The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25
MISS THOMAS
TELLS SECRET
IN CLEVER WAY
BY ZOE GREEN RADCLIFFE.

OAkLAND, mdTCn E9-1n dtb1dStif
young fancee of Roger Chickering, Miss
Theo Parr Of Alameda, is furnishing
charming motif for many of the smartest
affairs of the moment. Yesterday Mrs.
Allan Chickering was hostess at large
tea in compliment to the bride-to-be. Mrs.
John Overbury (nee Chickering) has re-
turned from her bridal fitting and shared
the honors at the tea Happiness is
great beautifler, and Mrs. Oyerbury is still
wearing the radiant smile with which she
went to the altar. She and her husband
are en- route to Bullfrog, New. their fu-
ture home.
This evening Mrs. Overbury played
hostess in honor of the maid who is to be
her sister-in-law. The guests enjoyed din
ner In the palm garden at the Palace first,
and then followed the fortunes OF Little
Johnnie Jones' at the Columbia
Another engaged girl has been added to
the list who promises to furnish an excuse
for much entertaining between now and
the great day that is still a secret. The
young lady in question is Miss Charlotte
Thomas, the pretty daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Thomas of Fruitvale, whose
engagement to Edward T. Foulkes of San
Francisco was made public this afternoon
in a delightfully."- original manner.
The guests-thirty or more-had been in
vited ostensibly to meet the Misses Latta
of San Jose, and a game of five hundred
was the hours amusement. But the first
hand almost broke up the meeting" In
each deck the ace of hearts had been
adorned with pen and ink sketch of
Cupid with drawn bow, while lovers
knot was twined about the names of Miss
Thomas and her fiance. The bedlam of
congratulations that broke forth made
mere card playing a matter of impossible
ity fer a time. and not until the whole
sweet story had been told was there any
use for new deal
Miss Thomas is an Oakland High and u.
C. girl and a member of the Delta Delta
Delta sorority.
Mr. Foulkes is a prominent young archi-
tect, a Stanford graduate and a student
at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology in Boston, where he won the Rotch
scholarship.
Miss Thomas guests today were Miss
Florence Latta, Miss Edna. Latta, Miss
May Morton, Miss Hazel McGraw. Miss
Scott, Miss Rena Scott, Mrs. B. c. Scott,
Miss Florence French, Mrs. Charles Hart
Wilcox, Miss Edna Orr, Miss Edna Prath-
err Miss Marguerite Vesper, Miss Sadie
Drinkwater, Miss Geraldine McGraw, Miss
Edith McGraw, Miss Gertrude Evans,
Miss Ethel Johnson, Miss Sue Herstand,
Miss Margaret Taylor, Miss Belle Ashley,
Miss Maud Scott, Miss Mary Bush, Miss
Ruth Vickery. Miss Jessie Bowers, Miss
Alice Porterfeld, Miss Ethel B. Richard
son, Miss Julie Damon, Miss Carolyn
Palmanteer, Miss Georgia Rattan, Miss
Leverne Marshall, Miss Lois Jameson,
Miss Thomas, Mrs. George K. Fish and
Mrs. L. e. Biddle.
Another engagement announcement that
took the social set by surprise this week
was that of Miss Ruth Morse and Jenkin
Benvins Johns. Miss Morse is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. F. Bradford Morse and sister
of Mrs. Henry A Melvin. She is also the
sister of Miss Mary Alverta Morse, the
singer, and through her work as accom-
, panist for her talented relative has be-
come quite well known in the musical as
well as social world.
Mrs. William Gardiner Cooke has re-
turned from Honolulu and yesterday was
the guest of honor at luncheon over
which Mrs. Dan Belden presided.
Among the guests were Mrs. Walter
Starr, Mrs. Adolph Graupner, Mrs. Dennis
Searles, Miss Bessie Palmer, Miss Alice
Knowles, Miss Ruth Knowles, Miss Flor
ence Hush, Miss Marion Goodfellow, Miss
Elsie Marwedel, Miss Wilcox and Miss
F'lorinne Brown.
The Oliver skating party last night at
Maple Hall brought out all the young peo-
, pie of the smart set, and it was one of the
jolIiest affairs of the season. 1t was such
comfort to have plenty of room to skate
in The merry crowd included Miss May
Coogan Mr. and Mrs. Dan Belden, Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Lowden, Miss Allen.
Miss Knowles, DR.. and Mrs. Harry Alder
son. Mrs Lillian Brown Everts, Miss
Brown, Miss Chabot, Jessie Fox, Miss
Ruth Kales, Miss Rose Kales. Miss Lucre-
tia Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Whipple Hail.
Miss Hail. Charles D. Bates Jr., Mr.. Volk-
mann, Ralph Jones, Frank Kales, Willard
Barton. George Jensen, Mr.. Hutchinson.
DIR. Percy Gaskill, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Let's Oliver, Mr.. and Mrs Roland G.
Brown and many others, about eighty in
all.
The Saturday Morning Juvenile Skating
Club had its first meeting this morning at
Maple Hall, and the little folks, about
fifty of them. had a royal time, with no
grown-up around to begrudge them the
floor The patronesses of thenew club are
Mrs. Samuel Breck, Mrs. w. D. Dunning,
Mrs Prentiss Selby Mrs. George McNear
Jr., Mrs. H. C. Capwell, Mrs. Edgar P.