Evening star., 1915-11-21
Picked Up Here and There.

| The primitive life of pioneers on a
! lone island off the coast of Lower Cali
fornia will be de-"
Taking Turn cidedly a contrast
at Pioneer Life. tis+b century San
Francisco, according to California
exchange. An interesting contrast that
the Fred Thompsons. with a taste for
adventure, are keenly anticipating.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Thompson will accom-
pany Mrs, Bush Finnen to the southern
island, which Mr. Finnell and Mr.. Jo-
seph Murphy recently purchased, and
where they are already established.
ming to build residences in the next
few months. Meanwhile Mrs. Finnell
and Mrs. Thompson will know some Of
the difficulties of pioneer housekeeping.
There will be no club dinners for the
men and afternoon teas for the
women, no theaters. dances and bridge
parties. No servants except a cook, and
They will be like castaways on remote
islands inhab bited by savages, except
that there are no savages, no natives
of any sort in their domain.
The spell of the opera is upon us
once again, with all it's magic and it's
lure, it's mystery OF
a Line on the strange o
Chicago Season. and sas rich the mn10rie m%ri
ad fascinations and charm that once
at least every year Wreathe the vast
Auditorium and hold all music lovers
enthralled, says a Chicago writer.
The opera comes at happy time. just
as the scarlet anC gold of the woods
are melting into the dun gray coloring
of winter, and people are beginning to
tire of country joys and to desert the
haunts of the countryside and their at
tendant pleasures for the city, the COM
Portable house or apartment not too far
from the lake shore, and all the inter-
ests and pleasures that one finds in
town.
Chicago folk spent the autumn mostly
in the country and in a casual fashion,
and with few exceptions there were no
large entertainments.
Against New York's one hundred deb
utantes, a veritable advancing army,
bent on capturing all desirable things
Chicago will have this season bakers
dozen of buds, or perhaps even few
less than that. The meager list has
no year has brought out more at
tractive group of girls. Most of the
girls in other cities have been out for
weeks, and will be full-blown roses,
deep in ali the hectic pleasures of their
first gay winter, before the Chicago
debutantes have begun to bloom. But
the entertainments planned for their
enjoyment are to be, when they do ar
rive. elaborate
Miss Helen Farwell, the youngest of
the four daughters of Mr.. and Mrs
Granger Farwell of Lake Forest, one
of the most important of the bevy, has
decided not to have a formal debut this
winter. but to go about as the debu
tantes do to all the parties, in the fash
ion of the high born girls of France.
With her parents and her sister, Miss
Sarah Farwell, she will come into town
within few days to remain through
out the winter. The family lives most
of the year at Knollwood. it's country
place.
Other young girls will be introduced
at informal teas around the holidays,
and included among the buds of the
winter are number who plan to make
their first entrance into society at
Christmas time. returning to their
studies at eastern schools and colleges
afterward.
IT has been finally decided that Miss
Doris Ryer is to make her debut in