Evening star., 1915-08-08

Weddings in London have increased
80 per cent since the war. is the state
ment of the regis
Orange Blossoms trar of marriages.
Still in Demand according Ssa' Tn.t t1 %.r'% the
Most OF the bridegrooms sensible
young fellows and the brides are quiet,
domestic girls, according to the same
authority, and they are assuming the
responsibilities of life very often on
limited incomes, which year ago
frightened young people away from
matrimony. Superficial views of life
have passed in great measure since
then, everybody has more or less come
face to face with graver issues than
the giving of so many dinners ana
dances during the season and the wear
ing Of the latest fashions in clothes.
The keeping up of appearances has
been abandoned. and the high and low
have become imbued with more
wholesome desire to live simple. un-
pretentious lives.
Engagement announcements i'll so
ciety multiply. most of them eminentiy
satisfactory TO Cupid. although not al
ways so to the ambitious parents of
vone or the other tiancee. The engage
Gsmt Of the eldest son and heir of the
9tuke of Portland. the MARQUIS OF
TNchfeId, to the Hon. Ivy Gordon
T.s0nox, the niece of the Duke of Rich
mo Nd and Gordon, is. however, bring
ing delight to both the families con-
cern, d. She is six years older thah'
hsr (, uure husband. being twenty-elsht.
while he is only twenty-five. but sne IL
a bea,. Viful girl, possessing much the
same T. ce and figure as we'll as 1asci-'
nation v yhich made her aunt, the Count i
ess Of Warwick, one of the iovellest
-
She in a oaid of honor to Queen Alex
andrs the pee her title of honorable.
and her future mother-in law. the
Duchess OF Portland. mistress of tie
robes to Q teen Alexandra, mas nae'i
urent q she wants as daughter-in- law,
=. future Due. Sess of Portland. who viii
sustain the ,ignity of the name att
court.
Melons sing to a mot Important family.
and she married the dslke in 1889 afters
a rapid courtshilt which began almost
a. soon as they had rnet in a ehances
acouaintanceship But there have BEEN
Tsw duchesses Of the d,y who have SO.
we'll played the part according to the
old ideas, and the lpuch ess OF Portland
has become a maiustay OF decorum
with both Queen Nary and Queen AL
exandrz.
Lord Titchfeld was, educated at Eton
and entered the army without going to
Oxford and Cambridge. OF the military
school at Sandhurst. He is heute1lant
in the Royal Horse Guards. He Will
eventually succeed to one of the rich
est estates in the countryA which his
father, obtained in 1879 after the sensa-
tionai law suits of the mysterious
claimant who posed as the son OF the
NTH duke an eccentric man who ad
Ii1kle. communication with his family
an6kwho enjoyed living in compa rativs-
ly humble circumstances under an a:'-
sume,< name
>~,. \ ~ \
OF course. il you like mildew. dankt
xloom. funhd, moss and the murmur oi:I
gently falling rain
An Their Trt\uble then last week; week;
for Nothing. you with ecstasy,
SAYS a Chicago writer. But some OFT
us have other views of what consti-'
tutes pleasant and appropriate sum-
msr weather, and for those with theses
ideals the semester was decideoly ois-"
appointing. For none more SO IMAM
for tho group of Winuetka and Huo-
hsrd Woods women who had laoori- |
ously gotten up tableaa1x pageant to
bS given in Mrs. John W. Scott's gar
den for the benefit Of Arden Shore /
Oten lair Camp.
fhe evening hrst set for the affair
was last Tuesday The weather fought
against it and won. and the date was
changed to Thursday. Another Strug-
gle with Nemesis. which again won
and pushed the entertainment out of
it, original environment and relegated \
ie to the auditorium of tue Winnetka
Woman's Club.
Only those who saw the dress re-
hearsal Monday night realized the !
vision intended. The Scott place
originally the Gage place-has' the fin !
est group of hemlocks on the north |
shore. Planted over half a century
a 20. they now look like tree Dvuids-
solemn, austere and brooding. The