Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-28
Tioga

In examining a French manuscript con-
tanning accounts Of some private disburSc-
ments of King Edward IL of England,
Hume the historian. found that II crown
had been paid to some one for making the
King laugh Surely it was Il good invest
ment. Not so long ago, when men living
In the suburbs had their literary clubs and
paid much attention to the art of CONVERSE
ton, II was no uncommon occurrence To
hear a group of congenlal spirits at the
railroad station or In the train going to
and from business Offices, absorbed in con-
versation full of active interest In the
affairs Of everyday life, but while earnest
there was always some pleasing anecdote
TO create laughter. In our day the art OF
conversation Is fast dying out, due, in
part, to the rapid circulation of thought
through the daily newspaper. | wonder il
the tendency to conline familiar talk within
narrow limits was what led one of our
writer's TO refer to the deadly malaria of
conversation"
Nowadays no one need try to make con-
Versaton Some one has boy in France,
or in u training camp, or home on q fur-
lough; and all war news is studied re-
ligiously because Mars is knocking at our
own doors, and We are intensely Interested
in what pertains to ourselves and our cir
Gle of friends. These boys Of ours from the
training camps have become so wideawake
that conversation is n joy. You know so
many good fathers and mothers who. lack
ing sons to give to their country. have gone
out of their way to take care of their sol
dier-lad friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Tucker Fox and
their charming daughter, Miss Rae Fox.
entertained some OF the Fort Niagara boys
on Friday night at supper and dance at
the Bellevue -Stratford. Among the guests
we're Lieutenant George Mulholland, Lieu
tenant Joseph Baldi, Lieutenant Philip
Darby, Miss Gwendolyn Miller and Miss
Dorothy Dingee. The boys leave for An
napolis Junction tomorrow. While on their
furlough they entertained at the Traymorc,
in Atlantic City for Miss Fox and Miss
Miller, who We're the house guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Leighton Kramer. Mr. and Mrs.
Fox, who with their daughter spent some
time at the Queens Royal Hotel. at
Niagara gave several entertainments for
the soldier boys to keep them in touch
with social life while in training.
Mrs William Miller and her daughter,
Miss Gwendolyn Miller. were also at
Niagara, and were among those entertain.
ing, Miss Miller will leave next week for
the National Park Seminary, in Washing
ton. d. c.. and will be accompanied by Miss
Fox. who was graduated last year and will
be the guest of the faculty. During her
stay Mrs. Miller will motor down and take
the girls to Annapolis
lkslte a number Of Tioga residents are
IeoVnr for New England Dr. and Mrs.
saturday for Camden, Me. The doctor, who
ie head surgeon of the Episcopal Hospital
and a noted surgeon of the Orthopedic
Husptal, has been doing double work,
owing to the absence Of so many Of our
surgeons somewhere in France. 1t was
Doctor Mutschler who performed the Won
derful operatiou on the back OF the lad of
0Ptecn years who fell from the railroad
bridge at North Penn Junction and who
will now be as strong and straight as he
was before the fall.
Mrs. Charles f. LSkens of North FIJI
teenth street, who has been the guest Of
Mrs Charles Wisler at her summer home
in ocean City, will leave on September
for the White Mountains in New Hamp-
shire. Master Frank Fleming, who has
been visiting the Lukens, has returned TO
New York Mrs. Lutens's daughter Miss
Helene Lukens has returned from a sum-
mers stay in Ocean City.