Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-27
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Society Women Attend Large Meeting at Academy
OF Music, When Archbishop of York Speaks
to Them-Penn Cottage Attractive

COClETY was certainly busy yesterday.
~ First there was the address by the
Archbishop of York, England. at the
Academy of Music, and then last night
there was the opera Carmen" with Ger.
aldne Farrar as prima donna.
1t is safe to say that no prma donna
ever filled the old Academy as it was filled
Yesterday. however, and certainly few of
us would have cared to miss hearing that
fine old man with his silvery hair and
splendid carriage, whose voice reached
from pit to dome of that vast Academy
with such perfect ease.
! had feared it would he perhaps df.
cult to understand at first; some English
men are so very English, II Is q bit dif'l-
cult to get used to the accent at first But
/ have seldom heard n man, either Amer
can or English, speak clearly and with
as few mannerisms as did his Grace the
Archbishop of York. Only in his wall;
was he distinctly English lie was on the
stage with Bishop Rhineander. Bishop
Garani and Doctor Mockridgc and as the
four wa liked off after the blessing and the
singing of America" | noticed how diff.
ferent was his walk from the American
men, and it reminded me of the English
Father Bernard Vaughan. the Jesuit, who
several years ago visited this country and
lectured on Joan of Arc in the Academy.
wish I might tell you all he said and
the splendid advice he gave, but most of
you were there. anyhow, and so you heard
him yourselves
Did you ever see anything like that
crowd Of women? II was almost as much
your life was worth to get in. Poor
Nancy got separated from her companion
and could not keep place beside her. and
then an avalanche struck her on the right
side, and besides sitting ON the edge of a
seat and half-over toward the woman in
the next seat, she had to support besides
herself, her furs and sundry packages. some
ones knitting bag which seemed to have
ten pounds of wool in it that had to land
on her arm. and some one else sat on the
left arm of the seat. Well at first she
fused and fumed and then she began to
listen and to think of the men who are
fghting over there and suffering God only
knows what, and so she did not mind the
Inconvenience of it; in fact, was glad to
have it. You'd be ashamed to be awfully
comfortable these days. wouldn't you?
All the Emergency Aid aides were on
the stage and the motor messengers, and
of course the Emergency Aid members
were all much in evidence in their good
looking blue suits and trcorned hats in
the bo::es and orchestra seats.
NNIIE country's the only place this time
L Of year, when everything is beginning
aooip' and tho Snng birds orc eating huev
out in the woods So | Jared forth into it
the other day, ard on my way across coun-
try l happened upon Penn cottage and
stopped in to see what was new in there.
And | discovered that there was nothing
newt was all just as old and fascinating
as it could be. Every room is full of sur
prlses and pleasure in the way of antiques.
the Russian samovars. the Colonial mir
rors, the Grocheted and rag rugs, the low
boy in the second-story hall and that ma
hogany bed in one of the bedrooms-cvery
room is picturesque. The salesroom at
1.-The back in the second story contains all
kinds of attractive things that make you
want to bring truck out there and take
them all home
The most interesting thing to me was
the jewelry made by wounded soldiers in
the hospitals of France, each bearing a
card giving the name of the man who
made it, One necklace was of n silvery
blue with steel and blue tassels. Mrs Glib
bons, wife of Doctor Gibbons, who is with
Base Hospital No. 10, explained all about
the toys in the children's room made by
the Italians. and really before you get all
through the place you don't know which
room is the most interesting.
But if you should ask me, I'd say that
the prettiest spot in the house is not the
tea tables in front of the fireplace or the
one by the window or any of the old clocks
and things, but the little window on the
stair landing, high above small table
with a candlestck on it, curtained with
white Swiss and bearing on its sill a flower
pot with proud array of begonia blooms.
IL greets you as you open the door, and it
had busy time the day / was there, for
the door was opening all the time to admit
new people. NANCY WYNNE.