Show SALT LAKE SOCIETY Sad Story of a Former Society Star 4 TALE OF THE WHITE SULPHUR Tho Past Week Has Been Quiet But the Big Assembly Fail Is to Create a Stir On the door you will not enter I have gazed too long Adieu Hopes withdrawn her peradvcnture Death Is I near me and not you I Browning There was a young man stopping at tho Knutsford hotel last week whose days are so closely numbered that what remains to him may bo accounted perhaps as are those which number the existence of Natures Na-tures most ephemeral productions His slay was comparatively a brief one here but despite that fact society discovered him and pressed him with unusual vigor to enter its extended doors Alas I He was compelled to decline and Salt Lake bad to forego tho pleasure of meeting one whose distinguishing courtesy and splendid social attainments aside from even his connections connec-tions made him a marked figure in eastern society a few years ago He has gone now into the land that is flooded with golden sunshine the land of the yellow poppy where the harsh winds make a detour and tho fields are carpeted with beautiful flowers the year round I wish that I might add that southern California held promise of his recovery but I know too well what to expect Tho balmy breezes of the Pacific are fanning a new life into his breast he telegraphed me but each day I fear to hear that my friend has gone to join the one woman ho ever cared for 1 can < nover forget his wan and wasted form as I last parted with him nor the hollow hol-low cheeks Hushed and hectic as my friend bade me good bye There was something so touching in the mans quiet resignation something so noble in his character something some-thing so infinitely sad in his history that for the life of me I could not help shedding a cowardly tear as I clasped his hand in farewell knowing that he was going to die amid the orange groves where everything combines to instill a love of life into man Think of it Hois wealthy beyond dreatiis of riches and his home in faraway New York state up Fordhain way is filled with all that art culture and wealth can give to make it beautiful besides which his proud old father and mother think there never was such another boy as theirs And they are rigat He is a jewel in natures diadem 1 chanced to mention one or two needy families in this city ihile ho was here and his purse strings wero cut at once The contents fell in a blessed shower Shall I tell you his story If 1 do I cannot can-not tell you his name It was in the summer of 1SSO that I first met him at the White Sulphur springs In Virginia tho Mecca of the fashion of two hemispheres It was the same year that Miss Mary of Norfolk created such astir a-stir She was tho debutante of the White that year I do not care to go into ecstasies over her bringing out sufficient to know that the White approved her more heartily than any other debutante for years She was very fragile and spirituelle even then with something so divinely sweet about her that I frequently caught myself wondering whence such a beautiful blossom sprang My friend was with her constantly at the White and long before the season ended their engagement was announced Could the rustic seats the walks and tho trees around Virginias most charming resort re-sort tell the accumulated stories of the last 1 fancy they would tell century no I sweeter tale of love and courtship than that I of the most unaflected unpretentious pair I of people I ever met They were made for i each other surely They lived the sweetest i life ever known of They never had a selfish thought but gave up the greater part of the time so dear to lovers to their friends Respect mingled with every thought they bad for each other and blended harmoniously with a perfect love and while thero was no affectation of concealment con-cealment there was never any appearance of gush I happened to bo In Norfolk Va a year ago and my friend bad come from New York Just at that time to visit his fiancee at her home I met him at the hotel that night and he looked so old and broken that I was greatly shocked He asked me to go to his room with him and I did so As we entered he threw himself upon the bed and sobbed as if his heart voul break Band B-and by bo grew calm and toKy mo the saddest sad-dest story I think I over heard Consump tion had claimed his pretty sweetheart and she was doomed Tho doctors had told her that she could not live more than a year and she had sent for him to tell him tho story and toto set him free Loving her with an intense generosity he insisted on marrying her at once Sho would not hear of it and he grew obstinate in his demands to be allowed to take her as his very own and fly with her to some land whore no rough wind could breathe upon her even Some thought of tho future made the fond weak heart strong strong in its sense of right and she told her lover that she had resolved to 1 go into the shelter of the St Vincent do Saul to spend her remaining re-maining days amongtho sisters She did so Cut herself adrift from tho world and him whom she loved beyond all worlds believing In her simple way that to thus remove herself would aid him after the first great sorrow was over I think it broke her heart She died in less than six months Will you believe it in such a prosiac age My friend crept back to her grave when the others had all left and stretching himself out upon it lay there until his distracted father found him in the small dank hours of tho morning He was ill for a long time after this I am almost afraid to say itno I am not It broke his heart too and I think it killed him He has gone to California to die Can you imagine why ho came so far for that purpose He told me I will tell you what ho said I You know ny story old boy and you can imagine just how much I would dislike to do any thing to revive it in the minds of i my friends but if I were where my strength would hold out when my last hour approached I should love nothing better than to c awl into that beautifuld old Virginia Vir-ginia graveyard and pillowing my head upon the ground that has been cold so long and breathe my last on her grave You love her memory as intensely as ever then I said More so I could not rest all night unless un-less I fell asleep assured that she would fill my dreams H W Society has been comparatively quiet this week but everybody is on the qui vivo for the second assembly ball that takes place at tho Knutslord on Wednesday night It is intrinsically a Four Hundred affair and Salt Lakes mesdames and belles have been busy preparing their pretty costumes The last one was a beautiful affair but the coming ball is written down to surpass it It will do it too It is going to be a gorgeous gor-geous affair and most ot the young ladies i have been saving up their roses and accumulating I accu-mulating eye sparkle for tho occasion Still some of them have been on the go all this week and very few are the worso for wear Society girls rarely become hacks despite the service they are called upon to do for their friends in the way of entertainment enter-tainment They manage on the main to retain re-tain their pristine fairness and freshness until after marriage and its various troubles trou-bles come Even then tho real society girl manages to evade dowdiness and brings to her husband each morning something of the freshness something of the attractiveness attractive-ness that distinguished her girl and young womanhood The Darlington Place Social club met Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Bache 907 Third street and were entertained by a now game in Salt Lako the Palette Party The club developed a vein of artistic ar-tistic ability of astonishing richness the talent required to execute the studies in natural history being only equaled by the flight of imagination demandea in recog nizing thorn A dainty little supper put the finishing touches to the evening The club will meet next Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Barker Mrs Arthur Brown and her friends have been busy making preparations for tneir splendid musical reception for the benefit of the Orphans home that will take place on Monday February 1 at Mrs I Browns residence 201 East South emi em-i plo street The programme is surprise to even musical connoisseurs and as the object I ob-ject is truly a charitable one all the friends of the cause are expected to respond The tickets have been placed at the nominal sum I of fifty cents and will be on sale at the door Tho Ladles Mandolin and Guitar clubs entertainment was one of the marked features fea-tures of the week The New Englanders thirty strong met at the Knutsford on Tuesday evening and partook of a flow of reason and a feast of soul Dr Whitney decided to give a social I and literary entertainment on the 22nd otto February ot-to all New England born Salt Lakers One of the most delightful affairs of the week was tho ball given at the G A R vice most of them in tho volunteers and at tho close of the war they commanded divisions brigade regiments and compa I nies We have sotni excellent material both among the old and young officers for a brush with any nation Mrs Palmer gave a reception to tho ladles la-dles of the post on Friday evening Among those present were Mrs Tyler Mrs Ward Mrs Whitall Mrs Allen Mrs Newton Mrs Morrison and Mrs Noble |