The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

week in the gayety which has
prevailed during this month. and
II only a few events Of Importance
are being planned. The last
Greenway dance OF the season will take
plsce on Friday night at the Palace
Hotel. this being the affair which was
planned for February ] 3. the dates for
the dances being selected so early m
the fan that the beginning OF Lenc
seemed to remote TO be really a fact
10 be considered Tt was discovered
later. however. that February Is would
fall on the first Friday in Lent. so Mr..
Greenway had to find an earlier date.
Zach year there is q certain interest.
s. trife sentimental perhaps, attach
ing TO the last Greenway dance. as
there is always a haunting fear that
Il may be the last season OF this popu-
lar old club. This has been the TWEEN
ty-seventh season OF the Friday Night
Cotillon Club. as the proper title IS,
which was for some time under the
management Of the late Edward Shell.
don, but which has for the greater
number of seasons Of its existence
been under the direction Of Edward
n Greenway. The first meeting place.
years ago. was at the old B'nai Birth
Hall on Eddy street, which was later
converted into Lyric Hall. Afterward
odd Fellows Hall on SevenR street
was the gathering place Of'Nall the
beauty and fashion and charm OF the
old city. and for some seasons past the
ballroom Of the Palace Hotel has been
chosen for these occasions. IT has
come now that several Of the second
generation are members OF the clun.
the children Of those buds who mad
their first timid bow at a Greenway
ball in the earlier eighties" perhaps.
A feature of the club in the last
century was the leapyear balls, which
took place as often the almanac
would permit and were entered into
with o zest which is rather missing
from the makeup Of most Of the young
society folk Of the present day. The
first Of these cotillons was led by Miss
Minnie Corbett now Mrs. Beverly Mac
AIonagle, who was one Of the bellies of
the year. and il was one Of the marked
successes which is remembered in the
existence of the club Later, Miss Sal
lie Maynard was the leader OF one Of
these lespyesr occasions, which were
always governed strictly by the rules
supposed to exist in these fourth
yearly occasions. Miss Caro- Crockett,
now Mrs. I4aurance Irving Scott was
the popular girl chosen 10 lead the
oOtillon at the last leapyear ball which
took place Now, although the love
for the club is the same, conditions are
changed in many ways. In the earlier
years the dancing. always a german,
was in full swing by half-past o'clock
and the guests hied them home by 2
O'Clock In the present day the most
fashionable folk do not arrive until
almost or even quite ii o'clock, and
the festivities are reluctantly brought
ito close at in the morning. san
francisco was smaller then. the bellies
and beaux were not so given to hasty
trips TO New York or to sharing the
frivolities OF life in Europe; there was
less social life here Of a formal char
acter and in consequence there was
"a freshness of enthusiasm that Is not
observed in this new century.
Young people have as much Joy Of
life, but they take it more as a mat
ter Of fact, and there is less OF the
trepidation popularity attributed to a
debutante. An instance OF this may
be noted in the comments heard this
winter at such a fiutter OF nervousness
displayed by a debutante At one Of
the Greenway balls one OF the pret-
test buds OF the winter, who has since
proved to be one Of the bellies as well,
came with the other guests at a din
ner. She is Travelled, wealthy and
charming, but it was her very first ball,
and at the dressing room door she
paused and confessed TO her compan-
ions that she was frightened, really
frightened" There was much laugh
ter and urging necessary before she
could be induced to go into the ball
ROOM and there have been many ex-
pressions Of delight heard among the
older people that a young girl Of the
period should ever be. really fright
ened" at anything short OF a burglar
or q bear.
The last OF the Saturday Evening
Dancing Class affairs Will take place
on the evening after the Greenway
dance, but this is popularity supposed TO
belong to the very young set. The idea
is becoming a trihe OF a theory. how
ever, as there are a good many men,
as well as girls, who attend who are
several years past the last limit Of
age placed for the very young" These
dances. which have flourished for three
or four years past, are always enjoy