Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-02
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Yesterday and Today Last Days of the Show at
Devon-Great Number of Weddings Will
Fill Up the Day. Says Nancy Wynne

TtrsT AZ first yesterday / thought 1t
J was going to be a freeze at the Horse
Show because it certainly did rain
coats and dogs" In the morning and
lacked so disagrseable most of the early
afternoon IL was hard to know just what
,.o,ld happen. But in the afternoon Old
60, came out, and what would a descrip.
,,on of a horse show be without Old Sol,
ting Horse, green turf and brown oval
and all the rest of the usual "flub dub"
one must use to sound horsey and in the
,rim and so forth, and after Old Sol
came out, some Of the people came, too,
and the old standbys of the show ap-
neared in sporty suits and hats.
King Horse took heart after he saw
the seats on the stand beginning to fill
and proceeded to act his prettiest and all
went well.
There Is little new to detail of the Show
sxcept that though all week Philander
Knox had been reported as being present,
he really appeared for the first time in
his box Yesterday. Mrs Reed Knox, Mrs.
TindIe and Mrs. Harrie Reed were in the
box with him.
kiddie, who, frocked in a white shocked
linen. walked about the oval with two
very small masculine specimens of hu-
manitv. Said specimens were so i'm
messed with her superiority that when
abe shook her finger and said in severe
tones IF you don't behave you'll have no
ice cream" they proceeded to carry on"
no longer
THERE are several out-of.town we'd
L dings today which are of interest
IN Philadelphians, Helen Parmele was
married at Flushing, L. l., to Nooks Fot.
teran of this city, at the home of her
grandmother, Mrs. Louis Johnson, and
oulte a few Fotterall relatives went on
10 the ceremony. The Fotteralls have
certainly kept things going some this
year, First the father married about
three or four months ago, then Walter
and Elanor Dulany, of Baltimore, plighted
their troth on Thursday, and now, to-
day. Noolls the younger son, is to enter
the bonds of wedlock.
In Washington Eloise Orme, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Orme,
married to Tom Robinson, of Haverford,
IN the garden Of the old homestead be-
longing to the Orme family in George.
town And on down to New Orleans,
where Dick Breed, son of the George
Breeds, Of Germantown, is stationed with
the Naval Coast Reserves, there was an
other wedding; for Helen Fling and her
mother, Mrs Joseph Fling and the Breeds
nr-
leans, and Dick and Helen were married
about noontime.
There are two weddings of New
Workers. which are of interest to the
social world, especially to those who visit
or summer in Newport. Alice Hunting.
don, sister of Mrs. Vincent Astr, was
married in Staatsburg, n. Y, to Charles
Marshall, and at st. Thomas's Church,
in New York, Louise Townsend, daughter
Of the late Franklin Townsend. of this
city, was married to Charles Plimpton, of
Boston.
1t is surely a day of weddings. Edwina
Hensel and DR.. Charles Wharton Smith
were married very quietly out at
Mrs Hensels home, in Haverford. Doc
tor Smiths father died just about two
weeks ago, so the invitations were re-
called and the ceremony was very, very
quiet one. When you consider these l
have spoken of in this little column and
the accounts of the local weddings in an
other part Of the page you will agree with
me that June is a marrying month, and
June decidedly marrying day.
A NUMBER of cottages have been
AAopened in Cape May and this next
week will see Philadelphians boarding up
their winter homes and putting up their
chintz curtains and porch awnings by tho
sad sea waves. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Page will again occupy their cottage on
Stockton avenue, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man McMullin, of Ardmore, will leave
within fortnight for their cottage on
Jefferson street
Mrs Walter Cox has already gone
down, and Mrs. Herbert NJ Tilden, with
her two children, has again taken a cot
tage on Decatur street; Mr.. and Mrs.
Joshua Ash Pearson, of Price street, Ger
mantown, will leave June Is for their
cottage. They will be accompanied by
Miss Bessie Pearson.
NANCY WAYNE.