The San Francisco call., 1910-09-28
RECEPTION PLANNED
BY MRS. ]. MONRO
Charles Kellogg Is Inspiration
for Social Event to Be
Held Friday

OAKLAND, Sept. 27.--Charles Kel-
logg will be the inspiration for the
large reception for which Mrs. William
James Monro is sending out cards for
the evening of Friday, September 80.
The hour will take the form of
musicale, as the 100 guests will include
for the most part those we'll known in
musical circles about the bay. Mrs.
Monro has asked small number of
friends to assist her in the receiving
party.
Miss Lucy Fennessy, whose wedding
with Harry Leach will be an event of
the later season, is being made the
guest of honor at the elaborate bridge
party for which Miss Ora Lucas is send
ing out cards. A large number of the
younger set are being asked to share
the hospitality of the Lucas residence
on the afternoon of Thursday, October g..
A large number of guests will cross
the bay Thursday afternoon to accept
the hospitality of Miss Johanna Volk-
mann, who will entertain at an elab-
crate bridge luncheon in honor of Miss
Ruth Kales. The wedding of Miss
Kales and Thomas Knowles will be an
event of the coming month.
Miss Mildred Clarke, one of the pretty
girls of the younger set in Berkeley,
has decided to spend the year on the
Atlantic coast, entering one OF the fin
ishing schools in New York.
Miss Eleanor Connel1. who has re-
turned from several months sojourn
abroad, has given up her apartments
at the Key route inn and joined the
musical colony in the college town.
Miss Connell is gifted as a vocalist, and
during the season on the continent
combined study and pleasure.
Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. J. L. Fuller
will open her residence in Oakland av-
enue for a card party, for which 200
invitations have been issued. Each
guest will contribute small amount
for the afternoons pleasure, the pro-
ceds to be devoted to the work Of the
Oakland New Century club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bond sailed to-
day for Honolulu, where they will es-
tablish their home Since their mar
riage of the midsummer they have
been enjoying an extended honeymoon
on the Atlantic coast, returning to
California Sunday. Mrs. Bond was
formerly Miss Rowena Elston. Yester
day she shared the honors at a small
and informal tea with Mrs. Eustace Van
Loben Sells and Mrs. Walter Gompertz,
brides of the year, when Miss Leslie
Gompertz entertained a group Of
friends.
The members of the Informal Dancing
club, which claims a number of the
younger society folk of Berkeley in its
personnel, will enjoy three dances this
season with Unity hall as the setting.
The first occasion is announced for Fri
a. To,
and February "a have been named for
the succeeding dances. The patron
esses of the Sptillon are:
Mrs. whitney Palache Mrs. Benjamin Bangs
Mrs. Frank Woodward Mrs. ]. T. Burk
Mrs william Fahgsh Mrs B. Boops
Mrs. Andrew Davis Mrs. James Wyper
Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Robert W. French and Miss
Hattie E. Austin. The ceremony took
place on Wednesday evening last at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. William Aus
tin in Thirty fourth street, Rev. H. II.
Haller officiating. After a honeymoon
Mr. and Mrs. French will occupy the
home which has been built for them in
East Oakland French is engaged in
business in this city.
The charm of hearing of the per-
sonal life of Robert Louis Stevenson
during the seven and a half years
which he spent in the south seas at
tracted several hundred clubwomen to
Ebell this afternoon, Mrs. Lloyd Os-
borne was the speaker Of the hour.
She gave an intimate glimpse of the
home life of the great man and re-
viewed his personal relationship with
the natives and the esteem in which he
was held by them. The reading of ex-
tracts from some of his greatest works
was an interesting feature introduced
during the lecture by Mrs. Osborne.