Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-01
NANCY WYNNE CHATS ABOUT MANY
MATTERS OF SOCIAL INTEREST
She Hears of Various Wedding Plans and the Fittings of
Society are Subjects of Observation-Disclosures at
Summer Resort Has Nightmare

xxrELr,, you will say, Nancy had a
w raw and busy weekend with all the
-, tales she has to tell today, but
sss,,v she stayed right at home and the
,s,,olv stories came right to her, and SO
~ not share them with others? OF
.,,,.e. the first piece of news / have
y ali YOU, my dears, is not a story,
,..,ther is it funny, but as my tales pro-
.rsss perhaps you may smile. The
s,sca Of news comes about from the fact
.hst Molly Baily has gone up to York
ry..hor with her mother and father, and
4, telling me this the wee bird also re.
marked that Brewster Rooms and Molly
are 10 be married in the fall, and Molly
mas decided to have her aunt, Dorothea
wood as maid of honor. The whole
wood contingency spends August each
year up at York Harbor, and Dorothea
and Mary wiltse are already up there,
Mrs. Charles Baily was Miss Lydia Wood,
vou know, the older sister of an ex-
trerely united family. 1 also under
stand that the wee kiddes Of the Gra-
ham Woods and Dicky Woods will act
as f1owergirls and pages, respectively So
you see IL will be pretty wedding with.
out doubt.
II you would keep your dreams from
horrors do not eat cheese voraclously
before retiring, especially If you have
staying with you persons who must catch
the first train upon Monday morning
after a weekend of hilarity at the shore.
- = = a..
hostess recently. She had in her house
party q charming young girl and n most
attractive young man. besides several
others And as is the way very often
with very happily married woman, she
had unconsciously been thinking UP
match between the twain. When she re-
tired she had also on her mind the
thought that her guests must catch the
early train. SO imagine the girls amuse-
ment on coming down ready for break
fast to meet her hostess wild-eyed and
emotional, who exclaimed: "Oh, my dear,
so you really did wake! Oh. I've had such
o time. I've been dreaming, and
thought 1 heard Mr.. - tell his
mother that he had come down here
with the express purpose of proposing to
you and we had never left him alone
with you for one minute, and then l had
felt SO badly about it, and 1 tried to wake
you for the train and you wouldn't; and
If didn't wake up myself!'
The unconscious hero of this sad tale
was in the meantime neatly devouring
his breakfast in an adjoining ROOM
wonder if the dream will come true, or If
the girl in question looks on 1t as a
nightmare on the part Of her hostess.
You never can tell you know; and as l
have often repeated it's all in the point of
view.
Every one at Narragansett Pier rushed
to the tennis tourney held at the Point
Judith Club on Sunday, when Ward Daw-
son, of California and Watson Wash
burn, of New York, played wonderful
match. OF course, the Philadephians
were there, because Philadelphia loves
tennis and seldom misses a match. On
the porch of the clubhouse and on the
chairs near the courts were the Archie
Thomsons, Mariana Gowen, Phil Ran
dolph, Jr., Mrs Ben Gatins and the
Frazer Harrisons. who have very lately
Joined the Philadelphia colony. Polo is
also claiming interest az the Pier, which
is one of the very busiest and gayest re-
sorts on the New England coast, 1t seems.
NANCY WYNNE.