Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-11

i Mawr members of the Red Cross
Branch No. 1, are working magnihcently
TO help the doctors and nurses fight in
fuenza. They have made dozens of pneu-
monia Jackets for the Emergency Hos
ptal which is to be opened at Lancaster
Inn and are at the masks and Jackets
again today.
Eleanor McDay. who is a trained nurse,
has been doing the most wonderful voun-
teer work. She has gone around among
the people in Bryn Mawr and vicinity and
has nursed and helped in every way. In
some cases conditions have been indeed
appalling. The regular visiting nurse who
is connected with the Social Service bu-
8 reau of the Bryn Mawr Hospital worked
ESQ hard that she has succumbed to the
disease, and Miss McDay has been doing
her work too Imagine in one case she
went to a house, and the woman called
her in and begged her to help her. There
she was half sick herself and five little
children in one room, all burning up with
fever and very i'll with the influenza and
N in the next tiny room n sixth child that
had died that morning. 1t is heart-rending.
But firmly believe that much can be done
by keeping cool and not getting "panicky."
Among the women who are working so
hard at the Red. Cross arc Mrs. Walter
Chrystie, whose son Phneas, you remem-
ber was killed out in the west early after
we were in the war, Mrs. Henry Earnshaw
whose husband is in France, having gone
1over in May 1917 with Base Hospital, No.
TO- Mrs. r. Penn Smith whose is
'over there" in the remount department
and Mrs Alexander Brown, Mrs Smiths
daughter. whose husband, Aleck Brown,
was killed in an aeroplane at Essngton
shortly before our entrance into the war
Another woman interested ) Mrs George
Thayer, whose husband, Captain Thayer,
has been down on the border for the past
year And there are many others whose
sons, husbands or brothers are actively
engaged in the service and who are anX-
ious to do everything they possibly can for
their fellow men or women during this
serious epidemic.
ISN'T it interesting to hear of Catherine
Porters work over on the battle front?
She has been living In Washington of late
with her mother and sisters, hut left last
winter for France, where she has been
doing Red Cross work. The Porter girls
Miss Rush and they had a home on Clinton
street, when Mrs Goldman, Catherine and
Bessie Porter were children. Several years
ago Margaretta was married to the much
loved Bishop Goldman of Maine, but OWNS
to his untimely death became widow in
a few months. Bessie's engagement to
Fred Fearing of New York and this city
was announced this spring. She has paid
;yit ber Gin t;r
guest of Mi , Nina Lea and of Gwen
Martin.
Catherine is in the caEteen where most
of our Philadelphia boys so and it must
be a comfort for them to find someone
from their own home town. Florence Bill
ings of Boston and Harriet Roger of Gar
rison, n. Y, are also at the canteen.
Z CPEAKING of the Philadelphia boys
~ isn't it sad about Bobbie Gamble? He
was killed in France. He was the son of
Dr. and Mrs. Gamble, of Haverford, and a
brother of Frances and Eleanor Gamble
who are both such popular members Of
the younger set on the Main Line. Eleanor
is a great friend of Lois Cassatt Thayer.
you know. They came out the same year.
Bob, like his brother Charlie. was one of
the most liked younger men in town and
Bobs death. glorious though it was, must
be great sorrow to many of his friends
as well as to his parents and relatives
It's a marvellous thing however to know
that ones son and brother has fallen fight
ing for such a cause. One doubts not the
ultimate happiness of those who fall
bravely in battle. And none of these fine
boys will have died in vain, for the great
cause is about won already, and oh! how
much we have to be thankful for.
THERE are so many wonderful deeds
= being done over there now, that some
times you feel as if you were part of
very improbable novel, filled with hair
breadth escapes, and perfectly impossible
situations. It's sort of a relief to find that
.s.the men overseas are after all. just the
. same boys on leave that they used to be
over here at school and college.
f I heard a funny thing about certain
soldier, only he's a second lieutenant now
to the great joy and pride of his family
who has gone through all kinds of horrors
and wonders since he went over He was
in Paris recently, on leave,-an he felt the
need of new Uniform, to support the new
bars on his shoulders. So he and brother
officer went to certain large department
store and looked over the styles in o. ID. To
their horror the uniform cost a good deal
more than the pockets of both youngsters,
for that's all they really are-held. SO.
with sudden inspiration and much gee
the Lieut.. bought the uniform and charged
It to his father, who has a perfectly good
account with the Philadelphia branch of
the same store. And. filled with admlra.
ton at his presence of mind, the other
officer promptly decided that he, too needed
q new uniform and charged it to his father.
NANCY WYNNE.
Social Activities