The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
SOCIETY FOLK WATCFIFULLY
AWAITING EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
With Uncertainty Impeding Wheels
Of Social Progress Capital Expe-
riences Week of Real Rest
WASHINGTON, March q.

WARRINGTON, March ".
TT has been the quietest week Wash
ington has known in a long time.
= Resting after last weeks struggle
with the income tax" is one explana-
ton. "watchful waiting Is another,
and probably a truer one; waiting to
see when the Sixty-sixth Congress is
going to be called upon TO begin its
labors.
Uncertainty as to that 10 sadly i'm
peding the wheels of social progress.
A great many. II they were sure that
the extra session would not be called
until May or June, would gladly HE
them Off for a few weeks vacation. for
Il is quite realized that the session.
when 1t is called, is likely to be long
one, and there may not be another
chance to get away for months.
During the coming week the out
standing events socially will be Maria
Bonillas's wedding on Monday, and the
Ball OF the Nations" on Wednesday
night for the benefit OF Neighborhood
House. Each in it's way promises to
be a picturesque affair, and both seem
to be unusually interesting to the dip
lomatic circle.
The Bonillss Wedding.
In the Bonillas wedding their in
terest is perfectly natural. 1t Is not
every day that an Ambassador g
daughter marries a member Of a for
eign mission. So certainly all the diplo-
matte world and his wife will wend
their way to the Mexican Embassy on
/ street on Monday for the wedding OF
Senorita Maria Bonillas and Lieut..
Giuseppe Cappola of the italian avia-
ton mission. which Is to take place at
noon. and which will be followed by a
small wedding breakfast and a big
wedding reception.
Lieut.. Cappola has been stationed in
New York OF late and only coming
down for the weekends, and that has
rather hindered the making OF plans.
However, he is expected to pick Liuet.
Francestoni as his best man. and at
last accounts his bride would be at
tended only by her sister, Nine. Juan
Rojo, as matron of honor. Turn about
Ia fair play. Some fifteen months ago
Maria Bonillas was her sisters brides
maid when she married DR.. Roto. the
counsellor of the embassy-in Novem-
Der, 1917. that was. There was some
talk Of younger sister, Berta, serving
as bridesmaid also, but Berta Is not
yet 'out" and 1t is said her mother
has decided against that.
Just how long Lieut.. Cappola will
remain in this country Is uncertain.
Every one asks the question, of course.
and there Is naturally hope that his
New York detail will end soon in his
return to Washington, for It is gen.
orally desired that he and his bride
become members Of the younger mar
ried diplomatic set OF which the Rojos
are such conspicuous ornaments. And
that's no mere polite phrase. either.
Mime. Rojo is one of the loveliest
women Washington has known In
years. with FURNISHED, ripping auburn
hair, brown eyes and the loveliest
creamy complexion imaginable.
In fact, 1t does not often happen
that an Ambassador brings with him
three as charming daughters as these
in the family of the Ambassador from
Mexico, and utterly aside from the IN
terest that always attaches to diplo-
matte wedding in Washington, there
Is in this instance a warm personal
interest in anything that concerns the
Bonillas girls" The Ambassador has
three sons. too, all educated in Ameri-
can universities. but they are older and
established in Mexico in their profess
sions and have not yet been part OF
Washington society.
Ambassador Bonillas himself COM
pleted his education in the United
States He is a graduate Of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology. and
It was while practicing his profession
in Arizona that he met and married
Maria Borton. a perfectly good Ameri-
can, born in the State of Washington.
whose family when she was small
girl had moved down to Arizona. where
her father had extensive mining inter-
ests.
One Of these days there Ia to be a
new Mexican Embassy In Washing
ton. 1t was contemplated when the
Ambassador came. and has been dis
cussed at intervals ever since. But ac-
cording to Nine. Rojo, This will do
very we'll. for the present. even II It
Is old fashioned and inadequate: when
there are SO many other demands for
money mime. Bonillss has been a de-
voted Red Cross worker all through
the war, even though Mexico was not
involved) and such great need a new
embassy is too costly an undertaking.
It would not seem quite right"
Certainly there are few more at
traetive settings for a wedding than
the great ballroom Of the Mexican EN-
Hassy- lowered. IN ficwers-ssk'> will he
Monday for the ceremony. 1t is
handsome, dignified old place, even II
not OF the most modern, and has splen-
did traditions Of hospitality to live up
10. One would almost be sorry to see
the Mexicans established in other
quarters.
The Ml-Carems hall.
The Mi-Careme Ball promises to be
very well worth while. Its special
feature will be a pageant made up OF
groups representing the various ma
tions and in these groups the women
of the embassies and legations and
r.aissions are interesting themselves
and trying to make their respective
groups not merely effectively symbolic
but historically and ethnologically ac-
curate. For instance Nine. Collardet
* interesting herself In the French
group, Nine. Grouitch has charge of
the Serbian group. Princess Ghika OF
the Rumanian. Nine. Zaldivar In that
representing Latin America and so on.
Each one Is rehearsing half a dozen