The San Francisco call., 1908-04-22
CUPID TO REIGN
AT JACKIES' BALL
Mrs. Arthur Cornwall Evolves
Plan That Is Tinged
With Romance

All the girls will without doubt hail
this as the most romantic, the dear
est and the most perfectly lovely"
plan that was ever yet devised for
bringing bashful young souls together
President Roosevelt and other ardent
advocates of wedding bells please take
notice
It's the first time the humble poppy
blossom has been used for promoting
cupid S schemes. Twenty-Five hundred
sailormen brought into correspondence
with as many pink checked California
girls through the strange medium of
bouquets OF yellow poppy blossoms at
the Jackies' ball, May IL, is the plan
proposed by Mrs. Arthur Cornwall of
the California woman's club for max
Ing that pet project of the ladies one
glowing, inspiring. soul stirring, stu
pendous success. Well, it undoubtedly
will be.
As Mrs. Cornwall says, though the
plan is in no way intended as a match
making proposition, just the same
there are likely to beer, well-some
beautiful results" Mrs. Cornwall
outlined her plan at a meeting which
Walter Macarthur and Robert Roos
yesterday to discuss plans for the ap-
preaching dance. She said:
II would be splendid to decorate the whole
interior OF the Auditorium with poppies. I
California club requests the girls from the coun-
try around to send big lunches OF the
them on the morning. of the 18th in time to
do the decorating. we can make bouquets of
keep as souvenirs when they leave
. Ano-oh, yes, IL would be nice Idea for
sal find
the name OF some nice girl in his bouquet. and
perhaps he would write, rather have an idea
ing plan-oh. no; but-well with all those let
tiers you know there might be some beautiful
Cross young women did 1t in 1898. Some of the
soldiers wrote TO them all the while they were
tainly beautiful
So there it is. One sad feature about
the flowers. however, is that the es-
corts of the young women who attend
the ball to dance with the sailors will
not be allowed to have any Neither
would they be allowed to dance, it was
decided yesterday. But it was added
that the galleries would be reserved
for them, where they could watch with
mingled feelings their sweethearts
blithesomely dancing with the gallant
stalwarts of the battleships.
You never saw so many enthusiastic
women in your life," said Mrs. Corn
wall in her report TO Macarthur. Half
of them are scared to death for fear
they won't get to go and the other
half want to go badly enough, but
they're Just a little bashful about it.
In all there will be about 1000 women
at the dance"
Mrs. Cornwall announced that 126
organizations of women in San Fran
cisco and the cities about the bay had
been invited to participate, each to
have number of invitations in proper
tion to its membership list Some of
these organizations are labor unions.
The ball will be most democratic
The question of having a clean floor
came UP again.
We understand there will be a prize
fight in the hall the night before" said
Mrs. Cornwall. Many Of the ladies in
tend to have long dresses with trains
and it's absolutely essential that the
floor be clean. How are you going to
arrange it?'
William A. Granfield, match maker of
the Olympic club, who will have charge
of the floor, came to the rescue with the
assurance that sawdust would be spread
over it on the evening of the boxing
matches. He said the sawdust could be
swept up and the floor underneath
would be left clean and waxed like a
whistle. The ladies were intensely re-
lieved.
Invitations have been issued to
sorority girls of the University of Cali
fornia and the city high schools to at
tend in body. Here are the names
of a party of women from Vallejo who
have already accepted and will be at
the ball: