Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-25
NANCY WYNNE TALKS ABOUT THE
MEETING TO BENEFIT SERBIANS
Madame Slavko Grouitch Will Address Large Gather
ing at the Garrck Theatre This Afternoon in
Aid of Suffering Serbians-Other Matters

CERBIA, with it's sorrows and losses,
~ will be put vividly before us again
this afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock at the
meeting which will take place in the
Garrick Theatre when Madame Savko
Grouitch will address the audience
Madame Grouitch is the guest of Mrs
John Markoe while in this city, and yes.
terday Miss Nina Lea gave a tea in her
honor at her home, 1000 Walnut street.
Many persons have not realized how
the Serbians have suffered in this war.
The atrocities are said to have been
worse than those undergone by the Bel.
gians! Be this so or not, the fact of
having lost all they had and being in
daily danger Of starvation is bad enough,
and our people will surely be as inter.
ested as they have been in the sufferings
of all the widowed and orphaned in this
frightful war
Then tomorrow night we have the
opening preparedness campaign din.
ner, which will be given by commit.
tee of men and women in the Gold Room
of the Adelphia Hotel at $40 o'clock
mandant of the United States Marine
Corps, and Major General Leonard
Wood, u. s. A., commanding the De.
partment of the East, will be the guests
of honor and both will speak. The com.
mittee under whose auspices the cam
paign is started includes Mr.. William
r. Nicholson, Mr.. William II. Donner,
Mr.. c. S. W. Packard Mr.. John c. Bell
Major John c. Groome, Mr. George
Wharton Pepper, DR.. Clement Biddle
Mrs. George w. Childs Drexel, Mrs.
George W. Urquhart, Mrs. Edward T.
stotesbury, Mrs. A. j. Drexel Biddle, Mr..
Edward b. Smith, Mr.. A. J. Drexel Bid
die and Adjutant General j. Campbell
Gilmore.
The first local appearance of the Mask
and Wiggers, barring the dress re.
hearsal last week, was greeted by a
typically large and enthusiastic audi.
ence last night at the Forrest Theatre,
and the youths quite outdid themselves
before the admiring gaze of many little
debutantes.
Down quite close to the footlights
were the Stotesburys, with a party in
cluding Major David ID. Porter and
his extremely good.looking wife, the
Edgar SCOTS, Mrs. j. Kearsley Mitchell
and Willing Hare Marion Myers, in
the rather unusual role of chaperone,
was accompanied by her fiance, George
Wharton Pepper, Jr., his sister, Eleanor
Pepper, Maizie Graham, Emile Ken
nedy, Marie Wright, Roger Townsend,
Bob Dechert, Albert Lucas and Gordon
Hardwicke.
Another party, which wended its way
TO the Bellevue after the performance,
included the Gurnee Munns, the Heck
scher Wetherils and the Shipley Dix
ons, and in another group, of which
Mrs. Billy Freeman was the hostess,
were the Roddy Pages, Charlotte Balm
and Lewis Parsons.
Doctor and Mrs. Allen gave a party |
for their daughter, Agnes Allen, and
among, the girls who applauded the |
efforts of the boys most enthusiastically |
were Josephine Foster Eleanor Werner
Gertrude Pancoast, Lois Jackson and |
Barbara Boyd.
If any of you are contemplating mat |
rimony perhaps it would be well to take |
q walk out Haverford way and stroll |
along Berkley road-Berkley road, as 1t |
is called, but otherwise known as Newly |
Weds' settlement. There one may see !
the dCars out in their gardens planting |
vegetables on top of Gala lilies and pan. |
Bies in the midst of asparagus beds. |
This is not all, either. Vines must be
trained on porches, even IL hubby does |
have to stoop down and kiss wifey when
ever she hands him up a tack or ham,
mer; and then the rakes and spades |
which are in use, too-in fact every
thing which is needed to make it all
cozy and homelike. 1t always means
work, and very few of our little Newly |
Weds of these days have even lifted |
o finger in their own homes; still 1t was
not necessary there, and at any rate
they have decided to turn over a new
leaf since they have married. From
what one little bride told me OF how
happy she was to have something to do
TO keep home bright and cheerful, I do
not think any one in this settlement has
regretted the step yet. Perhaps 1t
would not be so very hard, after ALL to
work a bit for her" or him" as the
case may be. NANCY WYNNE.
Dawson q Ic