Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-26

~ h"'S w h'i'n "poNN 10 I'VE N'N'N
you notes and our New Years resolutions,
1t was the best Christmas in years. for the
war is all over but the shouting and nearly
everybody had their or somebody
else's soldier or sailor at the dinner. And
there were any number of big family din.
ners. The Bertram Lippincotts gave one
at their home, 1912 Spruce street, and Mrs.
Ephraim Price, OF 1920 Locust street, also
gave a largo dinner.
Mrs. Edward s. Buckley, of 1903 Spruce
street, entertained at a family dinner, and
the Franklin McCrea Wirgmans also had
all their family to dinner. Out Main Line
way there were two family parties that I
heard of-Mr. and Mrs. T. De Witt Cuyler
and Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Clayton. The Clay.
> tons had Mary and Ralph Earl there for
Christmas, and then they are going down
to Washington to spend New Years with
the Earls. Ralph is a lieutenant, you know,
and is stationed down there. Captain
Churchill Williams, who is also stationed
there, came UP for the holidays with Mrs.
Williams and Churchill, Jr., and they were
at the family dinner which Captain Will
I liams's mother, Mrs. Francis Howard Will
liams, gave at her home. Altogether, 1t
' we 10y ""' way Wv ON
AND tonight there's the Charity Ball.
"A You slready heard all about the
Indian seer. seeing the world as children
at play-Bobby Blakes and Dolly brakes,
Flemish children, Kate Greenaway chill
dren and children of Candyland. You've
heard about Brownie Warburton ads Bel.
GUM, wearing Ethel Barrymore's costume,
Lat Co.. H. - l.. A.. u,At.,.
about Peggy Thayer as France and about
the other tableaux. And about the Ameri-
can set of chosen dancers. So you know
how beautiful it's going to be, and you can
imagine how excited all the "debs' and
sub-debs and E.. A. AS and National
Leaguers are about their attractive cos.
tunes and their intricate steps, Can't you
just hear it.: But. my dear. I get that
step all right, but what comes after it?"
You look perfectly sweet in that cos
tune; where do we come in, after them
or before them?"
There are to be a number of dinners be-
fore and box parties during the bail. Sara
Dolan is going to be the guest of honor at
a dinner beforehand, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Owen Roberts, of 1927 De Lancey street,
S-'t " 'hhhN WV N"hs 1'e wa %
Cuyler will give a box party and Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Dale also have a box. Lieut.
tenant Herbert Derbyshire, aide de camp
to General Waller, Of the Marines, will
have a box party, and his guests will in
clude Mrs. Eiram Eliason, Constance Bin
aney, Lieutenant Coleman, Lieutenant Mar.
rbourg and General and Mrs. Waller.
nvIy -
'T HEAR that the Tea Box, that quaint
little tearoom at the corner of Cross.
ways and Montgomery avenue, in Merton,
! has been so successful in its work that the
COMMITTEE was able to give liberal Christ
mas donations to several hospitals. To be
exact, they sent a hundred dollars to the
Lakewood Hospital, a hundred to the Cape
May Hospital and a huge ffty.dollar basket
OF fruit to the League Island Hospital
Some proceeds!
I happen to know a student OF occupa.
tfonal t~herapy-don't let that scare you;
1T only means teaching soldiers to carve
toys out Of wood. make rag rugs and do
Clay modelling and such-ane she has been
down at the hospital at Lakewood. She
told me what wonderful work Is being
done down there for the men who have
come back wounded, and how interested
and perfectly delighted they are with this
kind of work. One of them had both hands
uamputated, and he held a paint brush in
Al1is teeth and made q picture postcard for
hts family: and you never saw such a
tlckled soldier-he just simply beamed on
o the world. So you see the Tea Box has
something very worth while and apprecia.
tive TO work for. and I understand that the
.committee has a hard time once in a while
TO accommodate all the people who stop
In for tea and "eats."
PACKARD is having a good time
@AsA these days, isn't she? She's an awfully
Popular girl and she has always done so
'fhuch for other people. You know she is
at the head of the Girl Scout troop out
there in Villanova, and the girls are all
wild about her. Her marriage to DR.. Ar
thur e. Billings is to take place on Tues
..day afternoon in Rosemont, you know,
with a reception afterward at The Mea-
,dows. A number of dinners and luncheons
nave been given in her honor, and she's
going to give a dinner herself tomorrow
evening for her bridal party. That includes
her sister Elizabeth, Helen Hope Wilson,
Katherine Lea, Frances Tyson, Rachel Fit
ier, Elizabeth McMichael, Elizabeth Trot-
Ter, Ruth Hobart, Major John b. Carson,
DIR. Duncan Despard, DR.. Alexander o'Neill,
Mr.. ohm II. Packard, Sd, Mr.. Evan Ran!
dolph, DR.. James Gibbon and DR.. William
b. Stroud.
TIME baby had had two Christmases be-
L fore, but yesterday was her first with
all the aunts and uncles and grandmothers
and -grandfathers and everybody. OF
~-eourse, the only thing they cared about
was her reception Of the tree and the gifts.
ste entered the room last, while everybody
watched in breathless silence. She's a
dainty little thing. and the sigh of JOY that
Escaped her when she saw my baby" sit-