The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-26
to the least devout observer of the

Hale, the secretary of the American
embassy at Vienna, and Mrs. Hale,
who are enjoying three months leave
of absence, are being constantly enter
tanned by their many Washington
friends. The spacious home of the SEN
ator from Maine, which is, in all its
appointments, tine most beautiful resi-
dence in Washington, was the scene or
one of the largest receptions of the
year, given in honor of the son of the
house. 1t was thronged by distin-
guished company, comprising not only
personal friends of the popular host,
but those of their young daughter-in-
law, who before her marriage was
Miss Rachel Cameron, daughter of ex-
Senator j. Donald Cameron, and one OF
the acknowledged bellies of the Ma
tional Capital. Mrs. Hale and Mrs.
Chandler Hale welcomed the several
hundred guests in the second Of a Sc
ries of drawing rooms, which were fra
grant with roses and spring blossoms.
The hostess wore rich toilet of creme
MORE, and Mrs. Chandler Hale a be-
coming gown of soft gray material
with insertion of heavy white lace. An
orchestra stationed behind a group of
palms at a turn in the stairway played
throughout the reception. In the flow
er-decked dining room a corps of as
sistants served chocolate and other re-
freshments.
The young sons of the British am
bassador, Masters Sydney and Michael
Herbert entertained at an afternoon
party yesterday at the embassy, which
was in the nature of a farewell to
their American friends. as they go to
England May l, to enter the spring
term of school. The engagement was
announced in New York last week OF
Count Guioeppe Della Gherardesca.
honorary attache Of the Italian enbas-
sy. to Miss Harriet Taylor, of New
York. The wedding will take place
next month in New York. Count Che
rardesca is, through his mother, close
ly allied to America. as she was. be-
fore her marriage, Miss Josephine Fish
err of New York. His father, Count
Alberto Gherardesca. is the head of one
Of the oldest families of Florence, a
projenitor of the future bridegroom be-
ing one of the characters described
and named in Dantes' Inferno, a dis
tinction highly priced by his descend
ants. Miss Harriet Taylor, the only
daughter of Mr.. H. A. q. Taylor, is
one of the most prominent young wom-
en- in New York and Newport society.
Her father is a son of the late Moses
Taylor, and the man of great wealth.
His place in the Annandale road, New
port, is one of the finest there. and his
city home is 8 East Seventy-first street.
Miss Taylor's mother, who died four
/ years ago, was before her marriage,
Miss Charlotte Fearing. Count Della
Gherarcesca has spent a good deal of
time In Newport, and has been identi-
fed with the best society of the Me-
tropolis.
1t is to be hoped that we shall soon
hear the last of that much-discussed
wedding-of Lord Yarmouth and Miss
Alice Thaw, which is set for next Mon
day Mrs. and Miss Thaw are now at
"Lindhurst," their splendid home near
Pittsburg, to remain until after the
marriage. Lord Yarmouth is at pres
ent in New York city. Last Saturday
night he gave an elaborate dinner
probably his last as a bachelor host
to a company of his New York friends,
at the Waldorf-Astoria. 1t seems that
| certain Pittsburg papers announced the
| other day that extensive improvements
were being made at "Lindhurst" in
honor Of the noble son-in-law; where
upon the mother of the future Count
ess felt constrained to deny the state
ment in print-probably actuated by the
conviction that what had been good
enough for her and her family will be
quite good enough for any earl that
ever snapped his title for a fortune.
She announced to the deeply inter-
men now on the premises are engaged
merely in the ordinary spring house
cleaning. The personnel of the we'd
ding party is rather interesting. First,
of course, the bonny bride, Just sweet
20, tall, slender as @ reed, fair-haired,
blue-eyed, highly accomplished, Of gen.
erous heart and charming manners,
possessed of something more than
million by her late fathers will, and
heiress presumptive of upwards of
two millions more from her mothers
fortune. She is the youngest OF the
ten children left by the Pittsburg iron
manufacturer, and has hitherto Led a
particularly quiet life, chiefly in her
Pittsburg home, since out of school.
or travelling with her mother. Next,
the groom-to-be, George Francis Alex
ander Seymour. Earl Of Yarmouth, who
will be the seventh Marquis of Hert-
ford should he survive his father, and
holder Of one of the best known peer
ages In England, without any private.
fortune of his own with which to keep
1t UP. Happily, this fortunate mar
riage will enable him to maintain his
estates in a style BETTING his hard
riding. hard-drinking, hard-hcaded an
cestors. He is a pleasant-looking, ath-
letic young Englishman, by no means
handsome, but typically English" to
his heart core. One of the show places
in London, which all foreigners visit Is
Hartford House, the former residence
of Lord Yarmouth's ancestors, and now
the home of the famous wallace Col
lection"-an assortment of paintings,
bronzes, carved ivory and other OBJ
jects of art, which go to make up one
OF the largest and most valuable pri-
vate collections known throughout Eu-
rope. And then the English
relatives come over for the wedding
the stately, red-faced important Mar
outs of Hertford-a well-preserved no
bleman of so, or Whereabouts, who
seems TO harbor the impression that
the world was created expressly to do
the bidding of his highness and Incl
dentally of his highness' family; his
wife, who wears an air Of having duti-
fully done his 1lighness' bidding for
many years; his younger son. Lord Ed
ward Seymour, and his daughter, Lady
Jane Seymour-the latter a typical
English girl, silent and trim, with skin
OF peaches and cream, elbows and
shoulder-blades considerably in evi-
dence, and very little to say for her.
self 1t will be the most elaborate
wedding that Pittsburg ever saw. The
ceremony will be performed in the
Calvery Episcopal Church OF that city,
followed by a tremendous reception at
Linhurst, the brides girlhood home.
The honeymoon tour in this country
will occupy less than a week, and then
the couple will sail for England, to
stay while at Ragley Hall. Warwiek-
shire--the splendid home of which the
Ecw Lady Yarmouth may reasonably
expect to be one day mistress. What
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