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Show I Socially Inclined I'1 This has been the week for the husbands and wives, for there is nothing like Christmas and the bills thereto attached to make a society woman fall in love with her husband all over again. And those who marry because they find it cheaper than to hire a parlor entertainer, find also that a man with the proper spirit and a proportionate propor-tionate overdraft is a great convenience at the season of Yuletide. The week has been taken up about as usual this time of year with no large entertainments involving in-volving both sides of the house, but rather in , preparation for the uses and abuses of the Christ- mas week to come. Really, there is little temptation socially for a man during the week preceding the Christmas holidays, unless it is a poker party with the element ele-ment of chance in it to get even for all that is coming to him when the first of the month arrives. ar-rives. Then, if he should happen to win, most of his troubles are over, and if he should be loser, he is prepared for the shock, for by that time there is no "worst to come." Charlie Shortridge of San Francisco is the subject sub-ject of a little story which recently appeared in Town Talk, and which might easily be placed to the credit of our own Frank (Gloomy) Gustin. It sounds so like the young man, to those who have ever experienced the pleasure of dining with him, that it is reproduced without comment. This outburst from the California barrister came after the waiter had asked the ever embarrassing embar-rassing question, "one check or two?" "Young man, you have been badly trained," he said. "You should know that the question you have asked is a very compromising one. It often happens that when two gentlemen are dining together, to-gether, as my friend and I are, neither has enough to settle the entire bill. Under such circumstances, 'i as you can readily understand, both gentlemen would be seriously embarrassed by such a question ques-tion as you have asked. As it happens, it is all right this time, for my friend has money enough to pay for both of us; so you may give him the check. But don't let it happen again." There are not the usual number of events scheduled for the holidays, though the week will be a busy one socially. Several small dinners are planned for tomorrow tomor-row evening, and Christmas day the reception to be given by Mrs. Mary Judge and Miss Judge in honor of Mrs. Frank Judge will be the chief event. It will take place at the Judge home on East South Temple, and will be a large and elaborate affair. In the evening, the opening of the Orpheum will claim no little attention from the smart set. The house could be sold three times over, so great has been the demand for seats, and the opening performance will probably see the smartest audience that the most optimistic manager man-ager could wish for. The home dinners and Ben Hur will claim a proper proportion of the day's work, but you'll see most of your friends at the Orpheum on Monday Mon-day night, so tuck in all the egg-nog necessary for a proper appreciation of Christmas night in front of the footlights, and go with the bunch. The annual dinner of the Commercial club will take place on next Thursday evening, and the shadows before would indicate that the banquet will be the most successful of all the similar affairs af-fairs given at the club heretofore. The club will keep open house on Christmas and New Year's days, and preparations are also being made at the Alta and University clubs in a small way, to observe the festive occasions. Thursday evening, the 28th, will be rather a full date.. The cheerful Alpha Pi boys will give their hop at the University on that evening, and with two such choice events on the tapis for the same night, the supremacy of the east or west side should bi permanently decided. The fellows of the Alpha Pi are preparing for a brilliant event, and hundreds of invitations have been issued. j Captain and Mrs. Arthur T. Marix have been , variously entertained during their stay in this i city. They will be here until Dec. 27th, when they wjll leave for the coast, where the captain is sta-' sta-' tioned. The largest affair of the week in their honor was the bridge party given by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Wil-bur Flagg; Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Kriebel entertained enter-tained at cards for them; and among those by whom they were dined informally were the David Murrays, the Rob Walkers, and the Russel Tracys. The engagement of Miss Elizabeth Cosgriff and William Edward Fife was a surprise to a large number of their friends, who had no idea that the recent trip of Miss Cosgriff to the east meant a trousseau. It is said that the wedding will take place early in the spring, and be one of the most fashionable fash-ionable events of the season. The congratulations congratula-tions are numerous, and if the sombre looks of saddened suitors are any criterion, the cleverest boutonniere for the ushers will be bleeding hearts. "The rooms were gay with Christmas decorations." decora-tions." That has appeared in the daily press hereabouts here-abouts thirty-three times within the last two weeks. Some city editor should lay a trap for that - well learned line, and next time it appears meet it more than half way. ? In honor of Mrs. Richard Stingley, Mrs. William Will-iam McCaskell entertained at an elaborate luncheon lunch-eon at the Alta club on Thursday for about twenty-five of her friends. i$ Sam Newhouse arrived Thursday in time to spend the holidays here. With a rise of twenty points in Boston during the past two months, lucky is the stocking that hangs from his chimney corner Sunday night. tS Mr. Arthur Callaghan arrives in San Francisco Fran-cisco today, and will be met at the mole by our special correspondent, who will db his best to give an accurate account of his journey to the Golden Gate, and his' vacation on his native heath. & & & Mr. and Mrs. Brig Cannon have arrived from Europe, and after spending a few days in Omaha, the former home of the bride, will come here to live. They will be here the latter part of next week.. tC The George Nyes will be here from Denver to spend the holidays, and among the numerous entertainments en-tertainments planned in honor, of Mrs. Nye is. the bridge tea to be given by Mrs. T. G. Webber and Miss Webber on Friday next. & & Captain and Mrs. John E. Woodward will give a dance at the post on January 3d in honor of the Frank Judges. tS Mrs. R. H. Channing was hostess at a delightful de-lightful function on Tuesday, a buffet luncheon in honor of Mrs. Frank Judge. Some sixty ladies were present at as pretty an affair as is always given at the Channing home, and besides the attractions, at-tractions, exquisite music and a blaze of cheerfulness cheerful-ness that came from the roses and the holly, a dozen of the most charming maids and matrons assisted in the event. C $i Have you all noticed how free from malicious scandal that is, comparatively speaking most of your friends in society have been for nearly a year? Of course it would scarcely be right to suppose that the retirement of one who was formerly for-merly very often in the lime light had anything to do with the apparent lull in the monger market. tC It will be a strenuous Santa who can get busy enough to fill some society stockings, because the owners don't take them off until the sunshine has scared him away. iC tC , Quite an overwhelming task rests with one gay Lothario if he attempts to do justice to a certain cer-tain pair of Christmas stockings. "Absolutely." |