Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-28

NIELL, j only hope IL will be clear all
w day today and the rest Of the week, too,
because the preparations for the Devon affair
have been so elaborate it would be too bad
TO have them spoiled by rain. But every
thing is TO go on. rain or shine, you know,
even if the society editors have to regale us
with accounts Of the raincoats every one
wore. And there is q variety even in such
things nowadays. However, well hope for
good weather straight through.
Pretty nearly every one has boxes and the
showing will go on from a. m. to p. m.
every day, but methinks there will be many
there who will not go to see King Horse
alone. There will be many. oh many, for
that Country Fair, which l must confess ap-
peals to your friend Nancy more than the
horses. However. she loves the ponies and
horses, only she docs not know as much about
them. Incidentally, they are to have two
ponies for sale on shares. j understand.
Shetland ponies Mustn't they be cunning?
atNhe II. A. As will be out there to help, and
they'll be at the Abingdon fete, too, nextI
Tuesday. but after that there amt goin'
to be no r. A. A.'s.' That's true. Didn't
you know it?
THE Emergency Aid Aides, or E. A. AS,
\ are going to be mustered out, SO to speak.
4 Be disbandcd in other words, go out of
existence. And the closing exercises are to
be held out at Lindenhurst, Jenkintown.
Mrs. Macleod is the head of the organiza
tion and she will give the party. The exer-
cises are to be at > o'clock on the 4th of
June, which is Wednesday. We certainly
will miss the familiar blue uniform, red trim
raings and Sam Browns, won't we? 1t won't
seem natural to go to any kind OF a-well,
anything, bazaar, horse show, benefit per-
iormance or even dance without seeing them
all over the place. However, it's a wise
play They are not needed any more.
And you cannot say that you were crazy
about hearing the girls in the various asso-
citations call out to passing men in the street
to buy bonds give to this or that. It's
not good habit, and the sooner they stop
it the better
r OFTEN wonder if we will ever go back
to the days when the girls of eighteen.
nineteen and twenty were really protected
and guarded from the rude and rough ex
terror. / doubt it. They arc used to being
free and easy, and it will take some time to
/ get back to the old fashioned, charming,
. half shy. half sophisticated ways of the
times before the war and Lefore the benefit
affairs which started the younger girls into
appearing in public as they have.
T,HERES - good deal Of agitation just
now about the way the girls and younger
women dress in evening clothes. 1t seems as
if we were waking up rather late to remark
ing about it after it has gone on for several
years. But perhaps we we're too busy with
war work to notice the evening garb until
now, and now the cry has come. It's about
time, that is sure!
And the little girls, too Even little girls
of sixteen go to parties now with no sleeves
in their frocks, just tiny band over the
shoulders which keeps you on tenter hooks
all evening for fear the band will snap.
Half the time the bodiccs of the dresses con =,
sist of about six inches of material in front
and belt in the back.
I hope the agitation will do something.
Modesty is so much more ttractive than the
want of it that no one could ever lose by
practicing it,. And half of the apparent want
Of it comes from thoughtltssness.
think that l would take from the
~ work done by the younger girls during
the war nor from the assCci- tions they be-
longed to, for the majority in every case
did we'll and more than well. The way those
girls worked and packed in the warehouses
and helped in the Red Cross. ETC.. was sim
ply splendid. But. as is always the case
some do not always behave well, and then
the rest suffer in peoples opinions. uni
form may be good in some ways, but if it is
not always accompanied by good behavior it
is apt to reflect on the association it repre-
sents.
rTyHAT will be some party 1T the Academy
= of the Fine Arts tonight. It's the Eel
lowships's spring ball. and it's all costume
effects. and there are to be prizes for the
first dozen costumes. At first / thought it
meant that to get a prize you had to wear
the whole dozen costumes but after careful
study ] decided that it was for the twelve
best looking and most imaginative costumes
in the ballroom.
think III 60 for those parties are Ger :
tainly fun. Did | not act in one of the
stunts myself one time. and don't therefore
know the excitement thereof?.
It's to be called Might on Mars" and
SO you know how wild the costumes can be.
because as you know nothing about what
kind of costumes the people on Mars would
wear (if there were people on Mars and they
did wear costumes), there is nothing to curb
the Imagination as to said costumes. You
Sscan think almost anything. Some party,
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