Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-28

ID EAbbN, the quiet way i'll which the
~ Overseas Club works I'D gets there is
marvellous, isn't It? My dears. do YOU
know that that bunch of energetic women
have undertaken to send Chave given the
order and II is being carried out. tool
$4,000 worth of tobacco "a week to our
men "ovor thcrc?' And that's only Phila.
delphia, mind you. why | think Il is
simply wonderful that In the various in
terests they have undertaken to make
money for the fund, they have raised
enough TO put such orders through. / take
pride in saying that we are remarkable for
this work. Indeed in proportion to popula-
tion AMI money in this city We are we'll
In the lead in our Emergency Aid work,
and the Overseas Club is as you know.
a branch of the Emergency Aid Five
years ago if ! had been tod that these
women who are the soul and backbone
Of all these good works would give up
their time from 0 until o'clock nearly
every day Of their lives, either at the
Emergency Aid headquarters, the Red
Cross, the Overseas Club the Navy League
the various relief committees, the Motor
Messenger headquarters and all the other
works, would not have believed it, No.
because Eve years ago they did not have
to think of anything but clothes and balls
and dinners and partners in the social
world. But now very few care If they
have new gowns, and most think It better
not TO buy them anyhow, because that
money could be 80 we'll used for the Rcd
Cross or the poor Serbians or .Armenans
CPEAKING OF the Emergency Aid, did
~ you know that the Mask and Wig has
promised 10 give the proceeds of it's
Faster weeks performance to certain dcsE.
mated committees of the Emergency Aid?
That is great, too. isn't it?
ISN'T il awful how careful one has to be
i in front Of the kiddies?
They arc SO small you don't realize how
they pick things up and mimic. This was
evidently the case the other day with q
certain young father that you know and /
know. lie had u bad cold and stayed home
for several days. Now. this young father
had a small daughter aged two years and
about two months to be exact. and also in
the fari.ly there was a small dog, whom
tho daughter was wont to pull round with
her in her various avocatlons. While father
was home he heard small dog" bark in the
distance, and forgetting that small daugh.
ter" was on tho floor in the room with
him, he sweetly remarked, where is that
damn pup
No ore answered and so all was well,
till about five minutes later, when puppie
was heard loping along the hall. Daddy"
said daughter. Daddy. see--damn pup"
THE women of the Navy League are
l. going to hold a big bazaar for the sale
OF lamp shades and knitting bags at the
Ritz.Carlton Oh April /, I'm told, for .heir
free wool fund. There are so many vol
untecrs for work these days it's almost
impossible TO provide enough wool for
those who are willing and anxious to
work, but canno: afford to buy worsted TO
any extent.
T HEAR Alden Lee was able 20 get short
l. furlough after all, though he is now
back on his ship. lie and Edith, however,
had a little wedding trip, IL it was a belated
one. Edith is going South to join the Lilies
for a while. To me this marrying and then
having to leave ones husband or wife in a
few days seems infinitely pathetic. And il
It is pathetic to me an onlooker. what must
1t be to the poor little principals? How
ever, better have each other little while
than not at all, is their argument guess.
and ! believe I'd do the same thing il the
necessity arose. How about il?
NANCY WYNEE