Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-28
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Mrs. Wellington Shannon to Address Red Cross
Workers tomorrow Afternoon at COS Chestnut
Street-Engagements Announced and Rumored

TIEATLESS Monday again interfcres
IL with the meeting of the independence
Sduarc Red Cross at COS Chestnut street.
because you see the rooms are I'm bust
ness building, and 80 the Red Cross has
gracefully taken a back scat in the matter
and the afternoon talk this week will be-
held tomorrow afternoon instead think
It's going to he extremely interesting ana
q good change. in that some one from
home is going to tail; to the workers this
time. You see FOR several weeks we have
been hearing about things "ovcr there"
and there arc many questions in our minds
about what is going ON "ovcr here" and
so Mrs. George Horace Ioiimer. who is
chairman of the independence Square aux.
iliary, has asked Mrs. j. Wellington shan.
non, who Is vice-chairmun of the clearing
house for the Red Cross to speak and
tell us of what Is being done here. I'm
fact she will tell us "thc Story of the Red
Cross Sweater" and will answer all kinds
of questions in regard to Rcd Cross mat.
ters. You know there are lots Of things
that many of us want To know about
Not that one questions the Government
or the Red Cross or anything of that
kind. They are all doing their best. hu.
we want often to know how the things
are done and love t" follow our own work
So | am looking forward to an extremely
interesting afternoon aren't you?
IT'S too bad about the little Bcggs kid
dies, isn't it? They have scarlet fever
and are Quarantined in their home at Ard.
more. And this has changed the plans of
the Earle family for the reception after
Edith's wedding. You know it had been
decided to have the wedding at the Church
of the Rcdeemcr in Bryn Mawr and hold
the reception at the Bcggs house in Ara.
more. Every one wondered, naturally. why
the Earles were not having the recoption
in their own home az they had had for
all four of their other daughters, but YOU
see every one does not live out in Brln
Mawr back by the Radnor Hunt Club in
winter, and especially such winter as
this has been.
II everybody did, then they would not
ask why, but would wCndcr instead ho,
the Earlcs themselves can get one car
over the roads. let alone It number, for
they Uhe roads, are wcllnigh impassable
and have been ever since the snow first
fell and the intense cold set i'm during
Christmas week. The reception will there.
fore take place at Mrs. Victor AIather's
house. Avondale Cottage, at uavcr.
ford. which is easily accessible Mrs
MaScr is the eldest sister-she was
Katherine Earle. YOU know. Edith is 20.
ing to give her bridesmaids luncheon at
her own home on Wednesday of this week
But I'm afraid Mrs Beggs will have 70
be counted out of the party, and | under
stand she was to have been one of the
bridesmaids. The one good ching ,bout
II Is that the cases are not terribly serious.
SEEMS - run To the Porter family
to marry men of distinction doesn't il?
Here we of Philadelphia who used to know
Margaretta and Catherine and Elizabeth
all sat up and took decided notice several
years ago when Margarettas engagement
was announced to the late Bishop Cod
man of Maine, who died so soon after their
marriage, and now Elizabeth is engaged
TO Frederick c. Fearing of New York. who
is graduate of the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale and a member of several
engineering and scientific societies A man
OF distinction ana decided brains The
Porters, who are daughters of Colonel
John Biddlc Porter and Mrs. Porter are
granddaughterS of the late General An.
drew Porter. Catherine is I'm France at
present with Red Cross canteen corps.
They used to live on Clinton street here,
when the girls were growing up but now
they live in Washington.
ANoTHER engagement which was AN.
nounced in this city on Saturday is
that of Margaret La Rue, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter NJ. La Rue, to Justus
Clayton Strawbridge Margaret came out
iast year and is an awfully pretty girl
Both she and her tance live in German
town, but even so none of their friends
seemed to have susp acted n romance, and
so they have the real satisfaction of hay.
ing actually sprung a surprise I under.
stand there has been no date set as vet
for the wedding.
nlD you see him when he was in town
last week fol few days? lie used TO
IVe here, you know, and then went over
10 the great metropolis i'm search of better
Things in financial way, and from all
near he has made good. Hut for the best
thihS in his life he did not hunt i'm New
iork, cause why, well he'd been campina
out Main Line way some time before he