The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-12

legations will be opened in Washing.
ton before November !. most of the
ENJOYS Of whatever rank. preferring
to remain in their summer quarters or
take trips abroad before resuming
their confidential and earnest, If not
arduous, duties with the White House
or the state department. The season
proper for the diplomates does not be-
gin until January l, with the annual
New Year reception at the White
House. when all these representatives
OF empires, Kingdoms. and republics
call in state upon the president, pre-
senting the most brilliant spectacle
seen in Washington in the entire sea-
son.
Thirty-seven nations now maintain
diplomatic relations with the United
States. nine of them supporting embas-
sizes. which differ from the more gen.
eral legations in the rank of their
chiefs, an ambassador being the per-
sonal representative of his sovereign
or president, a minister at the head
OF legation, the representative only
CT the nation by which he is ac-
credited, and not that nations ruler.
Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Russia and Italy
have long been represented by ambas-
sailors. usually men of rank and title,
while more recent additions have been
Mexico, Brazil ana Japan, the later
having only taken on this dignity
few months ago, when the Viscount
Siuzo Aoki succeeded the accomplished
MIR. Takahira, whose great work in his
country's welfare has been rewarded
by an important post in Tokyo.
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The first Of this seasons fashion,
able weddings took place last We'd
nesday afternoon, when Miss CAROLYN
Postlethwaite, daughter of the late
Rev. VIM II. Postlethwaite, U. S. 4.
cnce chaplain at West Point. and Mr..
Henry Ives Cobb, Jr., of New York,
were married at St. Johns church.
Lafayette Square.
The bridegroom's sister. Miss
Leoncre Cobb, the maid of honor who
spent most of her childhood in Wash
ington when her father was supervis-
ing architect of the treasury, enjoys
the distinction OF being the first of the.
long line of friends who shared the
affection and confidence of Mrs. Mich
olas Longworth, when that young ma
tron was Alice Roosevelt. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Ives Cobb, parents of the
bridegroom, then occupied hand
some home in n. street. near the resi-
dence Of the then civil service COM
missioner and Mrs. Roosevelt, with
the residence OF Mrs. Postlethwaite
Just around the corner Wednesdays
ceremony was consequently the cul-
minat.on Of a romance begun in the
school days Of the bride and bride
groom. although their engagement was
only announced in the past summer
from Paris, where the bride and her
mother spent several weeks, and
where the bridegroom is a student of
architecture at the Beaux Arts After
short honeymoon near New YORK,
Mr.. Cobb and his bride will sail for
Europe, where the former will con-
tinue his studies
Velvet coats with cloth or satin
skirts are again prophesied for WIN
ter.
White pique is much used for the
small waistccats Worn with Cloth suits.
Short sack coats of astrakhan. trim
med with ermine, will be fashionable.
Shoulder capes, if only in the guise
of caps to the sleeves, are ubiquitous
on fall models.
1t is said that the charming house
caps worn during the French revolu-
ton are to be worn this winter.