Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-19

IL panicky these days? 1t seems so to
tne. though illness and sadness are still on
ell sides. The Influenza situation. is better
Enough, and let's hope we'll soon be out
of the woods as to that worry. rs the
way in this world. If IL 's not one thing
tts another, and we'll nerer he perfectly
happy till we get to the othe side, Will
we?
However the new IS better ABOUT the
tllnesses and people seem actually to be
recovering. which, in 60 many cases dd
mot happen at first. There's Lieutenant
Carl Shattuck for instance, he has had
Influenza and pneumonia and {, recovering
In fact ne is able to vls. and IS Gt present
staying with Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. adams
at their home on Navahoc avcnuc in Chest
nut HILL
~ Stanley Ketcham has been Ill too. had
influenza followed by pneumonia and way
Out in Seattle too, but he is well on the
mend now. Mrs. Kctcham has gone oHt 70
Seattle to stay with him for Il whilc. She
was Eleanor Edmonds yoa rememhe"
nID you know that Junior Bower mad
- been wounded in France? He's in the
Marines you know. and has been over
there for more than n year. lie is first
cousin Of Sydney Thayer who was made
second lieutenant the other day.
sgd Thayer's mother was Elise Bower
n sister of Mr.. George Bower of Torres
dale, Juniors mother was Miss Agnes Full
Ter sister of Mrs. John Carpenter. Mrs.
Rob Griffith, Mrs. W. 4. NJ. Fuller and
Laurie Fuller. His brother, Harry, is also
in the service. The Bower boys have long
been a part OF Torresdale life and when
they and Dick Buliitt, who died so gal
1antly in France in July. and Cooper
Howell and most Of the other young men
of Torresdale left for France that once
gay little camping ground became a quiet
place indeed
I understand that Junior is not severely
wounded and ! am glad indeed that this
Is the case. He is lieutenant too. and a
first one think.
r STOPPED in at the Navy House yestec-
Il day and was awfully interested in the
work being done there. II is at 221 South
Eighteenth you know, and the various or.
CARNATIONS with headquarters there have
all offered their services to help the infu-
enza victims.
The Navy House is really a Club house
for Navy Officers under the ausnces OF
the Navy Auxiliary and the house has been
remodeled and redecorated for this pur.
pose Besides being a club house there Is
a cafeteria attached and certainly that is
pretty nice, isn't it?
The Navy auxiliary of the Red Cross has
its headquarters there too. you know and
also the Department of Navy Recreation.
Then the Navy Auxiliary Motor Corps
is also at this building and about fifty girls
belong to that and work in relays day
after day especially through these trying
days. The girls in the corps take the
Navy officers to and from the Navy yard
:. but last week they devoted most of their
time taking doctors and nurses on hun
dreds of sick calls and carrying soup and
other food and remedies to the stricken
households. Pretty good work, that. it
seems to me.
The Navy Hospital committee is located
in the same building I understand so you
see a great deal can be done for the in
huenza patients. Mrs. Stotesbury is chair
man of the Hospital committee ant has
associated with her Mrs. Dobscn Altemus,
Mrs. Milton Herold and Mrs. Alfred Grey.
ND you hear that Ethel IIuhn Bailey
- and Pauline Denckla are both down
with influenza at Mr.. George Huhn's home
on Locust street? Ethel and Pauline took
up three months course of intensive
training at the University Hospital and
when the epidemic came they helped nurse
the patients. They both contracted the
disease and are being taken care Of It
Mrs Bailey's home.
TEAM BULLITT, too! She has been
q nursing at The Pennsylvania hospital,
you know and several days ego started in
with cold and fever, so they clapped her
into bed and are keeping her there until
her temperature becomes normal. There
is no sense In taking any risk these days
and so the sensible people are going to
bed the minute the chill or fever comes.
Jean is not very Ill, and the. expect her
to be up and around in a few days She
and her father are staying at the Cresheim
Arms in Mt. Airy.
AREN'T children the dearest things?
AL heard Of two the other day, whose
father is i'll and whose mother left them
with an aunt while she went to this hos.
pital to be with him.
That same auntie owing to Illness of a
number Of associates had some very i'm
portant statistics to compile every night.
IT was thing that could not be put off.
So when her small niece say. that she was
bringing these papers home and going
over them after dinner each evening she
made this proposition. Couldn't she and
Brother help Auntie with her "stistics".
Auntie being an understanding person,
and realizing that useful occupation" was
the best thing possible for small nieces
and nephews, responded with alacrity. And
when I stopped in to see her the other
evening, there they we're; Auntie in a
large chair and niece and nephew on small
chairs on either side Auntie with books