Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-07
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
THE PRESIDENT AND FAMILY
EXPECTED AT A BAG SALE.
Engagements of Daughters of For.
mer Senators-Other Events.
Personal Notes.

President and Mrs. Taft have assured
Miss Mabel Boardman that they will at
tend the bag sale to be held August IS
at the town hall, Manchester. Mass. to
raise funds for the Red Cross. of which
society Miss Boardman is national chair
man.
Former Senator Jones Of Nevada, who
is visiting In Los Angeles, announced
there the engagement of his daughter,
Georgiana Jones, and Robert Kelsey Wal
ton, a lawyer of New York city. The
wedding will take place this month in
Switzerland
Announcement is made of the coming
marriage Of Miss Ruth Mitchell, daughter
of the late John l.. Mitchell. former
United States senator from Wisconsin,
and William van Rheinfeldt van Breda
OF London which is to take place at
Meadowmere, the country seat of the
brides mother near Milwaukee. More
than 1000 invitations are to. be issued.
Mr.. van Breda is a Cambridge man. ad-
mitted to the bar at twenty-one. and now
practicing in London. He was born at
Dutch ancestry. his great grandfather
having been the first governor Of the
Transvaal and his father one of the
first managers of the Kimberly mines
and an intimate friend of the late Cecil
Rhodes
The young people met for the first time
last spring at Terra Nina in Sicily, their
betrothal following one month later.
Easter Sunday Mr.. van Breda will
with him an English friend to serve as
best man. John Mitchell. brother Of the
bride. and Guy Willard Bolte Of Chicago.
a cousin, will be the ushers Miss Kath-
crime Mitchell. the brides sister. will be
maid of honor.
The Mitchell home in Milwaukee Is on
the outskirts of the city and resembles
an old English manor house with acres
of well kept gardens and lawns about
it, and is regarded as one OF the show
places of the vicinity.
Miss Anna Lindsay of Boston and Mr..
j. A l.. Blake of the same city will be
place at York Harbor. Me-. late this
afternoon. Miss Mnna Lyman. Miss
Lindsay's closest friend, is to be maid of
honor, and the only attendant, and Messrs
Ronald Lyman, Francis w. Hunnewell,
second; Edward and Lothrop Motley.
William NJ. WEIGH. William Nickerson
and Harris LivermOre, all of Boston,
classmates of Mr.. Blake. Harvard 'O2. ex-
year later; Nh William Graham Bow
doin of Baltimore and Mr. John A. DIX
OF New York will be ushers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Page are going to Mount
washington In Il DAY or TWO.
Representative Andrew J. Peters has
purchased from Mr.. Charles f. Gibson
the sloop Little Hope to he used for
cruising along the New England coast
Mr. Peters has Joined his wife and infant
at Mrs. John c. Phillips country
home, Moran farm, North Beverly. Mass.
Mr. Francis b. Biddle of Philadelphia
recently graduated from the Harvard law
SfbOOl g n no Iuafjra Oliver Wendell
Holmes private secretary next winter.
Mr.. Biddle is son of Mrs A. Sydney
Biddle. whe was Frances Robinson Mr..
Moncure Biddle graduated from Harvard
in 05, and the youngest brother Sydney,
Is an undergraduate.
Commander and Mrs Archibald Davis
of Washington. d. c.. are visiting Mrs.
was Miss Daisy Cotton of Washington.
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph McComas of An
napoliS will arrive today and leave Tues
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar for
freighter trip up the lakes to Duluth.
Lieut. Charles F. B. Price. L. S. NJ. c..
and Mrs. Price, who have been spending
the week end with Mrs. Prices parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. r. Cunningham at Wash
ington. have left for the rifle range at
Winthrop. Md. They were accompanied
by Miss Clara Price of Philadelphia and
Miss Lillian Manaugh of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter are back
again at Beverly Farms, Mass.
Mr.. William F. Hit has sailed for
Germany. Mrs r. r. Hit and her
elder son, the minister to Guatemala,
and Mrs Hit, are at Manchester, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine are
at Dublin, n. H., this summer, where
the latter's father, Mr.. William F. Mat
tingly of this city, will visit them
this month.
The former minister of Nicaragua and
Nine. Corea have been travelling lately
in the northwest, and have just con-
cluded a most enjoyable tour OF the
great lakes. They are today In chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomas. accom-
panied by Mrs. Clara Ely, have gone to
Colton's, Md, for August.
Mrs William Kelly and her daughter,
Miss Bessie, of Philadelphia, are on visit
TO this city and are the guests or capt.
McCrink at his residence, 1l15 New
Hampshire avenue.
Bishop R. w. Morrison of Leesburs,
Fla, who will be in charge OF the camp
meeting to be held at Great Falls dur
ing the coming week. and Rev Or. FRET
tyman. presiding elder of the Washington
district of the Southern Methodist Church,
will be the guests of Mrs. George W.
Graves. who is now occupying her sum-
mer home at that place, during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson, VINO went
,hroad on the Kaiser Wilhelm III. in