The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-01

-ge-BNH HE wedding bells winch nave
chimed SO continuously since the
first day of June will be silenced
by the explosive boom and bang OF the
Fourth of July celebration. The ma,
1 tion's birthday, like Christmas and
Thanksgiving, Is family holiday and
plans for its observance will include all
the members of the family to the third
and fourth generation. Everybody
who can will GO, out of town to fnd q, a
lakes, for the noisy Fourth is very
much out of favor. What an exodus
there will be! No wonder the social
calendar is bare and barren. Instead OF
hunting for bridge favors or for
novel luncheon decoration the wise
salves and lint, for the list OF Fourth
of July sufferers is usually quite as
long as that of June bridal couples.
Society will spend the glorious
Fourth of July at the clubhouses The
Minikahda club, the Town and Country
club, and the Lafayette club will be the
popular places of rendezvous next
Wednesday. At the Minikahda club
they are making elaborate preparations.
Music will be heard all day, for MORN
ing, afternoon and evening concerts are
on the program Table d 'hote dinners:
and suppers will be given and the par
are arranging are almost lnnumerabie7;;
Decorations of q patriotic character Will
be used in the clubhouse, and the
grounds will make proud showing
with flags and banners. Tennis and
golf tournaments will come off in the
morning and in the afternoon. a Gun
ner dance and a grand display OF fire.
works will close the evening.
What has become of the delightful
old-fashioned Fourth of July house
parties? We hear very little about
them now, and yet there was time
when every family entertained hosts or
friends on that day. The men are at
little jaunt into the country. just.
party of four or six, is the diversion
which the busy man from the Chamber
of Commerce or the bank chooses for his
celebration. The men are bound to go
fishing, and the little country homes, the
rural hotels in the pine woods ana the
! cool, ripping brooks shelterlng the
priceless speckled trout are far too al
Turing to meet with any resistance, even
on the part of the wives. Mr.. and Mrs.
II. X. Side and Mr.. and Mrs: j. c:
Young are at Brook Lodge, Wis, and
will remain over the Fourth. Mr. and
Mrs. Sidle will return to Minneapolis
soon after the Fourth and will open
their new country home near the Town
and Country club.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Lewis Of the Wal
dorf will go to Seven Pines. their trout
preserve in Wisconsin, Monday to spend
the summer They will have as their
guests over the Fourth Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry futile. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis just
returned from their Wisconsin summer
home Monday, where they entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Deere Velie few
days for the fishing sport:
r. The Misses Partridge have accepted
opfx h oh
to be held at one of the handsome
homes on Lake Geneva over the FOURTH,
" and they will leave Monday night.
Word has been received from Mr.. and
Mrs. George W. Peavey, who are tour
ing Europe in their automobile, that
they will have their Fourth o! OF July GEL
< ebration in Brittany. They will return to
4 America some time in August. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank r. Heffelfnger and family
are to be at their new country home at
Long lake, near Lake Minnetonka, by
the Fourth. They will move out tomor,
row The place is one +h CT the mn? o 10
farmhouse has been remodeled and
fitted UP for the family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip B. Winston have
been enjoying the most delightful visit
at the Winstons' plantation in Virginia
and they Will remain south until All
gust. when they will come to M1nne !
apolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. G. Wyman Of Park
avenue will be at their country home IN
Osceola for the Fourth. Mr.. c. Wyman
is just recovering from a serious illness
and their Fourth will be quietly OBJ
served in the family circle.
Mrs. Samuel Cargill and her nephew
Harold Hoffman, who went abroad in
the spring, are in Paris for the Fourth
Miss De Laittre and Karl De Laittre
were present at the marriage of Miss
Eleanor Little and Talbot Aldrich
which took place yesterday at the home
of the parents of Miss Little, Mr.. and
Mrs David Little, on Chestnut street
Salem, Mass Miss Little is the sister
of Miss Rosamund Little, whose en-,
gagement to Mr.. De Laittre was an
nounced last winter. Mr.. Aldrich. is a
Harvard '92 man, member of the
Union, the Puritan, the Eastern Yacht
and the New York Yacht clubs. His
parents are Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bal
ley Aldrich, and there are few people
who do not know who Thomas Bailey
Aldrich is. The wedding was a very
quiet home affair. Mr. Aldrich will
take his bride on cruise in the steam
yacht Bethulia for several weeks. Miss
Iitt1e and her sister chaDerOned: BY