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Show THE CITIZEN 9 a wormy worm hole from,, one made by a gang worm holing mach ine. ENGAGEMENTS AND NUPTIALS MR. AND MRS. Herman Harms the betrothal of their daughter, Kathleen Charlotte to John . Luther Proctor III, son of Mrs. M. L. Proctor of Los Angles. The marriage will take place late in April. The betrothal of the young couple will be read with interest by their many friends. Miss Harms who is a. former student of the University of Utah, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Chi Omega sorority, is a feature writer for the Salt Lake Telegram and has a wide circle of friends in. the : city. Mr. Proctor is a former student of the University of California a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha frat- emity and is a prominent young bus- iness man of the dty. announce -- SOCIETY COLLECTORS BUSH FOR ANTIQUES CLIQUES within cliques, thats so- called, Salt Lake is never far behind in the latest clique so her ciety, so antiquers, having grown slowly, is firmly estabUshed and the members know their worm holes as a golfer knows his Time was when there were but two casses of sensitive women whom you had to eventually bring your small talk around to, those with children and those with dogs, but now to as- colony of ts. . were for they are a party of the family,- they belong, the owners have never thought of them in antique terms, they have always had them and always will but how uncomfortable their lives would be made were it generally known that they had a Cromwellian table, a spinet desk fashioned from one of the first Steinway melodeons or yet a bit of Heppel-white- ? keep it dark if you have else the pack will be upon you. Mrs. R. has always collected, in a desultory fashion, but she would, she appreciates good things, a chair here, every time I look at Frances corner whatnot, just like, the one Cousin Katie sold to the junk man before I could get it (much to the relief of the head of the family.) Mrs. C. has six perfectly matched chairs with a grape design to ad to her collection which contains a spool bed. Mrs. L. with her artistic old flax wheel, in the rough, and hergenuine copper kettle, would smile if she saw the flax wheel I saw the other day, in passing, which some one, who must collect, but has no sense of the fitness of things, has had dolled up with shiny new enamel and even a design painted on it. When Mrs. B. and Mrs. R. comes the city to furnish up for Mae and Dorothy it reduced the market materially but always there is hope and the wily auctioneer baits his sales with a casual sentence in his ad that among the things to be sold is some walnut veryold and that gets them. They arrive early and the best of friends glare at each other wondering just how high one will have to go to out bid the other until the very old walnut turns out to be stained and varnished pine, then they fall upon each others necks and flatter themselves of their ability to judge . . i ; . MEANDERINGS OF SOCIETY MRS. GEORGE Harris Smith and Miss Euphemia Smith are spending two weeks in Los Angeles during the spring vacation of Westminister college where Miss Smith is a student. Miss Catherine Hogle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hogle, who is . a student at La Jolla, Cal., at the Bishops school is spending the Easter vacation with her grandmother, Mrs. M. Copley in Los Angeles. many of ones oldest and dearest friends one pnguagc, one must must learn a new speak fluently the anguage of antiques. j The town has been combed, my ears, positively combed, for them I jand many are being imported. Of course there are, no doubt, many fam-- , Siting pretty and secure with jj??eess treasures in their posession ! the collectors are not aware of j . ;an it would do them no good if they 5 a table there, a bit of neddlepoint and some porcelain and now Catherine has gone in for it. Reckless as she was sending the four poster, which weighs a ton, home by express, mind you, it is a dream with its quaint coverlet. Mrs. S. knows an antique as far as she can see it and her wall table was a rare find even though friend husband thought she had brought in some kindling wood. I, a layman, turn green with envy . ; . Miss Hermine Harms and Ethelyn Harms who are attending the Univer- sity at Redlands, California will ar--. rive April 7 to spend the spring va- - MISS KATHLEEN Charlotte Harms, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ier-ma- n Harms, whose betrothal to John Luther Proctor III is announced. The marriage will be society event of April. jSociate with ; Thelma Lee and Bab Banta, two attractive girls with Troupe at the Pantages. theStepping Along 1 |