The San Francisco call., 1909-11-24
RECEPTION PLANNED
FORYOUnG MATRON
Miss Edna Siegfried Invites
Friends to Meet Mrs. Nelson
Barry at Card Party

OAKLAND, Nov. 23-Miss Edna
Siegfried will make Mrs. Nelson Barry
her guest of honor at an afternoon at
cards. for which she has invited num-
Der of friends for Saturday, December
4. Mrs. Nelson has come to the bay
cities to spend the holidays with her
kinsfolk. Before her marriage in the
early spring she was Miss Antonina
Sundel and one of the popular girls
of the younger set and she will be en-
tertained at interesting affairs during
the holidays.
1t has been decided by Willard Bar
ton, who for two years has arranged
the details of the dances of the As
sembly, the club which has included in
its personnel only the smartest folk
on this side of the bay, that the two
brilliant events which are planned for
this season will take place after the
new year. The club membership, which
is limited to- about 200, is made up
largely from among the younger mar
ried set, with few of the more pop
ular girls and debutantes and corre-
spending number of men. A score of
prominent women have lent their pat
ronage and taken leading parts in the
assemblies of the past years.
This afternoon Miss Winifred Braden
entertained at an deliberately appointed
card party at the Claremont country
club in honor of Miss Airline Johnson,
the fiancee of George Stark Towne,
whose wedding will be celebrated De-
cember s. Tomorrow Miss Florence
Henshaw will be a luncheon hostess,
making Miss. Johnson her guest of
honor and ireluding a score of friends
in her invitation.
General Oscar Fitzalan Long and Mrs
Long have taken possession of their
new Piedmont residence and settled in
the beautiful home which adjoins that
of Mrs. Longs mother Mrs. Isaac
Requa.
Miss Edith White and Miss Helen
White have Cancelled the cards which
they issued for an elaborate bridge
party Saturday afternoon of this week,
postponing the affair until later in the
season because of illness in the family
The White girls were making Miss
Minna Conger, the pretty fiancee of
Charles Lewis, their guest of honor
A trio of brides to be will share in
the compliment offered by Miss Helen
Sutton tomorrow when she entertains
a score of friends at luncheon at her
home in Berkeley. Her guests of honor
will be Miss Elinor Slate, who is to wed
James Van Loben Sells Wednesday of
next week; Miss Edith Page, whose
wedding with Ernest Van Loben Sells
will occur the week following, and Miss
Ruth Boericke of San Francisco.
Mrs. Quincy Brown has included the
girls of the Linda Vista bridge club in
her invitation for next Monday after
noon, a game of cards and informal
supper offering the diversion for the
hour
Tomorrow afternoon Miss Amy Hrl
will entertain informally a dozen or
more friends at her home in Berkeley.
ALAMEDA, Nov. 2s.-Three of this
city's popular society maids will be-
come brides tomorrow. The wedding
of Miss Ida May Marriott and William
Sherman Bacon will take place in the
evening at the home of the brides
father Frederick Marriott, 100 Bay
street. Rev. Alexander Allen of st.
Paurs Episcopal church will officiate.
Two hundred guests have been hidden
to witness the marriage.
Miss Ida Elizabeth Pattiani and r.
Duncan Gatewood will plight their troth
at the Pattiani home in Central avenue
at o'clock. 1t will be simple home
affair and will be witnessed by a linz
tied number of the relatives and friends
of the couple. There will he but one
attendant and that will be A. Dalton
Harrison, who will act as best man.
Gatewood is a naval constructor and
is stationed at Mare island. Miss Pat
tiani is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. W. Pattiani
At noon Miss Ruby Schloss. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Schloss of 2114
Eagle avenue, will become the bride
of Ernest F. Dowson. Rev Frank S.
Brush of the First Presbyterian church
will read the marriage service.