Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-09
NANCY WYNNE is INTERESTED IN
WORK OF SOCIETY WOMEN AT HOME
Number Of the Wives of Soldiers Down on the Border
Meet Every Week to Sew for Them and Their Less
Fortunate Brothers-Other Things

TT is very interesting to learn that a
| number of the wives of the First City
1rooners and their friends have decided
a. meet every week while our soldiers are
Inv and sew for them. Mrs George
rhover. whose husband is one Of the Off.
sars of the Troop, has offered her home
Cor headquarters, and these devoted
,von,en meet there every Wednesday
,,,orn,ng and sew not only for their own,
,,, for the less fortunate soldiers whose
families may not be able to provide them
vlth the little comforts of which they
r,ust be SO greatly in need.
Among the women who meet at Mrs
rbavers are Mrs Billie Forbes, who was
naisv Wright, you know; Mrs. Morris
etroud Jr., Mrs. William Bodine Mrs
samuel Bodine, Mrs. Heatly Dulles Mrs.
rho-nas Baird Jr., Mrs. Henry Scott, Jr,
Mrs. Charlie slnnickson. Mrs. Kenton
r,isenbrey Mrs. Charlie Townsend, Mrs
podman Page, Jr., Mrs. Marechal Brown
Ir and Miss Roberts and Miss Cameron.
One reads in the fairy tales of the
-,onderfu treasures which are now and
seain washed UP on the shore from the
hrinv deep, of the mermads and sea SER
nents, OF coral and pearls and treasure
allied caskets which were buried by Cap
toin Kidd and others, but never was so
strange a treasure cast upon a shore as
,bat which drifted to the feet of n per-
hans overcurious male creature down at
Cane May last Sunday. The strange
ching was a lavender rubber bathing cap
and that is not specially strange, must
admit, but the strange part of 1t was the
appendage of falr hair which was at
tached thereto.
could IL be that some beach" bather
had been lured or perhaps forced into the
water by mischievous friends and then
had come to grief in this awful way?
The ways of the modern maid are Won
derful indeed, and in the meantime the
curious male and his friends are busily
irving to match up the fair tresses with
those Of the blonde type who disport
themselves daily on the beach or at the
dance.
So many of the debutantes of the last
year and of the coming season seem to be
roughing IT, as 1t were, up in the noun
tainS. Dorothy NeWDOlu Is Will leI par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Emlen New
bold, at Upper Saranac Lake. She gave
a picnic there on Monday, by the way.
when her guests included Molly Thayer,
who came out last year and is a cousin
of Dorothy's and Emily Welsh, the
daughter of Mrs. Harry Dixon by her
first marriage with the late Sam Welsh.
Emily will be debutante this season,
as we'll as Dorothy. The other guests
were Ellen Mackay, the daughter of Clar.
ence H. Mackay; Mrs. Thomas Blagdon,
who acted as chaperon; Donald Blagdon,
A. w. Little and Sam Cregar, Jr.
The two Packard girls are also up in
the Adirondacks with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George r. Packard in fact, the
three sisters are there, but Mary and
Elizabeth are the two who will make
their debut in the fall. Eleanor Werner,
who came out last year is with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. William Werner, at
Lake Placid; so, you see, there are a
few attractions up in the mountains be-
sides rattlesnakes.
NANCY WYNNE.