Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-15

MD YOU know that there is hospital
lon the George B. Packard place out
n villanova? The Meadows, I meanF
Vell there Is and It's the most interesting
1lne. It's the cid Green Tree Inn. ana
at October Mrs. Packard had II fixed up
"a hospital and turned over to the use
The children and wives of men IN the
ervice. Lately there have been great
fany children there who have been made
rphans by the "nu." It's under the di-
Scfion of the Red Cross and there's
Aif,ed nurse there all the time, and then
nth Hobart, Elizabeth Packard and Hope
1ilAon--they were all attendants for Mary
Ackard when she was married last month,
I you might say last year--take several
ays q week out there assisting the nurse.
) low, isn't that nice thing to do?
ruth Hobart has had seven months
Aining In nursing at q hospital in New
url. She is the daughter of Mrs. Charles
yheeler and lives out at Pembroke, the
amp Run Farm in Villanova. the cid
tanley Flagg, Jr, place. Her sister, Han
al Hobart, is over in France, also
ursing.
this world that you don't know anything
bout for long time, and then 1t suddenly
,mes to your notice, just as this came to
inA and you decide that this is a pretty
lce. place to live in, in spite of wars and
gh prices and slippery pavements in WIN
,r and bats in summer. OF course, every.
ody knows about the slippery pavements
summer, but wonder what happens to
ats in winter? DO they migrate, or just
anish like flies?
But to go back to the Packards: Mrs.
aclrard and Elizabeth are up in Con-
,rd. Mass, now and expect to be back
day or tomorrow.
HEAR that Lieutenant Thomas New
hall U. S. N. r. F., has been released
ON the navy and he and Mrs. Newhal
- going down to Miami. Fla, for two
eelks. He had most interesting time
hile he was in the service. He was In
ngiand, where he had charge of trans
rtation or had something important to
with transportation. Pretty important
ling to have something to do with, any
ow; and, incidentally, he was under Ad.
iral Sims. Then he came back here and
az stationed at the Fourth Naval Dis
ict at Twelfth and Chestnut streets. 1
oppose he was the cause Of great many
lappy salutes from the NJ. =. at the door.
Il used to walk backward down Chest
1T street whenever ! saw an officer who
oked as If he might be going in there
= the summer. But as far as that goes,
Friend Nancy has a choice between
itching an important train and hesitating
order to see an exchange of quick,
Apply sautes, it's goodby train every
ne. But now that summers passed and
ne. It's too cold to move your head
sough out of your collar just to watch
70 men put their hands up to their hats
ID drop them again. Jimmy Little is out
the service too. He is the son of Mr..
ID Mrs. H. Ashton Little of Sharon Hill,
ID his engagement to Mary Norris Ger
nj was announced last spring. He has
en- In the radio corps. L. s. y.
ALEX DOLAN has gone to Portsmouth,
A N. H., where she is to be bridesmaid
day. for Barbara Norman, daughter of
-adfdrd Norman, Of Newport and New
,rk. The bridegroom is Ensign Dan
mes. u. S. ~, of st. Louis. The other
idesmaids are Mary and Frances Jones,
sters of the bridegroom; Dorothy Willard,
Newport; Suzanne Pierson and Barbara
BOW, of New York. l wonder how soon
osalie Dolan is coming back from over.
a.? She'll have a story to tell that will
quite as we'll worth hearing as those of
,phie Norris and Phyllis Walsh and all OF
EN-.
fave you had letters from soldiers who
tell you that they haven't written be-
use they have been tres busy" on ac-
unit OF "trop work." and from others who
mark that they must say "cheer-o" and
n along, and from still others who refer
Inherently to "gelati stands" and Won
how soon they will get back to "Gll
ati Uniti"-or words to that effect? They
pick up the language of their gallant
lies In a most remarkable way.
"A bunch of them were given a rousine
nd-off from town in France recently
- hen they We're getting ready to embark
,rr. home. All kinds of mixed English
merican slang and colloquial French were
outed at and after them as they cheeret
nd waved good-by, One of them hat
en wounded and had been in the hospita
,nsr some time. lie was still bit partia
=, n comfortable chairs. and the big thought
at kept going through his head all the
ne was that dinner he was going to hav,
hen he got back home. 1t was one o
ose "fancy" dinners, with French word
. through it, and somehow the thought o
made him forget all the other Frencl
10 T,rds he had picked up while in tn,
-. ,,bnches.
nhsSrhere was one word he couldn't recollec
i p vt had something to do with coffee. Th
\. outs of "Adieu!" "Au revor!" "Bol
Ss N"yage!" in bad French from the rest o
= "outfit" finally got on his nerves. an,
,lsF Sthe word suddenly came TO him h
obrfkved his crutch in the air and roared
tomitassey! Demi-tassey!"
- NANCY wYNNE.