SUNDAY, JULY ii, 1907.
THE MORNING ASTOIUAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."