The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-04

~ entertaining in the past few
~ days and for tho next week or
so much is planned ahead in
the way OF uncheons dinners and teas,
besides the allabsorbing topic Of the
Kirmess, which will he the main at
traction of the latter part Of the week.
The big affair of the immediate fnture
is the reception aud dance set for
Tuesday evening at the Hotel Utah,
at which Mr.. and Mrs, Solon Spiro
will entertain large party of their
friends. The affair is one Of the last
big dancing events before tho Lenten
season, and probably the last of sew
eral delightful private affairs given
during the season.
Another dancing event IN which the
young people are vitallv interested is
the junior prom, the most important
social affair Of the year i'm college
circles, which will be held also at the
Hotel Utah. next Friday night, The
same night the young girls who are
called the Bachelor Maids will give
dance to which they have invited moro
than 200
Mrs. Russell 6. Schnlder. Mrs. W. II.
Dickson and Mrs. Charles +. Carter
will entertain at tea at the Sculder
home Wednesday. February IA, for
number Of friends The same after
noon Mrs. William II. Cunningham will
entertain at bridge tea at her home
in compliment to Miss Vera Edwards,
fancee of Morton r. Checsman. Mrs.
George 2. Holman will issue cards for
large tes at her home on the after
noon Of Friday, February 10.
will be entertained this evening by
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Taylor at their
home on Second Avenue. Mr.. and Mrs.
". P. KJser will entertain nj tea
late this evening for Miss Myrtle Elvyn
and ber mother. Mrs. Mccormick will
entertain AT luncheon on Tuesday at
her home. and Mrs. +. o. Howard will
also entertain 1T a luncheon at her
home the same day.
Mrs Will Browne and Mrs. Frcder
lex T. Steigmever have issued cards
for a tea next Saturday afternoon from
4 to 6. ri the Browne home, 5S5 East
First South street,
Miss Adelaide Jacobson will enter
tain at a reception and bridge party
Belcher, and on Friday afternoon Miss
Belcher will entertain her girl friends
at a troussnau tea and the members
Of her bridal party on Saturday at 4
dinner.
There is every sign Of a revival Of
the delightful old-fashioned rag bee
OF days gone by. The only old-fash;;
ioned part Of the affair. however. will
be the name, for the rag bee Of today
will in no wise resemble that of the
olden time. The rag party of old
was one where n number of industrious
matrons and maids gathered TO sew
rags into strips-wind the strips into
balls. which were later to be unwound
and woven into carpets. Not 50 the
rag party of today. 4 modern rag
party is an occasion where d number
of young people-more or less young,
at any rato-gather together to see
who can do the best ''rse dance. Its
main accessories are either an auto
matte player OF some sort which will
furnish on a guarantee only the latest |
rag music, or real surcnnff y
piano player who can forget his classic |
est Of the raggy tunes while he re-
mains q fixture with his back to the |
show.
These rag parties are all the rage
and have superseded bridge, Irritation |
parties. and in fact everything else in
the way of entertainment. One girl
who has been devoted to golf in the
day. "Oh, dear, ] do wish it was
spring so we could rag ont at the
club So far Salt Lake has had no
real professional teaching III the "rag"
dances, but II is runored that there
Is to be an importation from the coast |
for the express purpose of teaching
the young idea. Meantime, some Of
the harmless unattached bachelors who
have done time on the coast recently
are filling. the place of professionals
very satisfactorily.
"Col." E. Fl. Green, who has adver-
tised his wares and put himself in the
leap year market, will not retain his
last name long, If he persists in his
original methods of hunting a wife.
His simple maid who Will not show
off his money in her clothes will he
wonder when he finds her She III be
a sample Of the one written of so long
ago:
II he slts Mary Ann, with her 5nicky
WAYS.
She'll lead rlm a lire for the rest OF
his days
That'r aeem TO him mighty peculiar.
Shs'll make him SLEEP. under a crazy uuilt
And she'll paint his rocking chair black
and gilt,
-An6 the paint'il stick TO his hands and
clo'es
Msbbc hell like it--nobo6y knows.
II he does, he'll be mighty peculiar.
There is more than suggestion of
the 1880 styles in the newest of new
gowns, and the probabilities are that