Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-31
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. and Mrs Robert L. Montgomery Cue Large Dance for
School Set This Evening Dances to Begin Today.
Much Ham Through Lack of Forethought

TIME Robert Leaning Montgomerys
dance, long looked forward to by mem'
bers Of the school set around the ages OF
fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, will be heid
tonight at Ardrossan, their country place
In villanova. There are to be about loo
guests of the school set about Helen
Hopes age. She is the eldest daughter OF
the Montgomerys, you know, and is named
for her mother and great AUNT, Miss Helen
Tyler. Mrs Montgomery was Miss Hope
Tyler. The Charlie Da Costas, Millses and
Montgomerys are giving diuners before
the dance. The Montgomerys are to have
.twenty.six guests at their dinner, and
believe the other dinners will he quite
large. too.
Supper will be served at small taoies
seating fifteen guests each. i's going 10
6be mighty pretty affair, and the girls at
least are much excited.
4 A ND today we have the opening Of the
"A afternoon and evening dances at the
n Ritz-Carlton. They are to go on every
afternoon and evening, and each weeks
: proceeds are to be handed over to some
special charity. For instance, this week
the Orthopedic Hospital will be the bene'
ficiary and next week the Chestnut Hill
Hospital.
The truth of the matter is that hospitals
that never before had to ask for assistance
are really in bad way this year. because
their means and ranks were not only de-
epleted by the war and war activities, but
by the siege of influenza last fall, which
actually about emptied their Golfers. The
demand was so great then that no nos
pital, doctor or nurse could stop to think
whether they could or could not take more
patients. and consequently most OF the
treasures Of the hospitals at least are
down to rock bottom, for expense was not
spared.
A number of prominent women have
decided to get up these daily afternoon and
evening dances, and Nine. Eufemia
Giannini, the Italian opera singer, will
entertain by singing several operate Sc
lections today. There are to be number
of dinners before the dance tonight. Mrs.
George Dallas Dixon will entertain, as
will Mrs. Howard Graham, Mrs. Stacy B.
Lloyd, Mrs. Henry Sulger Jeanes, Mrs c.
Howard Clark and Mrs. Joseph Gazzam.
Some one or two women who are inter
ested In the charity of the week will act
as chaperon of the afternoon, and today
Mrs. Sidney Keith will preside.
Something tells me these dances are
going to be 1.-The" thing in Philadelphia for
a while at least. There's been nothing so
really "spiffy" for so long that some Of us
almost forget how to dance. 1t will seem
almost like a return to the old supper
club which Mrs. Hutchison Scott ran so
successfully at the Ritz and later at the
. Bellevue -Stratford when the club grew too
large for the Ritz ballroom.
TNHEY are backed by about every one of
1 Importance in town, what more do
you want? The executive committee in.
cludes Mrs Archibald Barklie, Mrs. George
Dallas Dixon, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam, Mrs.
Joseph Leidy. Mrs Stacy B. Lloyd and
Mrs. Charles Randolph Wood.
The patronesses are Mrs. Edgar w.
Baird, Mrs Alexander w. Biddle. Mrs. Ed
s, ward Box. Mrs. Eaton Cromwell, Mrs. Fitz
Eugene Dixon, Mrs. William Fl. Donner
Mrs. George w. C. Drexel, Mrs. Howard S,
Graham, Mrs. w. Frazier Harrison, Mrs
Charles F. Hughes, Mrs. Ernest Law, Mrs
j. Willis Martin, Mrs. J. Kearsley Mitchell
Mrs. Paul d. Mills, Mrs. Effingham b.
Morris, Jr., Mrs. George Wharton Pepper
Mrs. John II. Packard, Sd, Mrs Harold
Sands, Mrs. William Ellis Scull, Mrs. John
b. Thayer, Sd, Mrs. Henry B. Thompson
Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. Nor
ris w. Vaux, Mrs. F. King Wainwright
Mrs Litteton w. T. Waller and Mrs
Charlton Yarnall.
The mems committee includes Mr.. John
C. Bell, Mr.. Robert X. Cassatt, Mr.. Percy
NJ. Chandler, Mr.. William J. Clothier, Mr.
John w. Geary Mr.. Sydney F. Hutchin.
SON, Mr. Sidney w. Keith, Mr.. Robert w
Lesley, Mr.. Lewis H. Parsons, Mr.. William
West, Mr.. Joseph Widener and Mr.. Charl.
ton Yarnall and Junior committee in
cludes Mrs. Clarence Clark, Sd, Gretchen
Clay, Harriet Frazier, Gertrude Heck.
scher, Mary Law, Mrs. Arthur f. New.
) bold, Jr., Mrs. Fitz-Eugene Newbold, lisa
Norris, Isabel Page, Mrs o. H. Perry
Pepper and Alva Sergeant.
TACK of foresight was what did it, YOU
IL see, Husband isn't out of the service
yet and the H. c. of l.. doesn't realize that
and consequently whenever anybody tells
h her that certain kind of meat or GER
tain method of buying or anything like
that is economical, she falls for it with 6
low growl and tries it out. So when the
butcher the other day inveigled her into
Z believing that it was economical 20 hav'
lot of meat on hand, in case of unex
pected company or any other emergency
because you really don't have to buy any
other meat except occasionally-ands Sc
on. So of course she gave in and pur
chased a whole end Of ham, carted i
home with much dificulty-and contem
plated in sudden dismay the "two.by-foul
kitchenette," in which it was impossible t.
keep anything larger than pound o
butter. Lack of foresight!
And now, when you see Husband wan
dering about with dlsconsolate expires