Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-14
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tells What Founders of Ocean City Hostess
House Are Doing About Christmas-Interesting
Holiday Exhibition at Art Alliance

voU'vE heard about the Hostess House
at Ocean City that was started last
summer? Well the committee in charge
/. is still carrying on up here, and now they
are working for Christmas. On Monday
night they are to meet at Mrs kenton
wayne's-she is chairman, you know-to
dress dolls donated by Mrs. ]. H. Miller for
Christmas gifts to unfortunate 'children
who have only nodding acquaintance with
Santa Claus. And then on the Sunday be-
fore Christmas, they are going to meet In
the waiting room of the Reading Terminal
at half-past two to visit Mr.. Mckenty's
Mission. Each one is asked to bring
stocking filled for child, so that sounds
as If little more Christmas cheer would
!, be dispensed.
Some Of the people interested in this
work are Mrs w. E. Hexamer. Mrs. o. ].
De Rousse, Mrs. r. s. Patterson, Mrs. w.
J. Ferguson, Mrs. William Dornan, Mrs.
T. H. Heulings, Mrs. w. F. Darby, Mrs.
Thomas Walker, Dorothea Miller and
number of others,-such q number that 1
really haven't the space to name them all.
But I'd like. to, because think they ought
10 be talked up" for all the good work
they're doing.
TN INTERESTED in this exhibition that
is to be held at the Art Alliance begin
ming on Monday and continuing until jan
iary q 1t is unique in the fact that it in
cludes everything-oil, water coors, pas
Z tells, black and white sketches, sculpture
and arts and crafts objects. Arts and crafts
is the most elastic term; it can mean
huge old rose bowl, rag rug. twisted
ring with queer stone in it, or an en-
semble, like a pussy willow branch in q
yellow vase with a piece of old blue SILK
as background. All the various kinds of
4 artists are to be represented, of course, and
they include Miss Violet Oakley, Mr.. Paul
King, DIR. r. TAFT Mckenzie, Mr.. John Con.
ner, Mr.. c. Yarnall Abbot, Mr.. Morris Hall
Pancoast, Mr.. W. G. Krieghoff and Mrs
John Madison Taylor. Quite an assembly
OF celebrities, should say.
In the arts and crafts. department, be-
sides the other things, there is to be some
pottery by Jessie Gordon and Mrs. Charles
Drake, ink wells, sconces and things from
the Moravan Potteries at Doylestown, and
come very rare old Persian bowls, Tanagra
figures, Egyptian scarabs. and strange
iewelry, which have been collected by Mr..
!. ,Azeez Khayat who. has provided the Penn
: aylvania Museum with a lot Of its finest
,nRieces
ys4. Then on Tuesday another exhibition
hStarts. This is up on the second floor or
!, the Art Alliance, and consists Of the designs
ssin color done by pupils Of the schools in
T Paris. This work has been done during the
war by children of eight to sixteen years
!, Of age. Now, imagine any of us being
able to make design and color it while a
: !. hhasty German gun was banging away at
I. us from Lancaster or some place like that!
I. Among those who will receive at the pri-
rate view Of the exhibition on Monday are
Mrs. Edward Hornor Coates that is to
I Say Florence Earl Coates, who writes such
delightful poetry Mrs. Eldridge Johnson,
! Miss Blanche Diaye Mrs. j. Edouard Lutz,
MIR. Thornton Oakley:M King, Mr.. George
Walter Dawson, DIR. Mckenzie, Mrs. James
4 Mapes Dodge Miss Emily Sartain and Mrs.
Eli Kirk Price.
rFHE Charity Ball is coming right along
= now, and several people are planning
box parties for the pageant that precedes
II. DR.. and Mrs. George Fales Baker are
going to have one, and the Billy Clothers,
Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke whose two
daughters, Catherine and Mrs Standey
: Stokes, are going to dance in the pageant,
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Hampton Barnes.
iS ne tba yrle xub h
5 chosen to dance in the American set. She
< is an awfully graceful dancer. She was one
of the leaders of the Belgian set last year.
Do you remember how attractive she
looked in the short yellow skirt black
bodice and little black bonnet, with a great
long thick plat hanging down her back?
q The American set is to be one of the most
Interesting features Of the pageant, and
you know IT'S going to be good when 1 tell
you that 1t includes such dancers as
Catherine Cassard, Agnes and Elizabeth
frockie, Nancy Sellers, Corinne Freeman,
! Eleanor Davis Barbara Boyd, Eleanor Nc.
J Cawley, Nancy Jeffrys, Louisa Newlin and
others just as clever.
xaNHARY'S parents train her very carefully
AsA and are most particular about her
manners She's only just old enough to go
to her very first school. but she knows that
when friend of Mothers says, why, how
4 do you do, Mary?" in that not.that.Icare
ne, it is her cue to hold out both sides of
skirt and slide one foot back of the
fer. while she singsongs. 'I'mvery
wellthankyou, how are yous" Her brother,
AZ few years older. and his friends, are
not so polite. and Mary just loves to watch
4 Them play. She doesn't butt in"J she just
watches-and evidently listens. II she
picks up knowledge in school as she picks
expressions from Brother, she'll be at the
!, head of her class very shortly.