The San Francisco call., 1908-03-22

And so years ago, as there are plenty
ofSpeoPle to tell US, weddings with the
feasting and dancing and singing that
were part of them. took a whole day.
and exhausted the entire community for
several days. The simpler way is GER
tainiy an Improvement. for. once the
custom were fairly established. people
would very quickly get used 70 II. and
even close friends would feel that they
had no right to resent being excluded
from so sacred an event
Looking back on the winters we'd
dings there is not one that compares
with the weddings of the SOS for size.
Miss HYDE Smiths was the largest OF
the season. Miss Wellman's second
Miss Spieker and John Drum viii be
married in tho presence of about 20 per-
sons. Miss Buckbee whose marriage to
William Bliss is the next event on the
social calendar, will have even fewer
guests at her wedding. and Miss Edna
Middleton and Gerald Buckley have
asked only 80 guests When Miss Elsie
Sperry was married in January only
five people attended. Miss Emily Bowie
and Stanley Rammage of san Jose
didn't mention their plans until some
hours after the wedding. and Miss
Marie Pickering was away on her we'd
ding journey before even her sister
knew that she had been married So
that the old theory is dying that girls
love long ceremony, orange blossoms
fuss. excitement and a crowd
The dance on. the Maryland week
ago yesterday was. p&rhaps, the pref
tiest shipboard affair that has been
given this year The long spring aft
ernoon allowed several hours for dane
ing and when tea was served at 3
o'clock there were still two hours of
daylight left. The ship is a pretty one
and was made still prettier by the use
of hags and bunting screening off the
dancing deck. Uniforms and dainty
frocks looked their best with the blue
sky and the bright brass and paint Tor
a setting. Splendid music made every
one feel gay from the first second.
Miss Josephine Ellicott in whose honor
the affair was given. is very quickly
winning the hearts of San Fr.ncisco's
girls and boys and made a delightful
hostess when she received her guests
with her mother. She has already been
entertained several times by various
maids and matrons here and is proving
decided acquisition to the younger
set.
Two very small girls. who will be
s..
pied their families with good story
each this week. One of them was lit
tie Miss Kate Darragh. the daughter of
Mrs Alexander Fraser Douglas. She
1eH and hurt her arm on the way home
from Scnool few days ago and was
duly consoied with much sympathy.
nandages and a certain soothing paste
that comes in a tinfoil tube. Next day
the small girl was alone for few mo-
III
the treatment
I couldn't find the stuff vou used |
motner- she reported later. 80 I took
tue tooth paste, because that comes in
a tube, too"
me other little girl was Mary Rix-
Iord, the oldest child of DR.. and Mrs. |
E,nmet Rixford. VINO amused herself 1
Whole long afternoon in playing with
ner dos, a big red setter. After a while
lnaIy came in, radiant and gracious. TO
sIeet some friends at her mothers tea
table When somebody asked her what
nad Deen keeping her so happy in the
pdck yard, she created rather a sensa- T
tion py announcing that it was dear
Httie dead rat that the dog had found. /
ana they had been playing 1t was a
doiis. "A sudden gale of goodbys and !
hurried departures followed and thor /
ougn Tubing happened for Miss Mary
al what she considered a perfectly un-
reasonable hour She has since been /
hunting through her dolls house for
the rat, but without success.
The fact that Mrs. L. L. Baker and
ner girls and boys will be in Sausalito /
.his summer means any number Of .
good times over there. Wherever the
Bakers go dinners, walks. teas. lunches.
parties of all sorts. go too. and tbev
nave perhaps done as much entertain
ing since Miss Helen's coming out tea
al the Fairmont last November as any
other family in society. Miss Kate
stone, Mrs Bakers sister. will accom-
pany the family to Sausalito. Besides
MISS Helen there is a younger sister.
Dorothy, now at Miss CANDLES school
IN santa Barbara. and three boys So
that even the big Campbell house will
De comfortably filed. No house could
De better suited TO the Bakers needs.
TOT 1t IS very large. delightfully sit
uated. and equipped with any number
OF broad verandas. sleeping porches
gardens arbors and all the other things
lhat help to make a country visit de-