Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-01


~ and urging her to take UP some Red
Cross work. She demurred; 1t would take
tIme, and she did not want to go out at
might, and her affairs would prevent her
going in the daytime. BY that time was
b bit tired and remarked, We'll, I sup
pose you think the men in the camps and
trenches don't want to be disturbed at
night, and so they go to bed when there's
lighting to do"
But" returned she, "the little I would
10 wouldn't help"
There 1t is in O nutshell. We don't
bring this war home to ourselves. Because
bur brother or husband or sweetheart has
FOR some reason not been sent into tito
xenches IL doesn't touch us and we think
ne can't help. Suppose every one felt
Ike that and sat at home and did not
make congresses and wipes and surgical
DRESSINGS. Wouldn't things be as they
vere at the beginning, when many a brave
Id of the Allies was lost through gan
rene and other horrible things which can
averted by care and plenty Of bandages
hd anesthetics?
ryErJ,. she came, too, and Is working as
V hard as the rest these days. And,
peaking of working for the Red Cross
ave you heard what Dorothy Mather Is
ding out in the Mather place at Bryn
dawr?
uv dears YOU know how fond OF hunt
10 and riding that whole family Is and
NV many weekend hunts they useo 10
ave. Well. they had in the third story
their house a huge room, which they
sed TO turn into dormitory for the men
these house parties. And now, when
here is so much to do, there Is little time
pr hunting and riding. ana there are 1ewer
arties and no men to put into the dormh-
bry. So Dorothy has turned the great long
bonn into a Red Cross wprlSroom and has
atbered the farmers wives from all about
hat country, so that from fifty TO sixty
beet there every week to work for their
oys and ours, Then she has also got
pgether a number of women who knit in
heir own homes. If that isn't doing Her
IL" / don't know what you call 1t, ana
Certainly each one of those women who
york with her is doing her BIT" 1t seems
D me that many OF us who have just lived
narrow little world only knowing
hose families and people our own families
lave always known, will learn what true
Forth is during wartimes, for we will meet
he real men and women who help to make
he world n place worth living in-not a
lace where clothes, position and money
gill ever again mean as much as sterling
haracter health, kindness and sincerity.
LOT of girls are having a pretty good
\ time in spite of the fact that there are
b entertainments. They go down to the
bwns near the camps and have quite few
tile parties throughout the winter,
Nere's Charlotte Brown, for instance.
ies been down to Augusta for several
Feeks this season and several times to
Baltimore, and now this Saturday is going
lgain to Baltimore to attend a dinner
which several of the officers Of Camp
ieade will give at the BeNedere. She and
everal other girls are going to stay on
the Belvedere over the weekend. when
hey will be chaperoned by Captain and
Frs Edmund Thayer. Emile Kennedy
Fecily Barnes, Molly Thayer and Virginia
Roberts are in the party. I hear Cecily
going down to Augusta shortly.
DY THE WAY, the party the Sheppard
- girls were to give for Ellanor Long
treth Sharp next Tuesday has been called
ff for the simple reason that there won't
y any Mrs. Sharp there to give it for.
lou see, she left here rather unexpectedly
IN Wednesday evening to join Lieutenant
Bharp in the South, so as the Chinaman
lsed to say, mo tickee, no shirtee"-in
ther words, mo guest of honor, no party"
NHE was ore of those fascinating, blue
D eyed, dimpled babies that you love as
oon as you see them. She didn't mind the
old d bit, for she was all wrapped up in
fur robe, with just the top of the pink
lanket underneath showing at the top.
wayward curl had pushed itself out on
ZACH side of the furry white cap she wore,
Ind the solemn little mouth and chin were
nuggled deep down into the warm fur on
he collar of her tiny coat. She was really
Irresistible, and several persons paused to
peak to the adorable thing as they
|assed. Evidently she was not desirous OF
onvcrsation, for she never once changed
be quiet, complacent expression of her
ice. Finally some one who knew her
anne along and Of course stopped for a
engthy discourse on her looks. We'll
Marjorie" she said, putting finger under
he dimpled chin, "how are you this after
boon? You look very sweet In your nice
warm wraps" Marjorie pulled away from
he caressing finger, showed a very bored
lace to the admirer and replied. disgust
dly, "Oh, shut up!" NANCY WYNNE.