Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-25
SEASHORE POPULAR
WITH LANSDOWNERS
Girls Sorority ITO Have a Week
Together in Ocean
City

wouldn't you suppose, now that summer
10 almost over and the days and nights
are growing beautifully cool, while you
san , hear the crickets and katydids chirp-
ing away right near your own front porch
wouldn't you just suppose that ever so
many people would be thinking of coming
pack nome again? But no. they're not in
iact' lots OF them are just going away
ana the favorite going away" place seems
10 De somewhere by the sea.
Mr. and Mrs. John Geraghty are down
az at cape May, and Mr.. and Mrs S. Thomas
Garuiner have taken dear little bungalow
a., az stone Harbor where they expect to stay
III, the end of the summer season.
Mrs Harry Stewart has a cottage there,
700 ana her sons and daughters are always
Visiting her. Her two nieces, Miss Mar.
garet Shaffner and Miss Elisabeth Shaffner,
| are down there now
MISS Ruth Decker Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Deckers daughter has been spending the
| week with some friends Mt Island Heights.
| ana or course there are the Ocean City
| i,es. Mr and Mrs j. Louis Bartram are
| down there, and so are the Horace Brookes
| ana the James Temple Buffers.
! The girls Of the Alpha Beta Delta Sor-
ority went to Ocean City Wednesday. chap
| eroned by several mothers to spend
whole wonderful week This sorority. YOU
| Know, has been meeting one evening a week
| at the different members houses for ever so
long, and they say they have such good
times The girls who are going to the
| snore are Miss Helen Reid, Miss Myrtle
| craig, Miss Dorothy Humphreys. Miss Mirs
| lam Hart Miss Helen Davenport, and Miss
| Hclen McCoach. Then Miss Lillian Bloods.
| worth will join them there tshe has been
| at ocean CITY all summer with her family.
| and SO Will Miss Marion Goucher and Miss
| Marjorie Young. who have both been visit.
| ing friends there
| chelsea has had some Iansdowners, too.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Mercer Bailey have been
down there for two weeks and Mrs
| Frederick Emlin Paul with her son, Mr.
Edgar Paul has also been staying there
for some time.
The Harlan Statzels with Miss Alice
| Statzel. are going to motor up to Susoue-
| hanna this weekend to see young Harlan n
who has been at a junior camp there all
| summer. There are to be some gay festivi
ties up there as a sort of a wind-up to q
Jolly summer. Tho boys are going to have
regatta. for which they have been plan
ming for days and days. The Allen Hoffers
are also going up to the camp in their car
to see Allen, Jr
The William A. McEwens and Miss Doro
thy McEwen are visiting Mr.. and Mrs Lloy,
Smith, who have nice woodsy bungalow
home near Wellsboro. Young Dick Forres
is with them. too
Miss Florence Adair and her little niece
Jean Eaton, have just returned from Cana
ia, where they were visiting relatives. Mis-
Adar'S sister. Mrs. Seymour Eaton. 4
having her beautiful home made into apart
ments, and they certainly are going to b
the most handsome ones in I.arsdowne. Mrs
Eaton expects to have one of the apartment
herself next winter
Little Martha Lipscomb, Mr. and Mrs
Herbert Lipscomb's daughter. of Richmond
Va, is visiting the william Sharplesses. Tn
Lipscombs used to live in T.ansdow lie, IN
Martha and Margaret Sharpless were al
ways great chums.
| 1t a hot afternoon last week, an
several companies of lthaki mixers" ha
/. | Just stopped to rest in front of a hous
where some few ladies were knitting busil
| on the veranda. Well. presently, one of tn
ladies went inside and started the Nictrols
and soon the tantalizing strains of-er-
shall we say Poor Butterny?" were comm
out through the open window and righ
down to Where those tired soldier boys wer
sitting. And then didn't fair knitte
, Cor is it 'knitteress?) take pity on til
poor creatures and call out, Want
dance?" Did they want to dance? Hadn
they been dying to for dear knows ho'
long? SO in trooped a lot Of them, and tn
patriotic knitters-or at least some G
them-danced with every one.
Those boys had a regular time that da.
for when they had started on their "hikc
once more, thoroughly rested Ooh, yes y the
, hadn't gone very far when they met
benevolent citizen. who stopped his car an
called OUT Boys, you look hot. Go dow
to the drug store and get yourselves soda
and cigarettes on me-" Well. they wen
every last one of them, as the Benevoler
Citizen found out when he paid his bill II
! next day.