Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-24
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL

Dear Polly:
The summer season is quite over and
the fall affairs are keeping society
folk busy. The affairs, however, are
Of an informal nature. for the death
of Mrs. Alexander Young, beloved all
over the islands, has caused a dark
cloud TO fall over her hundreds of
friends. Many of the parties for the
coming month have been postponed
indefinitely out of respect to the menu
DRY of this noble woman.
The next two weeks, yes, the COM
ing month, will be given over to char
ity and benefit entertainments. There
are so many OF these things going on
that practically everyone in Honolulu
has part in some one of the affairs
The coming week will be claimed by
Mile Modiste" and the Catholic Fair,
the latter to take place at the Armory
on the afternoon and evening of the
31st For weeks hundreds of hands
have been busy preparing for the fair
and 1t is said that the booths will con-
tain scores of attractive things suit
able for the present, or for Christ
mas gifts
Speaking Of mile. Modiste" makes
me think. The siave Ned Steel, who
is one Of the best dancers in the smart
set, is directing the rehearsals and
you would be surprised to see this
other side of his disposition. He gets
very much excited as he directs the
actors and particularly the chorus and
his spick- and-span hair gets all
mussed up and the atmosphere SUR
rounding him gets quite blue. Not
that he forgets himself so far as to
say anything shocking, it's just his
Thought
Quite an amusing thing came under
my observation the other day and
must relate II. to some one, so | guess,
Polly, you will have to listen" One
OF the boys planned party and in
yited a few members of the younger
set. Suddenly one of the young ladies
he had asked informed his other guests
along with a few more OF her own
choice that she was to be hostess at the
affair. Quietly she informed him that
she had decided to invite some of her
own friends and asked him to rescind
some of the invitations he had issued.
She said the party was to compose only
the members of the exclusive in
between" set. He was a gentleman
and quietly withdrew He borrowed
school Webster, however, and pro-
ceeded to look UP the word "exclns-
I've. The definition did not fit and
ne decided that she had meant de-
iusive, rather than exclusive.
We may yet see a woman we'll
known IN California pass through here
with her Chinese husband. AT least
II is rumored that Mr.. and Mrs. Wong
Sun Yue are about to shake the dust
OF Chinatown from their feet and sail
for Shanghai, via Honolulu. Mrs.
Wong Sun Tue is sister of Mrs..
Howard Gould but since her marriage
to the Chinese her movements in the
San Francisco social circles have been
infreduent. Her decision to move To-
China was reached shortly after a.
visit Of Mrs. Howard Gould to San
Francisco. Mrs. Gould objected to the
Chinatown residence and decided that
the only waysto stop 1t was to send
her sister and her husband back to
China. am rather interested in the
affair myself and shall watch the pas
senger lists closely for some account
Of the arrival Of the couple.
Tell me, Polly dear. do you see many
X-ray gowns in San Francisco. It
distresses me dreadfully to see them
here, and do see them by the score.
The effect of the dainty lingerie frocks
lis no longer charming for one can
often distinguish the color Of another
costume passing by while watching
some daintily gowned woman in white.
1t is shocking, to say the least. and to
say more, heartbreaking to see sweet
faced women and girls ridiculed and
sneered at by the loiterers on the
street corners. The other day saw
Il woman whose name is frequently
seen in the society columns laughed
at BY a dozen or so young men and
girls too. She was standing on the
corner In an evidently interesting con-
yersation and as she stood there her
name was on the lip of every passer-
by.
heard from Katherine Paris the
other day and her letter was most in
teresting. Katherine is in Hillsdale,
Michigan, where she has been for two
years studying and from what ] gath
cred is one OF the most popular girls
in her class. Next year she is going /
to the Curry School of Expression IN
Boston. and while nothing definite has
been decided or even intimated, her
friends surmise that their pretty au-
burn-haired Katherine is contemplate
ing a stage career. Should she go in |
for life behind the footlights she will
be 4 success for she has already shown
4 fondness for theatricals.
have Just about said my say, dear.
Lovingly,