Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-14

- has been ioi ,o,,ors or apv
Wv. ~, husbands sons, ',,,, and they have
:. M relative in this ', unl', anu al, summer to
90 morking very hard all su'''"e' ~
ven .,,rss ready for this box s
ct 'n%e 1.rratt wife of Judge Norris D
Nr' !. at the head of the commit
Barra.s .on. Norris, Jr, is with the
Tee "a, M Unit. you know Mrs. How
b0'p ssaver. whose husband is WIN 'ne
=. so.o,tal is treasurer and MRS, star. lar
h0spl'a Of Chestnut HILL Is secretary
rsa. a. Mrs. Arthur Gerhard whose nus.
Inc. nr Gerhard, is one of the stan
mna' ,v.eve doctors; Mrs. Richard
Mrs Redwood Wright, Mrs
hn'e' pacbe. Mrs. John Flick, Mrs.
anu. prayton, Mrs. Harry Diilard' ana
D u, tell you how many other women
=. interested in the box.
u.,ro is to be a Christmas stocking
very member of the unit; even those
", relatives do not belong to this
NnOs .o,,on will be remembered.
:" The gifts will consist of sweaters muf'
a.. stockings, helmets, fruit cake
..rdv. plum puddings, talkins'machine
S.oords toilet articles and four pairs
~ ,tor,no stockings for each nurse. This
...,nsn,s association meets once month
VI orv of the members who have re-
..,,od letters during that time read
them to the others at these meetings
.-.ppy DIILARD, George Norris and
II pme Drayton write most interest.
Lac letters. You know they are some
-s.ro in France" and incidentally they
a., nv the sea, for they go In swimming
,,hon II is not too cold. But they did
~, do that at first, you had better be-
usve Think of it. though they reached
a ,here in late May or early June, they
'had to don their winter "consonants'
as soon as they arrived.
At first they had only 500 beds, but
sow they have 1900 and are taking care
of English, French and Americans. Judge
parratt and Mrs Barratt are spending
tbe month of September at the Colonial,
IN Cape May, but Mrs. Barratt is so
Interested in the cause she comes up
avery Tuesday to her home at 315 South
Seventeenth street, where weekly meet
ings are held.
TT IS interesting to those of us who
know her to hear that Edith Oracle is
IN be married on November 1 to Dunbar
Burchell Adams And, as l heard it, do
YOU know it was quite a relief to think
that l could put into this column
i New Yorker whose name was the same
/. Is his fathers and mothers, for divorce
d so prevalent in New York among the
1900" it's seldom that an engagement
q announced and the mother and daugh-
Ter or son have the same name. 1t sort
Of augurs a truer future for the girl
who Is to marry that there is no divorce
In close proximity in this case.
Edith, you know. spent quite lot
Of time here last year with Lucille J.us-
son Butler, who made her debut last
season. And, by the way, 1 saw Lucille
.and her goodooking young husband
on Chestnut street the other day and
they certainly looked radiant. It's always
nice to see these young couples so happy,
don't you think?
To return to Edith. she is the daugh-
Ter Of the late Archibald Oracle and Mrs.
Oracle, of New York and Washington.
and Is extremely pretty Her engage.
ment to Mr.. Adams was announced in
the spring. Mr.. Adams is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dunbar Adams.
1oNT tell me women are not versatile!
- Don't tell me they can't do two things
q once and do them well, too, for they
can saw the funniest sight in Cap,
May Of late one of our young and very
attractive matrons driving stunning
car and at pretty good rate of speed,
700, and what do you think she had in
one arm? A perfectly good baby.
It wasn't just accidental, either for she
grove up and down several times, evil
dently bent on giving his young lordship
good airing. She certainly caused some
sxcitement on the beach if nothing else,
out Friend Baby did not mind at all,
acting just as if he were used to it.
AUTOMOBILES seem to have been sort
NAor simple down there lately anyhow.
Just few minutes after the baby-and-
mother episode another incident hap
pened. 1t was the inevitable knitting
oas and ball and needle, of course, that
caused all the trouble.
She Just had to finish that row before
'nereached the new pier; so amid bumps
.no loggings she calmly continued to knit
" 'ne back seat while Beau drove the
car
=, suuoehiy some one looked behind and
'ie' Following close upon the heels, or
"neeis as you will, OF the motor, was
iong blue line on the end of which
s' small ball of turquoise blue wool.
.ney stopped the car finally after the ball
aa dragged itself through one mud pud
Se siter another, and she was some
Ns'ed when she saw the color of that
s.rsted, for it was the last she could
~ just that shade, and she needed lust
that much. N 'N''
"en, l won't draw a moral, but you
'hihk one IL you want to.
HAhiNG Of knitting reminds me of
sni saw at Keith's day or so
-eo. She