Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-14

Club. She is the eldest daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Warder, of st.
Martins, Chestnut Hill. and is a half
sister of Mrs. Joe Brown and of Billie
Harmer, who married Alice Long
streths
Celestine is rather dark, with
quick little way of turning her head
She has n wonderful bright color and
dancing eyes. And if she has one
eighth of the jollness in her nature
that her father has in his, she'll Ger
tainly get along all right.
Everybody knows and likes Mr.
George Warder. for the genial. jolly,
excruciatingly funny. attractive man
he is. It's always like walking into
a sudden ray of sunshine Oh dreary
day to meet Mr.. Warder. When you
leave him after talking for a minute
only you have broad grin on your
face and you continue to laugh at his
nonsense the rest of the way home.
Mrs. Warder was Miss Juanita Reed
and has always been noted for her
beauty. Her first husband was Mr.
Harmer. She married Mr.. Warder sew
eral years after Mr.. IIarmcrs death
Celestine will be introduced by her
mother, of course, and the buds who
will receive with her are Mary Apple
ton, Marie Louise Ashhurst, Marian
Baird, Lysbeth Boyd. Julisna Baker,
Elizabeth Barlow, Caroline Barclay,
Anne Cope. Nancy Dunning, Lorraine
Disston, Anita Evans, Nancy EN-
hardt Sarah Fox, Margaret Graham,
Florence Griffith, Mary Goodman.
Rosalc johnson. Florence Kane,
katherine King, Lillian Lee, Gladys
Muller Kathleen Ritter, Elizabeth
Ross, Mabel Reid, Clarissa Smythe,
Gladys Williams, Eleanor and Rosa
mond Wurts, Jane Neatman and Har-
riet Zimmerman,
As YOU saw by the announcement in
"A the papers on Saturday the man
ayers Of the Assemblies this year are
the same as those of the last Assemblies
given in 1916-17, with the exception
of Mr.. Beauveau Borie, Jr., who was
asked to fill the place left vacant by
the death of Mr.. Charles Platt. 3D.
DIR. Charles d. Hart is secretary,
and the other members are MIR. Henry
Brinton Coke. Mr.. S. Pembertou Hutch
inson, who was treasurer in 1916-17.
and is still I suppose Mr.. Casper Wis
ter Morris and Mr.. Gouverncur Cad
walader.
had been wondering who would be
the bride of the year patroness There
are so many recent ones, it seems,
now the die is cast, and the person
chosen is none other than Mrs. Charles
Cheston, who was Harriet Frazier. and
I'm sure better choice could notS have
been made. Ns1--
Harriet and Charlie were married in
May or June, shortly after his return
from the other side, their engagement
having been announced about two
months. She is the daughter of the
George Harrison Fraziers. you know,
and sister of George Frazier, Jr.,
who is engaged to Marys Clark
The other patronesscs this year will
ne Mrs. Alexander ]. Cassatt, Mrs.
John B. Thayer, whose daughter Polly
is a debutan'> of the season; Mrs.
Trenchard ilen Newbold, whose
daughter Rhoda Brooke is another deb,
and Mrs. Alexander Coke Yarnall and
Mrs. o. II. Perry Pepper, both young
married women of three or four years.
An Assembly without champagne will
be queer, won't il? However ! am sure
the committee will make up for it by
making the decorations and supper more
wonderful than ever before.
fNHE Wisters' tea was almost like go
i ing to the "Asspmbly," everybody
put on their best bbs and fuckers and
went to show. that they were asked.
Marina and Fanny both wore white
dresses trimmed with silver and looked
very charming and animated The his
toric old rooms We're so packed that it
was hard to see the beautiful heirlooms
and portraits with which they are filled
There was a little more breathing space
in the library which is lined with books
and has a true literary atmosphere. |
heard one white haired lady say to
friend that she had been brought out
there in the days of her youth to meet
the great actress, Fanny Kcmblc,
She you must have heard came to this
country to give readings and married
Pierce Butter and that is how Butler
Place came into the family. After while
Mrs. Butler left her husband and went
back to England. A daughter named
Fanny married nn Englishman named
Lee and the other daughter, Sarah,
became Mrs. Wister, who had a very
interesting and striking personality.
The garden, in true English fashion,
is quite away from the house and has
remarkable old box hedges. The two
cherry trees arching over the center
made me wish it was June again.
The debutantes show the effect of their
war work in the prompt and efficient
way in which they serve tea and frnppe.
1u true cafeteria style one supplied me
with sandwiches while another was get
ting me chocolate. In the prey
days they used to feed themselves or
stand round and gossip.
It's refreshing to see people cling
to old ways instead of rushing out in
search of the latest thing. The Wisters'
house was lighted entirely by candles
which gave it the air of a real old
fashioned party. 1t reminded mo of
some of the parties that the Fishers
used to give at Alvethorpe. their beauti-
full old place at Jenkintown..
nID you know that the George Whar-
- ton Pepper, Jrs. have bought the
Frederick Bigelows house in st. Da-
vids. They have been living for a while
with the Myers and the Peppers and
had an apartment one winter at Twenty
third and Pine streets. They have been
married about three years now. Mrs.
Pepper was Marion Myers, you remem-
ber, sister of Mrs. John Forsythe
Meigs, I'd, Mrs. Jacob Disston, Jr.,
and Mrs. Henry Wharton, Jr.
TT REALLY is remarkable how vitally
l. interested Ellen Mary Cassatt and
Gwen Martin are in the Girl Scouts
Ellen Mary started the thing here, you
know, about four or five years ago, and
has consistently worked at it ever since,
and now there are Girl Scouts all over
the city and the movement has extended
throughout the state.
They are going TO get up a drive the
end of this month to increase the mem