Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-29

Il ftfJAtD bOIno uehbhtiui ho-'"
! parties yesterday for Thanksgiving din
rer and visits too, for that matter The
William L. Austins out in Rosemont had
wonderful time. You see Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Converse came UP from Louisville,
and what is more they brought with them
their tiny little daughter and none OF the
family had seen said small daughter as yet.
So you may imagine the delight OF grand
parents, aunts and uncles and the court
that small individual held. Her mother
was Helen Austin and she married you
remember the brother Of her brother.in.law,
Major Bernard Converse. The major and
his wife, who was Mabel Austin, came on
too from watervliet, N. Y. where the
major is stationed, and they brought their
children with them. OF course Jean and
her fance, William Du Pont. were there
too and altogether 1t was a great gathering.
The Harry Converses are going to stay
on with Mr.. and Mrs. Austin until after
the Christmas holidays, SO 1t would not sur
prise me If wee Miss Converse would have
a pretty good time with 16Orins relatives
for while.
ANOTHER interesting family party was
Athat Of the Charles M. Leas. And 1t
was different, too in that, instead OF Mrs.
Percy Hudson Mr.. Lea's daughter by his
first marriage, coming over here to Devon,
the Leas went over to New York for sew
eral days and dined with Mrs. Hudson and
her children at their New York apartment
Katharine Lea went also Of course. They
are at the Waldorf.
v~k rir1
will never forget the lovely thing she and
her luncheon guests did the day Katherine
Hancock Smith and Jas were married. You
remember, they decided at one o'clock to
be married at eight that evening, and
Katherine was to have lunched at the Leas
that day. Well, she called up to tell why
she could not come and incidentally asked
the girls to go to the wedding.
And that evening when she entered the
little church to be married, she found 1t
decorated with flowers from her friends
greenhouse and she learned that not only
had they brought the flowers but that. led
by Katharine Lea, they had spent the
afternoon decorating the little church
themselves.
TN ALL "het up" with curiosity. I've
1 Just heard that somebody is going to be
all dressed up in an oriental costume to
read an Indian prophecy for America, as
the prelude to the Charity Ball, and I'm
crazy to know who it's to be. And. more.
over she, or maybe he, is to see 1t In a
crystal globe, and then what he, or maybe
she, sees and reads is to come forth in the
person OF any number of Philadelphias s
Justly. famous pretty girls in attractive
costumes and some of Charlie Morgans
also justly famous dances.
Among those who will dance in Mrs
4 John C. Groomes set at the ball will be
Hatty Geyelin. Antoinette Geyelin. Kitty
Brinton, Mrs. Caleb Fox. Jr., Mrs. How
ard Hansell. Alice McCabe Simpson, Mary
Norris Lisa Norris, Edith Hutchinson
Peggy Thayer, Mary Knight. Susanne
Smith, Jean Hancock, Emley Cook, Polly
Pancoast, Pansy Scott, Sarah Franklin
Sidney Franklin, Russell Tucker, Ruth
Perry, Alice Perry, Agnes Brockie, Maize
Stewart. Edith Walker, Gertrude Conaway
Mrs. Heck Wetherill Mary Dercum. Kitty
Knight, billie" Brockie, Eleanor Cum
mlngs, Mildred Lewis, Margaret Hughes
Sarah Dolan, Constance Snow, Esther Jean
Bochman, Brownie Warburton. Anita
Evans, Marie Supplee, Pauline Bell, Mar
garetta sharpless, Gladys Paine. Gladys
Williams. Gladys Fox, Marys Clark, Louise
Caldwell. Hannah Wright, Jean de Rousse
Nancy Sellers, Louise Harding and Cath
arine Cassard. Quite a bunch, and they're
all good dancers, too.
r HEAR that the Philip Paus, Of Haddon-
- field, have had a cable from their son
Lieutenant Robert J. TAFT Paul. saying that
he Is we'll and happy. Lieutenant Paul
who was a Penn Charter boy and a mem
ber Of Princeton class of 1919, received hii
commission at Fort Myer and sailed last
May from Camp Lee, Va. with the Eight
ieth Division. Every once in while 6
cable such as this gets through and bring,
joy to the hearts Of some parents. I'm sc
glad for the Pauls.
COMEHOW It's never been exactly 6
~ pleasant thing to see a young gir
smoking and in the tea rooms Of the promi
= nent hotels at that. Now, there's nothing
wicked about It, and IL women want to d.
1t. all right, let them do 1t. It's not sinful
nor vulgar exactly, but when you see
girl OF eighteen not only smoking, but will
. her cigarettes marked with her own in!
tials, I'll say that's going some!
,...., NANCY wYNNE.
b.