Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1913 — FLOWER TO BOY FOR-LUCK [ARTICLE]

FLOWER TO BOY FOR-LUCK

Countess Hoyos, Who Married Cincinnati Man, Gives Wedding Decorations to London Hospitals. London. —After the wedding of Countess Hoyos and C. W. Short of Cincinnati, the usual crowd had assembled in front of their hotel, and as the bride got out of the carriage a ragged little boy exclaimed at the beauty of the bride’s flowers. She stopped, smiled, took off a sprig of orange flowers and gave it to ths child. When asked by her astonished bridegroom why she did it, she answered : "Oh, merely for luck —and other things.” The day before her marriage she went out with her mother and bought quantities of flowers which she sent to the children’s hospitals. In which she always has been Interested, and all the flowers used for the decoration of the reception were used for the same purpose. She was a beautiful bride in a dress made almost entirely of old lace, ivory-tinted with age and lined with silvery satin. One of her jewels, the gift of Mrs. Harry Higgins, was a weird eastern jewel representing a sun god, made up of diamonds and paste emeralds and set in old beaten gold. It is said to have belonged to one of the rulers of ancient Egypt and to bring good luck to the wearer.