Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-07
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
The Berkshire Hip4 Now the Fashionable
Mecca.
The Coming n9tiase at Narrasan.
sett of a Capital Belle
Personal Notes.

fifth -
Baron ard Baroness Fava are at Lenox
for a months stay.
The German ambassador and family are
at Lenox, as are the Spanish minister and
family and secretaries. The German am
| bassador and Baroness Thielman have
| made a short visit lately to Saratoga
| Mavroyeni Bey is the last foreigner to
| join the diplomatic colony at Lenox.
Miss Carolyn Morrow of this city and
Lieut.. John Lewis Chamberlin will be mar
ried Wednesday at Narragansett Pier. 1t
| will be a brilliant military affair. Miss
Margaret Prescott, the half sister Of the
BRIDE will be the maid of honor. The best
man will be Capt Allen of Governors Is
| land. Miss Morrow's gown will be of white
satin, trimmed with rare old lace, which
was first wcrn by her mother. The maid
of honor will wear gray and white taffeta
silk. A wedding breakfast will be served
after the ceremony at the summer villa Of
Rev. Mr.. Prescott. Lieut.. and Mrs. Cham
berlin will depart Immediately upon their
wedding journey.
The engagement CT Miss Sybil Sherman
| of New York, niece of Senator Wetmore, to
Mr.. John Fills Hoffman has additional in
terest because of the opposition of Miss
| Sherman's father to the courtship, the
coming of age of the young lady and. final
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her own announcement that she would
marry the man of her choice. The last re-
ported developments In this interesting
| chapter Of modern society are to the effect
that Miss Sherman has left her fathers
house IL consequence of his continued op-
position to her marriage with Mr.. Hoffman,
| has taken shelter under the roof Of her
| step-sister-in-law, Mrs. Harold Brown, and
| has come into possession of an income Of
$4,000 a year. 1t Is thought at Newport
| that the marriage Of the young couple will
| be celebrated some time this autumn.
Baron Won Ketteler. former first secre-
| tary of the German embassy will sail from
Berlin in few days and go to LenoX for
| a short visit before going to Mexico, to
which country he is sent as German min
| lister.
Dr. and Mrs. D. Percy Hickling ent ,rtain-
| ed number of friends Saturday evening
at a progressive euchre party. The date
was the anniversary of the wedding day of
the host and hostess, ard the occasion was
| a particularly pleasant one. Handsome
prizes were given the lucky winners. and a
dainty cO.lat ton was enjoyed before the
company separated.
Mr.. and Mrs. ODonnell, who returned
| from Europe a week ago, are visiting Mrs
| Edie while looking for winter residence
Later on they will makeeSenator and Mrs
Mcmillan a visit, and then return here for
the season.
Gen. Rengifo, charge d'affaires of Co
| lombia, and wife. are at Cape May.
Mr.. William Woodward Baldwin, assist
ant secretary of state, had a son born to
| him Friday at his home in Washington.
| Mrs. Baldwin was Miss katherine Willard,
| a niece of Miss Frances Willard.
Miss Mary Willafds niece of Miss Frances
Willard. has been appointed by Mrs. Cleve-
| land teacher for her three children.
Mrs. Sullivan and daughters of 1904 r
| street are at Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Ripley of Steubeaville
| Ohio have returned from Atlantic City,
| and are the guests of MIR. and Mrs. S. s.
| Culbertson Of $40 street.
| Mrs. Harriet Du iBois Bache and little
| daughters will spend year north
Misses Julia and Cecilia inland have re-
| turned. after a pleasant soJourn in Oak
| land, Deer Park and Cumberland.
Mr.. C. Howard Bradt of Pittsburg, Pa,
| who has been visiting his sister. Mrs. B. H.
| Swain. at 2S11 14th street northwest, has
returned home. .
Miss Carrie scroesins of 2sth street, who
has been visiting friends in New Jersey.
has returned after three weeks stay
Mrs. P. V. DeGraw has returned from
the coast of Maine, where she spent the
month of August.
DR.. and Mrs. Janney and Miss Janney
have gone to Atlantic City for two weeks
Mrs. Rupertus and daughter have re-
turned from a months stay at Atlantic
City to their home. 141S P street.
Mr.. Jacob Won Derlehr and wife and
| daughter Sallie have gone for visit to his
daughter, Mrs. E. B. Kelley of Summit,
N. J.
Col. John c. Hamilton of Kibernie. N.
D.. with his wife and son. John jr, are WIS.,
itlng on Capitol Hill at the home of his
brother. John D. King. Col. Hamilton will
visit Baltimore today and then return to
| his home in North Dakota
| Mrs. Harry WeShrod how HELL eoa
Harry tr.. and Miss Jennie La Port have
| returned home from White Sulphur Springs.
Mr. Walter E. Stephens Of Chicago and
| Mr. Eugene F. Stephens of Philadelphia
are visiting their mother at 100 18th street
Mr.. Paul V. Bum and his family are at
| Ocean City, Nd.
]. Marshall Petty of 1881 street has
returned from a delightful visit to friends
| In Loudoun county, Virginia.