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The response to this request would
fill fair-sized pamphlet. and some
hitherto unknown utensils were
specially designed for this practical
bride. The Roderick Towerses are liv-
ing in picturesque but modest pun
gaiow in the City of the ANGELS ana
appear to need no commiserat1on
whatever. Mrs. Payne Whitney In
tends to pass the late winter with
her daughter and then perhaps bring
her east for the spring gayeties In
New York
Miss Sonia Keppel. one of the love
" lest maids in London. is to be bride
before she has been full-fedged bud.
Her engagement to Hon. Roland cal
vert Cubitt. only surviving son OF the
Lord and Lady Ashcombe. was hinted
all last summer. but that the wedding
would be before Christmas no one
guessed Miss Keppel is the daugh-
ter of that Mrs. George keppel who
was the uncrowned queen of London
society during the reign of Edward
VII. and who remains one of the solid
social powers of the day. she has
been the tnimate friend of two well
anown American maids. who are also
buds of this winter. Miss Alice Astor
and her cousin, Miss Muriel Astor.
who is the daughter of Lady Ribbes-
dale. who was Mrs. John Jacob AStor.
uTSt- II Is QQ1Ce rage III l<ohNOh Ct
present for girls to marry overyoung,
Miss Keppel being a few months lack
ing eighteen Her elder sister was
wed last winter 10 Maj. Trefusis.
hero of the late war. and she was
not quite nineteen. Mr.. Cubitt is
subaltern In, the Coldstream Guards.
Mr. Carlton Bailey Hurst. consul
general to Barcelona. Spain, who with
Mrs. Hurst<has recently been visiting
Washington was we'll known here
when his father, the late Bishop John
Fletcher Hurst, was chancellor of the
American University, then in it's early
infancy. In,fact. Bishop Hurst might
he considered the founder of the
great Methodist seat of learning on
Massachusetts avenue extended, which
accomplished signal benefits for the
Ration during the recent war. The
Hurst family is originally from
Dorchester county. Md, and has been
eminent in many ways Bishop Hurst
was a profound theologian and his
work. "The Literature of Theology"
was written during his residence in
this city. A. distinguished naval Of
f,cer of Italy. Comnlandante Alfredo
Cappellini Of Florence, married Miss
the bishop,S,apd likewise a frequent
visitor during his tenure at the
American University. Friends of the
family have recently: received invita-
lions to the weddings. of the eldest
daughter of +Commandante and Sig
nora Cappellini, Magda. to the
M4rchese CATALONIA de Gonzaga, eldest
son of the Duke of Ciyello. The Con
zagas are Of a princely line of Mantua,
and the duke of the period figures in
Romeo and Juliet" as Mantua was
the city OF the young lovers exile
from Verona. The Inarchese is
naval officer also and won the most
distinguished medals his government
bestows during the war. The wedding
will occur early in December. in the
looking the Arno.
London society is all agog over two
weddings celebrated within the past
fortnight where romance after the
poets heart ruled the unions of two
peers Of the realm. The Honorable
Louis Francis Temple. master of Kin n
man Church of st. Sepulcher. inI
Northampton, and heir to the title of
the Baron of KinloSs, married Miss
Mary Katherine Jackman. who is the
daughter Of the village smithy. The
smithy adjoins the church of the
groom prospective, and it was whilei
watching the firef1ies of the anvil that
love dawned in both hearts. Apparent
ly the future earl had no one to OBJ
ject and the nuptial bells rang mer-i
. Il
tive is the viscoupt Melville, who took
as his third wife the handsomeefSo-l
prietor of fashionable hairdressfng1
establishment, Miss Mary Todd The
viscount Is in his seventy-eighth year
and has an abundant fortune, but the !
bride, it seems, can match it. and it is
ali her own, whereas the peers estatel
istentailed. New York has recently at
tended the marriage of we'll known
belle of upper 5th avenue, Miss Louise
Beaver Webb, to MIR. Thomas Leonard,
one Of the finest" a mounted police
man in Central Park, who rescued his
wife from a runaway horse. The wise
acres say that the leaven of democ-1
racy works in extraordinary ways.
Mrs. William FitZhugh Whitehouse
who has for many years divided the
twelve months into two parts, the
winter spent in Paris. where she
maintains a splendid house in Avenue
Henri Martin, and her summers at
Eastbourn Lodge. in Newport, is to