Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-04
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Italian Committee of Emergency Aid to Give Enter
tainment on Friday Night at Academy of Music.
Nancy Wynne's Daily Comment

ANY of US who heard win irwin last
"A Monday at the Independence Square
Auxiliary Of the Rcd Cross will certainly
want 10 10 on Friday night of this week
10 the Academy Of Music to hear him once
more. for hc Is going to speak that evening
st an entertainment gotten up by the Ital.
ian committee OF the Emergency Aid. There
will he some wonderful pictures OF the
Italian front. too and there will bc music
furnished by an Italian orchestra.
Mrs BENJAMIN Miller. who is head OF
the committee. was among those who
hoard Mr. irwin last week at COS Chestnut
street. ON Friday night he will speak
about "'rhc Latin at War" lie has just
comc back from the Italian battlefront
and has wonderful experiences to relate.
Indeed, Mr. irwin is a splendid talkcr and
most simple and modest. lie scarcely ovcr
speaks Of himself save in very impcr-
sona way, and yet hear that lie pcr.
sonay is suffering from shell shock and
that hc went through many privations
with the suffering people over there.
Associated with Mrs. Miller on the Ital.
ian committee are Mrs. J. Gardner Cas-
satt, Mrs. Bertram Lippincott, Mrs. Her.
bert NJ Fisher, Mrs George Harrison
Fisher, Mrs. James Mifln, Mrs. Albert
Weimer, Mrs Robert u. iIaines, Mrs
Charles Houston, Miss Mary Beath, Mrs
william Worth Mrs. Charles Huston. Mrs
Sydney Wright, Mrs. John Morgan. Mrs.
Edward Troth, Mrs William Law Mrs
william Gibbons. Mrs. Henry Evans Mrs.
Walter Banes, Miss Virginia tTartshorne,
Miss Mary Mccullough, Miss Mary Tat.
tersncld and Miss Ruth Gibbons.
Among those who will occupy boxes are
Mrs Robert Strawbrdge, who. by the way,
is going to live permanently in Washing
ton soon, | hear: Mrs. John G.. Groome
Mrs. George Horace Lormcr, Mrs. Robert
Hanes and Mrs. Miller
ISN'T Mary Brooke having a wonderful
L time? She's been staying with the
'Josephus Daniels down lin Washington
She is coming home this week and viii
bring Mary Daniels. who is "A niece Of the
Secretary Of the Navy. with her to spend
several weeks. Mary Brooke is very
pretty don't you think? She mas that soft.
=
looks utterly sweet in various shades Of
blue She is "A sister of Eddie Brooke you
know, and would have come out this year
had there been any coming out. OF
course, these woud.have- debutantes
are wisely considered "out" and so they
do the things out" girls are permitted.
And | don't know but what they have "A
better time, since they don't have to worry
to have quantities OF new gowns and lose
all their beauty by continual late hours
and rich food. The war has its good as
poets, you sec
CllE was such "A beautiful mother and
~ Marjorie wanted TO grow up to look
and act just like her, for daddy said if
little daughter copied mother and grew
TO be such a fine woman he would love
her more than tongue could tell"
Now Marjorie watched faithfully and
was splendid imitator. particularly when
she desired to make people happy. Mother
had fallen into the habit of using the word
Exceedingly" without thinking she
would say: "MS. Smith is an exceedingly
beautiful woman; Mr.. Jones an exceedingly
"ahuso"Ie i'di' captain thompson SUCH an
exceedingly noble officer" Even the family
doctor had said to father, What an eX'
ceedingy fine Airedale." But alas. Rover
the Airedale, met with an accident and
father tclephoned at once to his suburban
home for the veterinary surgeon. just
before the latter arrived poor Rover died.
Marjorie kept watch at the window, and
as the maids were all as much asitated
as the master and mistress Marjorie hur-
red TO the doors with the sad news. SAID
the veterinary, We'll, Marjorie how is
Rover" With a quaint grown.up al,
Marjorie replied sraciously. Rover is eX
ceedinGIy dead, thank you"