Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-19

Florida. Mr.. and Mrs. Disston went there
shortly after Christmas. you remember
and took with them quite NUMBER Oh
guests, among them Mrs. Victor Mather'
Mrs. Bill Drayton, Gee Heckscher, MIS-
Dal Dixon and I just can't think OF now
many others. Mrs. Mather came home
some time ago and Gee Heckscher is home
now, too, because he entertained In the
Tedyard Heckschers' box last night at the
opera, The Ledyard Heckschers are not
using their box this year, you Know on
account of the death Of Mrs Heckschers
father, Mr. Charles B. Hart, which oc7
CURED the very day or the day before She
opening opera night this season.
The Disstons' plantation is quite near the
Sydney Hutchinsons' place IN Florida, and
the Ned Crozers have shooting lodge
close by. The Radcliffe Robertses VINO
were down there have gone over to Buena
Grande, Fla, for longer stay In the
South. Mrs. Dal Dixon, who is niece OF
Mrs. Disston, is still down there with them'
and the Jay B. Lippincotts went down last
week, stopping on their way in wash
tngton.
Mrs. Disston was Miss Edith Roberts,
you remember, and is a sister OF Mrs. Jonn
c.. Groome Mrs. Da, Dixon was Agnes
Groome, a daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
Groome.
AND speaking of Colonel Groone makes
"A me think of what Mary Roberts Rine-
hart said yesterday about the M. rs III
France. for you know she came on here
from New York to talk to the workers at
the independence Square Red Cross and
then went out to dine at the Lorimers later
Colonel Groome, Of course you Know Isl
the head Of the military police in France
and has many of the old Troop among his
men) -
Mrs. Rinehart said that of course the
doughboys make fun Of the M. P.'s and
will sarcastically call out from the WIN
dows of passing trains, who won the
war;" only to answer themselves. THE
Military Police" but that their work in the
war has been by no means a small or mean
one; that sometimes for miles around Of
barren waste the only living thing In sight
As q little M. p. guarding his poor little fire
and probably poorer food, all alone In some
devastated village, but on the alert to keep
order and discipline; and indeed he keeps 1t.
wish you could have seen the crowd in
the workroom yesterday You know 1
told you you had to have thimble to get
in. My dears. believe me, you could not
have used a thimble with all the best will
in the world yesterday. The women were
on the chairs, on the window sills, on the
hampers, sitting on the long work tables;
and in the middle Of the talk II did not
suddenly spy Miss Bessie Lewis's head ap.
pea,ing over the top Of the partition out
IN the hall.
She could not get into the room, it was
10 crowded. 80 she wisely used ladder
that was hard by and climbing to its top
listened to the talk from there So you
see you could not have sewed to save your
life. But you certainly can on other days,
and the need is very great. The refugees
need clothes terribly. and the Red Cross
is now asking for knitted shawls for the
women and socks for the children. There
Is great need in France and Belgium.
Mrs. Rinehart was certainly more than
entertaining. She has just come back from
the other side, having been in Strasburg.
Treves and Metz with the army of occupa-
ton. She told US that there is an organ
ized movement in Germany to treat the
American soldiers with great courtesy and
consideration. and that it is a most dan.
/. gerous thing, for our men are tired now
and respond quickly to apparent kindness,
and the idea that they are mot SO bad" is
/. spreading. And yet when German troops
were one side of the Rhine at Strasburg
and the French on the other. in biting cold
weather, the Germans sent the refugee
women and children across the bridge to
tho French army Of occupation in single
under garments; Showing" said Mrs. Rine.
hart, that the German has not changed"
STlfIERE were a number of entertain
1 mems before and during the opera last
nighI, A, Usual. Colonel and Mrs. Johr
Gr.boen entertained at dinner at the Ritz
in ho,.or of Elizabeth, and then took their
guests to the opera afterward. They had
Natalie Davis. Doris Dexter, Idella Louise
Gribrel ana Mrs. John B. Gribbel with
them. The Stotesburys are in Palm Beach
now SO Mr. and Mrs. ]. Kearsley Mitchell
( had their box. Mrs Frederick Jordan had
as her guests Mr.. and Mrs. Grenville
Dodge Montgomery. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
w. Churchman. Mrs. Campbell Madeira
Mrs. James M. Reed and the Evans Rob.
srts were Mr.. Heckscher's guests. There
were lots Of others. and of course lots Of
stunning gowns all the way around the
circle.
: TNLLEN is four and half going on five
W and all her dolls are my baby" She
loves them. puts them to bed every five
minutes and takes the most wonderful care
pf them II. every way. Naturally. Mother
and Daddy-or Blh.Daddy as he is some
times cailed-are pretty fond of Ellen, ant
there are snapshots Of her in all stages
bf her babyhood. from a much-blanketet
bmiler just bit afraid Of the camera, VI
% the busy. besmocked little big girl
playing with the puppy in the garden
They were looking over some OF the pic