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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1907)
SUNDAY, JULY ii, 1907. THE MORNING ASTOIUAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. 7 3J5 ' THE WEEK IN ; ASTORIA SOCIETY All items oif social or peronn nature will jdeaee be sent to Ml Alert, the Aelorlan olllre. Phoiw Mam Wii.fto than 10 o'clock Baturday morning, except Inter thnn lht time. :' Thi week been very quiet one In k social wav a liioit of the Pnnlu are at the hure and In the wiuittry enjoying tliMintclvc. Swimming end teiinl tie very much of rival thi eou many of the ath letically Inclined taking pert In both of then iKtrte. e-MMprtria. llelde the month or two month' ay Mm n.f e mU re.ldent. ar .king, the week-end at-the ae.a1.ore lay Die fad I being practice.! attain thi year with renewed vigor, particularly reat fill, enjoyable one It U, too eapeel.lly when one Uvea within a few mile ride of the place wher the aad ea wave roll In without the aame chill which they have nearer home. It I a good ar rangement, too, for the uiimIIUIi utn mer widower who wive have Ave day of recreation" ',e'r Bohemian' Social nop. Ian night In Ugii' Hull the llohe- mien bae Ul club gave a very nice dance which wa a uct.'e In both a linn mini and xxial way. There wa a very nle Jolly crowd and the mul wa exceptionally good which made the dance uio-t enjoyable to lh' whe attelliled. W'e regret to hear that Dr. C. K. Moorehoue, pator of the Congregation al (1iui.ii ha relgned the pttorut, and will (hoitty leave the city. He will be uiUmsI by hi many arlend a well a by hi congregation. Paper Wedding. On Wedneadny evening t the home of Mr. and Mr. Patrick Shea a dinner wa given to Mr, and Mm. Frank De veney It being the aeoond annlverwry of their wedding. The (able decoriitlou and the gift were of Paper a It wa I paper wed din Unxervma-Franci, Mr. Hairy I'ngeroiua and MU I.irxle Fiani'i eie mail led iu thi city on "1'luit o.Iiy flernooil, a Pleaaant Card Party. Mr, Charlc Calleuder entertained a liiiinU'r oT friend lit Satuiilay evening with card party at her pretty home In honor of Me, and Mr. Chat lea llrlnk of Oakland, California. IN A TRANSACTION? Wc want to divide our profit with you in the purchase of a piano for your own home You will have to admit that we know how (and do) to btty pianos right. Our enormous purchases of them each year makes rock-botvom whole sale prices necessary to us ; and the same cause makes our factories willing to meet price conditions when we buy their instruments. ' Our shipping arrangements with the railroads are the most economical to be had. We have only to keep retail sales on an increase, to make money on what we saved by being big purchasers and shippers. That saving that we make by purchasing a thousand pianos (for forty stores) instead of one, is all we want. The rest is yours, and by taking advantage of our present pices, a fine new high grade piano will cost you mighty little money. " . You have pur "Part-down-rest-later" plan to 'depend on if you do not care to be out all the cost of a piano at one time. e New samples of several prominent makes were put in stock recently at our Astoria branch, 424 Commercial street. A. R. CYRUS, J. M.-WARD, Salesman. T . A . A . ft communication win rwn y In ce of n event occurring Cuid were played turing the evening the fortunate prize winner be (Iwge Flavel, Mi Harriet Tallant, Frank Pal ton end Mr. Oeorgi fh rnm of the lion were tasteful ly decorated with re end mock orange. Mr. Calender woe agisted by Ml Harriet Tallant, Mr. W. K. Tattant, . Ml K-ther Mehenzleaml Mia. Ixhlmpir. Dm In atte,.dn-e were Mr. end I J r.. 8wep,n Morton, Mr. and M. , 1. 1. Kerguii Mr. and Mr. John McOowan Mr. and Mr. Oeorge rlavrl, Mr. and Mr. C. Jt. Higgln C'aptuln and Mr. Hlch.ird''Mi, Mr .and Mr. Carman, Da l'ilkinirton anl Mr. 1'ilklngton, Mr. and f llr,... Me ,A lr. 1u.n. Ilen.ir ..... ..... ...... nett. Mr. and Mr. Thd Trulllnger, Mr. and Mr. Horace Thing, Dr. Logan and Mr. Logan, Mr. and Mr, lluncn, Mr. and Mr. IXtytun, Mr. and Mr. Walter Hi.ti'lhalith, Mr. and Mr. l.ounleirv. Mr, ami Mr-. Illair, Mr. and Mr. Him ton Mr. and Mr. Iiae, Mr. and Mrjw Kk - hard Caituther., Mr. and Mr. A. Cm her, Mr. aad Mr. Ilia. IleillMirn, Mr, Frank I'alton, II. II, Settem, C. Allen, Dr. Dluwell, .1. Crlllln, A. Dunbar, ("apt. hlilblte. W. K. Tallant. W. K. Iviitiiiir, Jt, 11, Dyer, YA Htreunmeyer, Cha. llouiMicy, Auitln Oeburn, Capl. ( Steele, Fort Steveni Mi A. Mclj-an, Pari Cole, Alice Wood, Stella Sadden, ' Kan Heed, May Foett, Xell Cainahan, llllnu Tall-nt. Harrlet Tallant, Floret u Kluiore, Sue K'uimej Mer. KnlK'it, II, (ililV, ltobl, Mrl.eilli, Itulldel Itecd, Hairy M. FlaveL Evanaon-Carlaon. On Vednedav aftermion at the home of Mr, Steven. Ml Elher J. Carl- ton wu united In niarrliige to Mr. F. E. Ev anion in the prenen. of number of their intimate friend and relative. Dr. Mooiehouw of the Con gregatlonal church erfornied the wedding ceremony. The young couple left in the evening for the Kat, ,. Women of Woodcraft. On Friday evening the Women of Woodcraft pave delightful whit party to the ft lend and member of the popular urKaniaation. Tlie winner of the prlre were MIm Mattie (Siegory, Die ladie' priw, and Mi Ijiura ,lenen llin ciiii-oliition ii'ite, Mr. Otund the gentlemen' prlre and Cipt. Archie ("arm til ClUKolutioll. I Eilers Piano House If i-tliiii ril were terved during the owning and dancing win Indulged In to a very lute hour, when the guot de partud after upending a most pleaan evening . Oil Wednesday, Augut 14th, Ml X Alice Aland Uiwaoii will I iiiilti'd In T nmnrlKe to Mr. Alh'ii Aveth, former- ly of thl city hut now of Warronlon at the home of the bride'a parent In ! ClaUop. On Thursday evening reception wa given at the home of Mr. Giahaiu on ( Exchange street to the Itev. C 8. Owen, V M " " ,"1"l"tu' ut l"v -'wwj- I t ?, '!A,KU,t m W0 wr I'fent limlud- J ' j li'K ltor of the other churches e rievei. w ,IHMiw my ddreM of iuit.uii. ' Miw Froncee te entertalnecl the gueeta with her nwe' t alnglng and ili Annie t.npia..l rendered an In.trumcn- ,00 w.,cll wa, Krettlly ,Wlfw.tej, h,.),,,,,,,,. .rved and a n.t tljH,0 ,WM,llg WM ,md b). B,. i Mr. IMinerberg entertained the C'lo- , ver Club o.( 8eahl on Tucmlay. He- IJe the club number, the Invited Buet were MIh Elinor Blint of 1'ort- ... ...!, . . . - .... jiumij .in, rnimp anu aii r.mer aii- j,,rwn u( Alorlai Mr. 0. t Morby and miJ Mr. j.; Jtan o( j,. Angelo. On Monday July 22nd, Mr. M. J. Fox will bold a reception In the parlor of the Firt M. K. Church from 2:30 unlit flilKl in honor of her 8lt birthday. Mi l-aura M.1miiii ha returnet home fro,,, Chicago, where, for the mut few mouth, the hat been tudylng muU On Fri'iay evening the Kebeoca lodge held their regular meeting and entertain' mcnt a debat ion from Hammond. When the liii'lnewt of the lodge wa attended to refreshment were aerved after which the memler amued tliemxelve' with gitme and dniicing and a mot enjoyable ti ma wa had. Card Party. On Tuewlay evening the Young Peo ple of St. Mary' Catholic church gave ode of their pleavant little evening which are alwaya o earerly liooked for ward to Im tlijiw- who attend. WhiKt ua the principal feature of the evening after which dancing wa Indulg ed in until a late hour. The pUe winner were Mi Annie Wiln, flrnt ladie priau and Mr. I-eon-ard and Mr. Moore were the fortunate winner of the gentlemena priic. An Afternoon. On Tuedatafternoon M'r, Hmel and Mi. Ijlin Hubert Illair entertained at the foiiueiV home at Tongue Point in honor of Mr. ,lolm E. Wood. Mr. lltten' iter, who ha lieen out here visiting her home in le Moinen, Iowa, 424 Commercial Street I 4M 2 Dames of "Ye Olden Days." More Than ssnararaiiai:!.,1'.-. uji u "So, I haven't partkal of respect ,.ft fU- my feminine ancestor, said apriglilly young matron, whole fondne )r (rd 1(1 w,.l known, xis mll hump of reverence and ven er,tin for defunct relative which I have carefully nurtured all tliwe yrar , lrn iiH'rwdcd hy a deep, lar(e d., Bn, j , mtinue U tread the I)ri,roiie p(i of dalliance, ecreue In the conviction that however much I may degenerate Into a aporting woman, I m never reach the thirty-third degree a) ulne.1 by dear-great-gteat-great grand tmmtm miy who ,(wrdn to her di re.t biographer, died in the full odor , ,h , wbe tw great country of our wa chirking up t0 ,u ,or th9 ,lr,t fu wi)h (1la jj,,) ' dliliulonmeut all came about ., -i jt., (i, i . vV, .els There were about 35 guet present who pancd the afternoon playing 6U0. Mix Florelta Kluiore won the fir-t prize, a beautiful gra jardiuerj Mi Harriet Tallant winning the wecoiui prie, a band-painted Dutch cup and aaucer. The decoration of the home were Oregon graie ami Japanese liliee, the ;ui,,i r,,om nd wfreAhienU were 01 correaponuing pin, una wmw. Among tho-e preaent f The Me--dame II. Van Duaen, W. F.. Schimpn. W. K. Tallant, I. (iarman, It C. Smith, 0. W. Roberta, Charle A. Calleuder, 7. A. Fiher, A. A. Finch, J. E. Higgin. Carl Crow, R. E. Carruthem, K. B. Dyer, Cliaa. Heillrtirn, C. Mathewa, K. 0bum, A. Oaburn, Edward Taylor, R. A. Pilking ton and Mr. Bake Mr. FtD. Kuett- 1. er of Portland, Mr. K. H. Brink of Oakland, Cal. The Mi-c Harriet Tal- lent, 8uie Elmore. Floretta Elmore, Marguerite end Winnefred Higgina, Alice Wood, Olga licilUorn, Caroline Vounj. The young ladiea of the D. M. C. D. Club lest yealerday on the teamer Tele graph for Altoona, Waeh., wnere wey will be entertained by Mia Thora Lai- on at her home there, the occasion be ing a towel and handkerchief how for Mii Caroline Young one of the mem ber of the flub whose approaching mar riage is looked forward to with gteat interest. Tho-e who made up the party wcie the Sli' Caroline Young, May I'tilnger, Anna Campliell, Eva and Alma Holme, Jessie fond, Xellie UUingee, Marie UUinger. Ethel Blinn, Maysie Fomtt, Anna Mclx-an, Lucy Morton and Ifattie Ctainger, Mr. Eliiabeth I'tziu jjer, ami M,, Eilith Lowe. Saturday Club. The member of the Saturday After noon Club were pleaauutly ehtertained by Mr. John T., Allen at her home on Ninth utrwt yesterday. a Thursday Club. The member of the Thursday After noon Club were delightfully entertained by Mrs. llichard Cnrrutlieitt this week at her cozy home on Jerome avenue. Mi Powell and Mi" Thyra Knudsen entertained the menibers of their Sun day school elus-c with a picnic to Young's River which was enjoved by all. e SOCIETY PERSONALS. The Missa Painter of this city left on the steamer Potter on Saturday evening to attend the social hop given at Long Beach at the.new Sylvan Hall. Mis France Whitney of Texas and Miss Dorothy St. Martins of Los Angele? w ho have been visiting relatives in this part of the country spent a few days ill Long Beaclj this week. M'r. Lester Stokes, formerly of As toria but now of Portland, was in the city this week visiting with friends and relatives, .Miss" Ida Leinenweher has returned from a two weeks' visit to Seattle. Mr. J. II. Nickel! of Portland spent a few hours here on Monday en route to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Johonson 0. Fernald of San Franclsaco are in the city visiting relatives. Misg Mary Gregory has returned home from Honolulu where she has been spending the winter Mr. S. C. Hnllton and daughter of Riverton, Iowa, and Mrs. T. L. Este and two children of Seattle are in the city viniting with Dr. and Mrs. 0. B. Fsto. M'r. S. K. Diebel and sister, Miss Hnwl Estes, have arrived home after a short visit with friends and relatives in Spokane and Seattle. Mrs. Morley, Master Charles Moiley and E. Ball of Los Angeles are visiting Mrs. E Goodal. Keen at Cards. I - X in tie mahogany table that I have cherished hec-aue it la an heirloom handed down straight from the aforesaid Lady Bet ty, who wa of the vintage of 1740, or thereabout'. I took the table to an antique aiiop to be done over, and the proprietor who 1 an authority on every thii g queer, told tne that the table was built upeclally to icomodate lover of the card gime called three-handed om bre, which wa all the rage during the leign of the George Hot Overwhelmingly Harmlet. "poor old dear,' 1 aaid companionate ly, "I auppoae they did have to have noma harmless mtrt of amusement to while away the weary hour beaide knitting and needlework.' "Well,' replied the proprietor, who love to air lil knowledge, "if any of Hiom "poor old dear" could come back to earth to ee their descendant lending every energy to win a 25-eent euchre prize, or tearing their hair be-cau-e they were out a few quarter on bridge, they would ak to be trans ported quick, let they yielded to a worldly impulse to take a hand and show y'ou aome." The young matron' auggeation of gay time in "ye good olil day" filled me with a curioaity I could not conquer so to the library I hied me and searched through dusty, musty, volume of mem oir, diarie, letter and bislorie, every thing In faot pertaining to the gentle game of cards. Who would have thought that these ethereal looking periwigged ladies, whose portraits adorn ancestral hall, and who lived when they boiled witches and other annoying persona In oil, would have bad the gambling instinct hi finely developed. It gave me a de liffhtful "holier than thou" ahiver of surprise to read about their frailties that I never- even noticed my tumbling Illu sions, and even if I bad I should not have stopped the perusal. Played On Her Deathbed. (JoMsmith. in bis "Citizen of th World," relate choice tidbit of an old J lady who on her deathbed played cards with the curate of the parish just tq pas away the irksome hour of dying. The poor curate's money passed away more ijuickly than the time, and ere he was aware the expiring dame had won all his money. But her thought were no longer of earthly dross, nd 1 gather she had the true spirit besides, for she generously otIeid to play all her win ning against her funeral expenses to give the minister a chance to recoup. He assented eagerly, "But unfortunately," (ioldsinith says, "the lady expired just as ahe had taken the deal!" Wasn't that too pathetic for both of them? A certain Mr. Prynne, whose youth ful bringing up should have been better, does not hesitate to expose his mother's weakness for cards, and in a volume of icuiiniscencei says: "My mother went annually on a visit to a l.idy in Nottingham. On one or two occasions there were six ladies of the quadrille, commencing immediately af ter breakfast, without ceasing; four were occupied at the card table and two were at liberty, but they took turns go in as the others came out. One of the ladies was singularly unfortunate, and was finally stripped of all her money her kerchief, and even her lace cap." Kept Brido From Altar. Another chronicler of customs and morals of a still earlier century relates how a "faire young bryde on her wed ding morn did play with her maide of honor, at brag until she became so dis traught at her losses" that she forgot all about her spouse-elect and his men who were in doublet and silken hose at the church awaiting her coming. Now I don't know what doublets are, but if sounds cold,, doesn't it? and I do think the morals of the extremely young iu the seventeenth century should have been better anyway, don't you? Mia Pelham, daughter of England's prime minima-, ruined herself at cards, sitting up at night, losing hundreds of pounds and her temper as ell. In a letter to the Countess of Ossory in 1777, Horacs Walpole writes: "I n: d Dillon told me that Lord Besbo- roiigh and he ve-:e playing at quinze the other night with Miss Pelham, and hap pening to laugh she Hew into a passion exclaiming, '"It is terrible to play cards with boys.' And our ages together,' said lx)r ! Dillon, .xake over one hundred and forty." Walpole adds that it was not infre quent ifor Miss Pelham to play with the tears streaming down her face as the luck of the cards weut awry, while her' contemporary. Mary Compton, was al so wont to shed copious tears, "not for the mene loss of the silver, which is as naught to me," she would carefully ex plain, "but for the unkindness of the cards." I have felt the same way and can sympathize, but could not diagnose my case so neatly. Somewhere about the middle of the eighteenth century London wa disturbed by earthquakes, but the iiphenal could not break up "tha'quiet little game" of the 4air one, and Walpole again write! Earthquake Didn't Stop Them. "Several of the ladiea have had eirth- quake gowns made, but what will yoa think of Lady Catherine Pelham, Lady France Arundel, and Lady Oftlway, who go tiii evening to an inn len,mlles out of town where they, will play brag the father of modern poker until five, of the clock in the morning, and then come back ! uppo to look for the bone of their husband and families under the rub bish of if re-h earthquake." Lady Mary Coke In her diary write of a gentle game of ombre, which the play ed in Vienna with Cardinal and the old 'Princess Lobkowitz: "I wa quite angry at the luck of the cardinal; he won of the princes and me 140 fish. I did everything in the world to change ii luck, ovei turned hi bos, plated the pool at different side of the table, at which he did naught but roar with laughter, while his luck continue! to the end. He prayed and ate his sup per during the party. When the clock struck 0 he said a prayer, and at 9 ate a pheasant. When he counted his win nings, be said. 'And I have not once cheated you.' 'Good God I' I exclaimed, 'are you accustomed to cheat t and thu ended my party with hi eminence." The actress, Mrs. Clive, who retired from the stuge and lived at Twickenhem, in Walpole's cottage on Strawberry HilL lost at card with very bad grace She was wont to engage nightly in the game of quadrille with four ancient grand dames, respectively known as Mauille, Spaddle, Basto, . and Pinto, quadrille terms. The parties not Infrequently broke np in a row and upon one oc casion Mrs C.live's opponent displayed tvo black aces, whereupon the noted actress "forgot she was lady" and flew Into a violent rage "Two black aces, two black aces," she screamed; "here, take your money, though God knows I wish Instead I could give yon two black eye, joq old white catt Fare Games In Homes. Ombre, quadrille, lanterloo, baett, and whist were indulged in and the maid or matron who did not play for money was obliged to nod in a corner, nnwept, l - i T j uuuuuoieu, ua uuung !f iKiy -ui- beth Stuart, at the venerable age of eighty-two, lost 450 pounds st one night's game of whist. But even these gamea could not satisfy the roused spirit of gambling within those dame' fair breasts, and in the course of time faro wa Introduced. Several society ladiea get up banks in their own homes, the Duchess of Cumber ing being the first to do so, and profes sional bankers were hired by the ev ening at roni 5 to 10 guineas. But alas, four ladies of rank-Lady Buckingham, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, Lady Mount Edgecombe, and one other were convict ed of running illegal gambling tables, and fined 50 pounds each. A cartoonist at the time with a fiendi h sense of humor pictured their woeful ulit and entitled the caricature 0"Fav. ' daughters." ' Lady Elizabeth Luttrell was afterward found to be "dexterous with the card" as the politic verbiage of the writer put it. and deemed it advisable to travel abroad. She went to Germany,- where rumor sayeth she dallied with sleight of hand tricks again in a "lady's game," toanii the Germans who have no sense of humor in such matters it seemeth, cjiain ed the noble creature to wheelbarrow and bundled her about the town ' Ladiet Beat Tho Bank " 1 Professional gambling houses in Lon don opened up faro games to attract the softer ex, but to their chagrin speedily discovered that all the calculated ad vantage on the bank's side could not eff-et the spurious coin introduced and the debts of honor'' contracted by these frail daughters of Eve On April 29, 1793, the London Times says:' "The faro banks have suspended because their fair patrons understood the game so well and play so keen and dexterously that it requires an argus eye to discover all their tricks." One noble dame was unlucky enough to lose 200 pounds in a single sitting, but with lofty indifference she bade the ban ker "mark it up." He, base plebeian that he was, insisted that she give him a draft on her banking house, whereupon she fell into a spleen and stamped her foot and cursed him roundly. Finding him unmoved by her attack of temper, she gracefully succumbed to an attack of the vapors, but all these feminine arta were lost upon such a hardheaded dolt, and finally she gave him a note on, Drummonds, London bankers. Thither next morning he went as fast as ple beian legs could carry him and handed over the perfumed coroneted envelope to the paying teller who opened it and surveyed its contents curiously. "When will you have this?" he finally asked the impatient gambler. "All of It right away," responded the eager far0 man, whereupon the teller handed him back the note, which ran with queenly scrawl. "To the bearer of this note par two 1 hundred stout strokes of the ferule."
