Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-09

s you ever heard Of There's a dance every
week at the Red Mill, and lots of other
parties at the hotels and informal lunch.
cons and dinners at the various cottages
DIR. and Mrs. William Frederick Moore, of
Lanerch, are staying down there. Doctor
Moore Is in the Medical Corps u S. ~.
you know and Mrs. Heck Wetherill is
there, and the William GARDENERS, of Chest.
nut HILL have a cottage. Ann Ellicott is
there, and Mr.. and Mrs. Kolff, of Haver.
ford Mrs. Kolf is so attractive. and she
has so much style. I do like people who
wear their hats in "peppy" way, don't
you?
All the Kitson family is at Cape May
this year. and the Sanders twins have a
cottage for the season. They were in town
q Yesterday. I saw them looking exactly
alike in blue dresses; one of them had on
little blue hat and the other had on a big
one trimmed with flowers but I'll never be
able to tell you whether it was Anita or
Estele in the little hat.
Katherine Potter's engagement to Wal
ter Avery, of Germa ntown, caused quite a
stir in Cape May. You know she has been
staying with her sister, Huberta Earle, at
her cottage, and the wedding will be held
from there next week. Katherine came
out about three years ago, and has been
awfully popular Her fiance is instruct
ing at Pensacola, Fla, in the naval avia-
ton. Can you say naval aviator?'
always get it either "naviator' or navy
avalator," and, after all, it has the same
effect, so what difference does it make?
IJAvE you noticed lately that a number
II Of the Emergency Aid aides are wear
ing uniforms with bright orange trim
mings the collars and cuffs instead of
the red to which we have all become accus.
toned? Perhaps you have been wonder
ing, as I have. just what the new color
means, and so I will tell you what I have
found out, that this is used by the sub
urban branches which have been doing
perfectly splendid work in their own dis
tricts.
Mrs. Paul w. Sharples, of Old Yellow
House, Media, has recently organized the
Media branch of the Emergency Aid aides
and in a very short time they have done
remarkable amount of work. Naturally
their first service is given to the Emer-
gency Aid, and lot of time is devoted to
packing and transporting for their own
branch. They have volunteered for can.
teen work with the Red Cross. and
nelplng at the war lnuuStTlal pant, Wnlle
the selling of war savings stamps and
Preparations for the next Liberty Loan are
marked with red letters the schedule
Of activities. And besides all this. the
Emergency Aid Aides stand ready to offer
their services at any time for any work
which will help to win the war. At pres
ent they are helping in the drive to recruit
$4,000 volunteers for the United States
Student Nurse Reserve.
So you can see that anybody who wears
the blue uniform with the Sam Brown belt
and the bright.colored collar and cuffs
knows all about the mea ming of real work,
and does it, too. every day. The officers
of the Media branch E. A. A. are: Captain,
Mrs. P. w. Sharples; first lieutenant Miss
Mary Snowden; second lieutenant, Mrs.
Morris K. Scott; sergeant, Mrs. Thomas
c. Stillwagon; corporal, Mrs Frank Ham
ilton. The members include Miss Agnes
Werntz, Miss Helen Rohrer, Sarah Rhodes,
Elizabeth Campbell, Helen Pratt, Minerva
Smith. Charlotte Hoskins, Nellie Kelly,
Mrs. Clarence H. Miller, Mrs. Ealyer
Rhodes and Mrs. Joseph Coca.
LIAR be 1t from Nancy to play any
= favorites, so now I'll tell you that the
Junior service girls of the National League
for Womens Service are doing a lot of
good work, too. They wear the blue uni
forms with leather collar and cuffs, you
know, and their summer uniform is dark
blue dress with white collar, and the belt
and edge of the pockets of the leather like
the winter colars-and of course dark
blue straw hats. There are fifty of them
who are on duty at the Germantown Serv-
Ice House on Chelten avenue, and they
make the convalescent library books from
magazines.
Do you know about those books? You
get together all the old magazines that
you have hanging around in odd places
and cut out all the interesting stories that
you have read and then paste them to-
gether and put a pasteboard back on the
collection and call it book. They really
. are very good looking and you send them
to the overseas hospitals so that your SOL
der boy can read good stories without
having to look at pictures of the war that
wounded him or advertisements of sum
,mer places that he can't go to. The Junior
Service girls also make joke cards to send
over there. Mrs. Edward Newkirk is lieu.
tenant colonel of the Germantown branch
of the Junior Service and Janet Middleton
is captain.
The women at the service house out in
Germantown are busy every day. They
have two large rooms fully equipped as
canning kitchens, and they get produce
from five war gardens Mrs. John Mus
tard has charge of the canning, and ten or
fifteen workers volunteer every day to put
up the stuff. They also make all the navy
canteen aprons and do sewing for French
and Belgian refugees, under the direction
Of Mrs. George ID. Robinson Oilcoth and
kid-glove jackets are also madf there.
Great emphasis is laid on home economics,
II and Mrs. James Starr, who is president of
the Germantown branch of the National
il League can't say all of it, it takes too
long, and you know what l mean, anyhow