The San Francisco call., 1910-11-27

over 90 girls at the party The table
decorations were pink roses arranged
in golden baskets with wreaths Of
autumn leaves. There were streamers
of pink ribbon and the pink predomi
mated in the decorations of the dining
room. There was a pink corsage bou-
quet for each guest and the place cards
were designs in the prevailing pink.
Miss Farrell wore gown of white
lace over satin with an embellishments
of pink satin The girls whom Miss
Farrell invited to meet Miss Doe at the
elaborate luncheon were:
Miss Marian Zeile Miss Grace Gibson
Miss Harriet Stone Miss Anna Peters
Miss Bessie Zane Miss Lurline Natson
Miss LA Sonntag Miss Nell Mahoney
Miss Kathleen de Young Miss Rh0da NlebIng
Miss Anna Olney Miss Edith Rucker
Miss Lillian Van Worst Miss Elsie ClHoro
Miss Florence Cluh Miss Ethel Shorb
Mrs Frederick Stott Miss Irene Farrell
Miss Anaslia Simpson Miss Freda smith
Miss Phyllis de Young
The luncheon party has been a ia
vored form of entertainment during
the week, and among those who have
had friends at home for one of these
delightful occasions were Miss hatn-
leen Farrell and Mrs. James w. keeney.
The latter hostess invited a dozen
guests last Tuesday to her home IN
Buchanan street to meet Mrs. FREDERICK
from abroad she has been entertained
at a succession of informal parties, and
her friends are pleased that she has
decided TO remain the winter. Among
the guests at Mrs Keeneys luncheon
for Mrs Sharon were:
Mrs William Tevls Mrs. Howard Colt
Nfrs patrick Calhoun Mrs George Menden
Mrs Robert oxnard Miss Laura McKinstry
Mrs. Charles Page MISS Mary frleuiahusl Ias
Mrs. Edward Eyre MISS Fanny brleolanue'
Miss Helen Williams, who has been
visiting here during the week, has oeen
the complimented guest at any num-
Der of delightful affairs. Miss Frances
Stewart gave tea for the visitor last
Wednesday, to which she invited
score of the younger girls, and day or
two preceding that affair Mrs. Prentfss
Cobb Hale entertained for the visitor
from New York. Mrs. Hale's luncheon
was given at her home in Vallejo street
and was a charming affair. me taple
decorations were roses with autumn
leaves as a seasonable adornment with
the clusters of pink roses. Among
those who met Miss Williams on this
occasion were:
Mrs Paul Bancroft Mrs Roy Blsnop
Mrs. William P Hum Miss Frances Stewart
Mrs. Pa'55 Josiah R. Howell Miss Mabel Gregory
Mrs. Francis Lucas MISS 1iiiie I eiulhdh
Mrs. Alanson Weeks
DR. and Mrs. NJ. Edward Magnus
have returned to their home in this city
after an outing OF several weeks IN the
southern part Of the state. They passed
the time motoring and visiting at vari-
Gus places Of interest in the south
where they were/ entertained by
friends.
American women have had hard
time of it with their critics of late
or rather they would have were there
any consensus of opinion with regard
to their supposed shortcomings and the
proper remedy for their turpitudes-
but really it is to laugh says Peggy
Shippen "the contradictory lnVectiVe
that is hurled at them. There is. for
instance D. Graham Phillips, the au-
thor of The Husbands Story'-a
misogynist my dear, who thinks
women a burden, domestically speak
Ing, and from the point of view of the
home maker. He proposes as remedy
and indeed. as a panacea. her eco
nomic independence. And on the
other hand, there is President w. H.
p Faunce of Brown university, who
declares positively that the great ma
iority of matrimonial failures are due
to the increasing economic indepen-
dence of women. And think. my dear,
Of his talking in that way to univer-
wrong about it, that Is sure: unless we
must conclude that the gentlemen's
standards differ and that the woman
who seems to the one burden. to the
other seems the perfection of feni-
ninity, and vice versa.
When learned men discourse Of womankind,
And weigh the sex by scientific standard,
The learned may be ignorant, we find.
And through their ignorance Is woman slam
dered.
After all. you know, as the ancient
sage has put it-he who wrote one of
the Hermitic books, the 'Kore KOS
mon,' or Virgin of the World'-'Sex
is a thing of bodies. not of souls and
/ think that there is enough in history
to prove his wisdom. But this is not
all There is a rich Japanese woman.
Baroness Mitsui, whose husbands
wealth being some $500, 600. 900 or some
such astronomical figure, believes, not
uhnaturally. in the status quo As her
parents did pretty well by her in choos-
ing husband able to provide for her
comfort, she quite disapproves of
women selecting their own partners for
life. She attributes to the American
woman's freedom in this respect the
multiplicity of American divorces.