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Show S THE CHATTERBOX I FROM nil appearances, it would look as though, q certain foolish little Ht matron already was tired of a sensible H husband and prelerred to elevate her H YQry penciled eyebrows and purse her H muchly rouged lips for the benofit of H masculine admiration. Several springs H gjpne by, when the engagement was H announced, the members of HIS fam- H lly fought the alliance tooth and toe- H nail, but wtlh, no suqcess. He was H one of thosa yquths, alack, like so H many who mistook gilt for real gold B and by this timo has learned that 'all H is not gold that glitters." Perhaps, if H there were a few pairs of little stock B ings to mend or a torn pinafore to be L repaired, she would not havo quite so H much time to devote to the artificial M decoration of her faqe. However,, it M is probably the lure of the brass but- j tons that has caused her to doll up in H such fashion with the hope that some H day she may be something more to the H soldier lads than the kind lady who M gives them a lift wtih, her auto. K MRS. John Daire Van Cott and Mii Dorothy Bailey will entertain a M f dozen close friends at a luncheon this B i aiternopn at the Hotel, Utaht in honor H of Miss Adelaide Woodruff, the H charming young daughter of Mrs. Rus- m seU Cqq WQPdruff, wh.oso engagement m to Lieutenant George Brodie, Jr., was 1 announced ia these columns last B week. The approaching marriage of H Miss Woodruff and Lieutenant Brodie H will be one of the happy events of the M early winter. The young bride-elect 1 is one of the most accomplished and H lovely members of the younger society H ( circles and the bridegroom, when sta- m j tioned at Fort Douglas a year ago, M was one of the most popular junior of- m i fleers of the garrison. . H News was, received during the week Hj of the marriage of Miss Dorothy Eve- H lyn Graves, daughter of Major General H ' William S. Graves of the American H expedition in Siberia, and Major Wil- K Ham, R. Orton, U. S. A., which took Hj place Mjqnday, November 4, in New H York, The Graves family are well H known in Salt Lake, as Major Gen- H eral Gravqs was. statipned at Fort H Douglas sov.ojql years ago. During m , the, resldencq ol tljo family here their 1 spn, Major Sydney Grayos, who has M been, apppjnted qn his father's staff H after service qn, the western front, at m the recommendation of: G,eneral Per- B sjiirjg was a cadet at West Point. B H A dpjlgljtful event of the week in H youngcrsjicjetyr qirclea, was tlp pret- H tily apointed luncheon presided over H by Miss Elsie Snyder, daughter of Mr. B and Mrs. Bismarck Snyder, at the Uni- K versity club on. Tuesday afternoon in m honor of Miss Gretchen Routzahn, who H left on Thursday, acompanled by her H mother, Airs. C. A. Routzahn, for St. Louis,, where they wHl mako their nome. Ihe table was prettily decorated decor-ated with crimson and white carnations, carna-tions, and the place cards and favors wore of patriotic design. The guests included Mrs. BismarcK Snyder, Mrs. U. A. Routzahn, Miss .Rachel Evans, Miss Katherino EllerbecK, Miss Virginia Vir-ginia Mills, Miss Jean Donoher, and i,uss Beth Sands. An interesting wedding of November toole place last Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edwards, Ed-wards, when their daughter" Hazel was married to Lieutenant John V. Axton, chaplain, U. S. A., at the home of the bride's parents on Ninth East street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. P. A. Simpkin of the Phillips Congregational church in the presence pres-ence oi the relatives and close friends of the young couple, and was followed by an informal bullet supper. The bride, who was unattended, wore a smart traveling suit of dark blue broadcloth with velvet hat of the same shade and carried, a cluster of bride's roses. A military effect prevailed pre-vailed in the decorations, the ceremony cere-mony being performed beneath a large American flag. About the roooms were baskets and vases of pink chrysanthemums chry-santhemums and potted palms. The super table was centered with a large crystal bowl of deep red Richmond roses, while from the chandelier to the corners of the table were festoons of trl colored maline. The national colors were furthered in the ices and confections, and the following young ladies assisted in the dining room: Miss Carol Lyman, MJss Myrtle Edwards, Ed-wards, Miss Lenore Edwards, and Miss Louise Edwards. Lieutenant and Mrs. Axton will be at the Hotel Utah until Lieutenant Axton is ordered order-ed overseas. Word was received during the week of the recent transfer of Colonel Alfred Al-fred Hasbrouck from Bantanges, P. I., to Fort McKinley, Manila. Colonel Hasbrouck and his charming sister, Mrs. Peter Hulme, were at Fort Douglas Doug-las for several months when the colonel col-onel was in command of the Twentieth Twen-tieth infantry, U. S. A., and wqre exceeding ex-ceeding popular in military circles as well as among the townspeople. The James lngabretsens will be hanging up two extra little stockings this Christmas, for the good stork visited vis-ited them last week and left twin boys. The news of the death of Captain James B. Austin in France, the well known son of Mrs. E. O. Howard, was received with deep regre during the past week. The young officer was very popular with the younger society circle, and the sympathy of many friends goes out to his young -widow, formerly Miss Erminie Calvin, and the membQi'B of. tl)e Howard family. The death of Fred A. Ilqlo, Jr., at Goodsprlngs, Nev., alBO cast a gloom over society during the week. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hale, and is survived by hip widow, who will be remembered as Miss Beth Critqh-. Critqh-. low and three little daughters. Mrs. Russell Kimball Woodruff (Miss Margaret Mclntyre), who has been with her husband at Camp Hancock, Han-cock, Atlanta, Ga.., fQr several months, will return to her home in this city in the near future and will be accompanied accom-panied by her sister, Mrs. Kenneth Yeates (Miss Marlon Mclntyre) who has spent the past four months with her husband at Camp Sevier, S. C. Miss Marlon Bird and Miss Joan Bird have come from Menlo Park, California, to spend the holidays with their mother, Mrs, Arthur H. S. Bird, at the McCornick home on Center street. Mrs,. Hugh Swearingen and Mrs. John Vimont, Lyle have returned from a two weeks' stay in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen rttichards have purchased the S. A. Whitney home on First avenue, where they will be at home to their friends in the near future. Dr. and Mrs. Earl C. Falrweather and children are now at home to their friends at 601 West One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street, New York City. Lieutenant Ben U. Siegel is spending spend-ing a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Siegel, at the Hotel Utah before sailing for overseas service. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fowler (Miss Georgia Savage) and their two little daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Georgia, Geor-gia, have gone to Fort Worth, Texas, to make their home. For the past ten years the Fowlers have lived at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. WILES OF WOMEN MARIAN sat down at the Monday luncheon table with blood in her eye, and the other five held their breath, this time without any of the usual persiflage, knowing the outburst would come without help. And it did. "Talk about your wiles of women! Do you know what this this damn yes damn! control of the railroads and telegraph, and telephone offices means? If I tell you just what I think it means I will get jailed not only for profanity, but treason! The railroads were bad enough with the lqst baggage, bag-gage, crowded cars, poor food or no food at least -no seats in dining-cars, until the food was all gone but it is nothing compared with telephone and telegram and cable service. "Here we are with every last man of our families doing service overseas. You know the army has always had a rate. And we at war with this awful holdup in getting things news--offic-ially until weeks after the casualty of either death or wounds, and some of us might cable over there or get cables through from there if you but 0' just know how. And what happens? The government isn't, getting enough out of us with Liberty Bonds, stamps, I decreased incomes and increased ex- j penses, but cuts off every bit of solace , and comfort of quick communication by taking off rates for the army and not only charging full price twenty-five twenty-five cents a word for cabling, but charges for the address and the signature sig-nature at the same rate! "We could manage to reduce the cost in the few words we need to say to let our men know that things are all right qt home, but there is no way of leaving out a word of the address, and addresses are very long, unless you send the force to "Amexforce," to be taken care of officially. In that case God alone knows when the official of-ficial side would get to it! Might as well not send it. I am a long time getting to it, but you know this Spanish Span-ish influenza that Is sweeping through the country and making a daily death list is quite as bad, if not worse, than the Germans are doing, is reported in all the London and Paris papers and, while it is bad enough, it reads worse than it is. "Officers and soldiers are worried to death about home. One of the girls in the censor office dropped incidentally inciden-tally that the number of cables sent over about the deaths of wives, sisters sis-ters and children were getting worse ' and worse, and some days there were more than came from the other side about the deaths in battle. She said it broke her heart to send the messages, mes-sages, and even to her, with all her experiences in the months she has b been in the office, nothing has seemed seem-ed as sad. And some of the answers that came back to other members of the family seemed such a cry from the heart a new moan from the battle-field. "Well, this morning a dear little woman's husband who has been wounded And is in a hospital cabled her to know if she were all right. He had qvidently been in touch with somebody who got one of these sad cables from home. She has not much l money and she is ill with the influ- r qnza, but not seriously so. So I said I would cable for her. In her instruction instruc-tion book there were prices given, and just how to get cables where they ought to go. In addition she had two or three different ways that her hus- - band rhad written her since ' he " had xbeen in the hospital. She gave me a five-dollar bill, with a carefully written writ-ten message, and off I wont. When I handed it in, after eliminating a few unnecessary words without losing her message to her husband at all that was going to relieve his mind, the man in the cable office counted the words and said $6.75 and I had expected ex-pected abbut two-fifty back in change! "I paid the extra and got the mes-cage mes-cage off, with the understanding that there was no certainty about its 0ei' ting to its destination on time. 'TLere is much government work the man said. Of course I had it out with the cable man about the rate and about the 'code' he was afraid I might be using to send a message to a possible i spy! If he could not understand, J then it must be wrong! Of course, my ,J friend and I both knew enough not to 11 use a code, but in the elimination to 7 save words the man, with his dull III, ' brain, thought it ambiguous or something, some-thing, and I had to fight that out, too. I am not going to tell my friend about the price or the trouble I had she is having trouble enough, with her own illness and the husband in a hospital, and she not knowing just how badly he is wounded; but, girls, I am beginning be-ginning to get so tired, so heart-weary, heart-weary, so" "Hush, hush, Marian! If you give out we will all go under, with anxiety and worry and the real of things. It has been your courage, your fighting spirit, your sensations about passing events you stumbled on that has kept us alive, and ready to face whatever came to us. Don't give up don't go to the other extreme and take things seriously. "What has become of the other friend of yours that was playing the game of the crushed foot and the big corporation and the settlement or suit or something?" And Mollie beck-, beck-, oned for a waiter, gave an order and went on: "Was she real, or were you trying to amuse us real was she? Now don't flare up you know, dearie, it is a sort of toss-up between the fact of that woman being a creature of your entertaining Imagination or her being somebody you really knewi or ought to know! Still we will forgive even that If you keep to the sort of women who keep your spirits from flagging. Forget the sick friend, the wounded husband, the government I control of things, and i " "Say, girls, what do you think shut up, Mollie, you can't cheer me up this morning! what do you all think of this government having a private man like that Lind who went to Mexico and this Colonel House who has now gone to France to send on secret , I missions? Don't you think oh, here's " the waiter. Let's take the cocktails. Trust Mollie to have had it made cheery and forget all the disturbing things we are learnig about running 1 a war and governments. How!" The $ Annalist. |
