The New York herald., 1922-05-28


Major-Gen. Bethel. Military Attache of
the British Embassy staff. they met at
"a dinner party, and the old acquaint-
ance was renewed. After that it seems
to have been quick work. News of the
engagement was cabled from London,
and corroborated here by Mrs. McDon-
aid. whose chief interest this week
seemed to be Mrs. Calhoun's play. She
has figured in several theater parties
during the week, and was at the supper
party after the play which the Calhouns
gave the first night. last Monday. in
honor of the Francis Burial Hoffmans
| and the Lewis Nixons. Her present
| plan seems to be to sail shortly to Join
her son, who apparently is In Paris,
not In Chile. And later they will go
| to London and the wedding will take
place In the fall. She'll really make
a very decorative marchioness.
Which reminds me that the interest
of official society just at present Is
largely centred in the wedding of Miss
Catherine Hughes and Chauncey Lock-
hart Waddell, which is to take place on
June 10, Saturday afternoon, In Beth
lehem Chapel of the Washington Cathe-
dral, and will be followed by recep-
tion down at the Pan-American Build
ing. OF course Cabinet wedding Is
istration they are likely to be rather
few and far between. There Is short
age of Cabinet girls. Miss Ailsa Mellon
and the two Wallace girls and Miss
Hughes being all there are OF them.
Aside from that the wedding of
Charles Evans Hughes's daughter would,
of course, be of interest to a great
many people, for there isn't an Ameri-
can to-day who has in his time played
so many parts, and all of them so we'll
Governor of New York. Associate JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court and Secretary of State.
Plans for the wedding are pretty well
completed, and 1t must be something of
a shock to the Baptists, who have been
rejoicing that this was a Baptist Ad-
ministration, with the President and the
Secretary OF State at the head Of the list,
both of them Baptists, to learn that the
nceremony Is to be performed In Beth
Tlehem Chapel of the Cathedral Of St
Peter and st. Paul-Bethlehem chapel be-
ing about all there is finished of the
projected Washington Cathedral. The
explanation is quite simple. While the
Hughes family belong to Calvary Bap-
tist Church-and are active In church
work and regular in their attendance
Miss Catherine Hughes became a mem
Der of the Episcopal Church while at
tending the Cathedral School for Girls,
from which she was graduated. just be-
fore her father was nominated for the
Presidency and resigned from the Su-
preme Court bench to make the cam
paign.
Bethlehem chapel. while 1t is a beau
tiful setting for wedding, is a tiny
little place, and consequently the COM
70 he 1nrU 10
paratively small. 1t would have to be.
Miss Hughes has announced her we'd
ding party, and 1t is rather noticeable
that there isn't a Washingtonian in
It. Perhaps, however. that Is natural,
since her schoolmates at the Cathedral
School and her collegemates at Welles-
ley afterward would be no more likely
to be from Washington than from any
where else. In fact, ! believe that her
maid OF honor, Miss Elizabeth Kirkland
of Nashville. Tenn. was her particular
chum both at school and college.
Two Mntrons of Honor.
She Is to have two matrons of honor,
her sister, -in-law. Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes, Jr., of New York, and her pros
pective sister-in-law, Mrs. ]. r. Dunlap
of Ohio, who Is Mrs. Waddells sister.
You remember Mr.. Waddell was an Ohio
man. at least his family all live in Ohio,
before he went to New York and set
tied down In business there, so the
Presidents home State>~is likely to be
rather prominently displayed In this
first wedding OF his Administration cir
Gle. The wedding party is to include
two engaging little pages--the brides
two little nephews. Charles Evans
,r& xHaIl
grandsons of the Secretary Of State.
Charles Evans Hughes. Jr.. and J. r.
Dunlap. husbands of the two matrons
of. honor. will be among the ushers, as
will James Alexander of Atlanta, Ken
meth CASTOR of New York. Byron Blais-
dell Of Boston and Ralph Bollard of
New York For his best man Mr.. Wad-
dell has picked Gerald Fessendeh Beal
of New York. There will be consider
able rather quiet entertaining for Miss
Hughes. but as the men of her wedding
party can't assemble until the day be-
fore the wedding there will be little
chance for entertaining the whole party.
The cards are entirely conservative
and conventional You wouldn't expect
anything like a new wrinkle in wedding
cards from people like the Hughes fam
lily. They don't take kindly to wrinkles
until they've been in such general use
as to be completely ironed out But IL
you are interested In details, they are
printed on rather small sheet which
folds into square envelope. II is en-
graved In that sort of shaded block
type which the stationers probably call
by quite another name-like the en-
craving on what print dealers call an
open letter proof" you know And it
reads quite conventionally: THE Sec
retary of State and Mrs. Hughes re-
quest the pleasure of your company"
&c. The space taken UP by the en-
craving is slightly sunken SO that the
margin Of the sheet stands MP like the
mat on a picture There is no inside