Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-28
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells OF Unusual York Done by Emergency Aid
Aides-Ne,U School for Wounded Soldiers
to Open Next Week

I'D you know that six of the Emergency
- Aid Aides are working in a large choco-
late manufacturers this week? General
Pershing recently sent over a huge order
for candy and plain chocolate and the fac
tory, being short.handed on account Of the
munitions plants and the draft and one
thing and another, couldn't possibly get
the order filled i'm time. SO, they called
up 1928 Walnut street, and asked for vol
unteers from the f. A. A.-and of course
got them, along with eagerness to learn
quickly and to work. And every day this
week they have been wrapping up choco-
late at the factory. Mrs. jay d.. Witham
and Jean De Rousse are among the work.
ing aids and so are Ruth Perry, Alice
Berry and Helen Bickel.
MRS. GEORGE DALLAS DIXON of 20o4
AVA Spruce street has come back from
Winter Harbor where she spent the sum-
mer. Her two daughters, Mrs. Norris
Vaux of Chestnut Hill. and Mrs. Gardner
Cassatt expect to spend the winter in town
with her.
T HEAR that young Lieutenant William
al W. Va WI '''
Mrs. Edward Stettinius of New York has
been gassed in France. Mrs. Stettinius
and her daughter, Betty, were guests of
Mrs. Barklie last week during the Horse
Show, and helped in the cafeteria. They
have all been at White Sulphur Springs
together, and are interested in the same
war work down there. Mr.. Stettinius, who
is assistant Secretary of War, is in France,
too. His son is only twenty-five and has
been over there since April, and has the
distinction of having been in command of
the platoon that took the first German
captives. He is in a Field Hospital now
recovering from his injury.
YOU'VE no doubt heard of the Philadel.
L phia School of Occupational Therapy
organized for the purpose of teaching oc.
equations to the wounded and disabled
men who come back from overseas. 1nvi-
tations have been received for the opening
next Wednesday morning in the School of
Design, under the auspices of the Ma
tional League for Woman's Service. It's
to be at IL o'clock in the auditorium and
I think it will be quite interesting. Mrs.
Edgar w. Baird and Mrs. A. II. Reeve are
honorary chairmen of the organization,
and Mrs, Gordon McCouch of st. Martins
is chairman. The vicechairman is Mrs.
Frederick Rockwell, who is also chair
man of the executive committee. Mrs.
John Macarthur Harris is secretary, Miss
Margaret Neall is corresponding secre.
tary, and Mrs. Walter Clark is treasurer
and chairman of the finance committee.
They are almost all from Chestnut Hill,
land vicinity.
The board of directors includes Mr.. Will
liam C Ash, Mrs. Henry c. Boyer, DR..
Charles Burr, who is also chairman of the
personnel committee, DIR. Elizabeth +. C.
Clark, DR.. owen Copp. Miss Mary T. Dow,
Miss Helen Fleisher. Mr.. s. s. Fleisher.
Miss Florence w. Fulton, Dean Frank p.
Graves, chairman of the curriculum COM
mittee, DR.. w. w. Keen, DIR. Warren p.
Laird, DR.. r. TAFT Mckenzie, chairman of
the medical committee, Mrs. Mckenzie,
Mrs. Harrison Morris, Mrs. Horace Peck,
Miss Emily Sartain, Miss Harriet Sartain,
Miss Elma Shick, Mrs. James Starr and
Mr.. Howard p. Stratton. Miss Emily Sar.
tain is principal of the School of Design,
you know, and Miss Shick teaches draw
ing. Mrs. Harrison Morris is the mother
~ Wv "'io 'oVS SUM- 81 Z
full dances in costume. She has danced at
several benefit affairs this year, and is
much in demand with her original "act".
.THEY were rockies, and their drill
i master was trying them out by letting
each man in the squad take a turn at
giving the orders. They were at Mannheim
., enjoying the training OF the military or.
ganization. and this one particular squad
was marching round the square made by
the back-stop on the cricket crease. A
young member of the squad settled his
gun and his thoughts. remarked sternly,
"Forward,-march," and they marched. It
wasn't very far to a low stone wall at the
+. edge of the green, and il was up to him
to get those eight men turned in time for
them to walk parallel with said wall in
stead of into it and over the top. And
the audience on the benches above the
wall was a bit nervous. But he was
".there''.
~ AS the proper foot came down, Just
about four PAGES away from the dead-line,
he sang out, "To the right",-and then,
while everybody waited breathless for the
word of command, he hesitated, and his
squad carried on toward inevitable barked
shins, Again he stepped with the proper
foot and, without losing step or presence
of mind, changed his order to, by the
right flank,-march!", and missed the
wall by one inch, while everybody started
to breathe again.
He'll be a soldier some day, and hope
he keeps his head that way in every emer-
gency that meets up with him.
NANCY WYNNE.
Gail A