Evening star., 1908-01-25
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
DINNER FOLLOWED BY MUSIC
FOR WHITE HOUSE GUESTS.
A Wedding Preceded by a Little
Romance-Dinners and Other
Events-Notes.

Events-Notes.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt enter
tanned at dinner last night Senator War.
ren Senator and Mrs. Depew. Senator and
Mrs. Frazier, Senator and Mrs. Briggs.
Senator and Mrs. Paynter. Senator and
Mrs. Bankhead. Representative and Mrs.
Dalzell. Representative and Mrs. Sherman,
Representative and Mrs. Howard. Third
Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs.
Wilson. Gen. and Mrs. George F. Elliott,
Gen. and Mrs. Wotherspoon. Commander
and Mrs. Winslow. Mr. and Mrs. Win
throp Chanler. Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh Hunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. May. Miss Elizabeth Kean.
Miss Langhanf. Miss Tyler, Lieut.. Miller
and Lieut.. Read.
The table decorations we're in golden
gate roses and white carnations
At 10 o'clock several hundred guests
came in for a musicale given -by Mr..
Thomas Evans Greene. tenor: the F1onza-
ley Quartet Mr.. Adolfo Betti. first violin !;
Mr.. Alfred Pochon, second violin: Mr.. Ugo
Ara: viola Mr. Idwan d'Archambeau, M, ~,
Howard. at the piano.
The program rendered was as follows:
'Where'er You Walk (air from Sc
mele'D. Handel: She never Told Her
boNV. 11dyuH. DeSpdIT, F1dyuH,
gal (poem by Thomas Haywood. 157O-165O),
Minetti: quartet in d major. op. 49,:
Haydn; Il Arise from Dreams of Thee. =
Huhn; Noon and Night" Hawley: Re
member" Hawley; "Interludium,' Gla-
zounoff: scherzo from quartet in D major,
op. Z, Singigaglia: Sleep LII Chile (ne-
gro lullaby. Burleigh: Sweet Miss
Mary" Neidlinger: kitty O'Brien" drom
The Highwayman') de koven; 'Gipsy
John" Clay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler and
Miss Tyler of New York are guests at
the White House.
Mr.. Herbert Self and Miss Charlotte
Isobel Gisburne. only daughter of Mr..
I. J. Gisburne of Brooklyn. We're mar
ried this morning at the Alton. 1123 18th
street northwest Behind this announce
nance. which the convention of the Ma
rne Engineers Benevolent Association,
which has been in secession here during
the past week. brought to a climax. Mr..
Self is not only a leading spirit in the
organization but is it's vice preside mt.
A year ago the association met in
convention in Washington, and it tran
spired then that Mr.. Self quite by
accident met Miss Gisburne. twho has
been employed in the Office of the re-
porterS of debates i'm the House of Rep
resentatives. and to their mutual pleasure
they discovered that years before they
had been boy and girl sweethearts while
Miss Gisburne was in school in Brooklyn.
That was ten or twelve years ago. and
since that time they had never seen each
other until they met in Washington.
When Congress adjourned last March
Miss Gisburne went back to her home
in Brooklyn. Mr.. Self was a frequent
caller during the summer at the Gisburne
much of each other. but when Congress
again assembled for its present session
Miss Gisburne returned to Washington
to resume her position. Again Mr.. Self
came to Washington to attend the marine
convention and again met the young
woman but this time he resolved not to
go home alone. Instead he proposed mar
riage on the spot and was accepted. The
ceremony was performed at 10 O'Clock
this morning at the Alton by the Rev.
George C. Carter. rector of st. Andrews
Episcopal Church, in the presence of a
small party of friends. The bride wore
handsome travelling gown of gray cloth
and carried a huge bouquet OF violets
She was attended by her causin. Mrs.
William Green. daughter-in-law of Mr..
Bernard r. Green. Mr.. Jack McGilway.
an intimate friend of the groom acted as
best man. Among those present were
John Gisburne, uncle of the bride, who
gave her away: Mr. and Mrs Fred Irland.
Miss isabella Pechin. Miss Belle NJ. Hart
and Mrs McCreary.
The happy couple were the recipients
of hearty congratulations on the part
of all the members of the recent con-
vention. many of whom accompanied them
on their wedding journey to New York
where they went Immediately after the
ceremony.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Self are well known
and prominently connected in Brooklyn.
Mrs. Self is a handsome young woman
of many accomplishments, and has made
host Of friends in Washington during
her residence here. Mr.. Self is in bust
ness in New York. and is a member of
the aristocratic Bay Ridge Club, the Elks
and other leading clubs in Brooklyn. He
has a beautiful ancestral estate at Bay
Ridge. where the early days of the honey
moon will be spent prior to an extended
journey throughout the west.
The Postmaster General and Mrs. George
Won l.. Meyer entertained at dinner last
night the Italian ambassador and Baron
ess des Planches. the Austrian ambassa-
dor and Baroness Hengelmuller. the
United States minister to China and Mrs.
w. w Rockhil. the naval attache of the
French embassy and Nine. de Blanpre.
Mr.. Justice Moody. the naval attache of
the Italian embassy and Nine. Pfister
Maj. and Mrs Charles l.. MacCawley
Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt. Mrs. f.
Hope Slater. Gen. Crozier, Mrs. Don
Cameron, Mr.. Montague of the Italian
embassy and Miss Houghton of Boston,
the house guest of Postmaster Gene raj
Senator and Mrs. Burrows gave a din
ner last night in honor of the Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Fairbanks, when the other
guests were the Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Metcalf. Senator and Mrs.
Pulkeley. Representative and Mrs. Frank
o. Lowden. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hodge of
kalamazoo, Mich, house guests of the
senator and Mrs. Burrows, and Dr. and
Mrs. Macdonald.
Col. and Mrs. Bromwell gave another
dinner party last night when the COM
pany consisted of the Secretary of Com
merce and Labor and Mrs. Straus. the
Peruvian minister and Nine. Pardo. the
assistant secretary of the navy and Mrs.
Newberry, Rear Admiral and Mrs Clover,
Gen. and Mrs. j. Franklin Bell, Gen. and
Mrs. Alfred f. Bates. Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Foster and Miss Carow.
Mrs. r. s. Brown of Chestnut avenue.
Takoma Park. left last Monday for south
ern Florida. Before returning she intends
visiting her mother, who has winter res
idence at Palm Beach. She expects to be
absent about six weeks.
Mrs. Helen A. Arnold has removed to
1921 Columbia road, where she will be
glad to see her friends
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bennett of Charles
en-, 1lx{ !.