Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-05
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Women the World Over Are Occupied With Red
Cross Work-Various Matters of Social
Interest-Condoence Extended

~ coIIRSE everything pretty much
(J,. Ped Cross these days. and 1t Is well
.,,o, II should be so. for as time goes
.hs weather will begin to get cold anu
man in France as well as at nome
,,, ,roatlv need the warm garments that
ss,nq SO deftly handled by the dainty
ors Of members of society at nome
:, the resorts, in the country on the
..oins in the motors, everywhere. Honest
=. soodness. have you ever seen anything
-, u9 why when I was stopping
hotel recently l give you my word
-.rv single woman well, no, don't
49,, n in the way 1t sounds, for there
-. many double ones, too, as far as
.,,a, ooes, was knitting, knitting, knitting
~, ,,ondered some of them did not turn
- Uniting needles. You know these
tritting bags are mighty convenient
.h.se days. They are so big and roomy
.',,, can carry home the marketing, move
sour net dog from town to country in
.ho trains and vice versa. and heaven
.,,, knows TO what other purposes they
may be put
NOME people are coming home this
S,,oek 20 their country places along the
,,a,n line. The Armitt Browns, who
have been at Winter Haroor since
August 1. are coming down today, / an
a,re,and and Billie Carter, who has been
,.,,,,inV his mother in Maine and attended
81. niece Cornelia Leidys wedding up
.,ors expects to come back today to his
Rosemont home.
hear that Henry Houston is back
,ro, his work in the field service over
there" for a wel-deserved furlough, and
10 with his parents at their summer villa
a, c,apboard Island. Me. He is the son
a, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Houston and a
brother of Mrs. Henry Paul Brown, Jr.'
who was Edith Houston. and of Mrs.
pobert Il. Meigs. who was Margaret
Houston. Charlotte Brown is a half
sister.
UHE sympathy of many persons is ex-
i tended to Mrs. Morrell, for 1t Is well
known what a sorrow her huspahd
death is to her General Morrell had
been IN for some time and it was in an
effort TO regain some of his lost strength
that he and his wife went out to Colorado
This summer He died there on Saturday
and Is being brought here for burial. |
understand the body will arrive tonight.
General Morrell was a stepson of the late
eminent lawyer, John G. johnson. Ills
wife was Miss Louise Drexel, daughter
of the late Mr.. Frank DreXel by his
second wife, who was a Miss Bouvler.
She is a half sister of Mother Rather
ine Drexel, who founded the religious
order Of the Sisters of the Blessed Sac
rament, which has it's mother house in
Cornwells. and second half sister of
Mrs. Morrell was the late Mrs. Walter
George Smith, Of this city,
MOLLY SHARPLESS'S fiance, Major
AV1 Eric Pearson NJ. c., expects to re-
turn shortly to France. Their engage
ment was announced just within the last
fortnight, and he has been staying up in
York Harbor with the Sharplesses since
then.
There are as yet no rumors as 20
whether there will be another hurrie d
wedding in this case, but, goodness me
that does not signify anything these
days when you make up your mind on
Wednesday that you love - and then
next day decide that as he is going to
war or to camp there's not much use OF
waiting for the tying of the knot and
so off you go as gay as you please and
marry at once and take a two or three
day wedding trip and then back home to
pa and ma, and life goes on in some cases
Just as if there had been no extraor
dinary occurrence to interrupt the even
tenor of your way. EXcept--oh, and that
Is it-except that for the girl there is
the knowledge that to some one who
may soon be in grave danger she means
all the world, and the man knows thai
no matter what happens to him or wha'
his temptations and sorrows are there Il
waiting for him at home his greates
treasure, and it helps each one to live
ana prepare for happy reunion wher
once this terrible war is over. And theii
characters will certainly be greatly
& helped by the sufferings of separation
. and anxiety which their two heart.
$500 "iii hiipN, loI lHOuBH the SuIIeTlnt
Is common to many 1t is also individua
10 each one. So go to it, young people
say with all my heart.
AND now, because l have been philoso
A phizng and getting very solemn
when think Of what all this means to S,
many lives, I am going to switch off thu
current and turn to another and tell yo,
OF what befell "a certain young man w,
sn Know at a Maine resort one very col,
evening.
lie was staying with his aunt and ha,
oeeh invited out to dinner. Well, IL wa
awiuliy cold and when he came down
s'airs ready to start off for the ferr,
uor he was going from one harbor t
ahother'' wearing his light summer over
ooa' over his dress clothes, he locke,
90 chilled that aunty said, MY dear boy
you must not take that trip across tn
way without scarf or something aroun
your neck" "But I haven't got a scar
WIN me-" Then Won must RIM I'M nm