Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-16
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Is Thrilled Over the Prospect of Real
Ball-Officers Elected in Time Honored
Society-Puss Is Saved

listen. girls and boys. There is going
l. TO be a real dance in Easter week.
peaiy truly, black and bluely! Did YOU
ever hear anything to beat it? Sounds
like the Assembly. almost, in extent in
fact even more SO, for every dancing
roon I'm the Bellevue-S -Stratford has been
engaged--ballroom. Junior ballroom, Red
poom Glover Room and Rose Gardens
on the roof
why. "posilutely," I can't get over 1t,
A real honest.to. goodpess dance of such
size. Good night! Out comes my frock
of last year to be freshened up with new
tulle and I have been practicing dancing
ever since heard of it. Far be ii frcm
me 10 say that Nancy is some little dancer;
hut. b,lieve me, she doesn't miss many
chances to trip the light fantastic.
OF course, it's n benefit affair; you
couldn't have anything else big and have
/, clear conscience too. could you? But it's
good one and the Emergency Aid is in
q. and the proceeds are to go to the
chaplains' recreation work
The ball is to be given 10y the Fourth
Naval District United States Reserve
Force, and there are to be speciality dances
and unusual features. and during the eve
ming there will be a short patriotic ad-
dress.
Tickets are to be sold at booths which
Y will be erected during the coming week in
hotels and various department stores. It's
going to be some party, if littlo Nancy
knows anything, and she is apt to know
thing or two before it happens as well as
the aftermath
NNE of the most dignifled and honorable
" societies OF the city held its twenty
sixth annual meeting at the Penn Club. at
} Eighth and Locust streets, on Thursday,
when representative men of social lineage
and distinction met to choose their officers
for the ensuing year in the Society of
Colonial Wars.
This society is limited to 200 members.
you know, and out of those 200 there are
sE al least one-ffth in the service Of the
United States. more power to them
s The officers elected on Thursday night
4 were Governor Richard Mccall Cadwala-
der: deputy governor. John Thompson
Spencer; lieutenant governor s. Davis
Page; secretary. Edward s. Sayres treas.
urer, William Macpherson Hornor: regis
:, trar. J. Willis Martin; historian. Gregory
B. Keen, Ii. D.. and chaplain. the Right
Rev. Cortandt Whitehead. S. 7. D.. Bishop
Of Pittsburgh. The gentlemen Of the coun.
Gil elected to serve for thrS years include
Edwin Swift Balch John T. Lewis, Jr, and
George Brinton Phillips.
IT'S rather NInny out in Nilanova just
now, though it's not funny to the
ods had wonderful time last Saturday at
the christening Of a ship at Cramps, when
Mary Thayer. daughter of Captain George
C. Thayer and Mrs Thayer, did the chris.
tening and was guest of honor ilt a lunch.
& con afterward.
YIN Well, my dears. what did she do after
that but go home and develop chlckenpox
together with the other small members of
" her family. And naturally the mothers and
fathers of every child who attended that
S' christening are anXously Watching for
symptoms. ChckenpoX is such an unro.
a mantle disease and it's unpleasant because
1t shuts the whole family indoors and re.
qures fumgating and yet it is not serious
h,seems hardly worth while; one of those
silly little things that just annoy people
ISN'T II: But just because it does interfere
with every ones plans it's a nuisance and
don't blame the mothers for worrying
[ over ii.
q SHE did not look one bit like a house.
breaker. but what was Nancy to think
III when she walked up Walnut street yester.
E uay and saw a deb of last years vintage
struggling with the iron cellar windows Of
house that sided on u small street OPEN
& ing into that stylish thoroughfare? 1t Ger.
tainly was queer! Nancy walked past
Ihen She thought "Ha, German spy!"
ana returned the way she had come and
crossed the small street once more. Still
q me young girl worked on cautiously and
seemed to be mumbling to herself. Nancy
s'opped and hesitated; then she walked
'scK and on; and then turned and back
again to the fray
E Inc struggle was getting more strenu-
0us and the worker at the window was
90 engrossed in trying to break in that
sne oid not see the approach Of a spectator.
90 this time Nancy walked past again, but
not all the Nay. and she stopped and delib-
''a'eV watched the performance.
suddenly the heavily breathing worker
'uhed around and, seeing Nancy, eX.
aAhea' "Oh, come and help me. These
p'op'e nave gone away and left this poor
PUSSY mere, and she cried so as | was pass
nave been trying to get her out"
nu there was the cutest kitten Nancy
ever saw.
"en at that minute kind man came
ohs and seeing the distress asked the
suoe' and though these kind of coin
sNshces usually happen only in stories.
was 1t appears a nelghbor of those
uho had gone away and with him they
.sa ieft the keys. So. presto! he opened
'ne door and released the kitten from the
sNar and the happy deb of last year tucked
ss under her arm and hastened home to
's'u her' ?. NANCY WYNNE.