Evening star., 1898-12-03
Three Notable Weddings Will Mark
the Coming Week.
ANOTHER BUNCH OF BUDS TO BLOOM
Coming HospitaIities and Other
Pleasant Topics.
INTERESTING SOCIETY NOTES

1 Ernst. VIII make their future homes In
| other cities which is the only feature about
| these matrimonial events tinged with re-
| gret. Both of them will have large church
weddings. so that on this most important
| date to them they can be seen by all their
| friends. The marriage of Miss Ellen Will
liams. eldest daughter of General and Mrs.
Robert Williams. to MIR. John Bryson Pat
ton. L. s. N. will be solemnized at home
Monday, and the friends who will witness
| the ceremony are the most intimate in the
circle OF the brides and groom's acquaint-
ance. Ensign Philip Williams will be best
man, and the brides attendants will include
her two sisters, Adele and Mildred Will
liams and Miss Cecilia Miles. Lieutenant
Patton is attached to the Massachusetts,
| but served during the war on the Brooklyn.
The marriage of Miss Marie Mattingly
and Mr.. Robert Treat Paine, jr.. will be
most brilliant event, of which 1t may be
truly said the personal charms and great
popularity of bride and her family make
every detail of exceeding interest. The
handsome and talented bride will be at
tended at the altar of the Epiphany next
Wednesday at noon by large bridal party,
her pretty young sister, Miss Genevieve,
being maid of honor, and the Misses Long.
Miles Deering, Paine, Sewers and Mat
tingly bridesmaids. A very large party of
Bcstonfans. relatives and friends, will ac-
company the groom here, and the bridal
party is greatly in demand socially from
now until the wedding morning. Bishop
sisted by Rev. DR.. McKim. The bride 8
| presents are superb in quality and very
| numerous. Mr.. Paine is a Harvard man
and a member of the Puritan Athletic and
Country Clubs. His brother George Lyman
Paine. will be his best man.
Miss Elizabeth Lee Ernst and Mr.. Nor
ton Grinnell will be married at st. Johns
Church Thursday at noon. Mr.. George
Grinnell will be best man and Miss Ernst
will be maid Of honor Rev. DIR: Mackay-
Smith will officiate, assisted by Rev. Her
bert Shipman, chaplain at West Point Acad-
emy. A reception for the bridal party and
relatives will follow at General and Mrs
ErnSt's residence, Connecticut avenue. The
couple will live in New York.
Mrs. Mckinley had the pleasure of listen
ing to Miss Leonora Won Stosch In a violin
recital last evening. and had with her to
share it Mrs Hobart, Mrs. Barksiow, Mrs.
Alger. Mrs. Smith, Mrs Griggs. Miss Long,
Miss Wilson, Major and Mrs. Heistand,
Mrs Abner Mckinley, Mrs. Bingham, Miss
s. Blanche Gray and Miss Emily B. How
ard of Baltimore, who, before the mar
riage of the artist accompanied her on her
tours.
The Anglo-American commission and la
dies. with a number of other guests, went
on the invitation of Mr.. r. NJ. Thompson
today to Annapolis. and will visit all the
places of interest there.
The movement for early hours has at
tanned great strength in Philadelphia, and
while the entering wedge aims at no eX-
tremely radical me ethodS wonderful results
are expected. A a meeting held this week
about hundred and fifty women whose
names are those very frequently mentioned
III social matters, met and gave expression
TO their sentiments on the subject. All
were unanimously III favor of early hours
by any means possible. There were repre-
sentatires OF the cotillions present who
willingly agreed to advancing the hour for
balls to $50 and closing time at =, and the
dinner givers will unite upon 7:30 for their
hospitalites. always on ball nights. The
early hour idea has struck New York in
few places. and there have been invita-
tions sent out for l. to 3 parties, which
looks like somebody wanted to do away
with the time-honored afternoon tea
crushes.
The Mexican minister. Mr.. Romero, is ex-
pected at the legation tomorrow morning
with his sister. Mrs. Garcia, who will spend
the winter with him. Mr. Romero has fin
ished the sad mission for which his long
stay in Mexico was intended. The remains
of his lamented wife were laid to rest in
the vault, which he had built in the burial
plot in the Dolores cemetery near the City
of Mexico. The chapel which will mark the
lot will be built later.
The Bachelors German will give three
cotillions at the National Rifles Armory
on the following dates: Tuesdays January
3, January II and February 4. Each cotil-
lon will begin promptly at 10 O'Clock and
end at 1870 a The active membership
of the Bachelors is limited to seventy-five.
with the following named committee: Presi-
dent, Mr.. Jesse Brown vice president, Mr..
P. Lee Phillips; treasurer, Mr.. George How
ard secretary, Captain Charles L. McCaw-
ley and Messrs. Gist Blair, Charles c.
Glover and Captain ]. c. Gilmore, Jr.
The board Of trustees Of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art have sent out invitations for
Tow, 1lnyx In hon af ha
Anglo-Amerlcan joint high commission
Wednesday, December IA, at o'clock.
A recent canvass on the subject here did
not leave much room for hope that any
thing in the same good cause would make
much headWay here this winter among pri-
vate entertainers at least.
Those who have set the fashion for after
midnight cotillions and and $50 o'clock
dinner parties not the sons and daugh
ters of those who danced at the 3 o'clock
balls and went home after the candle-light
suppers in this city thirty or forty years
ago All these customs belonged to a gen.
Grafton two away back, and are not
considered as desirable in their way, the
old mahogany furniture, colored prints and
plate for which the old houses where these
gayeties took place have been ransacked
again and again. There is considerable joy
expressed, however, over the fact that the
Bachelors cotilions this winter are to COM
mence at 10 O'Clock and end half hour
after midnight. Perhaps those who think
most on this subject and who will watch
the progress OF the campaign for early
hours with greatest interest belong to that
largely increasing body in this city who
believe firmly in enjoying what is going on
socially, no matter if 1t does entail a great
deal of personal discomfort and bodily
weariness, and yet feel the same desire for
working the usual number of hours every
day, whether their labor is a matter of in
clination or necessity.
The debutantes next week will include
Miss Enroll Cuthbert Brown, Miss Taylor,
Miss MacLennon. Miss Julia Waggaman,
Miss Bliss and the Misses White
Mrs. Thomas E. Waggaman has issued
invitations for Wednesday afternoon De-
cember I, when Miss Julia Waggaman will
make her debut.
The last international engagement over
which New York society is concerning it.
self, is that of Mrs. Cora Colgate widow
young and handsome, with a large income
and Lord Strafford of England. Both are
SO shy of the eXtrayagant newspaper COM
ment which an announcement of the date
of their marriage would arouse, that so far
the dear public has not been taken into
their confidence. Lord Strafford is pLst
middle life, but well pr reserved, and has only
enjoyed his honors few months having
succeeded his brother. He has a goodly in
come with his title and good name, and
does not come to America to repienish