Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-05

TNOWN was perfectly dead yesterday
i but for the celebrations at lnde-
pendence Hall and few parades. There
were very few fireworks In the early
part of the day and most of those who
have not vet moved out of town for the
summer spent the day in the country,
riding, motoring or playing golf and
tennis.
: The Henry Brinton Coxes party at
Penllyn was a beautiful affair. You
know they never send out invitations.
but they expect all of their friends about
the country to go and there are usually
a hundred or more guests.
Catherine Coke in certainly very
pretty. She is smaller than Ruth, who
was n belle in her debutante year, and
Catherine will be one of the bellies of the
season. l make little doubt, for she is
charming. attractive, clever and always
dresses we'll.
She. has beautiful features and n
clear roseleaf complexion. There are
to be lots of entertainments for her. A
New Years Eve ball is already planned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Coke and there will be
numerous other parties. Catherine is
the youngest girl in the family. though
in year or two her cousin, Jane Coke,
the daughter of the Charles +. Coxes,
will be ready TO make her bow to
society. Last night at Penllyn they had
dancing on the lawn and fireworks and
supper, and every one had a wonderful
time. a great many people Naround
Penllyn gave dinners before the recep-
tion and went over to the Coxes in q
crowd 1t was altogether q most at :
tractive affair.
IT'S always nice to be able to give
good news, and today / heard that
Mrs. Dal Dixon. Jr., is entirely recov.
cred from her very severe illness and has
left the hospital and gone to her new
home in Ardmore. You know Dal hac
just gotten BACK from overseas wher
Mrs. Dixon was taken desperately i'll
and so they were not able to move into
their house. as they had hoped in May
In fact, for some days it was yer,
doubtful about her recovery. Mrs. Dixol
was Miss Agnes Groome. daughter o
Colonel and Mrs. John c. Groome, ant
sister of Mrs. Leland Thompson, o
Troy, n. Y, and of Jack Groome, wh'
married Gladys league, of Augusta.
A ND while on the subject of recov
"A cries I hear that Billie Hirst i
getting along even better than they ha'
hoped and will probably be able to b
moved to Spring Lake about the middl
of the month. Mrs. Hirst and the chill
dren have already moved down there
though Mrs. Hirst spends most of he
time in trains. coming up nearly ever
other day to see her husband and goin
back to be with the children at night
THRIS HAGEN. who is a cousin @
" Billie Hirst's, has taken cottag
at Cape May this summer. Mrs. Hagen
who was Sylvia Fassitt, was quite i'll i
the spring, but is better now,' and the
were able to move to Cape May thi
week. They have the dearest children
all boys and as cute as can be.
THE Pancoasts have gone down
l. Cape May and they tell me tha
Pansy Scott has been smiling eve
since. She and Polly are inseparabl
YOU know. 1t seems to run in tt
Scott and Pancoast families. does
not? Do you remember how deadly In
innate Betty Scott and Gertrude Pan
coast were the year they came out
Betty Scott is now Mrs. Walton Clarl
She Is a cousin of Pansy's and Poll
and Gertrude Pancoast are sister
Pansy Scott is sister of Nancy ar
Arabella, who married Joe Sims ar
Allen Hunter. respectively. All Il
Scott girls are Wonderfully pretty.
Pansy and Polly, the inseparable
are noted for their ever present smile
hid you ever hear anything like IL
~ - number of small tennis tournamen
that are being given lately at people
private places? The Billie Clothie
gave one last Sunday, the Isaac -Clt
thiers gave one at their wonderf
place. Sunnybrook. yesterday, and Mr.
Ralph Earle and Mrs. Edmund Thay
gave one at the Merton last week, whi
the Herbert Bells gave one yesterd'
at their place in Devon.
Mrs. Henry s. Jeanes is giving Of
this afternoon at her place in Devo
They are quite the rage. You. go
fannels and white shirts and skirts al
you play and play and then in the CO
of the late afternoon you have wonde
full cooling eats, iced tea and orang
ade and luscious salads and sandwicht
and altogether it's some party.
WE WENT out to Willow Grove
w Wednesday evening, and as To-
as I live shall not forget what ha
pened there. for | laughed until / W
too exhausted to move. We were wal
ing along. Nancy and another girl who
we will call Sara. and several men, a
suddenly man, perfect stranger. W
was walking in front of us stopped oy
to tie his shoe lace. and without wo
Of warning over his back went Sara a
y landed on her chin. If you could ha
seen it as did you would never be
same. The man was horribly emba
rassed and much concerned, and pc
Sara, even though her chin was qu
badly scraped, laughed and roared un
the tears came in her eyes.