Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-23

GO MANY women prominent in the So
~ cial and philanthropic lie OF the city
have gone into regular. war service Of some
y kind that It is not a surprise to hear that
Mrs. Ned Robins has associated herself
with the work of the War Departments
committee on Education and Special Train
ing with headquarters in this city. and ex-
poets to remain with the Committee until
the end of the war. The object of this
committee, I understand H. to keep the
War Department in touch with the many
colleges and universities that have taken
up military and naval training under gov
ernment control.
. Mrs. Robins, who is the niece OF Mrs.
David s. 3. Chew, who by the way Is
most active herself in Liberty Bond work,
has been for a number OF years treasurer
of the Eighth Ward branch OF the Civic
Club She was at one time Secretary or
the Faculty Tea Club Of tht University OF
Pennsylvania.
Ned Robins. who Is assisting in the
war reception work of the Historical So
.ciety of Pennsylvania. is Recording Secre-
tary Of that Society and Secretary Of the
University o. Pennsylvania. Mrs. Joseph
Pennell, wife Of the artist. is his sister.
IT'S remarkable when so many claim
L there has been no need of quarantine.
how whole families have gone down with
influenza at one time. There are the
Girvins OF Haverford She was Alice Hill
you remember: well. she and her husband
and, their four Children have all had the
"nu"s and pretty much all at" the same
1,t-- ~ h..
however and are at Haverford Court.
1t really seems to be getting better
2 though doesn't it" Cheers!!.
AUXILIARY No. 200 has been doing
"A some pretty snappy work lately. The
workroom is in the Y. W. c. A. out in
Germantown. and the members have been
working their heads off making front line
parcels. doing reclamation work.-that
means mending worn overcoats. and uni
forms for the Quartermaster's department.
and OF COURSE, lately, sewing for chill.
dren who have been orphaned by the epi-
demic. Mrs. Rufus Scott is chairman OF
the auxiliary. and she tells me that they
are going to have the Baroness Huard out
there to lecture on Wednesday evening
November 6 nt s o'clock.
Baroness Huard. you know, is the daugh.
ter Of our own Francis Wilson, and the
wife of French artist. Her chateau was
outside of Paris. and during the German
occupation of the section was wrecked.
She has some interesting pictures which
she shows when she lectures, and Incl.
dentally all the proceeds of the lectures go
to her hospital in Paris. She is living in
Xnrly Nni oad hay
MY Home on the Field of Honour? It's
most interesting. and her lecture is on
the same subject. which is obviously one
that she knows great deal about.
Most of the Auxiliaries are doing recla-
nation work now. | stopped in at the In
dependence Square Auxiliary the other
day and found them working for dear life.
They only had 10000 garments TO mend
and sew buttons on.
HNOMMY was very busy person and was
late for supper recently, but when
mother gently demonstrated he fioored her
with the remark; II had Government work
to do" The Government work proved to
be- going around with some Boy Scouts
TO put up posters. For be It known, said
Tommy is too young to be Scout.--one
must be ten, you know. However he con-
tents himself with doing all the Scouts
do whenever possible.
Well, after that remark. the family
waited for time to recover. but he blurted
out. after We put up signs, Jack and I
began to wrestle and We had rules that
you could hit in the face; Gee but he hit
well, he knocked In my tooth, YOU know,
nd In my I IN
it out but Jack said Don't cough without
a handkerchief, member the "fu." and bye
at time twas too late. I'd swallered it,"