Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-07
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Society Is Much Interested in the Coming
Announcement of Miss Lois Cassatts Engage
ment-Other Matters Discussed

,,t of course, with all these ex-
Wo,u,e announcements in the New
i, and our papers that Lois Cassatts
engagement is to be announced next MON
dov by her grandmother, Mrs AleNa"oe,
c,ssa,,. It's quite normal and natural
,,., the whole town should be asos ana
.ssiur who is the lucky MANI rhe con-
os are many, of course, and the
.,osses include men from Newport anu
~ow York and other places, for LOIS mas
.ropt n summer at home since she
.,,re out and it is but natural 10 'h'hN
,,,o of the many beaux of other
towns should have been in the runn'ns'
-. ,,o wee bird tells me that the lucky
..s front gate is just about stones
,rom Lois own front gate out
,,,oswo,d lane. in Haverford, and, in
-. chat he is none other than young
,oo,, Tbayer, who was recently maue
,,.r,orant at Fort Niagara. he Is the
:, tho late John B. Thayer, who was
~" nod in the Titantic disaster five
..,rs ago. Jack had quite miraculous
s,,ne himself at the time. for he was
49,, s,xtoen or seventeen years of age
and refused to take to the boats with the
somen and children and stood braVely
g., his father on the deck ready to give
nm his life If the call came. lie went
I,,,r with the ship and then when he
erst came up. finding he was free OF the
,,reckace. started to swim. He came to
.,o of the boats, which had room for one
more and they took him in, and the next
morning he had the joy of greeting his
mother on board the Carpathia, both
having been rescued by that gallant ship
and her crew
rots CASSATT is the daughter OF Cap.
lItain Edward Buchanan Cassatt by his
6rst wife, who was Miss Emile Philips.
They we're divorced many years ago and
both having remarked, Lois has spent
most of her time with her grandmother.
Mrs. Alexander Cassatt who has been
much alone since the death of her hus.
band, as her four children all married
rather early in life with the exception OF
Katherine who married Doctor Hutchn-
son some ten years ago. and died about
two years later. Lois is just about Jack
Thayers age. if not perhaps a year or
SO older She is extremely pretty and
has one of those lovely rose compilations,
rather fair curly hair and extremely
pretty eyes.
Do you know I'm glad she has fallen
in love with one of our own men; | sort
of hate so many of our nice girls to
marry away from home. This is all il it
is Jack Thayer, for Grandmother Cassatt
refuses to reveal his identity before Mon
day.
TNHE days Of Betsy Ross are not over
l. by any manner of means, let me tell
you group of Germantown women have
Just finished a flag which they made
themselves and they are going to present
It to the Minute Men OF Germantown on
Sunday week. the 10th of September,
amid much ceremony, ! do assure you.
vi 'OuIoc Tie VIII tdke
st the Germantown Cricket Club, aud the
military organization of that club will be
present. as also the Home Defense Guard,
of Chestnut Hill so, altogether. it will be
some gala occasion. And the whole of
Germantown and Chestnut Hill will get
chesty over another thrilling occasion, for
they are proud. and rightly so, of their
hpma nd he a
the home guard, too.
TWAS taught in my youth that it is
- not always best to say ALL you think
about people and most of us have been
taught the same thing, but, alas! how few
OF us live up to the lesson. "Oh. WELL
you see ! only told it to Polly and Polly,
you Know, never tells anything you con
hde to her. It's just as if'it were buried
after you have told it to her and it's
such relief to have some one to talk to
"heh YOU know something perfectly
thrilling about some one else" "What!M
Fohy told it to you, the mean thing. III
never trust her again; that's the third
time she's repeated something I've told
her' declare, you can't trust any one
these days, can you?" well, if you'll
promise not to tell, I'll give you hint"
ana so l. goes. However, this has nothing
10 do with breaches of confidence. It's
simply little tale of a man who said
what he thought, and happened to say it
10 the wrong person, and now he wonders
why his sister-in-law doss not seem to
greatly appreciate him.
well, Mr., b. found his heart pounding
very hard whenever he entered the home
OF Mr., and Mrs s., whose two beautiful
daughters were as popular as popular
could be.
Now 1t so happened that both of these
beautiful sisters became quite enamored
Oh thls same youth, but, naturally, he re.
turned the love of only one. Alice was
Inc lady of his dreams, and he did not
hesitate to show his preference. Edith,
however, also showed decided liking for
our Beau Brummel and foolshly planned
10 try out his feelings for her, SO she