Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-21

marines and sailors
there this afternoon, and 1000 lunch boxes
bad been put up for them. AS each man
arrived he was given a card with a let
Ter on 1t and he was expected to go to
the table marked with that letter. Each
table had 200 boxes to give out. There
was also coffee, lemonade and ice cream,
which was dealt out in turn. Mr. Charles
Custis Harrison and a number of the
other men about Devon, Wayne, Phoenix
Vile and Valley Forge were greatly in
: terested in the undertaking.
NANCY SMYTH has come down from
~ Connecticut to visit Mrs. Isaac S.
myth, in Germantown, and isn't it
orange but Tommy Miles is there, too,
y from Fort Winthrop, Georgia? He
a lieutenant now in the marine corps.
Lee Shipley is going back with Nancy
when she returns to Madison, and sup
pose 1t will be pretty soon, for the men
Ge not getting any too long furloughs.
wonder if Nancy and Tommy will be
harried before he goes to France. You
I lever can tell these days; one minute
you're single and the next you're a grass
widow. OF course, the ceremony which
changes one from single to double har-
ness does not take very many minutes,
Dut usually one has time to purchase
rousseau and bridal gown before the great
Gay. However, many girls do not care
much about trousseaux and bridal gowns
when they realize that in a few days
they will be spending their time Won
4 dering on what part of the ocean their
husband is and whether submarines have
peen sighted by his ship yet or not. It's
&c or married these days of anxiety, is it
hot?
livery ONE is interested in the doings
of the Hollnshead Taylors and the
ptocktons; they are such charming peo-
\ pe, don't you think? Mrs. Taylor senior
mas gone to Chelsea for the summer this
q year and the juniors and their three
b ~autiful children will go to Bar Harbor
q On July 30 for six weeks, and then down
4 cape May in mid-September. Chris
une Stockton, Mrs. Taylor's sister. has
4 gone up to Mrs. Duer's camp in Maine
ssain She has been a counselor there
tor several summers, you know. Chris
une is engaged to Bill Hopkins. / haven't
neard OF date for their wedding as yet,
out again, who knows when?
NPEAKING of the Stocktons, am still
= puzzling in my young mind why on
sartn when there are several direct
uescendants of the late Commodore
s e'ockton, not only living, but living here
m'fhiladelphia, child who was no rela-
aon to the Commodore at all should have
oeen the one to christen the destroyer
4 o'ockton named after the great Com
modore, at Cramps shipyard, where she
vas launched this week.
IN the first place there is Mrs. White
way, who was Reba Howell and whose
motner was.a daughter of Commodore
o'ockton. She is. of course, the nearest
Sescendant in Philadelphia, with the eX-
seption Of Paul Brown, whose mother
nas Miss Caroline Stockton, daughter
the Commodore. but of course men
Ont count when it cqmes to christening
su'ps' However, he has daughter, Caro-
sne Stockton Brown, a ,great-grand-
Il .sughter of the Commodore, and, ther
mere is Jean Bullitt. whose mother was
g ~aria Brown, and who was daughter
caroline Stockton Brown and sister
'5SPa faul and, of course, Jean is a great
granddaughter. too.
And In the Conger family at Villanova
"ere Is Helen Remson Conger, whose
other was Stockton and a grand
yshter of the Commodore.
think 1t was very droll and rather
'ntless to- say the least and wonder
4" got up the big idea anyhow. Fol
my mind It would seem as II Mrs
eN whiteway. the granddaughter
have. been the logical one te DO tn
"a cbeuld she not heys n nee'