The San Francisco call., 1910-12-27
NEWS OF OAKLA AND, BERKELEY, ALAMEDA
SOCIETY FETES
AN EASTERN GIRL
Miss Ethel Hinkston of Roches-
ter, N. Y, Is Visiting
Oakland Friends

OAKLAND, Dec. 26.-Miss Alice Bur
dick will be dinner hostess of Thurs
day evening, entertaining a dozen
friends at her Vernon heights residence
in honor of Miss Ethel Hinkston. Miss
Hinkston is an attractive girl of Roch-
ester, N Y. who is spending a part
of the midwinter on the Pacific coast.
For fortnight she is the house guest
of Mrs. Henry c. Morris and Mrs. c.
NJ Burdick. Some delightful affairs
are being planned during her soiourn
in the bay cities.
One of the larger teas of the new
year will be that for which Mrs. c. F..
Baker has sent out cards for the aft
ernoon of Wednesday, January 4, at
her home in Monte Vista avenue. Mrs.
Baker is making her daughter in law.
Mrs. Roy Baker, the honored guest of
the occasion. The attractive young
matron before her marriage of month
ago was Miss Hazel Burpee. and Is
popular with the younger set. The
young people returned week or SO
ago from their honeymoon which was
spent in Mexico and the southern part
of the state. They have residence in
Claremont.
The large house party which Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip E. Bowles entertained over
the week end in honor of the Christ
mastide, broke up today. The Bowles
family included a number of the young
er set in their hospitality at The
Pines.
hri OF
given by the pupils of Miss Merriman's s
school in Linda Vista last week, will
be repeated Saturday afternoon, jan
uary z, in Ebell club house for the
benefit of the Goodwill kindergarten.
the performance being the second
which these more fortunate children
of the city have produced for their
less happy brothers and sisters In
| ''The Genuine Santa Claus" the charm
ing musical comedy which was chosen
| this season, are cast nearly half a hun
| dred little folk. In their number are:
James Eva, Howell Lowell, Emil Leonhardt,
Kathryn Fox, Celia Baum, Beatrice Dredge
The Goodwill kindergarten, which is
one of the group Of free schools of
| Oakland is doing splendid work On
| the board of directors who are making
arrangements for the affair are:
Miss Eva Powell Mrs F. E. Wells
Mrs. T. NJ Hurd Mrs. Murray Johnson
Mrs George G. Jensen Mrs. Charles e. Cotton
Mrs. A. $. Larkey Mrs. ]. H. Brewer
Miss Caroline Hawley Mrs. Arthur Markwart
Mrs Alfred Mitchler Miss Gertrude Living
Mrs. David Gage ston
Word reaches friends in California
of the delightful season which Miss
Eliza McMullin is enjoying in Wash
ington, D. c., where she has been for
some weeks With her grandmother,
Mrs. John McMullin. she will next
month go to New York for the later
winter.
One of the larger of the affairs of
Christmas week will be the dance,
Thursday evening. at which Mrs. EN-
ory Elliott, Mrs. Sidney Allen and Mrs.
Harry Johnson will entertain at the
Elliott residence in Hawthorne street,
including number of the smart set
Of Alameda in their invitation.
Tomorrow afternoon Miss Lulette
Mauvais is entertaining informally in
honor of Miss Madeline Todd, whose
wedding with Russell Cowles will be
an event of Saturday evening. Miss
Todd has been extensively feted in
the few weeks preceding her wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Whitehead will
spend a part of the late winter in the
southern part of the state, expecting
to remain in Los Angeles a month
or more.
Christmas party will be given to-
morrow night at the Gentry residence
in East Oakland, when Miss Mabel
Gentry and Miss Hazel Gentry will en-
tertain more than a score of guests.
Miss Elizabeth Simpson will return
to California this spring after a years
absence abroad, where she has devoted
herself to the study of the organ un-
der the teachers of Paris. Miss Simp-
son is an unusually gifted girl, whose
talents have won her an enviable place
in local musical circles.