Reception at Queen City Club Dec. 7, 1904 news

The reception and ball at the Queen City club to-night will occupy fashionable attention to the exclusion of other things. The house committee has left nothing to be desired in the matter of arrangements which will contribute to the pleasure and comfort of their guests. The whole club is to be thrown open and the women may penetrate the mysterious quarters usually kept sacred to (if not by) the men. The whole club is to be splendidly decorated with flowers and plants; there will be a fine orchestra for the dance, and the best of Queen City suppers.

The atmosphere of the “The Girl from Kay’s” is so distinctly and unmistakably New Yorky that, reasoning along the lines that it is only the unfamiliar which attracts us these days, one wonders at the long run of the play in the Metropolis. It is so strongly flavored with New York that it takes a little while for provincials to get used to the taste of it. By the time you have reached that terribly funny second act, however, you are liking it tremendously in spite of the fact that if your grandmother, of whose gently memory you are so proud, knew that you were spending a whole evening laughing and positively enjoying the situations caused by a bridegroom kissing a milliner’s maid on his wedding day, she would probably turn over in her grave. “The Girl from Kay’s” was greeted by a very fashionable audience with all the lower boxes taken and several whole rows of orchestra seats filled by parties. Mayor Fleischmann and his mother and his wife were in a lower box; Mr. and Mrs. Rainforth had a party of young people, which filled two boxes; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rogers were entertaining guests; Mr. and Mrs. John Omwake and Mr. and Mrs. Murdock had a box; the Havlins were in their box, as usual and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Brown and their son and his fiancee, Miss Davis, were in an upper box; Mr. and Mrs. George Dana gave a party that filled a row.

The programme to be offered at the meeting of the Woman’s Alliance in the Unitarian church Wednesday afternoon is one of unusual interest. Mr. M. V. Crouse of the Children’s home, who has made a study of child-saving institutions, will speak on that subject, illustrating his facts with photographs. The success and good work of the Newsboys’ home will be described by Miss Margaret McCabe, whose personal experiences will make her subject of great interest.

Mrs. H. Thane Miller gave a reception Monday in honor of Mrs. Wilmot Grant Pierce (Jeanette Trevor) of Philadelphia and Mrs. Frank Wilshire of Philadelphia, who is here for the wedding of her son to-morrow, and for Mrs. Rethert, wife of Capt. Rethert of Ft. Thomas, who have just arrived from their recent station in the Philippines. The three guests of honor were graduated from Thane Miller’s and the guests consisted mainly of Miller graduates, Miss Parry assisted in receiving and Mrs. Black, Mrs. Disney and Miss Gordon presided in the tea room.

Mrs. Von Steinwehr will introduce her daughter, Miss Hilda Von Steinwehr at a tea on the afternoon of December 19.

The Teachers’ club will give a reception Friday evening, December 16, at Odd Fellows’ Temple.

Mrs. Henry C. Peters will introduce her daughter, Flora, at a large reception on Thursday afternoon, December 15, at her home on Washington avenue, Avondale.

Mrs. Nathan Powell is here for her usual winter’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Pendleton.

Mrs. Frank Perin entertains this afternoon with bridge whist.
Judge Ezra Elliott and Mrs. Elliott of Colorado are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Middleton. Judge Elliott is a Cincinnatian by birth, but has been a resident of Colorado for thirty years and is one of the men of affairs in that great promising State.

Miss Lucy Pendleton White will entertain with a tea on Friday afternoon at Mrs. Pendleton’s, in honor of her guest, Miss Graham, of Indiana.