Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-22

~ NhoM as Gays so ny ana more ana
- more laws restricting things are made.
have wondered now and again whether
after the war, when things get more
Plentiful again, we will go back to some
OF the extravagances that have been de.
manded by good form all along. There's
tne shortage in white paper. for instance.
who ever in peace times could have sent
out wedding invitation on one sheet of
paper and in one envelope and have got.
ten away with it,? And you don't save
anything by IL, a Young bride told me.
She had gone 10 one of the stores to
order the announcements of her wedding
and was Mortified TO find she had to use
one sheet of paper only why. good
ness she exclaimed. 'it'll feel so thin
no one will know it is an invitation:
r$heyll think it's an advertisement. and
tne merchant is economizing at that"
80 II, dear reader, in the hereafter of
TINS present life you receive what appears
20 oe an "ad' in the mail, be sure to give
u the once over" before consisninc IT 10
the waste basket For all YOU know it
may be the announcement Of your first
cousins marriage TO the duke Of some.
body or other on the other side.
VIE long engagement is a thing Of the
past III these days. and now the next
persons to marry. whose engagement was
announced only two weeks ago, are Mary
scott Montgomery and Edward Biddle
HslseN Mary Montgomery is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. "!.mam w. Montgomery ard
sister of the four Mont comery brothers
VINO are in the service of the country.
Bob is major, William also has an i'm
portant commission and Archie. Ir.. and
John are in the service. Mary went
abroad to do Red Cross and cantccn work
before our entry into the war and re.
turned home last spring. She had in.
tended going back. but at that time no
sisters of mci in the service were allowed
to cross the water so she had to give 1T
up. And only lately she was made
warehouse superintendent for the Red
Cross here. She is altogether a most at
fractiNe person and Ned IIal5+y is to be
| congratulated on having won her.
The wedding will take place on Au.
gust 81.
T THINK it's awfully interesting to hear
who meets whom over in France. So
many mon go over there and meet with
friends they haven. seen for years over
here. You know Alden Sexton son of Mr..
and Mrs Alexander Sexton, of German
town, is over there, doing military police
duty with the engineers He wrote to his
family the other day telling of an inter-
testing experience he had recently. He is
on duty from II at night until in the
morning, and part of his work is opening
a gate for trucks to go through. One day
when he was off duty some one came into
his tent to tell him that an officer wanted
to see him. He went out thinking 1t was
some kind of business, and there was
alexander Randall son If our DR.. and
Mrs Alexander Randall whom he knew
very well over here. Aleck is a lieutenant
you know. and the night before Tor rather
that morning at about 4 o'cloci he had
gone through in a truck and Alden mad
Opened the gate for him. He had recoc-
nized him and looked him up the next
day. SO they had large talk and you
can Imagine how glad they were to see
each other 1t must be wonderful feel
ing, when you're tired and there's nobody
near you except men from Florida and
California and Maine and you're just a
tiny bit homesck to have a Philadelphian
suddenly blow in and talk about things
that you know about for a while. And
that seems to be what's happening all the
time now that so many are over there
and moving around all over France as
they are.
MY GOODNESS, but you have to be
- careful what you say to the young
sters, don't you? Small Joe, you see was
cragy about birds. And small Joe, Incl
dentally, is only four years old but he's
ALL BOY, let me tell you. And of an
inquirins disposition decidedly. Well, he's
been watching the birds most attcntively
this summer and the butler found him
darting after Mr.. Bird with small hand
outstretched. oh, Master Joe" said he
"tbats not the way, to catch a bird"
"Weil, how do | catch one, SNIFF" said
Joey Smith thought a moment and re-
CIptied: You get a long stick and you
put pin on the end. and then you get
worm and put it on that end. and then
you hold it out and the bird runs right
to you"
Joe thought very seriously for a while.
and that evening Just before good night"
he climbed into auntie's lap and said
How do the brides get worms to eat,
auntie?" They dig into the ground with
their little beaks,' said auntie. They
catch Mr. Worm and swallow him down
quick" 'Oh, do they?" said Joe. Whats
= heak?" why. little birds nose is
his beak' darling, Come, it's bedtime
nowE
Next morning auntie came out on the
porch and looking on the lawn found
SounS Joseph prone upon his stomach
|apparently wallowing into the green grass