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I 1 Saunterings
H Preparations for the holidays and the attendant
festivities of Christmas and New Year's have not
H required so much of the time of the social butter-
H flies that they have been unable to bo present
H at a score of brilliant gatherings without sprain-
H ing a wing. However, the men have not been in-
H vited to the majority of the affairs and three or
H j four hundred dress suits which are usually pretty
H ' busy at this season, are still unoccupied. A few
H of them were filled for the sake of Anna Held
H and the girls from Rector's surrounding her, but
H even that first night audience down in front was
H not of the brilliance of the old regime, for it was
H really not Anna's debut. Oh my, no!
H Come to think of it, the men expect a great
H deah Most of them think they are always to be
H invited without the slightest idea of reciprocating,
H and though they are rather scarce, they have a
H splendid opportunity at the present time to get
H together and give a real dance. Apparently the
H hope for a series of assemblies this winter has
H gone glimmering. The officers and ladies of Fort
H Douglas are not sufficiently settled as yet to add
H the usual Post festivities to the gaities of the
H winter, and aside from a few dinners, several pros-
H pective "small and earlies" and the battle of Tlf-
H fany water on New Year's eve, there is nothing
H In the social breeze to get excited about.
H The social salvos which always greet the re-
H turn of Archie Rykert ascended to a high pitch
H early in the week when the doctor landed H our
H midst fresh from the boulevards of Parib. He
H is always most welcqme as is every scintillat-
H ing cosmopolitan. He comes to vary the monot-
H ony and if he wants to please his friends he will
H(t stay all winter. However, Paris gets into the
I blood, and Archie's is no exception, so it will
H probably be hard work holding him long. Surely
H though -we need his voice on New Year's eve, and
is is hoped he will decide to stick around a month
or so at least.
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Having finally caught his boat, one of our
leading barristers arrived home during the week,
apparently safe and sound, after a very hazardous
voyage from San Francisco to the Oakland mole.
Ho wired close relatives and friends that he
would be home a certain day last week, secured
Mb reservation on the Limited, and dashed to
the water's edge. The sight as he describes it
must have been terrible the water, and he
turned back. Conscientiously wiring that he had
missed his boat, he started the following day,
and got almost through the gate when the screech
of a sea gull warned hi'mof the hazard of trying
the water. Again lie turned backyftgain he
wired; and the third day, pallid but resolved,
with jaws clamped hard and eyes shut tight, he
mingled with the crowd at the Ferry building and
unmindful of what might come, allowed himself
to be rushed onward; beard the clank of the
chains behind him, felt the undulations of the
sea, and the next he remembers was the scene
on the Oakland mole where, in the center of an
anxious group, he was being revived after his
dangerous voyage. Though the experience was
harrowing he regained his strength during the
homeward journey, and appears bright and happy
and not the least gloomy.
A very beautiful tea was that given by Mrs
Frank" Knox and Mrs. William G. Alexander at
the home of the former Tuesday. The Knox
home was decorated for the occasion with
Christmas greens and bells and holly, producing
an effect in happy contrast to the frost and
snow without. The hostesses were assisted dur
ing the afternoon by Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes, Mrs.
Windsor V. Rice, Mrs. W. W. Armstrong and ,
Mrs. James Ivers. ,
Two of the smartest affairs of the week were i
those given by Miss Lucile Clark, who entertained ,
thirty of the younger girls at the Orpheum on
Tuesday, followed by a beautiful tea at the Hotel
"Utah, and another theatre party on Thursday
evening at the Salt Lake Theatre, her guests
occupying four boxes. The afternoon affair on
Tuesday was a most delightful event, and the
lea which followed the theatre party was ar
ranged in perfect detail. The party at the
Theatre on Thursday evening was followed by an
elaborate supper at the Utah.
A -delightful- meeting of the Sunday Night Mus
icalclub was held at the home of "Mr. "arid Mrs.
William H. Cunningham on U street, when an
enjoyable informal program was rendered,
among those heard being Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs.
Harold Siegel, Miss Edna Evans, Miss Eva Craw
ford, Squire Coop, Dr. Rykert and George Skel
ton. The next meeting of the club will be held
early in January after the holidays.
The affairs which took place last evening, the
one at the Hotel Utah and the other at Whitney
Hall, proved great attractions for the dancers who
have suffered from ennui for a week or two. That
at the Hotel Utah was given by the Utah club,
and the one at Whitney Hall wound up a happy
evening for the Buskins and their friends. Pre
ceding it the talented members of that organiza
tion produced two playlets, "Marble Arch" and
"Outwitted,'' the work of those principally respon
sible for the success of the production placing the
organization on a much higher plane from a pro
fessional standpoint than ever before.
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