Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-10

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rooms are closed and there is nothing ot
war work going on there.
Once YOU start in doing actual work
that brings results. you are not content
IN ait idle are YOU? Times have certainly
changed. was riding In trolley car 20
one Of the suburbs recently. and two women
got on the car. You know them ana l
know them. and about Ave years ago
neither one of them would have raised her
little finger to arrange her hair or put
clean collar into waist the maio d'o
n ali. And most of the time these women
were playing bridge, or lunching ana maui
nee,nr or dining and theatregoing and
dancing till 2 o'clock and then sieePihE
knVt,, 4, next day. Well, was reading, tnit
there was block on the road, ana we hau
a wait some twenty minutes to half an
hour and you know how you oVerhear
conversations without actually listening
TO them.
Suddenly I heard one remark to the
other: Mother is so funny, she doesn
understand the times at all. Mary came
in yesterday and was telling about her
work. YOU know she's in the Emergency
Fleet, and she said among other things'
Eleanor - wants something to do in
hours on account Of her health, and Is
waiting for something lighter. I think she
ought to do something, don't you? GOOD
ness! Nobody would be without ,oo
now"
"And we were all agreeing and about TO
start off to our various Jobs. when
Mother spoke UP In her quiet voice and
said. oh. my dear. don't exaggerate So.
why, Aunt Molly, don't know anybody
who would be without a real Job these
days,' declared Mary. And, my dear. II
YOU could have seen Mother. With all the
aristocracy of Philadelphia bristling out
nil over her, she answered in most digni-
fed tone My dear, would
lust doesn't understand. you know
And the other woman nodded assent ana
then for fear they would be late at their
1obs they got out of the car and footed
It up "A long hill.
And who have known them a long time
and who remembered how they had gazed
at me with most misunderstanding
glance, when they heard several years be-
fore that was working, chuckled to my
self It's funny world, isn't 1T?
They did not know that Nancy was
not realize how funny they were. Circum-
stances certainly change us. that's sure,
and the wise woman let's her friends do as
they think best without remarking on 1t.
I For she never knows when wartime is
coming sudden change of fortune and
she may have to go into the world and
work. Or she may even be SO crazy some
day as to want to produce something her
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create something herself, and not sit home
taking care of her hands and hair and
wearing pretty clothes. It's never safe
to Judge, you know.
Tut to return to those who are coming
- home this month. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Berwind who have been in Maine. have
opened their house on the Main Line,
and Margaret too, has returned and is
already hard at it in the Emergency Aid
Aide service. Mrs. Alexander Brown, who
had been up in Narragansett Pier for two
weeks, has returned to Bryn Mawr, and
her work for the Red Cross Mrs. Thomas
De Witt Cuyler, who is in Bar Harbor at
present, will return next week and con-
tinue her war work. And it goes.
Every one is busy, every one is engaged
the war to win.
r HEAR Pauline wanamaker has taken
i the apartment formerly occupied by
Mrs Raymond T. Baker, who was Mrs.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and will spend
the winter there with her baby. Mrs.
Disston 10 evidently welded to New York
n too. and will stay for the winter. She
certainly is a good-looking woman and
has a most attractive manner. Pauline is
a. pretty as a picture and every one tells
me she is simply crazy over the baby.
MFRS. WILLIAM H. X. YARRow has
Ay4 been having a wonderful time and
2 has been visiting Mrs. Edwin C. Wilson,
IN New York. She is now with Mrs. George
r. Yarrow, at Atlantic City. Mrs. Wilson
and Mrs. Yarrow returned from Washing
ton last week, where number Of enter
tainments were given in their honor at
the Army and Navy and Chevy Chase
Clubs, the Club de Vingt and on the May.
flower. They returned to New York to
attend a dinner given by Mr.. Alberto
Dodero for His Excellency. Minister Brum
a of Uruguay and the officials of his party.
Mrs. Yarrow VIII open her mouse at 278
South Twenty-third street. next month.
b NoU can't be too careful Of what you
i say, can you? Wait till I tell you of
the experience a~young fellow know hao
& recently at dance. They were having a
cotillon and just before the last figure was
over It was time for the girls to ask the
boys to dance. He was approached by
GIRL he knew very slightly and asked to
dance. He did SO and then the cotillon was
called off and he "stuck" for several
q A.pces Finally some one asked the girl