The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16

~ ASTER week with all Its spring
~ JOY and brightness will bring
more in the way of social en-
tcrtaining than has been going
on in the whole of the past six weeks,
Lent having been more generally OBJ
served this year than ever before. The
week just opening will be filled with
gnyety, ]unchcons. dinners and teas fol
lowing one another in rapid success.
sion, and several days being crowded
full OF events Of various kinds. few
weddings Will be responsible for sew
eral affairs and the tendency TO shake
OF the lethargy of the past few weeks
VIII give Impetus enough TO the young
people 10 make them have all kinds OF
good times. To the housckccpcr, the
time when every corner is Splck and
span is Just the time for entertaining,
aad well known bosiesses Will vie WITH
one her in thc number and kind OF
entertainments TO be gwen during the
spring anu early summer. For the pres
cni wec.; one big event will be the
dance al the University club on Friday
niehI which is to be the mosi elaborate
affair of the Easter season The pat
ronesses are TO be Mrs. w w Arm
strong. Mrs. Edward 5. Ferry. Mrs
Il. G. Gemmell, Mrs Harris *. Master
and Mrs Il. w. Salisbury. One large
afternoon event win he the i o'c!ocS
tea to be given by Mrs Holmes at the
Amelia palace on Thursday afternoon,
and on the same afternoon Mrs Fred
erick f. Staulfer will entertain AT
large tea Mt the same time. Also Dr.
and Mrs Stauifer viii give bridge par
ties Wednesday and Thursday even
ings Mrs. Abner I.uman has issucd
invitations for two bridge teas to be
given on Wednesday and Thursday af'
ternoons and Mrs. Aastin X, Tiernan
and Mrs j. II. Bcnnctt viii! entertain
at bridge tea on Friday afternoon,
the FIRST of Il series of such affairs. Mrs.
W. H. Bintz and her daughter. Mrs.
John G. Daily. will entertain At bridge
teas on Friday and Saturday afternoons
in honor OF Mrs Harry BintZ and her
sister. Miss PrimenuN, who is visit
ing he. Numerous dinners arc planned
for each day. one 0eing given by Mr..
and Mrs ". II Cunningham tonight
al the Alta club. The close of the
week, on Saturday reXt. the faculty
and pupils of Rowland Hall will give
a Japanese lawn party for the benefit
of the Orphans home which will be Il
unique event for the early spring with
its setting Of real bossoming trees, for
il will be IN outdoor affair. Then there
will be the usual run Of the card clubs.
The Utopia meeting on Wednesday of
this week with Mrs. Il. 4. Wcdgwood |
at her home on o street, the smaller
clubs rosuming their meetings also. Mrs,
Harry BIntZ will entertain 81 Il bridge |
tea on Tuesday afternoon for her sis !
ter, Miss Primeaux, and Mrs. James
Wade will give two bridge teas on
Thursday and Friday of the week, in
honor Of Miss Flies Yeates and Miss !
Florence Culmcr, and also TO meet Mrs |
Richard Dorsey, who is here from Car |
son City, New.
II seems that one father and mother |
high in Washington society have shown !
courage enough to Announce formally !
the breaking of their daughters en- |
gagemeDt lust prior to the time set |
for the wedding-Easter week. The |
matter would seem TO be Just as i'm !
portant in It's way as the formal an
nouncement of the engagement. and |
surely Is much TO be preferred to the
''indefnnelv postpoDed' arrangement !
which fools M one and only makes a !
deal of talk. il such matters are pub
lic at all (Which may be open to ques-
tion) that fact that no marriage follows |
the announcement IS also public
The couple in this case are both mem
hers Of prominent families, the girl be
ing Miss Cecilia MAY, the daughter
of Colonel and Mrs Henry May, and |
her quondsm finance is Robert Bacon,
.Ir., of family equally well known |
Miss Ethel Roosevelt was TO be one !
OF the attendants. and the wedding |
was TO have been one of the important |
events of the Easter time. There are
rather significant things to be noted !
in relation 10 the breaking of the sup |
posed tic-that the rupture is caused
by religious differences and that every
one seems TO be commencing the good |
taste Of the girl s parents in thus set
ting the matter forth instead of max
ing ii the subject of gossip.
There have been many cases in
local society where acquaintances and
even friends have been left entirely in
the dark as TO why certain nuptial
events proclaimed with loud accord
were never noted further There seems
TO be an idea prevalent that il is not
quite delicate to mention such things
after the first announcement has been