Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-15


most interesting talk on wartime housing
plans. The lecture was illustrated and
there was quite large attendance. The
proceeds are to be devoted to reconstruc-
kion work in France.
HNHEN, have you ever gone to the com
= munity market at Evergreen and Ger
mantown avenues? Everybody goes each
Saturday, and it's quite remarkable what
delicious fresh vegetables grown in the
war gardens may be bought. In fact it's
quite a lesson in patriotism these days to
go through the country in car or train
and see the men and women, too, working
in their gardens thinning lettuce. pulling
weeds, picking string beans and string
beans, then some more string beans, and
again string beans!
Did you ever in all your life see so many
string beans? "Poslutely' I've eaten so
many lately I'm ashamed to look one in
the face.
Why on earth do you suppose they grow
so profusely you could not possibly eat
them all? Why, also. do you suppose that
peas and lima beans do not grow as plen-
fifully, when they taste SO much better
than those faithful old string beans? |
could make an awful pun there. but I'll
spare you. It's the middle of July, and
even ii it is not as hot as blazes. it's
bit Of exhausting kind of weather, and it
might prove fatal if you go too awfully
mad about it. Don't you think l am
kindly soul? I do.
IVOU know the little new baby at the
L Stevens Heckschers in Strafford was
ehristened yesterday. The ceremony took
place in the Washington Memorial Chapel
at Valley Forge, where there is beautiful
! memorial to Stevens Heckscher's first wife,
who was Mamie Brown.
You know Mr.. Heckscher married Mrs
| Mark Hopkins about year and a half
ago She was formerly Gwladys Crosby
Of New York. Both Mr.. and Ms. Heck
tcher had children by their former mar
! riages and now they have this dear little
baby of their own. She was named Eliza
. beth Crosby. after her great t-gra andmother,
and her grandmother, Mrs. l.. G. Crosby,
and young Rita Heckscher, her half-sister,
were the godmothers, while Frederick
| Crosby, of New York, brother of Mrs.
Heckscher was the godfather.
Doctor Burk, who is rector of the Me-
mortal Chapel, performed the ceremony
that made the little one Christian. And
later Mr.. and Mrs. Heckscher gave an in
formal breakfast at their Strafford home
for the families and a few intimate friends.
Among the guests were DR.. and Mrs.
Joseph Packard Laird, Mr. and Mrs. Led
ward Heckscher, Mrs. Thomas Leaning,
mother of the first Mrs. Heckscher; Miss
NJ. X. Baker, Mr.. Gustave Heckscher and
one or two others.
II was very gay at Valley Forge yester-
day, generally speaking. The boys from
the marine camp at Paoli went over to
headquarters to celebrate the Fall OF the
Bastille And special exercises were held
in the chapel.
Among the women I noted there were
Mrs. George Rosengarten, Mrs. w. Wilmer
Hoopes Ellen Mary Cassatt, Mrs. Edward
Newton, Mrs. Herbert Bell, Mrs c. c.
Harrison and various others.
y/OU remember when Lieutenant Fla
i chaire and Lieutenant Fare were here
the former with his airplane, the latter
with his remarkable paintings, and there
was large reception for them at the
bellevue after the exhibition of the paint
ings? Everybody was delighted with both
of them and so thrilled with the pictures
and with Flachaire's flying out at Belmont
plateau. Will you ever forget those
breath taking loops and dives and turns
that he took? Well. Chicago is enjoying
an that now Lieutenant Fare has his
naintings out there at the Art Institute
ID. l,,,
flights over HE city. Saturday was
-Mothers of Aviators Day" at the exhibit
Mrs William f. Clarke was in charg,
and had q number of women whose boys
are flying for the United States army IL
France and Italy to help her receive. Mrs
| RUSSELL Tyson received on Friday, which
I was opening day, and Mrs. Clarke, Mis-
4 Marie Rozet, Mrs. Benjamin Carpenter
Mrs. George f. Brown and Mrs. Keitl
Spaldng assisted in receiving. The pro
ceeds of the exhibition the lectures whicl
lieutenant Fare will give explaining tn
pictures and the moving pictures will b
4 given to the American fund for Frencl
wounded and the orphans Of French avia
tors. The program is in charge of Mrs
Arthur Reed Christie. whose husband i
living in France. Isn't it interesting t
feel that, half way across the country, peo
pie are having the same feelings that W
all had last winter?
|. And isn't it fine to know that that Ger
man propaganda nonsense about youn
n Flachaire has been entirely stamped out?
,IITTLE ELLEN is just four this month
IL She has golden curls and blue eve
HI .,
sbect to go with il. She is very fond of he
doll and plays with her every day, takin
long walks with the baby carriage tha
Santa Claus brought last Christmas: TIL
other day she was swinging in the bi
I. hammock out on the lawn and a clou
ROLLED overhead and began dropping raj