Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-06
MRS. TAFT IS GOING TO OLD
HOME TO VISIT HER FATHER.
Engagement of Miss McCook and
Hugh S. Knox Announced.
Personal Notes.

in New York before returning here about
the 18th
Vt church yesterday Mrs. Taft wore
suit of deep violet satin. Her high
small hat of violet velvet was almost
covered with velvet pansies. Miss Taft
wore plain tailored stit of striped gold
en- brown serge and "a hat OF velvet and
fur
The engagement of Miss katherine Me-
Cook of New York city and Hugh =.
Knox. the second son of the Secretary of
State. is announced. No date has been
set for the wedding.
This wedding will be the third in the
State Secretary's family within five years.
1t will be the second time that the name
of Knox is linked with that of McCook.
Secretary Knoxs eldest son. j. II. Reed
Knox. and Miss Elizabeth McCook Of
Pittsburgh were married January %. 1905.
The marriage was without notice. except
for telephone message from the bride
to her grandmother just before the de-
parture of the pair on their honeymoon.
In March of last year the youngest son
of the Secretary, Philander Chase Knox.
jr., ran away with Miss May Boiler Of
Providence. F. |. He was nineteen and
his bride twentvone years old.
Miss Katherine McCook is the only
daughter of Gen. Arson G. McCook, one
of the family of fighting McCooks.
Gen. McCook was secretary of the United
States Senate for many Years.
Chief of Staff and Mrs Leonard Wood
VIII give a reception and tea to the gen
eral staff and the Army War College to-
morrow afternoon at their quarters al
Fort Myer.
Lord and Lady Decies viii arrive this
week in New York from England. They
will spend the week end at Lakewood
u-;tt I'D Ia, a
will be in New York for the horse show.
at which Lord Decies is to act as one of
the judges.
Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Clarence Willis of
Champaign, ILL.,, have sent out the invita-
tons for the marriage of their daughter,
Edith Charlotte. and Mr. Rudolph Max
Kaufman of this city. on the afternoon
of Wednesday. November %, at o'clock,
at 1O3 North Prospect avenue, Cham
paign. Ill. At home cards are inclosed
for Fridays after January Il at the
Dresden, this city.
Beekman Winthrop assistant secre-
tary of the navy and Mrs. Winthrop. who
returned recently from Munich to Paris.
sailed Saturday for this country. They
spent the last days of their holday IN
motoring out to Fontainebleau and other
places in the vicinity of Paris, and also
gave one or two small dinner parties
Prince Ludoyico Pignatelli d Arasona
of Spain. who is now in New YORK. mas
been leading figure in the social activl-
ties of the Virginia Hot Springs for the
past month. where he made the acqualnt-
lance of several Washington bellies. He
is a member of the Spanish branch OF an
ancient Italian house, which furnished "a
high constable to the kingdom of Naples
in 1fU2 and a pontiff in the person OF
Pope Innocent, who died in 1909. The adj
ditional name of Aragona comes through
the marriage in the seventeenth century
of Prince Hector Pignatelli to the daugh-
ter and heiresS of Prince Diego Ara
coma, the last of his line, the Aragona
in question being not the Spanish prov
ince of that name. but the ancient town
of .Aragona. in Sicily. some eight miles to
the north OF Girgenti. Prince Iudovico
has an English mother and grandmother.
His mother was Miss Emily Cavendish.
daughter of Capt. George CavendiSh OF
the LIST Life Guards and Emily only sis
ter of Sir Horace kumbold. former Brit
ish ambassador at Vienna. Mrs. George
Cavendish divorced her first husband and
then married Count Castor de la Roche
foucaud. from whose villa at BiarritZ
familiar to many Americans VINO have
visited that popular French seaside re-
sort, her daughter married Don Luis
Pignatelli d -Arasona. father of the Prince
Ludovico now in this city.
The marriage of Miss Elsie Elizabeth
Lower. daughter of MIR G. E. Lower. and
Mr.. G. s. Pomeroy OF Vermont will take
place Wednesday afternoon. November
j., in s.. stephens Catholic church. at
o'clock. Only the immediate relatives
will be present. owing TO illness in the
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lawrence of this
city have announced the engagement of
their daughter. Miss Ethel Lawrence, and
Passed Midshpman Stanley Roscoe Ca
nine, L. :. y. Miss Lawrence Was grad
uated from Barnard III 1910 Midshipman
Canine was graduated from Annapolis in
1909 and is attached To the Dixie.
Mrs. Perry Belmont the first day of the
meeting at the Longchamps race course
wore IA costume of black velvet trimmed
with white fox fur and black velvet
hat with white plumes.
Mrs. Annie Barr Israel announces the
engagement of her daughter Dorothy
Meriden Conn. The marriage will take
place late in November.
Miss Helen Dyer WAS hostess at Hal
loween party given at her home on La
mont street Friday evening November
3. A novel feature OF the occasion was
the serving of refreshments in the cellar.
which had been beautifully decorated
with palms, cadars, fall leaves, lanterns,
witches, pumpkins. etc. the effect being
quite surprise to the guests. Dancing
was enjoyed until a late hour. Among
those present were Misses Allen. Corille,
Colliday, Chase. Fill. Hitchcock, Hulse,
MCGEE, Miller. Morey. Petersen Robert
son, Stewart, Simpson. StohlInan. Dyer.
Winter and 1eager and the Messrs.
Beck. Boutell Champion. Johns. MCGEE.
Offutt. Pyle, Stewart, Scott. Smith, Stohl-
man. Joe and William Darnall. Hobart
and Paul Ramsdell. Ted and Cyril Miller
and Robert and Edwin Dyer.
.
Mr. and Mrs. Ammon Behrend, and Mr.
Richard Bonwitt of New York We're mar
ried yesterday at noon at the home of
the brides parents, Rabbis Stern and
Simon officiating.
The bride, in a modish tailored gown
of gray Zibeline entered with the groom.
Only small family party witnessed the
simple ceremony. after which a dinner
was served. Late in the afternoon Mr..
and Mrs. Bonwitt left for New York, to
sail Tuesday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm
to spend the winter in Paris. Before set
Ting there Mr.. and Mrs. Bonwitt will
visit the latter's relatives in Berlin.
Mrs William L. Thurber of 151 Adams
street northwest will be at home Tues
days, November and II. for the last
times this winter prior to her departure
for Fort Pierce, Fla, where she will re-
main until the late spring Mrs. Franklin
II. Clark of Lansing. Mich, will be with
Mrs. Thurber both Tuesdays.
Mrs A. S Early and little daughter
Violet returned to their home in Wash
ington last week. Mrs. Early has been
with hal parepts Mr. and Mrs Nelson