Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-18

i Falls of Schuylkl is up to her eyes III
work. She is president OF the rrespS
terian Orphanage, and they nave ope"'
a, unused cottage at Flfty-eighth atu
Chsster avenue as a sort of nursery mos
n,,a, for the care OF the children VINO
have been sick with influenza Al .no
,o,,nos,ers come from the Childrens bu'
roam at a1o South Fifteenth street, ana the
bouse IL lust as pleasant as can DE ior
them. and does them much good Lisa
Norris is now spending some time with
Mrs. Norris. She is the daughter OF Tue
John C. Norrses, you know, and lives III
Chestnut Hill.
~,1AIRE spENSER is Ill with typhoid
" favor, I'm sorry to report. Isn't II
or,c,ra, of her not to have influenza?
,ona s,o will carry on with this original
ity and have a light case of 1t. she Is
the daughter Of willard Spenser OF WIZ
,aire. st. David's, who wrote princess
Bonnie" as everybody knows and sis'er
of Willard Spenser, Jr., who Is ensaseo W
Elizabeth Hobart Morris. daughter Oh 'ne
Rev. Richard Morris and Mrs Morris Oh
220 South Nineteenth. SHE IL such a'
attractive girl, with her deep blue eyes
and dark wavy hair, and she is JUST as
popular as she Is pretty.
MR., AND MRS HENRY PEPPER
lVl VAUX, of Portledge, Roberts roau
Rosemont, have gone to New YORK ior
few days Mrs. A. J. Antelo DerereauN'
Mrs. Howard H. Henry and Mrs. A. j.
Drexel Paul are also visiting there
TIME dancing classes are beginning to
L make plans for the winter. Mrs'
Brooke's Friday afternoon class Is 10 nave
its first meeting on Friday, November ~
1t seems years away, but just close your
eyes for about three minutes and Thanks-
giving will be tomorrow. Mrs BrooKes
Saturday evening class will meet for the
first time on the thrtieth. The Saturday
Evening Dancing Glass is to have only
two dances this year. one In Christmas
week. and the other in Easter week. Miss
Lockwood's classes in st. Martins and
Merton will begin in November. The St
Martins Glasses can't meet at the club
this year so they are to be at the Wissa'
hickon School on the corner of Willow
Grove avenue and Seminole avenue.
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flag would hang over Broad street to-
morrow right, doesn't it? And when 1t
does, a whole lot of people will be re-
warded for a great deal of exhaustion
They certainly have been working their
heads off and they deserve to have the loan
go over the top about three times ] think
I'll feel sort of lonely on Chestnut street
next week, without all those cosy little
booths, and the pretty smiling faces lean
ing out to ask me if | don't want "anothei
bord,-I know you have lot, but just
take one more" as / heard one E. A. A
plead the other day. But the cosy LITTLE
booths will be put away to wait for th'
next drive and the pretty occupants Will b.
hard at work selling Thrift Stamps. o
packing for the Red Cross, or collectini
for smokes or something of the kind, so
guess they won't find time hanging heavy
lies a captain of artillery now, ga
IL lantly serving his country overseas
But there was a time, and only a fey
years ago, when he was just awful
nice boy, with an unfortunate ard Ell
tirely uncomfortable habit of breakin
things. He didn't mean to break then
near them. 1 hope he's having the sam
effect on those Germans now. He hap
pened to be at an informal dance on
evening, and he was sitting in corner {
the dinng.room, one of those goo
looking china. closets that are made entirel
OF curved glass. Someone came over
speak 10 him, and he rose politely to ar
swer her, pushed his chair back. and
course, the corner of the chair back sougl
refuge in the curved side of the glass doc
and there was crunch. The future ofc,
stood in smiling nonchalance in front
the hole while his hostess passed and sa
something to him. And then, being q pc
fectly good American boy, he went hon
when the dance over and forgot
about it.
Since he has Joined the service, h
brother has become engaged to a memb
of the same family, and just before
sailed for France, Captain. O. took sor
of his precious leave. to pay a rapid Ct
on the fiancee and welcome her into t
family. From where he sat in the livr
room, he caught a sudden glimpse of tn
china closet,-and the triangular hole
the side came out and hit him in the e
as If 1t had been his own name writ
there. Did he tell them about it? Not
You can't get glass for anything II
chira-closets in these days, and anyh,
Its all in, the family"
NANCY wYNNE