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BROOKLYN LIFE. Engagement of Miss Majorie B. Bolder. The engagement of Miss Marjorie B. Bolger, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles T. Bolger of 10 Cambridge Place, to Mr. Charles Allen Manchester was announced at a five hundred party which Miss Bolger gave at her home on Saturday afternoon of last week. Cards tied to small silver bonbon baskets made the announcement in a charming way.

Old-fashioned baskets of yellow tulips, jonquils and pussy willows were used for decorations, the color scheme being carried out in yellow. At five hundred the prize-winners were Miss Anna Draudt, Miss Anne Walker, Mrs. Stephen Purdy (Isabel Bowie), Miss Ruth Thompson and Miss Edith Brand. Mrs. Wesley M.

Graff (Marjorie Higgins) presided at the tea-table and other guests of the afternoon were Miss Dorothy Reynolds of East Orange, N.J.; Miss Jessie Woodcock, Miss Catharine Cowenhoven, Miss Helen B. Turner, Miss Edith Thompson, Miss Edna B. Smith, Miss Ella Baird, Mrs Andrew D. Baird, 2d, Miss Edna Martin, Mrs. Bertram Stetson (Florence Lee), Miss Grayce Cross, Miss Nellie Hawkins, Miss Beatrice Woodcock, Miss Florence Gillon, Miss Janet Ullrich, Miss Lillian Jones, Miss Ina Gould, Miss Dorothy Lamphear, Miss Gertrude Hallam, Miss Alberta Rumph, Miss Mabel Buzzee, Miss Marian Frazer, Miss Jean Winslow, Miss Ruth Ross, Miss Helen Waentig, Miss Dorothy Walsh and Miss Amy Morrow.

In the evening Miss Bolger and Mr. Manchester entertained a few of their most intimate friends at Miss Bolger's home. Mr. Manchester is a son of Mrs. Georgia A.

Manchester of 73 Herkimer Street. flowered Miss Marion pink dotted silk with touches of Miss light. blue taffeta with a flowered taffeta bodice; Miss Phebe C. Lake, light blue. and white dotted organdy with a flowered border and black velvet trimmings.

Among the invited guests were Mrs. J. Heron Cros-nian, Mrs. Don C. Seitz, Mrs.

George C. Taft, Mrs. C. W. De Leon Nicholls, Mrs.

R. A. Correy, Miss Edith Quimby, Mrs. Adolph Outerbridge, Miss Wells, Mrs. A.

B. Hepburn, Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpool, Mrs. Stewart Hull Moore, Mrs. C. E.

Donnellon, Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin, Mrs.E. R. Mcintosh, Mrs.

D. P. Ingraham, Mrs. J. S.

Bradley, Mrs. R. W. Moore, Mrs E. Townsend Mrs.

William Robi-son, Mr. F. C. Seabury, Mr. Chandler Smith, Mrs.

Greenwood, Colonel William Jay, Mrs. J. Lawton, Mrs. Horace C. Lockwood, Mrs.

A. W. Parker, Mrs. Walter Mun-son, Mrs. Elaugh, Mrs.

A. E. Fraser, Mrs. Henry M. Brig-ham, Mrs.

G. C. Hills, Miss M. V. Berry, Mrs.

Elzyshene Berry, Mrs. Lester Lewis, Mrs. Robert F. Ives, Miss Edith Wilkinson, Mrs. G.

A. Allin, Mrs. Cynthia Westover Aldin, Mrs. A. M.

Palmer, Mrs. B. L. Soule, Mrs. W.

S. Cogswell, Mrs. F. M. Sharpe, Mrs.

W. Gerry Slade, Mrs. G. B. Wallis, Mrs.

W. C. Story, Mrs. August Dryer, Mrs. Mary Riley Smith, Mrs.

Clarence Kenyon, Mr. and Mrs. Willatd, Bartlett, Mrs. Simon Baruch, Miss Harriet Sammis, Mrs. George S.

Starbruck, Mrs. George Beveridge, Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, Mrs. Fred Hixon Baldwin, Mrs.

C- A. J. Queck- Berner, Mrs. Edward Harrison, Mrs. George F.

Allison, Mrs. E. M. Raynor, Miss.E. P.

Gambrill, Mrs. C. L. Bleak-ley, Mrs. H.

B. Henry, Governor-general T. S. Hopkins, Mrs. H.

F. C. T. Kage, Mr. and Mrs.

Easton, Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Marks and Mr. and Mrs. A.

N. Brown. Various committees for the affair, under Mrs. Joseph Duk. Harrison as general chairman, were: hospitality committee-Mrs.

Anna L. Bergen, Mrs. Andrew Ditmas, MrsyNicholas W. Brown, Mrs. Theophilus N.

Glover, Mrs. Wilhai Lake, Mrs. Ernest E. Malmar, Mrs. Nathaniel McjCay Mrs.

Alexander Snyder, Mrs. Frank L. Van Cleef, Mrs; j. Hf Austin, Mrs. V.

H. Everson and Mrs. H. C. Fuxman; refreshment committee Mrs.

Harold E. Ditmars, Mi VanBrunt Ditmas, Miss Marion Lott, Miss Mrs. Harry C. Greene, Miss Grace Phebe Cropsey Lake, Mrs. Charles L.

Livingston "Miss; Marguerite Tiffany, Mrs. Lester R. Van Missi1 J. Ryder, Mrs. Charles E.

Scriven, Mrs. Tosejih Sjtory Halstead, Mrs. R. De Mille Brown and Mrs. Befitley; Hasell Stevenson dance committee Honorable GjcrSfiffanyi Mr.

Frank M. Raynor, Mr. George E. Sprague, In a New England school the son of a grocer was undergoing an oral examination when this question was put to him "Whence is coffee derived?" The boy hesitated a moment and then replied: "I am afraid I can't answer that question, sir. You see, it's a trade secret." Misa Grace Madeleine Pedder to Marry in April.

Miss Grace Madeleine Pedder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Pedder of 203 Park Place, will be married on Wednesday evening, April fifteenth, to Mr. Wallace Merritt Bininger.

The ceremony, at eight o'clock, will take place at the home of Miss Pedder and will be followed by a reception. Miss Edith Dollard will act as maid of honor and the best man will be Mr. Edmund Von Gerichten of Philadelphia. Mr. Bininger is a son of Mrs.

Ralph Townsend Senter of Philadelphia. Smith thought that Jones was very chivalrous and devoted when he said that his wife was growing handsomer every day. But when Smith saw Mrs. Jones he concluded that she must have had an awfully poor start. Hammond, Mr.

Charles J. Werner, Mr. Jo-seliule; Harrison and Mr. Harold E. Ditmars.

Mpsgrove: I suppose Smalley raised a row with his publishers when his novel came out with three chapters inissing Appelgate No, he didn't but he made some very uncharitable comments on the reading public because they failed to notice the omission. Engagement of Brooklyn Interest. Mr. and Mrs. George A.

La Vie of 24 West Eighty-eighth Street, Manhattan, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mabel La Vie, to Mr. William L. Schultz, son of Mrs. Robert S. Schultz of Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. La Vie formerly lived in Brooklyn, where their home was at 60 Remsen Street. Their country residence is at Spring Lake Beach, N.J., and the wedding of Miss LaVie will take place there. The Teacher Why do you wish to take your daughter out of school? Mrs.

ParVenue: You've learned her nothin' except about proper nouns an' vulgar fractions an' there ain't nothin' improper nor vulgar in our family. Mr. Martindale's Dance. Mrs. Barton W.

S. Martindale's dance at her home, 161 Marlborough Road, on Friday evening brought together a very congenial group of friends who thoroughly enjoyed the evening. For such as did not care to danqe there were cards, tables being tucked into quiet corners where those who loved "the rigors of the game" like Sarah Battle, could play quite undisturbed by onesteps or hesitations; Mi s. Martindale wore a very becoming costume of light blue brocaded satin trimmed with crystals. Among the guests were Mr.

and Mrs. Judd E. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin N.

Sanderson, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Cannady, Mr. and Mrs.

John G. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Cronemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Burton, Mr. and Mrs.

Percy D. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Dockendorff, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Haber, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pilgrim, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur V. Mr. and Mrs. W. Mitchell, Mr.

and Mrs. Gerard M. Wildes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hotchkiss, Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Fullerton, Miss Ruby Rees, Mrs. D. A. Turner, Mrs.

Winifred DeBeck, Mr. Harold Rice, Mr. Harold Blandy, Mr. Frank D. Berry and Mr.

Miller. The Aahmore-Nagle Wedding. The home of Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Ashmore, 675 East Thirty-first Street, Flatbush, was the scene of a pretty wedding on Wednesday evening of last week, when their daughter, Miss Mildred E. Ashmore, became the bride of Mr. Walter Nagle, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W.

Nagle of 794 Jefferson Avenue. The ceremony was performed at half -past eight o'clock by the Rev. David Lauray, assistant pastor of the Central Congregational Church, with only relatives and very intimate friends in attendance. Miss Evelyn Ashmore, sister of the bride, was maid of honor and little Miss Frances Chesbro, a cousin, was flower girl. Mr.

Howard Winklemeyer was best man. The bride was gowned in white satin and princess lace. Her tulle veil was arranged in cap effect, trimmed with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white roses and lilies-of-the-valley. Miss Evelyn Ashmore was gowned in pink charmeuse with Chantilly lace and she carried pink roses. Miss Chesbro wore a dainty frock of shadow lace over pink.

She carried a basket of pink flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Nagle will make their home in Flatbush. At Home Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Duke Harrison of 60 Amersfort Place, have sent out cards announcing first and third Friday evenings until Mrs. Henry White Callahan of 121 Lincoln Place is receiving informally Sunday afternoons from four until five o'clock. Rev. Dr.

Booming: Yes, she has behaved nobly. Why, the very day her husband so basely deserted her she wrote to him extending forgiveness. Sying: How lovely of her! What did the dear martyr say? Rev. Dr. Booming: She was very brief, she had not the strength to say much.

She closed, I remember with these pathetic words: "Please don't come back and all will be forgiven." While thunders on the pulpit and the press, And prude and Puritan look on askance; No matter where we go, to our distress, The same old cry we hear: "On with the dance!".