Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-07
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks OF the Enterprise of Philadelphia
-Women-Nartins to Entertain at the Lilacs
ii in Honor OF Miss Ellen GIendinning

NEVER knew such cnterprising
i women as the women Of Philadel-
phia. Nothing daunts them; they just
go ahead, rain or shine and they make
successes of their fetes, even il the rain
pours down. I'VE should worry" say
they, fgurativcly speaking, and when l
called up yesterday, after seeing the
rain fall in buckets as it were. and
asked il the Germantown fcte would go
on, I was told by some one whose voice
did not know. but whose tone was
quite the most surprised one ] ever
heard: why. we're making all the
preparations for . o'clock So, me, l
said nothing, and hied me out there and
it was some party, believe me.
THE Willis Martins will give barge
4 party Monday evening for Ellen
Glen6inning at the Lilacs. Have you
ever been to one of those parties? They
are simply great. First you go to the
boathouse in the park and embark in
the great barge which seats sixteen peo-
pie. If | remember right.
two extra places. and the men row you
up to the dock just below the Lilacs,
which is the small white house on the
west side of the river just above the
trolley bridge, halfway up the hill.
There are great trees all around and
r long sloping hill at the side. which
Is always covered with wild flowers. aud
there are little odd paths and trailing
vines and all sorts Of little hooks and
corners.
AnG the men serve the dinner with the
help of the ianitor and then you dance
afterward or saunter outside in the
green and about II or II O'Clock
you pile back into the barge and row or
float slowly down the river till you reach
the boatbouse once more. ..
It's a wonderful way to give small
entertainment. l should think it would
be a real temptation to entertain for
Ellen and Mary Glendinning every
chance you got. because they are SC
charming and dainty and cute. ] saw
them out at Devon last week in their
pink frocks and large foppy hats anC
they did look darling.
Their mother who was Bessie Gar
penter, was jus' as attractive in hel
day of debut and had wonderfully
good time her contemporaries tell me
I should think she would have had
she's most attractive now.
AM really quite interested in the con
cert which the women on the Mair
Line are getting up for the benefit o.
the Rush Hospitals home at Radnor
You know they have built n pavilion
for tubercular soldiers out there re.
Gently and it is to keep up the goot
work that this concert will be given OF
the Ardmore Fairgrounds Tuesday eve
ming, June II.
The concert will be one of the larges
social events of the summer. Mrs
Floyd f. Chadwick, of ,Ardmore
is chairman of the committee havin,
charge of the affair, while the ladie.
auxiliary of Rush Hospital has ap.
pointed special committee to CO.
operate with her. This special commit
tee is headed by Mrs. Meller Tyson
The musical program is under the di
rection of Mrs. Sidney Thayer, Mrs
Richard Norton and Mrs. Chadwick
and they have procured such artists
as Thaddeus Rich, Henri Scott, ant
Walter Pontius. There will be sevcra
: members of the Philadelphia Orchestra
and Albert = n. Hoxie will lead tn,
chorus.
Light refreshments will be served and
candy booth will be under the man
agement of Mrs. Victor C. Mather
Mrs. Mather will have lot of younger
girls as aides, including her daughter
Katherine Mather, Nancy Norton
Frances Mills, Isabel Darlington. Helen
Hope Montgomery, Frances Frazier
Marie Louise Baird, Betty Green, Ethel
Heckscher, Dorothy Mehl, Elizabeth
Montgomery, Frances Sloan and Jose
phine Smith.
Mrs. Samuel Diller will have charge
of the ice cream department. Among
the other prominent members of the
committee who are interested in the
affair are Mrs. Charles J. McIlvain
Mrs. Rayburn Clark Smith, Mrs. Cliff
ford Jones, Mrs. William H. Gibbons
Mrs. William It. Abel, Mrs. Sydney
Pool, Mrs. Horace Sellers, Mrs. Will
lam J. Clothier, Mrs. 7. NJ. Romback
Mrs. George Anthony, Mrs. Aller
Evans, Miss Mary Converse, Mrs. J
Crosby Brown, Mrs. Walter B. Ste,
phenson and Miss Laura B. Staley.
Mrs. Tyson has on her committee
i from 4 the Rush Hospital Miss Mary
Buckley, Mrs. Mahlon Kline, Mrs
Henry Stokes, Mrs. James Halsey, Mrs
Louis Mutschler, Mrs. Upton Favorit,
and Mrs. Walter johnson.
NANry WINNIE