Mintie Carroll Hemingray

MRS. BENDER'S DINNER PARTY.

Pretty Affair in Honor of the

Gray-Hinds Wedding.

One of the prettiest dinner parties of the season was given by Mrs. Charles Bender, Wednesday, in honor of the Gray-Hinds wedding party. The dining room was decorated in green and white throughout. The windows draped in white lace were banked with white peonies, and spirea fern. The same flowers graced the mantels and chandeliers. The dinner was laid for seventeen covers. In the center of the table, was a beautiful centerpiece of green and white. On this stood the handsome cutglass candelabra, the gift of the bridesmaids to the bride. At the other end stood tall colonial glass vases filled with huge bouquets of white carnations and ferns. These were tied together with strands of white tulle and asparagus fern.

At each plate, green ribbons tied in lovers' knots the heart shaped name cards. By the side of these large bunches of maidenhair fern, tied with bunches of white tulle, were in place for the women, while small boutonniers of the same tied in white ribbons were for the men.

At each place were the gifts from the bride and groom to the wedding party. The gifts from the bride to her bridesmaids were gold wish bone lace pins, with four leaf clovers in the center, set with pearls.

The groom's gifts to his ushers were pearl scarf pins.

The costumes worn by the women of the party were beautiful in every detail. Those present were: Misses Josephine Gray, Mary French Field, Elizabeth Cooper, Eliza Chambers, Fannie Turner, Emily Olcott, Carroll Hemingray, Florence McNaughton, and Nadene Wilson, and Messrs. P. Atwood Hinds, F. B. Whitlock, Robert Walker, W. R. Gray, James G. Kerr, Edward G. N. Harris, Edmund B. Ball, and George F. Getz.