Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-28
come so extraordinarily popular in So

come so extraordinarily popular in So
ciety?
The practical joker has been having
some fun lately with the typewriter.
He issued large number of invita-
lions couple OF weeks ago TO lot
of nobodies for a ball at Sunderland
House. The invitation explained the
dance was to be an informal one and
but "a hours notice was given. while
there was no X. $. V. +. In the corner.
Elated, honored delighted. the reci-
pionts in all their war paint, arrived
punctually--as nob0dles always do--at
the time indicated. MANY OF the In
vited had never even seen the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough through
a telescope.) The duke and duchess had
a small quiet political dinner party
the same night and were still in the
dining room when their guests for the
ball began TO arrive. 1t Is well-known
among his friends that the master of
Sunderland House has no sense Of hui
NOR. He was furious when he saw the
invasion and heard every moment the
sound of carriage wheels. II was the
duchess who saved the situation. She
had all the electric lights turned on.
She received every guest, shook hands
with him or her, offered refreshments
ana having more intuition than anyone
else soon "tumbled" TO the trick, No
one was Inundated, everyone went
away charmed with her tact and her
kindness. / hear the duchess Is in a
chronic state Of laughter ever since the
performance and she has told her
friends she never enjoyed anything so
much since she came to England. |
may point out that had the people upon
whom this joke was played the slightest
knowledge of the fitness of things, they
would have realized II was impossible
for the Duchess OF Marlborough to give
ball within something over month
Of the death of Lady Lowe, her hus-
bands aunt. But the majority of those
invited had never heard of-Lady Howe.
The sender Of the invitations Is WELL
known at the Bachelors club, and on
the night OF the party" he and his
confederate watched In the bitter cold,
the arrivals, and they must have been
very much annoyed and puzzled at the
way In which the guests" were re-
ceived.
FIND WOMEN WHO SMOKE.
Once or twice a year some writer of
letter to a newspaper discovers that
women smoke. He fires in the amaz-
Ing news and raises a violent protest
against the horrid habit. Then the
controversy wakes fast and furious.
II Is going on now once more. No
nice women smoke! Many nice wo-
men smoke! Women ought not TO
smoke! Women have perfect right
to smoke II they enjoy so harmless an
amusement These are the contra
dictory statements that are now bang
ing each other In the eye in print.
The fact is that In the last 10 years
and more especially during the last
fiye--the smoking habit has greatly in
creased among English women, par
ticularly those of the upper classes
The movement began at the top and s.
working slowly downwards, II was
the most exclusive and expensive of
the ladies' clubs that first carried out
the unheard of innovation of introduce
ing feminine smoking room, and nov
few ladies' clubs. even those suited to
the most attenuated purses are with
out them. But ii Is still In the most
expensive and luxurious Of the West
END restaurants that the sight Of
woman enjoying a cigarette is so COM
mon as to excite absolutely no COM
ment In similar places, little lower
down In the social scale the Puritan
ism of the middle class is sufficiently
powerful TO cause such a spectacle 10
be looked askanoe at with certain
amount Of pious horror. Even In a
| London music hall. where men smoke
freely, a woman who lights a cigarette
| is promptly requested by one OF the
attendants to desist on the ground that
1t is contrary to the rules Of the es-
| tablishment." The women OF the cos
termonger class do not smoke. In pro-
vincial towns the habit has made COM
paratiyely small Roadway and Is stlh
] regarded as daring innovation.
GUM CHEWING INCREASES.
Gum chewing is growing here. 1t Is
| no uncommon sight to see a dainty
| woman take from mysterious little
| bag a tiny box and put into her mouth
| piece of something which looks like
| glue This she sucks and chews all
| the time she talks TO you, and probably
| explains II is the very latest thing to
| produce gastric juice and goes into
| further unsavory details. Ii is an
| American doctor here who Is respon-
| sible fo- the Introduction of the latest
| custom. He gives prescriptions for
| different gums, one of which Is sup
| posed to have a wonderfully beautify-
| ing effect on the complexion. There
| are people who insist that these gums
| have done wonders for the behavior of
| their digestons. The japanese con-
| slider references to Illness in polite
| conversation the perfection of vulgar
! ity; disease In any shape or form they
| mention with bated breath All. well,
| the Japanese are mere Easterns far
beneath us In the scale of civilization,
! LADY MARY.