Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-17
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
MISS HUMPHREY AND MIR. HAIR
LEY MARRIED AT ST. JOHNS.
Other Weddings Here and Elsewhere.
Travel Plans-Personal
Notes.

Miss Helen L. Humphrey. daughter Of
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles F. Humphrey.
and Mr.. Percy Lawton Harley of Red
lands, Cal, were married at noon today
at st. Johns Church. Today is the we'd
ding anniversary of the brides parents,
who also were married at St. Johns.
Rev DR.. c. Ernest Smith, rector Of st.
Thomas Church. which the family at
tends, performed the ceremony today. The
chancel was set with palms and foliage
plants. and the altar vases were filled
with white roses and lilies.
The bride, who was given away by her
father. wore an exquisite gown of white
satin, with the bodice and tunic of point
lace which was worn by her mother at
her wedding before the same altar.
A cap Of lace held her long tulle veil
and she carried a shower bouquet Of
orchids and lilies Of the valley.
Miss Juanita Humphrey, the brides
sister, was the maid of honor and her
gown was Of lace with panniers and
girdle of canary colored taffeta with
touches of blue.
Her hat, of rice straw, was trimmed
with clusters of tiny flowers and tulle.
lovely bouquet of sunburst roses COM
pleted the costume.
The best man was Mr.. Arnold Jackson
and the ushers included Mr.. Morven
Thompson. Mr.. Herbert Hubbard of Red
lands, CAL; Mr.. George Miller of Chi
cago and Lieut.. M. B. Humphrey, U. s.
M. c., brother of the bride.
Only family party and few init
mate friends were at st. Johns for the
ceremony, but large reception followed
at Rauscher's at 1870, where the deco
rations were also of white roses and
lilies.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley left this after
noon for their wedding trip and they
will sail for Europe June % to remain
away until October. When they return
to this country they go to Redlands, Cal,
to reside
Among the out-of-town guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Jackson and Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Harley of Boston. Capt.
and Mrs. Carter and Mr.. and Mrs. Rice,
Miss Ruth Boyce and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Fisher of Redlands Cal: Both army and
residential society was delightfully."- repre-
scented at the wedding reception.
Rev Martin Higgins of Cincinnati, Ohio
performed the marriage service yester-
day for his brother, Mr.. William Higgins
also of Cincinnati, and Miss Emma Be
atrice Dawson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert J. Dawson. The ceremony at ST
tial mass.
The bride Wore oriental lace over satin,
with broad girdle of MORE The bodice
was fastened by a diamond brooch, the
gift of the bridegroom, and she wore a
white hemp hat. trimmed with white
roses, and carried bride roses and lilies
of the valley. Miss Edna Dawson was
maid of honor for her sister, and wore
pink meteor crepe and a pink hemp hat,
and carried pink roses. Mr.. Edward c.
Hauer of Cincinnati was best man. and
the ushers were Mr.. William A. Ryan,
Mr.. William NJ. Whelan, Mr. Albert W.
Brand and Mr.. John Dawson. brother of
the bride. The wedding breakfast fol-
lowed at the home of the brides parents
After wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Hig-
gins will live at Cincinnati.
Among the passengers sailing on the
steamship Princess Irene today from New
York for Naples and Genoa. via Gibraltar
and Algiers. We're Mr. John Weiss. Miss
Grazia. Miss Maria Assunta, Mr.. H.
Baechtold. Miss Virginia Capriglione Miss
Charlotte c. Dessez Miss Henriette
Louise Dessez and Miss Flora Won Frey
hold of this city.
Mrs. Saunders Johnston of Washington
who gave the memorial fountain to be
unveiled by the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution in Cheshire today. is a
guest of Mrs. George z. Dean in Cheshire
Mass.
At Northport L. l.. yesterday Miss
Marguerite Fitch Welles. daughter Of
John L. Welles of Brooklyn and New
York, and Dr. Lewis C. Ecker of
Washington. D. c., We're married. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Joseph Dunn Berrell, pastor of the Gas
son Avenue Presbyterian Church of
Brooklyn, claSsmate at Yale of the
brides father. on the lawn of Laurel
Lodge, the summer home of the Welles
family at this place. The couple stood
under an arch of laurel with trees for
a background.
The bride wore simpe gown of hand
embroidered organdie. without veil, and
carried bouquet of white peonies She
had no attendants. She was the presi-
dent of her class at Adelphi College A
number of her classmates formed a line
| on either side of the path leading from
the house to the lawn. through which the
bride and bridegroom passed.
There We're more than hundred guests
present from New York, Brooklyn, Kan
sas City, South Dakota cities, Washing
ton and Syracuse, n. Y. After a short
honeymoon trip the pair will make their
home in Washington. Mrs. John O. Evans
of this city attended the marriage.
Mrs Stephen B. Elkins has gone to her
| estate Halliehurst, at Elkins, w. Va,
| where she will remain until she goes
abroad the latter part of the summer.
| Mrs Preston Gibson. in attendance at
the polo games at Meadowbrook, L. l.,
wore a coat costume of blue and white
striped silk finished with a sash of dark
blue satin. She wore'a blue straw hat
| topped with ostrich feathers of a cor
responding shade.
| Mrs. Frederick May and her son, Mr..
| Frederick May, have arrived at Bar Har-
Dor and are occupying their summer
| home there.
| Mrs. Henry F. Dimock has gone to New
York en- route to her summer home at
| Bar Harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Blum will be at
| home to their friends in honor of their
| twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Tues
day evening, June %, from to 10 o'clock
| at 1915 Irving street northwest
Last Monday evening at 8 o'clock Miss
Christina Lerch, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Lerch, and Mr. Ernest
| Schmelcke were married by the Rev
Richard Schmidt of Zion Lutheran
Church. The bride. who was given in
marriage by her father, was becomingly
| gowned in a dress of embroidered crepe
and wore a white tulle cap, with wreath
of lilies of'the valley, and carried a show
| er bouquet of bride roses and lilies of the
valley
Mrs Harry Caden sister of the bride,
| as matron of honor, and Miss Elizabeth
Iost, cousin Of the bride, as maid of
| honor, carried pink roses. Little Miss
| Louise Lerch, niece of the bride, was
pir