The San Francisco call., 1908-08-02

MISS Kate Stone viii spend the late
fall and the winter months in Europe,
leaving some time next month for
six months stay. She will probably
take her youngest niece, Miss Dorothy
Baker, with her, for the two have
done a good deal of travelling together
and are inseparable friends. While
Mrs. Baker and the older daughter,
Miss Helen, were staying on the conti-
nent last year, Miss Stone and Miss
Dorothy made many short trips to-
gether and evidently enjoyed 1t enough
to want more. Dorothy Baker is one
of the girls of the Santa Barbara
school. and Joined her family in Sausa-
Tito only a short time ago. The Bakers
are spending the summer across the
bay, but will return to town late in
September.
Mrs. Edward Barron will close her
Mayfield home in September, and in
stead of taking a house in town for
the season. as usual, will spend the
winter months abroad. Her son, Ed
ward, will remain here, but Miss Mar
garet Barron was presented to So
ciety here several seasons ago, and
was prominent among the younger
hostesses last winter, when the Bar
rons had the Huntington home in Jack
son street and gave several large dim
ners and one or two dances. The
little daughter, who is extremely
pretty, will make her formal debut in
another season or two. and promises
already to be great favorite.
Mrs. Eugene de Saba will also go
taste Of the continent before they come
back to take their places among the
bellies of the younger set. The De
Sablas originally intended to spend
the early summer abroad and come
back in time for the winter season.
but various things have delayed them
and now they do not expect to get
away until some time next month.
Arnold Genthe writes from various
obscure parts of Japan that he is en-
joying every moment of his vacation.
and hopes to extend 1t for another
month or two. He has managed to
secure some very rare views and some
excellent negatives. in spite of the
fact that every drop of water has to
be brought long distances, from minia-
ture wells in miniature buckets, and
that little mushrooms form themselves
upon the films in the warm wet
weather, and however artistic in them
selves, don't materially benefit the
film."
The wilfred B. Chapmans and their
daughter, Miss Dorothy. have gone to
Del Monte for stay of several weeks
With them as their guest they have
Miss Gertrude Perry. who was one of
Miss Dorothy's school friends at Santa
Barbara, and who will spend the
greater part OF the vacation with them
1t is very rarely that a personality
takes such a hold upon the college
town as has that of William Lyon
Phelps, head of the English department
of Yale university, who has been CIV
ing some summer lectures at the Uni
versity of California, and who has
quite captured the town by storm. Mr..
Phelps has made his lectures delight
full this summer through the force and
charm of his own personality, and has
won so many warm friends in Berkeley.
even in this short visit. that 1t was
with genuine regret that they said
goodby to him on Friday morning,
when he left for his own college. Din
ners and receptions have been given
constantly in his honor and his stay
in Berkeley will long be a pleasant
memory to the members Of the most
exclusive college set.
Whenever Mrs Joseph Coryell comes
up to town she wears pinned to her
shoulder a most exquisite orchid of
some soft rich color that harmonizes
with her gown and her hat. and so
unfaiIing is the appearance of the
blossom that her friends connect the
thought Of her with the wonderful
flower This little touch of luxury is
possible to Mrs. Coryell. even when
florists are refusing orchids to their
most favored patrons. because the
Coryell greenhouses are better stocked
with orchids than any other green
house on the Pacific coast. Mr.. Cor
yelrs collection is worth thousands of
dollars. and last weeks addition to
his stock was valued at something like
$4,000. The CoryeIls' handsome San
Mateo home is filled with orchids from
January to Christmas time. and the
charming chatelaine likes nothing bet
ter than to pack boxes with the blos-
SONS for her friends and to keep
many other dinner tables besides her
own in orchids.
And now for the brides. There are
to be no less than % of them between
now and the new year at the very
least count. and that makes no allow
ance for the inevitable surprises and
impromptus that always take place in
the way of marriages and engage
ments. Some of them are to have big
church weddings. and that delightful
eCIHeLniuS ku4Hn dS "a
of everything" and others Will have
but two or three people to witness the
great event, and slip as quietly out OF
the old life and into the new. as the
summer is slipping into the autumn.
But whichever way she does It, every
girl thinks that herr way is after all
the sweetest and best and In after
years when she and he are coming
away from other weddings she viii
slip her hand into his arm and say,
"But after all 1t wasn't as solemn and
as dear as our little wedding, was it?'
Miss Dolly Tarpey and ]. Paulding
Edwards will have large wedding,
with several hundred witnesses, at
tendants in fluffy frocks, orange bios
SONS, veil. lilies OF the valley and all
the rest of 1t. There will be recep-
tion and a supper afterward in the
hotel. and Mr.. Edwards and his bride
viii leave the same evening for a long
honeymoon trip to the southern part
of the state. His half sisters. Miss
Marie and Miss Marguerite Buffers.
are to be among the brides maids. as
will several other friends of the
charming little leading LADY, The
Tarpeys. who have been spending the
season, as usual, in Fresno came down
TO town q few days ago and are de-