e incessant |
|auction-bridge playing, and he or she who neither |
|dances nor plays auction has a dull time of it. |
|Washington society is rather methodical in its |
|dancing. Monday nights are given up to the |
|subscription dances at the Playhouse, and another |
|set at the Willard. Tuesday night the army dances |
|are given at the Playhouse. On Wednesdays are the |
|regular Chevy Chase Club dinner dances, and on |
|Thursdays are those at the Navy Club. On Friday |
|nights, beginning on January 5, will be the ten |
|subscription dances at the Willard, and on Saturday |
|nights there are dances everywhere. The private |
|dances are scattered all through, afternoons and |
|evenings, until there is scarcely a date left vacant|
|on the calendar until Ash Wednesday.[46] |

[46] _Washington Post_, December 17, 1916.

=256. Clubs.=--The particular attention of the prospective society
editor may be called to club news. The work in literature, education,
community betterment, general social relief, and kindred subjects now
being undertaken by women's clubs is sometimes phenomenal and offers to
live society editors a vast undeveloped field for constructive news. Too
frequently the society page is filled with dull six-point routine,
forbidding in style and still more forbidding in content, when it might
be made alive with buoyancy and interest by added attention to new
studies and interests in the women's clubs. What the women are doing in
their study of the garbage question, in their campaigns against flies,
in their efforts to provide comforts for unprivileged slum
children,--such topics, properly featured and given attractive
individual heads, may be made interesting to a large percentage of the
intelligent women in the community and may be made instrumental in
building up a strong, constructive department in the paper.

=257. Typographical Style.=--The prospective society editor will find it
well, however, to study and to follow at first the typographical style
of the society column in her paper. Some newspapers run each wedding,
engagement, or social affair under a separate head. Others group all
society stories under the general head of _Society_, indicating the
different social functions, no matter how long the write-ups, only by
new paragraphs. Sometimes this necessitates paragraphs a hal