Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-01

MIR. AND MRS. HENRY PRATT mexican.
IVIof Pine River Farm, Penllyn, left last week
for Japan. 10 be gone about six months. Mrs,
Mexican, It will be remembered, was Miss
Margaret M. Riker, of New York.
Mrs. william Forsythe, of Moreland avenue,
st. Martins, entertained at a luncheon on Sat
urday at the Art Club in honor of Miss Martha
Whitmer, debutante daughter of Mrs. Robert
#. whitmer. Following the luncheon, Mrs.
Forsythe took her guests to see Peg o. My
Heart Among those present were the Misses
Anderson, Miss Eleanor Porcher, Miss Won
Buskert. Miss Marion Button and Mrs. Fred
eriok Ward.
Miss Virginia Lockwood Mccain, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Nox Mccain, whose
marriage to Stanley GladdIng Wilcox will take
place on Thursday. will be guest of honor at a
luncheon to be given by Miss Marguerite
Shelly at the Manufacturers Club. The guests
win include Miss Brenda Cleveland, Miss Flor
ence Smith,, Mrs. William Campbell, Jr. A box
party will follow, to be given by Miss Brenda
Cleveland.
Mile. c. dep. Rigueur, of 2OO6 Pine street,
will be at home Saturdays in March after 3
o'clock. No cards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Browning, of 245 South
10th street, were guests of honor at o lunch
con given by Harry S. Black at Palm Beach
yesterday. The other guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph E. Stevens. Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Barklie Henry and Miss Edith Fisher.
A tea will be given this afternoon by Miss
Nina Lea, of 1000 Walnut street to intro
duce Madame Slavko Grouitch, wife of the
Servian Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Miss
Lea will be assisted by the women who form
the honorary committee. Nine. Grouitch ar
rived yesterday and is the guest of Mrs. John
Markoe, of 1880 Locust street.
Madame Grouitch is an American by birth
and was Miss Mabel Dunlap, of West Virginia.
She will remain here for a week and during
that time will speak informally on the wants
and needs of her devastated country. She will
make appeals in the way of farming imple-
ments and seeds of barley, wheat and oats to
replant the fields laid waste by the war. The
women, young men and those not able to join
the forces will be the tillers so that Servia
may be able to help herself and her stricken
people.
A musicale will be given by Mrs. Austin
Stevens Heckscher at her home, 2213 Walnut
street, tonight. Miss Josephine McCulloh and
George Rothermel. of the operate Society, will
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companist. Many invitations have been issued
and the guests will include Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlemagne Tower. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Emlen
Newbold Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Brock, Mrs.
Arthur Brock, Mrs. Thomas Leaning, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Brown Coke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Saunders, Jr, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Lewis,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry La Barre Jayne, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Mercer Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
j. Drexel Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard M.
Heckscher. Mrs. Charles Brinton Coke. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles M. Lea, Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay H.
Warburton, Mr.. and Mrs. Ledyard Heckscher.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. II. Bayard Bowie, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leopold Stokowski. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hor-
nor Coates, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Bertram Lippincott.
Mr.. and Mrs. Langdon E. Mitchell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke, Mrs. Alexander
Brinton Coke, DIR and Mrs. Joseph Leidy, Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer,, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodman Wanamaker, Judge and Mrs. j.
Willis Martin, DIR. and Mrs. Arthur Newlin,
Mrs. A. Sydney Biddle, Mrs. Arthur Bid
die, Miss Christine w. Biddle. Miss Chris
tine A, Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs. Wassili Leps,
Miss Leps, Miss Marianne Biddle, Miss Harriet
Biddle, Mrs. William A. Plat, Mrs, Charles
Plat, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Wentz. Mr..
and Mrs. C. Helde Norris, Mr.. and Mrs, Henry
u. Drayton, Mrs. j. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs.
Maurice Heckscher. Miss Gertrude S, Heck
Miss Anna Ingersoll Meigs. Philip Goepp,
Henry Mexican Ingersoll. Gustav Heckscher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis Pearson, Sd, OF 1911
Spruce street, have returned to their home from
a trip to Atlantic City. n. ].
Miss Ellen Ide Kenney, of the Colonial. 18th
and Spruce streets, will be at home this after
noon and Monday afternoons. March s and Is.
cards.
Miss Phoebe Williams Adams has returned to
the Belgravia after a short stay in Atlantic
City.
A number of girls and women are taking
of the special course in landscape
at the School of Horticulture for
Women at Amber and the series OF lectures
being given by Miss Lee. Among the mem
bers of the class are Miss Annie Bum. Miss
Maria Bum. Miss Mildred Patton. Miss Mill
cent n. Dana. Miss e. G, Flagg. Miss Frances
Tyson. Miss Helen G. Wilson. Miss Emily r,
Fox. Miss Mary Blakiston, Miss Edith Pyle,
Miss Mary Freeland. Mrs. John Gribbel. Miss
Smith and Miss Elizabeth Smith. Among
the students OF the school who are taking up
the course are Miss Lucy Lee Richardson, Miss
Exley. Miss Frances shinn, Miss Eleanor
Miss Loretta Walker, Miss Frances
and Miss Linda Hires.