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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1908)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAT 10, 190S. 3T AInTCY !!! ; .:,,v-:Sf!-: 5 jt ' JAS7 ZLEK W77??S sr2jer cor r.ass jrORTLANDERS are indeed to be C!' confrratulatod over the second very successful concert given by tho Portland Symphony Orchestra Wednes day,.; The golections were splendid and charmingly rendered and the lenfrth of tlio prQsrsanime should be the source of nddi.tlonal . congratulations. Too often nie the results lost from tiresome length of tiie concert, but the one on "Wednesday was a happy exception. Much annoyance, however, was shown by the lack ot system In not having a starter" after the concert to call out the -carrlages.-"and motors, it belnfc a stixriy nifrht. and many were forced to stand in the drizzling: rain while car rhijres waited at a separate entrance from that which thoy approached. U will be welcome news to learn that Arthur Alexander, who recently returned from Kurope, has been nego tiated with to appear as the soloist for the last symphony concert on May 22, with Mrs. Marquardt, harpist. Amonar the theater parties at the concert was one griven by Mrs. Theo dore B. Wilcox, whose guests Included Mrs. Helen Lndd Corbett, Mrs. Thomas Kerr, Miss Nellie Williams, Charles llolbrook and Raymond Wilcox. With W. I). Wheelwright were Mrs. C. E. S. Wood. lr. and Mrs. Ernest Tucker and Miss Josephine Smith. The Misses Klla, Mae nnd Clementine Hirsch entertained Mrs. 1. N. Llpman and Miss Florence Kohn. The girls of Mrs. Walter Reed's Treble Clef Club occupied a box, while In another box were W. J. Burns, Miss (Caroline Burns and a number of the girls of the younger set. Mrs. Charles Dlerke was hostess at another box party, while a fourth was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson Reed, whose guests were Major and Mrs. James C'anby and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Swigert. Miss Kathleen Burns, who has spent the Winter In New York with Miss Couch, Is expected to return today to be In Portland this Summer during the ab sence of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burns abroad. Miss Couch is to sail later for France, with Paris as the objective point. Through this and the past month, Mrs. Charles K. Ladd. as is her usual custom, has asked, each Tuesday and Friday, her friends to tea at her charming residence at Riverdale, and to view her beautiful Spring flowers which are as rare as they are extensive, and which eclipse any other collection In tHe state. During this month, the Japanese quince, rhododen drons, tulips, azaleas, lilacs and Japanese crahapple are. at the quintesence of their glory. From the Italian garden formed hy rocks rise the rhododendrons, which run the entire gamut of color; tulips, too. embracing every shade, including the delicate lavender tint. The flowering Japanese crabapple, with its lovely pink and crlmsun buds, and the lilacs have called forth much praise, the latter being a French variety that comprises many hues, particularly the various purple and mauve tints. The presence of Mrs. Frank I. Towle, of St. Paul, who Is a guest of Mrs. E. C. Shcvlln, was the occasion for a pretty luncheon on Friday, at the Golf Club, given by her hostess. Present were: Mrs. John K. Kolloch, Mrs. Wesley Ladd, Mrs. Morton Insley, Mrs. W. H. Skene, Mrs. Frank Warren. Jr.. Mrs. John Shepard, Mrs. J. C. Robinson, Mrs. Wallace Mc Camant, Miss Davis, of New Jersey, and Mrs. S. R. JohnBtone. Followed by bridge. In . spite of. a steady downpour on Thursday, "ah extremely pretty tea was given by Mrs. Frank Hart, at their pretty Kiverdale residence,. Ja honor of Mrs. . O' : 1 James Canby, wife of Major Canby, who has been absent for some years in the Orient. Mrs. Canby will be a most wel come addition to Portland society, having been, as Miss Eugenia Cunningham, one of the very prominent girls. She at one time attended St. Helen's Hall, and at the tea were many of the matrons who formerly attended the hall. . Tea was poured by Miss Sallie Lewis and Mrs. Ernest Tucker, at a table arranged with quantities of brilliant long-stemmed American beauties. Miss Wynn Coman. Miss Lois Steers and Mrs. Edward Cookingham have re turned .from a three weeks' visit In New York. While East.' Miss Coman and Miss Steers visited for three days with Schu-mann-Heink, at her country place in New Jersey, and also spent two days with Mme. Nordlca, at Ardsley, on the Hud son.. Mrs. Cookingham visited in New York, dividing her time with her son, Prescott Cookingham, who la a freshman at Princeton. Mrs. Robert Treat Piatt has returned from visit in San Francisco and New York. Mrs. Piatt is an enthusiastic automobllist, and derived much pleas use from taking her car and motoring through California. Miss Marlon Jackson is to be the hostess this coming week at a tea in compliment to Lillie V. O'Ryan, when a number of striking miniatures are to be exhibited. . . Miss Louise Mesick. shortly after her return from Ken; York, sustained a broken arm, while roller-skating, which proved for a time recalcitrant, but is now rapidly mending. The Pacific Coast Golf Association tournament, held in Vancouver, B. C, took over many prominent and enthu siastic golf players, among them being Mrs. Richard Koehler, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ainsworth, Miss Caroline Burns. Miss Use Koehler, Miss Car rie Flanders, Captain and Mrs. William Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Voorhles, Mr. and Mrs. William McMaster. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Ayer. Mrs. W. B. Ayer, Mr. Chester G. Murphy, Mr. Ernest Webb, Mr. David Honeyman. Mr. Tom Robertson, Mr. Thomas Kerr and Mr. Thales Linthicum. Mrs. A. C. Panton and Mrs. John A. Keating will be Joint hostesses at a tea on May 16, at the former's residence at "Rosemond," on Portland Heights. The cards read to meet Mrs. Keating s mother, Mrs. O. E. Mitchell, of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Cornelia Cooke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooke, who is fin ishing school at Rogers Hall, at Low ell, Mass., writes enthusiastically from Boston of a large house party she at tended following Easter week. Each year at this season, the Boston Tech nology men turn over their fraternity houses to college girls and their ehap erones. Tech week, as it is called, is the stellar event of the season, and this year was no exception, the din ners and cotillions going with unusual snap and jollity, and everything spell ing success from start to finish. Among other Fortlanders who were house guests were Miss Mary Living stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .Rob ert Livingstone, who is attending school at Mt. Ida, in Massachusetts; Phil Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hart, who is a Boston Tech man. and Miss Shirley Eastham, who Is at Oss ing on the Hudson. Just prior to Tech week, Miss Cor nelia Cooke visited In New York city with Mr. and Mrs. McClement, who visited here last Summer in their pri vate car. Mr. McClement la Mr. Van derbilt's adviser. Mr. and Mrs. Claire B. Lamont (Miss Maud Hahn) are guests at the Waldorf Astoria, New York. During their wedding trip they have-been entertained by Mr. Lament's friends in Chicago, Columbus, Washington, Dr C, Philadelphia and At lantic City. The latter city, Mrs. Lamont writes, is particularly gay at this season with a perfect galaxy of Southern beau ties. Mr. and Mrs. Lamont will visit in Portland before taking up their residence in Seattle. Miss Margaret Martin, of Chicago, who visited in Portland last year while direct ing the clever operetta, of Jessie Gaynor's "The House That Jack Built," spent a few days at the Nortonla last week mak ing preliminary arrangements for another operetta, written by Miss Gaynor, "The Toy Shop,", which will be given by prom inent Portland children during the last week of June. An Informal meeting in reference to the proposed opera was held at the residence 'of Mrs. A. E. Rockey, when Miss Martin again met some of the children to whom she endeared herself last year. One of the principal roles Is to be played by Mrs. Mae Dearborn Schwab. Miss Flora Fleischner entertained with a luncheon of 12 covers for Miss Mildred Rheinstrom, whose .engagement has been announced to Mr. J. Greenwald, of Salt Lake, and for another bride-elect. Miss Cora Marx, whose engagement has been announced to Mr. Solomon Garde. Those accepting Miss Fleischner'a hospitality were: Miss Daisy Rosener. of San Fran cisco, who Is a guest of Mrs. S. Lipman, Miss Florence Wolfe,, Miss Clementine Hirsch, Miss Florence Kohn. Miss Fran ces Jacobs, Miss May Oppenheimer, Miss Hilda Hexter, Miss Mabel Beck and Mrs. Marcus A. Fleischner. . . Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. McCraken will arrive from Ely, Nev., during the Rose Carnival, to be guests of Mr. and Mrs. James McCraken, at their picturesque bungalow, opposite the golf linke. Miss Clementine Wilson, Miss Malle Ef flnger and Miss Georgina Burns are spend ing a fortnight at Hood River. Mr. and Mrs. John Ker (Miss Laura Dunne) have returned from their wedding trip and have apartments at Elton Court. Mrs. Cleveland Rockwell and her daughter, Mrs. John Rounsfell, arrived this week from Los Angeles. Mrs. Rockwell was called south owing to the Illness of Mrs. Rounsfell, who has now entirely recovered. Mrs. S. A. Mulford has left for a three weeks' visit to New York. She will visit her son, Stockton, who is attending art school, where he is at tracting much favorable comment. Mrs. F. A. Nltchey gave bridge luncheon on Thursday, Mrs. Edward Root left Thursday for Los Angeles. She will visit relatives In Berkeley and San Francisco before returning. Dom Zan for the last week has been a patient at St. Vincent Hospital, hav ing gone there with an attack of ap pendicitis. Mrs. Walter Reed has taken apart ments at the Danmoore. The announcement of the engagement of Miss Celeste Barman, one of the popular Portland Academy girls, to Maurice L. Strauss, of Chicago, came as a complete surprise. Miss Barman left for the East some weeks ago, presumably to meet her sister, Miss Clementine Barman, who was returning from a year of European travel, but In the interim has been a guest at her fiance's parents In Chicago. Her wed ding is to be one of the prominent events of the near future. The .bride-elect is the daughter of David Barman, of Col ville. Wash., but has spent much time with her aunt, Mrs. I. Kauffman. On Thursday Miss Alice Sansbury en tertained her bridge club which includes Mrs. Otis Wight. Mrs. Rupert Chipman, Mrs. Walter Mathewson, Mrs. Walter Dole, Mrs. Ernest Laidlaw, Mrs. R. A. Letter, and Miss Inez Barrett, and later asked In to tea, a recent Eastern bride, Mrs. Louis Greenly, and Misses Camllle and Lillian Dosch, who leave this month for Europe. Mrs. Earl Cleland has left for a visit in Nevada. Mrs. J. Ernest Laidlaw and Mrs. Walter H. Mathewson, leave this week - for a brief visit at Hood River. Mrs. I. Kauffman and children returned on Wednesday from a year's travel abroad. Miss Clementine Barman, who accompanied them, it at present In Chi cago, where she will remain till after the wedding of her sister. Celeste. While Mrs. Kauffman traveled on the continent, the children attended school in .Germany. Mrs. Mary Bloomfield, who Is known to all pioneers, celebrated, this past week, her birthday, which was made the occa sion for deluging her with flowers. Mrs. Bloomfield has a host of friends owing to her striking personality and the fact that she goes through life diffusing kind and cheerful words to all. Dr. and Mrs, Charles Chamberlain are for the second time receiving felicitations over the arrival of a son on Wednesday. This Is the third grandchild of Governor and Mrs. George Chamberlain born dur ing the past two years. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Prudhomme are receiving congratulations over the birth of a son, Henry Bane Prudhomme, on May 5. Mrs. Prudhomme was formerly Miss Bertlne Armstrong, a niece of Mrs. Ralph Hoyt. A letter from Washington tells of the wedding of Miss Lacey Stuart Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Lacey John ston, of Virginia, to Mr. Preston C. Smith. WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS. W. G. SMITH 8 GO. WASHINGTON BUILDING, Cor. Fourth tind Wavbtmcton Sta. Have Your WEDDING , AND GALLING CARDS Engraved at RUSHTON'S 804 Buchanan Bldg., between Fourth and Fifth on Washington St. THE STOE NOTED FOR BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES EE Year's Subscription to the Paris Mode Magazine with every five-dollar purchase woman s The very best illustrated magazine published Issued monthly REE Monday and Tuesday $35.00 Tailored Suits at $23.85 $25.00 Suits $19.50 A clearing of the suitroom! Too many suits on hand! We must reduce this stock at once, regardless of whether or not we make a cent of profit. Included in the above special reductions are this season's finest and best garments, made by New York's most skillful man-tailors and equal to the best products of any high-priced custom tailor. Women who demand style and quality will not fail to take advantage of this great stock-reducing sale. Note the following: Suits $23.85 Our entire line of Women's and Misses' Tail ored Suits, worth up to $35.00. elegantly finished in the very best possible manner; dozens of styles to choose from, and the materials are of the most wanted sorts. Complete line of colors blues, browns, blacks, mixtures. Let us show you. Suits $19.5Q This lot includes our regular line marked to sell at $22.50 and up to $27.50; serges, panamas, broadcloths and fancy mixtures in all popular colors; made in tight, semi-fitting and box jacket styles. No charge for any necessary alterations. See these. SKIRTS $7.45 Black Chiffon Panama Dress Skirts, warranted strictly all wool; come in gored and plaited styles and are trimmed with folds of self material around bottom and row of buttons down front; $10.00 values. SKIRTS $2.98 On special sale Monday and Tuesday only at this price. A special lot of Women's and Misses' Dress Skirts, made in good, full plaited styles; plaids,-checks and plain colors; regu lar values to $5.00. SKIRTS $11.50 Genuine black "Altman" Voile Dress Skirts, made, extra full in box-pleated styles, trimmed with bands of taffeta siik; our best regular $14.00 to $16.50 values. Only 21 skirts in this lot. Come early. WAISTS 93c White Lawn Waists, in beautiful lace and embroidery trimmed styles, open front and back, long or short sleeves; this season's most popular models; standard $1.75 and up to $2.50 values. See Third-street window. WAISTS $1.47 This line includes about a hundred and fifty sample waists bought to sell at from $2.00 to $3.50 each. Being samples, there's but one of a kind, so we advise you to come early. Best quality -white lawn. WAISTS $1,95 White Wash Silk Waists, front trimmed with fine tucks and lace in sertion, collar and cuffs to match ; our best regular $3.00 values. On spe cial sale Monday and Tuesday only at above price. No mail orders filled. Black Dress Goods For over 20 years McAllen & McDonnell have been noted for Fine Black Dress Goods. When you buy a dress here you are absolutely sure of getting the very best possible value for your money. You should take advantage of these low prices: 44-inch Tamise warranted all pure wool, a fine light-weight fabric for Summer wear; best regular $1.00 grade. 7Q Special c'C 44-inch Taffeta 44-inch Wool Taffeta beautiful finish and weight; our best regular $1.50 grade. Special, a JJ 05 "54-inch Panama 54-inch Black All-Wool Panama fine weight for suits and skirts; best $1.3a grade; QO special, vard yO Crepe Egypta 44-inch Black Crepe Egypta a late Parisian novelty for Spring and Sum mer; regular $1.00 value. Special J OC Herringbone 44-inch Black Herringbone Rave a stylish weave for suits; strictly all wool and best $1.50 QB grade; a yard yOC Crepe de Paris 44-inch Black Crepe de Paris a well-known and popular fabric; our regu- loi- .1 fill o-rnrlA. nt ff C II -special, yard 7"C 36-Inch Taffeta Silt Another great sale of that famous black taffeta for Mon day and Tuesday. Our cus tomers were quick to take advantage of our last week's sale and every yard was sold before Tuesday night. How ever, we are now ready with another large shipment and can fill all orders. This silk comes full 36 inches wide, is all pure silk and warranted best $1.25 quality. write fflyfr (7Dv7sm f)A MAJL FOR Ut Jffjfl y Ht (Dlh 11 ORDERS our new ffghfZL In rrin 7& I f lJ$r777n Pf T filled REDUCED ffiTUtVVl & LCT.wi.wS D r0R PRICE J StS WARDED LIST CORNER THIRD AND MORRISON STREETS PROMPTLY of Portlnnd, son of the late Mr. Preston C. Smith. Mrs. Preston C. Smith went East for tha very smart wedding, aa did Lloyd Smith, who was the best man. The wedding took place at St. John's Episcopal Church, Rev. Roland Cotton Smith officiating. The bride's (fown was a stunning one of chiffon cloth made over foundations of chiffons and satin. Her only ornaments were gifts of the bride groom, a diamond pendant and a brace let of much antiquity given the bride groom's grandmother on the occasion of her engagement. Mrs. Preston C. Smith wore a pearl gray mousseline da sola. X men Stylisli, practical and tecom linen suits answer every need Tkey are m a great variety and coat suits of fancy linens effects. Colors, green, pink, witk cuffs and collars of $12.50 to ing, these "House of Tone for the early summer wear, of styles, sylph-like princess and laces, also plain tailored hlue, lavender and white, contrasting shades. Prices $35.00 bellartfimamfchi Commit!) "The House of Tone" 392 Washington Street
