Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-24

EVERY year the Farminston sewing n,
eooiety grows larger and more In
.,.,ro and 1t is wonderful how much
" iess.,,1 -.e,nlisbed by these busy women.
.oor the members work and sew
ln AZ destitute children Of French
TO- Us of war. The class is held at
pl.'y. xo,nes of different members Today
me Aian Hartwell Strong, of 2O36 De
me-, hi street, was the hostess. After
la"ss. ,,,,ro and bit of gossip, luncheon
b served. -,.ee.. t. .h,ir
of the Circle; Miss Mary Russell
-, secretary, and Miss Eleanor Ar
,roasurer The other members in
Mrs Edgar V. Seeler, Mrs. Louis
~ Io,noine. Mrs william woodward
,,ratt Mrs. Edward Wynne Moore
- Arthur w. Sewall, Mrs. William
u Fuller, Mrs. Frederick Brown.
-. Ftancis NJ Brooke. Mrs Henry b.
~s.,,nson. of Greenville, Del; Mrs. Jo-
IN bancroft, of Wilmington, Del; Mrs.
,a,snh Chapman. Mrs. Nicholas Biddle,
", + Kearsley Mitchell, Sd, Mrs. Wal
q, 7, Foulke. Mrs. James NJ. Stewart,
~, piohard VAIN Meirs. Mrs. David
rIrdsey. Jr., of wilmington; Mrs. Sam.
-, nexter warriner, Mrs. William e.
Goodman. Mrs Forrest G. Pearson, Mrs.
pufus shapley, Miss Deborah A. Glover,
Miss Lucia A. Warden, Miss Alice Par
AL MISC Grace Cooke Clarkson, Miss
katherine f.. Register, Miss Henrietta
R Ely Miss Edith H. Baily, Miss
Eleanor S. Gamble, Miss Elizabeth Dale
oberteuffer, Miss Louise Wood and Miss
Olive Wilson.
The dancing class for little girls and
boys in Chestnut Hill gave bal masque
,ast week at the Philadelphia Cricket
club. and It proved to be such sue
cess that Miss Lockwood decided to re-
neat 1t this afternoon. All sorts of eve.
ming costumes will be worn, two
Tommy Atkins, a real gypsy, aged
wears: n Dutch girl with red satin skirt,
black jacket and pointed cap, will be
tiny Betty Colahan; little Eleanor Hous.
ton went last week as an old-fashioned
girl. There will be Red Cross nurses
and Martha and George Washingtons in
all their stately grandeur. Two tiny
fairies were we'll taken care of last week
BY their nurse, who, caring nothing for
the artistic, slipped sweaters on back
ward as the wings were sorely in the
way, and the effect can be imagined
Altogether every one had a wonderful
time and the Riddles can hardly wait
for this afternoon.
One of the classes in preparedness,
which Mrs. Carl Williams chaperones
at her home at School House lane and
Greene street. Germantown, meets this
afternoon between and o'clock. DR..
Wllfred Fetterman teaches this class.
It really is wonderful how deadly
Interested all our women are in this
FIRST aid and preparedness work. 1
was highly amused one day last week,
when friend of mine, who was suffer
ing from a gathering of some sort, and
whose head was bandaged up to the
mines, told me that a wellmeaning and
kind-intentioned girl had come to see
her, and had told her. "Well, my dear,
can bandage your head for you, if
you want me to-" My friend shuddered;
but then the kind-intentioned one con-
tlnued, I'VE do it all the time at home
now, just for practice"
Imagine the sensations of visitors to
this household to find the family at
Tarious intervals sitting around all
bandaged up.
Yes, it's all very we'll now, but it
would not be such fun, if under those
handages were dreadful wounds and
orn flesh and shrapnel-imbedded skin.
May we only get as far as practice, II
\ can be, with honor, for we cannot
want our fathers and brothers and hus'
bands and lovers to undergo what those
poor men in Europe are suffering.
N NANCY WYNNE.