Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-02

few people have noNopencd their houses
there this summer. MIST Of the regulars,
+ however, have gone to the hotels and the
swimming club is a gay place, indeed.
Meyer Davis is there with his orchestra,
as at the BelevueStratford in the winter.
= and the dancing and musical selections are
. Joy.
The Madison Taylors are up there as
usual and the Edward Mears. The De witt
Cuylers did not open their cottage this
year, but Mr.. Cuyler has made several trips
!. up and Mrs Cuyler will go with him later
IN the month.
~ While speaking of the Cuylers, I hear
that Eleanor Walker has had more COM
PORTING news Of Joe. The wound in his
hip Is flesh wound and. though it will
take at least two months time to put it
into any condition under which he may be
: able to use 1t, 1t is comforting to know that
he is not in danger, and though there is
certain amount of suffering entailed, it
is not as IL he had to have splints and
heavy weights and all those other trials
which go with broken bones.
Mrs Walker, who is spending the sum-
mer at her fathers home in Haverford
and has her small daughter Eleanor with
her. has had cables and letters from
friends "over there" who have seen joe
besides the official notice from the Govern.
ment, and the news is most encouraging
At least she knows he is not in pres
ent danger Of being killed in the fighting
and things may be nearer the finish when
he is able to go back again.
Joe Walker is captain. you know. He
u a New Yorker and after their marriage,
shortly before our entrance into the war,
they lived in New York Later he went
to Chattanooga and Eleanor and Esther
Toland took bungalow down there to be
near their respective husbands.
SEEM to come on sorrow of one, kind
or another everywhere l go these days
Hearing that the Woodwards had taken
the Edgar Munsons's cottage in Eagles
mere for month, brings to me their
! great sorrow in the death of their son.
4 They are so splendid about it, And proud
that their boy died for his country but
4 It must have been terrible for them, the
8 strain of not knowing anything positively
Tor so many months Mrs. Woodward told
. friend of mine that she simply would
not give up hope until she knew officially
that he had been killed. And the whole
family took that same stand. They went
l on just if they were sure he would be
found some day, until the official news
came ana there could no longer be any
doubt that he had been killed.
admired them and do admire them so
much for 1t all and think they are such
fine example for other families who have
the same sorrows, to go through.
Stanley, by the way. was not an usher at
the Dent Baify-weddin as was stated when
the bridal party was first announced, for
the news of Houston's death came in the
meantime and so he would not act
IND you hear that Burnside Winslow
- has gone into the ground aviation? He
was the famous Yale athlete, you remem.
Der. and lost his eye playing so he could
not go into the flying section. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Winslow, of this
city, but he has been living in New Haven
i for some years. He married Helen Car
& rington, of this city, several years ago.
&sHNHROUGH misinformation which at the
time had every reason to think Avas
r folI
f had been made a major in the judge ad.
vocate's department in Washington.
Mr.. Hart tells me that glad though he
I would be il it were true it is not for he
I u not q lawyer and one must be a lawyer
to be in the Judge advocates department.
OF course looked into the matter and
find that my informant got Harry Hodge
mixed with William Hart. How she did I
can't explain. but that's the case. Harry
Hodge is the son of the Rev. George
Woolsey Hodge and Mrs. Hodge, and a
lawyer of this city who has received the
appointment. He and Stevens Heckscher
who was recently appointed to the same
position, are now in Washington. Harry
Hodge is a brother of Mrs. George Nor.
a rison Coates, Mrs. Joseph l.. Phillips, Mrs
William E. Lockwood, Jr., Mrs Thompson
Coale and Mr. Carroll Hodge.
nUEENIE simply had to clean her car.
VI So as she had only beautiful fresh
white skirt and 'waist down at the little
resort with her, why risk getting that
soiled? Certainly not. So she donned her
Annette Kellermann, in which she had been
swimming that morning. Then she de-
| cdded she would need shoes. SO she added
white wooden stockings and low shoes. The
stockings were turned down below the
| knee N approved fashion. Glancing at her
costume in the glass, Queenie seemed TO
think there was something missing, so she
I added short white smock and descended
| TO the side of the house, where she pro-
ceeded to turn on the hose and wash the
car.