The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-28

-HE week lust opening holds much
in the way of social affairs that
will be of interest to society.
The big May day dance on
Tuesday evening will of course be OF
first Importance, and the opening OF
the Country club the end of the week
is expected TO be nm especially gala az
fair, and will include q very attractiVe
programme for the afternoon and even
ing, A ten in the afternoon, at which the
ladies OF the entertainment committee
will serve, will doubtless draw q large
number. and the table 'hote dinner
followed by dance In the evening VIII
attract most all the dancing people OF
the. club. Many dinner parties are
made up for the evening, the largest
to be given by Miss Virginia Beatty
aud Miss Cary Marshall in compliment
to Miss Evelyn Powers of Denver,
guest at the J. II, Walker home. An
other dinner. at which Harold Lamb
will be the host, will include large
number Of the younger set,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Walker vii! en-
tcrtain a party of the young people at
a dinner at their home Tuesday even
ing preceding the May day dance Mt
tho Hotel Utah, the affair being IN
compliment to the Walkers house
guest, Miss Evelyn Powers of Denver.
Two bridge teas are planned for
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Hubbard w.
Reed having issued invitations for one
and Mrs Jack Gilmer for the other,
which is IN honor of Miss Loreen Leary;
The usual club meetings for bridge will
be held and some theater parties are
planned both for the evenings and AZ
ternoons. Mrs. Pauline Sands will en-
tertain a party Of friends next Satur-
dav afternoon at the Garrick. the affair
being the third in series OF such en-
tertainments. 4 number of box parties
are arranged for tomorrow evening to
see the first performance of = The Bal
kan Princess, at the Colonial.
With the outdoor season rapidly ap-
proaching it behooves Salt Lake society
people to give q little more attention
to the idea Of outdoor entertaining,
Of course there is q tradition {dne
doubtless to England 8 weather.
aoainst speaking Of the weather in po-
lite society This is prcpabiv because
one can I speak in mild terms Of some
sorts of weather. But when one con
siders Salt Lake weather IN general,
from early Nav Till late October, one
NAV be pardonrd for degree of pride
in being able TO speak in fairly glowing
terms Of IT, And yet, how few local
Jeople really take advantage OF the
gorgeous outdoors around the cltyf
Even at this season when the hills are
covered with wild flowers when the
heaviest rains leave no unpleasant
walking conditions, when earth and air
and sky are gorgeous with color and
ringing with the songs of the meadow
Iarks, there are few local people who
appreciate the blessings.
In California. where the weather is
mild. of course, but quite uncertain. the
people live outdoors through the entire
summer time in the matter Of enter
tanning. Their flowers are, of course,
more gorgeous than ours and they have
no winter. But they have heavy rains.
fogs and cloudy weather, where for
months together we have glorious skies,
flowers in nrofusion and tempered
winds. In England no one minds the
weather through at least four months
Of the year. and garden parties, where
wrsps and umbrellas are necessary ad-
iuncts are never postponed on account
of storms.
This should be 4 city Of outdoor en-
tertaining for Mt least five months of
the year. This does not mean ueces-