Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-24
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
BURLESON FAMILY EXPECT TO
SUMMER IN CANADA.
Weddings and a Silver Anniversary.
Other Events-Personal
Notes.

The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Burieson have taken q cottage at Grim
sey. Canada, on Lake Ontario They
expect to leave for their vacation home
July 10 with their three daughters.
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend, accompanied
by her daughter. Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry
has gone to New York for short visit
Representative and Mrs. Slayden will
spend the next five or six weeks at their
home IN Texas, the latter leaving here
Saturday to join her husband. who is
already there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whitney will oc-
cupy the home of the latters parents the
late Mr.. and Mrs. John Hay, at the Fells,
in Newberry. n. H.
The marriage of Miss Mary NJ Vaux,
daughter Of George Naux of Bryn Mawr,
Pa, and DR.. Charles D. Walcott of this
city will take place Tuesday, June so,
at noon. at the home of the BRIDE be.
The Friends ceremony will be used, and
there will be no attendants. Dr. and Mrs.
Walcott will live in this city, where DR..
Walcott is secretary of the Smithsonian
institution. The engagement Of the cou-
pie was announced a few weeks ago DR..
Walcott and Miss Naux met last summer
in the Canadian Rockies. The latter was
member of mountain-c climbing party,
and DR.. Walcott was with an exploration
party of scientists
DR.. Frank E. Gibson. widely known in
local Masonic circles. and Miss Frances
NJ. Stunph, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Stulnph, of this city, will be
quietly married tomorrow morning early
at the rectory of the Church of the In
carnation, 1917 10Th street northwest. by
Rev. William Tayloe Snyder. Shortly
after their marriage the newly welded
couple will take the train for the west for
an extended honeymoon, which will in
clude Pittsburgh, Chicago. Minneapolis,
st. Paul and the Yellowstone Park. They
will return by way of the great lakes, the
Thousand Isles, Montreal. Quebec Lake
George and Lake Champlain, making a
short stay at Atlantic City. Dr. and Mrs
Gibson will be at home to their friends
at 921 l street northwest, after July 20.
Mr.. and Mrs Mark Blum celebrated
their silver wedding anniversary last
night at a largely attended reception
Their home on Irving street was adorned
with flowers, and an orchestra played
throughout the evening. A buffet supper
was served.
Receiving with the host and hostess
We're their son and his wife. Mr.. and Mrs
Norman Blum of New York; Mrs. Albert
Likes of Baltimore and Mr.. David Blum
Of Gloversville. n. Y.
The bride of twenty-five years ago.
who at that time was Miss Abbie Min
vcsheimer of New York city wore an
elegant dress of white crepe de chine
and diamond ornaments.
Her young daughter-in-law. Mrs. Nor
man Blum, was soWned in pink chiffon
satin.
MISS Helen Taft will be bridesmaid
.oday at East Greenwich, r. l., at the
marriage of Miss Eleanor Rocker and
Nj. Harrison Tweed. The bride. who
IS daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
William G. Rocker will have Mrs.
George Peabody Gardner of Boston for
Edith G. Rocker: Mr.. Tweed's sister.
Miss Katherine Tweed: Miss Helen
Taft. Miss Camille Morgan and Miss
Margaret Thomas. the latter of Boston,
will be her bridesmaids. Harold S.
Vanderbilt will be best man. and the
Providence, George A. Amory and Dud-
ley Pickman of Boston, F. Skiddy Won
:ade. Samuel Lowerie and Francis r.
Appleton, jr.
Mrs. Joseph Lamar. after a short
visit here. will return tomorrow to
Niagara Falls to rejoin Justice Lamar.
This evening at Newport the German
amba ssador will be honor guest at a
dinner that f. Haniei Won Haimhau-
sen. charge d'affaires OF the German
embassy will give for all the members
OF the German, Russian and Spanish
emba ssies now at Newport.
The Duchess of. Marlborough is ex
pected in Newport Friday on a visit to
her mother Mrs. .. H. p. Belmont
Among the passengers from Wash
ington sailing on the steamship Lus!
tania yesterday from New York were
Mrs. L. Lockwood and Miss Helen
Lockwood.
Mrs Alexander Mackay- Smith and
her daughters, the Misses Mackay
Smith of this city, are at Hotel Aspin
wall Lenox. Mass.
Miss Belle Bond of Baltimore and Will
liam F. Prettyman of Rockville We're
married at 8 o'clock last evening in
Emory Methodist Episcopal Church South
at Brightwood. ID. c., in the presence OF
a large assemblage. Rev. Ernest j..
WooIf, pastor of the church, who is a
brother-in-la of the bride. and Rev.
Forrest j. Prettyman of Washington,
uncle of the bridegroom, OBLIGATED. The
edifce was attractively decorated with
ported plants, cut flowers etc.
The bride was attended by her sister
Miss n Virginia Bond of Baltimore and