Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-18
The Brides and Grooms of Leafy
June.
MANY MORE PRETTY EVENTS YET
Where Prominent Residents Are
Securing Rest and Quiet.
PERSONAL NOTES OFINTEREST

interest IN their regard is by means ex-
hausted yet. There were several very pref
ty weddings this week. both Tuesday and
Wednesday providing spectacles of this de-
scription, which entertained large gather
ings of friends. The wallach-James we'd
ding was solemnized with only nearest and
dearest relatives and friends as witnesses
| but the bride, who was so much admired
| upon her presentation to society a few sea-
sons back, looked her prettiest The James
residence has been lately greatly improved
by the addition of another room on tn.
front, and the hall. which now divides the
mouse. is spacious and bright. The house
| warming was the wedding festivity, and
the towers, which were used in great pro-
fusion, made a charming effect. For the
coming week the wedding list seems n
shorf one, but the market will show an up
ward tendency for the last DAYS in June for
which there are several interesting events
dated The marriage of Miss Fannie Lar
rler Moore to Nj. Herbert Guon Hopkins
Oh california will take place at St. John :
Church Wednesday evening. June % at 3
O'Clock Miss Matte Jarvis will be maid
OF no. or and there will b. our r ssn aids
MISS Prentice. Miss F. Marion Trimbe.
Miss Hungerford and Miss Edith Pulsifer
Mr.. Leon Z. Albert will be best man The
ceremony will be performed by Rev Dr.
Mackay-Smith, rector of the church
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Barnes of George
| town have issued Invitations for the mar
| riage of their daughter, Miss Paulin.
Barnes. and Mr.. Benjamin Wilson Wood
run The ceremony Will take place at the
residence of the brides parents on III,
evening of Wednesday, June -
MI and Mrs Letter. just before their de-
parture from the city for the summer, did
what a good many people of much less in
come often wondered why they did not do
oefore-purchased all the ground available
aToJoInihg their home on Dupont Circle
everybody hopes it is for garden, aid
something out of the common in the line of
landscape effects. The little Jungle of
shrubs and bushes now in front of the tall
Columns are quite unique in their way The
misses Letter Were driving all spring around
me country roads in Irish jaunting car
one of the few ever seen in this CITY but
tn>y did not often venture down town Ia it
II Is understood that Mrs. Letter and her
daughters are going abroad usual this
summer and will not return until the au-
tumnal dizziness has passed over Washing
ton. Just at present the family is ENJOYING
their lovely home on Lake Geneva where
MI. Letter and Mr.. Joseph Letter. the heir
OF the house. will also b. seen at inter-
Nals- Mrs. Letter very naturally finds no
pleasure in summer travelling to equal her
yearly visit with Mrs. Curzon and her two
little daughters. and this keeps them from
taxing part IL the gayeties of Newport life
and dividing Chicago glory there with Mrs
Potter Palmer
There was a great deal of unnecessary
conjecture last summer over the prospects
OF Mrs. Paimer's return to New York. but,
after having to deny the purchase of every
large available property on the cliffs she
returned among the earliest this season
and poured the hottest kind of shot in the
enemy camp, by entertaining Prince AL
pert OF Belgium, who will in all probability
be the only titled foreigner of any conse-
quence We shall see this year. The reports
OF various arrivals are Immediately fol-
lowed by changes of plans SO that native
lions. are apt to be the greatest attraction
We can supply. Evidently Mrs. Palmer en-
Joyed the pleasure Newport offered last
year. She was among the last to leave il
and her early return is pretty good evil
dence that she intends to resume the hos
pitality which was her distinguishing charm
last year. The Brices are also back at
Beauiieu, the Aston villa and to all intents
ana purposes are regular New Workers
now and are so recognized. Like a good
many more Mrs. Brice and her daughters
have missed their usual London visit this
spring and for once the May drawing
rooms were conspicuous by the absence Of
Americans.
OF the new homes to be opened this sum-
mer at Newport few are more striking
than that of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Thaw of Pittsburg. 1t is at the end of
Bellevue avenue. just in front of Spouting
Rock Beach 1t is in colonial style. The
woodwork of the dining room is of black
oak, the general style of the room being
Elizabethan. The dainty reception room is
of the Louis XIV pattern. and the draw
ing room of the same model. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thaw will be able to take possession of
their new villa in two weeks.
Mrs. Washington Mclean Mrs. Ludlow
and Mrs. Hazen are all out of town for TIE
season. Mrs. Ludlow is adding another
to the collection of ball rooms, owned by
her family in this city. The house that she
has recently bought on Lafayette square
seemed large enough for all purposes of
large entertainments when her mother,
Mrs. Mclean, used to live there, but the
splendid proportions Of the Iatter's resi-
d<rIn ff,trf
make the ether seem small, so Mrs. Lud-
low is having a large room built at the
rear, which will make the mansion ideal
in it's arrangements for the charming hos
FATALITIES Of which she is always the CEN
trail spirit.
Mrs. Smith, wife of the Postmaster Gen.
eral. is spending this month at Atlantic
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page have
c'osed their Washington house for the
summer. and after a visit to Charlottes-
vile, Va, will go to Bar Harbor for the
season.
Mrs. MCGOWAN of Georgetown has is
sued cards announcing the marriage of
her daughter. Miss Elizabeth MCGOWAN to
Mr.. Charles Roosevelt Hall of New York
The wedding was celebrated at the brides
home in The presence of her immediate
relatives. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall left at ono,
on a wedding trip. and expect to spend
the summer in the Carskills. Their New
York residence will be 12a Central Park
west. where they will be at home after
September 1.
Mrs. Perry Heath has been visiting her
mother, Mrs. Conway at Louisville, and is
now at Muncie, Ind, visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew b. Graham have
closed their 18th street house and are now
with their family occupying their new and
elegant residence. Fort Richardson" Vir-
GINA
Mrs. Raphael c. Gwynn and her two
youngest sons will leave for Atlantic City
in few days. Her eldest son, Dr. William
c. Gwynn, has been appointed resident
physician of the Georgetown University
Hospital
Mrs. A. W. Allen of Leominster, Mass.
returned yesterday after spending . pleas
ant month with her cousin, Mrs Susie Han
baugh, go Florida avenue
Mrs Dunn, wife Of DR.. Henry A. Dunn
assistant surgeon of the cruiser Newark,
has returned from Norfolk. where she went
on the occasion of the Newark going into
commission. few weeks ago. The Newark
will replace the Montgomery as the flagship |
Of the bicckadirg squadron before Havana
and is now lying in Hampton Roads await
ing sailing orders from Washington.
A very pretty wedding took place We'd |
resday evening at O'Clock at Metropolitan /
Methodist Church. the contracting parties |
being Miss NJ Elizabeth Gapen of this city /
a DIR Edwin RiUelouv O;vr.Stad NJ C<b;,,.,> Il