Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-15


scare you to death. Drew "'''S$'%%'
Wheeler is one of those who all M
Of a sudden like came forth in Mi
blue, and announced that he is Co
naval coast reserve. on
Margaret McCabe was just about 40
pretty as a picture on Sunday morning.
seated in a wheelchair watching" the bath.
ers. She wore a sheer white frock and
big leghorn hat trimmed with pink
satin and roses. She surely is attractive
and looks better, although she cannot
walk very far as yet. You remember, she
was quite i'll in the spring and has not
yet entirely recovered.
Andrew Gray has new red car which
Is a decided addition to him and to Cape
May, which would not be Cape May with.
out Andy, would 1t? Indeed, one misses
Lou Scott at every turn this year. He and
X. were always there. Mr.. Scott. YOU
remember, died last winter after a quite
short illness.
Mrs. Ronald Barlow and her close
friend, Ethel Maule, motored over from
the Golf Course on Sunday and had dip
with the rest of us After all, there is no
place quite as comfy and cozy as Cape
May, and this year evidently everybody
else has had the same thought, for the
place has gone mad with gayety and the
, big season is decidedly on.
NERTAINLY the Mather family are all
~ working hard for their country. Gil.
bert, whose marriage to Gladys Earle
. takes place on Saturday of this week, has
been made captain of infantry recently
at the Fort Niagara camp, and Victor,
who is in the quartermaster's department
with the rank of captain, is in the North
west buying horses for the Government.
Josephine and Dorothy, the two girls,
have organized an auxiliary branch of
the Red Cross, which meets every Friday
afternoon at Brandywine Meadow Farms,
their place near West Chester.
The class is composed of their neigh.
bors In Chester County, and they do work
Tor the Red Cross, the Navy League and
the Belgian Relief You know the Mathers
have heretofore always spent their sum-
mers at their camp in the Adirondacks,
but this year they are all too busy to
leave hope Victor has been able to OBJ.
tain leave, that he may be best man at the
marriage of his brother to his sister.in-
law-for she is that already, you know,
Victor having married Gladys's eldest sis.
ter, Katherine Earle, about ten or twelve
years ago.
fNHE fourth Of a series of dances to be
given at the Ship and Tent Club is to
De held tonight And what might the
Ship and Tent Club be, you ask? For I
did myself. It's the sailors and marines
club, at Twenty.second and Christian
streets, for the enlisted men of the army,
navy and United States marine corps. You
know, it was opened about two months
ago by Mrs. George w. Childs Drexel.
VINO is really the founder of the club, and
tnere have been three dances held there
already. Two hundred girls have been in.
'ited to the dance tonight, at which the
same number of men will be present
Mrs Paul Denckla Mills is to be hostess
this evening, and will have a number of
W iSSSlNc Will lOl quite a
number are still at home, in spite of the
general August exodus. The dance Is to be
heid In the gymnasium of the club, which,
incidentally, is the largest in the city, /
AN told. so it must be some gymnasium.
The enlisted men run the club them
seVes' with the assistance Of these
women. Now and then the officers stop |
'h out It's simply to add to the gayety of
nations not to supervise or direct. The
ciuo belongs to the men, and only to them.
Tonight the music will be supplied by the
marine Band from the Philadelphia Navy |
tard' 1t is expected. and really it will he
quite some party.
mrs. Drexel was the hostess at the first
party and the second was chaperoned by
"rs Charlton Yarnall. who invited the
ehisted men in honor of the Scribo-Scrip-
'um Club, which; by the way, is a club for
siris which Mrs, Yarnall started some
',me ago. Then Mrs. Sidney Thayer
'naperoned the third party.
The clubhouse itself was given for the
ENLISTED ruen by Mr.. George c. Thomas,
VINO owns the property.
a patriotic and unique feature Of these
uahces' and one which supplies touch
" color, is the fact that shortly before
sach comes TO an end, at IL o'clock, the
0rcnestra plays the Star Spangled Ban
Aer and the entire company Of men stand
= salute. And, as you may imagine, 1t is
solemn and beautiful ceremony.
Inc Ship and Tent Club was the first
y tho clubs founded in this city for the
,nent Of enlisted men. Mrs. Drexel, who
pAtef the &dea, = chairman Of the I
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