Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-30

cert had been planned to be given on the
pier by the Y. NJ. c. A. commitee. And
they have asked the Orpheus Quartet from
Philadelphia to go down and sing in a
Persian Garden" for them. You know the
quartet does this sort of thing for various
benefits, and the members have really been
splendid this season helping different war
works.
In June they gave an out-of.door per-
fcrmance of this same song cycle in the
Botanical Gardens. They wear appropriate
costumes and carry out everything to
make the picture for the eye as well as
the sound for the ear.
Miss Edna Harmon Baugher is the so.
Lprano, and Miss Elizabeth Dickson con-
ySEalto. Philip Warren Cooke is the tenor
and Donald Redding the barytone. sAnd
al the voices are good, indeed more than
good, so I predict that tomorrow's per-
Torrance will rank with the best ever
given in Cape May. And that's going
some!
The two women in the quartet have
won great applause this year singing in
the various hospitals and soldiers camps.
Just think, they have been to Dix, Cape
May, Wissahickon Barracks, Allentown,
Lewes, Del; Lee, Va; Somerton, Gettys-
burg, Fort du Pont and several others.
And to say the men have been pleased is
putting it mildly. The quartet goes as
often as possible, but sometimes the men
cannot get away, so the two women have
been constantly in demand.
|uAVE you heard about the Hostess
- House in Ocean City? 1t is unique
In being the only one of it's kind along
the coast, l am told.
OF course, there are other Hostess
Houses, but they are usually connected
with the camps, where men in the service
can entertain the women members of their
families who go to see them. This one at
Ocean City, however, is entirely different.
1t Is situated right on the boardwalk. in a
building donated by Mrs. Oswald J. De
Rouse, of Germantown. They give
board, lodging, bathing suits and enter
tainment to anybody in the service without
cost. The house was opened July 1 and
In the first week entertained 400 men. In
the last six weeks they have entertained
about 1000 men.
The idea of this kind of a hostess house
OrIBlndteu WITH MIS-. Mention NaTne, q COT
tager at Ocean City. While out walking
one evening she heard two sailors asking
policeman If there was a club anywhere
Town there where they could go. When
he replied in the negative, they seemed
so disappointed that Mrs. Warne began to
think and think That very evening she
called or several friends, and by the next
morning the Hostess House was an estab.
hshed idea and soon became a living fact.
In the first week of it's existence the fire
broke out at the camp in Tuckahoe, so
they helped entertain the soldiers from
there. Recently a new upright piano was
given to the house by Mrs. Alfred Gray.
Mrs. r. Men. Davis gave the use of a
beautifully furnished apartment to the
Hostess House for the remainder of the
season, and thus the women in charge of
the undertaking have been able to enter
tain seven convalesCent sailors from the
Philadelphia Navy Yard. Mrs. Andrew Paul
has also donated rooms in her apartment.
Plans are on foot to celebrate Hero
Day" but the date has not yet been settled
upon. Mrs. Kenton Warne is chairman,
n the other hostesses are Mrs. Oswald j.
De Rouse, Mrs. Andrew Gray, Mrs. Rus
6Olhp N4AcS <hhiiio NioShh 49, 49,
Frank Campion, Mrs. r.. A. Milestone,
Caughn, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Dorman, Mrs.
John Fite, Mrs. Smithson and Mrs. A. L.
Palmer.
ND you know that Lancaster Inn has
~ been given to the Bryn Mawr Hospi-
tai as a Home for Convalescent Soldiers?
Isn't that fine? That's one reason why
the hospital committees are so anxious
that the Horse Show shall be a success,
for the proceeds, you know, are to go to
the hospital. And as there is lutte a. little
deficit now. 1t is felt that that must be met
frst before the war work of the hospital
IL further enlarged. You know. they are
taking care of the members of soldiers
md sailors families free Of charge, and
lat is certainly a great work, is 1t not?
", I do hope the Horse Show is a sue
IN It's for such a worthy cause. Mrs.
Evans is in charge Of the disposal
Of tickets for the show.
vXyELL, girls and boys, there's an
w engagement coming out soon. In
fact, it's coming out sooner than the party
of the first part and the party of the Sec
ond part had originally intended; but then
you see they had not reckoned on the small
cousin of the girl in the case" who was
playing in the corner of the room the other
day when they were talking together one
late afternoon. In fact, as is the way with
lovers now and again, they quite forgot
that there was any one else in the world
but they two, let alone in the room. And
II they had thought they would not have
dreamed that small Eleanor, aged two and
. half, would have noticed them. But that
night at bedtime. when Eleanor was being
Itucked into the soft white sheets, the girl
in the case passed the door and Eleanor
t>.uad out in her hnfelikA small Noice