Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Tea Room Old York. Road to Benefit Red Cross-Nacy
lynne Comments on Notify Kane Alliance.
Other Subjects Talked OF

I TOLD you the other day about the
: Allied Tea Room which has been started
down at Cape May, did l not? Well, did
you know that there's one out on the Old
York road? Yes my dears, gotten up by
the Ogontz and Huntingdon Valley Branch
of the Red Cross. It's on the Old York
road ITSELF and it's open all day, and the
different women who are running 1t act as
mattresses. The proceeds are all to go
to the Red Cross, and it's quite a delight
full little place. And in, as one Of the
women interested in it told me, quite a
strategic position, right on the turnpike
or thoroughfare of that whole long stretch
of country.
It's most attractively gotten up, and
has the dearest curtains at the windows
and pretty painted furniture and odd
things about the rooms. It's very much
on the order of Penn Cottage, over on the
Main Line, you know, and I understand is
run the same way, only this one is dis
tinctively for the Red Cross. But by that,
understand me, do not mean that the
patrons must be Red Cross members On
the contrary it is open to every one who
passes, and every one is to be encouraged
to 60 in and lunch or tea or sup at any
hour, but the proceeds are to go to the
Red Cross entirely.
Mrs. Voorhees, Drayton and Mrs. John
Gilbert and all those who are great Red
Cross workers out there are deeply inter.
ested in the undertaking, and it has been
running now for some time and is doing
beautifully.
WHAT did l tell you-you announce
w your engagement one day and you are
married the next! And this is the truth,
almost literally speaking, in regard to
Audrey Kane and Jack Moffly, though I
believe they did have two days between
the engagement and wedding. The en-
gagement was announced on Monday after
noon and the date of the wedding yester-
day and the wedding took place today. I
hear the incest things about Audrey Kane
on all sides She's been down in Baltimore
studying in Johns Hopkins Hospital for
the last two years, you know, and she'll
be awfully useful to her country now IL
she takes up nursing for the Red Cross,
which 1 hear is her intention. She can
not go abroad as a nurse, now she has a
husband who is going, but it's very we'll
to have the training for any emergency.
Her sister Miriam has just come back
you know. from a year or two over there
In Paris and Nevers. She was in an Eng.
lish hospital at Nevers and at the Light.
house in Paris.
The Rev. Stewart Keeling performed the
ceremony today at noon. and Miriam Kane
and Lieutenant Karl Dodge were the at.
tendants.
NEWPORT Is beginning to get very gay,
= ' and all sorts of philanthropic enter
tainments are in the wind. On Saturday
afternoon Of this week society as repre-.
sented there will turn out for theatrical
event. "Three Acts" which will be given
by the Amateur Comedy Club, of New
York, at the Casino.
The proceeds will be given for the benefit
of the Freebody. Park Athletic Field for the
men in the service, and most of the women
In Newport have given their names as
patronesses of the affair, chief among them
being Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs. w. Storrs
Wells and Mrs. Pembroke Jones.
Another event on Saturday will be the
recital to be given at Harbourview, Mrs
French Vanderbilt's villa on the Cliffs and
this will be for the Red Cross. So you see
no matter where you are this year you can
get into Red Cross work either actively in
the workrooms or contributively don't you
like that wordO in the ballroom. 1t all
helps and it's all good.
Mrs Alexander Hamilton Rice, formerly
Mrs. George d. Widener, of Elkins Park,
is among the women interested in the
Red Cross benefit
WITH all the manifold duties devolving
w upon mothers who are conserving
labor at the present day and the real diff
ficulty to get and keep maids, too, is it
any wonder that occasionally they are
overtaken by absent mindedness? A short
time ago in a suburban church, where
each member knows every other member
and looks for the familiar faces In the
family pews each week, Mrs. D sat
with serene and smiling countenance
listening to the rector read the scrip
tural lesson for the service. Devotion was
Pictureo on the race Oh eacn one. sud
denly Mrs. DIS facial muscles contracted,
she gasped and hurried from her front
pew Her daughter. who was in the choir
facing the congregation, seeing mother
leave so hurriedly did likewise. Then Mrs.
DIS sister, over in the middle of the right
aisle, felt her heart sink with fear. Mrs.
D must be sick, and very sick at
that, and SO up started sister in a hurry,
and as she FASTENED to the door her
daughter wondered what could be the mat
ter, and she followed the others
BY this time an usher in the back pew,
keeping a watchful eye on the congrega.
tion, thought he had better go, too, for
fear Mrs. D might need his services
in securing physician.
Now, Mrs. D lived but few blocks