Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-06
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Womens League for Good Government Held
Luncheon at Art Alliance Building Yesterday
Tommy Wonders About Engagements
and Marriages

utHE New Art Alliance Building offered
i novelty yesterday in the shape of a
voters luncheon in aid of the Town Meet.
ing party which Mrs Yorke Stevenson
had arranged At 1 o'clock a couple of
hundred well-known men and women met
there to lunch together and listen to
speeches, political and otherwise, from
THOMAS F. Armstrong, Thomas f. Nc.
Mahon. both Of the Town Meeting party
ticket: Somerset Bryan Scott, Mrs. Cor.
nelius Stevenson and Miss Agnes Rep
plIer. Quite a galaxy and most unusual
combination of attractions to offer.
Doesn't It just show that good national
citizenship means good local citizenship
when two women who have been spending
themselves as Miss Repplier and Mrs.
Cornelius Stevenson have been doing in
their nations service feel the call to
help make their city a safe place to live
IN? This luncheon is the last scene in
the very lively and successful campaign
which the Womens League for Good
Government has been waging in support
of the Town Meeting party. For the last
two weeks Mrs Samuel Bryan Scott, Miss
Florence Kane and her sister, Mrs.
Foulke; Miss Elizabeth Kirkbride, Miss
Sophia Dulles, Miss Mary Converse, Mrs.
c. Watson McKeehan, Mrs. Arthur Lea,
Mrs. John oakley and a host of other
well.known civic-spirited women have
been shaving for the league. To the
luncheon each woman invited was al
lowed to bring one Town Meeting party
1oter-this meant a hunt for registered
yloters, and so many men had not regis
tered that It certainly was some hunting
to find acceptable escorts who were.
AFTER the Theatre Meeting held by
n the League last Tuesday, in which
the close connection between corrupt city
governments and the service to the SOL
der and sailor boys in the national
camps was so stirringly brought out a
letter arrived from a Philadelphia boy
who is fighting in France, a brother OF
one of the active campaign workers. The
following paragraph was so extraordi-
narily apropos to our local politics that
the league has printed and distributed it
by the thousand Listen to'it:'
George wanted to know what could be
done to help out over here will write
and tell of anything 1 see; but one thing
Is sure-that there is no fun in fighting
to save democracy for lot of grating
politicians, and nothing would put more
pep into me than to know that the peo-
pie at home were awake to their civic
responsibilities. While 1 believe that
eventually we will win out, we have a
hard job on our hands and graft is as
much Of a foe as autocracy."
TOMMY'S sister is engaged and the
L best thing the family does is talk about
engaged people, engagements and en-
gagement presents. Vaguely, Tommy
realizes that getting married has some.
thing to do with being engaged, although
the exact connection is decidedly a thing
that means nothing in his young life.
The other day he was sitting on fathers
lap. trying not to speak until spoken to,
and sister and some of her friends were
in the room. One of them spoke Of an
engagement that had just been an
nounced. That was something in his
line, SO Tom pricked up his ears. II
never saw two people so different; Why,
you'd never in the world think that she'd
marry him." This was something new.
Father" exclaimed Tommy, forgetting
to keep his voice down, when people get
married do they choose the one they
want?"
OFTTIMES, it's the little things that
~ count a whole lot, isn't It? And the
wee people who sometimes do these little
'hings-well, even they, with all their
childish pride in the doing, don't realize
The good that may come from them.
Now, one day last week q small young.
star from nobody knows where walked into
the headquarters of the Overseas Com.
fnittee of the Emergency Aid that must
nave been an awf'ly big name for him
70 read, don't you s'poseO and, in a most
Dusiness-like voice, asked a rather amused
lady in charge:
rs this where you send things to SOL
jers?"
yes" was the reply.
We'll, can you buy things here for
soljers, too?" continued our diminutive
friend. And he proceeded to hurl ques,
tons thusly at the astonished Miss -
until he must have accumulated a vast
amount Of information about his soljers
Then gravely, though with much FUN
bling and pulling the wrong thing out, he
drew from his pocket small almond bar
and handed it to the no longer amused
young lady.
There" very earnestly, could you
send this to the solJers?" And then he
hurried out. But think o: that wee kiddie
denying himself precious bites of choco-
late so that some one else might have
them and be able to fight better! It's a
hne spirit, isn't it?
NANCY wYNNE.