Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-10

NiD you take in the parade yesterday
~ up Broad street to the Statue? 1t was
for recruits for the Student Nurse Reserve
and there were a great many nurses In
3 their neat uniforms and little white caps,
and some of them in the picturesque red
and blue capes, in the line Of march The
few Emergency Aid Aides who are in town
now led the parade with their banner JUST
behind the band. There were several OF
the suburban Aides that told you about
yesterday, with their orange collars
and cuffs. The National League for
Woman's Service brought up the rear,
looking cool in white waists and skirts
with the regulation hat.
noticed Mrs. Walter Clark and Mrs.
was very spirited and the group up on the
statue with Mr.. Shaw sustained the high
notes in the Battle Hymn of the Repub-
sslic" so wonderfully that it made your blood
run cold. Perhaps your blood doesn't do
= that kind of thing, but Nancy has that
popularity and doesn't ever expect to grow
up enough to fail to thrill at the sound OF
drum or a chord of close harmony.
8 saw Mrs. John B. Thayer going into
the Girard Trust in a most becoming hat
and a blue chiffon veil with her white
dress. Polly Thayer has gone out to Min.
neapolis, you know, to finish her course in
music. She plays the violin wonderfully
well and is studying all the time. She has
been out West twice before and this trip
finishes her work out there. Peggy seems
to be having a fine summer after her win
ter Of work with the E. A. A. Every once
In a while hear of her at Cape May
up north or somewhere, and I know she
is having a good time, for she always does
wherever she is.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS is having
w a big time today and had one yester-
day. The annual Horse Show is on and
there are visitors from all over Virginia
and West Virginia. Carol and Suzanne
Smith. the two daughters of Mrs. L. How
ard Weatherly, rode in the show, which was
held at the Meadows. the summer place
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton Lewis. The
proceeds Of the show are to be giverr over
/ to the local branch of the Red Cross Isas
vel and Betty Stettinius, daughters of Mr..
Edward r. Stettinius, Of New York, the
Assistant Secretary Of War, also were in
the riding and jumping events.
Mrs. Isaac Kemble is down there now
with Ethel Altemus BYRD, Mrs. William
G. Collins and Mrs. William II. Randle.
Thomas Harris Powers went over from
Hot Springs for the Horse Show and ex-
poets to spend few days at White Sui.
phur. Last night they had a huge dance
at the old White, and the famous old ball
room was filled with gaiety and music.
+ The affair was the ladies' horse show CO.
tillon, and it was surprising how many
dancing men appeared at the last minute,
4 when everybody thought that there wasn't
such a thing for miles around They were
mostly in the blue uniform of the navy or
the 20. D." Of the army, spending short
leaves at the resort, but they certainly did
! make that dance a great success. Mrs.
J. Howard Gibson is staying at the White
now for some time.
Miss Josephine Mcclure. who is spending
the summer down there and is interested
in all the Red Cross and war stamp and
canteen activities, sold more than sixty
tickets for the recent presentation of Les
Miserables," the movie In which William
Farnum made such a hit when it was here
The performance was given for the benefit
of st. Thomass Episcopal Church, at White
Sulphur, and about everybody at the resort
was there to applaud-or not according to
whether they liked the show or not
"a Have you ever been to the movies in
small towns near the resort where
you spend the summer? The whole audi
ence pays careful attention when you come
in, to see what chose summer people"
have on tonight. Then you see harrow
Ing picture, in which almost all the charac-
ters are either murdered slowly or else
Just naturally pass out" because there's
nothing more FOR them to do in that play
And just as the posse" is about to catch
the bandits after having chased them all
the way from Hollywood, Cal, to Fort Lee
N. j., the Aim breaks and the lights come
on and the piano trails off into nothing
and you sit in hot silence till it starts up
again. And don't you appreciate that cool
salt air thousand times more when you
get out into 1t again? There's no particu.
lar reason for the presentation of Les
Miserables" at White Sulphur Springs to
set me off at such a tangent, but then
there's no particular reason for anything
In weather like this, and almost any sub
ject will make your mind wander until 1t
Just naturally lands among that cool salt
air."
The next thing that is scheduled to hap.
pen down there In the West Virginia ALE.
ghanies is the Red Cross benefit golf match
on Auguss4& between Perry Adair and
Bobbie Jones, ok Atlanta, Ga, and Chick
4 Evans and Kenneth Edwards, of Chicago
OF course that will excite a lot of interest
lin fact, already has-and all the golf
hends are getting all anticipatory-which
is some word. IL you should inquire about
it-over following the players over the
links.
4 TT HAPPENED at a recent gardeGs party
= given out on the Min Line 3sr the