Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-16
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
PRETTY WEDDING TO OCCUR TO-
DAY AT ST. JOHNS.
Other Matrimonial Events in Which
Washingtonians Figure
Personals.

Miss tucieune Denis daughter of Mrs.
! Charles Denis. will he married to Ensign
Orie Walter Fowler, l. S. n The cere-
mony will be followed by a small reception
at the Hotel Normandie. Last night after
! the wedding rehearsal Mrs. Denis enter
tanned at dinner MIR and Mrs Bancroft
| Count Saint-Phalle. secretary Of the French
embassy, who will escort the bride at the
wedding today; Miss Grace Newton. who
will be the maid of honor; Mr.. Byron Loux,
the best man, and Nine. Thierry. sister Of
| the bride.
| At the marriage of Miss Estelle de Pey-
| ster. daughter OF the late Col. Johnston de
| Peyster of Tivoll-on-the- Hudson and Mr.
! Edward Sturges Hosmcr. formerly of This
/ city, at Grace Church. Broadway and 10Th
street, New York, Thursday May -. the
! bride will he given away ny her brother-iu-
/ law Mr. Garrett b. Kip. Her only at
tondant will be her sister, Miss Justine de
! Peyster. Mr.. Louis Holyoke Hosmer will
| be his brothers best man.
The ushers will be Messrs Samuel p.
| Blagden. jr., Killiaen Van Rensselaer, ,r
| d. McRae Livingston and John S Rogers
| OF New York city; Walter Dorsey Davidge
| and Theodore Hansen, secretary of the
| Russian embassy. No reception will fol-
low. as the brides family is in mourning.
The japanese minister will give dinner
| Thursday night in honor of Mr.. Takahashi,
| vice governor of the Bank of Japan and
special financial commissioner of the Japa-
nese government, who negotiated the
! three war loans issued IN London and New
| York.
The marriage Of Miss Bertha Gildersleeve
| Paterson and Mr.. Charles Grosvenor Bond
| will take place at Columbus Ohio June p
| Miss Paterson is the oldest daughter of
| DR.. Robert Paterson, principal of the Ohio
! School for the Deaf. and for four years has
| been in this city. where she has been con-
nected with Gallaudet College
| The young couple will reside In New York
city, where Mr.. Bond is engaged in the life
| insurance business.
| Mr.. and Mrs Westinghouse left Sunday
| night for short stay at their place in
Pittsburg, where members of the interna-
| tional railway congress will be their guests
A recent Chicago wedding of interest here
| was that of Miss Alice West. daughter of
| Mrs. John West and Mr. Clarence Warner
Perley. The ceremony was performed 10y
| the Rev. Fred V Hawley of the Unitarian
| Church. and was witnessed only by the inn
mediate family. Miss Alice Stone of Ocono-
mowoc was the brides only attendant. The
| best man was Mr.. Harold Leupp, and there
were two ushers-AIr. Charles West. brother
| of the bride and DIR. Clarence Heath. Sew
eral hundred guests attended the reception.
and the supper served in the large
studio of the brides sister in of the
upper floors. The decorations We're elabo-
| rate and pink flowers We're used in every
available nook. Mr.. Perley and bride went
to Asheville, n. c., for their wedding trip,
| and will come here to live.
The PLANS for the marriage of Miss Flor
ence Howe Brown and Mr. Hutton Ken
nedy in Pittsburg this week changed
by the death of the latter's grandfather.
The bride, who is the daughter of Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Brown. was with her
mother in the trian wreck last week at
Harrisburg, both happily escaping without
serious injury.
The consul general to London and Mrs.
Wynne arrived Sunday night at their home
on Rhode Island avenue, Their stay in
London was a thoroughly enjoyable one,
both having been the recipients of much
private and public hospitality. While there
Mrs Wynne gave what leisure she had at
her disposal to looking up suitable resi-
dence, and will decide, when she returns
in July with her four younger children.
Capt. r. F. Wynne is at sea, and Mr..
Henry B. Wynne is in the far northwest,
| where he will spend the summer. Mrs.
Wynne is greatly improved in health by
the sea voyage and change, and is now
quite herself again. She was caller this
morning on Mrs Roosevelt
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman have
closed their 10th street house, and are at
their country home, 'Airlie.' on the Mill
tary road, for the summer.
Mrs. Theodore Perry Shonts who return
ed last week for short stay at her home
in Chicago, gave reception there Thurs
day to DR.. Sarah Hackett Stevenson. The
entire lower floor Of the Virginia Hotel was
set aside for the reception, the hours of
which were from to o'clock Spring
flowers, American beauty roses and palms
were used in abundance in the parlors din
ing room and corridors, the latter being
latticed off for the use of the guests. The
receiving party included Nine Schumann
Heink and the following well-known Chi
cago women:
Mesdames Dr. Lucy White. S. E. Gross,
George B. Carpenter, H. NJ. Wilmarth,
Otto Matz. Robert Rae. William Borden,
George w. Kretzinger Robert Hunt. W.
S. Johnson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ]. r.
Kendrick Frank Frazier. John R. Morton.
Miss Eva Shonts assisted also. The fol-
lowing young women alternated at the
punch bowls:
Misses Clara Kretzinger. Helen Clark,
Evangelina Walker Dorothy Wrigley. Lima
Small Margaret Kendrick, Grace Collins,
Marion Calhoun, Edith kohlsaat, Florence
Neff Inez McClelland. Helen Dupee, Laura
Gibbs Marjorie Curtiss
Mr.. and Mrs. Shonts returned here last
Saturday and after the close of the school
year here, the latter, with her daughters,
will make another visit to Chicago and
then join Mr.. Shonts at Panama.
Mr. and Mrs. A L. Barber have taken a
furnished house at West End N. j., which
is continuation of Long Branch, and to-
day moved their son there in a private
car, with the hope that the tonic of the
sea air will put him on the road to re-
covery from his alarming illness.
News reached Winchester, Va. yesterday
of serious accident to Mrs Randolph Tuck
err widow of John Randolph Tucker, the emf
nent Virginia jurtst, and for years head
OF the law school of Washington and Lee
University. at Lexington. Mrs. Tucker
was thrown from her carriage while drv
ing at Louisville Ky, on Saturday, and
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