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BROOKLYN LIFE. 13 Derby, of Boston, Massachusetts. The rooms were prettily decorated with palms and pink roses, behind a screen of which musicians were stationed. Upon their return from their wedding trip the bride and groom will take up their residence on Lafayette avenue. the Hotel Marie Antoinette, Manhattan, last week, AT Thursday evening, was celebrated the wedding of Miss Belle Bruce Boyd, daughter of Mr.

Henry C. Boyd, of Manhattan, and Mr. Charles J. Marsh, of Montague street, son of Mr. Peter Marsh.

Miss Boyd wore a gown of white Chantilly lace and carried Bride roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Madelyn Kengla, of Washington, District of Columbia, who was her bridesmaid and only attendant, was gowned in pink embroidered chiffon and carried Golden Gate roses. Mr. Frank W. Adams, of Richmond, Virginia, was best man, and the ushers, who were all Brooklyn men, were Mr.

Charles W. Baumann, Mr. John Murray, Mr. Frank W. Smith and Mr.

Walter C. Waldron. The ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. George C. Peck, of Mt.

Vernon, New York, was followed by a reception. Mr. Marsh has been a resident of. the Heights for some time and is a particularly well known member of the Crescent Club. On their return from their wedding journey, Mr.

and Mrs. Marsh will make their home at 823 West End avenue, Manhattan. A' FTER som a and few Mrs. days in Charles town, W. Mr.

Blossom, and Mrs. of 844 Fifth Benjamin avenue, BlosManhattan, left on Thursday of this week for the Hot Springs, Virginia, where they expect. to remain until November. Miss Blossom will be one of the December and will be introduced at a large reception. RS.

CAMDEN C. DIKE, who spent the last part of the season at Saratoga, returned the other day to her home on Columbia Heights for the winter. Mrs. Eliphalet W. Bliss and her daughter, Mrs.

James W. Lane, have closed "Owl's Head," their beautiful Bay Ridge seat, and returned to their town house, 4 East Sixty-first street, Manhattan. CARDS were received this week announcing the marriage Quogue, Long Island, on October the first, of Miss Corinne Blackwell Howell, daughter of Mrs. Henry Banks Howell, of 22 East Thirtieth street, Manhattan, to Mr. Channing Price Wiley.

Monday afternoon of last week Mrs. Charles Mallory threw open her charming country house, "Clifton-on-theSound," for an entertainment for the benefit of the Ladies' Hospital Association of Port Chester. A gathering of about a hundred and fifty representative women of the neighborhood was present, and the program, which was a dramatized version of Dickens's novel, "Our Mutual Friend," and the name of "Lizzie Hexam" was interpreted with splendid dramatic effect by that talented Brooklyn woman, Mrs. Henry Alanson Powell, of Dean street. The hostess was assisted in receiving by her sister, Mrs.

Henry Mallory, and several others. R. and Mrs. Spencer Aldrich- -Harriette Holley Dall-on Saturday afternoon last commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage with a reception at their residence, 271 West Seventy-second street, Manhattan. Mrs.

Aldrich received in a gown of silver brocade trimmed with the lace that adorned her wedding dress. They were assisted in receiving by their daughters, Miss Louise Aldrich, Miss Helen Hudson Aldrich, Miss Mary A. Austin Aldrich, and their son, Mr. S. Wyman Aldrich.

Among the guests were Bishop and Mrs. Henry C. Potter and Mrs. Austin Dall, of Garden place, sister-in-law of Mrs. Aldrich; Mr.

Horace Holley Dall and the Misses Dall, of this borough. After the reception there was a dinner 'party for relatives, after which the company adjourned to a box at the Garden Theater. addition to the list of October weddings is that A' LATE, Miss Alice Daise Burton, daughter of Mr. John Burton, of 351 Ashland boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, and Mr. Walter Monteith Aikman, junior, which is to take place at half after eight o'clock next Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents.

Miss Burton's bridesmaids will be Miss Bessie Burton, her sister, and Miss Margery Aikman Stevens, of Philadelphia. Mr. Oliver M. Burton, brother of the bride, will be best man. Mr.

Aikman is the son of Mr. and 1 Mrs. Walter M. Aikman, of 273 Union street, and is a resident of Newark, New Jersey, where he is engaged in business and will take his bride to live. NEXT week's weddings of will include Mrs.

that William of Miss Katharine Hurd, daughter Mr. and Hurd, junior, of 116 Dean street, and Mr. Joseph E. Hodgson, which will be celebrated at the Hurd home at five on Tuesday afternoon and will be followed by a reception, invitations to which are limited to the relatives and a few friends. Miss Hurd's maid-of-honor will be her sister, Miss Ruth Barrett, and Miss Alberta Wandel and Miss Esther Hodgson will be the bridesmaids.

Mr. Hodgson, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Hodgson, will have as best man Mr. E. H. Hodgson, and as his ushers Mr. J.

S. Barron, second, of Manhattan; Mr. F. O. Affeld, junior, Mr.

Frederick James Barrett, brother of the bride, and Mr. William F. Atkinson. IFE than at at Hot the Springs, present time, Virginia, the was hotels never being more crowded animated with visitors, who have closed their country houses and are loth to return to town while autumn weather continues. Mr.

and Mrs. Ira Barrows's coaching party and picnic last Tuesday was one of the events of the week. They booked the public coach and drove to Falling Springs, where luncheon was served in the open air. Eight of the party accompanied' the coach on horseback, including Mr. and Mrs.

Otto C. Heinze. The Brooklyn sojourners at the Homestead Hotel include Mr. Joseph H. Seaman and Miss Seaman, Miss Ethel Moore, Mr.

and Mrs. James Guthrie Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. W. D.

Perine and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Luckenbach, who closed their cottage at Sea Gate last week and are spending the month at Hot Springs. ANY houses along the North Jersey beach were closed during the past week, among them those of Mr.

Arthur B. Proal, Mr. Raymond Lesher, Mr. John McKesson, Miss Murray, Mr. J.

P. Cobb, Mr. Lucien H. Miles, Mr. William Goadby Loew, Mr.

Brent Good, Mr. Ernest Groesbeck, Mr. I. S. Platt and Mr.

William Nelson Cromwell. Mr. and Mrs. Wyckhoff Vanderhoff also left last week for Manhattan, taking with them their beautiful family of prettily-mannered children. Mrs.

James F. Fargo has gone from the club circle to the Homestead at Virginia Hot Springs. Miss Grace Fargo, it will be remembered, was one of the belles of the weekly Casino dances and enhanced this season her already well established fame as a golf player. Mr. and Mrs.

Hugh PottsFlorence Claire McAnerney, daughter of Colonel McAnerney and one of last autumn's most piquant brides--left the McAnerney villa, where they had been visiting, for their new home in White Plains, where they will remain through the winter. Mr. Potts's cousin, Miss Meta Brevoort Potts, will wed Mr. W. Creighton Peet Wednesday of next week.

Mrs. Augustus C. Taylor has returned to her Madison avenue home from the club circle. Her popular son, Mr. Dwight Taylor, is expected back from the Hot Springs later in the month.

Mr. Taylor is very well known in this borough, where he has been the guest of the Daniel Chaunceys and the Edward L. Kalbfleisch, juniors. THE included Seabright 'Mrs. L.

contingent W. Mason, which left R. the W. shore Kimball, last week who has gone to the mountains; Mr. and Mrs.

Manuel Lopez, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Laidlaw, Mrs.

Skidmore, Mr. and Mrs. M. Burr, Mr. and Mrs.

J. J. Guiles, Mr. and Mrs. P.

W. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. P. A.

S. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. J. J.

Hogan, who have gone to their home in Washington, District of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Graham, Mr. and Mrs. I.

Josephi, Mr. H. F. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles F. Camman. MRS. been WILLIAM visiting NELSON Mrs. William CROMWELL, A.

Graves, of Low of Moor, Bennington Center, that beautiful Green Mountain village where the Dexter Thayers, Parmalee Prentices and John D. Rockefellers have spent so many weeks this summer. Mrs. Charles Francis Stone, whose five attractive daughters were well known in this borough before marriage dispersed them over the country from Massachusetts to California, bought "Camp Comfort," five miles from Bennington, several years ago and gathers her large family there every summer. MOST of usual, the until Nyack the first cottagers of will November; remain but in of the the few country, who returned to town last week were Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Boody. Miss Zilph Hayes and Miss Helen Hayes, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

James E. Hayes, who have been visiting Mrs. Charles Carscallen, also returned last week. The Hayes, by the way, are now living in Manhattan. Miss Helen Mairs won second prize in a ladies' handicap lawn tennis tournament at Nyack last week, first prize having been won by Miss Helen Stewart.

UNUSUALLY tournament at prizes were Whitestone, awarded Long at the Island. reMrs. Arthur Van Siclen, who has been remarkably successful in previous tournaments on these courts, carried off the lion's share of honors in the women's events and became the possessor of two prizes, a gold seal ring and a silver cup. VERY quiet home wedding of last week was that of Mrs. A Minnie D.

Meserole, widow of the late Archibald K. Meserole, and Mr. William W. Kouwenhoven, which was celebrated at high noon at 690 St. Mark's avenue on Saturday.

The Rev. Dr. Lewis Francis was the officiating clergyman and there were no invited guests..