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MRS. LUCILE BEATRICE ROBINSON WILKINSThe Most Popular and Charming Brides, Among the Afro-American. in this City. She Fittingly Represents the Highest Type of Young Womanhood and Her Many Hundreds of Warm Friends, Extend Hearty Congratulations to Her Over Her Recent Happy Marriage.MISS LUCILE BEATRICE ROBINSON, THE HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED AND VERY POPULAR DAUGHTER OF REV. AND MRS. JOHN W. ROBINSON, WAS HAPPILY UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MR. J. ERNEST WILKINS, AT ST. MARK CHURCH.IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST WEDDINGS IN THE HISTORY OF THAT CHURCH. THE NUPTIAL KNOT WAS TIED GOOD AND TIGHT BY REV. D. E. SKELTON, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CHICAGO DISTRICT, LEXINGTON CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.ALMOST TWO THOUSAND FRIENDS OF THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES WITNESSED THE WEDDING CEREMONY AND ATTENDED THE . RECEPTION WHICH FOLLOWED IT.THE BRIDE AND GROOM HAVE SO FAR BEEN THE RECIPIENTS OF MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE USEFUL, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES.By DR. M. A. MAJORSLook before the time set for the opening of the doors of St Mark Methodist Episcopal ChoTch. Wabash avenue at Fiftieth street Chicago, to ,1 the public, hundreds waited about the edifice standing in the chilling breeze for an hour or more determined to wit ness the marriage of the charming daughter of the pastor. Miss Lucille Beatrice Robinson, to Mr. J. Ernest Wilkins, an attorney-at-law.Promptly at 7:30 P. M Thursday, j November 23. the doors of the spacious auditorium were thrown open. Mr. Robert J. Madison, supported by his efficient usher's board, trained in handling the great congregation which regularly attend the religious services in St. Mark Church with grace and remarkable dispatch, seated the crowd, which overflowed both the main andi toriuni and into all the available stand-mg room. jThe church decorations were of rare splendor, yet breathing the sense of the deeply devotional and piety. The clinging smilax, edging the border, the ferns clustering in bunches along the bakooy. the stately palms resting up on pedestals, were so placed about the pulpit o»!rum and altar that being relieved by several baskets of chrysanthemums. the effect was that of flower garden. The altar and pulpit desk were draped in white linen. The happy couple kneeled upon the same pillows upon which the bride's par bad kneeled upon the occasion of marriage nearly twenty-five years ago. Did ever a maiden, be-jewelcd an hour so rich in the grace human loveliness, radiating the joyfa! expectancy of so great a throng with such remarkable poise and a heart filled with a more genuine hap-Or was there ever a groomcalmer, more steady or more thrilled with the bliss of his happy situation?Several parties and a number of showers—prenuptial affairs—had been given by loving friend* and intimate acquaintances in honor of the bride and groom. There was the miscellaneous shower by Miss Lenora Webster. the lingerie shower by Mrs. VI ay me Anderson, the milliner: the towel shower by Miss Estella Webster. 6352 Rhodes avtnue. the linen shower by Mrs. Evelyn Richey, 4834 Langley avenue; the kitchen shower by Mrs. Robert Jackson. 423 East 48«h place: and the handkerchiefshower by Mrs. Mason Higgins, 4411 Vincennes avenue. The St Mark l-eagur gave a party at Mrs Jas Bell, 5733 Wabash avenue, while the night before the wedding Mr*. Lucien South, 4417 Prairie avenue, gave an American beauty rose party to the bridal party and the parents Many valuable and practical gifts were presented upon these occasions.Promptly at 8:25 o’clock Mrs. Gene Vanderberg. whose sweet lyric voice never appeared to finer effect, sang “Oh Promise Me. A hushed silence fell upon the expectant crowd. Leaning upon the arm of Mr. R. J. Madi-ibe chief usher, the groom's • mother, wearing a midnight blue canton crepe. Mr*. Susie O Wilkins of Farmington. Mo., and the bride's mother. Mrs. Juanita K. Robinson, wearing a cocoa brown crepe silk.seated in the reserved section. At exactly 8 JO Mr. Walter Gossette. St Mark popular organist began the strains of Lohengrin's “Wedding March and the glorious hour was at With stately dignity the bridal(Continued on page 2 snob seventh columns)
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