The Washington times., 1913-10-05
WASHINGTON TINES SUNDAY. OCTOBER s. 1913
JEAN ELIOT@
LETTER

and there is hitch in the ceremony and the
guests begin to wonder what has happened
well, she doesn't part with the flowers. She
simply stands the thing on the floor, and
there you are.
BY the way, did you know that Marion
Smith, son of Senator and Mrs. Hoke-Smith
of Georgia, was to be the best man, and
that Lieut. James M. Murray, U. S. NJ; Lieut.
Bernard L. Smith, u. S. M. c.; Ensign Vic
tor D. Herbster, U. S. NJ, and Ensign God
frey Dec. Chevalier, u S. N, were to be
ushers? Virginia Jeffries will be her sisters
maid of honor, and the miads will be Doro-
thy Aleshire, Mary Stead, Ruth Allen, of
Boston, and Marjorie Alcott, of East Orange,
N. J. Little Sue Bucknell, DR.. Bucknells
baby, viii be the flower girl.
Writing the names of this party makes
me think that did not tell you that Marion
Smith, or Marion Hoke Smith as he usually
terms himself, is engaged. Yes, to the sweet
little girl from his hometown" who visits
Lucie Hoke Smith so often, and was at
Magnolia with them this summer Sarah
Brock Rawson, daughter of Mrs. William
Clark Rawson, of Atlanta. The Senator's
family are delighted, for Sarah has been like
one of the family for years and they all love
her. Last summer Mrs. Smith told me that
she was the dearest girl in the world out
side of her own girls, and was so pleased
that she was coming up to visit them at their
summer place. The wedding is going to
take place on November IL in Atlanta, and
guess the Smith family won't return here to
get settled for the winter until afterward.
Marion is making good at law in Atlanta,
and the Senator and Mrs. Smith are rightly
proud Of their only boy.
I'm sorry l cannot give you the details
you ask for about the White House wedding.
The family have not returned to town yet,
and there is nothing to tell. Miss Hagner,
who just got back, says she doesn't know
thing, so there yeu are. If she doesn't, who
does?
Helen McCumber is back in town again.
in the summer, and we're to be joined by
the Senator when Congress adjourned, but
as it did not, they joined him here instead
this week. Helen looks fairly we'll consider
ing that she is convalescing from typhoid. 1t
was too bad, but she was i'll nearly all sum-
mer l rather guess she did too much last
winter. There never was dance, seems to
me, when she was not there, and she went
every moment. She is so pretty, and know
one young officer in the Marine Corps who
was crazy about her last winter. Whether
there is anything real interesting in it do
not know.
Another November wedding that will in
terest you is Helen Downing's and Lieut.
Commander Hugo Wilson Osterhaus, of the
Navy. ! told you about the engagement last
May, when Mr. and Mrs. Downing made the
formal announcement The Downing family
returned to town from jamestown last week
and great plans are on foot. The bridegroom
mas been ordered to Annapolis, and he will
take his bride there, and that pleases every
,ne connected with the happy event.
And, anent Annapolis, there is new set
Of officers there now, and among them any
number of brides. One popular Washing
ton girl who went to the little Maryland town
4 bride last fall is Mrs. Castle, wife of Lieut.
Guy w. Castle, and formerly Harriet Bayne
She is among those leaving. Her husband
1as been ordered to sea, and for the present
she will be in Washington with her mother.
Mrs. John W. Bayne, in Connecticut avenue.
see Dorothy Shuey so often on Con-
lecticut avenue. She is looking so we'll and
pretty after summer. spent quietly at the
Shuey place in West Virginia. Did you
,ver hear any more about her engagement
o the Swiss diplomato She denies it abso-
utely, but that is her privilege, know.
Do you think there is any truth in the
umor that Esther Denny has given up So
iety and gone to Philadelphia to take up
ome study? Some one was telling me the
,ther day, and did not think it could be So
or Esther liked society, and what is more
n fhe DOinf society liked her