Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-18
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Sedgley Club to Have Spring Luncheons Each
Thursday in April-Clyde Marquis to Speak on
%N Food Campaign at Red Cross

f~.~,yTtI the coming OF the longer days
w and the month of April in the ofIlng,
-..obovS YOU begin to remember that you
..,onp 70 that delightful Sedgeley Club out
4 ,be Park that you had forgotten for u
-,ntb or so because you were so busy
\ ",,h bed Cross and National Service and
4 rouncils Of Defense and the few hours
\ ~ relaxation you had were spent some.
4 .vhere where 1t was warm and there was
.o.i For club life was not necessary
surnp the coal famine,
WELL just as you begin to think of Sedgc
a., comes word that the annual spring
n,ncbeons are to start In April and will
4. held on every Thursday of that month
You know the time-honored custom of
.,,s pretty little club, which is built around
A .,s old Fairmount Park lighthouse? In
Anrl and October there are the informal
K ,rncheons, which are cooked and served by
.ome one club member and several aides
each time,
rs quite killing to sec them i'll their
B .retty dresses, topped with big singham
and white aprons: but don't make a mis-
..ke the food is not funny, it's delicious,
and we have the best times you ever knew.
Mrs. william Wilcox is president of the
" o,,b YOU know, and Mrs. William Ellis
scul is vice president Miss Mary Rivlnus
y n treasurer and Mrs. Francis Patterson is
secretary. ...
ANNA ExDlCOTT'S marriage on Satur-
"A day I'm Overbrook was an interesting
.1a,r was IL not? You know Mrs. Endi.
colt was Japanese princess, but when
Mr. Endlcott died she brought her three
\ children who were then very small, here
N be brought up Americans, as she had
made solemn promise to do. Anna has
little lof the Japanese cast Of features,
don't you think?,
Another Philadelphia man who married
Japanese woman was Mr.. Irwin, the
h brother Of the late Miss Sophie Irwin and
IA Miss Agnes Irwin. of this city He has
lived In Japan mos of the time himself,
too, though he sent both his son and
daughtc. to America to be educated. The
n laughter went to Miss Irwins School first
and then to Bryn Mawr. and Dick grad
uated from Princeton.
I Certainly the Japanese women are fasci
mating; SHOULD think many a man would
fall in love with them.
ANY of you who rode down Chestnut
E ~ street any day after Wednesday Of
last week up to Saturday must have no.
tced the crowd which clamored at the
doors of the store where the Gefoojet sale
was going on. Would you believe that in
n this great city there could yet be found
any Junk that could be sold: anythn.: left
that could be given away? Well, there
must he, because on the face of it the
women governors of St. Edmond's Grip
M pied Home will hold huge rummage sale
4 for three days this week, starting to.
morrow,
N There's always something you don't
\ want suppose, and always something else
q you do want and so there will always be
q possibility of rummage sales. For you
zee. each one hits differ ,nt bunch of
people who have not dug into their cell
IN lsrs as yet, and so it goes. Anyway, this
one starts, as / said, tomorrow and lasts
through Wednesday and Thursday, and
a, viii be held at 1924 Chestnut, just as the
cefoojet was.
THE second Walton boy--John NJ. Wal
Su--ilhS DtSH IL Oiil iidilIoSN
with his family for Il weeks furlouGh.
And he certainly had u good time, for the
whole family and all his friends gave him
one party after another He is with the
trench mortar battery, which was the
First City Troop you know There are
rumors that the Philadelphia boys will
soon set sail for France, so | doubt if Jack
will get another leave In that case. The
other Walton boy--Henry F., Jr.-is a
heutenant in the militia you know. They
certainly have pretty sisters, haven't they!
THERE is going to be rather a change
= In the style Of speakers for this Monday
0,she Independence Square Auxiliary OF
me Red Cross. Instead of a talk from
eone one who has been at the front, We
~ to have one given by Mr.. Clyde Mar
gus food expert, on Campaigning fol-
food The lecture will be given at :
eclock and will be of interest to many, fol-
Is at times perhaps bit hard to know
wnat to conserve, as there are many
cnsnges now and again it's difficult tc
xesp up to the right Ideas so it will bt
seat to hear from some one who knows
dant.you think? . NANCY wYNNE.