The San Francisco call., 1905-06-25

Artifciality in society is doomed
thing,
And its fate has been sealed by a
growing acquaintance WI nature, whose
rebuke TO sham and artitciality lies in
every tree. every running creek and
every mountain that lifts its head TO the
skies.
As never before are the maids of polite
society-and I speak of the maids because
in America il is they who shape social
customs-getung on good terms with ma
lure They swim more walk more, tramp
more, ride more. golf more and rough
it, more than the girls Of any other
period Of American history-saving, OF
course, the pioneering days, when
-'roughing d. and living near to nature
was a necessity instead Of cult
The automobile is a strong factor in
the great awakening, carrying folk far
afield who in the old days followed the
beaten paths grown duh from familiar
1ty.
The golf craze, too. has had its ef-
feet upon the artif1ciality of society, as
has rowing, mountain-climbing, tramp
ing and other oQt-of-doors activities.
These conditions demand a type Of cloth
ing at once plain, utilitarian and real
without the latter quality 1t won't hold
out And clothes, be il known, have
marked effect upon the mind and its
workings, often changing the personality.
Then the close contact of man to man
and maid to maid during long periods
of endurance makes posing, or as
suming that which one is not, difficult
thing. and J.Ie pose soon wears out.
And now it has come TO be passe-
La the fashionable schools and colleges
young women are no longer taught man.
neis"-that fiimsy sham tnat could be-
and Has-put on and of at viii; but they
are instructed in the basis of good man
ners q trained head and heart. The
manners" in that case take care Of
themselves and thus il is mat artificial
-ity is no longer good form. healthy.
wholesome naturalness taking its place.
IN the drawing rooms and ball rooms
Of America the passing OF the old arti-
ficiality has been noted for some time,
and be it said, with no loss of grace or
simple elegance. But the summer sees
IL growing grotesQue, even as are the
manners and customs Of European courts
TO such as are permitted hand-to-hand
encounter with them.
They don't ring true" And to the
best society to-day that which doesn't I
ring true is not good form.
To be sure, there are those whose in
terror organism doesn't ring true, and, of
course, their conduct cannon. These are
the snobs-and one need not go far afield
TO find them. But that's the way they
were fashioned, and they haven't read
the signposts on the way-''artificiality is
passe"'
and learn how little use she has for sham
they may reform. Who knows?
MONDAY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H Blinn enter
tained at a dinner in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Holbrook Blinn. Guests: Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Scott Hale. Hon. and Mrs.
A. w. Scott. Mrs. Lester Laughlin, Miss
Katherine Sherman. Major Henry Ben
son. Colonel John c. Currier-
Wedding Of Miss Claire Marshall and
Rev Hubert CoWley Carroll
TUESDAY.
Wedding Of DR.. George Herman Pow
ers Jr. and Miss Madeline Davis at the
brides home in Boston.
Wedding Of Miss Mabel Johnson and
DR.. l. E Hoska of Tacoma
WEDNESDAY.
Wedding of Miss Leontine Spotts
Brakeman and Captain Robert Franklin
Mcmillan, L. S. A Guests: Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Holbrook. Mrs. Henry Clar-
ence Dryden, Miss Grace Buckley, DR..
and Mrs James Ward Keeney Miss
Etelka Williar. Major and Mrs. Kraut-
hoff. Miss Mary Keeney, MIR. and Mrs.
Josiah Howell. Miss Edith Simpson.
Hubert Nee, Howard Veeder, Dr. and
Mrs l. L. Dunbar, Mrs. ]. H Wallace,
Mrs Thurlow McA-ullin, Miss Maye Col
burn, Misses Hamilton, Mrs. Thomas
Findley, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Greer, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Pond, Mrs. Samuel
l3oardman, Mrs. Ferdinand Stephenson,
Mrs. II. l.. Van Wyck. Miss Gertrude
Van Wyck. Mrs. Grayson Dutton, Mrs.
Harry Willlar and Miss Maylita Pease.
Wedding of Miss Cornelia Dean Cor
don and Isaac oliver Upham.
Wedding of Miss Carlotta Steiner and
Charles H Crocker at Del Monte.
FRIDAY.
Miss Elsie Tallant, hostess at tea
IN honor Of Eastern visitors.
Artillery hop at the Preside.
SATURDAY.
Wedding of Miss Carlotta Klemm
and Captain Charles T. Boyd, u s. a,
IN St. Louis.
Wedding Of Miss Georgia Coralie
Morse and James Maynard Jr.
Wedding of Miss Mabel Hendy and
Albert Weber.
Golf contest for the sutro cup on the