Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-10

goes friend mattress and all the lunch
with it, and as to the occupants-well,
foundering about in the water Is not
in 1t.
Only a few days ago party was given
up there, in the form of an early supper
and some OF those you know and I know
were on it. And along came a big wave
and over went the mattress and all the
supper and all the people, and one Of our
own very pretty and charming matrons
ca hit her foot on the side and proceeded
to hang head downward into the water
and just one more minute and she would
not now be among the living; as she is
had not a gallant youth seen her pre-
dicament, and, calling to some one else
to detach the foot, he grabbed her head
and turned her right side up and SAVED
her life.
MRS. JOHN r. VALENTINE, of Bryn
AV1 Mawr, left yesterday for Narragan-
sett Pier where she is going to visit Miss
Elizabeth Sinnickson, of Rittenhouse
Square. In September Mrs. Valentine is
going to Montana for about a month. Her
| husband is out there buying horses for
| the Government, you know.
The Mayor of Moore Haven. Fla, and
| her young son, Orville, I'd, start North
| this week and are going to visit in Bar
Harbor. Afterward they expect to spend
a week here-or hereabouts. Mrs. George
| Quintard Horwitz, or course-formerly a
mere citizen of Philadelphia-is the Mayor
of Moore Haven, you know.
| VOU hear all kinds of vacation stories
L these days, when people are beginning
to come home and make you unhapp!
with tales of sleeping under blankets ant
other atrocities. Some Of tie best storie!
are about matorboats and their engines
OF course, it wouldn't be motorboat Il
II didn't have an engine, but sometimes
Won do feel as If you are giving per
fectly good boat room to thing tina
might at least try to make itself orna
mental. IL it couldn't see its way clea
TO being useful. For, / ask you, hav
YOU ever known a motorboat engine Il
do exactly the right thing at the righ
time-now. wait, don't answer yet
ALWAYS? Well, neither have 1. Blu
YOU have to give the engine credit in thi
case The poor thing did its "durndest'
II all happened to some friends of min
IN one of those days last week. VIII w
ever forget those days last week? wei
: ANYHOW, they were hot, had been not al
dow and started out in their batnin
s,,its for a nice cooling swim. The
found that the water was TOO oirty
i on in at their own private DOCK as ther
,,a. work being done on the boathouse
;, 90 they all about six. Of them) piled INT
y q notorboat, one of those open ones W.T.
t n one.cylinder engine-deiightiui thihs'
when they behave!
Q II was hot there in the sum- ABOUT
l. o'clock in the afternoon, and they wer
vious TO get started and cool on !
q ,ho breeze, They turned the Wheel an
A sha started. Making longer Turn 10 &c
" haaded the right way, they swung ou
49,, the lake and stopped. Nothing III
80, On the ."chief engineer" cranke
again. There was no respo -,s. .
ID time and the boat gradually uri,'ed
y the starting place again fihaiis 81
n, caught, and they took the sam. me 'o' ,n
T. turn again and started merrls '"'o u, :.
n "straightaway" and stoppeu' .,.,r.s, -
IN they cranked, and cranked ana p'nn.a rpa y,
IS. and then somebody suggested una ,i,.' :, ay ,.'a
~ the gas wasn't turned on, .Sus,,n. M ~ w ~
I'd and once more they went 'hrouS" u
81 same proceedings a,,,,, .,
tn The sun burned hot and a,ara nnal,y u0w 3
tired and started to go down se'U's thsrs s0,
one said on chance. II wonder M III. II 'nsrs ta ap
anS and there wasn't any gasoline ssn N ss s,ss
Without word the y. who,s s.sr Ss0Sa sseoraI u
Ou to their several spills s'er. = s,,s 80,
q. ! oh6ro - ~ rqe 4 . ~ rI1