The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-07
ID Ea1NN1NG with an elaborate din

I'd EGINNING with an elaborate din
~ ner dance Monday night in com
D.. pliment to Mrs. Thomas B. Davis OF
New York, who is here for the holiday
season to visit her father Judge Hark
ness, and her sister, Mrs. William G
Sharp, the week Of which this is tho
beginning is fairly well filled will
social events. The dance is to bt
given By Mrs. Sharp and Mrs. Arthur
Bird at the Tennis club, and dinner
for 4 score of the most intimate
friends will be given at the Alta club
beforehand. The same evening Miss
Mary Luman will entertain O party OF
young people at the Orpheum with g
supper later in honor of Miss Helen
Word, Miss Cowan 3 house guest, and
on Wednesday Miss Cowan will enter.
tain a party Of girls at luncheon at
the Hotel Utah, also in honor Of Miss
Word
number of Salt Lakers will 60 to
Ogden tomorrow evening to attend the
dance given there by DR.. and Mrs.
Ezra Rich and their daughter, which
is TO be one of the large and elaborate
events of the winter season in the
ncighbor city. Mrs. z. F. Holmes will
be the hostess on Tuesday at lunch
con at the Amelia palace for party
OF sixteen friends Mrs Harold Fa.
biau and Mrs. John Elliott Clark will
entertain at tea Thursday afternoon
at the Tennis club. Mrs. Pauline
Sands viii entertain the new card club
ct It's third meeting on Thursday at
her bone in the Miller apartments.
ri EVER has Salt Lake had such
brisk season, even at holiday
times, as the present season promises
TO be. Already there. are scheduled
dances almost innumerable for the holi.
day season, and, needless to say, in the
first half of the month, these are but
an earnest Of what society is planning
20 do. Among the most important are
the reception and dance to be given
by the Alta club members, the first of
such events in several years given at
that club. This event is set for Decem-
bcr 90, aud on the evening following
the University club will give the boli
day dance Colonel and Mrs. E. j..
a dancing party at the Amelia palace
on Thursday evening, December 25. and
on the Tuesday preceding Mrs. r. c.
Woodruff will entertain a party OF
young people for her daughter, Ade-
laide.
although New Year s eve is yet three
weeks and more away, active prepara-
tions are already going On for many
watch parties, all of which will end in
one or the other of the city's cafes
The oldfashioned watch party of
few years ago, at which friends gath
cred In one another's homes, have
passed away with the growth of the
city to larger proportions; and now if
such party fills the early evening it
becomes by midnight a progressive af-
fair, which ultimately takes hosts,
guests and all a.motoring TO the
bright light section for real CHEEKY
welcome to the New Year.
& ALT LAKE society, in common With
~ most western societies, has never
observed the strict conventions of the
Older and more established places in
society matters, but in minor way
Salt Lakers have tried to follow the
lead OF the older cities at least in the
manner OF getting her young people
established There have been COM
paratiyely few formal debutante af
tairs, but there have been some. and
now, just when several local families
are planning all sorts of pleasing things
III this fashion, comes the news that
formal debuts are somewhat passe. The
young girl, praise be, will be an eter
nal JOY, and she will be ALWAYS the
element which year by year supplies
society with her freshness, her joy
business and her real beauty. But in
this age OF boredom some are profess.
ing even to be bored by the debutapte
receptions, and as a consequence, and
uecauSe society IS so busy with all
enlngs else, the debutante reception is