Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-18

con set.
The past weeks, like those preced-
ing. brought forth the formal announce
ments of quite a
Marathon Test number of inn
, portant engage
Ior Lie oIiue. ments; also an I'M
precedented number of wedding dates
for the near future were disclosed, says
the Birmingham Age Herald.
Looking backward. it would indeed
be difficult to find on the social calen-
dar a season when so many engage
ments and weddings of such inn
portance have been made known Th,s
week, as BELTS the first few weeks OF
June. will be notable for weddings
throughout the country.
large wedding has become an en-
durance test for the bride elect. 1t Is
a sort of marathon, testing the des-
tined brides capacity for consuming
pink tea and going to ten parties per
week The remaining waking hours
she spends sewing madly. visiting the
dressmaker. selecting linens. writing
thank YOU notes for wedding gifts,
and at last walking up the church aisle
bedazed and beveiled person, so tired
that she promises to obey.
For the groom a large wedding is
very pitiful affair. He suffers more
from stage fright than ever before. ex-
selection from James Whitcomb Riley
at school entertainment June brings
roses and wedding presents. commence
ments, class parties. sweet girl gradu
ates and honeymoons.
Proverbially it is the most joyous
time of the year. 1t is joyous for the
orcheStras. church organists, ministers
and teachers: 1t is harvest season
Tor the jewelers. and time of reaping
for the furniture stores and dry goods
emporiums
1t is busy month. and whoever sees
June come in without some thrill SEN
timental or commercial, is far from the
main thoroughfares of life He is up
some back street of creation and does
not know what the rest of the world is
enjoying.
1t has been quite interesting to look
up omens and superstitions concerning
weddings. and the following may be of
service to girls who have been asked
to set the day." also some quaint
sayings. At an announcement luncheon
1t would be interesting to read them
aloud for the benefit of the bride-elect.
one of the most interesting social
events of convention week, says the
Chicago Trib-
Mrs. Mccormick une, was Mrs
Flemish Tapestries. cous "a, S me
ner to seventy woman guests Mr. Nc
Cormick and young Cyrus Mccormick
being the only men present.
The company was divided into groups
of six at small tables spread in the
beautiful tapestried drawing room of
the Huron street residence. At a table
at the farther end of the room, near
the fine old Italian fireplace. Mrs Nc
Cormick herself presided. for the occa-
sion was a formal function.
The scene was brilliant one The
room is one of the most beautiful So
Ions in the west. Its old Venetian
woodwork and it's fine Spanish tapes
tries. both of the seventeenth century.
came from countries and epochs very
different from ours today. The tapes
tries, according to letters and docu-
ments accompanying them. were ship
ped from Flemish looms by sea to a
Spanish grandee living on one of the
Balearic islands off the coast of Spain.
To Judge from the fresh colors of the
tapestries they must have been hung
in Theoretically sealed room. They
show no trace of time sun or dust.
From their home in these little known
isles they came direct to East Huron
street, Chicago where they now adorn