Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-07
! lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
ninner-Dance at Ritz-Carlton Tonight for Two
Debutantes-Mr and Mrs. Newbold Enter
tain for Mrs. Brooke and Mr.. Newbold

JdlIl lOl Nll o' Ia WIN
rrHE principal event in the soc,al VIZ
vi -, is the dinner-dance when the
y,,,ro,e Dixons will give in honor Oh
1,,xon,s stepsister, Emily Welsh ana
W. rro,ter. another debutante. whose
be'v =, ,n CHESTNUT Hill. The affair Will
49, eiven in the Ritz-Carltoh anu .'
Nu he about $50 guests, mostly Oh 'ne
..h,,ante set Emily Welsh Is 'io
ss.,ohter of Mrs. 7. Henry DIXON Whose
-. h,,sband was the late Samuel Welsh'
patty Trotter is the daughter OF MI
nd Mrs. william Henry Trotter'
t,,,o,,, nc war seems more and more
Y ,,onoinent / am wondering II there
,,+,, not be some hurrying OF nuptiai ues
=. Tho ranks of our volunteer army as
al, as in the naval circles. For IL the
,,ar does come do not imagine DICK Eli
~, for instance, will be able to wait mere
NTH February II to be married ana
..,onder IL the Downs men will go away
.so,n without insisting on leaving wives
,a,ber than sweethcarts at home. VINO
,.uovs nerhaps the very latest engaged
,,,,os may take to tho license offices
"a "declare their intentions before all
oresent." And / would not blame them
exactly, would you? However, let us nope
II does not mean war.
rr,ItE John Newbolds will give a dinner
/ tonight at their homo at Twentieth
N honor
George Clymer Brooke and Trenchard
Newbold, whose engagement was very re-
oentlv announced and Whose marriage
will take place on Thursday of next week.
Mrs Brooke, you remember, was Rhoda
Morris. the eldest daughter of Mr.. ana
Mrs, Efngham Morris. She married
Z George Brooke about twelve or fourteen
wears ago, and he died after long ana
painful illness some two years since. She
Is a sister, you know, of Mrs. stacy
LLOYD. who was Eleanor Morris, and her
Youngest sister, Carol Morris, married
Mr.. Byers, Of Pittsburgh, about five years
ago. Mrs Brookes brother, Eflingham
Morris, Jr., will be married after Easter
10 Julia Lewis.
ANOTHER affair of interest this after
"A noon is the tea which Mrs. Arthur
Meigs, of 1922 Walnut street, will give
!. for her son and daughter-inlaw, Mr.. and
Mrs John Forsyth Meigs, I'd. Mr.. ana
Mrs Meigs were married on November
6. You remember she was Elizabeth Myers
one of the four pretty Myers girls. She
and Jack Meigs are living out at st.
1, ,;,,1y tl,r fn
would be mighty lonely with only one
daughter left at home. Three weddings
in almost as many months. Good night
Just think of it!
THERE was quite stir of excitement
!, 1 last night at the opera when it was
discovered that the last and youngest
member of the Richard Mccall Elliot
family had succumbed to the darts of
Dan Cupid and that the engagement of
Suzanne Elliot to young Robert Donner
was announced. Suzanne made her debut
X IN October at a tea given by her grand
mother, Mrs Charles Wheeler. Her Sis
3 ter Natalie, who had taken up nursing
and graduated from the Presbyterian
Hospital in the fall, became engaged to
Lieutenant Fitz-Hugh Green and was
married shortly before Christmas, and
only few weeks ago Dicks engagement
and the date of his wedding February
III to Joan Packard were announced.
Suzanne was the center of many con-
gratulatory friends on the grand tier
last evening and Mr.. Donner was a guest
at the supper given after the opera by
the De Witt Cuylers for Suzanne and
Dorothy Newbold. Her eldest sister you
know, was Marjorie Elliot, who married
Sidney Brock several years ago. Mr..
and Mrs. John Kearsley Mitchell enter
tained in the Stotesbury box last night,
and Mrs. Gardner Cassatt had Mrs.
Boyer and Ellen Mary in her box. Mrs.
h Aleck Coke had as her guest Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald Holsman, MI. and Mrs. Law
renee Paul. Mrs. Benjamin Chew Thigh
( man and Mrs. William p. Churchm9n.
MANY women who are interested in the
AVA French war relief committee of the
Emergency Aid will meet this afternoon
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Stotesbury, 1925 Walnut street, to hear
~'ios w iiiiileu. IlUll Spedh vi 'iiO "O'N
or the committee for men blinded in bat
tie, The talk is to be Illustrated by pic
lures. The patronesses for the affair in
clude Mrs. j. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Will
liam Struthers Ellis, Mrs. Henry Middle
ton Fisher, Mrs. j. Willis Martin, Mrs.
Arthur Emlen Newbold, Mrs. Edward W.
BOX, Mrs. Barclay II. Warburton, Mrs.
cornelius Stevenson, Mrs. Cyrus H. X.
4 curtis, Mrs. John Cadwalader, Miss Mari.
anne Biddle and Miss Caroline Sinliler
Ihe conference will be held at $3.50
n o'clock, and it is expected there will be
large attendance.
NANCY WYNNE.