Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-25

noNT forget that VIII Irwin is going
~ to address the workers at the Independ.
ence Square auxiliary of the American
Red Cross at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
For 1t will be worth while going down
Chestnut street to sos to hear the great
war correspondent. That whole big end
room of the auxiliary is filled every day
with women wearing the Red Cross cos.
\ tune, making surgical dressings, pneu'
monia jackets. eye wipes, congresses,
sponges, sweaters: in fact every known
want of the sick or well soldiers is being
seen to.
And on Monday afternoons a knowledge
of what these men and their wives and
countries are going through TO make the
world safe for democracy" is given by the
eminent and prominent men and women
who are invited to speak by Mrs George
Horace Lorimcr, who is chairman of the
auxiliary.
This season such weknown persons
as Colonel ST. George LOTUS steele, VIII.
liam r. Ellis. Maude Radford Warren,
Brigadier General Waller, Captain Latham,
of the Connaught Rangers; Mrs. Welling.
ton Shannon, Arthur Jones, of the ambu-
lace corps, who has now re.enlisted in our
army, have spoken. It's certainly an in.
teresting auxiliary to be in touch with, let
me tell you.
ARE you going to the card party for
n the Baldwin Day Nursery this after.
noon at the Adelphia? It's going to be quite
an affair, you know. The nursery was
started about twenty-five years ago by
students and graduates of the Baldwin
schoo, in Bryn NTawr. and the work among
the poor has been prodigous. From sixty
TO one hundred babies are cared for there
daily while the mothers go to their work.
Imagine The cost is but eight cents IL
day and $50 will take care of baby for a
year. It's certainly a good work to feed
these little ones and keep them off the
street. where they would surely be vic.
tins of motortrucks or trolley cars, as are
so many little children whose mothers have
no place to leave them when they go to
their daily toll
Mrs Samuel Eveland is chairman of the
card party, which is at the Adelphia, and
she tells me there are to be $50 tables of
players. The committee includes Mrs. Otis
Skinner Mrs. r. Il. Porter Bradford, who
Is president of the nursery; Miss Agnes
Hamilton. Miss Mary Converse, Mrs Jo-
seph ~ Pew. Miss Mabel Pew Mrs. Bar
tram Richards Mrs. Waring Wilson, Miss
Louise Twaddel, Mrs. Wallace Simmons,
Miss Hannah Foley. Miss Shoemaker, Miss
Beatrice Fox, Mrs. Frank Moss, Miss
Marian Mulford Mrs Charles Norris. Jr.,
Miss Anna G. Baldwin, Mrs. Edward York
and Mrs. Winthrop Coffin, who are the
three vice presidents; Mrs. Charles Town
send. who is secretary; Mrs. Lawrence
Pancoast Miss Eleanor Collins. Mrs. Win
throp Coffin and Miss Marion Toulmin.
Miss Toumin is treasurer of the nursery.
TTNTIE George Wharton Pepper Jrs.. who
l. have been living at Fortress Monroe,
came up last week to spend the weekend
with the senior George Wharton Peppers.
The younger Mrs. Pepper was Marian
Myers, you remember. She and George
were married about two years ago, just
before the trouble with Mexico. and then
when war with Germany broke out they
were obliged TO give up their pretty little
apartments at Twenty.third and Pine
streets. At first Mrs Pepper stayed at home
with her parents and her small son, George
Wharton Pepper, Sd, but later Joined Lieu.
tenant Pepper. What a joy it must be to
. the families when these few and far be-
: tween weekend visits can be brought
about. Edmund and Jean Thayer were
here the weekend before this, staying with
the Thompsons, but they. are going
further south and came home to say
good-by for a while, anyhow.
Oh it's not so bad for the weather. men
who can afford to have their wives live
near them. but it's pretty hard for those
who can't, and there are some you know.
ND you know that Mary and Dick Thigh
~ man have a baby? Born last Monday in
Augusta. Mrs Bohen is down there with
Mary. Doesn't it seem almost absurd to
picture these young girls, almost babies
themselves, with little ones of their own?
But so it is. Eleanor Cuyler Walkers baby
is now three months old and Elizabeth
Grifflths Pages is about six months. Mary
Bohen Tilghnlan must be a picture with
baby in her arms. She is wonderfully
pretty, il seems to me, and lacks the rather
worried look that her mother and Priscilla
both have. They are all three beauties,
however.
were married here last May in the Cathe-
dra of SIS. Peter and Paul, and when Dick
went down to Georgia with the troop Mary
went there also to live.
r HEAR Mrs. Van Rensselaer, is thinking
of starting up an interest in planting
and harvesting along the Reading road
this year, much on the same order as the
work done last year on the Main Line by
Mrs. Andrew Wright Crawford and num-
ber of other women and which was so
wonderfully successful. Certain it is that
bushels of vegetables We're saved which
otherwise would have gone in the general
waste of things, and the healthy outdoor
exercise did much for the women girls
and boys who engaged i'm the work. Mrs.
Van Rensselaer, will hold meeting at her