Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-31

need. For IL is ABOUT certain that tn
In the air we breathe!
How many of us will live to look
there was that great rally Of thousa
stirring speeches and music rent the
of America was shouted on every
side. AS I visited the Red Cross
I was wonderfully struck with the
things different women offered to do,
and I must say 1 was profoundly
impressed with the fact that it is a
great pity that the scoffing onlooker
Of society does not really know how
very, very few vapid thoughts the
society woman Of today has. How
girls are learnings wigwagging, wire
less, chauffeuring md some even
awaiting. How the women who are
social leaders in the town sit from 9
In the morning till in the after
noon, taking down names, answer
ing phone calls, giving instructions,
while classes in cooking, classes in
first aid, in bandaging and the maxi
ing of surgical dressings are going
on in every direction.
There's Mrs. Walter Clark's big
class, which meets on Mondays out
at her Chestnut Hill home, and the
Mount Airy. Branch of the Red
Cross is busily at work. The Jenkin-
town and Huntingdon Valley branch
Of the Red Cross, the charter of
which was procured by Mrs. George
H. Lorimer quite recently, is doing
splendid work. Altogether, we have
women of whom we are more than
proud. For they never yet have been
found wanting when there is a great
crisis in the history of the country.
Think of Molly Pitcher, Lydia Dar-
rah, Barbara Frietchie and the many,
many unknown heroines of the past
Who knows but she may do down
to history as a heroine of the pres
ent times?
CPEAKING Of preparedness, did
- you know that Mariana Gowen
10 actually working in a garage and
learning all the intricate parts of an
automobile, and that when she
finishes the course she will be con-
sidered fully qualified to take a car
tirely apart and put it together again
may be all right to take a car al
you might say, perhaps many C
do that, but to know just where
little bit goes and to be able to
each part into it's proper place agai
q mans job, but Mariana does not t
So she reasons that the time may c
when there will be no men at home
when women will be mighty glad t
able to know how to do these things,
yet this girl was a debutante Of last
--feted and entertained at every
ball after ball was given for her, and
see it has not turned her head. Nor
It turn the heads of many Of our
young women. They give year to
q duty almost, and then, though the
not give up going to parties and ha
good times, they turn their attentio
serious work. The butterfly Of so'
and fashion is a thing of the past. Wo
of these times are certainly up
doing, don't you think?
AND now, my dears, just to give
"A something to guess about. The
an interesting engagement coming
the middle of next month, and per
you won't be awfully surprised when
hear it, for, you see, the fiancee in
case has written to some of her
bestest friends and said, Now don't
1t until after March 49," so, natur
when the letters came way after Marc
they felt at liberty to talk about it;
bless your heart, twas slip of the
not the tongue, so to speak, and she
so used to writing March she just
urally wrote it when she meant to
april. So had to promise I would
let you all in on it yet. It's nice
though. The girl is very vivacious.
has one of the most appealing express
I have ever seen. She has big bi
eyes and brown hair, and is quite 81
she is very much in earnest in the mi
Of doing good to others. She lives
toward the Main Line. They tell me
attractive looking man has been dey
to her for nearly four years. 1t 81
that faint heart never won," doesn'
So take on courage, swains who are
severing in love despite many IT
downs" Perhaps the lady of your !
will relent, as several l know of /
Oh, yes, there's another. but that
be announced for some time' And
mighty nice, too. NANCY WYNN