Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-02

III HEAR that Mrs. Clarence bolah enter
i tanned about thirty marines from Camp
Fuller. Paoli. recently at her home In
Rosemont. The marines were under the
command of Major ]. J. Meade and they
certainly did enjoy themselves. You know,
Mrs. Dolan and her family have always
been great horse people, and they have a
Wonderful paddock. Well, that afternoon,
Mrs. Dolan hired horses for the marines
and they practised riding in this paddock,
and had a big time. After that they had a
delicious supper and soft music by the
orchestra" during the meal. Mrs. Dolan
Is one OF the chairmen of the Women's
National Liberty Loan OF the
Main Line, and is working awfully hard.
Her husband and eldest daughter, Resale,
are doing war.work in France, and Alex
is taking the threeyear nursing course
at the Presbyterian Hospital.
nID you hear about Hobey Bakers en-
- gagement? lie is to marry Mimi Scott
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. George
Isham Scott of New York. She made her
debut in Newport five years ago. Last NO
vember she went TO France as a nurse ana
has been there ever since in an evacuation
hospital. HOBBY, as everybody knows is
the famous Princeton athlete, and is very
well known in this city. He was graduated
In 1914 and enlisted i'm the aviation just
after we got into the war. He's not an
ace vet, but he has two victories officially
TO his credit. and is still going strong. To
his personnel officer he is known as Lieu
tenant Hobart A. II. Baker, and is the
son of Mr.. Alfred Thornton Baker of
Princeton.
MRS. ALEXANDER BRINTON COXE
AHl has been spending a few. days in New
York on her way home from York Harbor.
and expects to visit Atlantic City, too be-
fore she returns to 1880 Rittenhouse
Square. Mrs. Cra:s Biddle is not coming
back here this winter, as she has leased
her house at I7i3 Locust street. She is
going to the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York
after she leaves Newport and will spend
the winter there.
TUST as the Red Cross has about finished
- the drive for clothes for Belgium it is
ready to start another for linen. This is
to take the form Of a linen shower
sounds like a bride.--and will be a sort of
friendship gift to France. You see, they
want several million handkerchiefs, nap
kins and sheets for use in the hospitals
!, abroad. AS every housewife knows. these
things are pretty high.priced to-day, so
each family is going to be asked to con-
tribute from its reserve stock of household
linens. An average of one piece of linen
from every household in the country
would easily fill this order. 1t does seem
as If we might do that, doesn't it?
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A LASS in hospital library work is
"A to be conducted at the Chestnut Hill
Service House. under the direction of Mrs.
Ellis Ames Ballard. Once a week the
meetings are held, and articles and stories
of various kinds are cut out of magazines
and made into looks. Then they are bound
in different bright colors, so that the men
IN the hospitals can tell by the color of the
binding just what kind of an article they
are getting. If a soldier wants a half hour
of foolishness, he takes out a paper bound
book Of the color that designates wit and
humour," and then he's sure that he won't
run. into anything serious or technical.
Mrs. Daniel Farr has a class of young
girls who are working for the children OF
Europe who are in need. The work on
overcoats is going on rapidly and of course
there is a Liberty Loan Headquarters there
I heard that the woman's sold
two thousand dollars worth of bonds just
in the first two days of the campaign In
Chestnut Hill. Executive meetings are
held at the Service House the first Wed
nesday of each month, and afterward there
Is an open meeting for everybody who
wants to come. Mrs. Walter Clark, who
Is at the head of them, is very anxious to
make these meetings a big part of the
routine, and to have a good attendance al
all of them.
r HEARD Of such "A kind thing that q
1 sailor is doing who has just come bach
from over there. He landed ten days age
and last week he was in New York just
spending his whole time delivering mes
sages to families from their boys who have
been with him on duty overseas. This
week he is staying here doing the same
thing, and sometimes he takes a whole da,
Just travelling to some suburban town t.
give a personal message from some fam
ily's Tom. Dick or Harry. 1t must be sucl
o comfort to those people to talk to some
body who has just left their boy safe anC
well and happy, and | think it's a pretty
fine thing for him to do.
y NANCY WYNNE.