Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-20
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Little Wakefield Is Huge Center of Activities
n Among women IN Germantown-Nancy
Wynne Talks on Many Subjects

yt's the Germantown prancn Oh the VA
..,., League for women's Service, and
=. been a live wire ever since it started,
- months ago. None of your-closing up
\. activities during the summer effect,
s.u,ething doing all the time among the
ea,en of Germantown, and by the
-.r,en of Germantown I mean all the
-,omen. not only the exclusive bunch
-h,cb Mrs. Jim Starr, who is one Of the
..,,rders of the club, represents, but all
~. women. and they all go and are all
welcome, too
rnere are classes every day in the
.,..k On Monday it's one thing and
ruesday another, and so 1t goes. There
- m idle hands nor idle moments in
,onnection with the organization; it
couldn't be did, not with Mrs. Jim Starr as
ehief organizer.
Miss Edith Baer, of the department of
Aone economies at Drexel Institute, goes
ant there to speak on this subject; and as
-. "a a most efficient person, the women
!, little Wakefield may count themselves
,ucky to have secured her services.
Home gardening, pruning and fertilizing
are the things one should know about,
and all one has to do to learn about them
/. 10 90 to the demonstrating center on
Thursday afternoons.
On Friday Miss Mary Fisher Wright,
AZ the Garden Club Of Philadelphia, talks
an shrubs and flowers and the care and
uses of these lovely things.
On Friday afternoons also, at a differ.
ant hour, Miss Letitia Wright speaks
about bee culture, and there is something
Sor every one to do If every one will only
80 and help.
To get all the particulars and details,
The thing to do is to write to the Little
4 wakefield Club and ask about all the
classes and the hours of each, and If you
have time, offer your services for teach.
ing any speciality you may have, too. Eff
dency. is something which is thoroughly
understood in this little club.
I hear Mr.. Charles Pancoast has taken
3 several pictures Of the Center and Of some
Of the women at work, and these have
been made into sets of six posters and are
being sold for the benefit of the cause.
They certainly give fine idea of the
scope Of the work.
AND now the latest bride-to-be is
a Gladys Earle. She is barely eighteen
and was to have been presented this sea-
h,sxI I, l. IxNne, o1n., h tnry
Just before the camp at Niagara started
operations her engagement to Gilbert
4 Mather was announced, and felt sure, in
New Of the fact that many others have
6eclded not to wait and that Gilbert would
IN all probability have to go soon, if not
wuld take place in the very near future.
So, just as thought, they have decided
10 be married, and the ceremony is to be
performed some time after camp breaks
up This happens on August II, and,
though the date has not yet been decided
postively it will be around the middle
efAugust.
N Gladys Is the youngest Of the five Earle
!, sisters, you know, and is considered by
4 many as quite the prettiest. She is rather
petite, and, of course, fair, with pretty
toloring. Edith, her older sister, is en-
gagged to one of the Lee boys, and Han.
Nl married Bud Patterson, Frances mar
ned Lawrence Beggs and Katherine mar
RED Victor Mather. / have not heard
yet whether the wedding will take place
he Eat tlnt. Nl.Az To-,
N their camp in the Adirondacks.
NIAGARA continues to draw Philadel-
- phians, and I'll warrant some Of them
not been for this encampment at the fort,
w we have been SO apt to cross the
eoean for sight seeing instead of See
america First; that is, we were so in
eHned before the war! Jean Thompson
ana sarah Nelson are going up again this
weekend, and Josephine and Cecile How.
W are going with their mother, to stay
p@haps couple Of weeks. Cooper Howell
At the camp, too. ] forgot to remark
uat Harry Nelson is the attraction for
nh sister, Of course!
Eleanor Pepper starts today to visit
n~ sister, Mrs. Ted Paul who has a
a0use near the camp, for Ted is studying
~ commission and Eugene Newbold is
usre. too. You know Eleanor and Eu.
ssne are to be married on August IS, and
y It goes
~
II r. AND MRS. GEORGE WOOD.
WARD, OF Krisheim, st. Martins,
"" ioath to tear themselves away from
~"h as there is SO much to be done at
.1ne' Mrs. Woodward is particularly in,
es'ed In the new Chestnut Hill branch
"e National League for Women's Serv.
ana SO she will not open her camp in
sme until August /.
lAkING Of the N. L. for w. S.. I
Y visited the Chestnut Hill branch yes,
and talk about efficiency and
o'ty' Those women have certainly
no time in learning how to do the
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