Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-21

Preston, who spent last winter at school
in Dresden, have been enjoying delightful
tour of the continent since their vacation
commenced. Misses Myers and Whitley
are expected to return home this week with
Mrs. E: T. D. Myers. jr., who has been
their chaperon for some months. Miss
preston will be Joined by her mother, Mrs.
Preston, who sailed on July IS, and will
not be in Richmond until the autumn.
Miss Page Aylett Royal, debutante of
last season and one of the prettieSt girls
In the city, was complimented by being
asked to receive with Mrs. Claude A.
| Swanson and the assistant hostesses on
Richmond day, July IS. at the Virginia
exposition building. Gowned in white and
holding great bunch of Richmond roses
in her hand, Miss Royal justified the judg
ment shown in her selection. and proved an
assistant that even such past mistress
| in the art Of entertaining Mrs. Swan
son has proven herself to be might we'll
be proud of.
Much interest has been aroused in society
circles here by the announcement of the we'd
ding of Miss Lucy Preston Beale to Mr..
Oscar Carpenter Hoffman of Buchanan, Va
The ceremony is to be performed quietly
Tuesday next, July %, in the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Rad
ford Beale of Buchanan. Only immediate
friends and relatives will be present and,
after wedding tour. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoffman
VIII live in Buchanan, where Mr.. Hoffman
Is Well established in business Miss Beale
20 eiiO hiCSc VI VhTS. AuDln BOulWafe OF
Richmond and belongs to a most distin-
guished Virginia family. Her mother has
been resident hostess of the Virginia build
ing at the Jamestown exposition and during
i the time that Miss Beale spent there in the
spring she was greatly admired.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Rice Smith of 6o2 West
Franklin street, this city have announced
the engagement of their daughter Bessie
Warner, to Mr.. Thomas Hamlin Briggs of
Columbia, s. c. The wedding which will
no to- ,-l-z
ing OF August Z, in All Saints Episcopal
Church, the rector, Rev. John Y bowman,
officiating.
Miss Baynie Ia ylor of Norfolk. Va. whose
engagement to Mr.. Philip Prescott of that
city has been recently announced sailed
from New York on Wednesday last for
europe She was accompanied by her sister,
Miss Marguerite Taylor, and will remain
abroad until next November. i
Little Miss Nancy Perkins, the charming
little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Moncure
Perkins of Richmond, is enjoying her mid
summer at the summer cottage of her aunt,
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson on the Maine
coast. Mrs. Moncure Perkins, who paid
short visit to Mrs. Reginald Brooks last
week and said good bye to her son, Mr.. CHS
we'll Langhorne Perkins, when he sailed
for England, has retlrned to Mirador, in
Albermarle county where she and Miss
Nora Langhorne are spending the summer.
Mrs Louis E. McComas. whose recent
marriage to Judge Louis E. McComas at
Atlantic City and her subsequent depar-
ture for Europe aroused widespread inter-
est is well remembered in Richmond, where
she has a host Of relatives and where. as
Little Hebe Harrison a blonde haired child
she was much petted and beloved. Her
father, Maj Julian Harrison, c. S. A. was
the owner Of Elk Hill, one of the finest
Of James river plantations, and was a splen-
did specimen of manhood. His scond wife.
Mrs. McComas mother, was a Kentucky
beauty and belle, a Miss Johnson. When
she and Mai. Harrison came to Richmond
to live in 1876 they at once became great
a child about five years of age. After Maj.
Harrison's death she removed from Rich
mond with her mother. but has always kept
in close touch with members of her family
here.