Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-23
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPTF
Allied Ball to Be Held This Evening at Iu Iu
Temple-Various Little Ways of Aiding the
Blind and Wounded Are Planned

.,,oNrGHT Society will go to Lu Lu
i remple, where an Allied Ball. is to
- nrogress for the British,American
relief fund Workers for our Allies
n ovsr the city are interested.
r.o hall promises to be of exceeding
-, interest. and the Emergency Aid
psord at work selling tickets. Among
=. women in charge are Mrs. Paul d.
s,ms Mrs. Charlie Mum, Jr., Mrs. Ben
rso,v, and Mrs. Bob Strawbridge.
IN. natronesses of the affair, which
"A, begin promptly at s o'clock, will in.
.,nds Mrs. Edward Browning, Miss Sophie
c.Swalsder. Mrs. Chew, Mrs. Morris
cothier Mrs. George Childs Drexel,
~. Edith Fisher, Mrs. Burd Grubb, Mrs.
I'm, Mrs. Robert Montgomery, Mrs
,,,nn Mrs. Stuart Patterson, Miss Kate
pohsrtson. Mrs. Edward Rowland, Mrs.
s,sovbridge, Miss Elizabeth Tyson, Mrs
ur,paum and Mrs. Charles Wheeler.
n,HE Radnor Branch Of the Navy
lleague Of the United States was or
.,r,zed last Thursday at the home of
colonel william Henry Sayen and Mrs
s.v.n at St Davids. About eighty
,omen of Radnor township are mem.
Asrs The officers and managers, all of
,hom are designated after those on ship
hoard are: Admiral or president, Rear
ADMIRAL william w. Mead; captain or
~. president, Mrs. William Henry
soven. commander or executive, Mrs
william F. Dreer; lieutenant, Mrs. Will
liam Liseter Austin; second lieutenant,
Mrs. William A. Patton; chief engineer
Mrs. Frederick B. Embick; surgeon, Dr.
H o'Neal; paymaster or secretary and
,r.asurer Mrs. Harold A. Freeman.
TN SPITE Of the rain from 10 o'clock
i on in spots, the women in charge OF
The Flower Market have decided to go
,hsad and hold 1t in Rittenhouse Square,
and It certainly looks inviting there with
the wide-striped red.and-white awnings
and attractive things for sale.
Mrs. Eli X. Price is head of the market
his year and is ably assisted by most
N the prominent women in town.
Mrs 6totesbury will give the Boy
ecouts lunch at her home, and artists
E0 S25 and SIS prizes offered for the
three best sketches Of the whole affair.
tIIE ALL know that the Great War is
Wbringing out the best qualities in
Tey one, but is showing more especially
what the women of the country are ca
pable Of. On every hand people are en-
srtaihing or getting up benefits for
some good cause. And now even the
children have started. 1 heard OF little
Girl out on the Main Line last week who
had always had a party to celebrate her
birthdays, but this year Qler twelfthl she
did not think 1t seemed right to have n
rufering in the world, so suggested to
her mother that she should give a tea
hr the benefit of the blind soldiers in
France, and It was done, with splendid
results.
Last year Mrs. Edwin II. Filter gave
q party at the Acorn Club in honor of
her little daughters, Elisa and Nan, but
this year they have arranged a children's
mir to be held at The Terraces, their
home in Rosemont. on Saturday after
noon June 2. for the benefit of the sol.
Der boys. There will be a Punch and
Judy show, treasure chest and a sale OF
TOYS fancy articles, homemade candy
md other "deliche" things.
NANCY wYNNE.