The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-09
Philadelphia
Avenue Home
Lovely Scene
Miss Cecil Will Wed
Chicagoan

Mrs. ]. A. Pears announced the
Impending marriage Of her daugh-
ter, Hortense Cecil, to Atty. James
Blaine Cashin of Chicago at for
NAL tea last Sunday afternoon held
al her home, 246 E. Philadelphia
avenue between the hours of 4 and
& pm.
The atmosphere was that of ex-
eeeding correctness beginning with
the charm and stateliness of Mrs.
Percival Piper, who admitted the
guests at the door attired in a stun
mig dinner gown made on the so
popular shirt -uiaist-style- She-had
chosen a severely tailored white
shirt waist and floor length black
skirt. At the foot of the balustrade
s.lid profusion of white NUNS,
white snap dragons, fuscia and
orchid NUNS, shell pink roses and
dubonnet NUNS, Mrs, Fred Aston
directed guests upstairs to rest their
wraps. In the diaiHg room, Maxine
Fears, in a becoming black and red
sided over and issued out mail from
an ingeniously erected miniature
postoffice The tiny letter contained
only the names, Hortense Cecil
Fears and James Blaine Cashin. OF
course. everyone got the point at
once.
Thelma Williams and Mrs. Marie
I lindsay served the varied things
From the tea table, and such things,
stuffed and glazed fruits of every
kind. nuts from every cline, dimin-
utive sandwiches in every conceiv-
able shape, candies, cookies and
What-not.
Then into the spacious living
rom to greet the bride-elect and
her mother, and to gasp at Hor-
tense's ring. huge square. set dia-
mond. Hortense wore black MORE
taffeta with a shirred top OF red
crepe. On her shoulders she wore
two OF the loveliest orchids, in an
odd rare shade of dark red. Mrs.
Fears wore black lace and gardenias.
4 Among the scores of guests
present were Mrs. William Lucas,
Mrs. Charles Davis, Mrs. c. S.
Smith, Mrs. Aft Thomas, Mrs.
Henry B. Taliaferro, Mrs. Fred
Aston, Mrs. Rosalyn Lindsay. Mrs.
Homer Smith, Mrs. B. Penick. Mrs. |
Paul Alexander, Mrs. Margare.
Piper, Mrs. Ernest Fisher, Mrs. Vic
tor Hicks, Miss Lola Gregory, Mrs
Ralph Osborne. Mrs. Charles |
Brooks, Mrs Earl Hutchins, Mrs |
Oscar Lindsay, Mrs. Frank Cessor,
Mrs. Alfred Gaskill, Mrs. Herbert |
Simms, Mrs. George Taylor, Mrs.
Edith Watson, Mrs. Henry West
brook, Miss Katie Simms. Mrs. Will
l;iam Golden, Mrs. Robert Brady |
v r. Mrs John hoon1is. Mrs. Lloyd I
'Loomis. Mrs. John B, Smith Mrs
William Smith, Mrs Ann Smith, /
Mrs. Robert Bowles, Mrs. A. Sneed |
Mrs. Ralph Hamilton, Mrs. Frank
Raiford, Mrs. Walter Hines. Mrs
D. H. Givens, Mrs. Pullman Os-
borne, Mrs. Mary Easton. Mrs. Phil
Roberts, Mrs. Sylvester Coleman.
Mrs. F. E. Dawson. Mrs. Nell Bundy.
Mrs. Bsecher Routt, Mrs. Charles
Greene, Mrs. Donald Marshall. Mrs.
Robert Lantoin, Mrs. Robert Brady
Sr, Mrs. Katie Cheatham, Mrs.
Currie of ST. Louis, Mrs. Brown.
Miss Nellis Watts. Miss Ruth Webb,
Miss Victoria and Margaret Mccall.
Miss Thelma Williams, Miss Will
3iamette Mosby, Miss Marion Carter.
Miss Marjorie Carter. Miss Helen
Thomas and Miss Lois Klugh.-
Miss Hortense Fears is a graduate
OF Oberlin, holding the degree Of
Bachelor Of Arts, and a member Of
the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She
is the daughter of the late DR., John
H Fears Of South Bend, Ind.
Attorney Cashin is member Of II
the Bar Association, holds the rank
of captain in the National Guard, |
graduate Of Fisk university, and has
done graduate work in law at the
University Of Michigan. He is a
member Of the Kappa Alpha Psi