The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-17
The Marriage of Senator Hans
brough and Miss Chapman.
QUIET, CHARMING CEREMONY
Only a Brief Courtship of Four
Months Preceded the Happy
Event Washington Society Wei
Represented in the Small Company
Present at the Nuptials.

New York, Aug. 17.-It was a case OF
love at first sight with Senator Hansbrough
of North Dakota, when he met Miss Mary
Berri Chapman. That was four noA5hs
ago Yesterday afternoon they were mar
ried urietiy at the home OF her mother,
Mrs f. S. Chapman, i'm the Burlington, No.
10 West Thirtieih street.
A slender. graceful woman entered Mrs.
Frances Hodwson Burnett's drawing-room
in Washington one evening last spring
She was attractive, ''spirituelle, as the
French would say, ana intellectual Rather
than pretty. with delicate features, set off
by mass of wayy, blonde hair. Every
body noticed her, and had 1t been ball,
would probably have acknow ledged Miss
Chapman the belle
But il was a reception, and all OF wash
lngton's literary world was Uhere-Inen Of
letters, artists, statesmen and diplomats.
Miss Chapman, the young author Of 'Lyr-
les OF Love and Nature" was the Of
a brilliant coterie Senator Hansbrough
was one of them.
frof TrenteBove, the sculptor, presented
him To Mics Chapman later in the evening.
A few nights afterward they met again,
and soon Nh Hansblough was a frequent
caller at Miss Cnapmaa's home at No. 1917
Kinginan place
Perhaps she saw the way things Were
going and did not wish to play the part
OF the coquette; at any rate, d month after
tAey became acquainted, she told himof her
plans for the future. Il sh all never marry,
she said. Il am welded TO my work He
explained that marriage need not inter
Gere with her literary efforts, but did not
persuade her of that just then Although
he realzed ttat he had a powerful rival
Ia her ambition, he set himself To the tasSof
winning her.
This hiils- talk on the borderlands of love
was doubtless followed toy others. and it
was not every long afterward before Size
changed her mind and thought as he did
Then ste named the day vesterday-and
at o'clock they were married with as lit
tie ceremony AS possible.
The apartments of Miss ChaPman's
mother, at the darlington, were trimmed
with flowers. The doors were hung with
curtains OF green, ropes of smiaN caught
Up with lunches OF pink asters and white
hydrangea. The fireplaCei in the paf lor was
hidden beiind palms and banked with the
flasVers. ard f'efore IL the bride and bride
gpJUfG stood. while the Rev MI. Bradners
of the ChInch of the Ascension. read the
simple marriage service OF the Episcopal
Church. aud pronounced them man and
wife.
There were no bridesmaids or ushers
There was not hing formal bort the affair;
evcu the con ventional brida gown of white
satin was ignored. Mrs. HanshrOugh wore
a Oorn-cOiured silk frOck. with a dreaded
stripe running throuChit. IL was trimmed
with ruchings OF maize tulle. She wore a
white LeEhorn hat, set off with Quantities
OF white plumes Mrs. Chapman who ga re
her daughter away. was dressed in grag
and white grenadine over white tin.
Only 4 few invitations were sent out for
the wedding. These were to friends in or
near New York. who could Toe depended
upon to be present. They included Senator
and Hrs. John L. Jones. uf Nevada. Sen
ator Thomas c. Plat. Lemuel y. Quigg,
Dr. Harris, United States Commissioner OF
Education, and Mrs. Harris, Mr. ard Mrs
Richard Watson Glider, Edmund Clarence
Stednan, Dr. L. II French, of Washington.
Clinton w Sweet James $ Seymour and
Robert =. Porter.
Mrs. Hanshrough is onv about twenty
five years old, but she has already made
quite reputation for herself il literature
Her volume of Lyrics of Love and Ma
ture' has won favorable notice from the
critics. She has contributed 20 the maga-
zines and in the current number OF Har-
per's has q bright little story called "A
Fashionable Hero" She is clever with her
pencil rs well as her pen, and some excel
lent sketches, signed by her, have appeared
from time Co time i'm the Cosmopolitan. In
music ste is equally accomplished