Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-31

Hx1ERE you not sorry to near OF 'he
w death of Natalie walton's husband?
He was Major Thomas Aler, L. :. Medicai
Corps. YOU know and was very rrofnl-
nent oral surgeon They were married on
June I and were so happy! Major Aller
contracted pneumonia abou. week aG"
and died Tuesday night at his home ON
Greene street in Germantown. under'
stand that he will he buried next saturday
and that the intermcnt will take place III
AL Saints Churchyard, Torresdale.
~ Major Aller was member of the Ma
tional Guard and was on the border TWO
years ago He was also in France III
1916 for six months with the American
Ambulance His wife is a most charming
woman How terribly sad these things are
! r WAS so delighted to see Sophie Norris
i yesterday She looked so well. in spite
of her hard work in France. Somehow
firing though it is. the having some ueh-
mite work to do is great thing Tor us
all and we thrive on it. Sophie looks
lovely in her war cap and uniform. She
has been in charge of a Foyer du Soidat
of the Y. NJ c. a. for more than year
and evidently has had a broad vision Oh
what was needed by the boys ana mas
given it to them-fun, fellowship ana Ioo"
Can't YOU see her dancing on the cobbled
streets with them? She has so much go
and I think .ute a decided bit OF under
standing of human nature, and that Is
what is needed in the work she mas heen
doing. she's come home to work for the
United War Councils campaign that has
the Y NJ. c. A. in its makeup
TALKING e Sophie makes me think OF
L the wondei :ul work that was done mere
In collecting clothes for the Belgians last
month. Her father, G. Heide Norris, was
greatly interested in that, and he tells me
that they collected carfuls of clothes one
car weighed 36,10O pounds and another
1926 pounds chat is the weight reported
by the railroad for the first two cars sehp.
The other shipments of which no report
has as vet been made, were lust as great.
The committee in charge of this work IN
cludes besides Mr.. Norris Mr.. Paul Thomp-
son, Mr.. Stockton Townsend, Mrs. Gard
i ner Cassatt and Mrs Bayard Henry.
! ISN'T Mrs. Henry a wonderful woman!
i She is Interested in everything con
nected with Belgium and has made her
committee OF the Emergency Aid a great
success. But really YOU can't say more
about one committee of that admirable in
stitution than another. can YOU? Mrs.
Stevenson is wonderful in the French
work. Mrs. Newbold on the British, Mrs.
Miller on the Italian, Mrs. Lorimer for
the Armenian, Miss Nina Lea for the Ser
bian. and so on. ] can't remember tNem
all. but know when | talk to any one of
those women am utterly lost in admira-
ton of them and their work.
TVHE Fren ii committee has this concert
i at the Metropolitan next Tuesday
night, you know. It's going to be won
derful. It's the famous French orchestra
and the members are travelling through
e this country under the auspices of the
French Government for war relief benefit.
when YOU have heard them YOU won't
sigh for the music of Germany. They are
magnificent. Messenger. the leader. is
world famous. and Corteaux, who will be
here is considered of the best in the
world am told by members of the French
committee of the Emergency Aid
TN GLAD TO hear that Mariana Gowen
i has recovered sufficiently from inhu-
enza not only to be married on Saturday
H.,
the evening before and go through with
& the rehearsal 1t was pretty hard all
round to change all the plans, for when
an officer obtains leave for one time il is
not always easy to change that time and
arrange for later leave. But one way
or another it was done, and Mariana Will
be the bride of Lieutenant B. Dawson Cole
man. u. S. A., on Saturday at $3.50 o'clock.
Mr. G; Dawson Coleman. the lieutenant s
father is to be his best man. and do so
like that Not that it matters much to
nice thing to have ones father take part
in one of the greatest days of ones life,
don't you think?
Allison Gowen Harrison is to he Mari
anas matron of honor She is her older
sister and extremely beautiful. I think
the wedding will be lovely and do not in
tend to miss it if can help it.
Dawson Coleman is an instructor in
w. Princeton and so he and his bride will
live there which is blessing for her.
think the way some girls have been mar
ried one day and their husbands have had
X II leave them in one two three days
I after and then sail for the other side has
n been too sad and trying for words. There
IL always the awful anxiety as to whether
they shall ever meet again or not. For
one cannot forget the daily casualty lists
can one?
However, every one stands lighting
q chance" and so many more live than die
It's very hopeful if you look on that side
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