The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12

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day. and Mrs. George Rowe entertained
the same group of players at cards
the following afternoon. Mrs. Will
liam p. Morgan had about 20 society
matrons at her san Rafael home for a
game of bridge on Saturday of last
week, and Mrs. Leroy Nickel was also
among the weeks informal hostcsses
al cards.
Not for many years has prettier
dance been given than that at which
Miss Florence Hopkins. one OF the deb
utantes to be. and her three married
sisters were hostesseS week ago.
The affair took place at the home Of
their parents in Menlo Park on July 4
and was attended by the cream of the
social cream. the most exclusive and
the most prominent OF Calif0rnia's So
Ciety people. Al the Burlingame crowd
was present. a select representation
from this city. few people from San
MateO and rs many more from MenlO.
The house was. of course. decorated
with the colors. as well as with the
usual greens ana masses Of bloom.
During the evening there We're Occa-
SiOnany snatches of the national music
and the guests in many cases wore
knots OF red. white and blue on their
shoulders or in their buttonholes as a
reminder Of the date. Mrs. Fred Nc
Near. Mrs. VIII Taylor and Mrs. Angus
tus Taylor assisted their sister and
father in receiving their guests.
Some OF those present at this dance
We're.
Miss Mary JosseIyn Mr. and Mrs. Norris Da-
Hiss Marjorie JosSclyu Wis
Mss Marian Ne,vlsIi Mr.. ami Mrs Thomas
Miss Mary keeney Breeze
Miss Elizabeth NewhaIl Mr. ana Mrs Edward
Miss Jeanne Gallois Pringle
Miss de Guigne Mr. ana Mrs. II. Nc
Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Donald Spencer
Scott Mr.. aud Mrs George
Nj and Mrs Laurance Martin
Irving Scott Mr.. and Mrs Willard
Amer i,,i N@whan i'''' = Mr.. an and Mrs Latham
Nr. and Mrs Mount McMuen
ford :. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Percy
wilson Nj. and Mrs. Walter
knight Mrs. Joseph Crockett
3irs. Charles o. Alex Frank Owen
Nj and Mrs J. A. Gordon Armsby 'l,'' ''
Folger Raymond W. Armsby
AtheT5on alacCondray I.~oa Bouquerez
Percy Selny Percy King
Robert Seiby Eyre
The smart set Of Mare island will
very much miss Dr. and Mrs. Frank
Anderson and their daughters. Eleanor
and Dorothy. who have lived there for
about three years, and who leave this
fail for the east The Anderson girls,
one Of whom is a debutante, and the
other still in the schoolroom, are both
pretty and charming. and they have
done much entertaining in the big house
in officers row during the last few
weeks. They are connected, through
their mother. with the Collins of Ross
valley, and it was by Mrs Cof-
fin that Miss Dorothy was introduced
to San Francisco society. where she
is great favorite. She is already
in the east, where she viii be Joined
by her parents and sister in September.
One Of today's pictures is of Miss
Gertrude Russell, who is not vet a
debutante, but viii make her formal
! bow some time this season. Miss Rus
sell is a great favorite already and has
been bridesmaid twice this season. She
/ apparently has no faith in the super
stition that attaches itself to being
three times brides attendant. for
there Is an engagement waiting to be
told that viii surely put her in the
way Of being bridesmaid n third time
The other picture is one Of the month $
I brides. Miss Frances Edwards, whose
engagement to 6. J. Claxton was an
I llOuiANtu SOlilt InOnlnS ago. Inp Ed
wards are not San Franciscans. having
made their home at Woodland for sew
eral years but Mr.. Claxton and his
/ bride VIII make their home here, where
( she has many friends.
A certain Miss Bella Bruce. a gentle.
/ little, faded Scotchwoman, who recent
/ ly came to New York, has opened a
school Of practical domestic science
| fna
! success in the first few months of its
/ existence that there is no doubt that
similar establishments some day viii
/ be in all of the big cities and towns.
What Miss Bruce teaches is invaluable
! TO any woman, in any sphere. She does
not daintily demonstrate to her pupils
/ how to toast mullins, whip cream or
curry lobster along regular Ncooking-
school lines. She gives each a small
table, little gas range. a stated sum
( of money and a market basket Made
moiselle Cand these girls are all from
the very wealthiest families of the bis
/ city, is supposed to be getting" din
ner for an imaginary husband. She
goes to market and learns to her sur
prise that steaks and sweetbreads are
far more expensive than stew meat and
chops. and that soft green places in
things generally mean that they are
bad. Then she comes back and cooks
the things she buys If she forgets to
regulate the oven for her gingerbread.
ruins and smoke are the result If she
doesn't salt her beef pie it is served nm
salted and she gets black mark for
every mistake she makes. She burns
her hands and fiushes her face and even
weeps and scolds, just as many an un-
/ taught little bride does, and. eventual
/ ly. she learns. And then she washes
up, unromantically but thoroughly. She
soalSs and scrapes and rubs just like
any other dishwasher. So that when she
goes into a home of her own she knows
what to expect of Lena and what to
scold Alma for and why the chicken is
never seasoned rightly and when the
steaks are spoiled by standing
+ One of San Francisco's society girls.
who married two years ago, knew so
little about cooking that (she told me
/ this herselO she cried with despair
every day for the first four months of
/ her new life, and that she used to
dread her husbands step at night for
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