|to foreign lands within two months, two of them |
|having become princesses and the third a baroness. |
|The first to wed was Miss Margaret Draper, heiress |
|to several millions of her father's estate. She is |
|now Princess Boncompagni of Rome, and her mother is |
|now just about joining her and the prince in Paris, |
|the three to proceed to the prince's home in Rome, |
|where they will spend Christmas together, after |
|which the prince will return to duty with his |
|regiment. |
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|The second of these brides of foreigners was Miss |
|Catherine Birney, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. |
|Theodore V. Birney, who was married December 2 to |
|Baron von Schoen, of the German embassy staff, and |
|is just back now from the wedding trip. They |
|returned for the marriage of Miss Catherine Britton |
|to the Prince zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, of the |
|Austro-Hungarian embassy staff. Baron and Baroness |
|von Schoen will spend Christmas with the latter's |
|sister, with whom she has made her home since the |
|death of her parents, and then they will proceed to |
|Mexico, whence the baron has been transferred. |
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|The marriage of Miss Britton and Prince zu Hohenlohe|
|was not unexpected, but the wedding date was hurried|
|about three months, the prince becoming an impatient|
|wooer. He was assigned to duty at the |
|Austro-Hungarian consulate in the summer and agreed |
|to remain away for a year. He stood it as long as he|
|could, and then returned to claim his bride. The |
|consent of the prince's family has not been |
|forthcoming, but the marriage has the sanction of |
|the embassy, presumably by order of the new emperor,|
|and it was a happy wedding scene. The bride is one |
|of the famous beauties of Washington society. She |
|was never lovelier than in her singularly simple |
|wedding gown of satin with pearl trimmings, tulle |
|sleeves, and enormous wedding veil. |
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|Society is dancing its way through the season. The |
|fever is making inroads even upon th