Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-20

FTNHE great thing this week is the ten
i mis- tournament at the Point Judith
Club, Narragansett Pier, which is fol.
lowed each day by tea. Great interest
settled about the playing Of the two
Japanese men, Kumauga and Mikami,
and Craig Bddle, who goes over from
Newport to play in this national affair.
The Craig Biddles were the guests of
The John Fells for lunch on Tuesday, and
TO see the people on the lawns of the
clubhouse at tea in the afternoon one
would never believe 1t was Narragansett,
II was so like our Country Club or the
Philadelphia Cricket Club, where tennis
matches are so often held. The Archie
Thomsons were there and beautiful May
Hobson Brown, and her sister Kitty Penn
Smith, Lisa Norris, the Philip Randolphs
senior and junior, Emlyn Randolph and
Mrs. Ben Chew, who was Anne Thomp-
son and is a great favorite in the married
set Then, of course, Bessie Samuel and
Mrs. Campbell Madeira, who has been
visiting her, appeared on the lawn but
Bessie and Mrs. Madeira have come down
here for few days, understand, SO they
did not appear yesterday. OF course
Mrs Charles Randolph Snowden is an
ardent attendant She certainly Is one
stunning woman, and especially is she
stunning in tailored costumes. I do not
know any woman who looks as we'll in
sports clothes The night the First City
Troop went through on its way to IIl Paso
ehe was at the B. and o. with her mother
to give packages OF small comforts to
Brother Bill, and che had on brown
sports suit tailored waist with stiff
collar and sports hat of rather deep tan.
and believe me, she was some good
locker" To return TO Narragansett, Miss
Fanny sinnickson and tho Caryl Rob
crises were other people from our own
home town who were enjoying the tennis
and tea.
How shall we get to New England
without passing through New York; is
. the question of the day among those who
have intended to go to those resorts for
the summer, so serious is the fright
about infantile paralysis which has in
creased so much in New York this month.
The railroads have about decided to come
TO the rescue, and the Federal Express
Is to be put on again to carry Philadel-
phians and Baltimoreans and Washing
tonians up to New England far out of
reach of peril for the little ones it Is
hoped. The Isaac STAIRS, 1 understand,
have given up their trip to Watch Hill,
owing TO the New York epidemic, and
quite a number of others have about de-
cded to stay home, while many will go by
steamer from Philadelphia to Boston.
was greatly interested lately to hear
news of Eddie Toland, who has returned
again to the front and is working with
the Ambulance in Paris. In Il letter writ
ten quite recently he tells a most delight.
full bit about his trip over. 1t appears
Calve was on the same steamer returning
20 France and he was able TO assist her
on several occasions when benefits and
such were the order of the day on board.
WE'LL when they were about to land the
great prima donna dispatched him down
to his cabin to don his Red Cross uni |
form, and when he returned she led him |
to the side of the ship and as they were |
about to land bade him join her in sing
ing the "Marseilaise." 1t was a most |
wonderful thing, he said. The people on |
the dock and those on board ship stood |
like statues, with the tears pouring |
uOWH lIltlE tlltSrSt SO blS$iI 10 tilS VIZ |
thusiasm of France, especially in these |
days when victory seems to be in sight.
Poor men. fighting each other, killing, |
wounding, manning and for what? l |
wonder If we will ever know? There is
just this to be said: not many of those
who do the fighting are responsible for
It. May the end be soon!
Young Toland is much impressed by
the entirely different atmosphere in Paris
now as compared TO when he was there
at the beginning of the war, or rather
near the beginning in 1914. He says
there are very many more men to be seen
and the city is no longer under the gloom
and darkness of the first year of war. The
French are such plucky souls, 1t would
be hard indeed to down them perma.
nently. NANCY WYNNE.