Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

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\! AAx family Tuesday the White
\ Wv House will take on the sum-
/ me- quiet in earnest The
| end of Congress being almost in sight will
also thin the population of many of its
| celebrities so that unless the unusual
happens. and il very often does along
! the shores of the Potomac as in less
celebrated places. the who's who cata-
| logue around these parts Will soon be
| rather limited in scope.
The cabinet families will shortly be
! scattered literally to the four quarters of
/ the globe, the inspection tours to which
! the season and time lend themselves so
! pleasantly being the official vacation
method very largely nowadays. Still
! there will be several cabinet homes open
/ the MacVeagh place at Dublin, n. H.;
! the Meyer place at Hamilton, the Nagel
| place at Marion, and that of the Secre
| tary of State at Valley Forge, Pa.
| Mrs. Sherman, wife of the Vice Presi-
| dent, who has been i'll for the last ten
days. is improving. but is still confined
! 10 her room. Her sister. Mrs. De Long,
! of Syracuse, arrived Some days ago. and
will remain until Mrs. Sherman is quite
! we'll again.
Miss Helen Taft went to New Haven
yesterday to enjoy some of the festivities
preceding graduation week.
Mrs. MacVeagh. who has been in Chi
cago for the past week, returned yester-
day.
Mrs. Letter has decided not to go abroad
at all this summer since her daughter,
the Countess of Suffolk, formerly Miss
Daisy Letter, able to come to this
| country on visit. The latter arrived
in New York Friday en- route for Bev-
eriy, Mass, and expects Lord Suffolk
to join her in a week or two They
will stay till midsummer.
Miss Marguerite Barbour will return
today or tomorrow from Providence Hos
pital. where she has been recovering
after an operation for appendicitis.
Thursday next Mrs. Barbour and her
| daughter will go to Atlantic City to
complete the convalescence of the latter
The marriage of Mrs Sarah X. Pol
lock and DR. D. L. High. both of this city,
the latter graduate of George Washing
I ton University, took place Friday, June
Il. at the Congressional apartment
The event was extremely quiet and the
announcement will be surprise to their
friends.
Nine E. de Lima Silva. wife of the
counselor and charge d'afaires of the
Brazilian embassy, continues to improve
after her recent illness. They expect to
leave here about the first of July for Man
chester, Mass, to spend the summer.
The Belgian minister expects to sail for
Europe in early August and to rejoin his
family at their home in Belgium. NJ. Sy-
mon, the new secretary. has arrived to
succeed Prince Henry de Ligne, who will
not return from Europe.
TO break the news OF her marriage,
which was concealed from all but her
parents. who were present at the cere-
mony, reception was recently given, at
which novel way was successfully tried.
y bag was brought in amid the assembled
guests, which when Opsned let out a cat.
The animal had the announcement writ
ten on ribbon tied about it's neck.
Miss Gheen, daughter of Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Gheen, is in ST. Paul, Mimi.
where a number of handsome entertain
ments have been given for her.
Maj. and Mrs Webster and Miss
Frances Webster will leave for their
summer travels the last of this week, and
after stays in New York and Boston will
go to kennebunkport. Me, to spend July
and August. They will go to Montreal
for several weeks and before returning
to Washington in the fall will stay a
while in the White mountains. Mrs.
Webster's mother and sister. Mrs. David
son and Mrs. HOppin, will be the guests
of Maj. and Mrs. Webster in August.
Mrs. Ballinger, wife of the Secretary of
| the Interior is quite as great a social
| favorite in Seattle, their home, where she
went a month ago. as she is here Every
possible form that the hospitality OF her
friends could take has been engaged to
welcome her home. At recent luncheon
| given for her by Mrs. David Gilmore, the
| cluny lace cloth was laid over yellow silk
and the centerpiece was of California
peoples.
thing now at London weddings. At the
| coming marriage of Mr.. John Stuart
Knill, son of the lord mayor, with Miss
Lucy Willis, which will be celebrated in
the presence of the aldermen and sher-
| ifs June %, at ST Georges Cathedral.
| Southwark, Archbishop Vaughan officiat-
ing, Capt. Willis will give his daughter
away, and seven bridesmaids are to at
| tend her. The chief of these is Miss
Mary knill, the young daughter of the
| lady mayoress. The brides dress is to be
of plain white satin and old lace. The
bridesmaids are TO wear mauve satin
dresses, lightly yelled with cloud gray
gauZe, and rustic straw hats with gar
| lands of mauve flowers. They will carry
| tall sheaves of mauve and white orchids.
| and gray suede shoes will complete their
semi-mourning toilets.
| The marriage of Miss Dorothy Draper
and Ensign Kirkwood Donavin. L. S. N,
was recently solemnized in San Fran
| Draper and her fiance, Midshipman
| James Lawrence kaufman, L. S. n, as
attendants. The bride wore three tulle
wells. some old and one new; gift and
| another friends orange blossom wreath
Pearl lace fringed her bouquet, and she
| also carried a great-grandmother' ivory
| fan
! The assistant secretary OF state ana
| Mrs. Huntington Wilson have four Japa-