The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
The PAUNCEF0TE SISTERS.
uHEY RESEMBLE EACH OTHER
GREATLY IN CHARACTER.

The Washington Social season-H
Closed in a Blaze of GIOry-SOme
articles of Iey-PauncefOte
NVedding-The New Turkish Ann
nassadOr Euchre Parties and
Poker Chips to Furnish Amuse-
ment for Lent-SOme other Matters
of Interest.
washington, d c., March 2.--Press dis
matches have left very little to be told
concerning the great event of the just
closed season-The Bromley Pauncefote
Wedding. Though its prominent details
have been so thoroughly exploited by tel
ezraph, all women know that there are
always plenty of odds and ends, of para
rount interest to the female mind which
.n.er not into the male detailers' compre-
tension; and these choice tid-bits remains
-5 be chronicled for readers of the Sa-
nnah Morning News.
During more than half d century che
most famous weddings of the United
tales have been celebrated in the aristo-
raic Episcopal Church of ST. john but
all it's brilliant annals. no bride has
eser created such worldwide affectionate
terest as the tall and graceful English
irl who was married the other day with
its time-honored walls. She is the third
/, lighter of the Right Honorable Lord
tuncefote, ambassador from Great Bri
lin, and the first bride from the British
egation since the great house was built
oy queen Victoria's government, twenty
five years ago According to the ETH
1uette of her position, she has been
known as the 'IIonourable Miss Lillian"
spelled with a u, in the English fashion;
and during Ghe last few weeks in view
If her marriage, she has been dined apd
feted almost literally within an inch OF
her life," for so weared was she on the
wedding day that considerable concern
was felt lest the happy event would have
to be postponed. When the family came
here, about ten years back, Miss Lillian
and her younger sister were yet in the
school room, and afterwards she spent
year in Dresden, where her education was
finished She is now in her twenty-fifth
wear. The four Pauncefote sisters are
much alike in character as in personal APP
pearance, all being particularly distin-
guished for great cordiality, tact and gra-
ciousness of manner. Music runs in the
family" as they say, and Lord Paucefote
himself-big, beefy and past middle-age
IS a composer OIL no mean dblilty' Mise
Lillian is an accomplished musician, and
during her girlhood life at the embassy
frequently sang songs of her fathers COM
posing, he playing her accompaniments on
the piano. All the sisters are extremely
fond of outdoor sports, and will greatly
enjoy the country life of the Bromleys
English home.
The groom, who win be Sir Robert some
day, as he is the eldest son of Sir Henry
and Lady Bromley, is not much Older than
his bride; a fine-looking, manly fellow,
Enough hampered by a prospective title
and no end of money. For the last year
he has been an honorary attache of the
British embassy; but no doubt Dame Cupid
was at the bottom of that arrangement.
The future home of the young couple
will be stoke Hail." one of the finest
estates in Nottinghamshire, where Sir
Ienry and Lady Bromley at present re-
side. The family possesses several other
4ne English estates, notably 'fDallam
overs" in Westmoreland, and Ash
Well' in Rutland
he wedding present which were pack
and shipped to England a week ago.
ere wonder-so say those who were so
fortunate as to get a glimpse of them
Somewhat to their danger and greatly to
the ambassadors displeasure, an itemized
list of the articles, together with their es-
timated value. got into print; and after
ward the legation had to be guarded night
and day. Evidently, it was the old story
of To him that hath shall be given
Lady Bromleys gift to her daughter-in-
law was necklace of five rows of dia-
monds and a bracelet of diamonds and
pearls. Another splendid necklace of dia-
monds and pearls came from the Roths-
child family, Sir Henry Bromley gave
pair of diamond bracelets, diamond
brooch and ring. The Curzons of Eng
land (same family as the Niceroy of In
1Ig1 10 vrybn IN "a RrOT0lpVS related.
sent a lot of silver, including we'll
equipped dressing case with jeweled bot
ties. The ancestral home of the happy
pair win certainly be well supplied with
silver pitchers for Secretary of state ana
Mrs. Hay, Secretary and Mrs Long, Sem
etor and Mrs Mcmillan, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carnegie and goodness knows how many
others, happened to be similarly minded
ana sent tell silver pitchers.
by tight squeezing, St Johns Church
can accommodate $50 persons, and exactly
that number of invitations were issued for
the ceremony, the guests being obliged 20
present their cards at the door. -Four
hundred more were bidSen to the wedding
breakfast at the embassy.
The decora tons of the church were en-
trely of annunciation lilies and palms,
except the great marble font, which was
Med with white azalias. The frontal o.
l1e altar was of white satin gorgeously
embroidered in jewels and gold, and on
Zach side stood tail silver vases of lilies.
T1o wedding gown was a dream in white
satin and lace mode in London and to be
Worn also a coming presentation OF the
bride to the Queen. Its court train, car
fri by a page, was something new in
a. nuptial annals of Washington and
made a pretty picture in the dim old
church. The front seams OF the robe
We're outlined from yoke to hem with pos
'menteres of real pearls, and the same
Ainded around the skirt I'm Van Dyke
'olus. The yoke and sleeves were OF
I'aest lace; the only jewels worn was 4
N"fi necklace, an heirloom i'm the ambas-
"4o'r family; and over all a tulle vel
.H IN misty folds down the length 9f
'lr train The little train-bearer whose
LIaeeful service TO his lady not even Sir
"2ltor Raleigh could have excelled, was
9-Near-old boy. From his golden curls
20 TIE tips of his jewel-buckled slippers,
was a miniature cavalier. who might
nave stnpnq1 one Of the reign of Charles