Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-06
for every one else but the little members
is doing all he or she can for our country

is doing all he or she can for our country.
DIETER keep your ears and eyes open
- this next week, for sure as shoot
Ing we are going to hear some news.
Another happy young pair are about to
share the secret of their love with the
world Somehow, don't believe you will
be surprised, for the counting has been
going on right under your very nose for
10 these two years.
The girl is tall and very pretty, and
had many entertainments given for her
when she made her debut some two sea-
sons ago. Her mother is very great
worker for the Emergency Aid. And there
are prominent doctors in and about and
around both families. When you hear 1t
you won't be surprised, and I'm sure you'll
be glad, for it's very nice engagement,
and for one am awfully pleased about it.
MIELL, but five more days and Fort
w Niagara is to break up and then
again in September will come the second
officers training camp. During this week
their commissions, for all who have
weathered it thus far are about sure to
get them. Just think, it certainly has
been some ordeal for them: three months
of it, with scarcely a moments let up. I
hope they get a chance to come home
before they are rushed off to the camps
in the various States.
CANOEING in the moonlight, walking in
~ moonlight, danclng all Of these are
delightful. But swimming! Oh, that's
the thing to do about 11:30 o'clock when
the moon is high in the heavens and you
can swim right up moonbeam, all sur
rounded by cool, silent darkness. And
then you get back to the dock and slip
around over the grass to the house and
sleep-and sleep. That's the nice part of
it, but, oh, it's dark outside the rays of
the moon that time of night and some-
times you shiver with something more
than the chill Of the night air.
heard a story lately about two girls
who enjoyed their. swim and-afterward-
the experience they had. They were camp
ing on one of the inland lakes In New
England, chaperoned by the mother of
one of them. The house nearest to them
was abandoned, and underneath it lived
two members of that branch of the cat
family which generally inhabts the
woods. Moreover, you don't call them
cats, you call them pussies, and you wear
their fur around your neck In winter
time This all happened on that day last
| week when 1t was hot everywhere and all
| you could do was to wait till 1t was over.
| It was even hot in New England that
| day, and the two girls-I forgot to say
| that they were both from PHILADELPHIA
couldn't sleep that night, SO they took a
delightful swim at about 11:3O o'clock
right in the midst of the moonlight.
As they approached the dock they stimuli.
| taneously spied an animal" coming to-
ward them on the pier. Again stimuli
taneously they shrieked, both firmly con-
WINGED that It was one Of the next door
I neighbors. For some time they watched
IL. ready to fly as soon as 1t moved in
| their direction. Every time the poor, de-
fenseless thing turned his head he was
greeted with clarion calls, and finally he
decided to investigate. With his first
move both girls dived and raced for the
| float In the middle Of the lake.
| After ten minutes of giggling. and
sbiyering, and wondering, they started
back. and one of them screwed UP nerve
enough to go closer to the unknown"
and confirm their suspicious, for the at.
mosphere had not yet become weighted.
and they might have been mistaken. Bet
ter TO give It the benefit Of the Doubt.
ANYHOW. So she walked up the docTfol-
lowed by the admiring whispers Of her
companion. who was still in the water,
| c,,nging desperately to the edge Of the
a,v,ng board. Walking up quite close to
The ranimai" she saw--and picked up and
sussed oyer--a small helpless, puzzled.
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