Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22


Wf this Friday? Well. IL seems that they
mt go, after ALL There have been so
: any cases of "Hu" that the dance has
en postponed until February 81. And
| At Date is the evening of Mrs wurtss
Nj lacy dress dance. This week is Mrs.
lurtss class. too. so they will have that
tonsole themselves with; and then the
lverford School dance is on Saturday
N Nit so I guess they won't pine entirely
apay. The girls who were going are Jane
WN8pburn Edith Hutchinson, Jessie Da
W>1ta and Elisabeth Jeannes. The younger
0f just about that age, is having the
iIc1k time this year. The older sets are
lvllhkr too busy else there aren't enough
Itn to get up a really good dance, but
khese school children" certainly are having
\ fhe time of their young lives.
n VAND there certainly are enough boys to
Ex 90 around about twice, If they would
I'niy do II. Have you been to any of the
| bances and noticed the bored way in which
lRhese youngsters stand around at the end
lY6 the room deciding whether they will
Ancs or not and If so. whether there is
anybody there who dances well enough or
~ pretty enough or something to suit
lthsm?
w1f . girl Of fifteen goes to a dance and
A4mt got her hair up, do you think any
~ the youths of, the same age will dance
Nth her If they can help it? Go to
1ome of these dances and see. often
Nkppder what the mothers of sons are
kHhking of when they allow their boys to
beaAye as they do.
tlEAT ONE of the younger dances lately /
\ IIxAsaw the hostess go over and pick out
4 one of the boys standing in the stag line
\ ana take him over to very pretty little
L elrl who had been partnerless through
Ythree dances. She happened to be a per-
fsctly sweet little girl as | knew. But do
yyou know that that boy danced with her
1and made faces over her shoulder, which
warned the other boys not to dance with
her? He usually danced extremely we'll,
but he saw fit to walk all over the little
girls feet and then would look worse bored,
4 thereby hanging out a regular flag to keep
kpthers away.
NT THINK If boys fathers went to parties
K with them and saw how they behaved,
eperhaps there would be some use for the
.lmily cane after they got home. OF
I hbys who are polite and charming and
able to talk and interest the girls, and
{. more power to them, say l. But there's
fcprtainly something wrong somewhere in
! the general behavior.
IN USED to be that girls good time for
a. the evening was assured if she went to
1<6Adinner before the dance. because every |
nj ha hod
lie should dance with every girl at the
bame dinner some time during the evening. |
1t gave theri some one boy to enter the |
room with and to start off dancing with. |
ktoo. Do you think they do these things |
8now? !
MI saw at one of the dances Ginner party |
hrrive. and not one boy in that crowd ap- |
Aoeared at the dance room entrance to take |
me girl in. The girls came in all punched |
tDgether and waited and waited until some
llne boy came up and braved the whole |
srowd of them and asked one to dance |
frsdualy the little bunch of girls dwin
lied down, but there We're some left there
Standing on the floor waiting for at least
half an hour, while on the other side Of
The room stood twice as many boys with
out partners.
II Ut is time some took A stand. The |
'hostesses at the dinners could at least say
10 their guests as they leave them for the
Messing rooms. 81 shall wait for you at
,the entrance to the ballroom and we will |
All go into the room together" That would
sprevent that rudeness at any rate and the
girls would have some one to start dancing
with. I really think it's Il serious thing,
thpt courtesy is going out of the world and
~ being allowed to so by Grown.ups who
realize what it will mean in the future
when these boys are men and the cour-
:tesy which women have always loved in
men will he found to have vanished from
athe earth.
|kYSHE death Of Mrs. William G. Buitt yes
|}fA terday was a great shock to her large
'elrcle of friends. Mrs. Bultt had been i'll
1miy short time and had had every care
ossible AS last recourse Doctor lie
pnte, who has just recently returned from
lrope, performed an operation, hoping o
Ye her life, but it was not to he. and she
yesterday morning Mrs. Butts two
were not in Philadelphia. Orvllie. |
rstand, is on his way home from
be, and Willie is in Paris AT the Peace
Ydference. He is in the State Department
A4d went over with Secretary Lansing.
X&ck Bullitt, her stepson, was with her
lvhe.. she died.
Sl Mrs. Bulltts husband, Mr. William c. Bul.
>I<tt, died about four years ago. after a long
)liness Mrs. Bulltt lived at their house
&C Nineteenth and Locust streets with the
three boys after his death. Since then
both Willie and Orville have been married
The former to Ernesta Drinker and the
after to Susie Ingersoll.
y Mrs. Bullitt was Miss Louise Horwitz a
IRughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Orvlle
9rwitz. of Baltimore, and a granddaugh.
~ the famous Dr. Samuel Gross. The late
aler Gross, who married Mr.. Bullitt's
- Julia Bullitt Dick also deceased |