Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-19
THE. WORLD OF : SOCIETY
Cards Are Out for Two Notable June
Weddings
The Russian Minister Entertafns-
Princess Of Wales-A Rose Fete.

Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin P. Snyder have
sent out cards for the marriage of their
daughter Grace to Mr.. Edward Louis
Sternberger, Wednesday, June g. high noon,
at Collingswood, Prince Georges county,
Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Ashley have
issued invitations for the marriage of their
daughter Ada to Mr.. William Wallace
Deane Tuesday, June 2, at noon, First
Presbyterian Church. The couple will be
at home June % and July at 217 F street
northeast.
The Russian minister, Mr.. Kotzebue, en-
tertained the members of the legation last
night at a handsome dinner. as a starting
hospitality to the festive mood In which
all Russians find themselves during this
week of the coronation ceremonies.
The engagement of Mr.. c. c. Bryan and
Miss Agnes Sidney Bartlett is announced.
The wedding will take place at high noon
Tuesday, June 30, at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payson have been in Balti-
more since their marriage Saturday at
Stewart Castle, but will go this week to
Senator Stewards farm, near Leesburg,
Va.
Mrs. Alexander Barrett and her daugh-
ter, Miss Lily Barrett, whose engagement
announced, are now visiting at the old
Virginia homestead of the latter. The
wedding will take place this summer in
Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hallet kilbourn have taken
Bleak House. Ex-Governor Shepherds
country place, on the It'll street road near
Brightwood, for the summer, and are now
comfortably established there. The man
sion, which is large and roomy, has been
greatly renovated, and the country In that
in mi yy tC Inc. nnur IN tic oct
Mrs. and the Misses Brice were presented
yesterday at the queens drawing room.
Buckingham palace. London. The Princess
of Wales represented the queen. The
Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss
Vanderbilt of New York, was also present
ed, and was magnihcently attired. Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Bayard gave tea after the
drawing room. where the American colony
was largely represented.
Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston will
hold a rose fete tomorrow "wednesday af-
ternoon, from 8 to O'Clock, 10 which her
friends are invited informally by this an
nouncement.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. Goodacre are now To-
Gated in their own home, 1133 18th street,
and will be pleased to see their friends.
Mrs. John c. Power of % Sth street is
visiting friends in Philadelphia
The engagement is announced of Miss
Mary Culbertson Mahon, the daughter of
MIS-. M BlcRnell Mdnon 10 MI InOmaS
w. Stockard of Mississippi.
Alfred Webb, esq, ex-M. p. for West
Waterford, Ireland, and treasurer of the
Irish Land League, and Mrs. Webb have
been visiting their relative, VIM. l.. Bar
rington Of 3514 n street northwest. Mr.
Webb was president of the home rule con-
gress which recently met in Madras, India,
for the purpose of promoting more indie
pendent government in the provinces He
has been three times elected member of the
British parliament, each time without oppo-
sftion OF expense, and resigned last fall ac-
ceptng the Chltern Hundreds, to devote
his time and talents to promote home rule
more vigorously in his native land. Mr..
and Mrs. Webb have been circumnavigat-
ing the globe, having visited Australia, New
Zealand. Samoa, Honolulu and San Fran
cisco, and are now en- route for their Dub
lin home. Mr.. Webb is a great admirer of
American institutions inheriting the In
tense love of freedom which characterized
his father. the late Richard d. Webb, au-
thor of the Life Of John Brown" He has
therefore found a warm welcome from the
venerable Samuel May Of Massachusetts,
who still survives at the great age of
j.. son OF VIM. Lloyd Garrison, friends of
his father and co-workers in the cause of
freedom, at whose houses Mr.. Webb has
been warmly received.
Mrs. Walter A. Johnston, 1907 18th street
will not be home to callers tomorrow