Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Arrangements Are Being Made for Mammoth
Bazaar to BE Given During Last Days of March.
n Other Things Discussed by Nancy Wvnne

U,r Philadelphia will be that of all the
..r,,cultural Hall the last OF March
,nnroximately forty British organizations
a, participate and that 1t will be over.
..hslming in its attractions and features
.o.s without saying. Mrs. Cornelius
c,evenson heads the general women's
.on,mittee and Alba johnson will act i'm
,he same capacity for the mems. The
Transatlantic Society. Queen Mary's
NssdIework Guild, the Welsh Society, the
scotch.Irish Society and others too nu.
r,erous to mention are already working
,xe beavers TO make the affair a sue.
cess
| prophesy that it will be a triumph,
sor the principle back Of the bazaar is
humanity All caste lines have been Grad.
Jcatedsand on the list of patrone~es are
70 he found the names of society women
of the most exclusive circles as well as
those Of many women whose ambitions
rim not to social achievement and who
are content to labor for the suffering sol
diers unknown and unsung. In fact, |
know several of the latter who asked
that thn!r names be not placed ON the
committee. as they preferred to work in
silence and obscurity.
Here are just a few of those who have
strnfed their intention of working for
the cause: Mrs. John Cadwalader. Mrs
Alexander Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. Sidney
Keith, Mrs. George Thayer, Mrs. George
willing Mrs. l.. Webster Fox, Mrs
Joseph NJ. Gazzam, Mrs. Benjamin Chew
Tilghman, Miss Helen Cadwalader, Miss
Elizabeth Hays and Mrs. George Fritz
Chandler l think I'll have more to tell
you about 1t later.
IT'S funny how one story evokes an.
other. J was still chortling over the
mail boy whose ending to the Lords
Prayer was Deliver us four tons of coal
tomorrow sure" when the following de.
nghtfully pious tale came to mine ears:
A certain small son, whose name bears
the number four after It, was taken by
his fond parents to family dinner at his
grandfather's home on one of the recent
holidays. AS the family assembled about
the table, the soup having been served at
each place, the father of the family bent
his head over the plate and, of course
oil followed suit in saying a silent grace
But little grandson was unconsciously
bent on showing up the fact that he was
not used TO saying grace and called out
with suppressed excitement in his voice
for, child like. he wanted to guess irst
7 know! know! It's chicken soup"
TT WAS a source of great regret to the
numerous friends of the late Miss
Elizabeth Hill who endeared herself to
90 many while she worked at the
Emergency Aid and Preparedness Head
quarters for the benefit of the poor and
suffering at home and abroad that her
family decided TO take her body away
from the city without holding any re.
ligious services here. OF course, there
were services in Augusta, Fla, where
she was buried, but many of her friends
felt the codness Of no prayers here. So
It has been decided to hold a memorial
service for her tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock in ST. Jamess Protestant Epis
eopal Church. at Twenty.second and Wal
nut streets, and II is hoped that all who
hear of it will go.
NOClETY was well represented at the
~ Little Theatre last evening, when
Shane Leslie of England, gave a lecture
on the late Cardinal Manning under the
auspices of the Ladies' of Charity asso-
ciated with the Society of st. Vincent
De Paul. 1t was one of a course of
four which will take place during the