Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-03

-. ,ha benefit of the Soldiers Leisure
u,,nd I think I told you Of this. some
,,.slss ago, but have few more details
=, present and It sounds as IL y was
co,ng 20 be very pleasant to my way OF
thinking.
rrbrouph Captain c. p. Futcher and
Ntrs M. L. Woodruff, both OF whom are
,,srn1ers of the committee for the Sol
s,.ra, Leisure Hour Fund, this Colonial
I.,,aninr. as It will be called, is to be
given, And it will be held in the ball
room of the Bellevue-Stratford on Thurs
day evening, November s.
The attractive features OF the evening
viii be the lecture on Colonial homes by
none other than Mr.. Wallace NuttinG
whose water-color pictures are so well
known and liked. The lecture will be
Illustrated and will show his paintings
of some of the famous old homes in this
country.
And the orpheus Quartet will augment
the lecture by appearing in costumes ap-
propriate to the times ana singing songs
~ the periods described by Mr.. Nutting.
The quartet, you know, includes Miss
Edna Harwood Baugher, Miss Elizabeth
Dickson, Mr.. Royal p. Mcclellan and Mr.
Donald Rcddng. These four good per-
sons make practice OF singing together
for charity affairs, and those who get up
these things are mighty glad when they
can entice them to give Of their time and
talent for their special pet project.
The usllers on the night Of the lecture
and concert will be soldier boys--in their
uniforms, Of course,
This fund is being raised exclusively
for the Philadelphia men and in no way
conflicts with any other. The gifts are
made direct to tho soldiers, each regi-
ment receiving its supplies through the
chaplain.
The good people interested in this work
have interested a number of others, and
such names as Mrs. Charles Mum, ,Jr.,
Mrs. Howard Houston Henry, Mrs. Ed.
ward Cassatt Mrs. John Gribbel, Mrs.
George Calvert Carter, Mrs. Stanley G.
Flagg, Jr., Mrs. Charles A. Potter Mrs.
Nathan Folwell Mrs. w. w. Harper. Mrs.
David Howe and Mrs. Ellis Gimbel are
among the patronesses.
Il seems to mo II will be worth while to
save that evening on the calendar, as it
will surely be a delectable one.
A FTER the honeymoon it used to be
n the thing for the bride and bride
groom to settle down and live happily
ever after. In these decidedly unsettled
and greatly disturbed times, however,
they are much more apt to go packing
of to some seemingly god-forsaken spot
somewhere in America" where the
bridegroom dons a uniform and the bride
resigns herself to "watchful waiting" for
an hours or a days leave, or else goes
home to her parents to wait until his re
turn. Well, after ALL it's not so bad for
the new brides and bridegrooms as it is
for those who were married before war
seemed imminent and who, settled in
their pretty houses and apartments, were
ready to take up the threads of home life
together, and who now have had to
break up the little home and the wife
must return to her fathers house while
the husband goes forth to prepare for his
death Struggle, for even IL he comes back
SAFE which we all hope and pray, he is
bound to meet very close with death BE-
fore this awful war is-oYer.
TIME George Wharton Pepper Jrs. had
to give up their apartment in town
and Marion has gone home to live and
taken her little four-months-old son with
her. Another recent bride of the Main
Line who has had to break up her home
in Ardmore and return to her parents
is Mrs. Claiming Daniel. She was Kath-
crime Werner, you remember, a sister of
Eleanor Werner. whose engagement to
Herbert Casey was announced recently.
Claiming Daniel is with the officers camp
at oglethorpe.
saw Mary Alice Borie at the Sport
ing Carnival last week. and thought how
sad that her little apartment, too, must
be broken up, as Louis Borie is off at
camp as well.
OF course. most of the very recent
brides are living in bungalows near their
husbands camps. Esther Toland, for in
stance, and Eleanor Cuyler Walker have
bungalow together down in Chatta.
nooga Margot Biddle is going to live in
Admiral, l hear TO be near Aleck at
Camp Meade; Mrs Joe Du Barry and
her wee son are going to Washington
TO be near joe who is at Admiral, and
Mrs. B. Franklin Pepper has taken a
house in that city to be near Major Pep
per. Gladys Earle Mather is up at Fort
Niagara near Captain Mather. And so
1t goes, at least while the men are still
IN the training camps, for after they
leave for France there won't be much
reason 10 stay anywhere but near their
families or at home with them. And
indeed it's been even harder on those
who have been married some years and
have their little families TO look after
and bring up without a husband and
fathers advice. There's Mrs. Arthur
Newlin and her little ones, who have
gone home TO be with AIRS. Newlln s
mother, Mrs. Sims. while Doctor Arthur
Is abroad with Base Hospital No. 10
ana Frances Drayton, whose husband
: Ut. Bill Drayton, is another member OF
tnat staff, and various others.
May it all soon be over and may they
return % "a k.N-