Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-31

And when at last he had come home
He only talked about the drinks
They served in Cairo and in Rome.
She found her way to Ispahan,
She spent week in far Bombay,
And hurried onward through Japan
And paused at Melbourne for day,
And having reached her native shore,
Her only subject. first and last,
Concerned the clothes the women wore
Within the realms through which she passed.
IS. Il. Kiser. in Chicago Record-Herald.
A MONC the attractive women who
"a have visited Southern California
IA this winter is Mrs. Coey, wife Oh
Charles A. Coey of Chicago who be-
fore her marriage few months ago
was Miss Carrie Hume Lewis OF Kan
sas City, and one of the most popular
girls in her set.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coey, who have been
passing their honeymoon in and ABOUT
Los Angeles, left SUNDAY for Chicago
and during their stay Mr.. Coey, presi-
dent of the Aeronautique club of chi
cago. and an enthusiast, was pronl-
nentiy identified with the local AVA
tors. 1t was from Pasadena that MIS-
Coey made her first ascent last week.
To the beauty of brilliant dark eyes,
delicately penciled brows and masses
of auburn DdlT NOCJ sNNANS
charm of delightful personality. Al
though it is her proud boast that her
family is among the Oldest in Boone
county, Mo-, Mrs. Coey is a lineal de-
seendant of the old Royal Hume fam
ily of Berwickshire, Scotland, VINO
trace their ancestry from a long Inc
of Scottish and English kings Inc
Humes are the possessors OF q Daimler
that waved on Fladden Hill 400 years
ago. OF it bard has written:
The Humes of old were warriors bold,
AS e'er auld Scotland kend man;
Their motto was their country's cause
And True unto the end man.
This is the banner which they raised
On Fladdens battlefield, man.
Those noble men, their names pc pialseu'
They died e'er they would YIELD man.
The historic Warham castle was the
HEADQUARTERS OF the Scottish king at
the Inflated battle of Fladden in which
fell George Hume and his seven sons,
known to Scottish history as the
"Seven Spears of Wedderburn.'
The castle of Wedderburn, near
Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, occupies
the site of these ancient estates ana
was the birthplace of George hume,
who came to Virginia in 1721 and WIS.,
tied his cousin. Governor Alexander
Spottswood, at Temple farm, his
country place near Yorktown.
1t was in this house that Washing
ton and CORVALLIS negotiated the
treaty which gave this republic its
independence.
Through her t-grandmother,
Mrs. Henrietta Monroe Hume, Mrs.
Coey is a descendant of Andrew Mon
roe. who commanded the Pinnace i'll
the service of Cuthbert Fenwick, gen.
eral agent for Lord Baltimore. When
Richard Ingle declared for the parlla-
ment Monroe took sides against Lord
ed ia
Potomac into Virginia. This Andrew
Monroe was the head of the famous
Monroe family of Virginia, from which
sprung the late James Monroe, presi-
dent of the United States, and whose
brother married Sarah Smith, daugh-
ter of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur
Smith, VIII was member or the
house of burgesses in 1885, and whose
granddaughter, Henrietta Monroe, is
the maternal ancestor of Mrs. Coey.
She is the favorite daughter of the
Missouri Confederacy and had the dis
tinction of representing the state as
snonsor at the reunion of the Confed-
crate Veterans in Birmingham, Ala
bama, as sponsor t. the Confederate
state reunion at Nevada, Missouri,
and maid of honor to the sponsor at
Richmond. Virginia. She served as
page to the delegation at the last con-
gress of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, in Washington, ID. 7.
She Is the youngest member of the ID.
A. r. in he- home state. Mrs. Coey
will be one of the charter members OF
the proposed Kansas City chapter OF
the Daughters of 1872. She is also a
member of the Pocahontas Memorial
society of Washington, d. c.
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One of the largest and most beau
tifully appointed social affairs OF the
season was the reception and musicale
with which Mrs. l. N. Peyton enter
tained Yesterday at her handsome home
on ST. Andrews boulevard, the occasion
being a compliment to her niece, Mrs.
u ri Phillips of Pittsburg, who, with
Mr.. phillips and their children, is pass
ing the winter in Los Angeles.
Daylight was excluded and The rooms
were decorated with profusion OF
American Beauty roses. the corner or
the music room where the piano stood
being transformed into a bower OF
beauty and fragrance. De Nubila'
orchestra. stationed on the second floor,
rendered an intermittent program dur
ing the hours for receiving.
Mrs. Estelle Heartt-Dreyfus was
soloist, rendering a Spanish love song
nv Charminade, 'Dodo;" an old Py-
renees folk song, when the Birds Go
North Again" (Willeby), 1.-THE Wind
lStross). "Nocturn'' (Chadwick), "An
den Traum" (Cornelius), Lullaby
fKate Vannah), For Love of You
(Hastings), I'm Sevilla" (Dessaur), In
The twilight Oang). Mrs. M. Hen
MON Robinson accompanied.
Mrs. Peyton was assisted in receiving
NV Mrs. Valentine Peyton, Mrs. f. III.
SnoWden, Mrs w. r. Blackburn, Mrs.
Lewis Clark Carlisle, Mrs. Arthur l..
Halves. Mrs. w. P. Storey. Mrs. r. D.
Rronson and Miss May Comstock of
Snokane. Miss Mary Belle Peyton and
Miss Marie Bobrick presided at the
punch table.
Mrs Hanscom and her daughter, Miss
Hanscom, who are sojourning for a
brief period at Hotel Maryland Pasa-
dena; Mrs III. K. Gregory and Miss
Mabel Gregory of San Franscisco
a.
Miss Gabrielle Higinbotham of Hast
inrs. Neb., and Arthur G. Ball were
married at high noon Tuesday at the
home of the brides sister, Mrs. FL. F.
Neu 3S4S Woodlawn avenue. Rev. j.
M. Schaefie performed the marriage
service in the presence of small COM
nany of friends. After an deliberately
appointed wedding dinner Mr.. and Mrs.
Ball departed for San francisco, where
they will reside.
The alumni of the college of fine arts
Of the University of Southern Califor-
MIA. was charmingly entertained at an
informal affair yesterday noon by Miss
Alma May Cook at the El Moro. In
honor of the event the apartment had
been ofuamented with a simple ar
rangement of clusters of red geraniums
and jarGiniers of red roses.
Late in the afternoon short busi-