Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-27
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
THE WEDDING OF MISS LIEBER
AND MR.. LAWRENCE.
Interesting Ceremony This Afternoon
at Brides Home - Other q
Festivities-Notes

Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. w. S. Cowles, will leave
Washington at $50 pm. tomorrow for
Groton, Mass, to attend the closing ex-
ercises of the school there, of which Theo-
dore and Kermit Roosevelt students.
The party will return to Washington next
Monday.
Mrs. William Endicott of Boston will
spend the summer with her grandfather,
LenoX, Mass.
Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Sanger
gave a dinner last night at Chevy Chase.
when the Russian ambassador and
Countess Cassni were among the guests.
Mrs. Charles N. Pepper and daughter,
Norita, will sail from New York on the
Tennyson for Rio Janerio, Brazil, Friday,
June 5, where they will join Mr. Pepper,
who is the commissioner of the interna-
tional railway.
Mr.. and Mrs George r. Dunlop have an
nounced the engagement of their daughter.
Miss Helen Dunlop, to Dr. Richard A.
Urquhart of Baltimore. The marriage Will
take place in June, very quietly. at Hayes,
the country home of Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlop,
near Chevy Chase.
The Count and Countess della Gherar-
desca will sail Saturday for Europe. They
will be guests at the dinner to be given
tomorrow evening by Miss Leary in New
York. The name of the mother OF the
count, the Countess Alberto della Gherar-
desca, appears today in the sailing list OF
a steamer from New York
Mr.. and Mrs Payne Whitney at the
White Villa, Newport, which they have
leased for the season.
Today at 8 O'clock at the residence of
General and Mrs. 6. Norman Lieber, their
daughter Louise was married to Mr.. Angus
tine n. Lawrence, jr., of Flushing, l.. l.
Only family party witnessed the cere-
mony, at which Rev. c. Earnest Smith Of
ficiated, but a large reception foiioweo AT
half past 8, when several hundred guests
were present. Late this afternoon Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence will leave for the north, go
Ing on to Flushing for visit before start
ing for California, where business interests
will entail of the former at least a years
residence. The home of General Lieber was
beautifully adorned for the wedding. The
ceremony took place in the deep bay win
dow recess, where bank of palms and
roses were curtained off by stands Of aspar-
agus vines, that were looped across the top
with true lovers knots of white ribbon.
| Stretching from the mantel to the hall
doors were white ribbons that made of the
| space a pretty chancel. The bridal party
| approached through avenue of palms
across the two rooms. With the flower
decked mantel, the vine-wreathed hall and
staircase and glimpses Of the dining room
| and its buffet table laden with substantials
and dainties the entire effect of the suite
was exceedingly attractive.
An orchestra behind a palm hedge in the
| library played the wedding music The
bridegroom and his best man. Mr.. Philip
Gardiner of New York, entered the draw
| ing room by the front doors, while the
| bride, escorted by her father who wore
nd
| Miss Amy Lieber, maid Of honor, and the
Misses Anna and Marjf Lawrence, sisters
| of the bridegroom. as bridesmaids. came
| from the second room. The handsome
! young bride, who has been such a belle
| since her coming-out a season or two ago.
was daintily gowned in white liberty satin,
| the bodice of point lace and chiffon. Her
| tulle veil was wreathed with orange bios
SONS, and the prayer book she carried and
| from which Rev. C. Earnest Smith read the
| service, was bound in ivory. Miss Lieber
made an equally handsome figure in her
| dress Of white crepe de chine and a picture
| hat of white tulle and ostrich feathers.
| Her bouquet was of white peonfes. The
| bridesmaids wore white silk null and lace,
| large white lace hats with pink ostrich tips.
and carried clusters of pink peonies. After
| the ceremony the newly married couple
| took their station In the bridal bower to
receive the congratulations of their friends.
The brides presents were not only numer-
| Gus, but very elegant.
Mr. and Mrs. Augustine N. Lawrence of
Flushing, L. l.. parents of the bridegroom
and their daughter. Mrs. Patterson, were
present at the wedding. Mr.. William Lie
Der of Bryn Mawr. brother Of the bride,
and his wife and her mother. Mrs. Norris
were also present. as was the aunt of the
bride. Mrs. Larned. wife of Colonel Larned
U. S. A., and her son, Cadet Paul Larned
of West Point.
All the flowers used in decorating the
house. as well as the numerous floral tokens
sent the bride today and her mother, whose
hfrfh ha n
night finishing out their fragrant careers
beside the bedsides of the patients at the
Emergency Hospital, in which institution
the Lieber family has always been inter-
ested and where room is named in MEM
DRY of the brides brother who died a few
years ago on the threshold of a most PROM
ising career.
Mrs. A. A. De Loire and daughters have
left Washington for a visit to DR.. 8. M. De
Loire at Fort Assinniboine, Mont.
Mrs Henry L. Crawford Of 1912 Park
street, Mount Pleasant will give a recep-
ton this evening from to IL In honor OF
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Crawford, who were
recently married at Englewood, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Walter and son
sailed yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm II
for an extended European tour They ex-
pect to be gone about three months.
parsonage of the Ninth Street Christian
Church Monday evening, May Is. Mr.. Carl
G. Wood and Miss Estella E. Burns were
the contracting parties, and Rev. E. B.
Bagby officiated. The young ladies Of the
brides Sunday school class and their teach
er, Mr. Harry S. Welch, sang the wedding
march as the couple entered the parlors.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood will be at home to their
friends at 600 Sd street northeast after
June 1.
Mr. John Haske of Washington celebrated
his twenty-first birthday last evening at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs A. Haske.
The following were present: Mrs. Frieside,
Misses Campbell, Neufor, Preller, Nolan,
Slater, A. Cation, ]. Cation, Nourbeck and
A. Haske, and Messrs. Farren, Bessler,
Englert, Delcso Hoffman, Connolly CAM
bell and Bose; also Mrs. NJ. Haske and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Haske.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Ellinger of 61S 1
street northwest left Monday to attend the
Masonic conclave in Philadelphia.
The Chain and Sprocket Club fraterni-
ty composed of twenty-five of the young
business and professional men of Washing
ON Ia night al RanScher'S