Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09


/ capitals little season promises
| to be as gay as usual Following the old
custom, the charity fetes whether they
i happen TO be cavalry drills, tableauX,
dances or what not. are a very impor-
tant part of the revival and have
marked bearing on the arrangements OF
more formal events. Administration din
ners and luncheons informal days at
| home in the cabinet circle are other indi-
cations that the official contingent is back
| with the same willingness to show and &C
cept hospitality which made the sprung
months so notably busy. Debutantes and
i their affairs are looming up not as per
picking but as decidedly delightful af-
| fairs in which the old like to take part.
| the same as the young. The bridal events.
the ceremonies and the receptions as well
as the parties which always lead up to
! the happy dates continue to be quite
numerous and in many cases so unexpect-
ed that an additional feature of interest
/ is attached.
/ We were robbed again the past week of
near-home thrills by the marriage of Miss
| Dorothy Williams and William F. Nc
| Combs in London. That two Washington
brides should select Friday and London
| for the day and scene of their weddings
| is of itself unusual, but that the family
name of each was the same increases the
coincidence which circumstances brought
about. The Observation-Disclosures marriage
made the third in the list of the unex-
pected matrimonial events taking place
among families of similar prominence at
the capita. and all in places other than
Washington. The principals in the first
OF the trio fortnight ago Mr.. and Mrs
William Hit were here the early part OF
the week The Hit home on Dupont cir
Gle is open. but the ElkinS house on Is
street is still closed, Mrs. Elkins remain
ing at her West Virginia place, from
which she has sent announcements of her
daughters wedding Now who is to start
the next bunch of unexpected weddings
1t seems that the close friends of the
bride of Mr.. McCombs knew all about the
wooing and the date of the wedding. but
those of the happy bridegroom were not
so fortunate
The cable message to intlmates of the
Williams family announcing the date
did not create any surprise. natural
~. to these friends, but 1t certain
w did among, the hundreds of their
casual acquaintance who were not
aware that all the travelling plans Of the
brides relatives We're really leading up
to their meeting III London for the we'd
ding. The whole event IS regarded as
such happy one that the intimation in
well informed circles THAT Mr.. McCombs
will accept the American Enthusiastically
to France and that by February next he
and his bride will be in residence in
Paris rounds off the whole affair In
the meantime. whether these newly
weds are on the Niagara representing
the first romance aboard the ship under
the Letter charter whether they are
somewhere else before
they become guests this supmtuous
floating palace are details of no partlcu-
lar Importance to the world in general
1t seems to be settled, however, that the
couple will spend month or more with
the Letter party. as will Mrs. Williams
and her young daughter, Frances.
debutante of a year hence. Col VII
liams leave of absence will conclude
very shortly and he will return to MS
duties at the war college, this city.
The suspense is all over far the
invitations to the White House wedding
are concerned. They were distributed
early in the week following the an
nouncement of the personnel of the bridal
party. 1t has been made pretty plain
that the capacity of the east room was
necessarily taken into consideration
when the witnesses to the ceremony We're
numbered and that the list could not
include the official contingent, beyond
stated number. Relations and a few old
time intimates. as we'll as a representa-
tive number oI the newer lIItiluS vi the
family. form the rest of the notable com
pany expected.
The bride will have her sisters and girl
/ friends for her attendants and the BRIDE
groom has selected his best man and
| ushers for precisely the same personal
| reasons. Details of the bridal finery and
| descriptions of other essentials to the ar
| rangements have all been and will likely
| combine to be safely guarded till the last
| moment, which is precisely right in this
nd a a
| administration is starting new series
I~aong these lines. The arrangements
| for the Longworth- Roosevelt wedding did
| away with official glamour as far as pos
| sible, although the Presidents military
and naval aids contributed to that effect
! lined up one side of the aisle facing
| the raised platform in the east room.
| where the couple stood TO be married.
| The civilian ushers faced them. and near
| both We're the members of the two con-,
| tracing families. Ambassadors and am
| bassadresses We're near the front rank
| also. but after the ceremony Mr.. and
| Mrs. Roosevelt withdrew to the blue par
lor and left all the formalites to the
| newly welded couple, who held their re-
| ception facing the guests and on the
spot where they were married.
After this part of the event was over
the bride and groom and their friends
enjoyed themselves as folks do at any
wedding where all are well acquainted.
1t has not developed yet whether at
any of the suburban homes hereabouts
are expected Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre for
the first days of their married life. The
| Longworth couple went out to Friend
ship, the John r. Mclean place, the
late afternoon of their wedding day.
although dozen other likely desi-
nations had been arranged in the pub
lie mind. But the news got out in time
to finish the story of the wedding that
sunny day in February seven years
ago. and the happy couple was seen
in town again the following day
| The bridal party to attend Miss Jessie
Wilson and Mr.. Francis B. Sayre at their
marriage in the east room of the White
| House Tuesday afternoon. November %.
/ at ) o'clock, will include Miss Margaret
/ Wilson. maid of honor. and Miss Eleanor
Wilson. youngest sister of the bride-elect.
Miss Mary CT. White of Baltimore. a col
lege friend of Miss Jessie Wilson; Miss
Adeline Mitchell Scott daughter of Prof.
William B. Scott of Princeton and Miss
Marjorie Brown, a daughter of Mrs. Will
sons cousin Col r T. Brown of At
lanta, Ca. as bridesmaids.
DIR. Wilfred T. Grenfell the missionary
doctor of Labrador. with whom Mr.. Sayre
worked while in that country, will be best
man.
The ushers are to be Mr.. Benjamin B.
Burton of New York city, who graduated
in 1912 from Williams College; DR. SEQ
vile Clark of Salem. Mass, whom Mr..
Sayre knew in Labrador and with whom
he trailed northern Newfoundland: Dr.
Gilbert Horax of Montclair. NJ J.. who
was a classmate at Williams College in
1909 and is now at the Johns Hopkins
Medical School. and Mr.. Charles f.