Show I SOCIETY CHIT CHAT I A literary and artistic treat was missed by those who were absent from the entertainment enter-tainment given by the Young Ladies Guild of St Marks last night An appreciative audience was delighted with the versatile Phil Ray and his fund of knowledge was of so diversified a nature that not a sentence sen-tence was lost to the interested ears of his hearers The hall was comfortably filled but hereafter since the public is more publo conversant con-versant with the commendable attainments of this most excellent delineator he should fill a house of much greater capacity to I overflowing Tis rarely that such meritorious I torious work is executed under the cognomen cogno-men of monologue entertainment Mr Ray is an English actor who prefers this mode of portraying character to that of the socalled legitimate drama and his manifold qualifications certainly make him B host within himself He gave The Surprise Party which was a series of character delineations varying va-rying in style and scope purporting to bean be-an imitation each person met during the evening His song dedicated to the G A R was excellent and ho sang with ease and grace as was also the love ditty to His Nellie by the Sea His themes change so quickly and with them his expression ex-pression and inimitable mannerism that otto is kept in a perpetual state of expectancy expec-tancy His programme was well received and exhibited taste talent aud discrimination discrimina-tion His rendition of Eugeno Aram displayed I dis-played his dramatic genius aud gave as well full play to his remarkable elocutionary elocution-ary power S S The members of tho Southern society are requested to meet at the Walker house par lore this evening at S oclock to arrange Ion tho coming entertainment I is desired that as many as can may be present S The ladies of the Mandolin and Guitar club have again distinguished themselves by giving lust evening a most delightful ball The fact that it was a leapyear party made it specially attractive as also the fact that it wan a character ball Many of the costumes were elegant and all pretty end becoming Miss Tessie Clawson was present in a ravishingly beautiful gown taking the character of La Tosca and was tho belle of the ball Miss Gertie Youne as Carmen wore an elegant tress of pink silk with black lace mantilla and presented a charming picture pic-ture tureMiss Edna Wells as Charlotte Corday was suitably dressed In a becoming white dress dresMiss Miss Curt Young in an infant dress and mired cap with flowing curls was much ad Mrs Fizzle Clawaon as a Spanish girl was very handsome Miss Russell wore a fetching costume representing Bossie an the Texas Steer which was unique Miss Ivy Clawson as Marguerite was sweetly and simply gowned Miss Lucy Savage was a queenly looking look-ing girl with powdered hair which demonstrated demon-strated Icicles Miss Dunford as Snow Ball was a success suc-cess Miss Folsom as Morning interpreted the character well in the decoration and selection of her costume Miss Ferguson as Frost was very beautiful and every detail was harmoniously harmoni-ously in keeping with the subject Miss Olsen was radiant as a Sunflower I Sun-flower and exercised artistic skill in the i manufacture of her costume Miss Mamie Whitney and Mell Young represented the twin babies end were sweetly attractive in their white dresses and bonnets These were the most noticeable characters taken There wore many more and a great many spectators spec-tators Among the gentlemen were Messrs Southern Crawford Streets Campbell Groesbeck Morris Mann Young Clark Burt Hampton Connors Dougal Wells Cannon Moffett Jessen Young Lewis Rogers Kincaid Horn Young Riter Bailey Sears Clawson Schwartz Willis Nystrom Brockuank Wacner Brooks Hobbins Muller Gilles pie Culmer Ottinger Hardy err e-rr HRloAr nnn Vhlp tr Tlnnninfr continued until i 12 oclock to the inspiring i i I strains of a delightful orchestra and a programme of seventeen numbers was given Through some inadvertent mistake the new L O O F hall in Sundays paper was said to be smaller than the G A R which is an error Not only is the former place larger but much better adapted to tho giving of bal and now since tho new floor has been laid it is absolutely faultless t Th Edina society which is composed exclusively ex-clusively of ladies is an adjunct of the Desoret university ard holds regular meetings On Tuesday afternoon at which literary and musical programmes are the feature At stated intervals special meetings meet-ings arc held to which friends of both sexes are invited Last evening in response re-sponse to invitations some two hundred of the friends of the ladies of tho society mot at the university building and listened to a piogramme of rare interest The feature of the evening v as a lecture by County Superintendent D R l n on The Aztecs of Mexico a theme which he I handled in a pleasing and intelligent manner man-ner showing a thorough knowledge of tho history of that remarkable race Miss Amy Bowmans rec tation Lady Mnud1 was also a feature that was highly commendable and the vocal selection of Miss Nellie Marriott elicited wellearned applause The rending of the societys paper pa-per followed Miss Amy Whipplo bslng I the editor I was full of choice original I matter and proved very entertaining I Miss Mary Blomdal was next on the pro gramme with a comic reading which was highly enjoyed and the piano solo by Miss Sadie Brown was very good Miss Jennie McMillan was the critic of the evening and the points made by hor were keen and correct The Edina has been in existence for sometime some-time and each season it grows more popular popu-lar with its members and those who are invited to the stated meetings The young ladies are to be congratulated on the success suc-cess they have attained A Baud of Hope Several boys about town conceived the idea of organizing a club to promulgate good habits and sociability and to abhor I bad language smoking or the uso of stimulants stimul-ants About twentyfive boys havo become be-come members and have today ordered their badges Wren Perley Is president and young Stringer secretary Wo wish the noble little fellows every success in I their manly effort to be good and know as the twig is bent so the tree inclines and wo shall hope to see each and every one of them grow up to manhood a comfort to his parents a pleasure to his friends and a credit to the community in which he lives Do not be lead Into temptation persevere in this good work you havo undertaken to make of yourselves noble and trusted men and your rewards and achievements will exceed your expectations Let your watchword I watch-word be upward and onward to victory |