Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-13
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Earnest Workers Enlist Nurses Ades-Nancy Wynne
Talks about People A,uay on Visits-Jane Thinks
They Must Need Leutenants

WHENEVER call comes along for spe-
w cial work of any kind, there are
always a lot of girls who respond
Before the war every time you went to
q bazaar, benefit affair of any kind or an
amateur vaudeville show you were sure to
see Peggy Thayer taking tickets, Charlotte
Brown usherng, Ethel HUM selling pro.
grams and Pauline Denckla, Mary Law,
Rebecca Thomson and the rest of them
selling flowers and cigarettes. Since the
war began you have seen them just as
often at war relief affairs and besides that,
as members of the e. A. A. or motor mes
sengers or junior service girls. they have
been selling Liberty Bonds, war stamps,
taking War Chest subscriptions, packing
for the Red Cross, doing canteen work and
oh, cNuld fill a whole column telling you
where you could see any one Of these
girls. Now another call has come and
they are ION the job The student nurse
reserve wants recruits, and so these girls
have enlisted and will start their courses
in training for nurses aides in the fall.
Peggy Thayer begins the first of next
month at the Episcopal Hospital. Char
lotte Brown has been studying at the Uni
versity Hospital and Ethel HUM, who is
now Mrs. Joseph Bailey, is going to start
at the Episcopal Hospital in September.
Pauline Denckla, Mary Law and Rebecca
Thomson are also going there. Mrs. Row.
land Evans Jr.--she was Elizabeth Downs.
you know-Emma Dorr and Emily Price
Welsh have all been studying at the Uni
versity Hospital At the end Of their
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be sent to army hospitals at the canton
ments. You can always count on them to
volunteer, and then after that you can
always be sure that they will do the work
well. I certainly wish them luck in their
new field.
nOESN'T it seem impossible that it's
- almost the middle of August? And
isn't 1t relief to think that we've actually
finished with that awful hot wave, and no
matter what happens now we won't have
anything quite like that to go through
with? House parties and visits away from
home are still going strong and the people
who are up North or out West or at the
seashore seem to be enjoying every minute
of their stay. Mrs. Alba Johnson, Jr., and
Margaretta Jeannes and Gwen Martin are
together at house party given by Mrs.
Arthur Pew at her ranch near Colorado
Springs. The two Brockies. Agnes and
Elizabeth, are still at York Harbor, where
they are visiting Sidney and Sarah Frank.
lin at their summer home Agnes certainly
does deserve a good holiday, for I never
saw sHch tireless worker as she is. Every
time booth was put up last winter in the
arcade on Fifteenth street Agnes was there
the first morning of whatever drive it was
crying her wares" and attracting every
body who passed Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ashton
Little. of STAFFORD. are expecting to leave
on Thursday with Mary and Nancy for
seagate to spend three or four weeks.
Mrs. Ronald Barlow is visiting Mrs Fred
erick Stovell at her cottage at Cape May.
Mrs. Barlow has been having quite a
strenuous week playing in the tournament
up at st. Martins. By the way, hear that
June Tilden, Of Germantown, has been
granted leave Of absence from the medical
camp where he is stationed to play in the
national tennis tournament this week on
Long Island. He always plays in the
national tournaments, you know, and is
most graceful and clever in his playing.
ANE'S Cousin Robert has always taken
. everything, and particularly himself,
very seriously, having little or no sense of
humor And, strange to say, the army
failed to take it out of him, and when the
army fails to take 1t out Of them it's pretty
bad, because they will add SO much extra
"swank" as soon as they get into the well.
cut olive drab. OF course, it is stunning,
kuf ,b,t
how, as soon as Cousin Robert was made
nrst lieutenant he surprised and shocked
the FAMILY by announcing that he was
coming to spend the weekend with them.
Jane was delighted and rather thrilled, for
she was long on patriotism and a uniform
was a soldier to her. When he first ar.
rived she was awed into admiring silence.
while THE Lieutenant" staggered around
IN the center Of the family's proud glances
you can't help being proud Of a lieuten-
ant in the family, even if he is terribly
conceited about it. Mother was much re.
heved at James silence because Jane is one
OF your frank. outspoken children.
AT luncheon, in the presence of much
food, the spell broke and Jane began to
revive. Sitting directly opposite Cousin
Robert she couldn't fail to notice every
selr-satished pose and large, patronizing
tone. What interested her most of all was
the peculiar brdlike way he cooked his
head to get view of his glistening shoul.
der bars They seemed to be the pride of
his life, and Jane couldn't see why. So
she asked, Cousin Robert, are you a real
soldier" Her pompous cousin replied that
he hoped he might be called that, and
mother, fastening to smother the confab
before it got dangerous remarked, why
Jane, Cousin Robert is, a lieutenant
Jane, not at all impressed, wanted to know
what showed he was lieutenant. And
when she heard that it was the little silver
bars she laughed as If at great joke
WELL" she returned. IF that's all, l
{ don't see why he's so awfully proud
They must need lots of lieutepants ba