Evening star., 1912-06-11
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
SPLENDID GIFTS RECEIVED BY
MISS IDE.
Secretary of State Dinner Host for
Envoy-Engagerents-Wed-
dings-Notes.

The President ana Mrs. ait nave sent
as a wedding present to Miss Marjorie
Ide. daughter of the United States min
lister to Spain. large silver censerpiece
The marriage of Miss ide to Mr.. Shane
Leslie. son of Col. and Mrs. John Leslie
of London. will take place this afternoon
at the Bourke Cochran home at Port
Washington. Long Island. the Rev. Father
Carroll of tine Roman Catholic Church
at that place officiating. Mrs. Cochran
will be her sisters only attendant. and
William Seymour Leslie is TO be his
brothers best man. The ushers will in
clude Frank Gray Griswold Peter F.
Dunno. j. Norman de r. Whtehouse
and Representative Nicholas I.ongworth.
the latter. with Mrs. Longworth, having
been a guest at The Cedars for the last
day or so.
Other splendid gifts. interesting also
because OF the prominence of the yivers,
were shown Yesterday to the gathering of
friends present az the wedding rehearsal
The King and Queen of Spain are repre-
sented by an exquisite old Spanish fan of
the sixteenth century and their signed
photogra phs Prince Henry of Prussia
sent signed photograph: the Duke and
Duchess of Connaught, silver in',stand,
and Mrs. CORVALLIS West an aunt OF
the bridegroom. silver tea set. The diplo-
matte circle al Madrid united i'm silver
gift.
Sir John Leslie and Lady Constance
Leslie of Gassbough. County Monaghan.
lrefand. grandparents OF the bridegroom,
have presented the bride with ruby and
diamond bracelet, which was given by
King George ~ to Mrs. FitZherbert,
whose adopted daughter was the mother
of the present Lady Constance Leslie.
Lady Constance gave an old CoSway
miniature surrounded by pearls. being an
exquisite painting of Mrs. Fitzher5ert,
which was made for the king.
Mrs. Leslie's gift to her future daugh
ter-in-law was magnificent corsage
ornament of diamonds and pearls, and
Col. Leslie gave chest of silver. Her
father gave her diamond necklace. Mr..
and Mrs. Cochran gave a string of pearls.
and the bridegroom'S gift to his bride
was an old Calbochom sapphire ring.
The couple will sail for Europe early in
July and will go first to Spain. where
they plan to remain for some time before
going to London.
The President will entertain at dinner
tomorrow evening in compliment to the
minister of foreign affairs of Guatemala.
Miss Taft. who is visiting in Seabright.
\. j., will return the end of this week,
as will Charles Taft, whose summer vaca-
tion from school is close at hand
Mrs. George Won l.. Meyer and the
Misses Meyer have gone to Boston. en-
route to their summer home at Hamilton
Mass.
Mr.. Gardner Williams. who is now in
California for the summer, has an
nounced the engagement of his daugh-
ter Dorothy to Mr.. Monroe Eyre
Pinckard of San Francisco
~
have been spending several days with
relatives at Pinehurst.
Mrs. Ida C. Clum has announced the en-
gagement of her daughter, Mildred Con-
stance. to Mr.. George Clarence Wheatley
of Baltimore, Md.
The wedding of Miss Gwyneth Conser
and Lieut.. Aubrey Wray Fitch will take
place at st. Anne's Church, Annapolis.
this afternoon at O'Clock Following
the ceremony which will be performed by
Bishop Harding. assisted by the Rev. DR..
McComas, rector of st. Anne's. there will
be a reception at Mrs. Conger's home on
Murray Hill. A special car left the W..
B. & A. station at 2:G5 pm. which carries
the Washington guests directly to the
church in abundant time for the cere-
mony.
The Italian ambassador is spending
few days in New York, and his daughter.
DOIHd beatrice CuSdn1 COnfaIOnleri, is
visiting friends near Boston They viii
return before sailing for Italy. July f.
News of the recall of the invitations
and cancellation of the Alleyne-Newberry
nuptials which came as decided sur
prise to Detroit society last week, has
practically closed the social season of
that city. Any amount of large and
small affairs in compliment to the two
young people were to have filled every
hour of the day until the anticipated we'd
ding on the 18th. Many friends and rel
atives had postponed their usual early
summer sojourns, to be present at the
wedding and reception which was to have
followed and which would have been one
of the largest and most important affairs
of the year in Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lansing son-in-
law and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
W. Foster. left yesterday to motor to
Watertown, n Y. their home.
Mrs. Philip II. Sheridan and the Misses
Sheridan have gone to their summer
home in Massachusetts, for the season.
Arrangements have been completed for
the wedding of Miss Ina A. Wallace and
Mr.. Richard II. Stuart, which will take
place tomorrow evening at o'clock in
St. Margaret's Church.
The usherS are to be Messrs. r. Stuart
Hunter. Edmund S. Hunter. Douglass