Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

III w mite house again, anu tudI
Il a wedding, is the reasonable
i prospect there for the comm g
II autumn, lifted the social news
II of the cap!tal last week back to its
| pre-eminence on the anniversary of the
| Presidents nomination in Baltimore.
\ The announcement of the engagement
of Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Mr..
4 Francis Bowes Sayre of Pennsylvania.
like all the other good things happen
4 ing to the Presidents family. was a
| great surprise, though why it should
4 be is strange. too. when such pretty
\ girl was In question. Now that we'd
dings have commenced in the wilson
4 family they may continue. so that
\ there may be three instead OF the one
/ in prospect, an event SO rare after all
\ in the White House history that only
| a few of the members of Presidents
/ families have been principals in them
u during the past century. Putting to-
/ gether what one has heard and what
\ one may be thinking, 1t looks as II the
4 official and social world will arrange
I It's autumn engagements with view
to spending the last half OF November
\ in its Washington homes. so that IL a
| bid TO the wedding happens along
| these notables Sand their bridal gar
| ments will be ready for action. 1t may
| be safely asserted that the coming
/ White House wedding will be just a
i little different from the last one, the
1 Longworth- Roosevelt event, at which
| fashionable society OF many cities was
| brilliantly represented. and fetes in
| connection with 1T made the week ?
/ gala one
1 The honeymoon stay at Friendship. an
i the temperance OF the happy cou.i
\ motoring about the capital ere startif.
| on a more prolonged journey, were in
cidental features which kept a keenly
| interested world the .quf vive of ex-
! pectation as to what might happen next
/ more serious program Is probable for
| next autumn'S nuptialS, however, the de-
| tails OF which will occupy many a de-
| lightful moment for the happy family
/ now reunited at Cornish. where only In
terruptions such as it's members seek
1 Will disturb their summer vacation.
l Unless for their intimates the court
| ship of the couple has not been observed
| hereabouts. 1t is said that their en-
gagement has existed for some time and
that the lucky bridegroom-to-be made
| his first visit to Miss Wilson at the in
auguration and as frequently since as
| his New York duties would permit. They
have been acquainted for two years.
meeting first at the home Of mutual
| friends in Lancaster, Pa. Miss Will
| sons two years OF hard work in Ken
sington. Philadelphia's textile district,
| has hroadened her knowledge Of social
\ conditions among breadwinners and Mr..
1 Sayre has had many similar experiences
during his college years and subse-
| quently.
He has not yet been admitted to the
New York bar. although connected
with the Office Of the New York dis
| trict attorney. where he was showered
with congratulations following the
publicity OF his engagement.
He is quoted as saying that none of
the published pictures of Miss Jessie
Wilson do her justice, which is a very
true remark, even from very partial
critic. Her blonde hair, blue eyes and
pink and white complexion are lost in
her nhnfn0Yan and q
chief attractions of her good looks.
She will make a lovely bride, whether
| a hundred or five hundred are present
to see her bushes.
Those Of old-time Washington society
who visited at the British embassy years
ago when 1t was still a legation and
Lionel Sackville West was at it's head are
finding the present-day description of the
manners of his eldest daughter, the
present Lady Sackville West, to be quite
like what it was then. She is said to be
as demure at times as a nun just as it
was when she was chatelaine OF the big
house on Connecticut avenue Lady Sack
VILE West is defending suit brought by
the relatives Of Sir John Walter Scott to
break his will. in which he left her four
million dollars.
She has had amazing success in the
answers she gave the cross-examiners
the past week in turning the point in
her own favor, probably largely because
most people think she is telling the truth
She and her husband, who is her cousin
and who inherited her fathers title
needed money, and frankly admit 1t, to
conduct the style of living which a resi-
dence in Knole Park, the West ancestral
home. entails, and in Sir John Scott an
amiable person was found to crafty
these ambitions.
Naturally his relatives object to losing
the pretty pile, and hence the law suit
now being fought and incidentally afford
ing the London smart set more excite
ment and pleasure than most of the oc-
currences Of the season. Lady Sack
willie West has made splendid witness
and is charmingly beautiful figure in
the box. The presence of her daughter.
now twenty-one years. and equally pref
ty, the financee of Viscount Lascelles,
heir to the Earl Of Hardwood, adds a
piquant touch, though none is really
needed. The younger woman is credited
with being unwilling to marry unless her
mothers claim to the legacy is decided
in her favor.
Three prettier girls never lived at
the British embassy than the Misses
Sackville West and there was genuine
regret at their departure, after their
fathers untimely criticism, preceding
Mr.. Cleveland's denomination. Their
subsequent career abroad has been in
teresting. One of the prettiest Of the
trio married a French diplomat and
was the first bride.
The easy pace which leads up to the
real season is now on at Newport and
everybody who is anybody is engaged
in the pleasant pastime of dinner CIV
ing, with informal dances and other
time killing diversions. Many of the
| big houses have no occupants as yet,
and the number Of those who could
be suspected of trying to break in
society is very small. The conserva-
tive element, which never fails to be
present every summer, unless 1t hap
pens to be In as good place in Europe
| is on hand and may be depended upon
/ to take its full share in the program
and to offer a pair part of 1T them
selves Several foreign embassies and
legat tons are represented among the
Icottagers and with good reason, since
there Is no place where the company
of the diplomats will be more eagerly
sought and where they number more
iacauaintances in the smart set. James,
town and Narragansett Pier have their
| full quota also of Washington1anS IN
their summer visitors. Newports real
season though does not begin till Au-
gust, and whether or not 1t Is to have
any titled folks. American or otherwise.
as extra attractions, is not as yet made
public.
| Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British am
| bassador, will remain at Dublin, N. h.,
1 until about the 1st Of November, &C
| cording to present plans. The embassy
/ has ONCE quarters near by, and the home
| OF the ambassador Is a splendid Dun-
! galow in the center of large, Well
| wooded tract adjoining the MacVeagh
estate. Lady Sp;ing-Rice. though she
| prefers to be known as Mrs. TIL she
comes to Washington next winter. has
| two children. the younger now nearly a
i wear old. She is only thirty-six years