The Washington times., 1906-04-08
WEDDINGS TO FOLLOW
THE SOLEMN SEASON
Nuptial Knots Almost Without Number Are Scheduled
for the Gay Easter Season in and
Around New York
By CHOLLY KNIcKERBocKER.

oy OaO1L4 -
OF all the ffty-two weeks of the year
there is none that is more deadly dull
from a social point of view than the
eight days Immediately preceding Easter
Sunday.
Aside from any religious consideration
il has come to be regarded as bad form
10 give any kind of entertainments our
ing this particular period, and the actloh
of some young men who are marrying
Immediately after Easter In giving their
farewell bachelor dinners on saturday
next. has aroused unfayorable comment
Quite number of women ana young
girls especia,is, those belonging to the
Catholic persuasion, are in religious re-
treat. At one or another of the converts.
Thursday and Friday will find the
churches crowded, and all those who can
manage to ge. away will leave town I'm
order 10 escape the depressing atmos-
phere of the closing days Of Lent But
bv Sunday every vestge of sacl<cloth,
ashes and the other paraphernalia OF
penance will be swept away and rele-
gated to oblivion until the spring of
1907 and Easter week will open TO the
tune of marriage bells, dance music and
coaching horns.
Over Sixty Weddings.
More than sixty weddings of social
note are scheduled for the fortnight
intervening between Easter Sunday and
May Day, and the marriage bells viii
ring almost uninterruptedly. Owing 10
the superstition with regard 10 we'd
dings in May, there will be fewer mar
riages during that month: but in June,
Just before the exodus of society to the
seaside and mountains for the summer.
there will be several very brilliant we'd
dings. among them that of Cynthia
Roche and Arthur Scott Burden, which
is now set for June q.
The charming bride-elect is still
abroad with her mother and aunt, Mrs
Peter Cooper Hewitt, and their wander
inEs on the Continent have attracted
more than ordinary attention. owing to
the extraordinary advertisement pub
lished by Cynthia's father. the future
Lord Fermoy. in the Paris newspapers,
warning French tradespeople to take
notice that he would not be responsible
for any liabilities contracted by the
lady whom he rescribed as styling her
self Mrs. Burke Roche" Under the cir
cunistances, il is hardly necessary to
state That James Burke Roche-the man
who for the sake of a wager conveyed
torpedo destroyer from shipyards in
Scotland to Riga, I'm the Baltic, during
the recent war. under the very nose of
the English cruiser ass <ned to prevent
anything of the kind vii not be pres
ent at the wedding to give his daughter
away at the altar
One in Particular.
Out of so long a list Of weddings il
is rather invidious to select any as
more important in n social sense than
the other But nevertheless, mention
may be made of the impending marriage
of Robert Taylor Varnum 70 Mrs Kath-
crime Corse S. Ingersoll. at Grace
Chuch. on Thursday. and of Miss Kath-
crime Dodge to John Shillito Rogers. on
the pr..vious day, at the Brick Church.
on Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh
street The bride. who is daughter
OF the late George EggIeston Dodge.
will have as her attendants Miss Susan
McCook. Miss Emily Rogers. Miss Sybil
Kane Miss Eunice Terry, and Miss
Charlotte Hopkins. II. Pendleton Rogers
will be his brothers best man, and the
ushers HiIl be Freddie Kernochan. of
the district attorneys stan: Bradish
Johnson. r. Bayard Cutting. Beverly
Robson, Henry Taylor, and Frederick
A Julian.
Then on Tuesday of Easter week Miss
y artha Prentice Strong, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Theron Strong. will be-
come the bride OF Harold NJ Turner, at
the Brick Presbyterian Church. and
Kate de Forest Prentice will be the
maid of honor. and Buell. HoIlister one of
the ushers.
On the same afternoon Louis Starr, jr,
of Philadelphia. will be married to Miss
Margaret Hammond, daughter of the
late Gen. John Henry Hammond of the
East Ninety-first street house of her
brother, John Henry Hammond. son-in-
law of William Douglas Sloane. Anita
Peabody, Mercer Atterbury. the beauti-
ful lone Page. and Glare Ellsworth will
be among the bridal attendants while
James Watson Webb. Malcolm Douglas
Sloane, Robert L. Bacon. Nathaniel EN-
mons, and George Whitney OF Boston
VIII be among the ushers.
Still Another.
Saturday, April IS, has now been fixed
upon as the date of the wedding of
Miss Harriet Delafield to Jarvis
Pomeroy Carter, at the Church
Of the Heavenly Rest Miss Maizie De-
lafield will be her sisters maid of hon
or, end Miss Justine Irving, Miss Hope
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