Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-16

- account of their rich returns,
eaoiotv will turn to the poor nearer
- and plan for their happiness at
christmas, having arranged for a few
E AXIS the war sufferers, the Japanese
,.,orrational Hospital in Toxic and a
,.r other things, among them Mrs
E r.ror,s separate German Aid Asso-
ciatlon.
co many of our young people do
.ncb kind things which are never
ssord Of only very recently 1 heard
y, Girl. who is only 10 and one of
.ho greatest bellies, who goes every
.,here and is in everything going, but
& ".,,ortheless finds time to call twice a
al on a sad little family she has
F. ,oord Of and made it her business
=, investigate, where the mother died
s,.sntlv. The father is crippled with
.soun,atism, and even the cooking de-
f lives upon a small boy of 10 years,
..ho dresses his little brothers and
,,yers. gets the meals and tries to
slean the house, and actually manages
- attend school as we'll The girl in
.res,ion goes there and actually cleans
,so mite of living room herseh She
srovs they do not want n regtihnr So
.,ol visitor, and they do not mind her.
And as the man said to me, when I
.topped in one day recently, What
4 aver would we do without her,
Tho hazaar at the Ritz yesterday
.,ternoon attracted the most repre-
,entative group of fashionahles seen
,or some time, and old and young
found the wares purchasable. The
r,ost unioue feature of the afternoon
was the juvenile fashion parade, held
IN the rotunda adjoining the ballroom,
at 4 o'clock The tiniest excited totties
snneared all logged out in the very
latest made for the benefit of their ad-
mlrlng elders. Their turn consisted in
marching boldly up to a curtain, on
which hung the picture of n crying
hsby. and trying to place n bottle in
lts mouth Little Virginia Brock and
her sturdy big" brother, Sidney, the
adorable children of Mrs. Sidney f.
TYLER Brock, caused a ripple of amusc
ment when they posed for a photograph.
virgnia's treble voice was heard to eX-
claim, "He won't let me hold his
hand" whereupon Master Sidney was
properly rebuked and the picture
snapped-indeed, the little girl was so
entertained by the whole proceeding
that she wanted the flash to do it
over again"
The children were quite the most
fascinating things Imaginable Among
the other future bellies and beauX who
appeared as maniltins were little jose
phine Fraley, the daughter of Mrs.
Fred Fraley; Anita Foulke, Mrs.
Foulke's small daughter; Mrs. Charles
Custis Harrison, Jrs, daughter, Mary
spOttiswoode Harrison, the good-looking
Grace Jordans little girl, Mary Fell
Jordan, and young Stacy b. Lloyd Jr.
The fete wound up last night with
an amateur cabaret show and dance,
which was one of the most original and
successful novelties of the season. A
wide space cleared between the tables
on the banquet floor of the Ritz was
the stage for the presentation of the
show, with its solo dances, song num-
bers, trick piano playing, it's balloon
ballet and its dance sets arranged and
carried out by members of the younger
social set.
dozen girls costumed in black, with
black masks and black balloons, was
perhaps the most picturesque of the
acts. In it were Margot Scull, Mar
garet Berwind, Aimee Hutchinson,
Dorothy Disston, Agnes BroCkie and
Harriet Geyelin. Francesca Valdez
played the piano from every angle"
and there was a Mask and Wig set
presented by William Stroud, Aldan
Lee, Bryce Blynn. Wesley Greenwood
and George Kneass.
Uytendale Baird, with Bob Carrere as
partner, danced a gavotte and fox
uot and there was a mixed specially
lance, in which Alva Sergeant, Theo-
aora X. Lille, Miss Edith Earle, Louisa
Davis Katharine Ogden, William
stroud, Aldan Lee, Bryce Blynn, Wesley
GREENWOOD and George Kneass partici-
pated r, Gilpin Erwin was the vocal
sb francesca Valdez accompanying
MN on the piano. One of the features
q the affair was an artistic dance by
mrs Albert L. Smith, Virginia Harrison
that was.
BEFORE the cabaret jack Mason enter
aihlngly auctioned off a large number
the leftover articles, white ele-
pnants" included.
fhe fine old mansion of Doctor Wis
M at 400 Locust street, which in
soohial days was the scene of many
sno notable festivities, was reopened
"a tuesday by the Colonial Danes,
sa0 nave taken possession OF the
s'use and win make 1t the future
~sauquarters of the chapter. The
'Y0ms have been charmingly fur
aSned In the fashion that prevailed
-. 'ns Doctor Wister's day. Mrs.
Se0fse Mason Chichester, who was
ssiss Edythe Wister, presided at the
slVen' and, during the course of
-, AFTERNOON, read a series of inter
ING letters, the correspondence of
sreat-grandfather, DIR. Edwin
ss'eA' and his son, Philip Physick,
-. was studying medicine in London
y the time.
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