The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-04-19

blossoms and chiffon silks and long
wells. The week is filled with we'd
dings. and from now until the middle
of June the bells will hardly stop ring !
ing. Five important weddings this
week start the season with a rush, and
the distracted younger set does not
know how to manage the requisite
frocks and hats for every function. To-
morrow Miss Josephine Brown and
Harry Stetson viii be married This
affair though a quiet home wedding
is really one of the most prominent
events Of the social year. The Stetson
family has figured In San Franchises
social annals for two generations, and
Miss Brown belongs also to an old
California family, although not a /
wealthy one. Her wedding will take
place at noon at the home of her
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Hayne |
in San Mateo. The ceremony will be
performed by Archbishop Riordau, as
sisted by the Rev. Charles Ramm. The
bride Will wear white messaline.
trimmed with quantities of ole lace |
and her attendants, Mrs. Richardson of
Santa Barbara and Miss Amy and Miss
Nora Brewer, will wear pink lingerie |
frocks and pink and white hats. Wal |
ter Hobart WIFI attend Mr. Stetson as
best man, and the duties of usher will
be divided among William Page, AL |
Harry Sinpkins. After the wedding
breakfast Mr.. Stetson and his bride
VIII leave for New York. and expect to |
sail from the eastern city for France
late this month. They will spend the
summer months abroad The groom's
sister by the way, who originally
planned summer in Europe, has de-
cided not to make the trip just now.
Mrs. Sara Stetson Winslow will surely
ri lcf a
will be accompanied by the Robert OK
nards if Mr.. Oxnard can spare the timel
from business.
On Wednesday there will be three |
weddings. and possibly a fourth. but |
the last is not yet positively a settled |
fact. The marriage of Miss Georgia !
Spieker and John Drum viii be a very
small affair. principally because both |
families are so widely known and both |
or the young people are so popular
that. once the list was started. there |
would be no end to il. Not more than |
is guests will witness the little cere-
mony, which will take place in the
handsome garden of the Spieker home. |
The Drums. the Hitchcocks of San Ma
teo, the Breckenfelds of Berkeley. all |
of these will be present. but except !
for kinspeople, there will be very
few guests. The bride will wear |
white, and if, as now seems probable |
the date is perfect spring day. the |
Spieker garden will be an exquisite set
ting for the wedding party. Mr. Drum |
and his bride will spend their honey
moon in the eastern states.
Miss Spieker, by the way, will carry |
a shower bouquet of orchids on her
wedding day some OF the most ex-
quisite blossoms from the John Martin |
greenhouse being already reserved for |
her The Martin greenhouses are
among the most complete in the coun- |
try, and the orchids especially are won
derfully fine, as all the house holders |
of Ross valley know. There is hardly |
day the gracious daughter of the |
family does not carry handful of the |
lovely parasites to one friend or an |
other, and many a Ross valley lunch !
con or dinner is enhanced by a mass of |
blossoms that would be priceless at any
of the florists. Those that Miss Spieker |
VIII carry are to be pure white. with /
just a dash Of pink in the petals center.
On Wednesday, also, Miss Marguerite /
Tourny, one of the very prettiest of |
the younger girls, and Edgar Van Ber-
gen Will be married. This wedding is
the outcome of friendship that dates
back to the days OF nursery parties.
hide and seek, bread and jam, and all |
the other joys Of childhood days. It
was supposed by Miss Tourny's friends.
however, that she would have at least
a season in society before announcing
the expected engagement. She would
have been among next seasons debu-
tantes had not her wedding plans trans
ferred her to the ranks of the young
matrons.
The third Wednesday wedding will
take place in Fruitvale. when Miss Ell
sic Hall, the third daughter of G. w.
Hail. and Nathaniel Dodge will be
married. Miss Halls mother, who died
several years ago, was daughter OF
the James Mees, who had a handsome
home in Broadway. Since Mrs Halls
death the family has made it's home in /
Fruitvale. The bride will have her !
sisters as her only attendants on her
wedding day. A number of people win
go from this side OF the bay for the !
affair which will conclude with an
elaborate wedding breakfast Mr.. i
Dodge has already furnished charm
ing fat in this city and will take pos
session of 1t after their honeymoon
trip.
The wedding of Miss Anne Greenleaf
of Boston and the Rev. George Maxwell |
of Sausalito was also scheduled for
Easter week, but may be delayed for
another fortnight. General and Mrs.
Charles Greenleaf. by the way, at |
whose Berkeley home the wedding Is
to take place and whose guests Miss
Greenleaf and her sister are, will join
their son. Captain Henry s. Greenieaf,
who arrives from the Philippines this
month, and go with him to Washington.
Captain Greenleafs marriage to Miss
Caroline Mcclellan, a prominent Wash
ington girl, will take place in May.
Showers for brides. like shirt waists
(every one remembers the mysterious,
sudden appearance of shirt waists a
few years ago and their rapid spread |
in all classes and fabrics and styles, I
suppose?), have apparently come to
stay. They are filing long felt want |
and their scope and variety widen !
with every successive wedding At
first they were comic-woolly dogs, tin |
spoons and darning cotton, cookbooks |
and busters were suddenly poured upon |
the bride to be, and gales of laughter
and gloomy prophecy were the result.
Then came handkerchief showers, I
towel showers, linen showers. Useful"
showers followed. and then useless"
showers. Miss Margaret Hyde Smith
was given kitchenware shower by /
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