Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-26

other worker, and so are Mrs. James
Forney. Mrs. Lincoln Godfrey, Jr. Mrs.
Walter Janney, Miss Helen Lawson and
Miss Dorothy Huey.
Hope McMICHAEL, who has been
- away in New England for while, is
visiting Jobie Foster, in Germantown.
Later she and Mrs Brown are going to
one of the Maine Harbors, l understand.
Hope is a dear girl, don't you think?
MR.. AND MRS. DAVID MOORE, who
AV1 have been staying out in Bryn Mawr
are going to start today by motor for
Long Branch, where they will attend
the horse show that is going on there
Afterward they will motor over to New
York and thence up to Albany for two
weeks visit to Mrs. Moore's brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Guenther, who will return with them to
Bryn Mawr for short visit.
= And so it goes, every day we hear of
others who are taking their turns in
running off to distant and nearby resorts
and, fortunately for them, escaping the
heat
MRS. CHARLES O'DONNELL LEE, of
4V1 st. Davids, is certainly doing her
bit" for her country. She has organ
! ized a class among the women of st.
Katherine's parish, in Wayne, to work
for the Wayne Branch of the Red Cross,
which meets every Wednesday evening.
About fifty women have already Joined,
Then Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednes
days she is to be found busily canning
at the canning club in Wayne, and she
also sews with the sewing club on Tues
day mornings.
Besides her own activities' her small
daughter. Frances, who is only about
eight years old makes fudge and sells II
for the Wayne Branch of the Red Cross
while her son, Charles, Jr., ten years old
Is a member of the Little Harvesters'
/ and picks fruit and vegetables for the
canning club. Mrs. Lee is a picture, with
her blue eyes and auburn her, and Is sc
enthusiastic she is an inspiration to any
one who works with her.
4 CPEAKING of the Wayne Branch, thai
~ enterprising auxiliary of the Rec
Cross held a market at the headquarters
In Wayne last Saturday morning, and II
few hours cleared about $50 selling
vegetables, flowers, and vegetable plants.
TALKING of the Red Cross, I hop'
L that it is not all fad with the learners
as it is with some 1t seems pity ina
every great movement must always have
certain number of persons who con
meet themselves with it for the glory o
the name, but as to giving real atten
ton and time and turning what the!
have learned into practical use, goo'
y night! it can't be did
Now, don't misunderstood me. l an
not crying down the good work which ma
been done and is being done by grea
numbers Of earnest women all over IN
country, but there are always certain
percentage of notoriety seekers and socia
climbers who see in good works chanc
to get a footing they could not possipi
achieve otherwise All of which is neithe
here nor there in my story, for the womel
Of whom I am about to tell were by n
means climbers. They were only-weh
don't exactly know how to say just VIVA
they were. But am afraid they are apt
look on few things as serious IN this iii'
In a certain small town near mere
small boy was brought into drus SUI
His forehead was badly gashed ana
was totally unconscious. The drugsis
was not in. and only very young Gle,
was in the store. He worked over IN
boy for some time. while some one els
ran for a doctor.
Meantime two ladies'. whose names wef
well known as students" OF Red eros
h work, came into the store and the cier
vent out to walt on them. He was ram.
lfightened that he had been unaD'e
~ The boy back 70 consciousness sn'
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