Show MR HARRISON AND HIS BRIDE Wedding to Take Place on Monday Mon-day Next NO FUSS NOR FEATHERS SlRRASfGEMEXTS MADE ARE VERY SIMPLE w It Is Sale HoTrevcr to Predict That All the Carious < if New York Will I Be in Attendance iC They Can Pos5bly Get There Something Abont the Bride NEW YORK April 3In St Thomas Protestant Episcopal church in Fifth avenue where the famous wedding of the young Duke of Marlborough and handsome Consuelo Vanderbilt took place last November exPresident Benjamin Harrisoii will be married toOIrs Mary Scott Lord Dimmick on Monday April 6 The Rev Dr John Wesley Brown rector rec-tor of the church will tie the nuptial knot and prominent men and women from all quarters of the land will shower congratulations and gifts upon the newly wedded pair It is not an everyday occurrence for an exPresident of the United States to take a wife and the wedding is sure to I I attrack the tumultuous attention of the I tens of thousands of men and women in New York and surrounding cities who eem to have no other occupation but < i that of rushing oo notable weddings and I I 1 funerals The wedding is also pregnant with more than crdinar interest for the reason that it is generally understood that General Harrisons children Russell B Harrison and Mrs McKee will keep 1 aloof from the nuptual festivities and r t moreover will avoid meeting their stepmother step-mother on al possible occasions I The shrewd men who make presidents of the United States are also watching the matrimonial venture with curious interest I in-terest They are the men who believe that a powerful string was attached to the generals letter of declination written writ-ten to his friends in regard to the nom i ination A little thing like a wedding fcan excite popular interest to fever heat 4 and some people think it may have a f tendency to make the bridegroom a potent po-tent factor at the coming battle in St v LouisPOLITICS POLITICS AND MATRIMONY f However the mingling of the merry Ingle of the wedding bells with the hideous hid-eous shriek of politics Is an inharmonious inharmon-ious business Besides it is unkind to Insinuate that the general has one eye glued on St Louis while the other is fastened on the marriage altar But politicians poli-ticians have been known to think and eay unkind things before and they have been talking in this strain a good deal of late It is the intention of General Harrison and Mrs Dimmick to have the wedding as quiet as possible but in this they are r bound to be disappointed The fact that the ceremony will be performed in the very center of the fashionable district I Knd in a church capable of holding 2500 persons at a pinch and moreover on the I iay after Easter Sunday argues well for fL crowd that would require two regiments I of soldiers t b keep at bay Unless precau Sjtfons are exerted of a kind never before attempted at a New York church weddIng wed-dIng St Thomas is certain to be jammed ro the doors with a crowd that would fewiningly pay the price of endless misery l and discomfort to see how an exPresi dent of the United States passed through the marriage ceremony j While the exact hour of tho ceremony jt aB been withheld In the hope of de fwUlns1 the eorts of the crowd the wed < Mne Is quite sure to take place at the toon hour The newspaper writers who 4I1Ie to Rloat over the details of tha J a ti J IJ H brides costume will have very little I foundation to build upon because it will be the personification of quiet simplicity simplic-ity and in that the future Mrs Harrison Harri-son shows rare good taste which has always al-ways been her chief characteristic THE BRIDE The central figure at all weddings is the bride for weddings are always regarded re-garded as the peculiar property of women and they look at the brIde ten times to once at the groom Mrs Dim mick wJIlL make a very fair bride to look upon noiwnnbiaiiuiii LIIUL sue is nearing near-Ing the age of forty Her figure is more girlish than matronly although well rounded and plump She is what most people call petite in her girlhood days she was vivacious but now her sprightliness spright-liness has been mellowed into a quiet dignity which well befits the wife of a man like General Harrison Mrs Dimmicks life has been a sad one Her father Russel B Lord and her I mother separated when she was a small child Her early life was embittered by domestic dissensions which were only ended when her mother took the two I little girls Lizzie and Mary back to Indianapolis In-dianapolis where the grandfather of her children Dr Scott a Presbyterian preacher lived Shortly after this sad homecoming Dr Scott was called to Springfield Ill and there the future Mrs Harrison grew up Dr Scott was for a time president of the Presbyterian Institution now known as the Concordia I college of Springfield but not making a success of it he established a private school which yielded a fair support for the little family One of the events in the house was an occasional visit from Mrs Lords sister sis-ter Mrs Benjamin Harrison and her i husband then a lawyer of some local repute In Indianapolis The two young girls were immensely fond of Aunt Carrie Car-rie and Uncle Ben but if any one had then spoken of the possibility of the little darkeyed Mamie Lord being one day the wife of Uncle Ben that person would have been assuredly regarded as the ripest subject for an insane asylum the < world over HER SCHOOL DAyS The two sisters attended a private I school in Springfield kept by a Miss Corcoran Cor-coran who for years after never tired of talking of Mamie Lord as the most I J iT 4 I I I j I i 5 I i f iLf i T i IVTUIUOR OP ST T1IO1I1S mischievous scholar she had ever had but the mischief was all of a healthy kind the result of a vigorous vitality and a childish desire to be always doing something It was in 1S75 that Mrs Lord and the two girls moved from Springfield to Princeton N J and it was there that Mamie Lord met the man who afterward became her husband The first five years In Princeton the two sisters attended a private school kept by a Mrs Moffit wife of one of the professors of the theological the-ological school To put the finishing touches to her education she was sent for a short time to the female college at Elmira X Y and on her return home she met Walter Erskine Dimmick son of Samuel E Dimmick a wealthy lawyer and one of the political powers of Pennsylvania The young people speedily fell in love but the parents of each objected to all talk of an engagement of matrimony because be-cause of their youth This was in 1879 and young Dimmick had not yet graduated grad-uated from the Columbia Law school where he was completing his education educa-tion He graduated in 1SSO and became a member of a New York law firm After another effort to reconcile their parents to the match had failed the two took matters into their own hands and eloped Their marriage took place in October 1881 and in the following January the young husband was stricken with typhoid ty-phoid fever and died after a brief iII If 7 = t f I r I l I f r u 1 I i n i 4 THE BRIDE AXD BRIDEGROOM ness Mrs Dimmick was a wife less than three months Upon her husbands death she went to Washington where her mother and grandfather had moved after her marriage mar-riage Her elder sister Lizzie the beauty of the family had already married Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Parker of the navy Young Dim mick had left a fair sized fortune to his widow but much of this has been dissipated dis-sipated by unfortunate investments in suburban Washington real estate Mrs Dimmick still has a fair Income During General Harrisons stay in Washington as the nations chief executive execu-tive Mrs Dimmick figured prominently In society and the affairs of the White House Her life there Is said to have been somewhat marred by unfortunate misunderstandings with her aunt Mrs Harrison but of this little need be said Mrs XHmmlcks wedding trousseau is V > 0 h not very elaborate She has never been very fond of fine raiment and seldom wears jewelry of any kind Rumor says that she is to be married in a gown of gray silk simply made in the prevailing prevail-ing mode After the ceremony she and General Harrison with less than thirty of their most intimate friends will sit down to a wedding breakfast at the home of the brides sister Mrs Parker in East Thirtyeighth street There will be little fuss tar feathers about the wedding except what the people peo-ple at large choose to make |