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Show DWNJSD iiiUOAL ROBES. MARRIAGE OF GABRIELLE, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HORACE GREELEY. II cr Husband aa Eloquent and Good Looking Young I'rrarlirr-ll.w Hi. Urlde Wa Dre.el and Where Mm llouvyinoou Mill lie Spent. The little town of Chappaqua, X. Y., was recently excited over the nurrtage of Miss Uabrielle Greeley to the Rev. Frank M. Clendenin, rector A St. Peter's church, Westchester. Fur the last ten year Miss Greeley ma if; Clmppaqna lier homo, ami her life Utere w;is one of un-svllish un-svllish devotion to oftiers. She was a faithful faith-ful worker in tUo littlu parish dmrch nt I'lcafittJitviUu, uud was tireless in her j Nothing in the girl' manner indicated any preference. The tlirws boys worp I the betit of friends, althoiiKh the gitua- tion was such as to strain their relations littlo. Finally the threo met one day by accident. acci-dent. In some way the youn lady's ntune was brought up, and after consideration con-sideration it was decided to match pen-j pen-j nies to see who should withdraw from the contest, it was stipulated that the winner should be in honor bound to devote de-vote himself exclusively to the young lady in the future and to win her hand if possible. The losers from that moment mo-ment were to withdraw from the race j completely. The losers were further I pledged to net us guardian brothers to the young lady and see that the winner carried on notlirtatiotis with other nh'U. The contracts were carried out to the letter, and the girl was never told why two of her admirers go suddenly retired. And so, after these years, she is at last to become the wife of him whom luck favored in u game of chance. Both are still young, ami the gentleman is prospering pros-pering in his business. Of the losers iu the contest, one adopted adopt-ed a trade antl is married. The other entered upon a professional career. Ho is unmarried, anil his name would be recognized, were it mentioned, all over the western city. Des Moines Leader. K'l'', v V' v ."!( r-J s Men Charged with hft'eraiuacy. What sort of namby-pamby Miss Nancys are voting men fast coming to be? At a little function not long ago the majority of men, both mitrried aud single, sin-gle, talked in effeminate voices, using their inflections and accent precisely hs woiuou do. Von hear this effeminate voice everywhere; you don't wonder much at it when you consider the spindle spin-dle shanked, narrow cherted source from which it comes. The tastes also gf the modern young man are toward the effeminate. ef-feminate. So many young bachelors are keeping house by themselves, and they can toll you all about it, from the price one should pay for tea to the projer width of a tablecloth hem. But this is not the worsL 1 was paying a visit one afternoon, and on being ushered into the reception room I buw the young man of the house, a boy of nineteen, sitting by the window busily bus-ily engaged in doing drawn work! He had his embroidery frames and was deftly weaving the threads of an intricate intri-cate spider's web pattern in and out with seeming satisfaction. He spread out his work for my insjiection it was a sideboard cover and patted it, smoothed it and held it np in various lights, precisely as a girl might have done. Though 1 should have enjoyed taking him by the coat collar and gently dropping him in a clear, cold pool of water, 1 repressed my disgust and admired ad-mired his skill. New York Cor. Chicago Herald. IeliiKed by Sand. The sand laden winds from the Lake Michigan shore have wiped out tho town of Singapore, near Kaugatnck, Mich. Every house except one has been completely covered tip, and the family in this lone house has now been compelled com-pelled to move into the second floor, the Fund having filled the firet. The same cause will eventually drive the people to the roof, as these sand dunes respect neither man nor his abode, and this little lit-tle old town will liecoine as thoroughly buried as Pompeii. Exchange. LEV. FRANK II. CI.nNDE.VIX, ministrations to tlie poor, the sick and the agr-d. It is probable that Mrs. Clen-deno'in Clen-deno'in will make her summer home at CdVippaquas The marriage took place the other day at St. John's church. Pleasantville. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Benjamin Ben-jamin T. Hall, rector of the churcli. Rov. Thomas McKee Brown, of the church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York, gave the bride away. A full choral service was rendered by the choir boys of the church, and the celebration of the holy communion preceded the marriage ceremony. The bridal party took the noon train for New York, where a reception followed at the house of a friend. Twelve hundred invitations were Bent out for the reception. No invitations invita-tions were given for the church ceremony, ceremo-ny, but there was a large attendance of friends and neighbors of the bride. Miss Greeley looked superbly beautiful beauti-ful i bridal Httire. Her gown was silver sil-ver brocade: she wore a duchesse lace veil and orange blossoms and carried a prayer book. Her "going away" dress was of gray cloth, with a hat to correspond. corre-spond. She had many charming dresses made, one of absint he green brocade being be-ing notably pretty. There were no bridemaids, only a bride of honor, Miss Elizabeth Chamberlain, and no ushers. liev. Mr. Clendenin is a sou of George Clendenin, of Washington. He gradu ated at Princeton Theological seminary, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Nashville, Bis., one year. That was ten years ago. He then wont over to the Episcopal church, and liecame - rector of a church at Belleville, Bis. In May, 1887, he became rector of St. Pe-ji Pe-ji ter's church, Westchester, one of the old- ' est Episcopal churches in the United ' States. He is about thirty-seven years of ago. On account of his health he has resided resid-ed in New York some time, going out to Westchester every Sunday and occasionally occasion-ally during the week. Among the mem-s. mem-s. . bers ot his congregation are C. P. Huntington, Hunt-ington, the Iselins, Waterburys, aud other people of wealth whose summer homes are at Westchester or in the neighborhood. After their bridal tour Mr. and Mrs. Clendenin will reside at the rectory, WeBtchester. Bishop Potter is a warm friend of 1 IMrs. Clendenin, and not long ago sent her a fine portrait of herself. Referring once to her rather ritualistic tendencies where the church service is concerned, , he said, "I have hard work to keep up with her." Miss Greeley and her sister Ida who ' was afterward the wife of Colonel Nicholas Nich-olas Smith were sent, when girls, to the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Manhiit- Us 4- -tSP f s?e, JJl fi ro WrH GABRIELLE GREELEY. trtnville. Ida became a convert, but Gabrielle did not "I had no religion to speak of at that time," so she says of herself, "although I thought it the proper thing to belong to some church." After leaving tho convent she informed in-formed her father one day that thero was a school np on the Hudson river called St. Gabriel's, and as that was her name the thought she ought to go there. "So, hand in hand," she relates, "dear old papa and I went to the sisters' New York house to make inquiries about this school. We saw the sister superior, and as 1 at once fell in love with her, i decided to stay there at school." Here she remained 1 nutil she graduated. Mrs. Clendenin lived with her married mar-ried sister, Mrs. Smith, and was with , her at their Chappatpia cottage when she died, about nine years ago. Colonel Nicholas Smith now resides iu Canada Vrilh his threa children. ChooMing Hi-ido by lt. A wedding is unnounced for this spring between two well known yonug Ponplo of Des Moines. There is an inter- c.-tyig story copnectod with the event, j V lit would be unfair to call name, i ' ' Bur years ago the prospective bride, i 'L 11 quite young, was receiving the at- I toi.ifcon of three gentlemen. They, too, Werio yonng, little more than boys, and I 4 filtering npou the different lines of woju which they hail adopted for life, i llwo of them indeed were still stn ! deif si. Matters ran along without much cliiiinge with the four for some time. ; Ti,4v each tuiderstood the situation. t |