The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-22
Gossip of Official Society.

Gossip of Official Society.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Mildred Stone, daughter of Sen
ator and Mrs. Stone of Missouri to
John G. Parkinson of St. Joseph, Mo.
The wedding will take place at the
Presbyterian Church of Jefferson City,
Mo, on the first day of June. The
Stone family are spending a few weeks
at Atlantic City before going home to
Missouri.
The Belgian Minister and Baroness
Moncheur who were among the most
active social lights of last winter, Will
spend a very quiet summer, owing TO
the health of the young Baroness. They
will remain in Washington through
June and then take country house
in the Maryland or Virginia hills. Mrs.
Powell Clayton, wife of the ambassa-
dor to Mexico, and mother of Baron
ess Moncheur, is expected at the Bel
GUM legation this week for long
visit. Baroness Moncheur is the sec
ond wife of the Belgium minister,
bride of perhaps two years.
The Baroness Hengelmuller, wife of
the ambassador from Austria Hun
gary is i'll at her home in this city.
She returned last week from snort
visit in New York and was stricken
on Saturday Her condition has grown
covers the Hengelmullers will go to
Bar Harbor for the summer, where
they were leading spirits two seasons
ago Count Hoyos and Mr.. Rubido-
Itchy two Of the most popular OF the
younger diplomats, will be attached to
their staff. Austria-Hungary, although
the last power to raise its representa-
tive to the highest diplomatic rank, is
fortunate in being represented in
a. l. L., \ Of
service exceeds any of his peers. M.
Hengelmuller was appointed minister
to the United States in 1894. after
distinguished services in Paris and
London. He was elevated to the rank
of ambassador not quite two years
ago, and with his handsome wife has
been a prominent figure in the society
of New York, Philadelphia and New
port, as we'll as Washington.
The RoOseveIts.
According to the well-filled calendar
of Miss Roosevelt's engagements, she
has several important visits to make
within the next month. First she goes
to st. Louis, to see the wonders of the
fair, and incidentally to accept no end
OF hospitality in that city. She will al
so officiate as bridesmaid at two we'd
dings, and make a trip to New Haven
to attend the graduating exercises of
her cousin, Theodore Roosevelt Robin
son. The first wedding will be that of
Miss Elsie Whelen and Mr.. Robert
Goelet, at Devon, Ia, on June IL.
The second, that of Miss Helen
Roosevelt and Mr.. Theodore Douglas
Robinson, at Hyde Park, N. Y, on
June II. The bride at the latter cere-
mony is not, as has been recently stat
ed, a niece of the President, but
cousin many times removed, the
daughter of Mr.. James Roosevelt
Roosevelt, and consequently but slight
ly related to her future husband, who
is the Presidents nephew and the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr.,
Of New York. The bride-elect, who
was a frequent visitor in Washington
even before the present administration.
is the handsomest of all the Roosevelt
cousins. and is an heiress in her own
right having recently come into con-
siderable fortune left by her mother,
who died about year ago.
Miss Helen Roosevelt Is a brunette
with creamy skin and regular features,
slender and graceful. She is only 81
years old, but looks older because she
almost invariably wears white gowns
in summer and black ones in winter,
fashioned in dowager style. When in
Washington she is usually the guest
of Mrs Cowles, the Presidents sister,
with whom she has spent much time
from childhood. The only one of the
seven Misses Roosevelt now in society