Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-03
NANCY WYNNE ANTICIPATES
DELIGHTFUL BALL TONIGHT
The Second Assembly Will Be Held This Evening in the
Ballroom of the Belevue-Stratford- Many Din
ners Will Precede the Affair

troNIGHT Society with large and
enormous S will turn out in its very
hos,est TO attend the second Assembly
.,h,ob will be held in the ballroom of
- pe,IevueStratford The first ball
,,as held ON the night of January 4 as
.,,o ,ime.honored custom is to have the
ars, ono on the first Friday in the year
and the second the last Friday before
Lent.
Tho guests are always requested not
On arrive too late as the patronesses
take their places at 1890 o'clock, and
/, ,nust he a terrific ordeal to stand for
.,oro than two hours courtesying and
hoving to each guest in a long, con.
tlnuous line, but it is such a pretty,
state1v custom I am always glad to
see II is kept up from year to year.
There will h an unusual number of
si,rers before tonight's ball Lowber
stokes will entertain for his brother
and new sIster-in.law, Mr.. and Mrs.
standley Stokes the latter was Ruth
cove. II will be remembered Then there
will be six debutante dinners. Mrs. Al
,ison Scott will entertain for Frances
Scott when her guests will be Eleanor
penner Elizabeth Grifiths, Bessie
Downs. Molly Thayer, Marie Wright
lack Thayer, Hammy Chestou, Rad
clffe Cheston and Tommy Hart
The Howard Wurts Pages will enter.
tain for F'rancenia Randall and Sam
Fox. Francenia was one of the first
debutantes engaged this year, and has
had no end of entertaining. The Will
kins Carrs will give dinner for Helene
Martin, and among their guests will be
Sarah Penrose, Christine Stockton,
Kate Furness, Morris Gates. Percy Tay-
lor. Lewis Parsons, Jack SinlSlcr. Lieu
tenant Fortle Todd and Alexander Ran.
dali.
Mrs. woodvile Bohlen will entertain
for Mary, and the Lewis Nelson's will
give a dinner for Sarah and Margaretta
Myers A debutante dinner will also be
given by the Howard S. Grahams.
Among the others who will entertain
before the ball are Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Langdon Elwyn, DR.. and Mrs Albert
Francine, DR.. and Mrs. John Gibbon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlemagne Tower for
Helen and Gertrude, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Waring Hopkinson Mr.. and Mrs.
George Quintard Horwitz and Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar Howard.
We surely ought to be used to these
things, and yet we are not, and when
one sees a dainty little debutante of
unquestionable birth light her cigarette
in the palm room of a hotel and puff
gaily while talking to her friends, it is
a sort of shock. and that is just what
I did see. I am wondering how many
others saw her after I left and
IL any one will communicate the news
to her mother, who would, from all L
know be quite Mortified, for only two
days after seeing the small girl smok-
ing away with a decided ease borne of
custom, I heard Mamma say at a
luncheon, "Well, I am glad to say that
is one thing my daughter never does. 1
simply will not allow it." II is a droll
thing how often families are the last
ones to know what deeds the members
thereof sometimes perpetrate on the
unsuspecting elders
I wonder why it is they do not an.
nounCe their engagement, for it really
is one, you know. She is a dear girl,
with decided amount of character, and
is very coy with her great tall young
lover, whose expression of devotion is
quite killing at times, l noticed them
dancing together recently, and it was
good to see the way he gaZed down on
her bright brown-haired little head as
they tripped the light fantastic. Here's
hoping they will continue to trip it
happily for the rest of their lives. She
is only deb, and he is very young
yet So there is no hurry to tell of it.
However, l think we will hear it soon,
because the boys in that family seem to
take to early engagements as ducks to
water. NANCY WYNNE.