Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-04
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Abingdon Fete in Readiness to Open Tomorrow at
Latham -Enterprising Young Woman
Interests Nancy Wynne

.x,rrr, would you like to hear some
wv more about the fete for Abingdon
uo.pltal which has been gotten up by
~. women's Auxiliary of that house of
s.-cv7 You know It is TO be held TO.
.-.or,ow afternoon in Latham Park at Oak
80 and great are the preparations!
Tne proceeds OF the affair are to be de-
-.,od 20 an isolation ward, the author
,,,ss Of the hospital having accepted the
- ~ the devoted auxiliary to give the
money for that purpose.
Mrs. Fitz-Eugene Dixon heads the
.1.outlye committee for the affair, and
49, sssoc,ated with her Mrs. George W.
,-u,,r. IT., Mrs. John Gilbert, Mrs
60 Horace Lorimer and Mrs. Robert
e..r.n You will admit these women are
80 workers, and, together with those
s..oo,oted in turn with them, there can
=. i,,,ls doubt OF the ultimate success of
the fete.
Mrs. woodrow Wilson, the first lady of
A.. land, has written to say that size is
s.,sh,ed 10 name the doll which was
s..s.sd bv the nurses Edith Boiling Will
-" and IL you'll believe me Miss Doll
A.s about her small neck real gold
,ooLot and slender chain, and on the
,oorst is written said dolls name. So you
o.n harrow her Jewels Il you win her.
Mrs Mitchell Hastings is going to tell
,ortunes TO the delight Of many, for there
.. certain fascination in having ones
tortune told. Selftlove does crop out in
.ocb one Of us in one way or another
Soes II not? And so long as It is harm
lass hand-reading, it's not serious yield
ing to il, is 1t, specially when 1t Is USED 10
help sweet charity?
nHE Boy Scouts of Wyncote, Troop l.
will be at attention to run errands and
bs,p generally all day, for the fete will
last pretty much all day, as the aides will
he decorating and arranging tables in the
morning selling all afternoon and dancing
and eating most Of the evening, 1 think.
bear the committee has succeeded in
winning from the store chests of some of
their friends some beautiful old-fashioned
samplers on which quaint notices have
been lettered. Think of It, how our grand
mothers and great-grandmothers stitched
nauently through the long afternoons!
Can you picture any Of our girls of TO-
day sitting quiet and stitching in the
window Of the best room" such words
a.
20 may the everlasting truth,
My stan and standard be
The best companion for my youth
Joined with humility?
Humility is a word seldom heard these
days, is 1t not? I wonder why, for truth
and humility are needed more than ever
before Il seems to me. Perhaps If there
had been a little more of both we would
not now be engaged in great world war.
But at least we individuals can love these
virtues and add others to them. gem
gal, normal bit of each virtue is the ideal
character, don't you think?
Having thus philosophical, how about
tomorrow? Are you going out for tea
and to see and buy the lovely things which
will be sold? Perhaps we'll meet out
there. The trolleys take you right to the
entrance of Latham Park, you know; the
Willow Grove trolleys on Sixteenth street
80 right past.
A BENEFIT will be given to aid the
Asocial Service department Of the
Babies Hospital at Wynnefeld at the
home Of Mrs. John A. Tilotson, Conestoga
road and Audubon avenue, Wayne, on
Friday afternoon.
Cards. fancy dancing, music and re-
treshments are among the features
planned for the afternoon, and the women
Of the committee all hope that goodly
sum will be realized for this very i'm
portant work.
Committee include Mrs. Brooke NJ. Ans
pach, Mrs. William N. Bradley, Mrs. e.
p Barnard, Mrs. G. HaDfilton Colket,
Miss Mary S. Febiger, Miss Ida p. Fife,
Mrs. Charles F. Jenkins, Mrs. George p.
Muller. Mrs. ]. Percy Robinette, Mrs.
Charles H, Quimby, Mrs. Francis Janney
stoddart, Mrs. William G. Warden, Jr.,
Mrs. Francis NJ. White and Mrs. NJ. Car
ter Whtlock.
COME months ago one of Philadelphia's
" capable and most likable girls who
was Just a bit tired of partying bought
herself farm in New Jersey and has
been working to make it a success. She
has an incubator in which there are $4,000
eggs, truck patch where she gets out
early in the morning and digs for pota-
toes corn, etc, and gets Just lots of fun
out OF II, too. What a pity more of our
young women with wealth and leisure
time to burn do not put both to some such
splendid use. Next winter this same
young woman may be very glad of the
ume and thought she has spent on her
little farm. NANCY WYNNE.