, 1906-09-01
THE WEEK
IN SOCIETY

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Tanned c~ountenances and mailing
clfactory organs are all the fashion
Just now, as most of the camping par
ties have returned from the mountains
Some of the wanderers will loiter a
Few days longer, privileged to do so
by the delay OF the opening of school
necessitated BY the remodeling of the
east side building, but the fact is evil
dent on every hand that vacation is
over and summer on the wane! Never
mind, fair time is coming and then the
football season will be on, with Thanks.
giving and Christmas following hard
upon its heels. Spring comes soon aft
er that and then summer and time to
go camping again! There is already
a hint of the resumption of the regu-
lar routine, as a casual scanning OF
these chronicles will show.
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DR.. and Mrs. McCollum entertained
at a unique function Thursday even
ing which the uninitiated hear of as
a hurry up party, but those who were
invited will long remember under an
other and very different name! The
Ice was effectually broken at this in
teresting affair by means of a cobweb.
In this arrangement, each guest start
ed from a central point and followed a
card marked with his name through
strange and devious ways until he
reached the other end, and there he
found a gift and also learned his fate
as to table and partner for the whist
which succeeded the untangling of the
web. 1t is said that the favors fitted
the followers and that toy banks,
automobiles, musical instruments, etc,
were distributed with a discernment
which proved that fate was onto her
job" 1t is rumored that certain gay
guests undertook to do a little inter-
fering on the quiet with the DEGREES
of the aforementioned deity, and that
the result was not altogether what they
had planned, but exceedingly amusing, !
nevertheless. Delicious ices and cakes
were served at the conclusion of the
game of whist. Among the happy and
hilarious helpers at this hurry up
handy-dandy were the following habi-
tants of this hamlet: Mr.. and Mrs. H.
A. Gish, Mr.. and Mrs. R L. George, Mr..
and Mrs. James Mathison, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. G. Fitch, DR.. and Mrs. C. A.
Ballard, Mrs. ]. Fred Dawson, Miss Nc
Clelland, Miss Jackman, Miss Lille Bir-
ME, Miss Cissie Birnie, Miss Martha
OFT, Miss Laura Lee, Miss Helen Ma
nassee, Miss Eta DeKay, Miss Beulah
Regar, Charles w. DeKay, Frank Hol-
liday, F. S. Burrage, A. C. Jones, Har-
ry Lee, DR.. P. C. McNiff, Will McMur-
ray, DR.. j. A. Ballard, DR.. Tebbitt, John
Kunkle, L.. ]. Mills and Sever Peterson.
The August session of the Presbyter-
ian missionary society convened Thurs
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Boyd and the meeting was devoted to
the enjoyment Of listening to letters
which had been received from former
of the organization. From
distant Seattle Mrs. Judge Brown
wrote in happiest vein and an equally
interesting epistle was from the ready
pen of Mrs. Garlock, now of California,
This correspondence meeting complet,
ed the program as outlined a year ago.,
but on account of the absence from
the city of many members of the So
ciety, the plan for the ensuing year
was not completed and neither was the
place for holding the September SEES
sion definitely decided upon.
DR.. Irene NJ. Morse, who left today
for the east, after having spent the
summer here, was rendered a farewell
breakfast Thursday morning by Mrs.
Ridgaway at Ninth and Garfield
streets, and a luncheon by Mrs. ]. H.
Symons at Eighth and Grand avenue
that afternoon, DR.. Morse, DR.. Grace
Hebard and DR.. Agnes Wergeland be-
ing the guests on each occasion. DIR
Morse goes first to Chicago for four
weeks at a graduate school, thence
to New York for more graduate work,
and on the first of the coming year to
Worcester Memorial hospital at Wor-
chester, Mass, for a year as house Of
ficer.
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Messrs. R. E. Fitch and C. P. Arnold