Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Hope Day Nursery Benefit Will Be Held Tomor-
row at Maybrooke, Wynnewood as Was First
Planned-Rummage Sale Still on at
Hale Building

AFTER the changing of many plans
"A due to the idea that General Joffre
and NJ. Viviani would be here on Thurs
day, now It has been decided they will not
come at that time, and SO back go all
the plans again. This Is the case in the
affair for the benefit of the Hope Day
Nursery. which was planned originally
for tomorrow then put off until Monday
next for General Joffre and now brought
back again tomorrow It's a sort of n
case of I'm again. on again, off again,
Finnesar," isn't il? That being the case,
/ shall proceed 20 particulars, the matter
of fact being this and this is official: The
committee in charge. OF vhich Mrs. Henry
Miller Watts is president, announces that
the musicale and dancing tea will come
off tomorrow afternoon at the home of
Miss Mary K Gibson at Wynnewood
The entertainment Is to be exception
ally interesting. as such well-known art
lists as Mrs. Sydney Thayer, Miss Eliza
beth Dickson, Mrs Charles r. Wood, Mr..
II. Van den Beemt, Mr.. Victor de Gomez,
Mr.. James Gamble, Mrs John Joyce and
Miss Polly Thayer will take part. Miss
Cibsons homo is particularly well adapted
for such an occasion, as 1t possesses
magnificent music room, which forms
separate wing in itself.
Maybrooke is one of the show places
of the Main Line, and If the weather per-
mits the dancing tea will be held on the
terrace. The patronesses are Mrs Edgar
W. Baird Mrs. j. Hampton Barnes, Mrs
Charles d. Barney, Mrs Samuel Bell. Jr,,
Mrs A. j. Drexel Biddle, Mrs Robert c.
II. Brock Mrs. Henry A. Berwind. Mrs.
Howard Clark Mrs Percy II. Clark, Mrs.
William J. Cother, Mrs. Henry Brinton
Coke, Mrs Charles G. Davis. Mrs. George
w. Elkns Jr Mrs. William H. Elkins'
Mrs W. W. Filter. Mrs Arthur II. Ger
hard. Mrs. r. f. Griscom, Mrs. Kane 5.
Green, Mrs. II. Frazer Harris, Mrs {. C.
Harrison, Jr., Mrs. Richard II. Harte,
Mrs. George w. Kendrick Mrs. j. Louis
Ketterinus, Mrs. Joseph w. Lippincott'
3D., Mrs II. G.. Lloyd, Mrs. Thomas Nc
Kean. Mrs. C. T. McMichael, Mrs f.. f.
Marshall Mrs. j. Kearsley Mitchell, Mrs
Paul D. Mills, Mrs. Effingham p. Morris
Mrs. Fred w. Morris, Jr., Mrs. Trenchard
e. Newbold, Mrs. Richard e. Norton
Mrs. Park Painter, Mrs. G. Brinton ROD
erts Mrs Edgar T. Scott. Mrs. j. Harrison
Smith Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Mrs. s.
Franklin Sharpless. Mrs. Isaac T, starr
Mrs. James Starr, Mrs. George c. Thayer'
Mrs Theodore Voorhees,, Mrs. Charles 5.
wurts, Mrs. L. C. Wister, Mrs. Joseph f.
widener, Mrs. A. B. Coke. Mrs. A. F.
Newbold, Mrs. ]. Allison Scott and Mrs
James f. Sullivan.
HTYnDAv will he last FOR the
J. big Rummage Sale which is being held
in the Hale Building. The proceeds of
the sale are to be devoted toward securing
a summer camp for the 1900 Girl Scouts
now in this city. and the captains of the
various troops as we'll as the local coun-
Gil, which is composed of young society
women, have been untiring in their eff.
forts to make this occasion financial
success and enable them to secure a suit
able location for a camp.
Gwenn Martin and Harriet Deaver.
who collected the rummage last week,
have continued calling for discarded arti-
cles during the days Of the SALE and you
can have no idea of the things those girls
have collected for sale, Among the most
interesting features of the sale is the live
stock department Among those who will
have collected. Among the most inter-
esting features is the live stock de-
partment Those who have charge OF
the various counters during these days of
the sale are Eleanor Pepper. Char
lotte Brown, Jean Thompson, Gretchen
Clay, Mary Alice Clay, Mrs. Francis
Lewis. Sd, Charlotte Rush, Margaret
Berwind Edith Baily, Mrs George II.
Earle, Sd. Alvan Sergeant, Molly Trayer,
Sarah Nelson, Dorothy Newbold. Sarah
Baker, Cecile Howell. Anna Lewis, Emily
Williams and Mrs. Joe Wood. Jr.
Bertha Green, who is captain of Troop
No. IA of the Girl Scouts, will leave on
Saturday to join the second encampment
of the National Service School IN WASH
ington, having won the scholarship given
by the training camp to one captain OF
the Philadelphia Girl Scouts. A first-aid
class has been formed by the local coun-
Gil, which will be instructed by DR.. John
B. Carson while a class will be drilled by
q member Of Captain A. ]. Drexel Bid
dies corps. Last week five-mile hike
was taken through the country by eight
cen or twenty captains Of the troops
who accompanied Samuel Scoville. Jr.
the Boy Scout naturalist.
NANCY wYNNE.