Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-03

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4 Vmaking for Helen Tower. She is to be
married on the twenty.frst of this month
and Is to- have six bridesmaids and a
matron Of honor. The Henry Brinton
Coxes Will give dinner and theatre party
for her on the fourteenth Of December and
there are number of other plans on foot.
Helen is very pretty I think. She has
grown a little stouter and It Is very be-
coming to her. She and her family are at
the BellevueStratford at present.
TALKING of weddings I hear that
Katherine Register, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert L. Register, formerly of this
city and Ardmore, but now of Boston, is
to be married on December H. The happy
man is Geraldyn Livingston Redmond Of
New York, you know, and the wedding
will take place at Katherines grandmoth-
er's home on Commonwealth avenue in
Boston Mr.. Redmond's father died rather
suddenly about a week ago in New York,
30 the wedding will be very quiet, only the
immediate families, and Barbara Register,
Katherine's sister, will be her only attend.
ant.
L AM SO interested to hear that Alice
= Wharton is going to talk at the Inde-
pendence square Auxiliary of the Ameri-
can Red Cross on Monday next Alice was
over in France last Christmas anG she ex-
poets to go back again in time for this
Christmas. She's the daughter of Bromley
Wharton, and since her mothers second
marriage she has been living with her aunt
Miss Mary Wharton, excepting when
absent in Italy and France. She is a niece
of Mrs. Houston Dunn who was Elsie
Taylor, you remember. and I understand
gave an awfully interesting talk at Mrs.
Dunn's a short time ago. Mrs Dunn and
Mrs. Wilcox, Alice's mother, are sisters.
Alice is fair and slender and looks sweet
in her overseas Red Cross costume. She
did work with the Duryea Relief in France
and then went into Red Cross She has
been in the Field Service in Italy and
worked there for the refugees, then she
went back to France and worked there
for the repatriated civilians.
think It's fine to hear of that work for
the Red Cross says we will need to be
hard at it for at least two years more,
while others think we will be needed to
help for at least five years And it's we'll
to hear what the people over there are
undergoing. For really, you can't compre-
IL not yet twenty -fve will be able to tell us
a lot about it, for she's been right there
working with the people AMI she knows.
You know we have promised the French
government to keep up the good work for
at least two years.
When you think Of the wrecked and
stripped towns and villages, the enormous
problem Of helping these people to start
life anew is easily understood. They will
need everything, food, clothing. all kinds of
household goods, farm implements even to
start to put the ground in working order.
So it will be fine to hear about 1t first
hand, don't you think? Miss Wharton is
going to speak at three o'clock and Mrs
George Lorimer, who is chairman of the
auxiliary will introduce her.
hear Alice will wear her fetching Red
Cross costume when she talks Don't you
want to see her?
I'm SO GLAD to hear that Mrs. George
= Fales Baker is better and back at her
good work again She has had a mean
little attack Of bronchitis since her return
from the Adirondacks and had to stay out
in Rosemont for quite while longer than
she had intended. She and DR.. Baker
are at the Bellevue-Stratford again this
winter and Mrs. Baker is in charge of the
Armenian committee work at the Emer-
gency Aid shop this week. You know a
member of the committee takes charge
each week Of each branch there. DR.. and
Mrs Baker will entertain at the opera this
evening. NANCY WYNNE.