Evening star., 1898-04-09
The Youngsters Have the Best Of It
Next Week.
EASTERfIDE DINNERS and DANCES
The Brides and Grooms and Their
Bridal Trains.
G o M 1 n Il E v E n T S

w Mie the social calenQdF Is largely Ue-
pendent on national affairs this Easter.
they need not necessarily upset the pro-
gram of juvenile festivities. of which the
card is full Beginning with Miss Tylers
dance at Rauscher's Monday the younger
set whose members are not yet out in
society may have things entirely their
own way for the most of the week. AS
usual, the home-comings of the boys and
girls from colleges and boarding schools
will be appropriately observed.
Miss Esther Dodge will be the hostess of
one Of the parties. Mrs. Richard Wayne
Parker will give an Easter picnic for the
little friends Of her grandson, Master Kuhn,
at the Chevy Chase Club Tuesday, from II
to 5.
The art loan exhibition gives the neces-
sary motive-sweet charity-which is al
ways an important feature Of the Easter
revival, to a large part of the sociabllities.
Its managers have the ability and intend
to make every day busy one, but espe-
cially in a brilliant sense on the first
and only night. Monday.
Outside of this, the grown-ups can look
largely to the weddings, dances, dinners
and luncheons, which will dot the first
week after Easter in the usual accept
able fashion. There have been many
leave-takings in the families of its mem
bers, and SO many more in prospect, that
the Washington Club decided last week to
omit its Easter Monday merry-making.
Thursday evening next resident as well as
official society will do honor to Senator
Morrill, in celebration of his eighty-eighth
birthday, in extending congratulations and
good wishes for happy returns of the day.
The marriage Thursday night of Lieut..
Key and Miss Condit-Smth lessons the
list of Easter weddings by an event which
promised an always pleasing spectacle of
naval uniform display. The wedding, how
ever, will be none the less memorable on
that account, and, indeed, only heightened
the popular interest in the gallant officer
and his handsome bride. Navy weddings
have been hurried up all along the line,
and happy indeed was the bride who had
the bridal fnery and all things ready. 1t
is a good characteristic for soldiers wife.
OF the weddings already announced for
the week several will take place Tuesday.
The marriage of Miss Ethel Crofton, daugh-
ter OF Col. X. e. A Crofton, and Lieut.. H.
i: Hunt, Y. 8. a, now stationed at Fort
Tholnas. KY, will take place at noon at
the residence Of Col. Crofton, and will be
followed by reception for several hun
dred guests. Miss Gabrielle Crofton will
be maid of honor, and Lieut.. Simonds will
be best man.
Miss Addie Augusta Kleinschmidt, daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. c. H. A. Kleinschmidt.
and Mr.. Bland Payne will be married at
noon at Christ Church, Georgetown. The
marriage Of Miss Margheritta Williams
sister of Mr.. H. Edwin Rainais kondrup, to
Mr. William Moore StilweIl, jr, will be
solemnized at the Epiphany at $50 I'M.
Miss Marie Genevieve Storch and Mr.. Will
liam Edward Wood are a third couple.
Thursday noon the marriage of Miss May
keyWorth and Mr.. George Cochran Broome
Will take place at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. James F. Barbour. In the evening
the marriage of Miss Elizabeth Robinson
and Mr.. A. yelling Wyckoff will take place
at Epiphany Church and will be followed
by large reception at the residence of Nh
and Mrs. Robinson, 170S Rhode Island ave-
lfS nf fhn fref
after Easter are dinners at the German
embassy, at the Swiss legation, Mr. and
Mrs. Dultns card party and several lunch
cons and dinners of more than usual in
terest
At the marriage. Thursday at noon of
Miss May Keyworth and Mr.. George c.
Broome the bride will be attended by Miss
Alice Langhorne her maid of honor
Mr. Henry Brooknan Of New York Will be
best man, and Messrs. William Marrow,
John b. Henderson, jr., George Howard
and Van Ness Phillip will be usners. Rev.
DIR. Stafford will perform the ceremony
which takes place at the residence OF Mr..
and Mrs James F. Barbour Rhode Island
avenue. The drawing rooms will be hand
somely decorated with Easter lilies. The
newly married couple will take l short ont
of-town trip before going to their summer
home at Binghamton, N. Y, where one OF
their pleasures the coming season will be
to watch the erection of a fine residence on
the old family estate of the BrooncS Mr.
Broome Is a member of the Tth Ree;nent,
New YORK, and has just been appointed
second lieutenant of Light Battery A, D.
Z. N. e., So that the impending war may
have bearing on this wedding also. as
1t has had in the case of the navy groonls
OF the past week.
Thursday night Miss Elizabeth Robinson
will go to the altar of Epiphany Church
attended by ner sister as maid of honor
and ten bridesmaids, all from out of town.
Miss Rosalind Smith and Miss Louise Wood
of Allegheny, Miss Laura Clingham and
Miss Louise Gilpin of Philadelphia, Miss
McGee and Miss Stothof of Watkins, n
Y. and Miss Walls and Miss Clara Slice
of Elmira, N. Y. The ushers will be
Messrs. George Wyckoff, Jarvis Langdon
and DR.. Booth of Elmira, Joseph w.
Beacham Of Ithaca, Nathan B. Payne and
Nicholas Gushing of New York, c. E. Gill
pin. United States navy; Lieutenant Lewis
J. McGill. United States navy, and Messrs.
Lee Riddle and James F. Middledeth Of
Pennsylvania After a wedding trip the
couple will go to Bethlehem, Pa, to reside
The Tuesday german will give a dance
at Rauscher's next Tuesday night. AS
sembly at 8 and cotillion at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. G. Wythe Cook, Mrs. Philip Darneille,
Mrs. J. K. Jones, Mrs. J. c. Cooney, Mrs.
Claude Swanson and Mrs. Ben Miller will
receive the guests.
Mrs. William NJ Dove will be at home
Friday, April Is.
Mrs. George W. Cissel Of Oak Crest,
GEORGETOWN, has returned home, after
stay of two months at her old home New
Orleans, La, and visit to her son, B. c.
Moore of Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Cissel
was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs.
John H. Roche. Both Mrs. Cissel and Mrs.
Roche were recipients Of many attentions
while south.
Miss Rogers Of Providence, daughter of
Judge Horatio Rogers of the supreme court
Of Rhode Island, is guest of Mrs. Henry
Sherman Boutel.
Mrs. Patenotre, wife of the French am
bassador at Madrid, formerly Miss Elver-
son of Philadelphia, sailed today for Eu-
rope, and will go to Madrid to join the am
bassador. The latter was stationed at
Washington until recently, and Nine. Pate
notre has been here since his departure.
large delegation from the diplomatic
corps, including the French ambassador,
the Spanish minister and their ataffs bade
her adieu at the station here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruden Roberts of Wheat
Vile, N. Y. and Mr.. and Mrs Roy p Cap
we'll Of Linden, N. Y, have been spending
short time in the city. the guest OF their
cousin, Mrs. w. E. Wright, East Capitol
street.
The engagement is announced Of Miss
Emile NJ. Nattans. formerly OF Washing
ton, D. c., to Mr.. Mic Herbert Of New