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Vol. VII. W ?;i co, Sunday, February 128, 189/ . No. & Ladies’ Hats^ Choice of 100 Ladies’ Felt Hats worth $1.00 each, at 25c Sponges Assorted Sponges, some worth 10 cents— others worth 15 to 20 cents, all go at 5c Belts T.omorrow we close out all our Silk Belts in black and'colors, worth 50 to 75c each, at 25c Novels We close out all our paperback No/vels— this week, at 2 FOR 5 CENTS Vaseline Two ounce Vaseline goes this week at 3c a Bottle. J*|achine Needles Sewing machine needles for all makes at 5c a paper or 3 Papers for 10c. (~)ld Tan Shoes Now is the time to brighten up your tan shoes. We sell this week combination tan cleaner and polish, good as any 25c outfit at 10c Thread For Monday only we will sell Chadwick best 6cord Cotton at 3c a Spool. peather Dusters A nice line of Feather Dusters at 10 Cents. The 25c kind of Feather Dusters at 15 Cents. The 85c to 40c kind of Feather Dusters as 25 Cents. TOhorrow we open our new department upstairs for Ladies’ and Children’s ReadyMade Wear, Corsets and Cloaks. We will display all the new styles in Waists and many other extreme novelties in Ladies’ and Boys Waists at popular prices. . PRETTY FLOWER SOUVENIRS. Each visitor Monday to this new department will be presented free with a Floral Souvenirof cut flowers. As another pleasant inducement for visitors to call and see us in our new quarters this week, we will make our best Special Sale of Ladies’ and Children’s MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. We were so crowded heretofore that we could not show the immense variety of our handsome styles in under muslins, but our new department is the largest and handsomest in the city and we will show a royal array of the prettiest garments ever seen in Waco. 25Cents Qowns A spec.il line of Ladies’ Gowns, such as sell for 50c every day in Waco. They go in this sale in limited quantity at 25c each. Chemise A lot of Chemise nicely trimmed in pretty lace, will go in this sale at only 25c each. IO Cents Children’s Muslin Skirts, in good quality, at only 10c each. Children’s Muslin Pants, in good quality, small sizes, at only 10c. 49Cents Chemise Ladies’ Chemise, Standard Muslin, new and pretty styles, very prettily trimmed or plain tucks, well worth 75 cents each, at 49 cents. Skirts Ladies’ wellmade Skirts^in very pretty r'styles, full size and length, worth 65 to 75 cents each, at only 49 cents. GOWIIS We offer at only 49 cents the prettiest styles in Gowns ever showu at the price. A good variety of patterns. Drawers Some very handsome styles in Ladies’ Drawers, plain or trimmed, at only 49 cents. TEN STYLES. From 50 cents to $2.00 each. The new styles are the prettiest ever shown. We have them in fifty designs. Dress Goods We will show this week all the advance novelties in Spring Dress Goods, Skirtings and Duck and Crash Suitings. Fancy Waist Silks and Dress Silks in black and colors. 69Cents We offer this week a handsome line of very stylish garments. Gowns, Skirts, Chemise and Drawers, worth up to $1 each, at only 69 cents. These are as well made as any can be, and they are as stylish and prettily finished as the finest. All go this week at only 69cents. We are exclusive agents in Waco for the French Fashioned Under Muslins. The best made wear in A SOME NOVEL DESIGNS in new styles. Prices from SO cents to $7.50 each. 99Cents Chemise We will Show a special line of unusually handsome Chemise in this lot. New.'and exelusive . designs and selected patterns at 99 cents. Skirts We will offer in this lot the ■best values ever offered at 99 cents each. Many pieces worth $1.50 and even 1T5 each, iu this sale only 99 cents. Gowns These are unusually handsome styles, all well made in new designs and well worth $1.50 each. In this sale only 99 cents. Drawers The very daintiest designs in new cuts and pretty lace and embroidery on finest materials. Tihs garment is; hard to beat at anj'iprice. This week only 99 cents. $1.22 Gowns this lot we shali place some of our very handsomest garments. Gowns worth up to> $3 each in the loveliest designs at only $1.49. Skirts The new design skirts are very striking in their novelty. The build is quite different from old styles and the trimmings extremely pretty. Our leading line this; ;week at only $1.49. Chemise, Drawers and Corset Covers in same values at the same price. $1.22 We will offer this week our choicest values In this lot. Chemise, Gowns, Skirts amd Drawers in elaborate styles and finest materials, worth $2.50 to 3.00 each, at only 1.99. Every garment is the best of its kind. French Fashioned’ There are many makes of Ladies’ and Children’s Muslin wear and some of them are good, but you do not know which are. It is different with the “French Fashioned,” everybody knows that it is the best—there is no better. We are sole agents in Waco for this celebrated make of Fine ]\£uslin and French Cambric Under Muslins. We guarantee every garment. The price s no higher than any other kind. Don’t Miss This A handsome line of Spring Ginghams are offered this week at a _ special bargain price. All new colorings and new patterns, the 10c a yard kind. Your choice this week at ~l 2 Cents ^rabesque Percales Something new, nobby and slylish for Ladies’ Waist6 and Spring Wrappers— Beautiful designs in navy blue and black and white. This week they go at 7 I2c a yard. " Crepons Cotton Crepons in all shades, but siightly damaged, sell everywhera at 10 to 12c a yrJd, in this sale only 6 12 Cents. Cambric A fine quality Lons^ dale Mills Bleach Cambric at only 8 l2c a yard. Gingham 3| Cents For Monday only we will sell a line of Gingham checks and plaids that sell at 5 to 6c a yard, at onlj' 3%C a 3’ard. ipecial iale Latest Stele Fine Kid Gloves. Tomorrow morning’ we introduce a week of bargains in the latest novelty. A handsome White Kid Glove, stylish colored stitching in all shades, all sizes, at only 99 cents a pair. This is a $1.50 selling value and surely a good thing at only............................ 99C A Ribbon Sale A small lot of Ribbons, odds and ends in several colors, worth 15 to 25c a yard at only 5 Cents Silk Belting, Black and colors, worth 50c a yard, at only 15 Cents This department will also offer Ladies’ Fine Black Jersey Gloves, all sizes, worth 25 to 30 cents a pair, at only 15 Cents Mail Orders Out of town customers who send us orders by mail, will receive special and careful attention. Satisfaction guaranteed. SAMPLES OF ANY CUT GOODS FREE. We pay delivery on orders amounting to $4 or over. Send us your address and we will mail you our SPRING PRICE LISTS. Send for samples of new Laces, Embroideries and Dress Goods. Qrash Toweling Ten pieces assorted Linen Crash worth 12^c a yard, at 9 Cents Bath Towels Extra large Turkish Bath Towels, worth. 20 cents each, at 12 l2c this week. Damask Five choice pieces of bleach Damask worth 60 and 65 cents a yard this week only 49c Drapery Five pieces of figured. Drapery Silk worth 50c a yard at only 29c Tinsel Pongee Drap= ery, very pretty, worth 18c a yard, at 12 12 Cents Carpets We will, sell you a Carpet cheap this week if you can spare the cash. ipecial iale Embroidery Remnants Our great HiltonHughes Failure Sale last week has left us with many remnants of Embroidery from three to five yards each. We call them remnants, but they are just such lengths as everybody wants. They go this week at 10 cents to 75 cents a piece—worth double the money. For One More Week. We will bring down all our reserve stock of the Hilton, Hughes & Co.’s Embroidery and continue the sale one week longer at the same panicky prices. This is one of the best bargains we have ever been able to offer our friends. If you did not buy last week come early now, for the prettiest patterns are going rapidly. Goldstein &Migel The Great Low Price Dry Goods, Shoe and Clothing Store of Waco (OC16I 1 orx]d ^j'sre^ts 1 ttaDDeninQS of the Week—People You Know. (All Items of a Social and Personal Nature will please be sent to Ninth and Columbus Streets. Telephone Artesia 167. No items received later than 9 o’clock on Saturday morning, and to insure attention, should be received Friday.) spell of macher’s Mr. WHETHER it were the thrill of patriotism,the quaint but beautifully gowned women or the and Mrs. Schuhospitality is not known, but something conspired to make this Colonial dance one of exceptional beauty and brilliancy. The house decorations were elaborate and were a silent compliment to the guests in whose honor they were set,while, on the other hand, the becoming arrangement of powders and patches upon the part of the guests gave a reciprocity of compliment. All honor was done to the “red, white and blue.” It twined the balustrades, crowned the door ways, and decorated the walls. A George Washington portrait smiled its patronage of the lovely scene as well as his approbation of the life like cherry tree which grew candied fruits in the hallway corner. Not a muscle of George’s face betrayed the fact that the cherry tree story is a myth, or that while he may have made a full confession upon this occasion, he swore like a trooper on others. Three rooms en suite served as a ball room, and, when the Colonial dames were led out by their stately partners for a dance, the scene well carried one back to Martha Washington’s famous ball of years ago. The powdered hair and rouged cheeks were extremely becoming. Mesdames Foster Fort, Walter Fort, Clark, Padgitt, Rotan, Hamilton, Russell and Miss Oliver were all mentioned as looking unudually well, while Mrs. Schumacher herself never looked better. Program dancing for an hour or two was followed by a cottilion in charge of Mr. Hallpike. The first figures distributed the evenings’ souvenirs— miniature hatchets, painted with a spray of cherries. Shannon did duty in the refreshment room, while Reynolds furnished the music. As a floral offering to this beautiful party were palms in abundance and mantel banks of the choicest cut blossoms, utilizing the red, white and blue. Not since Mrs. George Clark’s colonial ball of seven years ago have the fashionable folks been called upon to do homage to “powders and patches.” Those upon whom this demand was made were, Messrs, and Mesdames Rotan, Hamilton, Shear, Padgitt, Bain, Behrens, Roberts, Howard Mann, Walter Port, Foster Fort, Russell, Johnson, Early, Toby, Gould, Hallpike, Dr. and Mrs. Black. Mesdames George Clark, George Hoehn, Annin. Misses Cameron, Bryant, Alexander, Wheeler. McGregor, Posten, Barker, Carroll, Ruby Randle, Mary Randle, Oliver, Johnson, Drane, Camp, Weir, Brahan, Kellett, Pace, Pearl White, Behrens, Camille White. Messrs. Davis, Perkinson, Patten, McCulloch, Marshall, McCall, Swearingen, Thorpe, Park, Beatty, Dunnica, Wheeler, Kramer, Gregg, Annin, Bain, Neal, Bassett, Wells Bassett, Talley, McLendon, Connor, Eikel, Haughton, Mitaranga, Downs. * * * It took just such a party as that of Mrs. Maude Cole on Thursday afternoon to bring one to the realization that in the midst of so much he knew so little. The occasion was an especial courtesy to the Literary Tea and the Woman’s club, but every vestige of club work was removed. The afternoon really proved one of profit, since there could have been no one present who did not feel herself burnished with a bit of literary lore. The first appalling blunders were made over the effort to associate the name with the face of forty well known writers, both of poetry and of prose. The first honor of recognizing the most faces fell to Miss Johnston and the second, to Mrs Pattillo, each of whom was presented with framed portraits of beloved authors. The next fun was found in the choosing of sides as in the old fashioned spelling bee, with Mrs. Rotan and Mrs. Padgitt, captains. In lieu of words, titles of books were given, and its author was required. In this, Mrs. R. G. Patton and Miss Edmonds made not a mistake. They indulged the old time method of decision in drawing straws, and Miss Edmonds was made the possessor of a valuable book. Mrs. C >le’s resources seemed inexhaustible. As a last bit of pleasantry, she distributed carnations, each bearing some pretty compliment in verse to the lady jvho drew it. The refreshments consisted of ice cream, cake, fruit nectar and almonds. Mrs. Foster Fort, with Misses Brahan, Posten and Seley were largely instrumental in making the evening pass oil so smoothly; indeed, it provoked the expressed enjoyment of each guest, particularly as it departed from all former afternoons. The especial guests were: MESDAMES. Prather, Killough. Willig, Woodson White, Brocken borough,, Eugene Early, Beaumont, Bell, ■ Waller Baker, W. K. Jones, Munroe. Risher, MISSES. Friend. * * * Since card parties have outrivaled all other forms of amusement in Waco, and since innate curiosity makes us like to know what others are doing, we clip in toto Beau Monde’s description of a game in one of Dallas’ representative homes which says, “Mrs. Russell Myrick’s progressive euchre party on Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. John Sloan Me Cauley and Mrs. Hargraves was the card crush of this very emphatically brilliant card season. Fully seventyfive smartlyfrocked women were received by this always delightful hostess into her home on the South side.. By her side, also doing the honors of the evening, were Mesdames McCauley and Hargraves, both past masters in the art of entertaining. The handsome reception suite was agleam with lighted white tapers in cyrstal and silver candelabra and white billowed chandeliers, whose rays played hide and seek among the chaste blooms of Calla lilies, the dainty frond of palm and pearly berries of mistleto that banked the manties and clustered about canvas and easel. It was a lingering caress of Christmas met with a rosy kiss of Cupid, typified by the redrose and pink carnation. Sixteen tables were laid for the game with score cards tied with dainty ribbons of green and pink, distributed by Gertrude, the lovely little daughter of Mrs. Hargraves. The hostess assisted by the honorees and a big house party conducted the game with a skill that called out the admiration of the devotees. It was a big lot of women to handle under the spell of euchre, but they did it with a Napoleonic air that showed we are already sniffing the atmosphere of the Twentieth Century. Twelve games were played, some of the players making a very fine score. Mrs. Buford A. Killough captured the royal prize, a dainty Dresden boudoir clock with motherofpearl face. Mrs. J. B. Oldham came next and won a silver Continued on Second Page.
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ID | tx-waco-nwp-art_1897-02-28 |
Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) Vol. 7 No. 9, Sunday, February 28, 1897 |
Date | 1897-02-28 |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 9 |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Publisher | Artesia Publishing Company |
Language | English |
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Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 4 pages |
Uniform Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) |
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Title | tx-waco-nwp-art_1897-02-28_01 |
OCR - Transcript | Vol. VII. W ?;i co, Sunday, February 128, 189/ . No. & Ladies’ Hats^ Choice of 100 Ladies’ Felt Hats worth $1.00 each, at 25c Sponges Assorted Sponges, some worth 10 cents— others worth 15 to 20 cents, all go at 5c Belts T.omorrow we close out all our Silk Belts in black and'colors, worth 50 to 75c each, at 25c Novels We close out all our paperback No/vels— this week, at 2 FOR 5 CENTS Vaseline Two ounce Vaseline goes this week at 3c a Bottle. J*|achine Needles Sewing machine needles for all makes at 5c a paper or 3 Papers for 10c. (~)ld Tan Shoes Now is the time to brighten up your tan shoes. We sell this week combination tan cleaner and polish, good as any 25c outfit at 10c Thread For Monday only we will sell Chadwick best 6cord Cotton at 3c a Spool. peather Dusters A nice line of Feather Dusters at 10 Cents. The 25c kind of Feather Dusters at 15 Cents. The 85c to 40c kind of Feather Dusters as 25 Cents. TOhorrow we open our new department upstairs for Ladies’ and Children’s ReadyMade Wear, Corsets and Cloaks. We will display all the new styles in Waists and many other extreme novelties in Ladies’ and Boys Waists at popular prices. . PRETTY FLOWER SOUVENIRS. Each visitor Monday to this new department will be presented free with a Floral Souvenirof cut flowers. As another pleasant inducement for visitors to call and see us in our new quarters this week, we will make our best Special Sale of Ladies’ and Children’s MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. We were so crowded heretofore that we could not show the immense variety of our handsome styles in under muslins, but our new department is the largest and handsomest in the city and we will show a royal array of the prettiest garments ever seen in Waco. 25Cents Qowns A spec.il line of Ladies’ Gowns, such as sell for 50c every day in Waco. They go in this sale in limited quantity at 25c each. Chemise A lot of Chemise nicely trimmed in pretty lace, will go in this sale at only 25c each. IO Cents Children’s Muslin Skirts, in good quality, at only 10c each. Children’s Muslin Pants, in good quality, small sizes, at only 10c. 49Cents Chemise Ladies’ Chemise, Standard Muslin, new and pretty styles, very prettily trimmed or plain tucks, well worth 75 cents each, at 49 cents. Skirts Ladies’ wellmade Skirts^in very pretty r'styles, full size and length, worth 65 to 75 cents each, at only 49 cents. GOWIIS We offer at only 49 cents the prettiest styles in Gowns ever showu at the price. A good variety of patterns. Drawers Some very handsome styles in Ladies’ Drawers, plain or trimmed, at only 49 cents. TEN STYLES. From 50 cents to $2.00 each. The new styles are the prettiest ever shown. We have them in fifty designs. Dress Goods We will show this week all the advance novelties in Spring Dress Goods, Skirtings and Duck and Crash Suitings. Fancy Waist Silks and Dress Silks in black and colors. 69Cents We offer this week a handsome line of very stylish garments. Gowns, Skirts, Chemise and Drawers, worth up to $1 each, at only 69 cents. These are as well made as any can be, and they are as stylish and prettily finished as the finest. All go this week at only 69cents. We are exclusive agents in Waco for the French Fashioned Under Muslins. The best made wear in A SOME NOVEL DESIGNS in new styles. Prices from SO cents to $7.50 each. 99Cents Chemise We will Show a special line of unusually handsome Chemise in this lot. New.'and exelusive . designs and selected patterns at 99 cents. Skirts We will offer in this lot the ■best values ever offered at 99 cents each. Many pieces worth $1.50 and even 1T5 each, iu this sale only 99 cents. Gowns These are unusually handsome styles, all well made in new designs and well worth $1.50 each. In this sale only 99 cents. Drawers The very daintiest designs in new cuts and pretty lace and embroidery on finest materials. Tihs garment is; hard to beat at anj'iprice. This week only 99 cents. $1.22 Gowns this lot we shali place some of our very handsomest garments. Gowns worth up to> $3 each in the loveliest designs at only $1.49. Skirts The new design skirts are very striking in their novelty. The build is quite different from old styles and the trimmings extremely pretty. Our leading line this; ;week at only $1.49. Chemise, Drawers and Corset Covers in same values at the same price. $1.22 We will offer this week our choicest values In this lot. Chemise, Gowns, Skirts amd Drawers in elaborate styles and finest materials, worth $2.50 to 3.00 each, at only 1.99. Every garment is the best of its kind. French Fashioned’ There are many makes of Ladies’ and Children’s Muslin wear and some of them are good, but you do not know which are. It is different with the “French Fashioned,” everybody knows that it is the best—there is no better. We are sole agents in Waco for this celebrated make of Fine ]\£uslin and French Cambric Under Muslins. We guarantee every garment. The price s no higher than any other kind. Don’t Miss This A handsome line of Spring Ginghams are offered this week at a _ special bargain price. All new colorings and new patterns, the 10c a yard kind. Your choice this week at ~l 2 Cents ^rabesque Percales Something new, nobby and slylish for Ladies’ Waist6 and Spring Wrappers— Beautiful designs in navy blue and black and white. This week they go at 7 I2c a yard. " Crepons Cotton Crepons in all shades, but siightly damaged, sell everywhera at 10 to 12c a yrJd, in this sale only 6 12 Cents. Cambric A fine quality Lons^ dale Mills Bleach Cambric at only 8 l2c a yard. Gingham 3| Cents For Monday only we will sell a line of Gingham checks and plaids that sell at 5 to 6c a yard, at onlj' 3%C a 3’ard. ipecial iale Latest Stele Fine Kid Gloves. Tomorrow morning’ we introduce a week of bargains in the latest novelty. A handsome White Kid Glove, stylish colored stitching in all shades, all sizes, at only 99 cents a pair. This is a $1.50 selling value and surely a good thing at only............................ 99C A Ribbon Sale A small lot of Ribbons, odds and ends in several colors, worth 15 to 25c a yard at only 5 Cents Silk Belting, Black and colors, worth 50c a yard, at only 15 Cents This department will also offer Ladies’ Fine Black Jersey Gloves, all sizes, worth 25 to 30 cents a pair, at only 15 Cents Mail Orders Out of town customers who send us orders by mail, will receive special and careful attention. Satisfaction guaranteed. SAMPLES OF ANY CUT GOODS FREE. We pay delivery on orders amounting to $4 or over. Send us your address and we will mail you our SPRING PRICE LISTS. Send for samples of new Laces, Embroideries and Dress Goods. Qrash Toweling Ten pieces assorted Linen Crash worth 12^c a yard, at 9 Cents Bath Towels Extra large Turkish Bath Towels, worth. 20 cents each, at 12 l2c this week. Damask Five choice pieces of bleach Damask worth 60 and 65 cents a yard this week only 49c Drapery Five pieces of figured. Drapery Silk worth 50c a yard at only 29c Tinsel Pongee Drap= ery, very pretty, worth 18c a yard, at 12 12 Cents Carpets We will, sell you a Carpet cheap this week if you can spare the cash. ipecial iale Embroidery Remnants Our great HiltonHughes Failure Sale last week has left us with many remnants of Embroidery from three to five yards each. We call them remnants, but they are just such lengths as everybody wants. They go this week at 10 cents to 75 cents a piece—worth double the money. For One More Week. We will bring down all our reserve stock of the Hilton, Hughes & Co.’s Embroidery and continue the sale one week longer at the same panicky prices. This is one of the best bargains we have ever been able to offer our friends. If you did not buy last week come early now, for the prettiest patterns are going rapidly. Goldstein &Migel The Great Low Price Dry Goods, Shoe and Clothing Store of Waco (OC16I 1 orx]d ^j'sre^ts 1 ttaDDeninQS of the Week—People You Know. (All Items of a Social and Personal Nature will please be sent to Ninth and Columbus Streets. Telephone Artesia 167. No items received later than 9 o’clock on Saturday morning, and to insure attention, should be received Friday.) spell of macher’s Mr. WHETHER it were the thrill of patriotism,the quaint but beautifully gowned women or the and Mrs. Schuhospitality is not known, but something conspired to make this Colonial dance one of exceptional beauty and brilliancy. The house decorations were elaborate and were a silent compliment to the guests in whose honor they were set,while, on the other hand, the becoming arrangement of powders and patches upon the part of the guests gave a reciprocity of compliment. All honor was done to the “red, white and blue.” It twined the balustrades, crowned the door ways, and decorated the walls. A George Washington portrait smiled its patronage of the lovely scene as well as his approbation of the life like cherry tree which grew candied fruits in the hallway corner. Not a muscle of George’s face betrayed the fact that the cherry tree story is a myth, or that while he may have made a full confession upon this occasion, he swore like a trooper on others. Three rooms en suite served as a ball room, and, when the Colonial dames were led out by their stately partners for a dance, the scene well carried one back to Martha Washington’s famous ball of years ago. The powdered hair and rouged cheeks were extremely becoming. Mesdames Foster Fort, Walter Fort, Clark, Padgitt, Rotan, Hamilton, Russell and Miss Oliver were all mentioned as looking unudually well, while Mrs. Schumacher herself never looked better. Program dancing for an hour or two was followed by a cottilion in charge of Mr. Hallpike. The first figures distributed the evenings’ souvenirs— miniature hatchets, painted with a spray of cherries. Shannon did duty in the refreshment room, while Reynolds furnished the music. As a floral offering to this beautiful party were palms in abundance and mantel banks of the choicest cut blossoms, utilizing the red, white and blue. Not since Mrs. George Clark’s colonial ball of seven years ago have the fashionable folks been called upon to do homage to “powders and patches.” Those upon whom this demand was made were, Messrs, and Mesdames Rotan, Hamilton, Shear, Padgitt, Bain, Behrens, Roberts, Howard Mann, Walter Port, Foster Fort, Russell, Johnson, Early, Toby, Gould, Hallpike, Dr. and Mrs. Black. Mesdames George Clark, George Hoehn, Annin. Misses Cameron, Bryant, Alexander, Wheeler. McGregor, Posten, Barker, Carroll, Ruby Randle, Mary Randle, Oliver, Johnson, Drane, Camp, Weir, Brahan, Kellett, Pace, Pearl White, Behrens, Camille White. Messrs. Davis, Perkinson, Patten, McCulloch, Marshall, McCall, Swearingen, Thorpe, Park, Beatty, Dunnica, Wheeler, Kramer, Gregg, Annin, Bain, Neal, Bassett, Wells Bassett, Talley, McLendon, Connor, Eikel, Haughton, Mitaranga, Downs. * * * It took just such a party as that of Mrs. Maude Cole on Thursday afternoon to bring one to the realization that in the midst of so much he knew so little. The occasion was an especial courtesy to the Literary Tea and the Woman’s club, but every vestige of club work was removed. The afternoon really proved one of profit, since there could have been no one present who did not feel herself burnished with a bit of literary lore. The first appalling blunders were made over the effort to associate the name with the face of forty well known writers, both of poetry and of prose. The first honor of recognizing the most faces fell to Miss Johnston and the second, to Mrs Pattillo, each of whom was presented with framed portraits of beloved authors. The next fun was found in the choosing of sides as in the old fashioned spelling bee, with Mrs. Rotan and Mrs. Padgitt, captains. In lieu of words, titles of books were given, and its author was required. In this, Mrs. R. G. Patton and Miss Edmonds made not a mistake. They indulged the old time method of decision in drawing straws, and Miss Edmonds was made the possessor of a valuable book. Mrs. C >le’s resources seemed inexhaustible. As a last bit of pleasantry, she distributed carnations, each bearing some pretty compliment in verse to the lady jvho drew it. The refreshments consisted of ice cream, cake, fruit nectar and almonds. Mrs. Foster Fort, with Misses Brahan, Posten and Seley were largely instrumental in making the evening pass oil so smoothly; indeed, it provoked the expressed enjoyment of each guest, particularly as it departed from all former afternoons. The especial guests were: MESDAMES. Prather, Killough. Willig, Woodson White, Brocken borough,, Eugene Early, Beaumont, Bell, ■ Waller Baker, W. K. Jones, Munroe. Risher, MISSES. Friend. * * * Since card parties have outrivaled all other forms of amusement in Waco, and since innate curiosity makes us like to know what others are doing, we clip in toto Beau Monde’s description of a game in one of Dallas’ representative homes which says, “Mrs. Russell Myrick’s progressive euchre party on Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. John Sloan Me Cauley and Mrs. Hargraves was the card crush of this very emphatically brilliant card season. Fully seventyfive smartlyfrocked women were received by this always delightful hostess into her home on the South side.. By her side, also doing the honors of the evening, were Mesdames McCauley and Hargraves, both past masters in the art of entertaining. The handsome reception suite was agleam with lighted white tapers in cyrstal and silver candelabra and white billowed chandeliers, whose rays played hide and seek among the chaste blooms of Calla lilies, the dainty frond of palm and pearly berries of mistleto that banked the manties and clustered about canvas and easel. It was a lingering caress of Christmas met with a rosy kiss of Cupid, typified by the redrose and pink carnation. Sixteen tables were laid for the game with score cards tied with dainty ribbons of green and pink, distributed by Gertrude, the lovely little daughter of Mrs. Hargraves. The hostess assisted by the honorees and a big house party conducted the game with a skill that called out the admiration of the devotees. It was a big lot of women to handle under the spell of euchre, but they did it with a Napoleonic air that showed we are already sniffing the atmosphere of the Twentieth Century. Twelve games were played, some of the players making a very fine score. Mrs. Buford A. Killough captured the royal prize, a dainty Dresden boudoir clock with motherofpearl face. Mrs. J. B. Oldham came next and won a silver Continued on Second Page. |
Uniform Title | Artesia (Waco, Texas) |