Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Huge Rummage Sale Will Open Tomorrow IN
Hale Building and Will Last Through Saturday
Plans to Raise Money for Art Alliance

L members of the committee In charge
Of the annual rummage sale for the
benefit of the Jefferson Hospital. The
Hale Building, the first floor of which mas
been donated for the sale, will be open |
today for the reception and asserting of
the many donations which have been |
promised, Mrs. Dobson Altemus, who is
managing the affair, having sent out an
urgent appeal for goods of every de
scription, from coal to jewelry. The sale |
will be open to the public tomorrow OF
this week and will continue until Satur
day night. New supplies will be opened
daily and will be disposed of by many OF
the younger set who will act as aides.
Some of those in charge of the varl'
Gus departments are Mrs. David Lewis
flowers and plants Mrs. Altemus, Mrs
p. Brooke Bland, Mrs f. j. Klop ana
Mrs William F. Menges, Easter hats;
Mrs r. Emott Hare, women's clothes;
Mrs. Winfield S. Arter, mems clothes;
Mrs. Daniel Hebard, bric,a-brac; Mrs.
Alba Johnson, lunch counter; Mrs HOW
ard A. Davis, books, and Mrs. WiiiiaH
H. Greene, records and musical instru'
ments. A few of the many prominent
women who have promised to aid incluoe
Dorothy Mecke, Helen Ross, Florence
Hancock, Gertrude Ehret, Agnes Spencer
Mrs Henry Morris, Jr., Mrs. Joseph
Chapman, Mrs. c. +. Brice. Mrs. ROBERT
G. Torrey, Mrs. Thomas Roberts, Jr"
Dorothy Huey Mrs. Robert Henderson,
Elizabeth Latta, Mrs. Logan Felano'
Madame Charles de Geer, Mrs. Sarah T.
Fetherston, Mrs. Augustus Heaton Mabel
Brice, Marie Louise Dilks Sara .. VIII
kinson, Mrs. Hall Headington, Mrs Fred
eric Hemsley, Beatrice Wilson, Helen
Wilson, Dorothy Willing, Mrs. Isaac
Schlichter, Lila Fisher, Mrs. Charles
Pickett Stokes, Mrs Herbert l.. Tlioen'
Mrs. l.. I. Reichner and Edith La Vie.
AND now I hear more money is to be
"A raised for the Art Alliance building
fund, which, by the way, is growing quite
rapidly. The affair will be bridge
which will take place on April 70 at the
Aldine and is under the management OF
Mrs. Samuel Woodward, Miss Anne Chris
tine Evans and Mrs. Camille Zeckwer.
1t quite looks as if the Art Alliance
building were an accomplished fact, but
the members owe Mr.. Sam Wetherill
couple Of hundred thousand still, l un.
q derstand, and so money must be raised
! to clear the property on Rittenhouse
square of debt 1t really is quite an ideal
spot for the building. the Audenried
house and the one adjoining, you know.
MFRS. MAX WEST, of the Federal Chill
lV1 dren's Bureau, of Washington, will
o.
ventive Methods of Baby Saving" in the
Junior Room of the BellevueStratforo
this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The address
will be given under the auspices of the
Babies Hospital of Philadelphia, the oc.
casion being the sixth annual meeting OF
this institution, and it is right in line
with the very excellent work which TINS
4 organization is doing, in that 1t gives
Philadelphia the opportunity of hearing
from one so closely in touch with baby
saving work all over the United States
as is Mrs. West
The talk will be Of particular interest
to social workers and all persons inter
ested in the reduction of infant mortality
& in this city. and in addition to the con-
tributors and members of the hospital the
board OF managers hopes tne seneral pun
lie will avail itself of this opportunity to
meet Mrs. West and at the same time
to learn what the hospital itself is doing
along this line.
NNE of the marked evidences of spring
r. " was the flower sale at the Merton
County Day School under the auspices
of the womens committee of the Merton
Civic Association on Saturday. Mrs
e Frederick Rockwell and Mrs Edward
Box were instrumental in arranging g
most attractive and profitable fair. There
were tables filled with beautiful potteC
plants, also cut flowers, for sale beside:
all kind of garden accessories, flower
sticks, wall pockets and beautiful trays
in short, everything one could wish fo
to put in ones garden or ones house
and all the money gathered in was fo
the benefit of the Merton school propert.
fund. A tea dansant was an added at
traction, and drew men and girls from
along the Main Line, as well as othe
. nearby places. NANCY WYNNE.
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