The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-24
Beautiful and Costly Wedding Gifts Showered
on Happy Pair by Masonic Fraternities
and Hosts of Personal Friends.
Unique Features of Bridal March, Handsome Men
and Pretty Women, and Scores Of Visitors from
Out of the State Make it Memorable.
By FRED ". DABNEY.

tissue paper napkins. Miss Charlotte
Williams cut the welding cake, which
was made by Mrs. Sallie A. Moore.
The scheme of decorations through
out the entire house was worked out
in flowers, potted plants and fresh
cut green boughs following the gen.
eral color plan of yellow and green.
On entering the reception hall one
found oneself under canopy Of TO-
liage which sheltered them up the
stairs to the second floor. Along the
balustrade were potted plants and
tastiiy throughout the various rooms
flowers enhanced the beauty of the
scene with their varied and harmon
ious colors, and everywhere was the
delightful fragrance which they shed
upon the air.
While everywhere evidenced the es-
TEEN in which the bride and groom
were held by the people of this Sec
tion of the country, the scene which
greeted the eye on entering the room
in which the presents were arranged
was nothing short of marvellous.
Never in the history of Kansas City,
or of the West, and seldom in the
history of the country, has a wedding
brought forth so costly and magnifi-
cent display of presents. Elaborate
sets of silver service, cut glass pieces
of ever conceivable kind, hand en-
broidered and drawn worked linen,
hand painted china dinner sets. This
gives but a meager idea of the va
riety and value of the display. 1t can
be conservatively said that $4,000 will
not cover the value of the presents
given.
Probably the most costly of all the
gifts were those presented by the
subordinate lodges of Masons of Mis-
souri, and the Grand Court, Heroines
of Jericho The former was a Al
piece silver set, consisting of knives,
forks, teaspoons, table spoons, salad
forks, sugar shell and butter knife,
and the latter four-piece silver tea
service, all of which were of sterling
silver.
Other remembrances from co-work-
ers in Masonry in various parts of the
country were gifts of silver pieces
from Past Grand Master G. H. M. Col
Inns, Kansas; Grand Master John L.
Thompson, Iowa; a 136-piece dinner
set from the officers of the Missouri
Grand LODGE Grand Master T. S.
Rector, Colorado; Grand Master E.
]. Hawkins, Kansas; Royal Grand
Master Victoria Clay Haley, st. Louis,
Mo-, and an electric library lamp
from the exemplary degree team of
Kansas City. The remembrances
from personal friends were no less
elaborate and the entire collection
constituted a giant testimonial of the
friendship sustained for the bride and
groom in this section of the coun-
! try.
! An unusual feature that was evil
denced in a careful examination OF
sense of fitness displayed in their Sc
lection and the astonishing freedom
from repetition. The entire collec'
tion, taken as a whole, could not have
been better chosen had the task been
assigned to a committee and each in
dividual given the part he was to pro
duce in the finished effect. 1t was
an evidence of desire on behalf OF
people everywhere to express theiI
friendship and good wishes in orig
inal and practical gifts. Among the
most notable of the presents received
from individuals were two oil paint
ings, one each by R. ]. Rice and Yves
ley Bell. Both these offerings were
the handwork Of the giver. The one
by Rice was a view showing Eagle
Lake off the coast of Maine, beau
tiful marine view, and the one by
Bell beautiful pastoral scene. DIR
and Mrs. ]. d. Ball of Lexington, Mo.
sent massive hammered brass urn
from Mrs. M. Hughes, M. w. Web
ster and G. Schumache of Troy, Kas.
came large silver serving tray will
the initials of the couple elaborately
engraved in the center A sterlint
silver sandwich basket, large enough
to contain sandwiches for quite par
ty, was the gift of club of ladies
organized by Mrs. Emma Payne;
leather pillow cover from ]. r. Rus
sci, Grand Canyon, Ariz., was a beau
tiful handwork of the Hopi Indians
who inhabit that section of the coun
try: Chas. d. Frazier OF Grand Can
yon, Ariz., sent an engraved ses o
silver tea spoons; cut glass feri
dish was the offering Of the mothe
rrd h-o'hers ~ the bride; a carve'