The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-06

haS given her many frlendS real cOncerH Miss Rutherford is most charming girl and had intended to take an active part in the social life of the city during the coming season.
 She is of particular interest to the pub lie at large from the fact that Kermit Roosevelt second son of the strenuous ex- President is said to have been paying her devoted attention.
 Miss Rutherford came back from France by way of England recently. Except for her appearance at a dance at Mrs. Charles Steele's. at Waterbury, on last Thanksgiving Eve a year ago. Miss Rutherford has participated In scarcely any American social affairs since she was bridesmaid in Paris at the we'd ding of her cousin, Muriel White, to Count Hermann Scherr-Thoss. She has been finished abroad with French schooling, presentation at the British court and entertainments at | houses in Germany, France, England and Scotland. She is 20.
 | Only once in q while are weddings cele- 1 brated either in Trinity or St. Pauls s churches nowadays, MT. and Mrs. Gar row Thropp Geer were married so early in the forenoon in the latter edifice that they were able to start off after the bridal breakfast in good time for their honeymoon jaunt. They are going to Fl Paso, Tex, New Orleans and California, propose making their home In the west. Mrs. Geer was Miss Marian Firth. and her married sisters are Mrs. Howard $. Townsend and Mrs. Edward IT. Wright, Jr. One of her brothers, J. Malcolm Firth. is now in the University of Wis consin
 Miss MarpI1arfa of sister of the Duchess of Chaulnes, has had more propositions of desirable mar riage in Europe in the last two years than any other American girl, no matter how wealthy. One of her most ardent admirers in England Is the young Duke of I.einster. but his delicate health is a bar to marriage
 Visconnt Newry and Morno. older son and heir of the Earl of Kilmere, also proposed. but she declined to accept him, largely. 1t is whispered, because of the way his engagement to Miss Asheton- smith, great heiress was broken of. Now report is current that she has been won at last by future earl, and that an announcement of betrothaI may be expected soon.
 Second Lieut.. William A. Dallam of the Twelfth United States cavalry. has re- SiShSu HUH tllt seTNlce, dnu the note or sacrifice sounded when he married Miss Bessie Mclean two years ago is ringing again in the lives of the two.
 Mrs. Dallam made the first sacrifice. She gave up brilliant social life year ago last June and went with her husband to the Philippines, exposing her frail con- stitution to all the perils of that climate. Now the lieutenant has resigned because his wife became weakened by tropical fever and the doctors gave her her choice of death on the islands or life at home in America. It was the young officers turn to make a sacrifice
 Mrs. Dalam Is the daughter of Mrs. Donald Mclean, former president of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is reported that she is slowly recover ing her health. But to regain her strength will take long time. for the fever has permeated her system.
 The wedding of Lieutenant Dallam and Miss Mclean was a social affair of inn portance. few months after the mar riage came the call to Fort Mckinley, in the Philippines. There was much discuss sion as to whether the young wife should endanger her health by going with her husband.
 'I begged her not to go. said Mrs. Me Lean. "and warned her of the insidious