Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-07
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Lieutenant Nilsson, of the Canadian Forces, Will
Address Workers at Independence Square Aux
iary of Red Cross on Monday

,IrHo do YOU think they are going to
w have at the Independence Square
..,v,,arv of the American Red Cross on
..,t Monday afternoon? Lieutenant ii.
= Nilsson. of the Canadian forces, who is
.,,,o some wonderful speaker. He has to
s,,urn very soon, they say, and so Mrs.
.,,r,er has been most fortunate in get.
I ~, him TO come ard address the workers.
psa,ly. last Monday, when Lieutenant
commander Payne was speaking, and then
u nat splerdid young Australian, whose
\ ,ame I did not get, ] marveled at the
.rogre,s of that one Red Cross center.
,vbv there arc at least seventy.iivc
,,omen working hard, making pneumonia
Jackets. congresses, dressings of all kinds
X IA descriptions every day. BY the way.
.oeaking of dressings. ] hear there has
Nan ouite misunderstanding among
.o,,e people, who think that the Red Cross
..ss n.t need workers, because bandages
.rs no longer needed. Now you see there is
! difference between bandago and
aressing. They have not been making
b.ndaces for a long time at any of the
,sadouarters, for the simple reason that
,Ae old-fashioned rolled bandages are sci.
An, used. but surgical dressings of all
binds and descriptions are being made
and are greatly needed: terribly needed,
.rd the sooner we awake TO that fact
and get busy the better.
our men are getting trained before they
90 into the trenches. They will not be
thrown in raw" as were the first English
troops. To hear that Australian Had tell
ot his experiences in Gallipoli and how he
fs,t when he woke up, after months OF
eshting there on hospital ship to see
a Red Cross nurse bending over him and
N know that for time at least he was
away from the horror of it all, | tell YOU,
YOU want 10 do all you can for those boys
10 help them through the awful horrors
they will have TO face.
Think of this. That young man told us
that in six months he had two shirts and
that II he had a minute to take one, shake
the "Couties" off, turn it inside out and
nut Il on again, he felt wonderfully clean.
Think of it. We who step into our daily
tub. Is there anything we can do that is
good enough for our men? / think not.
MIR. WILLIAM POTTER, who was at
lv1 one time ambassador TO Italy, is to
preside tomorrow evening at the entertain
inent being arranged by the Italian com
mittee of the Emergency Aid at the Acad-
emy of Music.
Mr.. Potter will introduce VIII Irwin,
the wellknown author and war corre-
spondent, who will be the speaker of the
4 f,r 10 n.
feet, "The Latin at War;" and having but
recently returned from the Italian battle
front has many mighty interesting expert
ences to relate
The War Department in Washington is
sending on some Italian war films which
have hitherto not been shown here and the
music of the evening will be furnished by
an Italian orchestra.
The Italian committee consists of Mrs.
Benjamin Miller, chairman; Mrs. j. Gard
ner Cassatt, Mrs. j. Bertram Lippncott,
Mrs. Herbert NJ. Fisher, Mrs. James Milf
fin, Mrs. Albert Weiner, Mrs. Robert B.
IIanes Mrs Charles l.. Houston, Miss
Mary G. Beath, Mrs. William Z. Worth,
Mrs. Charles NJ. Houston, Mrs. sydney
Wright, Mrs John Morgan, Mrs. Edward
Troth, Mrs. William a. L-w, Mrs. William
H. Gibbons, Mrs. Henry Evans. Mrs. Wal
ter Banes, Miss Virginia Hartshorne, Miss
Mary Mccullough, Miss Mary Tattersfield
and Miss Ruth Gibbons.
MIR, AND MRS WILLIAM l.. AUSTIN
NAin Rosemont invited Il notable gath
ering of people last Saturday after
noon to their beautiful home to hear
Major Lauchln MacLean Watt, chaplain
10 the Second Gordon Highlanders, of the
British forces, speak on his experiences al
the 'front.' Major Watt has the Scotchman's
dry sense of humor and while he told ol
the most thrilling and pathetic scenes ii
the trenches, he also made many humor
GUS remarks.
Mr. and Mrs Austin were assisted in re-
celying by their daughters, Miss Reba Aus
I'm, Miss Anna Austin and Miss Jean Aus
I'm. Among those present were Mr.. ant
Mrs. William f. Dreer, Mr. and Mrs. w
austin Obdyke. DR.. and Mrs. Andrew
Mutch, Mr.. and Mrs. I.orace II. Lee, Mr.
and Mrs. Belding, Mrs. William a. Sawyer
Mrs. Daniel B. CURL. Miss Clarke, Mrs w
A. Gibbons and Miss Gibbons.