Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

| a LREADY the dates for the debu'
~ tantes are being announced or al
"a least arranged. AS shown In
L these selections the last week OF
| ten days in November Is almost
| as popular as the first weeks of December
| The list published in these columns sever
al weeks ago includes for a reasonable GER
| tainty Miss Erma Shaw, Miss Olga Con-
verse, Miss Marguerite Symonds, Miss
Esther Denny, Miss Ruth Tanner. Miss In
| dia Bell Fleming. Miss Eleanor Slater, Miss
| Edgarina Hastings, Miss Elizabeth Jewett,
Miss Henrietta Fitch. Miss Crawford, Miss
| Frederick Morgan. Miss Evelyn Chew, MISS
Margaret Scott, Miss Laura Wells. Miss
| Jessie Steele the Misses Shonts. Miss Con-
stance Hoyt and Miss Kathleen Jennings.
In Philadelphia and Baltimore coming out
teas and parties are events of this and
! next month. invitations being out for
number of events which promise to be ex-
| ceptionally interesting.
One of the most beautiful weddings In
every particular to transpire in Old Christ
| Protestant Episcopal Church at Winchester,
| Va, was that at o'clock on Wednesday
| evening, October 3, of Miss Esther Lewis
to DIR. Alexander Wiley Moore of New
York. The marriage was attended by about
300 invited guests from Winchester, Clarke
and surrounding counties of Virginia and
West Virginia. as well as friends from
Washington. Baltimore. New York and
other cities of the east and south.
The bride was gowned in Canton crepe
made of immense shawl worn by her
grandmother, Mrs. Lorenzo Lewis, and real
| lace worn by her mother. Mrs. Carter Penn
Lewis on her wedding day many years
ago. Her veil was caught by orange bios
SONS and she carried lilies Of the valley.
Her ornaments were diamonds and tur-
quoise. She is beautiful Virginia belle
and a great granddaughter of Nellie Park
Custis, while her great-great grandmother
was Gen. George Washington's sister. Her
father was the late Col. II. l.. Dangerheld
Lewis and until few years ago the fam
| lily lived at "Audley," the famous and his
| toric old Clarke county home of the Lewises
and Custises. which was also the home OF
Nellie Gusts before she became the adopt
| ed daughter of the Washingtons
The maids of honor were Miss Carter
Penn Lewis and Miss Margaret Byrd Lewis,
sisters of the bride, and they wore white
embroidered batiste with real lace trim
mings and carried roses, while the flower
girls were Misses Douglass Fuller daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs H. D. Fuller of Win
chester, and Miss Emily Stevens, daughter
of Col and Mrs Edward Stevens of Castle
Point" Hoboken. N. j., who wore dresses
of the same material as those worn by
the maids Of honor. The groom's best man
was his brother DR.. BaXtor Moore OF Char
| lotte, N c.. and the ushers were Messrs.
John Freeman, Daingerfield Lewis, Dr.
John Page, DR.. William White, John L..
Rooney and Duncan Smith, all of New York,
and DR.. Charles Venable of Charlottesville
Va. The bride was given away by her
brother. Mr.. James Lewis Of New YORK,
and the marriage service of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. of which the bride Is
a member was read by Rev. Parker T:
Phillips rector of St. Pauls Church of
Alexandria, Va, assisted by Rev. William
d. Smith. rector of Christ Church of Win
chester
A brilliant reception followed at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Nancy Lee Coble. across
the street from the church, where the
brides mother has had apartments for
several years, and early the next morning
the young couple left on a tour. after
which they will reside in New York. The
groom belongs ito an old southern family,
being a son of Mr.. Eli Peyton Moore OF
Chester S. c. Mrs. Leach and Miss Bette
Black Of Washington were among the out
of-tOwn guests.
Mrs Mccormick. wife Of the ambassador
to France, has had an extensive social ex-
perience. which stands her in the same
relative Importance as the diplomatic train
ing her husband received first as secretary
to the embassy in London and afterward
in Vienna and st. Petersburg before going
to the French capital 1t is said that the
ambassador owns the most complete set Of
Napoleonic engravings in the world. Those