Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-17

-4trfE American way VI Nl9
n..,io,s.s Day will be well carried
tbe various festivities planned
~ s,obers of the younger set. Mrs.
y mrd Troth's ,ppular dancing class,
ta.s ~ snaets at the Germantown Cricket
~ s will take place tonight. Mrs.
~ Won know, has just come back
~ n weeks stay in Poughkeepsie,
pV" .,o visited her daughter, Mrs.
woodbridge Riley.
-. rsnal german will be omitted to-
have been told, but unusual
.a,~,es nm will be introduced during the
~sning.
,sa Evans, daughter of Mr. and
- powell Evans, will be given din
h.,ore the dance by her grand
Mrs. Clarke Merchant. II
NV s,,v is delightful the way in which
- Merchant entertains for all her
-,.,,vea. in true grandmotherly and
.aounty style. Tonight the girls
! ,ho dinner will be given shamrocks to
- and the boys will receive tiny
,,.h aaes instead of boutonnieres. The
.oora.ions of the table will also carry
4, t,,e green color scheme, though
s.es. Will intermingle their rich golden
~.nows IN the general melange of color.
mare are to be 12 guests at this dinner
rnen Mary Sheppard, the attractive
a.rshter of Mrs. Edgar L. Sheppard,
IN rive a dinner before the dance
!. bor two debutante cousins, Mil
s,ss and Carolyn Sheppard, the daugh.
.srs of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Maxwell Shep-
,..rd who. by the way, have had
wonderful time at the many parties
mich up to last week scarcely gave
a.butafte time to breathe before one
,,os off and another was on. It's funny
I keep forgetting that all these girls
ara no longer debutantes, that with
An Wednesday they started to be Sec
and year girls, and now we must look
sor the doings of the wee newcomers,
v,to look younger and younger before
de season starts, and I am sorry to
~. though still young and pretty,
ishow the wear and tear of the year of
salety in their little faces at the end.
Jrs no wonder they have to be taken
away to rest after q strenuous season
such as this. Next years debs will
have two weeks less of it, as Lent of
1911 will begin on February 81.
But all this is aside from the dancing
class, which, as 1t is rather informal,
hsts into Lent, and which has been a |
success from the very first one Mrs. !
Troth chaperoned. Every one who sub |
sribes just loves to attend and Mrs. !
Troth sees to 1t that the newcomers |
are inSfoduced, and also, let me tell |
you, Mrs. 7. is a chaperon who always
stays till the last dance, so the mothers
never have any anxiety about this class.
Speaking OF debutantes, often wonder
WY 1t is so many of them seem so ire
lponsible Perhaps 1t is because so much
) done for them their first year they
become spoiled; that is,
ome Of them, not all by any means. for
Q these days of advanced women we |
Ind advanced debutantes also very
,ften. On the other hand, though the
ase in question is about a debutante,
here are plenty of others who seem
ltterly irresponsible in regard to other
leople's property. heard recently of
! last seasons deb, who was dining at
! friends before going to one of the
aIla Che t1yae bay,noa ming the foot that
he had forgotten to bring necklace,
. finally the other girl asked her elder
lister to lend the aforesaid deb who
las" one of hers. She forthwith did,
nd though 1t is neaMy a month since
hen, the necklace has not yet been
eturned. Now, every one knows this
only carelessness; and yet is 1t not
cry culpable carelessness? The girl
mo loaned the necklace hates to speak
{ 1t. because 1t will certainly be re-
ninder of her duty to the one who bor-
owed, and who will probably come
cross the necklace among her jewels
few weeks and then think to re-
arn It,
People are strangely lacking in re-
ard to other persons property, any
'ay, although careful enough of their
Wn. Only recently friend was telling
le OF a girl whom she know only
lightly who came to her house for
ae night My friend gave her her
Wn room, and next morning after she
aa Departed, as she did at an early
our, she went up to her room to find
sr hair net gone and that some very
xpensive violet sachet. which she had