Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-30

grown-ups, but the gayer married set u
having a perfectly good time all to itselr'
however, at numerous small parties. Inc
Ned Crozers will have q dinner tonight, 10
which they have bldden the Eddie Dales'
the Harry Disstons, the Jay Lippincotts,
Polly Dixon, Frances Drayton, the Edgar
Churches, Claudia Etting and the James
Neilds, Of Wilmington. quite Cape May
party, for most OF them were there last
summer or visited the Crozers or Evans
Roberts at that resort. Mrs. Evans Rob-
erts has been ill., so she cannot join In the
Christmas festivities; but she Is recovering
they tell me. I saw Dorr Newton at the
Charity Ball, dancing away to beat the
band. Inez was there. too so the reports
that her mother Is better are true.
WELL, as the Wurts class is the biggest
w thing tonight. let's talk about that
There are to be any number of dinners be.
fore the party and Stewart Wurts Jr, and
Russell Lewis are to lead the cotillon. The
Bob strawbridges will entertain for Anita,
who. by the way, is just as sood-looting
as her mother and aunts and they are
splendid, you will admit This dinner will
be at the Bellevue, SO the guests won't
have far to go to get to the dance after
ward, will they? Then Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Nelson will entertain for Virginia and
Louise Norris, the daughters OF DR.. and
Mrs. Richard Norris, and for Mrs. Nelson's
niece, Elizabeth Macleod. She Is the
daughter Of Mrs. William Atterbury, you
know, who was formerly Mrs. Malcolm
Macleod and before that Armlnia Rosen-
garten. She is the younger sister of Mrs
Nelson. Elizabeth Is very pretty and has
most attractive manner.
THEN Marianne Harris, the daughter Of
L Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Harris, will
have a dinner at her parents home, Ivy
Cottage, in Germantown, and Eleanor Pur-
viance, daughter of Mrs. Pere Wilmer, will
be guest Of honor at a dinner given by
her aunt, Mrs. William Gray Warden, out
in Germantown. Eleanor Is a first cousin
OF "Ag" and Elizabeth, otherwise known as
Billie Broclsio, you know. They are Mrs
warden's daughters. Billie would have
come out this year had there been any
comingouts.
The Stacy Lloyds will give party for
their daughter, Ellen Lloyd, and the Rev.
George Carter and Mrs. Carter will enter
Joshua Ash Pearsons have planned a din
ner for Bessie. Certainly there will be
plenty Of good times going, don't you
think?
MERE you not sorry to hear Of the
w death Of Edward Ingersoll? He died
on Saturday at his home in Penllyn. Ed.
ward was cousin of Harry Ingersoll, who
was killed in the st. Mihiel sector in Sep
tember. His father was the late Warren
Ingersoll; a brother, Mr.. Charles Edward
Ingersoll. and his mother was Miss Joseph
inc Bond, q sister of Frank Bond and the
very immensely attractive Mrs. Thomas
Potter, who was formerly Mrs Henry Reed
or Bessie Bond. Edward Ingersoll, who
was connected with the ground aviation,
was commissioned a captain and had been
stationed In Washington for the last year.
He contracted influenza pneumonia set in
and he died after short weeks illness.
When he was taken Ill he came homo, and
his wife, who was Emily Vaux was with
him at the end
Captain Ingersoll was not yet thirty-fve.
do feel SO sorry for his young wife and
babies. They were a most devoted couple.
Captain Ingersoll's cousin, Henry Reed,
who married Elizabeth Iced, is a captain
in the army, and another cousin, Francis
Bond Reed, is in the navy.
T SHOULD think the women who collected
for and ran the Red Cross drive would
be more than ready for a needed vacation.
I stopped in at Independence Square Red
Cross Auxiliary, which you know was
headquarters for the central division OF
the dripe, and Mrs Francis Dercum was
there counting dollar bills. and how many
do you think she has counted since the
drive started? Twenty.one thousand! Not
hundreds mind you; but thousandsl Talk
about working hours, why, Mrs. Dercum
and Mrs. Fred English were at that auxili-
ary from morning until night every day for
those busy two weeks, even including
Christmas Eve. It's simply wonderful the
way the work has grown In the various
auxiliaries, and this Christmas drive was
marvellous. The work was all divided and
the women in charge certainly lived up to
their calling. Some Of the workers were
Mrs. Edward A. Schmidt, Mrs. Civilian
Mrs. Harry Blynn didn't her son BrIce
dance like dream at the Charity on
Thursday?). Mrs. Theron Crane, Mrs Har-
rold Gillingham, Mrs. Edward Thomas, Mrs
Blynns sister, Mrs. w. 8. Belding tdo you
remember the dog she gave to the Red
Cross last yearO, Mrs. Ashton Little. Mrs
Eugene Dorey, Mrs. Robert Emott Hare,
Mrs, Whitwell Coke, Mrs. Mary Mclean;
in fact. could not begin to mention them
all, to say nothing OF the r. A. AS and
the National Leasuers and Boy Scouts.
who worked wonderfully at all the divisions
and subdivisions throughout the city.
THEY'VE got the funniest little old.
fashioned Red Cross button at the 1nde.
pendence Square Auxiliary. It was given
twenty-five years ago to a Miss Louise
a