Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-04
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells of Vdrious Things People Are DoingShc
Is Interested in Pageant for W. S. S. Campaign
Mrs. A. J. Cassat a PatroneSS

you know that olivia Gazzam is
~ taking a special war course in ste
biography and business correspondeuceo
| Dhe's out in Toledo, ohio don't you love
| 70 say Toledo, Ohio? 1t has so many
o. and his and hos and expects to come
nome about the last week in this month
with her father to take up her work with
the E. A. a. Mrs, Gazzam has been In
Washington for some time this fall with
her son, Lieutenant Joseph NJ. Gazzam,
lJr, who was seriously Ill of influenza. lie
AB convaescent now and came up to spend
the weekend with his mother There was
house party there over Sunday The
Misses Strothers, of Baltimore. were there
and Major Eric Bradley of the Bureau of
Aircraft Production, War Department, who
has Just come back from overseas. where
Rx.he was flying with British squadron;
Lieutenant Simmons. just back from Italy,
where he has been with the ambulance,
and Mrs. Gazzam's sister, Mr.. Edward w.
Robinson, wife of Major Robinson, of
New York.
|es 1t sounds quite like before the war, to
talk about house parties, doesn't 1t? But
before the war there wouldn't have been
anything like all the uniforms and the
titles and things. Young Lieutenant Gaz-
Earn, you know, is c. o. of the S. A. 7. c.
at Westminster, Nd. In case you haven't
the slightest idea what that means I'll
explain: Commanding Officer of the Stu
dents Army Training Corps.
TNHE War Savings Stamp Committee has
= a scheme for doing its share in raising
the huge sum expected from the sale of
war stamps this year. 1T is planning a
musical pageant and dance for Saturday
evening, November 16, at o'clock. Every
one is asked to subscribe certain sum,
but the ticket obtained in this way has n
stub, on presentation of which the owner
will receive two thrift stamps That's
some idea, don't YOU, think?
The pageant is under a special commit
tee of the Womans Division w. s. s.. and
includes Mrs. William West, Mrs oe Jan
ney. Mrs. Curtis Patterson, Mrs. c. w.
| Middleton, Mrs. white Steele Mrs e. C.
| Dendere, Miss Mabel Melicl and Mrs.
John ID. Hammond
The affair will be given in the large
Il ballroom of Lu Lu Temple. Mrs. Phillips
Jenkins will direct it and about fifty of
her pupils will take part. There will also
be dancing under Mr. Ellwood Carpenter
and Mrs. Mary Winslow Johnson and Miss
Mary Vogt will be at the piano and organ
respectively.
The committee has certain got a rep
resentative lot of women to act as pa
tronesses. Mrs. Alexander ]. Cassatt heads
the list and the others are Mrs Ned Brown
ing, Mrs Billie Clothier Mrs. Harry Coke,
Mrs, Rod Griscom, Mrs. John Groome, Mrs.
Arthur Lea Mrs. Norman Macleod Mrs.
willis Martin, Mrs Tom Robins, Mrs. Cor
nelius Stevenson, Mrs. Edward Stotesbury,
Mrs. Barclay Warburton, Mrs Reed Nor
gan, Mrs Edward Rowland, Mrs. Norman
jackson Mrs. William Warden, Mrs. George
IH5Nharton Pepper and Mrs. George Lorimer.
kEsa This entertainment is but a part OF an
elaborate program which has been ar
ranged by the w. S. $. committee to. help
this county reach its quota before De
cember 81
| ctOMETIMES we think it's very 'unny if
| ~ we hear a small person about three or
-Four murmur impatiently darn it, and we
3laugh. But / wonder when we do II we
realize how we are encouraging something
which, harmless though it may be' Is u
very ugly thing in an older child' nap
pened to lunch out recently at a place
where every one you know goes. 1t was
the usual crowd for luncheon, so several
rroups had to sit at the same tables
"a Young girl of about twenty and her
sister of fourteen came 10 the table. Ihey
lounged all over it and could not decide
what to order, and the smaller one finally
did and wrote the order, while they were
Uaitinr for Nina Almost every other
word that issued from Miss l'ourtcenyear-
Did was interspersed' with darn. page
fevidently the chaufeur) darn near missed
ns This morning. Did he?' drawled SIS
IN..r "Darn it, l wish Mma'd comet FL
rallv Nina did come, apologizing profusely
4o her children and saying, Il brought
87fiss - with me-" Miss ----- had evil
dcntly taught the girl French or some
4hing. And if you could have seen the
manner in which she was greeted. 80
bqred!
ASs What a pity some of us do not stop to
}xtinL sometimes and realize that instead
N showing off we are actually making 1t
Svery evident that we are extremely Ill
hred. when there is no excuse for peing
ssil- -bred. These girls should have been as
vel,.bred as any girls in this town.
N somehow it made my luncheon an un-
@,ys1iAasant affair and l was glad to leave
sxto table before theirs came, as they spent
sta interim wranging generally.
NANCY WYNNE.
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