The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-21
News of COciety
Across the Bay

AkLAND, May 20.-Thursday,
I May %, Mrs Bruce Burnett will
entertain at large affair at her
home in Thirty-seventh street asking
her guests for an hour at bridge and
little supper.
Miss Lily Breiling has sent out cards
for series of affairs which she has
planned for the early summer, includ-
ing large number of the younger ma
irons and maids in her hospitality.
Thursday afternoon, May %, she will
give her first bridge party at the. Breil-
ing home in Eighth street, followed the
Following Thursday by another de-
lightfully appointed card party.
Early next week Mr. Sutton and his
daughter, Miss Carmen Sutton, will
take possession of their handsome new
home in Oakland avenue Miss SUIT
ton is one of the younger girls who
find wide popularity with the ex-
elusive set.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nj. J. Laymance are
leaving June for summer tour of
Alaska. = En- route they will stop over
in Seattle for a few days visit at the
exposition. The following day Mr.. and
Mrs. Leslie Rice Miss Blanche Lay
mance) with Miss Grace Laymance
and Miss Hazel Laymance will go up
to Highlands. where they will spend
six weeks out of town, closing the
Fifth avenue residence for the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart S. Hawley, who
are spending the first weeks of their
honeymoon in the east, have enjoyed
rct s,,fA ff,,rr 1T
d. c. They are not expecting to re-
turn to Oakland for several weeks
Plans for the attractive home which
they will build in Linda Vista are be-
ing completed and work upon it will
be begun this summer Mr.. and Mrs.
Hawley have leased the Chase resi-
dence until their own domicile is ready
for their occupancy Before her mar
riage in April, which made her the
bride of the prominently known young
businessman, Mrs. Hawley was Miss
Harriet Meek, an attractive daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Horny Meek.
Miss Margaret Nelson. the pretty
fiancee of John Bunting Jr., was made
the guest of honor at a sweet pea
luncheon given this afternoon by Miss
Irene Farrell to dozen girls. Those
for whom covers were laid We're:
Miss Nelson Miss Pussy Greed
Miss Eliza McAIullin Miss Dorothy Taylor
Miss Elizabeth orrick Miss Fannie Wilson
Miss Helen Cadman Miss May Turner
Miss Katherine Benni- Miss Riley
son Miss Hester Riley
Miss Helen Upper Miss Farrell
Miss Graham
Mrs. Ernest Muse, a beautiful Sacra-
mento matron, who has come to Oak
land to establish her home, was the
Inspiration for the delightful thimble
bee over which Mrs. Fred Hamilton
presided this afternoon asking a dozen
close friends to meet her guest of
honor
Tomorrow Mrs James Ireland is
making Mrs. George Louden the motif
for prettily appointed card party
including a number of mutual friends
in her invitation.
The public reception which was
given this afternoon by the president,
Mrs. Matilda Brown, and the board of
managers of the Ladies' relief society
in the Home for Aged Women which
they maintain in North Oakland,
brought together several hundred
guests in most delightful way. An
interesting program of music arranged
by Mrs. Spenser Browne. contributed
to the pleasures of the reception hours.
\ The society is accomplishing help
full work in its department for old peo-
pie and in the orphanage, which is its
particular care. The running expenses
of the institution are large, but only
occasionally does this band of devoted
women call upon the public for finan-
cial aid, although there are times when
they have needed help badly.
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