Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-14

seems to be the place TO go between leaving
the Coast resorts and coming home. Tor
some persons do not care to open their
town houses before October.
The Harlan Pages and their daughter,
Miss Jessie Allen Page, have been motor
ing through New England and stopped
yesterday at Le,lox for three OF four days.
And Miss Anne Meigs. who spent the sum-
per at Newport at the Convent or the
Cenacle, as she has done for several years,
is in LenoX staying with Miss Emily w.
Biddle. Of 122 South Twenty.second street.
Miss Biddle has a beautiful old place in
Lenox and spends most of her suWmers
there. She gave a dinner last evening in
honor Of Miss Meigs.
TNIIE Robert E. Grifiths have been haE-
= ing wonderful trip through Canada by
motor They have been going for two
weeks and have seen some marvellous
sights For Canada has been in the war
four years, while we have only had eight
cen months of it so far; but the tide is
turning now and believe it will be over
soon, don't you: TO return to the subject
in hand, did you know the Griffiths have
given up their house in Haverford and are
living off and on with their daughter. Mrs.
Ned Page in Bryn NIawr? That is, they
take a good many trips around together
by motor and so into town Tor month :"
20 in the winter But Elizabeth has her
small baby and her house to look after and
her husband is in France, it's good
arrangement for them to spend most OF
the time with her.
Speaking Of the Pages, did you hear that
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for months, and both left this side before
there was any possibility OF a meeting?
Who do you think was the first person
Neddy met when he landed in France:
None other than Roddy. who was just there
by chance and was just Us surprised as
Neddy- was.
T THINK those chance meetings over
1 there" must be perfectly wonderful.
Don't YOU? Only the other day I heard
that Badly Edwards on his arrival over
seas, had been wondering how he would
get into communication with his cousin,
Doctor Fetterman. He was in Paris and
he decided TO 80 to the Madeleine to church
that day. After church, as he came out
of the side door. whom did he meet coming
from the center door but that same cousin
wilfred Fetterman. And those things hap
pen all the time.
A MOTHER instance, one OF our Red
"A Cross workers who went over recently
was not assigned to his field work imme-
diately, so he offered to help in the hos
pitfalls. Well, the second evening he was
asked to help wash and bind up q wounded
man who had just come in. Imagine mis-
,;utsyr han I'M and nd
were removed to hear Irwin Garrett eX-
claim, cha rlie Jennings! Where on earth
did you come from" And there Irwin was.
You know he had been reported slightly
wounded, and had been able. TO be for.
warded to Paris, while the more serious
cases were treated nearer the front; and
one'of the first men to help him was Charlie
Jennings, a man he'd known for many
years and who had gone over in July for
field work in the Red Gross.
OAR HARBoR is losing u number of its
0emmer residents. Dr. and Mrs.
H. ion Taylor will leave there next week
and Mrs T. De Witt Cuyler is expected
In AIaverford during the same week. The
Frank ,Pattersons came down this week
and have opened their house at 2200 st.
james plaCe. Inc SluD clOSeS
this month and the tearooms and other en-
ticements to general enjoyment will close
before October 1. 1t has been a very good
summer UP there, however, they tell me.
IT'S strange the various kinds of hap
penings one hears as one fits from
place to place. Sometimes they are touch.
ing, very touching stories; again they are
funny or cute, humorous or stupid, but
generally very human. Sometimes, how
ever, the things one hears about are decid.
edly reprehensible.
have heard time and again that some
s few--but thank goodness, very few-of
QUE boys who have not seen foreign serv.
ice yet are taking their duties rather
easily on this side. Still, did not believe
that any would stoop to trying to get leave
by. untrue means, did you? Well, this story
is true, and I'm telling it because perhaps
one or two others who take the war and
its obligations, lightly may stop and think
for awhile in their hearts.
The boy in question is very young and
he was dying for a furlough. So he wrote
to friend in his home town and said
friend unthinkingly complied with his
request. In a few days telegram came
signed with ther boys fathers name. 1t
said Don very ill. Come home at once"
He took it to his commanding officer
and signing sadly, said. my. brother"
Permission was given and he left on a
furlough Of several days. When he reached
home don" was on the porch to meet
him, wasging his tail and barking shrilly
with Joy, For Don YOU perceive. was
dog no more nor less, and dog that could
not hide his joy at seeing his master But
at the same time, he was not his brother
and not i'll. and that boy obtained leave
through false pretenses. .
In a case such as this it would seem
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