Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-11

LIVERY now and then some one gets
~ cable from the other side, and then we
all breathe freely again in regard to some
other persons we've been wondering about
since the armistice. and from whom no
messages have come.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c. Roberts, Of PEN
Y.Bryn, wynnewood, have had cable mes
sages from their two sons. Captain w.
Paxson Roberts, 131st Field Artillery OF
the Thirty-second Division, and First Lieu
Tenant Frank c. Roberts, Jr., reserve mill
tary aviator, stating that they are both
we'll. The Roberts men have both been IN
France for more than year. 1t Is GER
tainly happiness to know they are sate.
Frank married Mary Miller, you remember.
GEORGE and Jane Harding must have
VI had a nice time "over there" Jane has
been in France for some time doing surgi-
cal dressings work and helping with the
little orphans. She was about to return
home when she learned that her brother
would probably go over soon. so she stayed
on on the other side And George was sent
over about two months ago. Mrs. Harding
had cable from them recently, saying that
they had met in Nice and were spending
Georges leave there together. He was sta
TONED in the south of France and could
not get to Paris, so Jane decided to go to
him, It must have been a happy reunion.
IND YOU ever see such peculiar frocks
- as they are wearing this year?
noticed them particularly last night at the
opera. Needless to say Dorothy Felrs stood
out beyond them all. She went to the
opera in the gown she had worn as Han
nah's matron of honor in the afternoon,
and believe me, it was some gown.
In the first place, 1t was brilliant
Hunters green velvet and 1t had one OF
those semihigh straight-across-the-sh -shoul-
der backs, and the skirt was very narrow
about the feet; in fact so narrow it was
difficult to walk. The upper part of the
skirt was fashioned of two great puffs
about the hips and back and the low front
was V-shaped. She had her hair parted
in the middle and waved back over the
temples in the quaintest old-fashioned
way, and there was not spot Of white on
the gown All this was deep bright green.
But Dorothy's wonderful complexion, her
white teeth and soft, fair hair needed no
better setting. Incidentally, at the we'd
ding small Dorothy Fell and Emily Steven.
son, five and four years old, respectively,
wore frocks Of the same shade Of green
velvet and white lace collars.
Another odd frock noticed at the opera
was Mrs Ned Browning's. When I say
odd, I mean they are so different from
the styles Of last year and the year before.
They are slinky from the knees down and
y then the funny little pointed tails on the
train. Trains, you know, when you have
seen nothing but feet and ankles for years
& to suddenly see long, tight skirts and then
long slinky trains. And theJ are not like
the slinky trains of several years ago, be-
cause these gowns make 1t seem as If the
wearer had gotten into a long frock and
4 then the maid had pulled the gown up in
! a bunch at the back and fastened a narrow
Z ribbon oyar the bunch and let the ribbon
drag along after the frock as train.
They have most detached appearance.
Mrs. Brownings gown was combina-
ton of two luscious shades OF salmon pink,
and her train was narrow and pointed. The
gown was marvelously becoming. 1 do
not know when I have seen her look as
well.
noticed Mrs. Woodvlle Bohlen looking
as young as either Mary or Priscilla and
introducing her young son to several of
her friends on the grand tier. Mrs. John
Converse was wonderfully gowned as
usual, but it was not one Of the new long
\ affairs. It was a combination of black
lace, silver cloth and dull blue satin. Alto
gether it was some night believe me!
A LARGE number of women besides the
e 4 regular workers at the Independence
Square Auxiliary of the Red Cross came
yesterday to hear Mr.. Mareossan tell of
his experiences "over there" You see,
Isaac Marcossan is one of the first cor
respondents to return to America since the
armistice was signed and certainly had a
lot to tell. Mrs. Emott Hare introduced
him to the speakers.
Mr., Marcossan was his usual delightful
self He had with him his pass through
the English lines signed by Lloyd George.
He told us that he was in midchannel on
his return to England when destroyer,
( with flags flying and siren blowing, raced
4 through the waters to tell his ship and
the many men on board going home on
f furlough that the armistice had been
signed.
He spoke very strongly about the leading
men of the war. How truly sterling they
were in character and how deeply religious.
He told of Haig's and Pershing's regular
Sunday attendance at church and that
Foch spent much time in prayer. AS
matter of fact was told recently by
], returned soldier this an aside from Mar
cossans TALK that Foch went every day
to church and communion, and that he
spent an hour each morning and each
4 night alone in church in prayer. Mr.. Mar
cossan spoke vividly Of Lloyd George and
Clemenceau and told Of the latter's great
age, which had not realized. He's eighty.
two you know, but Mr. Marcossan says he