The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-06-08
JUNE WEDDING
OF THE STATELY.
MISS DE MISE

The society reporter of the average
metropolitan" newspaper Is d marvel-
ously constituted individual whose weekly
output usually contains more honey than
a beehive in a field of white clover. His
lucubrations usually ru1 much in this
wise:
Quite the prettiest of the June we'd
dings thus far is that of the stately
Miss Katharine de Mise and Mr.. Harold
van Saxon. Both bride and groom are
descended from long line of distin-
guished ancestry. The De Misses are
saders, The bride. whose beauty Is of
the nobly poised. statuesque type. was
gowned in the ultra fashionable corona
ton bridal costume-white satin with
court train. A rare old point lace robe
covered the gown, and the bridal VEIL
worth fortune. was held in place around
the white brows by a wreath of orange
blossom buds. The suggestion for this
style of bridal costume of course is the
approaching coronation of King Edward.
This particular bridal dress, however.
has an intensely fashionable historic in
terest of its own quite apart from the
occasion of the bridal of the stately Miss
de Mise. 1t is the identical costume
gown. veil, even to the tiny white satin
slippers-worn by Miss de Misses grand
mother at her own wedding. This &C.
Cured soon after the coronation of her
most gracious majesty Queen Victoria
and Miss de Misses grandmother was pre-
scented at court drawing room wearing
the costume in which she was the next
week married to the second son of Lord
kiltry. Among the heirlooms which be-
came the property of Mrs. Van Saxon
Is magnificent old Dutch clock inherited
from the Knickerbocker side of Miss De
Nico's ancestry. Another heirloom is the
set Of magnificent solid silver candelabra,
from which hundreds of waxen tapers
shed their light over the 81 eat, old oaken
Elizabethan hall of the De Mise man
sion on Swelfront Street. These have
been handed down from the kiltry fam
ny. With such substantial tokens of
highborn descent all around her, Mrs.
van Saxon cannot fail of enjoying the
choicest married happiness.
From the private letter of Miss Madge
Hillary to her cousin Toma sine
Dear Tom-That Katharine de Mise,
as she calls herself is married at last
fhere was a great to do over her we'd
ding. The newspapers had it that her
bridal dress was the identical one worn
by her grandmother when she was pre-
sented at drawing room of Queen Vic
toria and worn again weeb afterward
when she was married. And a pretty
fairy tale was printed too, about the
old clock from the Knickerbocker ancest-
ry and the old--oh, so very old-candea-
bra in the hall. It's something awful
the way people do lie. The fact is old
man Dennis came over here i'll the steer
age forty years ago and hired himself
out on one of the barges that seine those
horid fish they make oil out of. Dennis
got barge of his own, next a whole
factory. and now he's worth millions.
His wife did not know her own name
when she saw it when he. married her
first, but she learned to read and write
afterward.
Tom. dear. it's sickening the airs
those people put on. That white satin
gown fitted Kate Dennis far too well to
have been made for her grandmother.
She got it made in Paris. got satin and
lace and her wedding veil with a slight
yellow tinge to make the things looll old,
and she copied exactly the coronation
bridal dress from the English fashion
plates, and there you are. She had yell
lowlsh satin slippers made too, and wore
them once to make them look inherited
like. Then that rickety old clock! She
and her mother bought it for SIS in a
junkshop in Portsmouth where there are
wagonloads of Just such. The candelabra
they got in store of antiques in Paris.
Thew were the only really old things in
the show. and they came from a French
church despoied during the revolution
And there those Dennises face it out that
they are of a fine old family always
rich, and people believe Them
Alice A. Browne
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