Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-26
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Men and Women of Fashion Follow Boilermakers
Sailmakers and Other Mechanics in Liberty Bond
Parade-Glrls Hold to Last Summer Agreement

r@1D vou see them? DID you see them?
IL Plumbers. joiners, shipbuiders, boiler.
..,oters. soldiers, sailors, marines and
..or,an from the Emergency Aid and
'.r,ous auxiliaries who have been selling
Id Mr.. stotesbury led the mems COM
rolttees, all dressed up in brown overcoat
md a high hat, and Mrs. Barclay War
s,,r,on. Mrs. John c. Groome, Mrs. Tom
robins and Mrs. Norman Macleod led
.so bond.seliing Emergency Aiders. Mrs.
rohson Altemus was in that bunch and
Aad on the best-looking cloak of fur I've
.oor for many a day. There were crowds
:, women in the parade, and don't tell me
.hore,s no spirit of democracy among
.,onen after yesterdays parade when
MACK and white walked side by each,
CARRYING flags and bond signs and all
.lated with patriotism.
lid you see Katharine Churchman car
~ rving the blue banner Of the Motor
,.ossenqer Service bunch? She seemed
90 he having the time of her life getting
that banner steady. Right In the front
row of insurance men were Charlie
churchman and Charlie Jennings side by
zach. and among the bankers were Bob
cassatt. Evan Randolph and, of course,
a number Of older men. Mr.. Walter Clark
,od that bunch and one jocose gentleman
In the first row back of the dgnifed Mr..
clark was heard to remark: Fall in
ure gentlemen. We are now to be led
nv the famous baritone, Mr.. T.. Walter
Clark" But the effect was spoiled by
the announcement of moment later,
which was, SAY, Walt, they say you're
not a baritone, but a wh-husky tenor"
noted Mr.. Isaac Clothier and Mr.. Jim
Wilcox in the first detachment of men
walking after E. 7. s.
Altogether it was some showing to be
proud of and the men from the navy yard
were simply wonderful. Every kind of
mechanic that works down in the yard
was in line to the number of many thou
sands, all of whom had bought bonds.
And they led the parade after the soldiers
and sailors. There was certainly an
eoualization yesterday: Soldiers, sailors,
labor, capital and last, but not least, the
ladies', though some 90 the latter walked
In the center; in fact they were scattered
oil through.
last summer at Northeast Harbor the
IL girls got together-and when the
girls do that something usually happens
and this was the result: The. resolved
that during the coming winter they would
dress simply and economically and do
with a smaller variety of costumes.
But you may argue, won't that put
hosts of honest, Woodworking women out
of business? OF course it might, but
these same women may now find posi-
tions in banks, stores and factories-you
may be sure that at present no women
need be at a loss for something to do.
And to return to the point. If there are
to be so few debutantes, why should we
have an oversupply of expensive evening
gowns? 1t has been proved over and
over again that it is rot the cost and
"fussiness" of her clothes that make a
girl popular. Clothes may make the man,
and becoming ones certainly do help
girl to make herself but after all it's
still personality that counts.
AND what could be more typical of the
n modern American girls personality
than the sports clothes that are now so
popular? For she is a good sport in
every sense that the word implies, and
looks her best in clothes that help her
TO be just that. The other day when
passing the Philadelphia Cricket Club
saw Margaretta Dixon playing tennis.
She was dressed very simply in white
linen skirt and sport shirt, with a stun
ming black and white striped silk necktie.
She couldn't have looked better had she
been dressed in the most elaborate "vel-
vet and fine laces," and I'm sure she
wouldn't have been enjoying herself half
80 much! How could she because she
could not have been playing tennis. but
would probably have been all "dolled up"
going to teas or receiving at them were
this season like those Of previous years.
Yes, this winter the girls who know
what's what" are just being as Hoover
ish" with their clothes as are their
mothers with the food supply. And you
don't notice any lack of style, either; on
the contrary, it would seem that better
taste" were the slogan of this year as
well as economy. NANCY WYNNE.