Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-13

rTONEST to goodness. you would almost
II swear that this is Easter week II you
nod been down at Atlantic City this week.
IA which you know was some extended
18th beatless Monday and Lincoln's Birth.
dav coming hand in hand on top OF Satur.
a.v and Sunday. What if MIR. Ground
Hog did come out and see his shadow
(Which much contend, for it was cloudy
,ul 3 o'clock on February y? You could not
make me say 1t was not spring. 1T was
mt spring"--doesn't that sound poetical?
ntavbe l am one and have not known 1t
unt, now. Perhaps you may not know It
set.
TTOwEVER, to return to Atlantic City.
II Sunday. Monday and Tuesday the
Boardwalk was fairly thronged with say
crowd. Frankly Sullivan and Sarah Pen.
rose were walking along arm in arm, rest.
ing for few days from their arduous
.tudies in the nurses course they are talk
ing under Doctor Penrose. told you about
their going to the hospital every day from
until and studying like mad They only
have an hour for lunch, YOU know, and
sometimes they even have to go to evening
lectures.
Something tells me that there'll he no
putting of woman back into her place as
a society butterfly after this war is over
and there lie no need for nursing and "sich,"
for now that ,very one has learned to do
something worth while, the empty things
will not suffice, believe me. though little
Nancy says it. as shouldn't.
THE Iris Colkets were down there also.
L at Atlantic, I mean. and Mrs King
wainwright and her small son King. Jr.,
and Mrs Benjamin Wells and her daughter
Betty, who are going later this month to
Florida.
Mrs. Robert Girvin, Jr., and her little
daughter Alice were on the Wooden Way
Sunday. Small Alice, who is five years
old, wore a coat OF green cloth trimmed
with beaver fur and carried the tiniest
beaver muff in the world.
The "Petey" Roberts were also down.
They have been living most of this year at
the Ritz in New York. suppose it's a
case Of no coal in the cellar of their
beautiful estate in Vilanova.
T AM wondering and wondering how a
brown.haired little lady in question looks
a most mild person. but the wee bird tells
me the wooing has been a bit stormy and
It's case of ION again. off again; in again
out again" First they were engaged while
still in her debutante year, and then just
as he had managed to pay for the ring or
confidential system she broke it off, ant
kept the ring; next I heard it was on
again. and then he went to camp and tn,
engagement was announces Next chap
ter had her visiting camp and then it was
| off again, and after she went home he
| wrote to her and then 1t was sin again
Last I heard it was all right. I wonder
II you could tell me some more, small
bird? I only hope that all this disagree
ing will be only a matter of before ant
not after marriage.
TALKING of camps and soldiers reminds
Ame: Did you know that the youni
Norton Downs have deai little son
Norton, you Know, married Alice Thorn
son last spring, before war was declare,
but wh'n every one thought it would b,
declared. and SO they married before h
went off to Join the colors. He Is now II
| the aviation section of the American eX
peditionary forces. The baby son wa
born on Monday and l am sure will be
real consolation to his mother who mus
be filled with anxiety until .er husband
safe return. She is the daughter Of MI
and Mrs. Henry Chapman Thomson, q
Merton. You remember Mexican Down
and AnLe Merrick we're married about tn
same time as Alice and Norton, an
Phoebe Downs was married to ROWAN
Evans, Jr.
WELL, 1t does not take the youn
w people long to decide these days, doe
It? And once decided they SO ahead. an
% Monday we had the wedding of Mari
Frazer End young Graham Doughert
Their engagement was announced abol
three months ago and Graham has bee
down In Augusta since September. The
were married very quietly in st. Mark
Chapel, at Locust and Sixteenth street
Graham's father, Mr.. Frank Doughert
died just about two weeks ago. His fam
had not been with him for many years, b,
at the same time, very naturally, his sc
old not care to have anything but ver
quiet wedding and so it was. Maria
very wealthy, you know, having inheritt
much money from her mother, who WI
Mary Welsh. NANCY WYNNE2.
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