The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29
NEW MRS. HARRISON
She Will Be a Dainty Bride With a
Domestic Disposition.
OLD INNATE OF THE FAMIL y
some OF the Ex-President's ReIa-
tives Are Aggrieved at the
Match and Inclined
to Crumble.

Copyright 1896. by Bachelor. johnson &
Bacheller.)
New York. March 2S.-It must be
true, as has been said so often, that
nothing interests people like a wed
ding.
How folks do talk about the an
preaching union OF ex-President Harri-
son and Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmick.
which is to take place in this city a
week from next Monday, April g.
Because Mrs. Dimmick has kept close
counsel, the gosips will insist upon the
usual stories of magnificent apparel
and elaborate preparations. as il IL
were another Vanderbilt Marlborough
affair. instead of the wedding of a
plain, elderly lawyer of moderate for
tune with youngish widow, not far
from poor. But for the fact that the
groom expectant is an ex-president. IL
would be precisely like 10000 other wed
dings OF which no notice is taken. And
so II should be. Ostentation would be
out OF place. under all the circum-
stances.
The wardrobe. the rousseau. will be
good. substantial and suhicient-the
wedding gown of gray satin brocade.
the travelling dress OF bright blue-gray
sufhcient underwear and lingerie. and
two or three dainty house dresses
which form the nearest approach 10
luxury in the outfit, for Mrs. Dimmick
is dainty little home body OF domestic
tastes, with a cats love for soft fur
nishings and cozy corners. Instead of
being made at any of the swell Fifth
avenue establishments. the rousseau
mas been built-that is the word / be
heVe-within the modest boarding
house where the bride-to-be lives. by
two or three little itinerant dressmak-
ers whose skill shines In their work.
out whose fame is not widespread
Even at that, one OF these needle wom-
en-, who is a Frenchwoman by birth
more than a ripple of excite
ment In the house one day by COM
planning with Sarah observation-disclosures
of-Arc earnestness. that she had
nevair before been asked, not even i'm
these insufferable Etats Unis. to put
cotton lace on a pink silk crepe de
chine! But no! Nevair."
Isn't IL perfectly ridiculous. the way
people will talk about such trifies? OF
course a dressmaker may be excused.
FOR to her a business detail is no trifie-
but the othersi
1t is a quiet boarding house OF the
better sort. stationed on East Thirty
eighth street, not far from the avenue.
which has thus become a veritable
gallery OF rumor, spied on
BY reporters and sketched by artists.
though any one of 10000 other houses
would do. as well for a moGel 1t is
<ept.by Mrs. Annie Crawford a widow.
who gathers around her table besides |
Mrs. Dimmick, Lieutenant and Mrs. |
Parker, sister and brother-in-law of |
he presidents fiancee; Professor Car |
Denter of Columbia; a son of the late |
DR.. Shedd with his wife; Mr.. and Mrs. |
:. l.. Merriam; Mrs. Sarah Il. Robson |
ma an ueX-Bostonian widow named |
Monroe with her daughter Decidedly 1
quiet, intelligent and reasonable lot /
If people.
All sorts of opposite characteristics |
ave been by gosisps attributed to Mrs.
)immick. She is really a quiet little
woman whose years IL would be no sin
o name, as they are not many. She is
10 beauty, but bright and piquant and
lifted with plenty Of tact. and the fac