Evening star., 1914-07-26
Timely Gossip.

During a recent visit to Marietta, Ga,
Mrs. Edwin Floyd Wiley of Knoxville,
Tenn. and her son. Mr.. Noel Wiley,
STAYED over Sunday with Mayor and Mrs.
y. T. Dohbs. on their way home from the
Isle of Palms. Mrs. Wiley is the eldest
sister OF Secretary William G. McAdoo.
and Mayor Dodds took her in his car out
10 see the house in which she was a war
time refugee and in which her illustrious
brother was horn.
Recent additions to the Anglo-Ameri-
tan coterie at Bad kissingen is former
Secretary George Won L. Meyer. who is
planning to remain for several weeks.
taking the kur. Directly following their
arrival in Germany the Meyers went to
Berlin where they were elahorasely en-
tcrtaincd. Count Won Moltke. the Dan
ish minister. and the Countess Won Moltke
formerly Cornelia Thayep and Ambas-
sador and Mrs Gerard were of those
who gave dinners for Mr. and Mrs.
Never and Miss Julia Meyer Another
affair in their honor while in Berlin was
the dinner which Commander Walter r.
iiherar1i. American naval attache, gave
at the Admiral Ice Palace.
Friends of Mrs. IIoratio Nelson Slater.
jr. of Boston and widely known in this
her and from the Misses Esther and Ray
Slater during their prolonged travels
abroad.
The Skaters left town at the conclusion
of the formal winter and a highly sue
cessful dance for the debutante daughter,
Ray, and have since been touring China.
and Japan. They have now continued
their travels, via the transsiberian rail-
way. into Europe. and at last accounts
were enjoying themselves vastly in Ber-
lin.
An interesting event in connection with
the marriage of Miss SaIlie Anne War
field Cockey and Mr.. Matthew Fontaine
Maury Werth. son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Werth of Richmond, Va. was the wear
ing by the bride of two pins presented to
the bridegroom's grandfather, the late
Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury,
by the Gar of Russia and by the Maxi
milan. Emperor of Mexico, for his neri-
torious services in the maritime prov
inces of the world. The cars gift is a
beautiful brooch of pearls and diamonds,
while that of the emperor is a shield and
wreath of diamonds These pins have
been worn at the weddings of all the
sons and daughters of the late commo-
dore.
This calls to mind the wedding gift
from the Gar of Russia to Douschka
Pickens Dugas. Mrs George Dugas, a
1HdSnlHceHt CFOSS OF OldHOHOS t0e Jewels
of which are among the most priced pos
sessions of the Dugas g-ills, Mrs. Shep-
pard and Mrs. Tillman.
A wedding veil now four years old. but
which had been used nine times since its
purchase by a sorority of the Western
Reserve College, was worn for the tenth
time by Miss Gwendolyn Thomas of
Cleveland. Ohio. last week. Mr.. w. l..
Hopkins of the same city was the bride
groom.
August : has beer set for the wedding
of Miss Alice Appleton, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Francis r. Appleton. to Mr..
Clarence l.. Hay. The ceremony is to
take place AT the Ascension Memorial
Church at Ipswich. Mass. where Mr.
and Mrs Appleton have a country home.
Owing to the recent death of Mr. Hays
mother, the late Mrs. Samuel Mather,
the wedding will be a small one Mr..
Hay, a brother of Mrs. Payne Whitney,
was graduated from Harvard in 1903 and
recently returned from Mexico, where he
has been a Harvard fellow at the Inter-
national School of American Archaeology
He and his bride will go to Germany
early in the autumn, where Mr.. Hay will
continue his archaeological studies The
Hay Washington residence at 10th and
II streets will. it is said, be their future
home