The San Francisco call., 1908-07-19

~ II IL unexpected has DNCAA NAAS ~
der Of the week, socially speak
ing. every day having its own
separate surprise for the mem
bers of the smart set. Chief among
them was. of course. Miss Emily Will
sons marriage TO Orville c. Pratt, the
news of which. coming as it did with
out any preliminary rumor OF an en-
"a cement or announcement OF any
plan whatever, quite took society
breath away and reduced even the
families of the principals TO breath
tess amazement. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs
Pratt, who are both prominent social
". were informed of the marriage
after il had taken place, and although
this sort of high handed proceeding Is
never very palatable to affectionate
1nammas, there was nothing else TO do
but TO forgive the bride and groom, as
hundreds and thousands of brides and
Erooms have been forgiven before, ana
make the best of the situation. Just
why Mr.. Pratt and his bride should
have chosen this sort of a wedding 1t
IS hard TO say. The marriage was an
eminently suitable one and, according
TO both families. had they chosen to
go the usual pleasant road Of dig
nified announcement, a round OF en-
pertaining and a pretty wedding. there
would have been no one to prevent IT,
Miss Wilson is the youngest daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Russell Wilson, who, as
Miss Josephine King, was great belle
in society here some % years ago, and
belongs to a prominent California
family. The oldest daughter Of the
family married George Cadwalader
last year, and is one of the most pop
ular Of society's younger matrons. Mr.
Pratt is well connected, being
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city and Mrs. George Gardner of Phil
adelphia and a cousin of the beautiful
Mary Keeney.
The other sudden wedding of the
week, that of Miss Louise Hollister
Cooper and Hewitt Davenport. is far
more easily understood. Their en-
Eagement had been announced and the
wedding set for August. 1t was, in
any case. TO be a quiet affair and at
tended by only closest relatives and
friends and so informal were the ar
rangements that the bride told some
OF her friends that they had decided
not 10 select any one day arbitrarily,
but Just 10 be married quietly when
ever circumstances made 1t seem best
Mr.. Davenport was TO have made a
flying trip to Spirit Lake in Idaho
where his business interests are CEN
tered, some time this month, but dis
covered about a fortnight ago that
once he began to pick UP the dropped
business threads it would be almost
impossible to let them go again, so
that an absence might mean a long de-
lay. Very sensibly, they decided not to
wait, and on Friday evening. 10 days
ago, the plans were completed. Miss
Cooper's brothers in Santa Barbara
were summoned by wire and on Mon
day evening the solemn little cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. Hen
~ Morgan in the drawing room of the
Davenport home. Mr.. Davenport and
his bride left the next day for their
new home at Spirit Lake. where Mr
Davenport has established real es-
tate business. and where they viii
make their home for some years.
Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones also took
society entirely by surprise a week
ago with the announcement of her en-
gagement to Robert Gibson Jr. OF New
York. Not a hint of Mr.. Gibson's ex-
3stence had crept into any of Miss
Jones letters, and as she is a famous
letter writer and kept her friends in
touch with everything that interested
and concerned her during her absence,
they find il hard 10 believe even now
that so important an element could
come into her life without their knowl-
GUEt. MISS JUAtS Is al exceptionally
gifted girl and has seemed up TO this
time TO be absorbed in the artistic. lit
erary and musical interests with which
she bias filled her life. She is a linguist
speaking Italian and Spanish, as well
as the more ordinary German and
French. and has had so wide an ex-
perience, srtistically speaking. through
her travel and her study, that her criti-
cism and her opinion are extremely
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that she knows. Mr.. Gibson is an en-
tire stranger here, but his fiancee's
friends are ready to believe that the
man Of her choice must be well worth
knowing, and they are hoping tina
some time in the future he will bring
his bride TO her old home for a long
visit. He viii arrive here only A few
days before the wedding, which will
take place August Is. and so, perhaps.
society here will not have an oppor-
tunity TO see much of him. Their new
home is to be made in New York, where
Mr. Gibson's people live, and where
Miss Jones has already many friends.
Then. Wednesday had another sur
prise in store, when Miss Maude Payne's
engagement 10 Russell Bogue was an
nounced Every one of the little let
ters that brought this piece of news
70 Miss Payne's friends caused a dis
tinct and separate shock, for nobody
suspected the existence of this affair
and had any girl of the smart set
merely heard Of Miss Payne's engage
ment she would have exclaimed conf
IDENTIFY, of course, to --" (and the
name would not have been that of
Russell Bogue). No. Every one thought
that the lucky man (Which Mr.. Bogue
certainly isl was somebody else. and il
is only TO be hoped that the somebody
else didn't share the delusion.
Miss Payne, who made her debut a
season or two ago, is one of the luck
lest of girls. She has charm, position.
wealth. hosts Of friends and very ex
ceptional beauty. When Mr. Wores
posed her as spring" with a bright
light behind her, an armful of cherry
blossoms and pink kimono at the
cherry blossom fete, she was an ex-
quisite picture. and the curtain was
rung up again and again while the
house applauded her.
All the San Rafael girls and ali the
San Francisco girls, too for that mat
ter, are eagerly looking forward to the
wedding Of Miss Anna Foster and DR..
Lawrence Draper, which is to take
place in few weeks. TEis affair
really ranks as the first Foster we'd