Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-19

- -, xou ever welcome n day In your lie
H. much as you welcomed yesterday?
v,..n,t It glorious? Such soft little tender
..,as and lovely skies! II it Keeps on like
~ the trees will soon be In bud and we
-.r, forget the month of January and early
,r.s-,arv. when we were colder than we
s.ve ever been in our lives.
And tonight we have our friend Caruso
q the Love of Three Kings" Amato. too
a, sing and Claudia Muzio, so 1t Will be
..,ne performance. It's beautiful thing,
-, one of those operas you have to hear
80 or three times really to appreciate its
s..uty. Having heard it various times,
expect to enjoy It,
Tho George Fales Bakers will entertain
Ia their box and the John Frederick Lew
,.ss. Mr. stotesbury, Mrs. Frank Clyde and
Mrs.. Hamilton Colket also.
every time / go and hear the star
snansled Banner" played by that orches'
~. love II more. To me it's most In
urr,ng thing to see that huge audience
.,srdinr like statues, the men in uniform
.tth shoulders squared and heads erect
until the last strains die away.
ro be sure. last week II was not so in
4 .n,rins as It might have been, because two
romen started to laugh and talk and make
rsrnarks about the men holding themselves
"A erect. There always have to be some
,.rsons who have no sense OF the fitness of
,h,nrs. I suppose, but it hurts tho soul of
YOU doesn't 1t?
3 MR. MARQUIS gave a splendid talk yes
.
Auxiliary of the Red Cross on food con.
..ryation. There were great many
vomen there working and number of
others came in. Headquarters asked this
u auxiliary for go comfort bags TO be sent
10 the men in the trenches, and so the
n auxiliary is sending the most wonderful as
sortnent you ever saw and more than has
Z, been asked. Brushes trench mirrors,
tooth brushes, paste. washrags, combs.
SOAP, button bags, thread, needles, safety
pins, pipes, tobacco chocolate and good
ness only knows what else.
(; II would do your heart good to see them
Nine of the workers were clustered around
4 the machines making nnakicolored and
all kinds OF colored bags into which these
articles are to be put. 1t was like filling
Christmas stocking, and 80 the girls from
\ Ogontz School thought, for they came in
last night from school and worked in the
y Red Cross rooms packing the bags full of
the lovely things and then again into great
parcels and boxes of a hundred each till
sg.m.
aS This afternoon there will be a whole
bunch Of Emergency Aid Aides down there
working on the kits and other things
This auxiliary is about to start a navy
auxiliary and they have also joined in the
canteen work. Altogether l don't believe
there's branch of work that they do not
cover. And this Is news, too: Warden Nc.
Ksnty is going to talk to the workers next
Monday and tell them what work his men
have done for the war and also what has
< been done for the men who are under him.
It's certainly one dandy auxiliary to belong
to, for there's always something doing"
AREN'T you interested to hear abou,
fAFrances Moores engagement? She's
the daughter Of Clarence Moore who went
down on the Titanic, that awful disaster
which sickened the world-was it really
nearly six years ago?
Think OF the horrors we have gone
through since and we have almost become
used to them. Why, when the first news
came OF the Titanic we sat with wide eyes
ana gazed at each other In silence and we
could scarcely bear to hear the playing o
Z Nearer, My God, to Thee" because all thu
stories told how that brave orchestra or
mo ship had played that hymn as tn,
water fo.e u around them.
And now with the Lusitania, the Tus
cania and all the others. with their womer
ana children on( board, torpedoed every few
months, to say nothing of the smaller YES
ssls every week and the loss of life in tn,
usnches and in raids, we are almost uset
to horrors.
IA It's rather awful to bring this all u,
n Ensn speaking about a young girls en-
n nssment, but It always seems to me a,
n Fne horror for those who were closel,
"nhected with the Titanic must be mike,
"'sn pride in the knowledge that thei
men stood brave and strong to the las
minute and died like brave, good men an,
X uue. Who knows but God gave some O
mem their great chance in that terrible
~ ISL some who otherwise might neve
ave oeen worthy to see His face.
40 return to Miss Moore. her engagement
announced to Lieutenant Henri Mar
suSsh' OF the French flying corps, Just
~ Gays ago. Frances has visited her
s good deal. She is a granddaughte
he late Frank Mclaughlin, of this city
~ - related to Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Stoe
ana several other families here
WHAr Will girls do next? Three knoy
OF decided they would be very DARN,
sae 70 to fortune.telling seance, evel
'ugh they had seen Margaret wycherI
4 fne Thirteenth Chair; and SO the
n' Well' the fortune teller told severa
nss that seemed very wonderful, but tn
sasct was spoiled by her remark to one O
e ne maidens:
,nsre's young manFno, two men--i
kyi In your life.
an kha-kyi?" said the sirl; what