Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-27

VNHE Villanova branch Of Queen Mary's
n Gufld has outgrown its quarters at
Rynston. Mrs George Thayer's home In
Villanova. So Mrs. T. De Witt Cuyler has
very kindly offered the ballroom at Edg-
wood, her home in HaverforG. 1t is an i'm.
mense room and just suited for this work,
There are ever so many new members and
this branch has also combined with the
Bryn Mawr branch, which has been meet
ing at the home of Mrs. John Harvey
Gordon, and they are able to turn out so
very much more work
The members of this branch are Mrs.
Charles Sinnickson. Miss Frances L. Guy
Ter, Mrs. Charles Townsend, Mrs Joseph
Y. Jeanes, Mrs. Charles Henry Scott, Jr.,
Mrs. George c. Thayer, Mrs. Samuel Bo.
dine, Mrs. W. w. Bodine, Mrs. Morris w.
Stroud, Mrs NJ w. Stroud. Jr., Mrs. Will
liam Innes Forbes, Mrs. Heatly c. Dulles,
Mrs. j. kenton Eisenbrey, Mrs. Tristram
Colket Mrs. Kane Green. Mrs W. B. Nc
Tlvaine Mrs. Thomas Baird, Jr, Mrs. John
Baird, Mrs. Herbert Lloyd, Miss Roberts,
Mrs. George L. Packard, Mrs. George F.
Curwen, Miss Cameron, Mrs. TruXtun Hare,
Mrs. George W. Kendrick, Sd, Mrs. w. w.
Montgomery. Jr, Mrs. Lewis c. Nelson,
Mrs. Ledyard Heckscher Mrs. Thomas
Newhall Mrs. Burton Chance, Mrs. Adolph
c. Rosengarten, Mrs W. W. Curtin, Mrs.
James D. winsor, Jr.. Mrs. Theodore Spen-
Ger, Mrs Daniel NJ Barringer, Mrs William
Penn Gaskill Hall. Mrs. Nathan Hayward,
Mrs. Carroll Hodge. Mrs Kent Willing,
Mrs. Murdoch Kendrick, Mrs. S. Deas Sink.
Ter, Mrs. c. X. Underhill Miss Julia Wood
and Mrs. Harry C. Potter.
ALONG with the other activities of the
"A Girl Scouts of this city and vicinity,
they have now adopted farming and are
organizing into bands to cultivate war gar
dens. Under the leadership Of the captains
and lieutenants, who comprise many dehs
Of one to several years ago, they have
shown already what they can accomplish
in this line and have many model kitchen
gardens to display
In most cases however. the ground
which has been donated to them for this
purpose has been beyond the city limits
and is not accessible for many of the
Girl Scouts who are anxious to aid In this
work Two of the organized troops are
prepared to cultivate city lots and are
therefore anxious to obtain ground in
southwest Philadelphia for this purpose,
and they tell me they are ready to make
arrangements with any one who may offer
property for this cause at the Girl Scouts
HEADQUARTERS, "a South Seventeenth street,
MR.. GEORGE H. McFADDEN has con-
AV1 tributed a large piece of ground on
his estate at West Chester to this organi'
zation, which will be utilized as summer
camp for the scouts. Two farmhouses are
located on the grounds while tents will be
arranged for camping out. There will he
from thirty to forty scouts accommodated
there at one time. Beginning on June l
the camp will be opened under the direction
of q graduate from Chevy Chase large
sum was realized for this purpose at a
.. runmase sale given by the local council
last week at 1929 Chestnut street.
The council consists of the following: Miss
Elizabeth Adams, Miss Katherine Hutchin-
con, Mrs Alexander Coke, Miss CeclY
Rarnes. Miss Edith Biddle. Miss Eugenia
cassatt, Miss Anna F. DAVIS, Miss Rose
polan. Miss Gertrude Ely Miss Helen
Fleisher, Miss Anne Thomson Miss Elsie
Foederer, Mrs. John Grolle, Miss kath-
arine Lea. Mrs. Robert Lesley, Miss Anne
Msirs Mrs. Richard T. Nale, Miss Dickle
NewboId, Mrs. Nicholas Roosevelt Miss
Aimee Stone and Mrs Edward Marshall.
WELL every day you hear OF new en-
w sagements and the engages seem TO
garements an dthe "engagees" seem to
be getting more and more youthful as time
goes on. Most of the fiances have been
twenty-one UP to now, but such is not the
case with Ben Rush. He is not yet twenty
His engagement to Laura Tobin' OF Angus
"a. Ga, was announced on Saturday. Laura
Tobin. they tell me, is very pretty tall ana
slender and very vivacious. Ben is already
"over there" with the rest OF the OLD Troop
now a trench mortar battery,
His sister Charlotte married John Dray'
ton this winter, you remember. John was
s,so in the old Troop. I'm not quite sure
~ hs ts still with It or in another part OF
the service. Maisie Rush, who was to have
come out this year and Richar' Rush are
also his sister and brother.
Little Miss Tobin is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Augustus de Cottes Tobin, of
Augusta She was educated at the Acad-
envy of Notre Dame and is, I hear, very
charming.
AND my dears, there's something more
"A in the wind these days. Just sit tight
and wait and youll hear Of another en-
gagement between Philadelphia man and
8 girl with starry eyes, who halls from the
sunny South, or I miss my guess.
NANCY WYNNE.
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