The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-12
town that is the most northern sta
ton on any of the transcontinental
Society Is Very GAY.

Society Is Very Gay.
Aside from the official functions Of
Government House, society is very gay
III Edmonton. There are dinners and
dances, teas and receptions, formal and
informal. cat home'' days are more
strictly observed than in the United
States. and "the little something to
eat' and cup Of tea are as much a
part: of every afternoon as the hours
outdoor recrations of which those of
English blood are SO fond; there are
glorious drives for miles along the
famous old trails, which for so long
echoed only the creaking and rambling
OF the clumsy, picturesque old Red
River carts: there are clubs for both
men and women, there is fine circulat
ing library, large musical contingent,
ami way up here beyond the 6fty-fourth
are served of which Delmonico himself
would not be ashamed, either as to
menu or service. . ...-..
1.-THE only things we Lack said a
well-known society woman, care first
class theaters, lectures and music. Oh,
of course, we have plays and music, but
ell of certain kind and rarely what
| the best people care to patronlze. We
may seem far away geograp hicallV but
oEr people have either Travelled en-
tcnsively or at least read widely and
and players, music and musicians. c. IL
saquently, they carnot be satisfied with
anything tut the best. -"
In the Old Days.
Decidedly different standard from
the days Of Edmonton House, when
clerks, bourgeois, voyageurs and bois
brules met in carousal to celebrate the
return of the canoes with the harvest
i, of pelts. Instead Of the soft music of
the stringed orchestra, the murmur of
of slippered feet and the swish Of
women s garments in the dance, there
were the hoarse voices Of the woods
men raised in drink-roughened shouts
p in the French and Canadian songs OF
the day, the pounding Of moccasined
feet upon the floor, and as the finishing
touch, when for once the official lines
were dropped, the singing Of popular
boating song to the rhythm Of pokers
made to do duty as a pseudo oar. 81
The old days were truly picturesque
but they are gone now beyond recall
for they have now place in the modern
progress. =. ii.
! The Daughters of the Empire ,.
Edmonton also possesses a hourishins
chapter of the Daughters of thu
Empire, This is patriotic order SINH
= lar to the D. A. R., and, strangel,
enough, is connected with the; American
revolution, for while the D. A.. r.. hav,
to be descendants of fighters in tn,
Revolution, an aspirant to recognition
as Daughter Of the Empire must b,
the descendant of Tevolutienar.
tory, so loyal to his king. and ecountry
:: that he would not even live under tn.
/ flag. that repudiated both, and, sacrifc
ing everything went across the lin
and settled in Canada. 10 be of tn
blood Of one of these "United Empir
! loyalists' is to be the wearer Of tn
red badge of courage and honor.
i The social contrasts in Edmontos
) have parallel in the business world
Z Truth to tell, Edmonton itself is sui
!, prised at its progress. Three years ag
J it. wanted to be in the wheat belt, an,
,aEacknowledged openly. that it hoped t
7 be, but it hardly, dared bank upon tina
7 hope becoming a reality, andsthe end
2 not, yet. Mills and elevators, crowde
Z to their greatest capacities, prove tina
, the wheat belt has widened and no