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Show M Saunterings H " j The Country club opens for the season this H ' afternoon and providing the big lawn is not under H a foot of snow by night, it ought to be, a happy H " event for the crowd that will surely motor down H '' before dinner. H ) Tho chilliness up town came just in time to H keep the club deserted early in the week, so that H I there will be a little more zest to today's fes- H tivities than would have been the case, possibly, H had the good weather continued and the links, the H ; courts and the shady places been filled up until H today with those among the society crowd who H ; haven't been able to keep cool at home. H i The affair being in charge of Mrs. Robert Gem- H mell, Mrs. D. C. Roberts and Miss Gertrude Mc- H Grath will be a real party. The three ladies will H ': act as hostesses this afternoon and tea will be H ' served at 4 o'clock and a table d'hote dinner at H six, and it is likely that nearly everyone will stay H lor the dancing in the evening. At this) writing H i " there is not a single large party announced, thought H I h a dozen small affairs are on the books for the din- H I ner. H r4 From the tea anu e corner at the Club H I I comes the news that 3ummer about to arrive H will be numbeied among the six best lemons so H vjj far as any general excitement may be expected. B 'cj There are various reasons for this, not the H least interesting being that the leaders among B the just-past-young married set, as well as those H ' among the newly weds seem to have very little M m initiative, but seek to be in the lime light in the H L. same Avay at the same time. Consequently there H p will be quite a number of the most popular so- H M ciety matrons who will be missed from the gay H J' whirl until late in the fall or winter, for the ex- H L pectations seem very general in at least one of H J the gayest sets. H 1 1 Then too, the travel bee has taken a firm hold H I on everyone who can connect with a train or the H I steamship thing once or twice or oftener during Hii the year, and the result is that there are about M as many people in Salt Lake society away as may 11 be found at home, and they are scattered all over J the world and Ogden. jfl H An exceedingly interesting event scheduled H I for June will be the marriage of Miss Mathilde H I Townsend and Peter Goelet Gerry, which will H J take place in Washington, D. C. H In sewing machine terms, it has been nip and H J tuck between Mr. Gerry and the Duke d'Alba for H' ' the hand of Miss Mathilde, but the American won H out, and now Mrs. Richard Townsend, the mother Bi of the bride to be, is planning a brilliant series of Hr entertainments for the days and nights preceding B I the ceremony. The Duke of AbruzzI will be in " I the national capital week after next, and as Miss H , Townsend was one of the favored four whom Miss Elkins asked to the famous dinner to meet her Duke, it is more than probable that Mrs. Richard will include the royal Italian in the distribution of honors at her fetes. There is every promise that the Country Club will have a great season, especially as the-direc-tors are going to make an effort to complete the membership to the limit set by the last committee. This is all right to a certain extent if they will remember not to make too much of an effort, and include a few hundred willing ones who don't know the difference between 'cow pasture pool and auction pinochle. In a small and beautiful city there can't be much of a line drawn, especially when so many business Interests are interwoven with the social life, but a little discrimination may be used so that the majority of those to join may be neat but not brazen. If that French chef that some of the ladies are talking of inducing the men to send for to take charge of the cuisine at the Club this summer sum-mer arrives, there will have to be a general dusting dust-ing of the noodles attached to those who are always al-ways boasting of their accent, for with his possi-be possi-be arrival, it is said that there will be menu cards printed in French, and everything else in the club house will smack of the Parisian except the dancing danc-ing and the mixing of the libations. Of course there will be a good many objections to this by some of the men who are in a hurry and want something to eat without going to night school, so possibly if any such rule is made, it will be under protest. As Bert Williams remarks in h'is latest hit: "Thes white folks call it chantecler, but its just plainchicken to me." Even society is becoming a little daffy with the rest of the world over the coming contest between be-tween the heavyweight bruisers. For instance, a day or two since one young lady who is particularly particu-larly fond of the hi-ball when made of Black and White Scotch, responded to a question as to what she would have by drawling: "Gimme a Jeffries and Johnson." Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Whitley who recently returned re-turned from their wedding trip to Japan are now settled in the Carl Schied home on East South Temple street, where they will remain until the return of the Schieds a year from now. m Colonel and Mrs. Wall and the Misses Wall are back in New York and are at the Waldorf. They will spend the summer in Salt Lake. M In compliment to Mrs. Sarah C. Bogg3, one of the prettiest teas of the season was given Tuesday Tues-day afternoon by Mrs. A. C. Ewlng at her home on Brigham Street, when seventy-five guests were asked in to meet Mrs. Boggs. A wealth of spring blossoms made the Ewlng home unusually un-usually attractive, and the hostess was assisted in receiving and entertaining by Mrs. L. L. Teny, Mrs. W. H. Cunningham, Mrs. D. C. Roberts, Mrs. Frank Knox and Mrs. W. W. Trimmer. Mrs. Clifford R. Pearsall poured and she was assisted by Mrs. Eugene B. Palmer, Mrs. .Jas. L. Franken and Mrs. C. S. Vadner, with the Misses M.ldred McMillan, Minette Baer, Stella Fabien, Ethel Mount and Louise Sullivan. At the punch table with the Misses Lucille C ark, Mercy Lewis and Aileen MacMillan. $ i In compliment to Mrs. Prentice N. Grey of Oakland, California, Mrs. W. A. Cavenaugh enter- ' tained Friday a'fternoon at luncheon at lier quarters quar-ters at the Post. The card party to be given May 16th under the auspices of St. Mark's guild will be enter-ta'ned enter-ta'ned by Mrs. George Y. Wallace. The proceeds of the party will go toward furnishing the boyy' doimitory at the new Orphans' Home. Miss Frances Michael leaves today for San Jose, California, where she will spend the summer sum-mer with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tibby. ' ' For Mrs. J. J. Freeman of Toledo, Ohio, her guest, Mrs. Arthur W. James entertained at luncheon at the Commercial club Tuesday afternoon. after-noon. . Mr. and Mrs. Sydney C. Smith are on their way to New York, where they will ' meet Mrs. Smith's brother, Lawrence Squires, who is re- i turning from abroad. OijjG of the largest weddings of the week was that of Miss Florence Merrill, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Merrill, and Wilfred Stanley Wi'liams of Albia, Iowa, which took place Sunday afternoon after-noon at the home of the bride's mother. A delightful party of a week ago today was that given by Mr. and Mrs". Edward McGurrin Saturday afternoon at Emigration Inn for Mr. artd Mis. Roy T. Byrnes and the Misses Sheridan, who left early this week for Omaha. The party went out in motor cars and dinner was served at 7 o'clock to the guests of honor and Mr. and Mrs. F. Ef. McGurrin, Mr. an Mrs. C. H. McGurrin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Catrow, Mrs. L. C. Robinson, Miss Noble, James Oliver and Will Leary. i i |