Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-31

SOA~e-
~ tions will pail a bit tonight. After the
excitement over the armistice, i wonder
IL every one will want to usher out the ola
and welcome in the new year in the usual
way. It's funny way, isn't 1t? You
60 downtown and walk around little and
then finish the evening with supper at some
one of the cafes. But in order to do that
you have to think about it at least week
ahead, SO you can engage a table at a
cafe: otherwise, nothing doing. Isn't 1t
true? And it's usually rather sad IL
seems as if that armistice celebration
would do for while. But I guess thereH
be some parties.
THE Tom Ashtons' dance will be given
L this evening for Anne, who is one OF
the very prettiest Of the younger girls
She is about fifteen now and has the
loveliest oval face, and hair like spun gold'
She is splendid little horseToman, you
know and rides in all the shows; has rid
den, indeed, since she was eight or nine
years of age. The party is to be given IN
the Ashton home at Wynnewood, and there
will be any number of dinners before 1t
takes place. Anne herself will be guest
at the dinner Mr.. and Mrs Lieber will give
at their home in Bryn Mawr for the two
Harrison girls. The Harrisons, by the
way, are very pretty, too. Their mother
was Margaretta Large. you remember. She
is the eldest of the three Large girls, who
married Joe Harrison, Charles Fox and
May Easily respectively. Mary married
Charlie Fox, and Henrietta is the wife "
Mr.. Easily. They are all three as pretty
,,,1 10 not their
children should be, is it not?
The Fox children and the Easily baby
are all too small for such parties as to-
nights, but Margaretta and Sarah the
latter of whom was named for her grand
mother, the late Mrs. John Erge, who was
Miss Sarah Meade) are right in the swim"
with the school set. Mrs. Lieber Is a
cousin Of theirs and is giving the dinner
for them at her home in Bryn Mawr.
ANOTHER dinner will be given by the
"A Emory McMichaels for their daughter,
Ellen McMichael. There are quite a few
Gllens in the Harrison family. Mrs.
Charles Gusts Harrison, Ellen McMichaels
grandmother, is Ellen, and her mother,
Mrs McMichael, is Ellen, and then the
Charles Custis Harrison Jr.'s daughter is
Ellen. So you see the family Is fond OF
the name and likes to name the grand
children after a very dear grandmother.
T1LAINE SULLIVAN Is going to have a
II dinner, too, at the Woods before the
dance. She is the youngest daughter of
the James T 'ancis Sullivans and will be,
/ suppose, about ready to be brought out
next year.
I'm not sure about Elaine; she may have
another year to wait can't remember
whether she is sixteen or seventeen. It's
awfully hard to keep track Of ages isn't
Il? And a year or SO either way makes
little difference when one is growing up.
TIME Packard wedding will be quite a
i big affair on the Main Line this after.
noon. Mary is going to marry that attrac'
tive Dr. Arthur Billings out at the Church
of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont. She
has an awful:y pretty array of bridesmaids
and certainly the Doctors ushers are one
nice lot of men. Elizabeth Packard. who
made her debut with Mary, is to be maid
OF honor, and Ruth Hobart who was intro
duced at the same reception CMrs. Charles
Wheeler gave a tea for Ruth Hobart Su-
zanne Elliot and the two Packards), will
be a bridesmaid.
NLTHEN you've been going along for
w couple of months without hearing from
the other side and then suddenly get not
one but three letters all in one mail, don't
YOU Just naturally pass out? You do, and
that's what happened to Ethel when the
letters came yesterday. Now don't ask
me her last name, cause I won't tell you
But you ought to have seen her SMILE And
the family said, Now the air will be balmy
once more"
y/oU remember the time Molly went ovel
L to New York and bade a soldier a very
affectionate good.by, and though he was
"only friend" she spent about $9.99 or
the trip to say goodby Well, he's bacl
again. He's at one of the camps on thi'
side. Great times, these!
. MY DEARS. don't talk TO me about th'
Vl failings of young brides. I met ont
yesterday, and she was looking wildly
about the room and smiling daintily.
After a while she remarked, do yo,
notice ham or bacon cooliing?" NO" SAT-
7. That's funny" said she; II was sur
I washed my hands after getting breakfas
this morning" So 1t goes.
NANCY wYNNE.