The San Francisco call., 1908-05-31

I large affair. Immediately after it Mr.
Smith and his bride will leave for
New York, from which they expect to
sail for Europe late in July. They will
spend several months on the continent.
One of todays pictures is of Miss
Marjorie Shepard, the charming little
sister of Mrs. Edwin Long. Miss Shep-
ard divides her time between Del
Monte, where she has spent many
months since her school days, and the
Presidio, where Captain and Mrs. Long
love TO entertain for her and her
friends. Strictly speaking. Miss Shep-
ard has still to make her debut, but
she has attended many of the army
hops and promises to be as great a
favorite as was her sister when she
was Miss Georgia Shepard. The Longs
pretty home is one of the most hos
pitabie in officers row and both the
captain and his wife are great favor
ties in social and service circles. The
other picture is of Miss Amy Mckee,
one of the bellies of Alameda, who is
also well known and popular here.
The McKees are members of one of the
states finest families and the daughter
of the house is a leader in a certain
exclusive little set
Several notable weddings are sched-
uled for the near future, the most ina-
portant of which is that of Miss Be
atrice Fife and Captain Edmond Short
lidge. This is to take place on the
evening of Wednesday, the 18th of
June, at St Pauls church in Califor-
MIA street, and will be attended by
several hundred people. To the usual
accessories of flowers, exquisite frocks
and bridal white everything that mil
itary formality can do will be added,
so that the event promises to be a
memorable one. Weddings are quite
stirring enough without the added
thrill of full dress uniforms, the arched
passage Of swords under which the
bride goes, and the splendid rush of the
music; but every one loves a military
wedding and this one promises to be as
pretty as ever military wedding was.
Miss Fife will have five attendants,
and besides DIR. Blue, who will serve
Captain Shortlidge as best man, there
viii be four ushers. all army doctors.
Miss Jeanette Deal will be maid of
honor. but the list of the bridesmaids
Is not yet complete. One of them will
be Miss Frances Stewart, the pretty
daughter of DR.. Humphrey Stewart,
who has just returned from visit to
the Flies. Curiously enough, Miss Fife
and Miss Stewart only met each other
a year ago, after several years of
| carefully avoiding each other. They
used to live in the same neighborhood
before the fire and had formed a fan
cied dislike several years before they
met. The one would leave tea or a
reception when the other came in, and
their excuses for avoiding the places
where they might possibly be intro
duced were many and various. Finally,
however, the introduction took place
and both girls broke into laughter as
they realized the absurdity of their
feeling. They are now quite insep-
arabic.
Miss Helen Elizabeth Bates and
George Hill -Stoddard will be married
on Wednesday evening next in the
home of the brides parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Bates, in Buchanan street.
The fascinating Miss Bessie ought to
make very attractive bride, for she is
extremely good looking, with bright
brown eyes, splendid color and masses
or brown hair. If the occasion of
her marriage has the effect of making
her solemn ii will be almost the first
occurrence in her whole life that has
suodued her irrepressible dimples. for
she is girl who takes laughter with
her wherever she goes, and lives in "a
gale of fun. She is graduate of
the Menio academy and completed her
school days about five years ago. Since
tnen she has been in demand for all
the good times of a certain charminer O.