Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-21
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Speaks OF the Death of Mrs. Philip Leidy
at the Gladstone Yesterday-She Tells Also of the
Birth of a Son to the Albert Hofmans

TT WAS with great regret that
Il learned of the death yesterday morn
ing of Mrs. Philip Leidy. Mrs. Leidy,
who was the mother of the two doc
tors, Joe and Clarence Leidy, and of
Mrs. Morgan Churchman and Miss
Gertrude Leidy, was Miss Penelope
Fontaine Maury Polk, of Winchester,
Va. She met Doctor Lefdy at the time
Of the Civil War and came here to
Philadelphia to live as a bride in the
early seventies. Her husbands brother
was the scientist, DR.. Joseph Leidy, and
siieir oldest son, the present DIR. Joseph
Leidy, was named for his uncle.
Some of the older generation will re-
member hearing Of the great love be-
tween the two brothers and the strange
coincidence of. their deaths occurring
within twenty -four hours of each other,
DIR. Joseph dying before DR.. Philip.
Mrs. Leidy and her two daughters
lived at the Gladstone for many years,
and the younger daughter, now Mrs.
VAIN Morgan Churchman, was mar
ried while living there, though her mar
riage was celebrated at her brother DR..
Joe. Leidy's home.
Mrs. Leidy was greatly loved, and in
spite of an illness which steadily and
slowly grew worse year after year re-
tanned her cheerful outlook on life to
the very end. She was witty, gener
Gus, charming, most brave under suf
fering and interested in all about her.
Her death comes as a great sorrow to
her family and very many friends.
Mrs. Leidy's grandchildren are Mrs.
Hamilton Cheston, who was Cornelia
Leidy; Philip and Carter Leidy, chill
dren of the Joe Leidys, Morgan
Churchman, Jr., and DIR. Clarence
Leidy's little daughter Helen.
IIOW strange it is that often with
IL sorrow comes joy. This must be
20 in the case of the James Francis
Sullivans, for while they are sorrow
ing deeply over the death of Mrs. James
Clews, Mrs. Sullivan's sister, on
Thursday last, they have been called
upon to rejoice on the birth of little
grandson on Saturday, August 16, to
their daughter, Leta Sullivan Hoffman
r HEAR that Mary Glendinning and
i Morris Freeman have decided to call
off their engagement. 1 do think this
is SO sensible. They were both very
young when it was announced. Mary
is only nineteen now, you know, and
the engagement was announced before
she was eighteen. OF course, in those
days every one was getting engaged be-
fore the men went off to war, and II
was natural for some of the younger
people to make mistakes. How much
better to find it out before the bonds
are tied II takes courage to break an
engagement after it has been made pub
lie, and think both these young people
are to be commended for doing this
thing after they realized that they had
made mistake.
The Glendinnings, Mary and Eller
and their mother and their cousin
Percy are at present. up in Northeast
Harbor, and next winter Mary and
Ellen will share the honors of debu-
tantedom in this city. They are both
VI thSh hio5t ottluItiNC Bll anu tutTt
is little doubt but that they will be as
great bellies as was their mother, who
in her debutante days was Miss Bessie
Carpenter.
MIE REALLY are a democratic peo-
w pie after all, even if we are not
Democrats, as some of us are not. We
were all so interested over having the
Duchess of Roxburghe home once more,
seeing that she is an American and
therefore, belongs TO this country, that
his grace the duke slipped into this
country quite unknown as it were SC
to speak. In other words, the Duke OF
Roxburghe put one over on the re-
porters all right, when he arrived not
only in New York but in Newport also
and had been in the country several
days before any one realized who he
was.
The round of entertainments has
started for them now and they are evil
IDENTIFY ready to take part therein, for
they appeared at the Casino on Tues
day to watch the tennis, and there are
parties and parties to be given for thenr
ISN'T 1T A relief to introduce your
friends as plain ''Mr." now, instead
Of having to remember, 'Now, he's
lieutenant, and the other one is lieu
tenant colonel, isn't he, or is he just
plain colonel, and if so which do call
him?" Personally I used to find II
much easier to look perfectly stupid
but very apologetic and insist on plain
''Mr." And now that it's all over, !
win, because have nothing to forget.
But these titles did make confusion.
For instance, when the Lieutenant and
his bride went to live in the apartment
house they discovered that most i'm =
portant member of the family next door
was Sonny, who was about, well he was
under six anyhow. He made friends
right away and discovered that it was
really quite easy to say Lieutenant. /"
Only one thing worried him-there
didn't seem to be any "Mr." in the
family. He puzzled over it for some
time, and finally found the solution.
After that it was always "Lieuten-
ant D."-and his wife, ''Mr. D."