The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-21

Nauvoo and Hamilton. And every
minute of the evening was enjoyed by
Miss Moir's guests.
Entertained for Guests.
Mr.. and Mrs.. ]. N. D. Dickinson
entertained small company at din
ner at the Country club on Saturday
evening in honor of Mrs. Dickinson's
sister Mrs. A. c. Burnet of Edge
water. Ill. Mrs. Pentland of Mime
apolis was one of the guests.
Entertained at Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Albers of
Warsaw entertained fourteen guests at
dinner at the Country club on Sat
urday evening. Miss Sallie Cox of
Evanstown was guest from out of
town.
Hinson-Meador Wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Hinson announce
the marriage of their daughter Mabel
to Carlos B. Meador on Saturday,
Aug. 10, at 3 o'clock at the parson-
age of the First M. E. church, Oska-
loosa, Iowa. Mr.. and Mrs. Meador
will be at home after September
at 703 Morgan street.
First Term Of Lessons End.
The first term of the swimming
classes which have been such a popu-
lar feature of the physical depart
ment Of the Y. w. c. A., will close
tomorrow. Those wishing to register
for the second term of ten lessons
are asked to do so tomorrow.
Guest Of Mrs. Sheldon.
Mrs. Margaret Mckee Pentland of
Minneapolis is the guest Of Mrs. C.
P. Sheldon. Mrs. Pentland was
teacher in Keokuk from 1854 to 1868
and will be remembered by the older
residents. She was a delegate from
the Minneapolis Woman's club to the
1916 biennial of the general fedora
ton of women's clubs which met in
New York She has been travelling
in the east since that time and is
enroute home. She is a woman OF
unusually interesting personality and
has made many new friends during
her short visit here.
Surprise Party.
A pleasant surprise party was given
last evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Lewis at 1909 Carroll
street. 1t was on the occasion Of
Mrs. Lewis birthday anniversary. A
number of friends were the guests
at the party. They were Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Shoemaker and family, Mr..
and Mrs. C. Shafer and family, Mr..
and Mrs W. B.. Patterson, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Feldman and two sisters and
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Mitchell, Mr.. and
Mrs. c.. Brice and son, G. w. Alton,
P. lobe, Mrs. r. Lewis AMI son, Miss
E. Farnsworth, Miss Ethel Kiethe.
Entertained for Guests.
Mrs. Violet Bode entertained on
Friday afternoon in honor of Miss
Fern Kirkendallg of Minneapolis and
Miss Freda Quick of Warsaw.
The Society Editor.
Chicago Herald: William Make
peace Thackeray was perhaps the
most illustrious society editor of his
day. VANITY Fair" is still consid-
cred a very good piece of imaginative
reporting. Bulwer-Lytton was an
other. The picture he drew of Eng
lish society in pelham" continues to
attract its readers. George Meredith
retains his supremacy. as witness
Richard Feverel."
Disraeli, too, had fame in this now
reviled field, but the great statesman
lacked the immortal cunning of his
greater contemporary and so his
stories are being forgotten. Albert
Smith had a great name in his day.
His society reports are sold now only
in second hand book stores, and
there merely because "Phiz" was his
illustrator.
Anthony Trollope once seemed to
be Thackeray's legitimate successor.
His narratives, however, are so falth-
full to society that they have become
the exclusive property of students In
college English courses ana OF curl
GUS scholars concerned in the history
of manners and customs. Nor has
the tradition Of the literary society
editor persisted.
Arthur Schnitzler in Vienna, Ber-
nard Shaw in his own manner IN
London, George Meredith, Henry
James while he was yet alive, VIII
liam Dean Howells in America, even
the great Ibsen, all these master
minds have concerned themselves to
describe intimately the behavior. the
dress, the fine affairs, the thought,
the conversation, sometimes the sor-
d;dness of the worlds grandees.
The business of society reporting
thus has its traditions, its technique.
it's great names, and its permanent
achievements. The society editor Is
limited mainly by her own limita-
tions. The same remark naturally
applies to the magazine critic OF So
ciety editors, who. incidentally, seems
~ take her own successful entry into
the magazine field rather too seri-