The San Francisco call., 1908-04-05

that this will still be announced.
Apropos of this same little group, a
piauant little blonde. who has had to do
double duty, socially speaking. since
her sisters marriage, is persistently
affianced by rumor to one OF San Fran
ciscos most popular men. She denies
it, but she has given up all her other
rings of late for a single stone and
wears that quite without explanation.
No girl in the younger set would de-
cline an invitation to that house just
now, for every one is on the aui vive.
for the announcement and wants to be
there to hear il.
More rumors. l hear is year old
Miss Florence Hopkins, who will make
her debut next fall will long before
that have promised her heart and hand
to a certain attractive lad only three
years her senior. Miss Hopkins, by the
way. is as pretty as her pretty sisters.
Mrs. Gus Taylor. Mrs. William Taylor
and Mrs. Frederick McNear. These
girls were the sensation of the season
when they all came out and used TO
be pointed out in the street when they
went about together. They were a
stunning trio, and Miss Florence is like
them and yet has decided manner of
her own. She arrived in California
nearly a month ago. fresh from an
eastern finishing school. but had hardly
un npacked her trunks when she became
suddenly i'll, and ever since has been
unable to see even the nearest and
dearest friends. She now is GONZALES
cent, however. and is already looking
forward TO delightful times this sum-
mer and glorious coming out affair
next November. Samuel Hopkins, who
I is one of the most popular of all the
society men. is also said to be en-
gagged to the very pretty friend who
spent so much of last summer with his
sister
Another engagement is that sus-
pected of existing in the Newhall fam
lily and stll another announcement is
| expected from the De Young girls.
Then there is demure little girl who
lives down near Menlo Park and rides
and shoots like a boy and has several
charming cousins up here. Her fiance is
a San Francisco man, both of whose
sisters are among the prominent young
matrons of society. So there are some
more changes coming
Miss Dolly MacGavin, who is general
ly credited with being the most popu-
lar of the debutantes, has shown a
great deal of dignity and character
during the past month, in a trying sit
uation. Miss MacGavin entered upon
the social whirl last November, and as
she combines the advantages of a de-
lightful personality, charming moth
er. very popular brother and a host
of warm friends. she Immediately took
a place in the front rank of the years
girls. Admirers by the half dozen
gathered around her wherever she
went and at the shin dances tho slxat
ing club and all the four big cotilIons
she was an acknowledged belle. Nat
urally, when the gossips wanted TO ru-.
NOR an engagement they selected her
for their victim. and first vaguely and
then very positively and definitely.
they connected her name with one of
societys prominent men. At first it
was possible to treat the matter as a
joke, and grotesque engagement cups
and burlesaue letters of congratula-
tion were sent from all sides. But now
the matter has grown more. serious
even her nearest friends beginning
to think that an engagement really
exists, and the persistent rumor may
finally have the effect of breaking up
the friendship that has existed for
years between the young people. The
young lady asserts that she is too fond
of the good times that are a daily oc-
currence now to think seriously of any
plan for the years to come. and what
ever the gentleman thinks there is no
doubt that he must wait few years
longer to confirm the rumor. il that
is his hope. But there is a navy man
who may first have something to say
and another admirer, now in the east.
who will arrive here in May for the
express purpose. as all his friends
know. of trying his fate at Miss Dolly's
hands again.