Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-23

AMONG the numerous social events
"A centerlng about the Thanksgiving
zssson win be the Junior Ball Of the Uni
ssrslty Of Pennsylvania. to be held in
xrsehtman Han on Friday evening, De
.smber /. Many Of the seasons debu
s.ntes and a goodly number Of smart
usrsons from out OF town, VINO will come
Al for the Penn-Cornell game on Thanks
<,xine Day. win be the guests Of the
Junior class.
The committee this year includes Nor.
ia Barratt, Tristram Colket, Curtis Al
-. Morris Freeman, william q. Hop
kine. Gordon Konantz. Arthur Jefford,
aamuel Merlin Mcclure, Gerad Huls.
tarnp. Carl W. Andrews, Weaver Mars.
tou. Raymond Blaul Young. George Kerr,
william Eberle, Paul weingarten, George
wolfsteIn, william Hitner, Victor Chi.
enoine, Raymond Riling, Harold webber
ana Jesse wike, with Arthur Triol Bis.
sing as chairman.
Preparations for the huge allied bazaar
% be held during the week OF December
II at Horticultural Hall 30 on apace. and
many groups of women have been formed
so work for this or that particular booth.
cretonne has such unlimited possibili.
ties that those who are interested in that
table are making any number of fascl.
mating articles, curtains. pillows, bags
and what.nots for the big week. Mrs.
Rodman Griscom, who has charge OF the
oretonnes, has organized class which
meets every Monday afternoon at the
home Of Mrs Percy Simpson in over.
brook, and the prominent women who
meet there will be aids at the bazaar.
Among them are Mrs. S. Lewis Zieg.
Ter. Mrs. Charlton Yarnall. Mrs. Robert
c. Wright, Mrs. George Woodward. Mrs.
Hugh Wilson, Mrs. H. Weber, Mrs.
Abram s. Valentine, Mrs. Paul Thomp'
son. Mrs. Charles Starr. Mrs. Charles
Scott, Mrs. Henry b. Robb, Mrs. G. c.
P,irves Mrs. Eli X. Price. Mrs. Francis
Potts, Mrs. w. w. Potter. Miss Phoebe
Phillips Miss Edith Peters. Mrs. F. r.
Packard Mrs Frederick w. Morris, Jr.,
Mrs. James Lineaweaver, Mrs. Burnett H.
Iandreth Jr., Mrs. ]. ID. Keen, Mrs. Wal,
Ter Horstmann, Mrs Charles Henry, Miss
Hawthorne, Miss Guernsey, Mrs. John
C. Groome, Mrs. John Gibbon. Mrs. ]. B.
Davis, Miss Garretson, Miss Evans, Mrs.
NJ. G. Cook, Mrs G. w. Cook, Mrs. Ed
ward w. Clark. Mrs. Henry C. Burr, Mrs.
W. G. Buehler and Mrs. Henry Bailey.
/ understand Yorke Stevenson, who for
year or more has been driving an am,
bulance on the French battle 'front.' Is
mistaken, will be home in time for the
proverbial turkey or boar's head or what.
ever Is proverbial in his family.
I mustn't forget the very successful
dinner given last night by the Women
writers Club at Hamilton Court. Miss
Marie Sellen, as chairman OF the dinner
committee, arranged the affair; follow.
ing the dinner a vaudeville was given
under the direction of Miss Agnes
Repplier I'd, chairman of the entertain
ment committee, There were about fifty
guests present.
The difference in the treatment one
. receives when one is "some punkins" was
amusingly illustrated recently when,
while riding out Walnut street long after
the rush hour. my attention was caught
BY man just across the aisle, very
prominent lawyer, as 1t happened, who
was SO engrossed in his evening paper
that when the car came to Twenty.first
street, his stoppingplace, he failed to
look up.
The car gathered speed for that long
aunt out over the bridge which takes it
into the 'unfashionable wilds of West
Philadelphia" as one periodical loves to
style it, when the man of law suddenly
came to. He jumped up, rushed to the
conductor, who promptly and good-na.
turedly pressed the button, stopping the
car right in the middle OF the bridge.
could not help thinking OF the times
sther more obscure souls had asked for
: little indulgence from the motorman
Or conductor, when IL was raining pitch.
forks, and OF how their requests were
frequently met. NANCY wYNNE.