Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-22

TNIIE Philadelphia Art Alliance will hold
the second of its Sunday afternoon
muslcales this coming Sunday at the Art
Alliance Building, 1923 Walnut street. 1t
IL the purpose and wish of the committee
IN charge OF these Sunday afternoon affairs
70 give to the men in the service who are
Interested In art the best music the city
can provide and also to open the picture
galleries to them as we'll as the reading
rooms. Furthermore there are to be eats"
and we who know. DO know that the way to
reach men is by good "eats." Judging
from the success Of the first Sunday. when
Thaddeus Rich played and Miss Van Ba.
rentzen and Mrs. Cook sang. a good many
Of the boys we're reached then, all right
THE committee in charge Of these affairs
sydney Thayer, Mrs. John Braun, Miss
Beatrice Fox, DIR. Edward Keffer, Mrs.
Elisha Hancock, Mr.. and Mrs. William Ar
nett, Mrs. Edward Biddle. Mr.. Frederick
purant Mr.. and Mrs. Shillard- Smith. Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Woodward, Mrs John Crib
bel, Mr.. Ellis Clark Hammann, Mrs. Win
throp Sargent, Mr.. Harold Peirce, Mrs.
Henry Grove, Mrs. William Jay Turner.
Mrs. Ernest Richards, Mrs. Madison Taylor
Mr.. Henry Drinker, Mrs. Edward Box Mrs
TAFT Mckenzie Mrs. Henry Thompson and
Mrs. Samuel Fleisher.
GO THE third Biddle man, one of the
- three sons of the late A. Sydney Biddle
and Mrs. Biddle (who was Miss Frances
Robinson) Francis by name. is about to
join his brother Benedcks. The actual date
has not been set for publication, that is.
but twill be in April, from what the small
bird told me. Francis Biddle's engagement
to Katherine Chaplin, n daughter Of the
late Mr.. Lindsey Chaplin, of New York.
was announced several months ago. His
brother, Moncure, married Miss Brenda
Fenollosa several years ago and Sydney
married Miss Olive Caldwell at Keene N
H. last June.
As GUY EMPEY said in one of his lee
futures. zone OF the requirements of a
man enlisting in the service should be that
he possess a good sense of humor, for with
out that q soldier, though otherwise physic-
ally fit, is doomed in the trenches It Is
looking on the bright side of things that
keeps their spirits up and their nerves
from going to pieces"
(. Young Frederick Van Alphen Straith.
Miller. son of Mrs. Frederick de vignon
Straith- Miller, of Germantown, who vol
unteered in the Engineer Corps a week
after the war was declared and sailed with
Company detachment of the Fifteenth
Engineers early in July, wrote to his
mother giving her a Thanksgiving menu
that had been written by the men in his
corps. The menu ran thusly:
Consomme la Red Jasper followed by
pickles mot soldier variety. but good to
eat.
Celery a la paymaster very scarce)
Rabbit with sand and gravel dressing.
Pizzy promised to shoot these for us but
we do not guarantee any results).
Z Cher river whale a la Jones talso not
guaranteed). .u.l
Commes de terre. Being in France we
feel obliged to have part Of our menu in
French; we refer you to Chenot for in
tsrpretation)
Bread a Ia muster roles.
Turkey a la Swindell tmade in the United
stAtesl.
Cranberry sauce a la right dress"
Sea Food la barge picked by German
and Henise on the bottom Of the Cher.
Plum pudding 1--WE have this on Just to
kid you along).
Nuts (many kinds
Wins (red white or bluel.
Coffee (no meal complete without ip.
Billy Sunday cocktails la H2 o (for the
old souses)
Then the letter told what they really did
have for Thanksgiving dinner in camp:
Turkey, mashed potatoes, candied 'yams,'
half a pie (each), apples, seven kinds of
cakes, nuts, cigars and cigarettes. We had
no such Christmas dinner, however, on ac-
count of the intense cold at that time;
for with three men busy keeping the fire
going by feeding, II kerosene and bacon
fat it took three hours to bake pie" he
adds. OF course, some Of the side remarks
we do not "get" as we don't know the men.
but we do get" the spirit. The spirit of
our American boys. With that, will 1t be
possible for us to be beaten? I should
say not. NANCY WYNNE,