Debutante era fan culture and social notices
A society page recounts a 1917 debutante day showing maids, butlers and guests performing talents amid dances and a Hans Christian Andersen pantomime. It traces fan history from ancient Egypt to 19th century Europe, noting fashionable feather, quill, and painted fans, and lists local society events, visits, and teas involving Misses Fike Ratcliffe Tucker and others at the Menger and Ward Belmont gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Christian Anderson
B. C
Sennacherib
Egypt
India
Rome
Japan
Is Given Surprise Party at School
Ruby Dugosch received a surprise party Friday afternoon arranged by classmates Myr tle Rine, Ernestine Dresch, Gerta Spielhagen, Elsa Erler, Cecilia Heil igman, Lillian Straus, Anna Light foot, Elsie Hutschenreiter and Irene Steffler at school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Dugosch
Myrtle Rine
Ernestine Dresch
Gerta Spielhagen
Elsa Erler
Cecilia Heiligman
Lillian Straus
Anna Lightfoot
Elsie Hutschenreiter
Irene Steffler
Vents of the Week in Society
A social calendar lists events all week including a Symphony Orchestra matinee and night at the Grand, dinners and dances at the Travis Club and Menger, entertainments for Miss Herff and Miss Guenther, and a variety of civic and club gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Green
New Braunfels
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Eee Ge
Vacation Association of New York raises funds with year calendar sale
The Vacation Association of New York works to raise 47823 dollars eighty cents by selling days of the year. A calendar committee will assign days chosen by buyers who want a personal day, often birthdays, with some purchasing blocks or a full week. The effort mirrors the YMCA in scope and aims to support club women activities. The Catholic Woman's Association elected new directors including Mesdames Rice Randall Dielmann Drought Cassin Bacon Jenson Jaster Vanderbosch and Misses Florian Tynan Brown Kenney Quigley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vacation Association of
New York
Young Women’s Christian Association
Catholic Woman’s Association
Mesdames H. B, Rice
L. B. Randall
William V. Dielmann
H. P. Drought
William Cassin
A. R. Bacon
E. R. Jenson
H. L. Jaster
W. G. Vanderbosch
Mamie Florian
Elizabeth Tynan
Irene Brown
Elizabeth Kenney
Mary James Quigley
Numerous club meetings fill social calendar week
The piece lists many society events including Self Culture Club officer election, Travis School Mothers Club program with Mrs Linden, and readings by Mrs Lamar. Also notes Sorosis Canada study, Phoenix and Shakespeare clubs, Dramatic and German Literary clubs, and various PTAs meeting with planned programs, raffles, and guest speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
W. C. Linden
Travis School
L. M. Lamar
Mesdames
J. D. Shiner
William Pettus
O. IF. Lehmann
Sorosis Club
The
St. Anthony
William Will
Canada
Peters announce engagement of Edna to G Arthur Rilling
Mr and Mrs Leon Peters announce the engagement of their daughter Edna to G Arthur Rilling. The wedding is set for the evening of February 28 with Miss Louise Rilling Miss Georgia Rilling Herman Erben and John Mushall as attendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Peters
Edna
G. Arthur Rilling
Louise Rilling
Georgia Rilling
Herman Erben
John Mushall
Windmill at German school Promises Low Cost Light
A windmill at a German technical school generates electricity so successfully that experts estimate a similar slant could provide light and water for 100 persons at about 125 dollars annually.
Weeklong Club Meetings In San Antonio Update
This week lists gatherings across local clubs. Meetings include Reading Club at the Woman's Club, Gibbons Literary Club at Catholic Woman's Club, Beta Tau Zetas with Miss Louise Lester, Girls' Monday Luncheon at the Menger, Phoenix Club at the Gunter, Sorosis at St. Anthony, Texas Historical Landmark Association at Villita street marking a tablet unveiling, and more with sessions through Friday and a DAR chapter event Saturday hosted by Mrs. William Cassin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Reading
Woman's Club
Gibbons Literary Club
Catholic Woman's Club
Beta Tau Zetas
Louise Lester
Menger
Phoenix Club
St. Anthony
Texas Historical Landmark Association
Villita Street
Woman’s Club
Board
Catholic Woman's Association
Shakespeare Club
Baskin
Amos Graves
Gunter
Lamar School
Mothers
Travis School
Mothers’ Club
Association of College Women
San Antonio de Bexar
Daughters of the American Revolution
William Cassin
Local Church Groups Schedule Socials And Meetings
The Hebrew Ladies Relief Society meets Wednesday at 2 30 with Mrs F Brown 218 Upson Street. The Laurel Heights Missionary Society meets Monday at 3 in the Philathea room with Mrs Milton Hopkins in charge. The San Pedro Circle meets Wednesday at 3 with Mrs W T Quillian 1025 West Summit Avenue. The McKinley Avenue Missionary Society hosts a silver tea Monday at 3 in the home of Mrs M A Forbes 200 Warwick Boulevard. The Utica Presbyterian Ladies Aid plans a Mexican supper Thursday 6 30 to 9 at Mrs W K Mayers 726 San Pedro Avenue. The First Baptist Woman's Missionary Society holds an all day meeting Monday at the church with luncheon at the Gunter Hotel at 12 30. all church members are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fitzhugh Jones
Third Field Artillery
Alamo Heights
H. G. H. Tucker
Lieutenant Tucker
J. K. Beretta
A.S. J. Tucker
Henrietta Tucker
Virginia
Mesdames Albert Maverick
Sterling Price Adams
H. P. Drought
Harry Drought
W. S. Fly
George C. Vaughan
R. N. Martindale
John Cunningham
Ben Stribling
W. J. James
Walker
Beretta
Wolff & Marx
Margaret Church
Danco
Lillian Edwards
San Antonio
Misses Edwards
Zora Henson
Miriam Victor
Bernice Alexander
Isabel Clark
Laura Brooks
Gladys Wilson
Mary Aves
Lena Hyde
Elna Coppedge
Beulah Halstead
Irene Hollingsworth
Mamies_ Griffiths
Daisy Griffiths
Helen King Ford
del Hartwell
Ethel Huse
Blake
Hartwell
Elizabeth Moore
Hazel James
F. L. Hillyer
Henry L. Murray
Ellis
W. C. Silliman
J. R. Silliman
E. C. Branch
W. W. Lipscomb
J. T. McCampbell
Lee Joseph
Winchester Kelso
Menger Hotel
Margaret Sammer
New York
St. Louis
Missionary Society of the
Laurel Heights Methodist Church
J. O. Terrell
S&s
Willis Banney
Conway
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Travis Club
August Herff
Menger
Miss Herff
Gunter
Colonel Waltz
Army Relief Fund
Ninetenth Infantry Section
Herman Schu
Helen James
James Park
Comfort
Dorothy Matthews
Cecilia Tobias
I. Tobias
West Park Avenue
Hebrew Ladies’ Relief Society
Missionary Society of
Philathea
Milton Hopkins
San Pedro
Travis Park Methodist Church
W. T. Quillian
West Summitt Avenue
the Missionary Society of the
McKinley Avenue Methodist Church
M. A. Forbes
Warwick Boulevard
the Ladies’ Aid Society
Utica Presbyterian Church
W. K. Mayers
San Pedro Avenue
Society of the First Baptist Church
Gunter Hotel
Missionary Society Luncheon and Church Circles Meet
The Woman's Missionary Society and husbands are invited to a luncheon with reservations via Crockett 6432. Denver Heights Methodist Church circles plan a 3 o'clock Tuesday business session at the church. The True Blue Girls' Club of First Evangelical elected Nancy Ware president Daisy Burris vice president Kathryn Weinman secretary Ella Loessberg corresponding secretary Octavia Mueller treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver Heights
Mendenhall-Harrison Wedding In Las Cruces Note
The wedding of Paul Mendenhall of New Mexico and Miss Essie Harrison was solemnized Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack White. The couple left after the ceremony for their home in Las Cruces New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Mendenhall
New Mexico
Essie Harrison
Jack White
Mrs. Mendenhall
Las Queces
N. M
Woman's Club hall and dining room for events at Camden Street
The assembly hall and dining room at Woman's Club, 201 Camden Street, are offered for receptions, parties, lectures and social gatherings with competent caterers in attendance. Terms are reasonable. Crockett 1671.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Camden Street
Crockett
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China
Catherine de Medici
Henry VIII
Elizabeth
Italy
France
Spain
England
Paris
Louis XIV
Holland
Lena
Nell Fike
Jackson, Tenn
Mattie Willie Ratcliffe
Fike
Miss Leach
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Miss Ratcliffe
Ward Belmont
Casino Association
Clementi-Marron
T. Rosas
Marron
E. J. Marron
Helen Adele James
John H. James
William Negley
Gertrude Negley
Eleanor Barclay
Constance Ball
Dorothy Gage
Jeanette Hagelstein
Marie Schuchard
Lieschen Guenther
Hertzberg
Houston and St. Mary's St
Clever Phipps
Edna Polhemus
Alamo Plaza
Pabst Engraving
Texas
Vera Timpson
S. C. Timpson
Sc SF
Lamar School Mothers’ Club
Emma Pirie
Esse
Oscar J. Fox
Se SF
Hauptmann
Fred Maule
Lucy Richmond
Gerhart Hauptmann
Lelia Williams
C. L. Davenport
S&s Ss
Peru
Mrrs
A. R. Ballard
G. A. Stowers
W. J. Brogan
Thomas Carey
S&t. John
Dramatic Club
Thomas School
Carra Mylius
Gladys Garlington
Esther Lawlis
Ethel Couser
Frances Lucas
Beatrice Duggan
Es Fs
Niobian
Bonham School Parent- Teachers’ Association
Es SF St
Trakosch
University of Texas
Tony Schramm
Schiller
Wilhelm Tell
John Zadich
J. Perlitz
O. T. Tucker
Sachs
Kindergartners’ Club
Sunshine
W. F. Flynn
Mason Street
F. Parker
Riverside Park
Frank Linville
H. L. White
J. Lammers
George Norris
Bricker
O. L. Johnson
Postlewaite
Gunn
Sidney Turner
Mary Halley Carway
Holeman
McAdon
Mary Norris
Edna Johnson
Elaine and
Ione White
Sylvan Johnson
Elaine White
Eloise Matthews
Rollins
Shavano Hills
Locke Hill
Fredericksburg Road
de Zavala Parents
Harold Buckley
Robert Hoffman
Harrison Massey
Roy Hays
Lewis Hunt
Frank Taylor
Alexander Martines
Eduardo Martinez
Annie D. Giel
Myrtle Knapp
Louise Gregory
Elizabeth Guilbert
Dorothy Rische
M. A. Cox
W. L. Martin
C. Co, Murphy
A. Cordis
W. L Taylor
Duchessa D’aosta
BURA
Woman’s Missionary Society
Atellia Mueller
Octavia Mueller
Lenora Dulling
Kathryn Weinman
Elizabeth Wallace
Ella Loessberg
Mendenhall-Harrison
Peyton
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