Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-03
FIRST DEBUTANTET TEA OF SEASON
lSDISCUSSED BY NANCY WYNNF
DR. and Mrs Edwin Eldon Graham Will Give Iorro roo
and Dinner-Dance Today to Introduce Their Daugb
ter, Miss Lorraine Graham

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w tractive buds OF the season win be
introduced this afternoon out in Devon
when Lorraine Graham. or. better. Lor-
raIne Goodrich Graham. will make her first
formal bow TO society at large tea which
her father and mother Dr. and Mrs. Ed.
win Eldon Graham. will give. Lorraine,
who very much resembles her mother,
a tall. slender and graceful. Her dark
brown hair has q beautiful natural wave
and her eyes, though not perfectly brown
ohey really are hazel with golden glints)
give the impression OF brown. which TO.
rether with a vivid colorine ia a most at.
tractlve combination. you will admit. A
charming set OF debbies will receive with
Lorraine this afternoon. There will be
Patty Borie. Isn't It an attractive name?
che was named for her paternal grand.
mother, you know. She was Miss Patty
Nelll and is one OF the sweetest women
Of that older generation. Besides Patty
BorIe, Betty Brock will receive and
Nancy Cooke, Violet Welsh. Mary Brooke
SOPHIE Baker, Katharine Hancock. Lois
Jackson, Katharine Lea, Bessie McMichael
and Betty Miller. SO there will be a
galaxy OF beauty. and grace for the ad-
miring elders TO gaze upon.
There win be dinner-dance In the eve
ming for the receiving party and several
additional girls and men OF the younger
set.
The small boys were having a fearful
time last week getting ready for their
year at ST. Paul's. They have to wear
derby hats you know, and though the
New York boys are used to such apparel
at the age OF ten and twelve, so far
fortunately, most Philadelphia matrons
very sensibly dress their sons as boys and
not carioatures, so II requires some time
10 get ready for boarding school you see.
sam Gilbert and Edward Starr, from along
the Reading way, are going, In fact Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert are going UP the first of
this week to take Sam with them. It's
good that all the boys at st. Paul's wear
these derbies. isn't it' I'll never forget
what happened TO the small son Of a we'll
known matron here who several years
ago decided on returning from London,
that sonny should wear an eton suit and
derby hat. Well. sonny was sent to Sun
day school 'all dressed UP like a sore
finger" and during class the other boys
only looked, but afterward, OH afterward;
the sweet young thing who was conduct
ing the class heard fearful boots and
yells outside the window and looking out,
she saw a fighting. struggling heap of
arms, legs, heads and boys and under.
meath It all was a fragment of derby hat.
BY the door stood the poor little owner,
weeping. He was just az disgusted with
that hat as any of the others were, but
he had to go home and tell it had been
ruthlessly torn from his willing head and
smashed. and glad though he was he
knew his story would not be we'll re-
ceived. Childish tragedies are very great,
you know. and a small boys heart is a
poor thing to handle roughly.
The Women Writer'S Club gave it's much
talled-of pantomime movie, THE Love
Germ" last night, and II wac some scream,
let me tell you, from start to finish. Out
of the seven members OF the club who
took part only two were allowed to re-
main Of their own sex. The five others
made most attractive men, assure you,
and from the opening scene at the board
Ing house table to the grand finale, which
was supposed to be a soul kiss of many
feet Of film, the audience was in one con.
tinual shrek.
How young America does hate to be
'left out" Of things. One day last week
the small brother of an acquaintance Of
mine in Germantown happened to over
hear one of his sisters declare she knew
the "up" trains from the down" trains,
and fve-year-old Tommy determined not
to be out of the conversation, piped up.
"oh, yes. 1 can always tell the up and
down trains, too!
Sister asked. why. how can you tell
them, Tommy"
Rather Disconnected over having his
blum called, the young man. however, an
swered bravely. "Why. the up train is
'Upsar and the down train i-s-here his
little voice trailed OFF into space.
NANCY WYNNE.