Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-22

-. ~ tne East and the series OF revelations NJ
S.e..lan intrigues made at washington,
v,Set Wy Wy every one listened earnestly to
what Mrs McGinley had 10 saw. for surely
current events are the biggest and most
aosorbing topic of the day' Mrs Harlan
Statzel Mrs, G, Mercer Bailey Mrs
Dnarles j. Pilling and Mrs. Edwin Grauley
Ncre ,, nostesses at the tea which followed
W. MCI,hleys talk. The Junior Section
" tne club also had a meeting on Tuesday
afternoon "
Last Monday evening the six-Double-sIx
sewing Club met at Miss Marion Bartran's
nU'he' e' Inc members of this little club are
MISS Bartram, Miss Marion Baker, Miss
Elma Brooke, Miss Alice Burt, Miss Blanche
Emma Riddle.
MISS Dorothy Humphreys entertained the
Alpha Beta Delta Sorority at her home on
wednesday evening, October II. The MEM
oers OF this sorority are Miss Humphreys
MISS Miriam Hart, Miss Lillian Bloods-
WORTH Miss Marion Goucher, Miss Marjorie
Young, Miss Helen McCoach and Miss Helen
Read They meet every week.
For some time the women OF the town
have been knitting just as hard as they can
Knit. for the date the Red Cross branch
had set Tor the return Of all the knitted
articles was October IS. SO, on Monday a
great many sets-and a set means four
warm knitted things--were turned in at the
Red Cross house Mrs. Richardson Shoe
maker was there to receive them and to
distribute the remainder OF the wool. II
must be a very wonderful thing to give
out plain wool and see It come back to
you Fashioned Into useful article which
some woman has taken time to make. What
would we do without the knitters7
The classes in surgical dressings meet
Tuesday evenings and every morning ex-
anlt
deal OF work The largest classes are held
on Tuesday evening and Thursday morn
ing, although there are women there every
day. At the end OF each week Mrs. Gar
rettson Cook, who directs the classes sends
all the dressings that have been made during
the week to the Red Cross headquarters in
Philadelphia, and there are always a heap
Of them.
The women of the Catholic church meet
every Thursday afternoon at the Red Cross
house and make hospital garments Mrs.
Thomas NJ. Love and Mrs. John B. Ger
agility have organized the class.
Captain Frank H. Mcguire has sailed
for France with the aviation corps.
Mr. and Mrs C. Mercer Bailey. Miss
Mabel Phillips and Miss Louise Vanzandt
motored to New York last Thursday. Mr..
and Mrs, Bailey are spending the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Patton Thomson, who
used TO live in Lansdowne. They expect
to motor through Long Island.
Halloween plans are going joyfully on
and every once in awhile a new party pops
up. Invitations are out for bal masque
to be given on Halloween by Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas NJ Fitzgerald. The Century Club
is to have the first of it's series of dances
on that night, too, and every one that goes
will surely have an awfully good time.
Mrs. Andrew S. NJ. Young Mrs c. Mercer
Bailey and Mrs. Frank @. Burrows are
getting up these dances,
Isn't II funny what absurd little stories
people will tell about their childhood
days?" You would never In all the world
for instance, have suspected Mrs. - of
having at one time smuggled jam from ths
pantry "unbeknowns to anybody" Neither
would you believe what l am aoout to tell
you of certain charming woman who
never gets rutfied and who is always doing
nice things for people.
When she was a small child OF perhaps
4 dozen years she was taken to the theatre.
OF course the lights and people all gave
her most delicious little thrills, but when
the curtain rose she forgot them entirely.
The play BECAME absolutely real to her.
Now, it happened that said play was a
Civil War melodrama and so cruel was the
villain and SO prosecuted was the knightly
hero that every moment the little girl be-
came moro excited and worried about his
fate Even before the climax several big
shiny tears had rolled down her cheeks and
her eyes were just like saucers. But oh, my
dear when our perfectly wonderful hero
lay there on the ground with the Villains s
foot pinning him down, and the villain as
suming a proud. gladiator-like attitude
well, it was almost unbearable and the
small child just had to squeeze mothers
hand as tight as ever she could. But just
1t. ant In 1aCh bad
soldiers and before she or any one else
knew it was standing up and calling out
loudly. "Kill i'm Kill I'm" Well, the
play ended all right, as plays much always
do, you know, but alas Twas many a day
before she saw another one.