The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-20
Plans For the Wa1ker-Lambert Wedding An
nounced-Miss Irene Bond to Make Her
Debut-Gossip of Society.

Much fun is promised for Thanksgiving
Week. Two balls, the Fitzpatrick affair
on Wednesday and the ST. Louis woman's
Club festivity on Thursday. ought 10 help
considerably. They open the dancing sea-
son. in fact. Then there are wedding,
galore. as always when the annual feast
OF Thanksgiving comes round.
Why is 1t that so many people like to
marry on a holiday? They certainly cut
the present supply down Just half. es-
pecially if the wedding day and the hol!-
day be Christmas.
George Hall Of Denver. who was an
usher at the HamIen-Catlin wedding a
x-eels ago in Boston. won't come West
for Ted Walkers marriage 10 Lily Lam
bert. so Sidney Walker. Oldest of the Walk
er brothers, will serve his youngest
brother as best man. The Eugene Cuen-
dets. the Jordan Lamberts and the Albert
Bond Lamberts all gave dinners last week
for Miss Lambert and her bridal party.
The Cuendets. by the by, go abroad very
soon. Their Lindell boulevard house has
had a For Sale" sign on it for several
months.
Irene Bond is coming out this season.
Judge and Mrs. Henry w. Bond will give
a big evening reception for her on the
2Sth Inst.
Mrs. Dore Lyoa is extremely fortunate
IN securing the aid of some Of the smart
est girls In town for her kirmess on Fri
day night. Louise Little. Jane Skinker.
Eugenia Howard and some of the others
will make any charity affair go off with
.ro,>rlo,, nc,o+ I FOpflv frIlSt that the
New York building is heated. Or will We,
dear Mrs. Lyon. be obliged to dance
wildly, continuously and continually. in
order TO keep warm, as Doctor hestner
tells me one must in the German build
ing, whenever they have those Informal
hops?
I'm getting one garment made that Is
going to reyolutionize my wardrobe said
the business woman, as we met on Broad
way. It's a dress. a whole dress, seN'ed
together. top ard fsttom. put on over the
head. with a pin In the collar and join
ing of four or five hooks. ana I shall be
clothed and in the rightest mind that I've
enjoyed for many a day.
This shirt-waist and skirt notion is
about played out with me. Too much time
and trouble getting dressed. Too many
pins. too hard work over stock adjust
ment. belt ~fastenIngs. linen cuffs pinned
on. and the whole n~onsensical combina-
ton. Then 1 always look pieced together
when it's good and done. Won't L get
tired Of the one and only dress. and long
for change IN waist and skirt? Well,
maybe, but 1t won't be until that new
dress Is worn out, I'll wager its Innings
right now"
Over at French Lick Springs is a we'll
assorted list of st. Louis persons whom
one knows." Mrs. Frank Tate. Mrs.
Kentnor. Doctor A. w. James, Messrs.
Phil Dwyer and ". P. Connell are some
of them. / don't see Governor-elect Folks
name among those present, but It will be
in q few hours, for he ought to be on his
way UP from Arkansas about this after
noon.
Not SO many Worlds Fair engagements
as we fancied-sha1I / say hoped-early
In the spring. When the final roundup
IL made, there are hardly q dozen, and the
returns most all in. / asked one directors
wife LAST week IL her daughter, a decided
belle this summer at the Fair, would mar
~ some Commissioner or attache, know
ing thai several were devotediy at her
shrine
mo. indeed" said the mother with
startling emphasis. Nothing would give
me greater distress than to see my daugh-
ter marry a foreigner, no matter how
rich, eligible, or charming he may be.
Neither her father nor myself would ever
consent to her going across the water to
make her home. There are too many diff
ferenccs in the way of living. in the atd-
tude of ~continentais toward their wives
Of course. o know I speak g~enerally-to
interfere with happiness for an American
girl. Somebody wrote a bit Of gossip about
my daughters possibly marrying a certain
attache Of q commission to q young ma
tron friend OF our family who is tenn
porarily living abroad. whereat she imme-
diately scribblcd beck to Is In frantic
haste. saying:
ION no account permit G. to marry
Mr.. Soandso until I sec him on his native