Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-29
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Recalls Declaration of War Last Good
Friday-Society Spends Day in Church.
A Little Story

ONE year ago today according TO eccle.
~ siastica calendars, We went into the
war. For II was Good Friday, though
April s. And today again is Good Friday.
Last year we just about took IN the
shock of IL all. For though in our hearts
md souls we had felt we should join in
the great and just cause, when it finally
came it was indeed SOLDERING thought.
And then our boys. How they enlisted.
how they flocked to the call of the Govern.
men,! ihen, It was just the preparation;
but today many OF them are in this terrific
battle now going on in France, fighting
shoulder to shoulder with their British
and French comrades and showing the
bravery and grit and determination that
has ever and always characterized our
American men.
And over them all is the thorn-crowned
figure of Christ hanging nailed to His
Cross, dying that souls might be free: for
these men battling for a great ideal, yes,
and dying for their misguided opponents
as we'll. The'lovins bloodflled eyes Of the
Saviour are turned on the ,;hole world.
lie knew how men would forget Him and
turn against Him and b!aspheme Him, but
lie died for them just the same. And He
knew, too. that out of this awful carnage
great good would come and men would
turn to Him, and lie yearned for them.
Isn't it comfort in our sorrow and anX.
iety these days to know that He suffered,
too, and that we can share with Him in
His great sacrifice?
TET me tell you about little Mary. She
IL is a tiny person of four with large
violet eyes and soft brown curls, and some
times she isn't quite so good as she might
be- But Mother finds she has only to show
her how her naughtiness pains her TO
know that Mary's little heart will be
touched and the big tears come into her
wondering eyes.
In Mary's homo there is a beautiful copy
of the Pieta. the famous sculptured piece
by Michael Angelo which is in the Vatican.
1t represents the Virgin MotLer receiving
the body of her dead Son. One OF His
hands falls from her lap, and in the hand
is the great wound made by the nail. This
picture hangs over u mantel, and one day
last week Mother came in TO find that Mary
had climbed by chairs and tables up to the
mantel and was kneeling on it in front of
the picture, reaching up TO it with her tiny
hands.
Mother came in quietly: it would not do
to startle her. she might fall. But as she
reached her she put her arms about her
and said What are you doing, darling?"
Little AIary's eyes were full of tears. In
her tiny hand she had Il bit of court plas.
ter. Il wanted to put it on His sore hand,
J;r,p .
she said.
Dear little child heart. Can we fathom
its loving pity?
She wanted to help, and that should be
our aim to help by helping His suffering
followers now on the battlefield. From
this Good Friday let us gain fresh help
and strength TO go on in the work we
have undertaken and 10 work better and
harder than ever.
There is nothing of socia! activity in
the city today: most of the women are in
church or working for the Red Cross.
T THINK told you the Mask and Wig
Club has decided to give the proceeds
OF it's week of playing at the Forrest
Theatre to certain committees of the
sunny EhAu' nat 10 NNA fanny "a WV
thy thing to do and makes the audiences
even more eager to buy tickets and attend,
The dress rehearsal was held yesterday
and it's going to be fine OF course. it's
full of NONSENSE; its very name, "The
Bridal Not" presupposes that. But it is
we'll presented nonsense and the music is
catchy, and as for the girls" WE'LL really,
they are wonderful. II won't do for me to
tell you about it in advance; it might spoil
some of the jokes and surprises. One
thing is sure, however. It's worth the
seeing.
7 HEAR that Gertrude Daniels and Perot
l. Nevn are to be married on April 20.
That makes two marriages in the Nevin
family within ten months Dorothy, you
remember Perots sister, was married last
August in jamestown, r. l.. TO Captain
Theobald +. Clark a son of Walton Clark
of Chestnut HILL and brother of Walton
Clark, Jr, who married Betty Scott at
Mt. Gretna nearly two years ago just be-
fore the Guard left for the Mexican border
Dorothy is now living down in Baltimore
to be near her husband. Gertrude Daniels
is the daughter of Mr.. Samuel Sailer Dan
iels, of Riverton, n. j, Perot's mother is
Mrs. Charles w. Nevin. Mr.. Nevin died
some time ago. Mrs. Nevin was Miss Iiar'
riet Ogden.
TT is fine to know that Clifford and John
Large are really going TO stay with
us for while. They have not lived IN
Philadelphia since their marriage about ter
years ago, but shortly after Bob LargeS
death this year John was sent to Phiadel
phia and they have been living here since
Now they have taken the house OF Mrs
Willing Peters on West Willow Grove ave-
nue., in Chestnut Hill. Clifford Large was
Clifford Newbold. She Is a daughter OF the
late Pemherton NeMhold and Mrs. NeWbolS