Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-13
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Chats OF the Ritchie.Ne,UboLd Engage
ment-She Gives Correct Date of Shmpless Dinner
Dance-Fete at Chestnut Hill a Success


w in on us thick and fast all right,
are they not? Dorothy Newbold is en-
saeed to Lothrop Ritchic. of Havcr.
ford. The Ritchics come originally from
Pittsburgh. but have been living here
for. some little time.
Dorothy, you remember, came out
the year before our entrance into the
war. She is cousin of Molly Thayer
and a sister Of Anna Newbold, who
married G. Hermann Krumbhaar. and
Of Arthur Newbold, Jr., and Fitz-
Eugene Newbold.
DO you remember the cunning book,
Advice to viii Be Debutantes." which
Molly Thayer wrote and dedicated to
Dorothy the year she came out? Molly
had been out the year before. and her
idvice was a scream. She Is coming
on very we'll in the literary world, by
the way. She has written some special
stories for Sunday papers, and an ex-
cellent article by her was published
recently In America"
understand there is no date set
yet for the Richie Newbold wedding.
but it is not likely that 1t will be very
long before the marriage. On her
mothers side of the family Dorothy is
related to the Dixops, and their name is
legion, and the Newbold side includes
the ,Beauyeau Borie. Jrs., the John ).
Newboids Ind Mr.. Clement B. Newbold
among the close relatives.
sMARGARETTA sHARPLEss, by
As1 the way, is a first cousin OF Doro .
thy, Newbold's and while on that SUB .
iect, there has been mistake about
the date Of the dinner dance, which
the sharplcsses will give for Margaretta
this month. In some way the impres
| sion got around that it would be this
Saturday, June IA, but the invitations
we're issued for June 2S, and the party
will take place then. Margaretta is
to be a debutante of next year, you
know.
. r SAW Ethel HUM Bailey the other
day looking very well in dark blue
georsette crepe frock, muchly tucked
and trimmed with blue fringe. 1t was
cut square at the neck and she wore
with it black hat with rather wide
front brim. The back of the hat, which
was Of fine straw. was rolled up and
two bundles of long black aigrettes
peeped out from either side of the roll.
It was very becoming. Her great
friend, Pauline Denckla. was with her
and looked very we'll in blue taffeta and
a blue straw hat trimmed with ostrich
feathers. ....
TT WAS lovely out at Sugar Loaf yes
i terday. You know that is the Hebard
estate in Chestnut. Hill and the women
Of the Hahnemann Hospital had a
garden party there. 1t is at Bells
Mill Road and Germantown avenue and
is wonderful old place.
There were all sorts of things for
sale and ''cats." and dancing and the
Lot o Pep orchestra played, and every
one had perfectly wonderful time. 1t IS
great how these affairs raise money and
what splendid things can be done with
the. money for the hospitals. At the
Rainbow Fete out at Huntington Valley
Club last week they cleared $1,000 for
the Arlington Memorial Hospital. That s
going some just from . in the after
noon until 1880 or SO at night, dom t
you think?
Speaking Of all those things, wouldn't t
You think 500 Chestnut street would
have felt lonely last week. Nothing
doing there in the way of a rummage
for at least two days! However. cheer
up, something tells me there is to he
another there today or tomorrow.
MAYBE you don't know it, but final
AL examinations are going on this
month in many large buildings com :
monty called schools. Some of the
examinations are written, and if YOU
have good memory you can probably
recall sitting at desk marked with
many initials and strange signs, the
meaning of which has escaped your mind.
playing with a pencil or pen, as the
case might be, and wondering where
ID this large, round world that teacher
found the things she asked, because
( they were never in any book that you
studied.
But not all the exams are written.
Some are oral, and this year at one
OF the schools an oral examination
was given to some of the "interme.
date" children in English grammar.
One Of them, certain little girl whom
you'v read about before WAS required
to. give the technical term, 90 to speak,
for the last syllable Of "a word. The
4 youngster ahead Of her had failed in
the question and she was all a-twitter
with excitement whep II came to her
turn. because she knew that If she
she knew athing else. The teacher
turned to vx expectantly. well,
rIs,.pn she eV.>ncouraged. "The pi-