The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, March 06, 1910, SECTION THREE, Page 2, Image 34

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    TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 6, 1910.
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THE deadest of dull weeks, accentu
ated by petulant weather, was
brightened by the announcement of
two Interesting engagements, that of Miss
Becky B. Biddle and Brkine Wood, and
Miss Celeste Moore and frank Lester
Stokes.
Miss Blddle is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry J. Elddle, formerly of Phila
delphia, and Mr. Wood is the eldest son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. EL S. Wood and a
brother of Mrs. David T. Honeyman, Miss
Lisa Wood, Maxwell Wood and Berwick
Wood. Miss Riddle, who Is handsome
girl of decided blonde type, made her de
but last year. Only recently Bhe returned
from a visit to Philadelphia and Port
Russell, where she was one of a house
party given by Colonel and Mrs. Alexan
der -Dyer, formerly of Vancouver Bar
racks. The Biddies have a charming coun
try home on the Columbia River, adjoin
ing that of General and Mrs. Thomas M.
Anderson, though they spend their Win
ters at the Hotel Nortonia. Mr. Wood
is a member of the Arlington and Uni
versity clubs and a Harvard man of the
class of 1901.
The. appearance of Mrs. 'Harriet Labadio
on Monday in Ibsen's "A Doll House"
was given under- the patronage of the
Daughters of the Confederacy . and at
tracted much interest, as did the first
aviation- meet yesterday. The second sea
son of grand opera by the Lambardie
Opera Company commencing on Tuesday
will have many followers and some in
cidental entertaining In spita of the
Lenton season.
The wedding of Miss Eva Jones and
Clifford Klchols on Thursday will be the
first of a series of prominent weddings,
which Includes that of Miss Ruth Honey
man and Lieutenant Frederick A. Barker,
TJ. S. A., Miss Mary Montgomery and the
Rev. Henry Russell Talbot: Miss Caroline
Burns and Hawley Hoffman; Miss Mar
garet Walter and Joseph Bradley, and
Miss Gladys Weidler and Edmund de
Schweinitz.
A trip to Japan, six weeks distant, will
be taken by Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ains
worth, Katherine Ainsworth and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert- Lewi, with their two boys,
Robert Lewis and Cicero Hunt Lewis III.
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Returning last week from California
was Mrs. C E. Curry, who had many at
tentions shown her by the artistic set in
San Francisco. Coming home on the
same train with Mrs. Curry were . Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Page, also Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Neustadter. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lom
bard are now home from a California
trip and an interesting tour in their motor
up the coast.
Owing to the floods, Mrs. C. H. Lewis
and Miss Sally Lewis did not leave on
Tuesday for New York, as they had
planned, but will wait until the weather
settles. Major and Mrs. C. Cabell, of Van
couver Barracksy who were to have gone
v Cast with Mrs. Lewis, left the following
day.
April V&, Immediately after Easter, has
been set for the wedding of Miss Ruth
Allan Honeyman, the only daughter of
Mrs. W. J. Honeyman, to Lieutenant
Frederick A. Barker. It will bo a quiet
home wedding. Lieutenant Barker, who
Is stationed at Fort Assinnlboine, Mont..
Is a son of William Barker, of Vancouver.
B. C.
California has assuredly been the
Mecca of Oregonians during Lent. In ad
dition to a long list printed last Sunday,
others at the numerous resorts or motor
ing through the state are: Mrs. W. J.
Van Schuyver, Miss Helen Van Schuyver,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. .Ayer, Mrs. G. W.
Gates. Mrs. Sanderson Reed and her son,
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Cook. Mrs. W. B.
Fechhetmer, Mrs. Henry L Jones, Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Van Schuyver and children.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Thompson, Mrs. Rus
sell Sewall and children, Mrs. Hugh
Hume, Mr. and Mrs. E. C- Shevlin, Mrs.
Louis Burke, Mrs. E. B. Spencer, Mr.
ind Mrs. Edwin Caswell, Wirt Minor,
while Mrs. Ralph Hoyt and children are
(pending a month at Paso Robles.
Miss Malle Eftlnger has returned from a
pleasant trip of some months' duration.
She first went to Virginia visiting rela
tives and from there to Ann Arbor, where
she was entertained by her cousin,
Robert Eff'nger, who is professor of
modern languages at the University of
Michigan. Later she visited in Chi
cago, New York and Washington, D. C.
and was a guest in the latter city of
Mrs. B. H. Brooke, being there at the
same time as was T. Scott Brooke and
Mrs. W. J. Burns. In Portland, Me..
Miss Eftlnger visited Mr. and . Mrs.
Burnett, who lived here some years ago,
nd also at Oregon City. In Boston she
met a number of Portlanders. among
them Colonel and Mrs. Edward Burr and
VIr. and lirs. John Gibbon. The- trip
boms was made via Canada, Miss Efflnger
having gone to Montreal to visit Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Molson. The latter will be
remembered as Valina Nesmith, a daugh
ter of the late Senator and Mrs. Nesmith,
and a sister of Mrs. Levi Ankeny and
Mrs. Harriet K. McArthur. Miss Ef fin
ger's return home on the Canadian Pa
cific was full of incidents. She experi
enced Xhxaer eaowalidea. three landslides.
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while the train preceding was wrecked
and further delayed her train for some
hours.
In addition to being entertained at
many smart affairs in London, Miss
Margaret Montgomery is attending a uni
versity there for the study of Greek lit
erature and philosophy.
After five weeks In the East and South,
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Adams returned home
a week ago yesterday. They went East
for the purpose of attending tho wedding
of Mr. and Mrs. Adams' sister in Balti
more. Oak Hill, the Adams' charming
country home, was the scene of a large
house party both before and after the
ceremony. Among the, relatives were the
handsome Southern girls. Miss Grace
Hamilton and Miss Frances Meyer, who
visited here last Summer and who were
much-sought guests. Mr. and Mrs. Ad
ams attended the opera In New York.
New Orleans and Washington, D. C,
and returned home via California.
Portlanders making the trip up the
Nile are Mr. and Mrs. W. A. T. Bushong,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren, Sr.,; the
Misses Frances and Grace Warren and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Raley.
A new fad that is really quite worth
while has taken possession of a number
of society girls, who are following the
call of "arts and crafts," In the work
room of the Shop of Fine Arts on Sev
enth street, many wonderful things are
evolved. There was great excitement In
the shop the other day when Mrs. War
ren B. Thomas, one of the devotees of
the new art. announced that during a
visit to Madame Schumann-Heink the ar
tlsty had expressed admiration for an
arts and crafts ring she was wearing.
When told it was hand-wrought, the art
iste was genuinely surprised and said,
"Why, Just like a Jeweler," then added
she would rather have a ring like that
than, all the "dltim nnten." Of course
Mrs. Thomas begged the privilege of
making a ring for her, which was grate
fully granted. The stone to be used la
a lapis lazuli, selected by Madame Schumann-Heink
because of the biblical sig
nificance of the stone and aluo because
It Is "lucky." The ring will be of heavy
wrought silver.
Miss Marion Jackson, who has been
studying art in' New York, is at present
In a New York sanatorium with a severe
attack of throat trouble.
Major and Mrs. Kendall, with their
two children, Adelalne and Billy, have
returned from five months in Texas. The
greater portion of their stay was spent
in San Antonio, where Major Kendall
was stationed some years ago and where
they have many friends. A pleasant
feature of the trip was a visit In Fort
Sam Houston, where the Ninth Infantry
was stationed. Mrs. Kendall's father, the
late Colonel W. H. Jordan, Sr., was a
captain in the Ninth Infantry at the time
Mrs. Kendall was born, and naturally
the renewal of old friendships was a de
lightful feature of the visit.
Major and Mrs. Kendall are tempora
rily at the Hill Hotel, but will later oc
cupy their Willamette Heights residence.
Mrs. W. H. Jordan; Sr., mother of Mrs.
Kendall, has returned - from -, several
months In Beattle, the guest of Mrs. Carl
I. Lewis, who was the attractive Miss
Laura Jordan.
The wedding of Miss Eva Jones and
Clifford Nichols will be a quiet family
affair, taking place at 10 A. M. at the
First Presbyterian Church. The bride-to-be
was a great favorite at the Port
land Academy at the same time as Mr.
Nichols. She Is a piquante blonde with
a gracious manner.
Though. very informal, the linen shower
on Thursday given for -Miss Jones by
Miss Evelyn Wilson was a pretty affair.
At that time Miss Celeste Moore an
nounced her engagement and there were
three other brides-elect present. Miss
Ruth Honeyman, Miss Eva Jones and
Miss Becky Biddle. The linen shower
presented to Miss Jones was a charming
array of artistic work, which was taken
Into the drawing-room in great clothes
baskets tied With broad pink satin rib
bons, this being the dominant color note
of the decorations.
Among those who have entertained for
Miss Jones are Mrs. Clarence Nichols,
Miss Hazeltine Williams and Miss Ce
leste Moore and Miss Helen Moore, who
gave a theater party of eight yesterday
at the Orpheum.
Dining with Captain and Mrs. W. S.
Biddle on Tuesday were several of those.
who comprised a skiing party recently
to Mt. Adams. Encircling the table
were CaDtain and Mrs. Biddle. Captain
and Mrs. Gordon Voorhies; Miss Lisa
Wood, Miss Evelyn Wilson, Kirk Smith
and Chester Q. Murphy.
For Maud Powell, the distinguished
violinists who appears tomorrow evening
at the Bungalow. Mrs. Warren E.
Thomas wiH entertain during the artist's
brief stay here.
A flattering tribute to her executive
ability was the election of Miss Helen
Bates, a former Portland girl, as manager
of the Smith College senior dramatics.
Her selection is considered a great honor,
as it is a much coveted position. The
clays oroduced each year are usually
Shakespearean and are given for four j
consecutive nights during commencement
festivities, In June. Those In the cast
spend a year under the tutelage of some
eminent actor, preparatory to the pre
sentation of the play. Miss Bates is a
girl of decided intellectuality and charm
of manner. She is a daughter of Pro
fessor Henry Bates, of Pacific University,
at Forest Grove, and a niece of Dr. A. S.
Nichols, Dr. Herbert Nichols and Dr,
Clarence Nichols.
Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Lip man will enter
tain at dinner on Thursday evening at
their Kings Heights home.
Possibly the largest theater party ever
given In Washington, D. C, was that of
Senator Gordon, of Mississippi, when he
Invited the entire United Statea Senate
to be his guests at the Columbia Theater
to witness "The Gentleman from Mis
sissippi." The invitation also included
the Senators 'wives and their daughters.
Occupying one box were President and
Mrs. Taft, Captain Archibald Butt, U. S.
A.: Mrs. Thomas K. Loughlin, of Pitts
burg, and Lieutenant-Commander Leigh
C. Palmer, U. S. N.
Dining with Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Ainsworth on Monday evening and going
later to "The Merry Widow" were Mr.
and Mrs. David C. Lewis, Mrs. Arthur
Minott and Roderick Macleay.
Mrs. George Cotner Mason (M71iss Mc
Craken) will be a bridge hostess on
Thursday and Friday of this week at her
Irvlngton h&me, 753 Broadway.
For Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator,
Julius L Meier gave a luncheon of 10
covers on Friday at Meier & Frank's
grill.
Mrs. Byron B. Miller and Mrs. Edwin
M. Baker will be "at home" on Thurs
day afternoon, at 630 Montgomery street.
Mrs. Fielding Kelly was hostess at a
small luncheon on Wednesday.
For Mrs. Julius Durkheimer, who re
cently returned from a- lengthly European
tour. Mrs. Mark Levy entertained at
bridge Wednesday evening at her Flan-ders-etreet
residence. .
Miss Alice Forbes, a popular gvrl from
Oseining-on-the-Hudson, who was recent
ly operated upon for blood poisoning, is
reported to be out of danger. Miss Forbes
is a daughter of the Rev. W. D. Forbes
and a sister of Mrs. Lula Dahl Miller.
Mrs. Henry W. Goddard leaves this Sun
day morning for Baltimore, Md., to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Horace B. Fenton;
Mrs. Goddard goes via Seattle and the
Canadian- Pacific Railroad, stopping on
her way to visit friends at Minneapolis
and Chicago, as well as Monroe, Wis.
Mrs. Goddard and Mrs. Fenton will visit
New York, Philadelphia, Washington and
Atlantic City and will return to Portland
about the middle of May.
Miss Celeste Moore, whose engage
erant was formally announced on
Thursday to Frank Lester Stokes. Is a
daughter of Dan J. Moore, and an ac
complished girl. She and Mr. Stokes
have been friends for many years, both
having gone to Portland Academy,
graduating together In the class of '07.
Five years ago Miss Moore spent a year
In Europe, attending a French school,
studying French, and furthering her
music. She is an accomplished musi
cian, and plays in a brilliant manner.
Mr. Stokes Is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. M. Stokes, the father being a mem
ber of the Stokes, Fifield Lumber
Company.
Mrs. John Gibbon, of Boston, who was
Miss Joe Cunningham, a sister of Mrs.
James Canby, gave a tea recently at
the Hotel Touraine, Boston, at which
there were . several Oregonians, Mrs.
John Burr, wife of Colonel Burr, Mrs.
Gurnett, now of Portland, Me., but for
merly of Portland. Or., and Oregon City,
Mrs. Harry Allen and Miss Malle Effln
ger. Mrs. Burr, nee Green, Is a daugh
ter of Mrs, H. D. Green and a sister of
Mrs. C. J. Reed. Mr. Gibbon Is a son
of General Gibbon, who was stationed
at one time at Vancouver Barracks.
Mr. and Mrs. Kdward Powers, of De
catur 111., have been the hosts at a
number of week-end parties at their
charming home. Mrs. Powers was for
merly Miss Bella McKee, one of the
very prominent girls here some eight
years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Powers have
two children, both girls, the youngest
having been born some months ago.
Miss MarJoMs Barrows, of St. Paul,
who proved so popular when a guest
last Summer of Miss Lisa Wood, has
again returned for an Indefinite visit.
Miss Barrows arrived on Friday, com
ing across the continent with Mr. C. E.
S. Wood, who was returning from New
York. Miss Barrows Is a girl of capa
bility, with pleasing manners. She is
Interested In athletics, particularly ten
nis and golf.
Mrs. ; Joseph Belleau Coryell's orchid
luncheon last week at the Hotel Fair
mont, in San- Francisco, was one of ex
ceptional beauty. Mrs. Coryell is a for
mer Portland girl, and was Miss Lloyd
Jessup. . At present the Coryells are at
the Fairmont, where they live several
months each Winter, spending the re
mainder of the time at their charming
country home, which is one of the show
places at Menlo Park. There they have
a $20,000 collection of orchldB in their con
servatories, which is said to be the larg-
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