The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-21
June Wedding
Of the Stately
Miss de Nise-


age metropolitan" newspaper IS
a marvelously constituted indl-
vidual whose weekly output usu-
ally contains more honey than a bee
hive in field of white clover His lu-
cubrations usually run 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 a long line of distin-
guished ancestry. The De Misses are
mentioned in the chronicles of the cru
saders. The bride, whose beauty is OF
the nobly poised, statuesque type. was
gowned in the ultra fashionable coro-
nation bridal costune-white satin with
court train A rare old point lace robe
covered the gown. and the bridal veil,
worth a 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 approac ching coronation OF
King Edward.
This particular bridal dress, h6wev-
er, has an intensely fashionable historic
interest of its own quite apart from the
occasion of the bridal of the stately
Miss de Mise 1t is the identical cos
satin siippers-worn by Miss de Nise's
grandmother at her own wedding This
i occurred soon after the coronation OF
her most gracious majesty Queen Vic
( toria, and Miss de Misses grandmother
was presented at a court drawing room
wearing the costume in which she was
the next week married to the second
son of Lord Filtry. Among the heir
looms which become the property Of
Mrs van Saxon is magnificent old
Dutch clock inherited from the Knick-
erbocker side of Miss de Misses ances-
try Another heirloom is the set of
magnificent solid silver candelabra,
from which hundreds of waxen tapers
shed their light over the great, old oak
en- Elizabethan hail of the De Mise man
sion on Swellfront street. These have
been handed down from the Kiltry fam
lily. 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 Nadge
Hilary to her cousin Tomasine
Dear Tom-That Katharine de Mise.
as she calls herself. is married at last.
There 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-
scented at a drawing room of Queen
Victoria and worn again a week after
ward when she was married And a
pretty fairy tale was printed, too, about
the old clock from the Knickerbocker
ancestry and the old-oh so very old
candelabra in the hall. It's something
awful the way people do lie The fact
is old man Dennis came over here in
the steerage forty years ago and hired
himself out on one of the barges that
seine those horrid fish they make oil
out of. Dennis got barge of his own
Inext 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 grandmoth-
er. She got it made in Paris. got satin
and lace and her wedding veil with a
slight yellow tinge to make the things
look old, and she copied exactly the
coronation bridal dress from the Eng
lish fashion plates, and there you are!
She had yellowish satin slippers made.
too, and wore them once to make them
look inherited like. Then that rickety
old clockl She and her mother bought
it for SIS in junkshop in Portsmouth
where there are wagonloads of just
such. The candelabra they got in a
store of antiques in Paris. They were
the only really old things in the show.
and they came from a French church
despoiled 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.