The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-31

touch. The houses are lighted up fo1
the evening and the soft, rich, mellow
glow streaming from the window finds
a golden red reflection in the water and
in the wet sands, from which the tide
is slowly receding.
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A coming event Of great interest tc
tennis devotees is the proposed double
tournament between the Beretania and
Pacific tennis clubs. The plan is to
make the event an annual one with five
teams to play for each club. A Bere-
tania club member has offered to give
a permanent trophy which shall be
played for each year and held by the
club winning it for that space of time.
II the plans carry among those who
would probably play are: Pacific club,
c. R. Hemenwav, John Waterhouse. Geo.
Davies. Geo. Waterhouse, ". William
son, Clarence H. Cooke, Richard A.
Cooke, W. Roth, ". II. Rabbit and
S. NJ. Ballou; Beretania club. E. S. Gee.
Captain Lowe, David Anderson, A. L.
Castle, Theodore Richards. Anterior
Richards, R. Sinclair, c. G. Bockus, L.
5. CONFESS and Sonny Cunha.
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Chronicle. - Princess Kawananakoa
was hostess at a reception on Wednes-
day evening at the home on Preside
Terrace which she has taken for the
winter. 1t is the Merritt house one
of the handsomest houses in that sec
ton of beautiful homes, and the Prin-
cess plans to entertain as Hospitality
here this winter as she does in her
Honolulu home and as she has hereto
fore in Washington and New York,
where she has often spent the season
Among her guests were Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Gray, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Glib
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Dunn, Miss
Helen Grey, Miss Cecil Cowles. Walter
Clifford Smith, John Lawson, Lansing
Miner, Emile Bruguierre, Captain
Ferguson, U. S. A, and Col. Sam
Parker.
Some fine tennis playing will be wit
messed next month when Miss Miriam
Hall and Mrs. Olive Coulter will meet
in challenge match. Both of these
ladies have with great ease repeatedly
defeated several of the best men play
ers on the island and came out with
flying colors. The championship will
with Miss Hall even should she
be defeated in this match. According
to tennis rules the championship IS
played for only in one tournament
year and prior or subsequent defeats do
not count toward the title.
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News Letter.-The mystery of the
canard announcement of Helene Irwin's
engagement to Templeton Crocker has
not been satisfactorily explained, but
the denial from all parties interested is
taken as final. Templeton Croker was
quite devoted to Miss Irwin all last
winter, but the flowers he sent grew
in a platonic garden, we are told. Mrs
Irwin is still disciplining her daugh-
ter's heart, which they say almost fell
out of her keeping on the plantation
in Hawaii, where they drink
ITO the cool of our deep verandas and
the crest Of our jeweled main,
To the night and the music and the fire.
flies in the flame"
Evidently the frefies were not the
only things playing with the fame, for
while one Mr.. Dillingham; wooed and
won Miss Hyde Smith, the other brother
is said to have made dent in Miss
Irwin s regard that foreign travel and
parental negation has not Strengthened
out
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f. X. Howard arrived home on the
Korea Wednesday after having spent
several months on the continent. Mr.
Howard reported rough trip across
the Atlantic from London.
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News Letter-Mr and Mrs. E. F.
Bishop of Honolulu, whose lavish hos
pitality is typical of the best social
life of the Islands, have been warmly
greeted by their many local friends
since their arrival at the st. Francis.
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Gaines and their
niece, Miss B. Sharpe, a charming
young Canadian debutante, who recent
ly arrived from the mainland are stay
ing at the Seaside Hotel for a few
weeks until they leave for Shanghai
where Mr.. Gaines assumes the super
of the cable office. Their
many friends learned with regret that
orders had been issued changing Mr..
Gaines from the Honolulu to the Far
East office.
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Miss Beatrice Castle was the hostess
at a tea on Friday given in honor of
two brides-elect of the season, Miss
Violet Damon and Miss Alice Hede-
mann. Miss Castle and the two guests
Of honor received and Mrs. Alfred Cas-
tie presided over the tea cups. During
the afternoon a musical program was
rendered to which Mrs. Whitney and
Mrs. Ross contributed a violin and
piano duet and Miss Trmgard Schaefer
4 vocal solo. Among the guests who