The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13
CHARITY BAzAR
At FRIENDSHIP y
1t Was for the Benefit of San
Francisco and Other
Sufferers.
YOU CAN'T BE STYLISH
WITHOUT $3.50 GLOVES
Social Events at the National
Capital, and Westerners
in the Swim.
Scccinl to The Tribune.

| WASHINGTON, May 12.-Really, yol
know, II you are just the hoi polloi and
the voX populi and the canailie and al
tho rest of the things with a foreign ac-
cent that indicate that you are not
parsonage, that you never belonged to
/ Taft party or got divorced or had YOU
| appendix fashionably goused Quit:
| very soothing to your amour propre, this
chance that came to everybody the other
day TO rub elbows-and such very naked
| elbows at that, for the most part with
| the rich and the rangy and the risquc.
not infrequcntly-at a stupendously fash
| ionablc charity fete, where everybody y
| with the price of admission, was over
| whelmingly welcome. And speaking of
| bare elbows-but you don't have TO speak
| of them these days, they speak for
thenselyes-a young Kentucky woman
the other day In a letter of coincidence
TO a Washington relative over q dire
| calamity-remarked irrelevantly but most
| realistically after a fearful preamble,
'and isn't 1t terrible these days Of elbow
sleeves that you can't be stylish unless
you wear $3.50 gloves." And really 1t
Is tragedy. Did you ever think?
There were counties fortunes In long
gloves OF every modish hue at the great
II
McLean's magnificent country seat for
the benefit of San Francisco and other
more local sufferers. Perhaps tnere WAS
never SO brilliant a public affair before I'm
Washingtons whole experience of bene-
fit celebrations. The scene. bathed In the
golden mcllowness OF a ripe May after
noon. was dazzle OF enchantment The
fine old Colonial homested Of yellow stuc-
CO. OF the celebrated newspaper man, set
In undulant emerald acres OF woodland,
parks gardens. terraces, was a monas-
q nNrn Tf,A ,,,t Il llY1..
the pungent old English box hcdbcs, still
outline sequestered promenade known
even now as the Monks Walk" Not
that there was anything particularly
ecclesiastical or ascetic in the sumptuous
advertisement that took place among
these environments. the other afternoon,
the open air pastorale. where Strephon
and Chloe, Diana, the seasons, shepherd
esses, milkmaids, huntsmen. Picrrots and
Plerrettes. and all sorts OF motley peo-
pie. personated by the best selling beaux
minuets and cavorted aesthetically in the
most unbridled splendor. 1t was an orgie
Of beauty. saturnalla of fine clothes
perlatize over first, the endless stretch
OF green and blue landscape reaching
over into Virginia and Maryland and a
ceaseless inhnity, Lady Susan Townleys
white batLste frock embroidered in green,
or Miss Cannon's get-up of mist-colored
chiffon and big. ethereal blue hat. An
Gent gnarled statutes OF gods and god
Haunted themselves nudely under shell
terlng canopies heavy with wistaria, An
almost endless great arbor OF wistaria
unspeakably beautiful was paved down
the center with the rIpples and gursles
OF n tiny clear brook, with ferns tucked
along Its cool edges. You couldn't quito
could. give a coQuettieR little leap, II a
cavalier to your liking was In the game
with you, and on whichever side you
landed there were aesthetic Japanese
hNT th.,
bellies Of the nation In priceless cmbroid-
cred kmonas. Lilacs, purple and white
blended with the pendant wlstaria. Dip
lomats and knlghtly notables sprawled
on the green sward at the feet OF costly
costumes and slipped Ices and bought bal
looms and took chances In every fool
thing that came along
Beautiful women themselves raised
pets since their babyhood, dressed like
Italian street singers, ambled amidst the
crowd. warbling. "Dearie" and other sa-
cred selections and taking up collections
on their tambourne; Ned Mclean dressed
Ike Jack .the-box. "barked" Justify,
out OF sight, Danes of high degree in
holders. The yellow KID and Buster
Brown man, Mr.. Outcault showed how he
did II, and Gun Bergman, the inimitable
Washington Post man. made a cartoon OF
YOU even before you waited There was
a Pike" and side shows. a vaudeville.
flower vendors and popcorn balls and II
you got home with cent In Your pocket
1t wa, was no fault OF the charity bazaar.
M Mrs- Perry Belmont, squirrel by her
with their husband IN washington-was
a graceful picture in a princesse gown of
pale blue chiffon broadeloth. heavily em-
touch Of violet. Her hat was a big violet
HeaPSeaes p9nes She swept Wa2o with great violet
shaped pearls. dog collar and other be-
deckments Of diamonds and tho most A.
luminatinE OF sweet smiles. The Daron-
ess Moncheur. diplomatic beauty, once
pleated pongoe. while the Baroness Von
sternoerg was fair to see in toilette of
uninterrupted white. The Marine band
played, and cavalryman maneuvered and
| really. IT was moro fun for q quarter
PLUS the extras-than you ever had In
Among the brilliant company were Sen
ator and Mrs. Newlands. Mrs Sutherland
Mrs, Joseph Howell. Mrs. Robert Bo,
n,ynIgeM ,lyI MI Mrs Franklin F.. Brooks, Mrs. Du
prominent members Of tho western dele
| cation.
The two delegates to the Colonial Danes
Council from Colorado were Mrs Francis
w Goddard. OF sos North Cascade ave-
nue. n Hrool Colorado Springs; and Mrs franklin
Colorado Springs Mrs. Brooks is prom
inent n,t In both D A r and Colonial Dame
work. being vice;regent Of her State In
Representative and Mrs. Brooks gave a
| handsome dinner at their homo on p
| street In honor OF Vice-President and
Mrs: Fairbanks, Mrs. Francis w. Cod
dard. of COLORADO. Senator Warren. Dr.
Edward Everett Hale, Commissioner and
Mrs, Leupp and the celebrated uuthorass
Miss French, better known as Octave
Thanet''
General and Mrs. Corbn, tust before
they left the city, were given O hand
some dining by Col, and Mrs Symone
Mt which Senator Warren waa one Of the
guests
Senator Newlands has been In confer
cnce with the President several times in
regard to a plan Of government did for
San Francisco.
At the New Willard Is Mr. Charles w
Slater, just back from u two months' ao
journ In the Nevada gold camps. eccom-
panied by tho well-known mining rn-
glnecr. Col. a. IL. Scott. Mr. sIetnr
AYERS that Tonopah. Bullfrog and Gold
| neld contain the greatest bodies Of gold
OF any gection In the world. The KIop
dixie cannot compare with tina: part Of
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