Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-01
CHRISTMAS BAGS
FOR SOLDIERS
Lansdowners Make Comfort
Bags and Knit Under Aus
pices of Red Cross

In these days 1t seems to be a vertable
case or do your Christmas shopping
early with all the packages full of cheer
tul things to be sent on their journey over
seas several weeks before one used to begin
TO think that Christmas was coming. Of
course, every one wants to give some SOL
der boy bit of happiness at this time of
the year, and even though one may not
Know any man in khaki who has gone over
one may send a Christmas box through any
one OF the organizations busy collecting
them, and 1t will go to somebody who per-
maps wouldn't have had any Christmas il
you hadn't made 1t for him. Out In Lans-
downe, Miss Marie Carskaddon has been
very busy fixing khaki handkerchiefs for
the Red Cross. All sorts of nice surprises
are tucked inside of these "hankles" and a
good many persons have helped Miss Cars
kaddon In getting them ready She sent
lot Of them in TO Red Cross headquarters
in Philadelphia the early part Of this week
Mrs. S. Leonard Kent Jr is starting a
knitting class TO be held at the Lansdowne
Red Cross house every Friday morning
Even If one does know how to make such
things as sweaters and scarfs socks may
seem fearfully hard TO knit. SO Mrs. Kent
Is going TO teach the way these should be
knit to any one who wants TO learn She
has also offered to visit the homes Of any
"shut-ins" wishing to do this work and in
struct them. The wool will be furnished by
the Lansdowne Red Cross branch, and nat
urally the articles will be turned over to
this branch when finished.
About a month ago some sailors from the
battleship Iowa came out to Lansdowne
and gave an entertainment to the people
of the town. They were trying to raise
the money to buy a piano for their ship
before they left Philadelphia Mrs f..
Wager-Smth, who made 1t possible for
them to give their entertainment, has Just
NIaN ol,Ta
piano they wanted SO much with the money
the Landowners 80 generously gave.
on Saturday morning the Woman Suf-
frage party held rummage sale in DR.
Warren Rhoads garage. Mrs. Paul
Lachenmeyer, Mrs. Francis d. Maxwell and
Mrs. Clarence Sill collected the articles for
the sale and there was a great variety.
The collectors chose good time, with
every woman busy housecleaning.
The Century Club has had classes in
various subjects. such as French dress
making and cooking. whenever the menu
hers have expressed a desire for them
And now a dancing class &as been or
ganized, with Mrs. William d. Lewis as
chairman. The class is limited TO club
members and their husbands. and il meets
every Tuesday evening in the clubhouse
There are twenty-five couples, and they
surely do get lot of fun out of IL The
people belonging to the class are Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred c. Balch, Mr. and Mrs Harold
r. Burt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G.. Burrows
Mr. and Mrs. Robert w. Pick Mr. and
Mrs. w B. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Eden b.
Hunt Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar S. Kimberley
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. lie Fevre, Mr.
and Mrs Stanford b. Lewis Mr. and Mrs
Frank NJ. Longstreth, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam d. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas M
Love, Mr.. and Mrs. William A. McEwen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Mclean, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles S. Musser Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick A. Mason. Mr.. and Mrs. A F.
O'Daniel, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph NJ Pugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Shurtleff, Mr..
and Mrs. William J. Sharpless. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles e. Wilcox and Mr.. and Mrs.
John w Ziegler.
Mrs William s. Baxter gave a small
bridge party on Friday afternoon for Miss
Sara Easthurn of Newark. The guests were
Mrs. Edward B. Jones. Mrs James w. Cas-
sell, Mrs William Magann, Mrs. James Fun
ston, Mrs. Walter Hudson Mrs Louis r.
Harley, Miss Eta Yarnell. Mrs. Benjamin
B. Osborne, Mrs. c. d. Caldwell Mrs. John
Nichols, Mrs. Walter Il. Noble Mrs. N.
Zahm and Mrs. John S. Buckley.
On Monday evening Miss Alma Wallace
gave small dinner party for Mr. and
Mrs. Harry p. Babbitt, who now live In
Swarthmore,
Miss Josephine Pilling Is visiting friends
in Erie, Pa.
The senior class of the Lansdowne High
nasium on the evening of November IL