirely in foliage
palms, ferns and the bay and fir trees
with fruit on the tables. The use of
fruit is proving very popular this win
ter and has rather taken the place of
flowers for table decoration. The for
lists make some stunning arrangements
baskets filed with fruit, the most
perfect and richly colored to be found
and with grapes and leaves wreatheo
around the handle. If you have an old
fashioned epergne tucked away on the
Top shelf Of the pantry hunt it out anC
polish it up, for it is the very smartes
thing to use for a centerpiece. It il
really amusing how the pendulum has
swung back this winter and with tht
revival of our grandmothers' bouquets
The princess gowns and pillow muff:
has come the restoration to favor o:
our grandmothers' prim table decora
lions.
"a debutante really has all the fus
Rnd bother Of a wedding without tn
bridegroom commented one Of tn
recent brides at one Of the big recep
tions last week. "Did you know tha
some Of the girls had any number o
gifts, jewelry, bits of real lace, fin
bandkerchiefs, all sorts Of pretty frill
and chiffons that a girl so loves to have
and then of course there were the flow
ers, dozens and dozens Of bouquets
Every one Of them must be acknow]
edged with a vote of thanks. AS fo
trousseaus, no bride ever had NOR
elaborate outfits than these buds. An
they have just the same troubles wit
the modistes. This afternoons debu
tante had to have her coming out gov
literally made on her this morning an
yesterdays bud nearly wept for fea
she would have to slip into an old gov
because the modiste delayed sendin
The new one until the hour of the recel
tion, and such a scramble as there wa
to get her into it when it did arrive.