Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30

Takes Management to events of in
Get Through With 1t. first days of
February will mark the height of the
midwinter season, says the New York
Times.
In the midst of so much that is gay
society is face to face with a perpleX
ing problem. Ash Wednesday does not
fall due until March S. This leaves a
stretch of five weeks to fill in somehow
BY order of tradition. the formal season
in town must continue up to the eve
of prayer and fasting. In former years.
when the period of penitence began
about the middle of February. there
was rush on everybody's part to do
something gay and frivolous before
Lent.
Now the season seems to be entirely
too long, and society is wondering how
1t Will ever keep up the formalities of
entertaining until very near the middle
of March. There are few events of i'm
portance announced for the latter part
of February. and if people do not be-
stir themselves there is going to be an
awful slump in social activities.
Announcements from the winter
sorts in the south show that the season
is commencing with vim, and scores
of society folk are to leave for the
south within the next fortnight
On the other hand, when Easter does
come, it will find the town in real
spring garb, and society will not shiver
in its new frock and bonnet as in the
past The late coming of Easter, April
%, Will also push the post-Lenten gay
cites right over into the month of May.
This will mean AN exceptionally late
spring season in town. 1t is not often
that the formal seasons are so showed
about, like game of chess. but society
is not without resource. and it will
manage, no doubt, to adapt itself to the
change.
Eleven years ago Easter fell on April
%. and after the coming Easter it will
not come again SO late until 1913. That
will be twenty-seven years from now.
April %. 1913, will mark the most adj
vanced Easter during the whole stretch
of the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turtles. 1t will not fall due again April
20. however, until the year 1000. By
that time society of today will have
become a memory, and the child born
this year. if it survives, will be a tot
tering old man or woman of eighty
four.
Before an improvised altar of grace
full ferns and fresh. fragrant white
roses, Miss Chris
Note of Blue and tina Van Husan.
daughter of Mrs
Forget-Me-Nots. c. NJ. Van Husan,
and Phelps Newberry, son of former
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Tru-
man H. Newberry. spoke their wedding
vows last week in Detroit. The Free
Press says of the event:
The interior of the old Muir mansion.
on Jefferson avenue, where the lovely
bride and her mother have made their
home. resembled rose garden, so
many were the beautiful blossoms.
From the stairway to the altar was an
aisle of white roses, large clusters of
the bridal flowers topping vine-covered
standards and showering the tall sill
yer candelabra that stood sentinel on
either side of the lace-covered prize
dieu on which the young couple knelt
to receive the nuptial blessing.
The matron of honor, Mrs. Barnes
Newberry; the maid of honor. Miss
Miss Geneva Sullivan. Miss Clara
Hodges. Miss Franklin Engs of Great
Darlington, Mass; Miss Jane Taylor of
st. Louis. Miss Annette Sheldon. Miss
tones of blue. shading from baby to an
azure tint The gowns were fash
toned over petticoats of blue satin
yelled in tulle and over this were hoops
edged with silver and tulle, which was
cut in points. extending to the bottom
of the skirts. The hoops were sus-
pended from the bodices. which were
modelled of cloth-of silver, surpliced
with pale blue tulle and fastened with
silver cords. They carried Ophelia
roses edged with forget-me-nots.
The bride was very beautiful in her
robes of white satin. the skirt being
made full and banded with pearls.
From the shoulders fell train en-
brodered in pearls. Her veil was of
pointe applique. arranged with coro-
net of orange blossoms; her flowers
were white roses, gardenias and lilies
of the valley.
Mrs. Van Husan. mother of the bride
wore pearl gray tulle with overdress of
gray chiffon velvet. the bodice of tulle
and velvet being embroidered with sill
yer. She carried large bouquet of o.
chids and lilies of the valley. Mrs
Newberry. mother of the groom, was
very lovely in deep blue tulle embroi-
dered with silver. over blue satin. She
carried Aaron Ward roses fringed with
orchids.
Misc Ethel