Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-26


- the Old York road will be the vaudeville
show given for the Navy and Marine
Recreation Center at League Island by the
sailors and marines of the Philadelphia
Navy Yard. 1t will be held at the Hunt.
ingdon Valley Country Club on Saturday
evening at Z o'clock, and is given under
the. auspices Of the Old York road and
Huntingdon Valley branch of the Womens
Navy Auxiliary.
The affair is to be called IAN Evening
With the Navy" 1t will be held on the
lawn Of the country club and Is to be FOL
lowed by q dance in the ballroom. Every
one is going and it promises to be great
fun. The patronesses for the evening will
be Mrs. John worrell Pepper. Mrs. Charles
E Brinley, Mrs. George H. Frazier. Mrs.
John Gribbel, Mrs J. Howard Gibson, Mrs.
George F. Lasher, Mrs. J. Bertram Lip
pincott, Mrs. william s. Blight, Jr, and
Mrs John w. Brock.
Rita Sturgis Dickie Newbold. Georgene
Butler and most Of the girls along the
Reading way are dead interested in 1t.
TT WILL seem quite like an international
1 wedding on July 6, won't 1t. when Leta
sullivan marries Lieutenant Albert Lin
coin Hoffman, u 8, A.? I always feel as
IL Mona. McAdoo was international, having
married Ferdinand de Mohrensheidt, don't
you? And she's to be bridesmaid and
so is Gladys Hinckley of Washington and
Washington certainly seems international
1t will be some bridal party and mighty
attractive one, methinks.
Frankly is to be maid Of honor and Mrs
Peter Goelet Gerry matron Of honor, and
there will be eight bridesmaids, six besides
Mona de Mohrensheidt and Gladys Hinck-
ley--Gretchen Clay, Margaret Berwind
Brownie warburton, Mariana Lippncott
O'Neill and Elaine Sullivan, Leta's small
sister, who is just beginning to go to
older affairs. I think she's about sixteen
>or maybe fifteen, but she is tall and pretty
as a picture and will be a perfectly good
sized bridesmaid Then Mrs Ogden Hoff-
man, a cousin Of Lieutenant Hoffman. is
to be bridesmaid. too.
As for the Hoffmans in the service, we'll,
they will certainly all be collected that
day to uphold their brother in, his ne"
step.
Captain William w. Hoffman will be
best man and Lieutenant Murray Hoffman
will be an usher. Three of them in the
service! The other ushers will include
Captain Birch Helms, Captain Thomas
Cook. Lieutenant William Grosvenor. Lieu
tenant Livingston Sullivan, Leta's brother;
Orme Wilson, Percy Pine, I'd, and George
( wagstaff. Of New York.
Small Leta Clews will be flower girl.
Tho marriage is to take place in st.
Katherine's church in Wayne. It's a tiny
church, but it's a very pretty one and
4 viii certainly make a lovely background
for the wedding party. The reception Is
TO, follow at the Woods, the Sullivans'
place. l suspect Leta will make beau.
y tiful bride, don't you? She has wonderful
colorinR and such a graceful carriage.
/ am quite looking forward to the 9Th
to see 1t all, for it will be mighty pretty.
>MANY were distressed Yesterday to hear
N1 of the death Of Mrs. Henry n. Paul, OF
Chestnut Hill, the grandmother Of Captain
Ted Paul and Lieutenant William Paul and
John Paul, too, who is ''over there now.
Mrs Paul was Miss Elizabeth Stademan
and has long been associated with things
social and charitable in this city Her
loss will be greatly mourned by her family
and a large circle of friends.
TUST because your name is Bill and you
q are two years old and have but lately
Z ioined the backyard crew Is no reason
& Well, anyway. the big moment in the
war game had arrived. Bobbie, the five
year.old cousin Of three sturdy little chaps
q. whose daddy is doctor everybody knows.
had decided it was time to make up his
mind who would be the Kaiser. Bobbie.
3 II might be mentioned, had motored with
mis- parents from their home in the West
3 and had arrived the night before. He was
the sort of chap who was wont to order
the fellows back home off his front porch
when his little sister, aged one. was creep
ing around. You see, he had name to
8 live up to in the effete East, and from
o'clock the night before he had done his
best He looked at John. aged six.
You be the Kaiser" he said.
Z as'Not on your life!" came back John.
':Dont catch me. being the Kaiser"
"Then you gotta be, kid" he put in. ad-
dressing his remarks to four-year-old
Jimmie, who was standing very stolidly
waiting for developments.
.'Nope," answered Jimmie. with wisdom
born: of four weeks session of warfare
in the trenches of O. avenue.
"Well, whata we goin' to do?' exclaimed
the grand high director of all armies.
"You fellas make me sick. How kin you
have a war II you don't have Kaiser?"
And 1t was then that three minds began
to beat with but one single thought. Three
feet away, placidly chewing the belt OF
his rompers, stood the small two-year-old
person his mother in a fit of fondest fancy
had named William.
BILL can be the Kaiser" shouted
tobbie
Sure he can" echoed John.
.Oh-o-o. Bills gotta be the Kaiser" came
another echo from Jimmie.
And with that, just for instance, they
Ill, went over and punched the small por
ton of anatomy called nose on William
And what do you think happened? Bless
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