Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-06

- YOU know? a son was porn on iuesu"S
night to Lieutenant and Mrs. Alexander
Bddle, and he's TO be named for MS
grandfather, the late Alexander Williams
Rddle. Aleck Biddle is not a Junior, you
know; for some reason they did not put
the Williams into his name, but Mr.. BABY
has it all right. His grandfather was
very well-known doctor here as well as a
Biddle, and his grandmother, Mrs. Alex
ander Williams Biddle, was Miss Anna NC
Kennan, of Pittsburgh. Mrs. A. j. DreNel
Paul, Mrs. John Penn Brock. Mrs. Thomas
Charlton Henry and Miss Christine Biddle
are the young gentleman's aunts He has
no aunts or uncles on the maternal side
of the family, for his mother, who was
Marget Scull, was an only child, But ne
has two devoted grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ellis Scull, I do assure you.
Lieutenant Biddle is still abroad, but he is
expected home in the near future.
TO YOU remember Mrs. Maynard Ladd'
II She was Anna Coleman and was born
here and married Maynard Ladd, we'll
known Boston man. Mrs. Ladd has done
some wonderful sculpture, and there was
an exhibit Of her statues and fountains
four years ago at the Academy Of the Fine
Arts. Well. she has Just returned from
Paris, where she spent year, and she has
come here to stay this week and will give
the Thursday Gallery Talk at the Acad-
emy today. She made a number Of masks
for the mutilated soldiers while abroad.
And it's going to be the first talk she has
given since her return from France. 1t
strikes me twill be very interesting-oh,
very!
r HEAR the Ned Brownings have deter
L mined to remain in Palm Beach until
the end of this month. They have had a
succession of guests down there with them
for a week or two at a time, and they. cer-
tainly are delightful to visit. Mrs Brown.
ing, you know, was Ellie McFadden, and
is an extremely popular woman. Do you
remember the Mask and Wig last year,
when the Brownings' son Ted took the
part of the mother of the bride, and in
sisted on bringing out her knitting for the
soldiers on every occasion? In the middle
of. everything a man would have 10 stop
what he was doing or singing to try on a
sweater knit by Ted It was a scream.
He was quite one of the best in the cast,
and that was saying some.
TIAVE you heard about the wonderful
IL exhibition of dolls that the Emergency
Aid will open on Monday at the shop at
Fifteenth and Walnut streets?
Famous dolls they are, and I for one
want to see them. Just think. one of them
is 1870 years old. She is owned by the
Montgomery family. having been given by
Miss Polly Cawthrope flor whom she is
named) in 1884 to Mrs. John Montgomery.
Ethel Newcomb," the doll owned by Mrs.
Charles Edward Ingersol, will also be on
exhibition. This doll is really very re.
markable. She was bought by the late
Mr.. Robert Stursis, the father of Mrs.
Ingersoll, at the Sanitary Fair in 1854. She
was dressed at that time by Miss Mary
Cadwalader, who later became Mrs S. Weir
Mitchell. Ethel has two trunks Of clothes
and frock made by Mrs. Abraham Lin,
coin, and the late Queen Victoria pre-
sented her with set of jewelry. She'll
be some exhibit, don't you think?
When I look at Logan Square now. it
does not seem possible that it was all COW
cred over with tent, top and all, and our
mothers and fathers and aunts were there
under that tent ceiling selling flowers and
writing letters for the postoffice and doing
everything on earth to make the fair a
great success. For they had a posoffice
and you went to it and bought love letters
II was the great benefit affair in Phila-
delphia during the Civil War, and the ia
nous beauties of those days worked just
as hard as the women Of our day. Cant
you see them in your minds eye, with
their hooped skirts and tiny hats and loose
velvet sacks, and their soft curls back oi
their ears?
Then, besides Ethel Newcomb," there
was another doll at the Sanitary Fair
"Miss Flora McFlimsey, OF Madison
Square" and she was purchased at the
time by the late Mrs. Henry Drayton, who
was one Of the great beauties Of her day
for her daughter the present Mrs. Madison
Taylor, and Mrs. Taylor still treasure.
Flora.
Mrs. S. Megsrgee Wright has a wonder
ful doll named Alice; I suppose named
after the Princess Alice, for she was giver
by Queen Victoria for a benefit held In
London for st. )Christophers Orphanag,
there. Besides Alice" Mrs. Wright has
doll, Priscilla Alden" which had ono,
been the property of the descendants o.
John Alden, and she has also a bamsint
which was at one time the property of tn,
world celebrated Jenny Lind.
These are just a few have heard about
They tell me there are others that are a.
costly and famous. and many Of them hav,
trunks full Of clothes. .
The committee in charge includes Mis-
May Conover, who is chairman; Mrs Sam
uel Megargee Wright, Mrs. John C. Groome
Mrs. e. Burd Grubb. Miss Kate Forreste
Robertson, Mrs. ]. Willis Martin, Mrs. Rec,
A. Morgan and Mrs. George Wharto,
Pepper.
nIp you go to hear Mary Garden las
- night? She was wonderful and tn,
house was much larger than on the open
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