New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
NOVELTY IN WEDDINGS
Miss C0Ieman'S ParS0n and Ush-
erS to Be Women.
SUFFRAGETTES TO CONTROL.
Lawyer For Militant Party In New
York Will Be Married to F. L. Har-
denbrook by Rev. Lydia Commander.
Wedding Cake In Ballot Boxes-Spe-
cial Gifts From Bride to Ushers.

Men will be as inconspicuous as pos
bible at the wedding of the suffragette
lawyer, Miss Mary Coleman of New
York city, to Frederick hampton Har-
denbrook, which will take place some
time in Easter week Mr. Harden
the background, and neither will Mr..
Hugh Coleman, the father Of the BRIDE
Miss Coleman is one of the most
strenuous fighters for the franchise in
the ranks of the Woman's National
Progressive Suffrage union but she
a meeting of suffra gettes that no
amount of emancipation would ever
induce her to be given away by any
one but her father.
Some of the more radical members
of the union intimated that if one Of
their number so forgot what was due
to the cause as to join her fortunes to
those of man before the great vic
tory was won the least she could
do was to permit member of the ex
ecutive committee to go through the
Formally of delivering her into the
Miss Coleman shook her head en-
phatlcally and then announced that
she was going to let Mr.. Hardenbrook
have the support Of best man.
The ceremony will be performed by
the Rev. Lydia Kingsmill Commander,
who was formerly pastor of a Unita-
rian church in Baraboo, Wis. The
,,ushers, who will all be members Of
the union which stood loyalty by Miss
Coleman's side while she told the
burning wrongs Of her sex to crowds
of men in Madison Square and One
York, will wear white directoire frocks
with yellow sashes, and the maid of
honor, Miss Lillian Phillips, will wear
yellow liberty satin and a Charlotte
Corday hat wreathed in yellow orchids
The brides frock will be of white lib
duchess lace and a court train. She
will carry a bouquet of lilies of the
valley and white orchids.
Z. Owing to the fact that Miss Cole
man is Roman Catholic, while hel
fance is member of the Presbyterian
church, the ceremony will be perform
ed at the residence of the brides par
ents, 1875 East One Hundred and Tween
ty-second street, New York. The draw
ing room will be bower of daffodil
1.-THE union flower) and maidenhai
fern, and the dining room will be dec
grated with the same flowers.
The wedding cake will be distrlb
uted to the guests in miniature ballo
boxes, which will be Inscribed below
the intertwined initials of the brid
and bridegroom with the legend 'Vote
For Women" In the center of the ia
bic reserved for the bridal party viii
be a full sized ballot box, which vii
contain special gifts from the brid
to her ushers. 81. ~
The uffragettes will attend in
body, and all Of them will wear mil
tary sashes fastened with the famou
yellow buttons with black lettering
Both Mr. and Mrs Hardenbrook wi
wear buttons in conspicuous position
upon their outer garments when the
''go away" and buttons and yelloN
confetti will he thrown after them il
stead of the traditional rice and oil
shoes Buttons will also be attache
to the yellow streamers floating frol
the maid Of honor's bouquet Of yello'
daffodils.