The evening times., 1896-07-27
FROM WHEEL TO WEDDING
Miss johnson, in Bicycle Costume,
Was With Her Betrothed.
They Called at the Clerlr'y Office for
a License-Gossip of the
Gay World.

| very pretty, and she never locked prettier
| than when she stood up beside him and
helped ask for Il marriage license this
morning. Mr. Meigs put On his biandest
smile as lie leisurely reached over for the
license book, and took longer than was
really necessary TO find his pen. Some
body in the other room whispered that she
was gem.
He was not over-tali, and size was half
a head shorter. She Wore on her head
brown Tam 0'Sbantcr velvet cap. AT
! the left trout brown feather stretched
across the band OF the cap, and matched the
velvet and her brown hair so well that it
was actually hard 10 distinguish any differ
| ence in color.
Her face was not too oval or too sharp
] ly chiseled. 1t was about right. At least
everybody made oath that it was, espe-
ciaIly when she smiled, and that was very
| often Her checks were pink. Her ears
| matched in color.
"a brown silk Iibbon that lost itself in q
tuge bow at the back of the neck was the
signal for the beginning Of light shirt
waist with lavender stripes. This stopped
abruptly in a brown belt around the waist.
| The belt fastened through gold buckle
| at the back. The buckle was set with
tour stones, and it was very pretty.
Then there was some more brown vel
vet Just like the cap. This time the gar
| ment was a skirt that fitted beautifully
| over a pair of shapeIy hips and then be-
gan to hang in straight folds. But It didn't
| hang far. 1t stopped quite way above
| the ankle. Then brown leggins appeared,
| and ended in very small pair OF brown
| shoes.
In other words she wore a bicycle suit
\ of the most approved pattern. II was as
/ pretty as 1T was modern. 1t made her
| look chic, and best OF all, she did not know
| it, and did not heed the admiring glances
| of every man in the clerks office.
Nobody looked at him longer than a sec
ond anyhow. 1t took only that long to
| show tilat he wore black office suit, with
white shirt ard black tie. He had black
| niusrache and wa S not unhandsome.
When Mt. Meigs had filled cut the license
| the gentleman leaned over and signed it.
Then she picked it up and read it carefuily.
| and with another OF those SMILES declared
| it was all right. He pGid The clerk oBe of
| the new niis-spelled dollar bills and they
| walked out.
Two wheels leaned against one OF the
| front pillars of the City Hall awaiting
them. They mounted and raced away.
| Some one in the office, who claimed to
know them, asserted that the match had
been made on wheels. and that If there had
never been bicycles there would probably
never iIave been a marriage license with
their names on it.
When everybody crowded about the IL
| cense book to read the names they saw:
Patrick J. GalliGan and Annetta Estelle
| Johnson, both of Washington.
Both of the young people are favorably
and popularity known in Washington So
ciety.
Miss Wilcoxen is visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Bessie yaBdeventer, at Fairfax Court
| House, Va. .
Miss Jean Danglishe, of No. 1922 Rhode
Island avenue, is visiting her grandparents
! in Brookland.
Miss Blanch Shafer, OF 1417 Corcoran
street, is visiting friends in st. Paul,
Mimi, and Will remain until September
MISS t. wagner ana Miss NJ. Mayel, OF
this city, are recent arrivals at the Penn
hurst, Atlantic City.
Miss Strasburger left last week for At
lantic City and is located at tile United
| States Hotel.
| Mrs. Chambers and Miss Chambers are
among the guests at the Hotel Weimer, At
lantic City.
Miss JEANNE Phearson of West Wash
ington returned last week from Fairfax
| Court House, where she has been the guest
OF Miss Minnie Thompson.
| Mr.. James P. Scott, of Philadelphia, !,
gave another sailing party on board the
steamer Mascotlast Tuesday at Rar Harhor
The steamer was flying the Danish ensign,
| in honor OF NJ. LIE Brun, the Danish minister
| Miss MiDetrce and Miss Bessie Minetree
who have been stopping with party uf
friends at the Richmond, Atlantic City, will
leave shortly for Long Island, where they
will make an indefinite stay before re-
turning TO the city.
| Mr.. n. NJ. Hughes is entertaining friends
at his pretty cottage on Arctic avenue, At
| lantic CITY,