Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-20
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Plans for Next Weeks Welfare Dances at Rts-Culton
Nancy lynne Talks about Mistortunes of Haver-
ford mily-That Deceptive Dreamy Look

T HEAR that Mr.. William L. IIirst, Of
= Haverford, is having quite serious
time at the Bryn Mawr Hospital. You
know he broke his leg recently, and 1t
Is one Of those corkscrewy breaks that
don't behave like ordinary breaks and
start right in to heal. The doctor now
says that he will have to stay in the
hospital about five or six weeks.
Did you hear how it happened? You
know, Mr.. Hirst was something Of an
athlete while he was at college. and it
seems that on the day of the accident
he was watching some of the boys who
were playing on the lawn. They were
hurdling, or rather attempting to, and
1t got on Mr.. Hirst's nerves to see the
way they did it, and he exclaimed :
"You're not hurdling, you're jumping ~
You see, when you jump you just
simply jump, but when you hurdle you
sort of step in the air, or words to that
effect. So he undertook to show how it
should be done, forgetting, no doubt,
that he was no longer in training. and
somehow or other caught his foot and
fell very heavily, and broke his leg in
this queer way.
And then his young son. Sidney. fcl
while he was playing, the very next
day, il / have it straight. and broke his
arm. And the whole family was packed
up ready to go down TO Spring Lake
where they have a cottage for the sum
mer. The plans were all changed, OF
course, but / believe Mrs. Hirst die
take her, younger children down anc
open the cottage, leaving them there
with their grandmother, while she comes
up to be with her husband.
But did you ever hear so much trou
BILE all at one time, and such an IN
opportune time? Wouldn't it be cincf
If we could have a largely good tint
and then settle down and say, Come
on, trouble, do your worst, I'm ready
But instead of that just as we ART
saying, Come on, good times, fly to 1t
I'm ready" along comes trouble buttin,
in and spelling the whole party. III
great life.
THE Ritz dances, mean the we'far
l. dances at the Ritz, next week are t
be for the Daily Vacation Bible Schoo
Association. Among those who are in
terested, being members of the boar
of managers, are Mrs. Efingham Perot
Mrs. Edwin G. Gricc, Mrs. Alcxande
H. Lane, Mrs. John Loman, Mrs. viii
liam II. Gibbons, Miss Mary Masse
and Miss Sallie H. Green.
lot lie
dren of the poor during their summe
vacations, keeps them off the street
and looks after their welfare, give
them Bible lessons and generally bring
them up to be good Americans. An
the more we have of those things /
this little country the better the coun
try, don't you agree with me? Wei
anyhow, Doctor Tomkins, rector c
Holy Trinity Church, is president {
this organization Mr.. John S. Wurt
is the treasurer, and the vice president
include Bishop Rhinelander, Mr..
Davis Page. the Rev. G. A. r. Jan
vier, Mr.. John Wanamaker and MI
Martin G.. Brumbaugh.
The contest dances are to be held Q
usual at the Ritz on Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, and the dances will 6
on until further notice. The contest
are lots of fun, and even if you g
summoned off the floor early in til
game it is diverting to watch til
others and quarrel about which coup
will win.
LAVE you had the experience of gel
IL ting yourself all worked up into
romantic fervor about the dreamy, fal
away expression of some overseas mar
And have you thought, Poor bo
he's remembering the sound of the guI
and the feel of the mud and the ser
sation of seeing his comrades killed,
and have you pondered over the TRACED
of it all, and all that, and then ha'
you been shocked and Mortified and SUI
prised to hear the overseas man +,
mark softly out of his reverie, "Yc
know, there was girl at that 'Y'
Paris, and gee, how that girl cou
dance?' So have I. Isn't it a blow
But that wasn't what ! meant to sa
What | meant to say was that one
those dreamy looks went up the sire
yesterday on soldier who was smokir
a cigarette. He got away with
all rlgnC untll ne came TO Wlue part
the pavement and had to pass one
those women who have the whole paw
ment and don't want any of it exec
the part that the only other person (
the street has. So, of course, he hi
to pass pretty close to her.
And just before he did so he to,
his cigarette out of his mouth al
tipped off the ashes. And when
pulled his hand up again, cigarette b,
left. He was utterly dumfounded. b
cause there wasn't sign of ciga
cite anywhere on the pavement. Al
then suddenly the lady who had ju
passed uttered an exclamation, rails
her handsome velvet hand bag, viii
had been hanging open and putting h
hand gingerly into its depths pulled o
half burned cigarette and threw
disgustedlaA into the street.
And q ksro took the puzzled e
preston lis face, put on the dream
one, IL ted another cigarette a
strolled on up the street.
NANCY WYNNE.