The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

son. and with the members of the Pres
ton family or, more definitely, as the
guest of Mrs. Willard Drown, but has
made her home in Santa Barbara. She
has been in the southern city almost
constantly since the death of her hus-
band, the late Frank Norris. whose
novels won him fame. Mrs Norris was
Miss Nettie Black before her marriage
several years ago and was very young
society girl when her wedding with the
writer took place. Among her closest
friends in late years has been Mrs. 1so-
sociated with clever literary people
rather than the usual society clique
that1f is devoted to teas and parties.
Frank Preston is a son of the late
Colonel Edgar Z. Preston and his
mother was Miss Baldwin, a sister of
o. d. Baldwin. His sisters are Mrs.
Worthington Ames and Mrs Willard
Drown, who were formerly Norma and
Edith Preston. The wedding that is of
so much social consequence will be
quietly celebrated and there Will be a
brief wedding journey before the couple
return to this city.
And so Richard Harding Davis own
romance has reached the waste paper
basket of divorce, which is the fate
of so many idyls that have gone wrong,
says writer in the Philadelphia
Ledger who is conversant with many
personal affairs of the great and the
near great. ut seems but yesterday
when it eliminated and appeared to
have been intended by fate and blessed
by heaven. Will you ever forget the
manner in which, with true journalistic
instinct, Davis sent his messenger boy
| across ocean and continent? 1t was
said at the time that it was in full
| fillment of bet on the English lads
| capacity to go as a messenger to Chi
cago in specified time; that this mite
of British humanity had been started
on his way, the bearer of a letter to
Clarke Davis in Philadelphia and tc
Miss Clarke in Porkopolis. l note that
it is now said that the engagement
| ring was intrusted to the boy. If so
it was daring well as an eccen-
trio performance. The lad was mere
atom. l Wei remember him as he
appeared at the Broad street station
| He looked about 9. although, of course
he must have been more. Erect in his
uniform. with his Tommy Atkins regu-
/ lation cap, he seemed microscopic en-
bodiment of self-restraint and dis
cipline. That he was well able to take
care of himself was evident. But. o.
course. if. laden with valuables, any
tough could have wrenched then
from him, for if he had brains beyonC
his size he had only lads strength
John Burroughs once remarked tha
good manners and a knowledge of box
ing will take one around the world
The lad had the manners. but it wa
well that boxing was not acquired o
him. OF course, the thing was splen
did advertisement"
Miss Margaret Kemble will entertain
and incidentally instruct, a score of tn
smart set at a musical lecture to b.
given tomorrow afternoon at oclocl
in the blue room of the st. Francis, an
the topic or interpretative study of tn
day will be "Ariane ct Barbe Bleue,'
musical story in three acts written b.
Paul Dukas. The announcement vii
not carry particular interest to many
perhaps, until they are reminded tha
1t is the old story of Bluebeard in
new dress and with a modern signifi
canoe. The opera was sung by Mauric
Maeterlinck's wife. Georgette lie Blanc
at the Opera Comique in Paris, and 4
the modernized version of the tale W
hear that Bluebeard's wife went dow