Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12


Lee and Lawrence Beggs! Isn't 1t all
a dreadful TRAGEDY? Somehow I can't
think of anything else but those two Earle
sisters SO full of life. so fair. so beautitui
dying so young and leaving little children
TO grow up without a mothers love- For
no matter how many people love us there's
no love to take the place of the mo'hers
especially when one is growing up. 1t
best as We know 1t is.
I did hope that Mrs. Besgs would pun
through sa made such splendid hght
for 1t, but so many complications set in' u
was not possible 10 save her. Mr.. Begss'
is very i'll too, you know, and Mr.. george
H. Earle jr, the father of Mrs Beggs and
Mrs. Lee. is very ILL., perfectly prostrated
by the death of his two daughters.
Gladys Mather, the youngest dmshter
had been on herr staying with her tamlly
and had returned to her hua.and Capt. Gll-
bert Mather in the west ONLY couple OF
weeks ago Hansell Patterson and her
little daughter came lately from water
town n. Y. to stay with her parents ana
Mrs. Victor Mather the elder sister IS al
her Bryn Mawr home.
r HEAR there are seven members of the
i BeaIe famil,. at strafford Gown with
the influenza. Hope and Tony Cromweil
among them. Tony is Mrc. StotesourF
son you know and is in the Navy. lie
married Hope Beale. l understand there
are no serious cases there however. but the
fact that seven are down means some
problem for nurses and doctors attention
TIM WALKERS death at the Bryn Mawr
u hospital on Thursday morning was very
sad ] know of few men who were better
liked than he He had been i'll with infiu-
enza from Saturday. but the hospitals were
no fun he was unable to get into one be-
fore Tuesday night Pneumonia set In and
he died early on Thursday morning. lie
was a son of the late DR.. James NJ. Walker
an eminent physician Of this city, and a
brother of Miss Helen Walker OF Bryn
Mawr and of. Mrs. Frank Dinsmore of
Trenton.
ONE'S sympathy goes out to Mr.. ana
O.Mrs. David Paul Brown in the death
of their lovely daughter Caroline. She was
taken i'll shortly after the Nberty Loan
parade on September 2S, when she walked
League for Women's Service. Her illness
proved to be influenza, from which douoie
pneumonia developed, and after painful
and trying illness she died late yesterday.
Carrie was a granddaughter of the late
William Rawle Brown and Mrs. Bro"n'
who was Miss Caroline Stockton, one OF
the Ave daughters of the famous Commo-
dore Stockton She was niece of Wiiiiam
Rawle Brown. of Detroit and this city, and
of the late Mrs Logan Bullitt, who was
Maria Brown She was twenty years old
several days ago. and had made her debut
last season. She was a most lovable and
charming girl and her death will be greatly
felt by many.
THE Emergency Aid Aides who went into
L training for three months course al
the Episcopal Hospital were to finish next
week, but one and all have they turned
in and offered their services in the present
crisis at the hospital and they are doing
splendid WORK. Dorothy Blair OF Edge
water Park is in charge of the little pand
which includes Natalie Davis, Mary Por-
cher. Gladys Muller, Virginia Maxwell
Edith Dawson, Doris Dexter, Doris Garvin
and Mrs ]. b. Haggerty. The class started
in July and the girls have done splendid
work.
Ethel Huhn Bailey and Pauline Denckla
3 and a number of others are hard at it at
the University Hospital now. and there
are a bunch of others at the Presbyterian
al st. Josepr's and numerous other hos
pitfalls.
T WAS SO sorry to read in yesterday
i casualty list the death from wounds oil
Lieutenant Frederick Pritchett OF Wynhe-
field Ted as he was anectlohateiS
named by his family and friends. un
derstand 1t is an unofficial report and one
cannot help holding on to the hope that II
IN only a report He and Mrs. Pritchet'
were one Of the most ideally happy couples
know, and my heart goes out TO her
in her anxiety and sorrow over TINS news.
DID Won know that Mrs. George ID. Weth
- Deril has called off the invitations to
!. the wedding of Ada and Karl Knipe to-day
on account of the Board of Health orders
Yes. it's true. The ceremony Will be per
formed at Mrs. Wetherills home in Bryr
Mawr but instead of a large afrair ana
(. reception, there will be only the two i'm
mediate families present and the break
fast will be for them only, as no one feels
that the risk of having number or peo
pie together should be run.
Ada is so pretty, she will make a lovely
bride. She has such exquisite features
and lovely brown hair and her eyes are
such as would melt stone walf'' Shit
is a sister of Anna and Georgianna Weth
erill and of course cousin or niece o.
about all the other Wetherills in town
For they are large and prosperous family
hid You ever read such a gloom as th
~ column to-day? However I'll cheer yo'
I'D. with little tale that came to my ear
or.onos NJ the grin