Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-21
NANCY WYNNE CHATS ABOUT
THINGS WHICH INTEREST MANY
Several Affairs Given the Various Resorts Tonight for
Benefit of Solders-Oficers of the Navy Yard
Hold Dance Ship

DOTH Atlantic City and Spring Lake
ID will be very gay this evening, for
two large affairs are to be given at these
popular resorts. At the former dance
will be given under the auspices OF the
Soldiers Aid Committee and for the
beneft of that association. Most OF the
cottagers and guests at the various no.
tells are greatly interested In the ball and
a number of dinners will be given before
the dancing starts. Mr.. Agnew Dice,
president of the Reading Railway, and his
wife will be hosts at large supper at the
shelburne after the affair.
The event scheduled for Spring Lake is
q Colonial ball; this Is given by the man
agement of the Sussex and Essex Hotel
and the guests will wear Colonial cos
TUNES. so it is we'll assured that, as
spectacular affair alone, It will be sue
cess.
But here at home even II It is July and
late in the month at that, the remaining
officers at League Island have planned to
give q dance tonight on board the Con-
necticut, and many of the stay-at.homes
are looking forward to this evening with
great pleasure. After quite lull In the
dancing craze with the exception, OF
course, of the roof gardens, every one
seems ready to take 1t UP again with re-
newed vigor and pleasure.
Another pastime for those who stay at
home or near the city is the swimming
craze, which "cyole" seems to have
struck young and old all at once, ana
Asher's. Adams, the Armory and numer-
Gus other pools are daily filled with human
fish, who, adorned "a la Annette Keller
man." disport themselves gaily IN the
limpid waters. Such sounds as "one'
two. thureeer in stentorian tones. may be
heard all through the day, as one passes
by. and one woman teacher insists on
yelling to her pupils, Lay STILL. perhaps
she does not approve of lying, ike George
w. OF old think the expressions on the
faces Of those who are just learning 10
swim-or float is a perfect scream They
either puff out their cheeks or hold their
mouths wide open, as IL by SWALLOWING
quarts of water they might learn. Ihls
is a time when avoirdupois is a blessing,
for the weighty, strange to say noat
lightly on the waters top, While their
skinny sisters have to make violent enorts
TO keep up.
The latest news from our troops at the
border is not as happy as 1t might be- II
appears they have neither enough clothes
nor drinking water, and after all one
can do with very little clothes, whereas
water is a real necessity. One enterpris-
ing mother of a border boy was heard to
say she thought she would forward some
crates of bottled water, but that does not
seem exactly practical. as by the time the
water reaches Ell Paso the men may have
moved on Speaking of persons doing
with few clothes, 1 read,a very funny
story in current paper this week about
a Methodist minister, who asserted from
his pulpit, apropos of the short skirts and
omen necks, Eve, 1t is true, did not rea-
lie, that she was not dressed until she
ate the apple, and rather wish that
some of the young women In my con-
gregation would eat an apple"
NANCY wYNNB.