Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-02

most Interesting Washington study In
bellies may also be addressed as Countess
before another year rolls over her pretty
head.
Mr.. and Mrs George c. Lee Of Boston,
the grandparents of Mrs Nicholas Long
worth who We're here at her wedding.
are wearing their years gracefully. some
discussion of them lately IN their
own city brought out the statement that
their five daughters. son and grand
daughter, Mrs. LongWorth. are each likely
TO reveive 81 ,OO0.aU at the death OF
the aged couple. They are hospitabe but
never make any luxurious display of their
ter how elaborate are their dinners, no
wine is served at their table
Representative and Mrs. James Burke
of Pennsylvania will go to Beaumaris.
Canada for the last half of August.
Mrs. Burke is now i'll St. Louis visiting
her mother
Mrs. and Miss Allen of this city. wife
and daughter of Gen. Charles j. Allen,
U.S.A.. stayed i'll st. Paul. MIMI lot
while last week en- route from the Pacific
coast to Edgartown. Mass. where their
summer home is. Gen. Allen was Ill
charge of the United States engineer $
office for eleven years in ST. Paui ana
the family is very we'll known socially
An interesting visitor in Columbus,
Ohio at present is Miss Martha Piatt
Wortllington of this city. who Is guest
at the home of relative. Mr.. Edw trd
S Thacher in Winner avenue This
beautiful young woman is a great
granddaughter of Gov. Thomas Worth
ington, d granddaughter of Gen. y. 5.
Piatt and grandniece of Col. Don PlatI,
Her ancestry on both sides is interviewer
with some of Ohio's most interesting his
SiS fn n
inston. wrote the poem 'Adena' for Ohio
dav at the jamestown exposition last
wear and Miss Martha read the poem
there Mrs Piatt widow of Col. Don
Piatt has arrived in Columbus and will
make that city her home for the future.
\ social event Of last week on Long
Island was the open air production OF
a Midsummer Nights Dream on the
estate of Representative Bourke Cochran
at Port Washington Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings
Mrs W. Bourke Cochran, Mrs. Stuart
Wcrthley Mrs Lloyd Bryce Mrs. j.
Sergeant Cram. Mrs Charles w. Sloane,
Mrs Cornelius Gallagher. Mrs. Thomas
Hastings Miss Ide and Mrs. Stephen
H. Mason were among the patronesSes.
The three performances given In an ideal
woodland dell were for the benefit of the
Catholic Church which Representative
Cochran attends
Mr. ard Mrs. Benjamin Aymar Sands %
New York and Southampton, L. J.. have
announced the engagement of their only
daughter, Miss May Sands, 20 Hon. Hugh
Howard of England. Miss Sands has just
returned from abroad. She is enc of the
most popular young ladies in New York
society and comes from an old and distin-
guished family. Her father, Benjamin
Aymar Sands. is the son of Samuel StSv-
ems Sands. formerly well known New
York merchant. and Mary T.. Aymar
daughter of Benjamin Avmar, who was
one of the great shipping merchants in
the last century. The Hon. Hugh Melville
Howard is half brother OF the present
Earl of Wicklow. He is about twenty-five
years of age. His father died in 1891
His mother who was the daughter of the
late Richard r. Wingheld and the great
granddaughter of the fourth Viscount
Powerscoa., married. after the death OF
the Earl of Wicklow, the late Marcus r.
Beresford. who died in 1895. and was re-
lated To John Beresford. who married
Miss Emily Ise!ine Of New York. Fanny
Countess of Wicklow, as she is called. re-
tanned her title by courtesy She lives
in n charming villa at Como and enter