The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-12
-uE week lust beginning is to be

~HE week Just beginning is to be
u rather brisk one in society af-
fairs, numerous afternoon and evening
events being scheduled ahead for the
cav people. The largest and most elabo-
rate affair of the week will be the tea
to be given by Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes at
,be Amelia Palace on Wednesday after
noon, This will he the first large
event in the artistic homo of Colonel
aad Mrs. Holmes since .e5arn
from a lengthy stay on the coast, and
it will include great number of
friends of this popular hostess.
Mrs. Addison r. Ware will entertain
on Monday afternoon at bridge tea
at her home on Douglas evenuc- Tues
day Mrs James Bernard Nc Enany Will
bo the hostess ut bridge luncheon at
tbe Hotel Ufah. The same afternoon
the entertainment committee of the
Ladies Literary club give bridge tea
in the club house, Mrs. w H, Ferguson
having The matter in charge, Mrs. Rob
crt II. Pcnle entertains the Crystal
Bridge club Wednesday, at her apart
ments in the Fifth East hotel, Captain
and Mrs. Harol d. Coburn have issued
invitations for q reception 10 be given
Wednesday evening to meet Captain
and Mrs. Robert w Mearns. Mrs. Ros-
coe VI. Breeder will be the hostess on
Thursday and Friday afternoons at
bridge teas, the first being in honor Of
Mrs. Barry Hogarty. Mrs, F. l.. Pa7-
ker will entertain the Plate club Thurs
dav at the usual luncheon and game.
TIE it is true that "gramma, iaDs DIFF
l. fer it is much more true that
customs vary in regard to the use and
the abuse of acceptances for social al.
fairs which require preparations on the
part of the hostess La other words,
whenever the nature OF the social at
fair indicates that plans be made with
the cook, the butcher, the baker and
even the candlesticll maker, that a chair
be placed for you, or a place provided
for you to hang your hat, your answer
must be sent to the hostess in time for
such preparation to be made.
This means that there are but two
affairs to which you need not send your
acceptances o. regrets. an afternoon
tea and a church wedding. If you are
to 90 to the home after the wedding,
of course this is different, and here
you must send an acceptance, and that,
too, in time. But if you are merely 70
be a spec tator at the wedding proper,
no one Will be inconvenienced if you
send no word. In the case of tea,
hostess takes il for granted, the weather
being propltious, that all her friends
who can will be present at home day
and no notice is sent 10 her except
the mailing of cards at the time Of the
tea If 1t is impossible to attend, and
the leaving Of the same in person when
attending the tea.
The rule in regard TO acceptanees is
unfortunately very often broken. and
vet every woman who has ever been a
hostess can realize how absolutely neces-
sary II Is that she be notified whether
in formal or an Informal way how
many guests she is 20 expect The ac
ceptance, therefore, need not either be
so exact as to be a tax on one or so
formal as to be formidable, but il
should be sent in every case, and with
as great degree of promptness as pos
sible.
THE question Of cards would seem
Il TO be a simple one, but customs
change in this respect as in others, aud
what was eminently correct even ten
years ago is not so today. The rule used
TO be card for every one in the fam.
ily On whom one was calling It is not