Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-24

at an elaborate luncheon at the Coun-
try Club on "Wednesday for Mrs An
tone Cropp, who will leave Honolulu
in September. The color scheme for
the decorations was yellow and was
developed with masses OF yellow flow
ers and yellow satin ribbon. Covers
were laid for fifty-niae
Princess kawananakoa's Dinner.
Dance.
The Princess kawananakoa enter
tanned at an elaborate dinner and
dance at Pear City on "Wednesday
evening. There were about fifty
guests present.
Country Club Ball.
Invitations are cut for the ball to
be given at the Country Club on Tues
day night OF next week The ball
promises to be one OF the most bril-
liant to be added TO the annals OF
H0noluiu's long list Of ultra swell
functions, and is being looked for
ward to with pleasure. AS the affair
is in the nature of a houseWarming
or celebration of the opening of the
addition to the Country Club, it will
perhaps be the fOrerunner of a num-
Der of elaborate functions to be given
there in the near future.
Miss Edith CowIes Informal Bridge
Party.
On Tuesday afternoon Miss Edith
Cowles was hostess at delightfully."-
Informal bridge party in complement
to Miss Helen Rockwell who with her
mother Mrs. Rockwell will leave Ho-
rolulu in the very near future. among
those present at Miss Cowles were
Miss Helen rockwell, Mrs. Rockwell,
Miss Helen Brown, Miss Julia Nc
Stocker, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. johnson,
Mrs. Gerald Johnson. Mrs. James
Pine. Mrs Douglas McDOugal, Mrs.
Stevens and others.
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Social Struggle on Manchuria.
! SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 15.-It
was California pitted against old Vir-
ginia for the ephemeral thrill of be-
ing the guiding hand in the social
gayeties of the Pacific Mail liner Man
churia in the long voyage from the
Orient that ended in this port yester-
day.
Although Miss Caroline D. Carey.
herself related by blood and marriage
to Mrs. Burton Harrison, member Of
New York's Four Hundred and of the
Old Dominion family of Careys, was
aided and abetted in the frolicsome
striving for supremacy in the ship
world by two Of the prominent society
leaders of Boston, who had been max
ing tour of the Far East, the palm
for keeping every one feeling right
jolly" as a young English globe-trot-
ter expressed it, had to be awarded to
another.
Miss c. Mari de Forest daughter of
A. T. de Forest, steel-trust magnate,
banteringly challenged Miss Carey to
the contest a few minutes after the
big steamer left Hongkong, and from
then on each young woman carefully
laid her plan of campaign and follow
ed it up according to the most modern
! tactics. Miss de Forestcliad been on a
two months trip to the Philippines
with her mother, society leader of
Paloa Alto. ~ > ..
Miss de Forest quickly had ranged
on her side Mr.. and Mrs Louis K.
Fawcitt of London, England That
was the trump card
With the prestige of Fawcitt's
membership in the Constitutional
, Club of London, which oboasts no less
personages than former Prime Minis
tiers on its rolls, there was no resist
ing any of the dances or deck sports
suggested by the girl he had taken
under his wing.
The chief prompters of Miss Carey
were Mrs. H. Staples Potter and Mrs.
S. M. Snyder.of Boston.
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l'Mrs. Hand a Hostess.
Mrs. Hand, wife of Capt. Hand of
ocnofleld Barracks, was hostess at a
bridge party Tuesday at Leilehua.
The guests included Mrs. Aloe, Mrs
Clifton Carter, Mrs. Sturges, Mrs Ma
comb, Mrs. Cruikshank, Mrs. .Ossley,
Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Bell, Miss Bell,
Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Orion, Mrs. Owen,
Mrs. Greene, Mrs. Willyoung, Mrs
Hopkins, Mrs. Lister, Mrs. Wooten,
Mrs. Cheatham, Miss Coombs, Mrs.
Pomeroy and Mrs: Herman
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Miss Schuman Entertains.
Miss Juliet ,Atwater was the guest
of honor at an informal afternoon on
Monday, given by Miss Myrtle Schu-
man. The afternoon was spent play
ing games for prizes, and Miss Helen
Spalding received box of writing pa
per; Miss Daphne Damon was the re-
cipient of book; Miss Pauline
Schaefer was given a hand-embroid-
cred handkerchief, and Miss Marion