Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-19

| Willie Curtis with Miss Elizabeth Gaines
Mr.. Douglas Lees with Miss Dorothy MO
STA of Washington, d. G.; Mr.. Wade Dali
ton with Miss Mary Sewers. Mr. Stew
art White with Miss Louise Bull. Mr..
Harry Toulnnin with Miss Won kono-
block of Baltimore. Mr.. John S. Gaines
with Mrs John S. Gaines. Mr.. Percy EV-
ans with Miss Jenkins: DR.. d. n. Green
| with Miss Josephine Johnson, Mr.. rom
Thornton with Miss Bastable.
| Among the stays were Messrs James
| X. Maddux and Haywood Spilman.
Mrs Beverley Slater, Mrs. Edward Car
block. Mrs Granville Gaines and Mrs.
| Sublett were the chaperons.
Mrs. f.. S. Turner of Warrenton gave a
| tea in honor of her house guest, Miss
Heart, Friday afternoon, July II.
Mrs Grenville Gaines Of Warrenton had
| a bridge party Wednesday morning. July
lis. Mrs. Nat Tyler was the guest of
| honor.
| Miss Elizabeth Sharpless and Mr.. Lucien
| Keith of Warrentun, Va. were married
| Tuesday. July II. at the country home of
| the bride near Philadelphia. Among the
grooms relatives present were Miss Kate
Keith Mr.. John A. G. Keith of Warren
| ton and Mr.. James Keith, jr, Of Admission,
Ala.
Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage, widow Of the
Rev L. ne Witt Talmage. accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Collier, is at Mag
nola. Mass, for the summer. They spent
last year in Europe and only returned a
month or two ago.
| in-law of Senator Lodge and daughter of
the late Judge John Davis. is the guest of
her aunt. Mrs. Henry Winthrop Grey. in
LenOx. Mrs Grey entertained al a picnic
l1rA linz in
Mrs. Lodges honor
A Boston paper says much interest has
been felt there, as we'll as in the SOUTH
over the announcement of the engage.
ment of Miss Blanche Airline Wood of
Ridgewood. Natick. and Mr.. John Charles
Leger of Mississippi. Miss Wood is the
youngest daughter of the late Edward
Wood of Waban, Mass. She has travelled
extensively. She is an accomplished mu-
sician. Mr.. Leger. who is of French de-
scent. is bureau chief of the interstate
commerce commission here. where he and
Miss Wood first met. The wedding will
be in the early autumn at Ridgewood.
Miss Mary Gusts Lee was the hostess
at an Independence day reception and tea
at Hamburgvon-der-ko The chief
dishes that day on the dinner menu at
hotel at this same German spa were: Con-
somme Roosevelt filet de soles Wash
ington: selle d'agneau garnie: Lafayette
mousseine: fois gras Alice: pouIarde
truffee la Yankee: bonnie Etats Unis;
gateau San Francisco.
Mrs. NJ. r. Graves chaperoned a party
on a fishing trip on the Severn river late
ly. Those in the party were Miss Amelia
Norton, Mr.. A. ]. Bucheler, Mrs T. H.
Mack. Miss Edna Graves, Mr.. Walter
Graves and the Misses Emma and Flosse
Graves.
Mrs. Louis Pendleton Darrell and Miss
Adelaide Head sailed for Europe on the
Cedric Thursday to spend the remainder
of the summer.
| Gen. William F. Draper. with his wife
and daughter. are at Lucerne. Switzer-
| land. where they expect to remain several
| weeks. Gen. Draper took part in the
| Fourth of July celebration.
| Among the weddings this month in Lon
don of interest i'm this city will be that of
! Lieut.. Col. Henry Davies, son of the late
| Sir Robert Henry Davies. and Miss Mabel
NJ. Patterson daughter of the late Brig.
Gen. Patterson of the United States
Army
| morning feature of the Fourth of July in
London. but it did not affect the attend
| ance later in the day at the reception
given at Dorchester House, the residence
|
| Whitelaw Reid, where it is estimated $500
| persons were present. An elaborate buff
| fet had been provided on the lawn, to
which many of the visitors found their
| way after being received by the ambas
sador and Mrs Reid and the staff of the
! embassy at the head of the marble stair
| way.
! Among those in the throng were: Lord
and Lady Strathcona, the American con-
sui general and Mrs. Wynne. the French
ambassador, Mr.. j. PierpOnt Morgan, Mr..
| and Mrs. l. Townsend Burden. Lord and
| Lady Leigh, the Turkish ambassador.
| Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant has been
| making a little visit with her son, Lieut..
| Ulysses S. Grant sd, at his home in
| Brookline, Mass.
| Mr. and Mrs. Conrad L. Hoska of Ia
coma, Wash. announce the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Imogene Hoska,
| to Capt. Thomas B. Doe, United States
Army. No date has been set for the
| wedding.
| newly married couple after arriving
| at the idyllic spot where they were to
| spend their honeymoon were somewhat
disturbed to find that their trunk had not
I preceded them. After nearly forty-eight
| hours of fruitless search the trunk ar
! rived at the park none the worse for wear
but almost unrecOgniZable. SO completely
| was it covered with old Shoes a maple
| Sirup can, etc, and placarded with no
! tees appropriate to the occasion and all
! fastened to the trunk with flying white
| ribbons. Their friends had kept poses
| sion of it until every one who wished had
| added feature to its adornment.
| Representative Boutell of Illinois, with
| his family. is at keLnebunkport, Me-, for
the summer.
| Mr.. and Mrs Frank Clark Cosby of
! EnglewoOd avenue. Brookline. and their
| children left town Monday for York Har-
| Dor. where they are the guests of Mr..
| Cosbys mother, Mrs. Frank Carvill Cos
| by of this city.
| The Walter Denegre small cottage
| which the family have been occupying
while waiting for the new cottage at
| West Manchester to be completed, has
| been subrented by Mrs. lockwood Hoar
| Of Washington and Worcester
At the Lake Forest fair, to be given un-
| der the auspices of the Lake Forest Wo-
mems Club, the past week announcement
| was made that q lot has been given from
| the c. b. Farwell estate by his four chill
| dren. Mrs. Robert McGann, Mrs Chat
| feld-Taylor, Mrs. lteginald de koven and
| Walter Farwell, to be used for a contag-
| ious hospital.
Miss Alice Meek Meigs, daughter of
Maj. Montgomery Meigs, u S. A.. of
| keOkuk, Iowa, and Mr. Arthur Orr I'd NJ