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Show 1 1 1 Socially Inclined Bl I jj Of course the usual custom of describing tlfe HrUj I 5 latest thing as the "best over" is always thought HHhT f if to apply, but without any reflection on tilings m: l terpslchorean, it may safely bo said that never jf, i did Salt Lake society so outdo itself as at the HHf ' , ball Thursday evening. So many costumes really H ijj elaborate and striking have never been seen here. Rg L It was like an assembly of the right sort. On n" every hand were evidences of the affair having Bfj f boen managed properly, both before hand and at w ;; the time. The first was due to the energetic flMgl bunch of women who had hold of the affair, and tlie second to Kenneth Kerr and his "able asslst- '' ants." The last named were not in evidence, but Pr Jjj Kenn was, and never did he show his talonts to .' ; better advantage. H ' j, - And just a word for the martyr folk who spent g! the evening behind the scenes, but not out of II j f sight. Those women who toiled, but took no time j : 2 'j! to spin were the real workers. "When "sweet I; I ;$ charity" takes such a hold on a woman that she 1 1 ! will labor as they did, it must be a protty fine 1 1 j ii thing. I There wore some cordial greetings to old friends. Aileen Maclean's pretty face and figure j were the center of groups of friends. Mrs. A. W. j and she, too, was warmly wol corned. And such a jlj t gown! My, but it was a stunner! We who have J . H read of golden hats never dreamed that they flj S McCuno, Jr., had not been seen for a long time, j' '. j would be so good looking. But the favorites of jj j .I every day were all there, and never were look- ;i j 1 ing so handsome. Indeed, to go back to the be- ; ginning, one may well say, and with truth, it was I: M the "best ever." ; 4 The week opened fair to middling with a din- " nor given by the Howards Sunday evening for 1 Mrs. Baker, the Ferry guest, which was followed if closely by an Orpheum perty of the same people " 1 the next night, given by the Hebor M. Wells'. I )j The guests on each occasion included the closo friends of Mrs. Baker, who left during the week j i'i for her home in Everett. !' jl Mrs. Arthur Bird Inaugurated a new thing yes- if j "tl terday in the way of entertaining. ShQJnvItod a , party of her friends to go to the rink in the early J j ' afternoon and get a "skate," and later when each if one had shown her fancy stunts to the others, 1 and all were wishing they know more clever things i I $j to do, she took them home and appeased their ap- if petltes with tea. j! ,11! It was amusing to readers or the papers to see 1 (' one of the dallies coming gravely to the front the . ; middle of the past week with the anounccment of ! 'I the Clement-Cloman nuptials now aproaching. In ! ! I view of the fact that it had appeared in another ' paper a week earlier and in these columns a wc k ji ; ago today, it was not so newsy as it was funny. t jC Jf The stoik has been taking an artistic turn fi lately and brought a real "sure-enough" Gibson iH girl to a Popperton home the very first thing this isll week. The girl ho brought to the Aliens the day y' before, while not posing as u Gibson girl is l. said by experts to be equally as much like one P of the originals. Mrs. Harry Irwin celebrated her retuVn with a ., Ill sweet little dove party at a dinner Monday even- j 11; ing. The feljows were all green with jealousy l m over the affair, but no one but matrons and maids ! j ffij were admitted. This is the popular matron whose Pjl presence has lent cheer to the Newhouse home j during the absence of tl'o Newhouses in the east, j' The gjod old English custom of having a ; whole roast pig has come back. The guests at a ', recent function were surprised and delighted to behold a small porker with the regulation apple in his mouth, gravely eyeing them from the plat-tor. plat-tor. & & & Mrs. Joe. Siegel has gone to New York for the winter season. w1? Mrs. Arthur Behal and her mother, Mrs. Simon Bamberger loft Tuesday for New York. 15 ta r& Miss Beatrice Cheesman goes to Bingham today to-day for a short stay with the Louis Cates family. & & & One man has been trying so hard to get at the facts about a recent dinner that he lays himself li ' liable to suspicion of curiosity. He is a lady-like fellow anyway in more ways than this. Why not "Ask the man?" & 1 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Savage of Goldfleld came :nto town the first of the week on their way to Ely, Nevada. Mrs. Savage will remain with her parents for a few days longer, but Mr. Sav-1 Sav-1 age has gone on to the copper camp. & & g The Misses Fitch gave a dinner before the ball Thursday evening taking their guests to the affair later. & & Mrs. B. C. Lockwood of Fort Douglas enter-i enter-i tains at bridge this afternoon. I & & Mrs. Walter G. Filer entertained a few friends at a small tea Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Fred Baker. & Mr. and Mrs. Ed. McGurrin are back after spending a few weeks in Gotham. & & & j Mrs.' Sol Siegel left yesterday for Baltimore, where she will spend some time with relatives. t j & This little verse in an eastern paper has a homelike ring. It will apply as well here as there: 'Tis here In Gotham that we love to shine, And cut our rapid entertainment capers; Wo love to dance, to frolic and to dine, And read about our doings In the papers. Although we sniff and say: "How very coarse," j And talk of "reptile journals" without ceasing," f Unmentloned would provoke unending source I Of mortifying tears and woe unceasing. ' t$ Making A Monkey Of Midas. A Tale From the Intemperate Zone. (By T. G.) Goldfleld, Nev., Nov. 6, 1906. On an average, every five men out of ten in this town have got Mr. Midas skinned forty ways from the Jack. Everybody here isn't rich, but so many of every class have struck a bonanza that it gives their friends a new lease of life, and it is easier for a man to get a grub stake if he means business than it is for him to get a porterhouse after a twenty-mile walk in a city, no matter upon what terms he happens to be with the proprietors pro-prietors of the cafes he connects with. Speaking of cafes, a real restaurant man would be a unique effect in this spectacular crater so full of gold, but which, so far as the eye can see, is nothing but a stretch of rolling hills, dappled dap-pled with sage, and always smothered in a whirlwind whirl-wind of tawny dust. A volume could be written of the restaurants - alone. The word "restaurant" is. used advisedly. In the "Mocha," for instance, the lunch counter slopes toward the guests so that in case of a sudden sud-den spill, the waiters and the edibles behind the bar are entirely protected, and nothing is drenched drench-ed but the tenderfoot in front. There is another restaurant called the "Palm," and that is the end of the limit. Most people go there In the evening for the music alone, and if they don't, they should, because that is the best they get. If you order Tchicken, you get one that was killed on Sherman's march to the sea, one which has been preserved ever since that time, but hardly hard-ly well preserved. No matter how painful, it is best to take mineral min-eral water in these restaurants, as most people consider it easier to pay 50 cents a bottle for this rather than have their friends' contribute at the finish to the plentiful coffers of the mortician. There are on an average 150 people entering Goldfleld every day and notwithstanding some privations, pri-vations, Including the postponement of many a bath, the majority like the place, for if they have the stuff in them, they quickly forget the hardships, hard-ships, for they are so busy that they haven't time to think of them. Of the average number of people who come to town each day, say one hundred and fifty, seventy-five of them immediately get work in the mines. Fifty more have enough to get along un til they get something to do, but the other twen-ty-flve come absolutely broke, and many of the latter bring wives and children, with the expectation, expec-tation, after reading lurid newspaper accounts, that gold is to be picked up in the streets. One instance alone will illustrate this. I was talking to a man yesterday who asked if I knew of a room cheaper than $2.50 a day. He said ho was here with his wife and two children and did not know what he would do unless he could get cheaper accommodations at once, as at the rate above mentioned he could not last four days longer lon-ger and eat. But the majority of people who arrive are more than satisfied. They cannot help but be. This is probably the liveliest mining camp the world has seen since the Comstock days, and it is simply impossible to describe the ceaseless rush which endures here day and night. The novelty of the sight alone is worth a trip to this marvelous marvel-ous camp, and for those who hail from Utah there is a profound rest, in the peace of mind where a man can live in a place knowing ha doesn't have to wake up every morning to look at a picture of Joe Smith, and mix in the muddy politics that infest in-fest our "valleys of the mountains." We heard down here that you had a little windstorm in Salt Lake the other day, that averaged aver-aged sixty miles dfn hour. When the wind In this camp drops to that, we consider it a calm day a I;'iiffiP ' an(1 People congratulate each other on the pleas- , ant change in the climate. Men will do moat anything for gold, that is $m j ftCG and tlle fascination of Qoldflald now in its l halcyon days Is something that no one can real- ' f r - ize until having experienced it. Wn 1 ' . A man doesn't stand much chance either of . ijjjffl I ' getting shot, unless he is a innocent by-stander, Jjlja j1 ' as there is far less crime here proportionately ijdjffl I than there is in cities, most of the shooting af- !' ! , fairs being entirely personal grievances. But ''yM ! . those are settled without the aid of the courts. '' ''Jpl'i or msttmco a sflmPle of conversation runs about ' as follows: . ijl ? "Hear about Dutch Charlie getting the top of .'Vfjf 1 ! his head blown off at Rhyolite? That gang ot Mexicans that run that stud game down there ; i done it and It's a d shame, 'cause Shorty was .' j i a good fellow." That closes that Incident. )M v The chief excitement here outside of the stock : ! exchange is when the Are bell announces that j'j.j::! i there is something doing. Every man, woman and " 4m I child In town gets busy in an instant, and all who j.ijjj are not occupied adjusting their lucre in their ifjjjlL , various strong boxes, are at the conllagration s f$M helping in every way to put it out of business. 1 'Ijjjjyj Usually there is not enough water to do any offec- iffj tive work, but there is more action than converse , jjjjl tlon in extinguishing a blaze here, and at such times the feats of sterling men and the risks thoy .' ' take are such as are not soon except where the ' . trail is blazed. , I am about to go to my room. There is noth- f!;V ! f i ing very exciting in that except that it faces M I , north, and if the breeze which cavorts through ; ;Y;jw j the open work window sills will not wreck a ship, ' ? I am no sailor. They certainly handed me a liii '' lemon when I got that room. But I'm sticking to . ' (ffl it, and if Boreas will bo kind for a night or two, and refrain from slipping me down the valley while asleep, I'll try to add to this by the time another week rolls around. Believe me, I am like the lady who came to Nevada in the early days and always wear my best nightie in case I'm found on the desert some morning between this town and Las Vegas. ! & & Seldom, if over, has Zion been witness to so lavish an array of elaborate feminine attire as was brought out by the Fashionable Flock on Thursday. The contributors to Charity's cause also showed their capableness to contribute to the beauty of an ultra fashionable assemblage, in a manner that drops one for the Instant Into the midst of some great style center for a glimpse of dazzling finery which portrays the best efforts of the stylo creators as propounded by Hamilton's. Many of the gowns were indescribably captivating capti-vating and glowed with an exquisiteness that paid a tribute to the artistic tendencies of the wearers. |