The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-31
SOCIETY

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Mrs. Fred Damon entertained inform |
ally at five % clock tea Wednesday, |
in honor of Mrs. Van Tine of New
York. Among those present were Mrs. |
Harold Giffard, Mrs. Van Tine, Miss
Saunders, Paymaster Douglass, Lieut.. |
Ghormely, Lieut.. Reichmuth, Lieut.. !
Fitch and DIR. Nelson.
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Sunday evening Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Case-Deering gave another of their de-
lightful little dinners. The guests
present were DR.. and Mrs. Victor Col !
Inns, Mrs. Atkins, Mr.. and Mrs. Alexan-
der G. Halves, Major and Mrs. Wad-
hams, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Kimball
and Mr.. Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hedemann erter.
tanned at dinner Wednesday evening.
The table decorations were pink carna-
tions and maidenhair. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Hedemann, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ballentyne, Miss Jessie Kaufman,
Mr.. Watson and Mr.. Sedgewick.
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Mrs. Theodore Lansing s luncheon de-
serves special mention, the affair being
one of the prettiest functions of the
season. Twenty intimate friends were
hidden to celebrate the hostess birth
| day. The color scheme for the lunch
con was yellow. One table seating ten
| was decorated in Marechal Mel roses,
the other in yellow coreopsis. The
| salads, ices and cakes carried out the
color scheme, while dainty place cards
tied with yellow satin ribbon was found
at each place. A beautiful ball COM
posed of coreopsis was hung between
| the dining room and library Each
guest was requested to guess how many
| flowers the ball contained, the one com.
| ing nearest to the true number getting
prize. Mrs. Tom King guessed $50,
coming within FIVE of the real number
which was 365, designating the number
| of days in the year. The prize was
| handsome brass clock. Those present
were Mrs. J. A. Kennedy, Mrs. Frank
Richardson, Mrs. Laura Wight, Mrs.
Grinbaum, Mrs. Humphrey, Mrs Me-
! Stocker, Mrs. Sam Peck, Mrs Dat, Mrs.
] NJ. Mhillips, Mrs. J. A. McCandless,
/ Mrs. Rose, Mrs. Grossman, Mrs. Tom
King, Mrs Schweitzer, Mrs. Lakeland,
Mrs. Frederick Lowrey, Mrs. Peacock,
| Mrs. z. K. Myers and Mrs. Schmidt.
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R. w. Single and Fred w. Maefar-
+, lane were the hosts of round the-island
| excursion party, given on Thursday last
in honor of Messrs. Calvin and Ban
croft, the visiting railroad men. There
| were sixteen in the party, which left
Honolulu early enough to breakfast at
| the home of Walter Macfarlane, at Ka-
| haluu. At Kahana a special train was
/ taken for Waialua, where the party
| lunched, going from there by auto to
| Wahiawa and returning by train and
| auto to town.
! Captain and Mrs. Cashier are now
living in the Foster cottage on Nuuanu,
formerly occupied by Mrs. Freeth
Mrs. William Whitney's tea from A
to 6 Thursday afternoon was thor
oughly enjoyable affair, it being given
| in honor of Mrs. Sutton, sister-in-
| law of the hostess. Mrs. Sutton is i
bride, so most of the guests included
were among the younger set. The
| Whitneys' home is considered one If
| the most artistic in town. The draw
ing-room presented picture, with its
decorations of the trailing moonfower
| vine. The dining-room was decorated
in the yellow bignonia - trumpet
flower. Mrs. Charles Hemenway, Mrs.
| R. D. Mead, Mrs Frank Atherton, Mrs.
Stanley Livingston and Miss May
Kluegel assisted the hostess in the en-
tertainment of the guests. Over sixty
| young matrons and maids were present
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Mrs. Samuel Dunning gave an IN
formal reception Thursday afternoon
few friends being invited TO meet
the new Army and Navy people.
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The many friends of Mrs. Saunders
regret that she has decided to retura
to the Coast on the next Alameda, on
account of the i'll health of Captain
Saunders, who is under the care Of a
specialist for nervous breakdown. As
soon as the popular captain is able to
take command of his old ship, the
Manchuria, Mrs. Saunders viii return
to Honolulu. Miss Dora Saunders will
. not return to the Coast, but viii be
the guest of Mrs. Fred Damon and
, Miss McStocker
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The Nuuanu Valley residence of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. McCandless presented a
gala scene yesterday afternoon, when
Miss Madge McCandless entertained