The San Francisco call., 1910-07-31

Constance Cummings, will leave short
ly for visit to her sister. Mrs. Harry
Childs, in Spokane, and will be gone
for two or three months at least. Mrs.
Joerns of course, is sister of NJ.
Earl Cummings, the sculptor. She
was one of the prettiest brides of last
season and her wedding with Ensign
Joerns was an important society event.
Ensign Joerns sailed Thursday with
his ship, the Yorktown, which has gone
for cruise to Nicaragua and will be
away for several months. The wife of
the younger officer was grieved over
his departure. and after a short stay
with her mother. Mrs. NJ E. Cummings.
in town viii leave for Spokane to pass
the winter with her sister. Another
brother Shelby Cummings. is the
fiance of Miss Louise Moser, but the
wedding is not announced yet. That
event of interest to the family and
friends will probably not take place
until next year.
Mrs Jack Parrott is devoted to her
chateau at Vevey, Switzerland, and
passes most of her time there. There
have been many enthusiastic descrip-
tions of the place. but mostly from the
older members of the family, as the
girls of the household are fond of
travel and find the place too rural for
continued residence. The situation,
however, is picturesque and one of the
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respondent is eloquent over the beau
ties of the far away city. The Parrot
house is a short distance from the
town. but from this account one may
judge that the enVirons are desirable
beyond criticism. The town is said to
be one of the best cared for along the
shores of the lake of Geneva. This is
the account of Nevey: The place may
wei be termed the most coquettish,
cleanest looking and apparently best
cared for resort along the lakeside.
Everything at Vevey looks fresh and
neat, from the bright and new white
station to the beautiful little Kursaal,
with its rich and scrupulously kept gar
dens.
Talk about the cleanliness of Dutch
towns. Vevey is as well groomed as
any of them. Her vast and solidly
built public school is a model of it's
hlIlu, anu IA1keS one NOiQS1 10 IlHU So
ambitious and archtecturally fine an
edifice in so comparatively small a
place
''Vevey excited the greatest admira-
tiCn of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and after
him came Victor Hugo, who wrote the
praises OF the place in some wonderful
letters penned to Louis Boulanger. But
since those times Vevey has become
modernized She has built splendid
hotels, of the most modern construction,
and has a glorious promenade along
the lakeside, shaded by broad trained
plane trees.
''One of the most attractive natural
features of Vevey is the unique walk
up the side of the hill, shaded all the
way by artistically trained 'charmies'
trees. 1T forms a quite unusually long
sort of pergola, with a series of natural
windows all the way along The man
who executed this bit of the education
of nature must have been a fine gar
dener. and must have had wonderful
patience. II can be seen from the train,
as it passes in part right alongside the
rails.
''Vevey is remarkable for its trees
and its plants. Whether it be the air
or the richness of the soil, or perhaps
both combined, all seem to grow there
with luXuriant prodigality At the
Park Hotel Mooser where visit
brought me this afternoon, there are
growing around the porches of this
well known hostelry the most remark
able wistaria creepers. They are giants
of their kind, and have fastened them
selves with such grip to the rails and
pillars that to remove them would
mean to pull down the verandas them
selves. They have just finished bloom
ing, but were lately one mass of mauve.
From the broad Gothic terrace of the
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vineyards with vines which look as
strong almost as the wistaria: All
these belong to the proprietor of the
Mooser, who makes his own wine, has
his own cows and dairy and grows his
vegetables and flowers. The visitors at
the Park Hotel Mooser are in great
number American.
Mrs. Ned Coe, who has been visiting
in Los Angeles, has had a series of par
ties given in her honor as visitor,
and one of the most recent as well as
| the most enjoyable of these informal
reunions was given by Mrs. S. Grant
Goucher at her home in Normandie ave-
nue.. The house was decorated with
lunches of sweet peas and the color
scheme was pink and white. The two
colors were used effectively in the
table decorations and the idea was am
plified in the coloring of the cakes and
ices served with the punch. The punch
bowl had conspicuous place on the
table. and is described as one of the
rarest specimens of cut crystal that
any hostess has had the opportunity of
displaying for long time. The bowl
is of crystal mounted on a standard
and is accompanied by a silver ladle
on which there is an interesting in
scription testifying to the age and dig
nifty of the ma gnifcent bowl. The Dor
sey coat of arms is engraved upon the
ladle and the inscription is more than
40 years old. At that remote date
the bowl was the property of Mrs
Eleanor Dorsey, an ancestor of Mrs
Goucher, and both bowl and ladle have
been in service for more than a CEN
tury al fashionable tea parties The
bowl was brought forward in honor of
Mrs. Coe and was given tribute of
wonder and admiration from more than
100 friends of the hostess and her COM
plimented guest.
Miss Amy Scoville has been visiting
here last week and the younger girls