Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-20
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Phadelphians attend Bachelors Cotion in Baltimore
Nancy lynne Chats about Affairs for School Set.
Interesting Marriage in Milton, Mass.

EvER SO many people are going down
- Baltimore way next Saturday TO attend
the Bachelors Cotillon. For you know
this one will he the first given since our
country entered the world war, SO it's
going to be some party!
From all I've heard, there are to be
numberless dinner parties for the debs and
out-of.town guests, and one of the largest
will be that given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred
erick Adams Savage. who will entertain
for their daughter Dorothy and whose out
of.town guests will include Leila Gordon,
the daughter of Major General George
Barnett L. s. NJ. c., and Mrs. Barnett, who
is going on to Baltimore from Washington
for the occasion; Ensign John A. Mayor,
U. s. n, and Ensign Arthur tittleton L.
s. N, of this city.
IND you ever hear anything like the
- preparations for the Easter holidays in
the school set? Dinners and dances and
parties galore. OF course, there'l be the
Saturday Evening Committee Dancing
Glass. and it will be March 2S. about mid
Lent. BECAUSE so many of the boys schools
give the Easter holidays before Easter
The reason for this is that the boys sing
IN the school chors and they are needed
for the Holy Week singing. / know this is
SO of st. Paul's, and | believe st. Marks
and Andover and St. Luke's and several
others have the same rules.
Well, just some of the parties planned
ahead are: a theatre party for Charlotte
Starr, to be given OH March % by Mr.. and
Mrs. Starr; a dinner for Harriet Frazier
Zimmerman by her parents before the Sat
urday Evening on the 2Sth of next month
and dinner before the same dance for
Elizabeth Barlow. given by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah b. Barlow.
The Tristram Collets will give dinner
before the Haverford school dance, which
will take place on March Z, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Irwin King will give a. dinner before
the Saturday Evening on March IS. There
will be several more meetings of the
Wurts Glass, too, before the end Of the
season. Tomorrow night will be the fancy
dress meeting of that class, and it seems as
If it would be very pretty affair. if all
! hear is true in regard to the dresses the
girls are going to wear.
w and Mrs. William Waterman are hav-
ing down in Palm Beach. They went down
there together several weeks ago and have
been entertained quite a good deal, though
not as much as the Palm Beachers" would
like to have done, because both Mrs. du Pont
and Mrs. Waterman went there for a rest.
Mrs. du Pont was Mary Richard Chiches-
ter, better known as "Diclo." you remem-
ber. She used to live with her sister, the
late Mrs. William Muir, in Haverford be-
fore her. marriage to Felix du Pont, of
wilmington. Mrs. Waterman was Miss
Sarah Wister and lives in Chestnut Hill
most of the time. She has several dear
little children and is one of the sweetest
women in the younger married set
TT IS interesting to hear Of the marriage
in Milton, Mass, of Catherine Whittier,
of Milton, who is sister of Ross Whittier,
who married Nancy Tunis. of this city.
Catherine Whittier was married to asyoung
Scotchman of the Royal Navy, Lieutenant
John Fraser, of Leckhelm, Scotland. You
remember Nancy Tunis, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Tunis, was married
about a year ago to Captain Ross Whit
tier. He, by the way, was best man at his
sisters wedding. Nancy Tunis is a sister
of Hilda Tunis and cousin of Marion and
Eleanor Wurts and Of the Bissell boys,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Perot Bissell, and Of
Dorothea Wilson.
r HEAR that the Red Cross volunteer
L factory, at 1914 Market street, is still
doing n great deal of work every day. The
workers are turning out quantities of
refugee garments, and the interest seems
to have increased since the armistice. l
suppose it's because so many of the
auxiliaries have "shut up shop" that people
who still want to work are going to the
factory, where the work is still fast and
furious. Mrs. Grenville Dodge Montgom-
cry is running it now, and a number of
days week. Mrs. Harry Potter and Mrs.
$. Deas Sinkler are always there OH
Wednesdays.
vNIEE Mary is not very old but she is
w pretty bright, and she knows pictures
pose, when you want to show them off,
Riddles always embarrass you? Mother
had Mary on her lap one day recently
when a friend came to call. Naturally
Friend began talking to the baby, who
smiled diffidently and tried to hide her face.
In order to make her feel at home with
the visitor, Mother picked up the book of
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