The San Francisco call., 1906-05-13

the AutOCrdtS OF
the Table.
LONDON, May $50 great q trial
has the deting fad become that number
of well known English and American
hostesses here have put their heads to-
gether and have drawn up paragraph
which is printed and sent out with in
vitations for week ENDS or dinners at
country houses. 1t runs thus: 81 am
sorry to appear inhospitable, but my
housekeeper and cook cannot arrange to
cater for any guest who is obliged to
diet. -
The truth is, for months past, the food
faddists and the followers of the simpler
life have given no end Of trouble in other
peoples IS houses, and servants, who are
all autocrats in these days, have decided
that they wont put up any longer with
the one or the other. Were the food
faddists all to take the same menus they
might be tolerated, but it involves comph-
cations to feed at the same table, the car
nivorous, graminivorous and>frugivorous.
The young Duchess of Marlborough is
known among her friends for her ex-
IRENE good nature and the story is told
against her that recently at Blenheim
she had no less than nine "cranks" sit
ting at her table each of whom had to be
supplied with a totally different class
of food. One thrived upon a monkey like
repast of nuts and raisins, another de-
,-n,,rad b,cl
swallowed quarts of boiling water with
semi cooked minced beef, fourth was
convinced that death lurked for her In any
thing which contained starch and sugar
Another slipped fearful and wonderful
concoctions in which vegetables had been
stewed, and SO on. Is ii any wonder
that even the Duchess s good nature gave
way?
EXERCISE FIENDs.
1t is no uncommon thing to be
awakened at five o clock in the morning
in your friends country house by men
boxing as If they were prize fighters.
They are merely performing physical cul-
ture exercises which, they impress upon
you at breakfast, is a pastime which
means the foundation of health The
lady who makes mysterious noises in the
room adjoining yours is trying to reduce
her waist line by humping up and down
on the floor. Her neighbor ON the other
side who may be making a semi" rest''
cure has considerable reason to complain
of this; for how on earth can her nerves
be soothed while these weird sounds are
emitted ct all times of the day and
night?
There is no getting away from it, the
hygienie brigade has become nuisance.
No one resents their carrying out all
their fancies in their own houses; it is
the intrusion elsewhere which is so pro-
voking. DR.. Saleeby's s little book, "The
Doctor and the Simpler Life'' has con
verted not a few food faddists. Among
his remarks are Nothing is really harm
full in the way of food but thinking
makes it So" And " 1t does not matter
very much what we eat so long as we do
not eat too much. While another re-
markable statement is "Once make up
your mind that eggs or fish disagree with
you and you viii be justified by the
event" The Doctor, like other sensible
people, is firm believer in the potency
of suggestion. +"
The Harcourts hope to be able to ar
range weekend parties at Nuncham for
the spring and summer. 1t will not, how
ever, be quite out of the hands of the
builders and decorators for at least three
months more. AS in the ease of nearly
all American women who become the
chatelaines of old English manors, Mrs
Lulu Harcourt has introduced into the
house number of transatlantic notions
IL Il.
was in very hopeless condition as may
be realized when it is told there was
not even bath room in it, while some of
the ceilings were SO low that they could
be reached by stretching the arm.
cit is a precious nest of microbes, -
said the new hostess, "and / shall have
the place practically pulled to pieces.
Miss Reid, Mrs. Arthur Paget g aunt,
means to spend part of the opera sea-
son in London this summer. She is to
Paris, where she has perfectly ideal
fat, what Mrs. Ronalds is to London
one Of the greatest patrons Of music, in
deed a power in that world All Amer
lean students of any Importance arrive
in Paris fortified with letter of intro
duction to her and word from her to
any of the distinguished teachers means
special attention for the pupil Her fat
is well known rendezvous for all the
great artistes, and she includes among
her intimates Mclba, Patti and the de
Reszkes AS in the case of Mrs. Ronalds
here, it is considered good advertise
ment for a promising musician to be
heard at her parties, and she is always
besieged with offers from would-be per-
formers.
The very short elbow sleeves, which
promises to be the fashion for many
months to come, means fresh and very
handsome source of revenue to the mas
seuse. Not one woman in q hundred
possesses an arm which is pretty from
the elbow to the wrist and it is here the
uses of the professional masseuse comes
in. The fiat has gone forth that this
portion of the arm must be plump, dim
ped, satin-like in texture. Just now
the atehers of the beauty doctors are
besieged with clients who want scraggy
knucklee turned to sculntured roundnass