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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-12

deal of work connected with it, as all ,
my lists are destroyed and there will
be a good deal OF difficulty in finding
out where all the people are and
what their addresses will be- Ny
plates are all destroyed, too. as they
were down town.
4 don't think that very many OF
those who were in before are going
to stay out, nor do l think that there
are going to be so many who will
remain out OF town this winter Peo-
pie tell me that just as soon as they
can find a place TO live they are
coming home. SO many who lived
in hotels or apartment houses are
having great difficulties in finding
abiding places.
Il am not just sure where I will
have my dances, but probably at the
Palace Hotel, if they have a large
enough room. There will be several
places built. I understand. but l like
the Palace best The first OF the
dances will be about the end OF Oc-
tober or the first part OF November,
and the same rules that applied last
year will go on. don't know about
the debutantes yet. 1t seems inn
possible 10 tell who is coming out
and who isn't I don't believe they
know themselves yet and are just
waiting to see what happens.
"The army will be an important
part of the social life Of the city this
winter, | think There are to be a
number of the officers of the Twenty
second Infantry stationed at the Pre-
sidio, 1 hear, as we'll as the regular
officers of that post, and there are to
be hops given regularly beside other
affairs. Most Of the army men dance
so well that their dances are always
looked forward to with great pleas
ure, and they entertain we'll. too.
Everything is going to be much
simpler, | think The young girls
especially will dress much less elabo-
rately. and I think myself that it will
be very charming change There
will be so many this year who must
dress more inexpensively that it will
not be considered very good taste
to dress handsomely, even by those
who can afford it. In the East young
girls wear much simpler gowns than
they do here, no matter how wealthy
their parents may be, and / am glad
TO think that the custom will prevail
here. There is going to be much
general entertaining this winter. but
everything IS to be marked by ex-
treme simplicity. In consequence
! there is going to be more Of it"
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years have come to me and asked
me to go on and put them in as
members again. Husbands as we'll as
wives are anxious to belong, too. AS
to locality | have already seen Mr..
Kirkpatrick, and he says he can take
care of them at the Palace. 1t will seem
more like old times to be there. He
will have a room, Ioox4o, and the
gentlemen's grill can be used for sup
per, as we never go in until late.
81 have arranged with him for my
first date on November 2 Novem-
Der 4, which is my birthday ami
versary, falls on Sunday this year, so
l must anticipate little. feel sure
Of a good season for the club. | don't
know anything about the other clubs,
but we are certainly going ahead. The
first club dance will be on December 7
and the next on December 2I. The
latter being so near Christmas will
make the occasion all the merrier.
Il don't believe that the times will
effect things very much as regards
the appearances Most of the men
saved their clothes or can get others,
and, Of course, the girls always have
things. Just one feature of the Fri
day Nights will be changed, and that
the men have insisted upon. They all
want earlier hours. There was great
complaint of the late hours of begin
ming and closing of last year, and now
the men say that there is SO much
work to be done that they must be
fresh for business the next morning.
SO new rules are to be made as to
this, and the hours of the dances
will be from 9 o'clock, which gives
any one ample time to finish dinner,
or ought to, until or o'clock.
Before, it was very hard on the
men to hang around the clubs until II
or IL O'Clock before going to the
dances, but if they went before that
time they found no one there. There
were not so many dinners given, but
the others knew that the diners-out
would be late, and so they, too, wait
ed. Some of the men would in
tend going to the dances. but
would get discouraged and go
home instead / think our dances
will be pretty much as they
were before except as to the place
they are given. l think there is
money enough in the community for
things to go on as if nothing had
happened.
Il can't say much about the debu-
tantes as yet At the close of last
season this was supposed to be very
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Mrs. Voorhies Opinion

Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhies, who is
so prominent in San Francisco So
ciety. is we'll known as the leading
spirit in the Assemblies and as the
originator as we'll of the annual
Charity Ball for the benefit of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs.
Voorhies, like Mr. Greenway, is hope
full for the future of San Francisco
society and is able to give valuable
opinion on the subject, having seen
just such troublous times, or even
worse, for the social world after the
war in the South. Mrs. Voorhies
says:
There will be no question, | think,
as to the Assemblies being again or
ganized, although nothing definite has
been arranged as yet. | expect to
have meeting of the ladies inter-
ested some time soon to decide the
matter. There is no particular hurry,
as | do not think there is any inn
mediate need for the club yet. | think
that people will entertain right along,
just about as they did before. Those
families who were so wealthy have
lost a great deal, to be sure, but they
all have large fortunes left, certainly
enough to go into society in San
Francisco. There are some who have
been unfortunate, of course, and have
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with the men for the very reason
that is making the only change in
the Greenway dances. Mrs. Whites
dances, which are known as the Fri
day Night Cotillons, begin at half
past 8 o'clock and are over at I
o'clock, giving just as many hours Of
pleasure, but ending in time for busi-
ness men to get enough rest before
taking up the next days work. 1t
has been, too, rather more distinc-
lively for the young people, and has
fewer names of married people on
its list than either the Greenways OF
the Assemblies. When asked as to
her opinion of the outlook Mrs.
White said:
Il certainly think it is very good.
There are so many reasons why it
should be and one of the best is that
more men want to go out than l have
ever seen before. Every man seems
more interested, and | have seen and
talked with good many on the sub
ject. The men say that they need
reaction after the gloom and worry
of downtown life which they are
now undergoing and which will last
all winter There are so few theaters,
and they all say that social life is the
only thing that will make things
really bearable here.
The funny thing is that so many
of the young people have spoken to
me and said that they wished they
could have dance right now. Peo-
pie have so much to worry them that
they need a little pleasure mixed in
with it, and this year | think we are
going to have a great deal of simple
entertaining. I am going to have my
dances, and the only change from
last year will be that l intend to have
FIVE instead of four.
MY patronesses, among whom are
Mrs. W. B. Collier, my mother, Mrs.
Shorb, Mrs. Lawrence Poole, Mrs.
James Langhorne. Mrs. Eleanor Mar
tin and Miss Gwin, will probably be
thes as last year, although have
not spoken to any Of them as yet on
the subject. viii have TO begin all
over again, and there will be a great
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lost everything, but there are not so
many of those. San Francisco is not
so much worse off, in way. People
who had money before have it now
or will very soon have it again.
When you look into the matter
things are not SO very different. 1t
was the same after the war. | don't
think that conditions change people
so very much. Those who did moth
ing before won't now, but the people
who loved going out and have always
entertained will continue to do so.
Environment does influence, but
heredity and training can do more.
| think this will be much the same
as other winters.
There is just as much entertain
ing now as before, but of a different
type just at present. There is no
Palace or ST Francis to go TO for
dinners or luncheons, and there are
no tneaters, but people do other
things. Going to the Chutes is not
noted as going to the Columbia was,
but it is done just about as much. Din
ners are given and any other form of
entertaining that was ever done here
during the. summer There will be
a few who will drop out, of course,
but friendships, which are the real
basis of entertaining, are not de-
stroyed by earthquake or fire."
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Mr.. GreenWay Hopeful

Edward NJ. Greenway, who is the
pioneer here on such matters, has
to say of the Friday Nights:
"Yes, | am going to have my dances
this year, and l expect to begin, just
as usual, with my own birthday dinner
and dance in November. Ny reasons
for continuing the club are that there
is so much depression and gloom here
now that people need some gayety,
something to cheer them UP, and they
want the dances to go on. People
who have not been in the club fo4
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Home Life Influence

The subtle influence Of home life,
as seen thus, will begin to tell on
these men, the inexpensive comforts
devised by the fertile feminine brain
since the days OF lessened expenses
began, viii be observed, and men who
have felt that their incomes were not
sufficient for two at the rate people
lived will find that clever wives could
do marvels with them. Meeting on
a more natural basis will bring about
2 better understanding between men
and girls, too.
The prettiest belle Of the season
may prove TO have most unexpected
accomplishments, and the shy girl
who never shone at dinners or dances
w--- surprise a man by her fund of
quiet wit, her musical or artistic
ability or her gentle, sympathetic uu-
derstanding, and the same rule applies
10 the men. A girl Will find that some
nan whom she had esteemed hereto
fore only for his dancing or his Welsh
rarebits has all kinds OF manly quail
lies. and the dullest man Of her ac-
Quaintance may prove an appreciative
and intelligent listener with COM
Portable income. And so, as the re-
suit OF propinquity, feminine 'fascina-
ton, manly persuasiveness, boredom,
motives of economy, or what you like,
the matrimonial prophets claim that
never to such an extent have the
triumphant strains of Lohengrin and
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There is great question as to who
will be debutantes and who will defer
their coming out for another year.
The list of girls to be formally pre-
sented TO society this winter was to
have been the largest for several years
and promised to make the season one
marked by brilliant entertainment, as
most OF them came Of well-known
families and many were either pos
sessed of or connected with great
wealth
Now some are abroad and will
probably stay there, notably Miss
Helene Irwin, who may make her de-
but in Philadelphia, where her aunt,
Mrs. Edward Moore Robinson, is
prominent socially, or who may re-
main in Europe 1t is rumored that
Mrs. n. Mayo Newhall and her at
traetive daughters will remain on the
other side, which will rob the debu-
tante list of pretty Miss Marion New
halls name and make one less bril-
liant event for the winter, as the we'd
ding of Miss Margaret Newhall and
Frank Houghteling was to have taken
place on their return from Europe
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big year for debutantes, but now |
don't know. I hear of a number of
gowns that are being made, but l
also hear that the girls that are East
or abroad expect to stay away. |
think, though, that there will be a
good many and that, like all Califor-
mans, those who are away will want
to return. Yes, the social outlook is
good, and there will be great many
informal entertainments, | belivee."
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Mrs. Whites Views

Mrs. Ynez Shorb White is another
society woman qualified to judge as
to what society will do and whether
it will exist at all this winter, and
she looks forward with enthusiasm
to the pleasures that are to come
Mrs. White has during the past two
seasons organized charming
dancing club along rather unique
lines, which has made decided hit"
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Weddings Predicted

The far-seeing are beginning to
predict weddings galore as the result
OF the state OF affairs. Men had be-
come selfish, it is said by the wise,
and were unwilling TO take the trouble
TO 60 ont TO dances, formal dinners
and the like, and a man at a tea was
sure 10 be considered a martyr to
family influence, a climber" or deeply
enamoured of some fair teagoer.
Clubs and theaters supplied sufficient
relaxation and amusement for most
men after business hours and any
number Of those who were most
worth while, both mentally and hnan-
oially, were lost entirely 10 society.
April IS changed a good many things,
however, and among others the uses
and usages Of society. The theatrical
prospect will not be very exhilarating
for some time TO come, so people are
without that means OF filling idle
hours. Music and art have been set
back rather severely and informal
social intercourse must take their
places.
It is whispered, too, among man
kind that the clubs are not quite the
delightful places they were before.
However luxurious may be the private
houses in which they are domiciled
the club atmosphere is said TO be lack
ing, the old familiar furnishings and
comforts are, many of them, of neces-
sity, absent, and there is a strange
garrett feeling which quite drives a
poor man forth to pay the calls and
accept the invitations he scorned be-
fore.
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Dances to Be Resumed

In the matter of dances San Fran
cisco will be especially fortunate. All
of the dancing clubs which fourished
last year will be formed again, the
Friday Night Club, the Assemblies
and the Friday Night Cotillon Club.
The exclusive little Gayety Club, of
which Miss Helen Chesebrough is the
president, Miss Lucy Gwin Coleman
the secretary, and which numbers
among its members Miss Christine
Pomeroy, Miss Dorothy Eells, Miss
Maize Langhorne, Miss de Guigne,
Miss Helene Irwin, Miss Elizabeth
Livermore and Miss Stella McCalla,
may not be continued this winter,
but there is strong probability that
it will give its charming little dances
just as heretofore. Several of the
members have married or are to be
soon, and are therefore no longer
eligible for membership, and others
are away, but when the first meeting
of the club is called it is anticipated
that sufficient number will respond
to reorganize.
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-HAN FRANCISCO'S social out
look for the coming winter IS dis
e. tinotly encouraging. according to
the representations OF the most ex-
pert society specialists, and it is pre-
dictcd that the season will be one long
remembered for its delights. Infor-
nality viii be the keynote of all en-
tertainments, and that OF course,
means an increased number OF occa-
si9as Of merrymaking People who
have done but little heretofore when
formal functions were expected. for
which they perhaps felt their houses,
fnances or abilities inadequate. will
now add to the gayety OF the city with
small informal affairs, and those who
entertained before viii do even more.
The general feeling seems TO be that
there are such endless possibilities for
being downcast, blue and melancholy
provided this year that diversions are
necessary TO preserve the balance and
10 go somewhat toward dispelling the
gloom. Particularly among the men
of the city Is this feeling prevalent
and both Mrs. Ynez ShOrb White and
Mr.. Greenwsy have remarked upon
the fact that they have been asked by
an unusual number OF men to continue
their dancing clubs
This one fact ought to insure the
social success OF the season, for the
cry within the past few years has
been a lament over the lack Of men
in society, and now that they are be-
coming interested again it should be
an uncommonly gay and enjoyable
winter.
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There has been serious debate as to
where the clubs should meet for their
dances, but that question seems to be
no longer cause for alarm, as a num-
Der Of places are being built which
will be of sufficient size.
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Mendelssohn rung out as they will in
the future ring in San Francisco.
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Christian triumphs of your parents and
grandparents and great-grandparents are
these not mighty possibilities of Christian
usefulness also within your own lives
BY the very words of praise which you
are continually using IN speaking of your
ancestors know they are possible to you
also. What kind Of woman was your
mother? "Ah," you answer, my mother
was one of the noblest Christian women
who ever lived 1 cannot think of her ever
doing anything of which I could say, I
wish mother had not done that We never
had much money, but she always had
enough to help the needy. Then she was
the best nurse in our town. She wa al
ways hunting up some poor sick people
and staying with them overnight. She
never spoke In public except to pray But,
my, she could pray! Then my father.
What a fine man he was. Why, he was
so honest and fair and true that whenever
the neighbors had a dispute they would
come to him and let him settle 1t for
them All, yes" you say, that was a
beautiful Christian home in which 1 was
brought up! And as far as l can make
out my grandparents on both my father S
and mothers side were just the same
kind of Christian people as were their
children" Is that so, my brother? Is
that so, my sister? Then know the pos
siblities of mighty Chrlstion usefulness
are within you. You havA inhel tied these
possibilities. Will you not here and now
surrender your hearts to Jesus Christ 8
service and beg Him to make you like
| those Christian parents who gave you
| birth?
| And as I am now pleading with you not
| to longer resist those good ancestral ten
| denotes I want to ask you question. Tell
me, do you not at times have strange,
| intense longing come into your heart In
the quiet of your own room? This yearn-
ing and longing seems to say: "Oh why
do | not give up this selfish life of sin?
Why do not become gentle, pure, noble
| Christian character, as was my mother
or my father or my grandmothers and
nv grandfathersT Do you know what
that longing was? 1t was the Christian
blood of your ancestors pleading with you
/ to lead the Christian life. VIII you not
| obey that call and come and surrender
your lives to the Masters service? There
are great possibilities of Christian use
fulness In you. BY your family record
know it. When l ask you the words of
/ my text, "Whose son art thou?" will you
here and now answer, "I am the son of a
| Christian, and by the help and pardon
/ and mercy of my fathers and mother s
| God I will be a Christian too" Whose
| son art thou, young man? Whose daugh-
! ter art thou, young woman? Whose
: Vhose7 Art thou a child of God?
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But 1 take a step further in my sub
ject and assert that we inherit our an
eestors' mental acumen as we'll as their
strength of lungs and stomach and heart
and liver. We inherit the gray matter
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The sins of the fathers and mothers, as
we'll as their virtues, are visited upon
the children even to the third and the
fourth generations. believe history and
statistics prove 1t. Now, what are to be
the great practical deductions? In the
first place, I would charge you to have
sympathy with those who prenatally as
well as by environment in childhood had a
bad start in life. Do not be too harsh
upon the maynard ones unless you find
out who was their father and who their
mother II even with all the good physical
and moral ancestral blood flowing in your
veins have had such a hard time to do
right. how much harder must it be for
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But shall l stop here? No The Bible
tells us that the sins of the fathers are
visited upon the children. But are not
the virtues of the parents also transmit
ted? Then on account of the glorious