Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-26


uttle recent brides ana oriuesrootns
nave lust lately launched into the
WIZ ,,otrinnony and have had no time
sea ~, lifts In the sky of their happi-
iOr !. bs suddenly separated, and that
- erinn presence Of war and all its
=. .. and possible death and Illness.
~ ,v,v as 1 read the roster of the City
FOR instance, l was positively
sa,sd to see how many hridesrooms
lately engaged men were among
- -. and what is true of the Troop Is
~ all the regiments, There have
W Many hurried weddings, and engage
.n,7 have been announced during tho
-..k which would otherwise nave been
~, secret until the fall.
:, ,vas a. great surprise In one way,
NAN the phone rang on Saturday around
= s,o,ocE. TO hear that Elizabeth Griffith
~ Neddy Page had decided not to walt
.,,tl his return for their marriage ana
..,ra going to be married that very eve
80 And 60 they were, wedding gown
VA or Poor little Elizabeth looks so
-.,hatically young, too She Is not yet
y vsars old However, she is now Mrs
rawsrd Grocer Page, and the soldier boys
s.vs not yet started for the border and
,b.re Is one thing-one can go UP to Mt
nrstna TO visit ones husband unchaper.
susd.
A recent bridegroom among the Off
,ers Of the troop is George Gordon
Meade, grandson of the famous General
or whom he was named, and whose won.
sorful generalship won the battle Of Get
,ssbure In the Civil War and saved the
Union by turning the tide of victory.
George Meade married Gwlndys Williams
little over two weeks ago in st.
fu,es Church In Germantown and they
had only Just returned from their wed.
aIng trip. Another even more recent
bridegroom than George Meade who is in
me Troop is Theodore Paul. He and Ade-
line Pepper, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wharton Pepper, were married
on the 18th of this month. Roddy Page
"a another, though he was married in
december, and Joe Du Barry, who mar
fed Ella Brock in November, is another
Young husband who must leave and
answer his country's call
Thomas Mexican Downs Is in the Troop
hs and his brother Norton announced
their engagements last week when the
call came for Mt. Gretna. Tom is en-
gagged to Anne Merrick and Norton to
Alice Thompson. Then young Edgar Eel
ton whose marriage to Marie Agasslz, of
Boston, is scheduled for the late summer,
Is another trooper; and so 1t goes.
The women have been wonderfully
brave about 1t all. In fact, women can
be usually counted on to be brave and
strong when there is anything to suffer,
and they are the ones who suffer most
in these times, for there Is a glamour
about the fighting, there Is the feeling
that one Is doing something, and there
are ever-changing conditions for the men
on the march and in the fight, while
the women sit at home, sew and work
for their loved ones, and wait and wait
br the least news, dreading to read the
npers for fear a name will be printed
there, fearing not to read them lest some.
ulnS De lneTe anu tley ltoL hio" VI H.
War is terrible thing, terrible far be-
yond Imagination, but there seems to be
no cure for 1t in this world, when our
eountry's honor Is assailed.
With the opening of the great advertis-
ing convention there will be many social
dolngs starting in with the big general
reception which was held this morning
at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at 1880
O'clock, and the luncheon which will be
given out at Houston Hall for the visit
Ing delegates and their wives at l o'clock.
In the afternoon the Philadelphia League
Of Advertising Women will hold get to-
sether' reception at the Hotel Adelphia
from until 6 o'clock. Mrs Leon B. Hea'
cock is head of the leagues Entertain
nent Committee. OF course, all the hotels
have provided special dances and the Ritz
will, hold dansants every afternoon on
the roof garden, while virtually every
hotel in town will have dancing every
evening from 10 or IL until 2 in the
morning. Altogether it Is going to be
some strenuous week and 1t seems to me
very delightful one as well.
NANCY WYNNE.