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BROOKLYN LIFE. given by her mother last week Friday AT evemusicale their residence, 1394 Union street, the engagement of Miss Gladys Wray, daughter of Mrs. Jessie A. Wray, to Mr. Charles Frederick Mason, was formally announced.

There was a large attendance of friends of the and an excellent program was well interpreted by: Mrs. Charles D. O'Connell, soprano; Mrs. Bessie Allan Collier, contralto; Miss Elizabeth Topping, pianist; Mr. William J.

Young, baritone; a quartet of men, and Mr. Stanley S. McCulloch who varied the program with readings. Among other guests were: Mr. William Young, Mr.

and Mrs. James Mason, Mr. and Mrs. William Carpenter, Miss M. Plant, Miss Ruth Kent, Miss Bessie Washburn, Mr.

L. H. Washburn, Mr. Arthur Edrop, Mr. Percy Edrop, Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Daviett, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles D. O'Connell, Mr. Herbert McCulloch, Mr. Joseph Byrne, Mr. W.

H. Mathews, Miss Von Heutchler, Miss L. M. Post, Miss Edith Dall, Mr. and Mrs.

A. H. Bonnell, Mr. and Mrs. W.

C. Hoevel, Mr. and Mrs. N. P.

Andrus, Miss E. M. Hay, Miss Genevieve Hay, Mr. and Mrs. W.

L. Neff, Mr. and Mrs H. M. Hay, Mr.

and Mrs. A. L. Hay, Miss Helen Lindgren, Miss Evelyn Bowie, Mr. and Mrs.

J. A A. Mitchell, F. G. Conran, Miss Alice Conran, Mr.

E. H. Spence, Mr. H. F.

Hawkins, Miss Woodcock, Mr. Stanley Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. O.

Campbell, Miss H. Hayman, Miss Bishop, Mr. James Thompson and Miss Stella A. Bunting. January the sixteenth, is the date set for WE of Miss Mabel Josephine Wright, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert J. Wright of Manhattan, and Mr. Emery Ward Stearns, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Stearns of 585 St. Marks avenue. The wedding is to take place at the Wright's spacious summer home at Rockville Centre, Long Island, where the family is now living. The maid-of-honor is to be Miss Emily Matties and the bridesmaids Miss Edna H.

Stearns and Miss Henrietta Frank, both of this borough. Miss Ruth Wright, the niece of the bride-to-be, will act as flower-girl. Miss Wright gave a pink luncheon a week ago last Saturday in honor of her attendants. The decorations were pink and green, and favors consisted of chrysanthemums. of the most attractive of recent Stuyvesant Heights ONE weddings took place on the twenty-eighth of last month, when Miss Fanny Matilda Gibson, niece of Mr.

William M. Gibson of Manhattan, was married to Mr. George Washington Nicholson, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.

W. Nicholson of 317 Decatur street. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Dr. Luther R.

Dyott of the Lee Avenue Congregational Church. The house decorations consisted of palms and pink and white roses, under a bower of which the bride was given away by her uncle. Miss Gibson was gowned in white mulle, trimmed with lace and she carried a shower bouquet of Bride roses. She was attended by Mrs. Howard Klase as matron-of-honor in a.

gown of light blue satin, and Miss Millicent Klase, the groom's niece, as flower girl, the latter being gowned in white and carrying a shower bouquet of American Beauty roses. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson will return from their wedding trip in time to spend Christmas with the groom's parents, with whom they will make their home for the present. A the RECENT wedding addition of Miss to the Anita January Eunice social Small, calendar daughter is of Mr.

and Mrs. George Sumner Small, junior, of 64 Montague street, to Mr. Charles Furniss Minton. The ceremony is to take place on the evening of Wednesday, the sixteenth at the Pouch Gallery. MRS.

luncheon GEORGE on Monday NASH of of last 183 week Quincy at her street, home, gave in a honor of the members of her euchre club. The decorations were pink and white. Among the guests were: Mrs. George Demarest, Mrs. Charles Silkman, Mrs.

Frank Roe, Mrs. James H. Stearns and Mrs. Charles Porter. Wednesday evening in the Church of the Incarnation, the ON marriage of Miss Margaret Stewart, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Stewart, of Chicago and Mr. Charles Gardner Huntington, of Summerville, S. was solemnized. The bride is a graduate of the Packer Institute of the class of 1900, while Mr.

Huntington was graduated from the Polytechnic, a year earlier. The bride was attended at the ceremony by her sister, Miss Eleanor Stewart and by Mrs. Henry Preston Furness, gowned alike in white Brussels net over yellow, Mr. Frank G. Forrester, of East Orange was the groomsman and the ushers were: Mr.

Dwight E. Austin, Mr. Harry P. Furness, Mr. Frederick W.

Bridge and Mr. Howard Hammitt. The bride's gown with which she wore the conventional tulle veil, was of white messaline trimmed with Venetian point lace. The ceremony was followed by a small reception at the home of the bride's aunt, Miss Eleanor Cunnigham Bannister of 16 Monroe street. Summerville, S.

will be the future home of Mr. and Mrs. Huntington. IN honor of the bride-elect, Miss Katharine L. Brown, Wed- 182 New York avenue, gave a luncheon last week nesday.

A color scheme of pink and white was prettily carried. In addition to Miss Margaret Stewart, the guests were: Miss Marjorie and Miss Eleanor Stewart, Mrs. Clarence Stacey Bender, Mrs. Perry W. Jones, Mrs.

Harry P. Furness, Miss Inez Allen and Miss Louise Rickard. were some exceptionally pathetic circumstances aside from her youth about the death of Mrs. Henry Burnell Faber, which occurred on Sunday and the news of which came as a great shock to the many friends among whom she was affectionately known as "Betty" Steele. The poignancy of the blow to her family was rendered the greater by the fact that after her physicians had given her up she began to show such signs of improvement, hope revived again in the hearts of those nearest to her.

Wednesday was the first anniversary of her wedding day and until she was stricken down with typhoid fever she was anticipating a joyous celebration of the day. She was the only daughter of Judge and Mrs. Hiram Roswell Steele, and her marriage to Mr. Faber is recalled by old south Brooklyn residents as a remarkable reunion of the families who were neighbors in the palmy days of that erstwhile fashionable locality. Mrs.

Faber was a Packer graduate of the class of 1902 and an accomplished pianist. Her full maiden name was Elizabeth Hinman Steele. WITH the set in recent at cold Tuxedo. snap the Last season Saturday of winter the sports first saw skating on Wee Wah Lake and very soon there will be tobogganing on the large new slide. Over the last week-end Mr.

and Mrs. Price Collier had a house party for the latter's daughter, Miss Muriel Robbins, with a large and handsomely appointed dinner on Saturday. THE first Yo San dance took place on Wednesday evening of last week at the Pouch Gallery and was very well attended. The patronesses were: Mrs. Ferdinand W.

Keller, Mrs. Herman Schoenijahn, Mrs. William Potter and Mrs. J. Herbert Keller of Manhattan.

The committee consisted of: Miss Marie E. Keller, Miss Ethel M. Potter, Miss Marguerite Fuller, and Miss Polka Schoenijahn. Among those present were: Miss Madeline Bamber, Miss Elizabeth Avis, Miss Elise P. Hoxie, Miss Edith Blake, Miss Florence Earle, Miss Florence Steele, Miss Amy C.

Bade, Miss Phyllis Fuchs, Miss Dorothy Arrison, Miss Alice Kendall, Miss Marie La Boibeaux, Miss Caroline White, Miss Florence Branard, Miss Madge Ossman, Miss Virginia B. Miss Adele Schmactenberg, Miss Tillie Schmactenberg, Miss A. E. 'Schryver, Miss May Marr, Mr. Gustav Kehr, Mr.

Herbert H. Lewis, Mr. Arthur Moeller, Mr. Gale F. German, Mr.

Ernst Hollister, Mr. George Fairchild, Mr. Frank Brown, Mr. Frank Parcells, Mr. Robert L.

Waring, Mr. William Morrison, Mr. Samuel Graham, Mr. Edward O'Shaughnessy, Mr. Harry Lochmuller, Mr.

Cornelins Mander, Mr. Frank Chinnock, Mr. Elmer Dean, Mr. Vere Morris, Mr. George Dillingham, Mr.

Alfred Ullo, Mr. Martin Maltby, Mr. George Reid, Mr. Harold Van Buren, Mr. Harry Moller, Mr.

Elford Mollenhauer and Mr. William Bamber. FOLLOWING the custom inaugurated after the burning of the Academy of Music the annual ball of the Emerald Society will again be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. The date selected is Friday, February fourth. The meeting at which the date and other details were determined upon took place last Monday week when the annual election of officers also took place and resulted as follows: Mr.

John J. Kuhn, president; Mr. Arthur J. O'Keefe, first vice-president; Mr. A.

Munkenbeck, secretary; Mr. John T. Breen, recording secretary; Mr. Frank Cullen, financial secretary, and Mr. Thomas F.

Rockford, treasurer. FOLLOWING the custom inaugurated after the burning AT the Tuesday home of afternoon, the bride, Miss 379 Veda Grand Kneeland, avenue, last daughter week of Mrs. Harry T. Kneeland, was married to Mr. Henry Williamson Pell, of Summit, New York, the well-known Princeton football player of a few seasons ago.

The Rev. Dr. Henry C. Swentzel performed the ceremony, to which only immediate relatives and extremely intimate friends were invited. Miss Edith Kneeland and Miss Antoinette V.

Pell, sisters respectively of the bride and bridegroom, were the former's only attendants. Mr. F. Stanley Parsons, of Manhattan, was the groomsman and the ushers were Mr. Percy U.

D. Gott of Goshen, New York and Mr. William W. Pell, of this borough. THE boys on Master Jack Silsbe's block, or rather the particular friends of Jack Silsbe on that block, were in great luck last Saturday, for he entertained them at a luncheon at his house, 159 Hancock street and then took them to the theater.

His guests were Masters Kenneth Stewart, Ralph Forshau, Louis Mollenhauer, junior, Charles Wood, Cris Fedman, and Lester Chatterton..