Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-01
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks of Doings Last Ngh-Ceorge Phller
Engaged to Girl From Reading-CIement
CriscOm Dead
CriScOn Dead

A MOTHER year! How we hoped last
4 year we would see the end OF the war
and how we prayed for it, and our prayers
were answered and it is over: but this
coming year will be of even greater i'm.
portance. We know there is lawlessness
rampant about the city and world gen.
orally, and the only thing for us to do is
to keep our heads and hearts clear. To be
kind to all and cultivate kind feelings for
all and kind thoughts, that sort of a reso-
luton would cover everything, don't you
think? So saying, Nancy wishes you
Happy New Year. If great things come
to us in 1919 let us be the right kind of
men and women to meet them; if sorrows
come, let us bear them; if joys, let us be
grateful for them. In all things let there
be peace and above all peace of mind and
heart and soul.
A FTER this little sermon We will pro.
ceed to talk about the worlds doings
last night. There were so many midnight
performances all over the city at the
theatre that there was quite something
doing after all, was there not? | never
saw anything like the crowds outside OF
the theatres and movies and as to the
cafes. you thanked your stars you had en-
gagged table before the big rush started,
DRETTY nearly everybody you ever saw
was at the Ritz and the Bellevue and it
was astonishing how many soldier hus-
bands are home already. It's funny to see
them, especially those who were married
France. They are regular newly I
think the whole crowd of them will take
their respective wives off on real honey
moons, don't you? l would, were 1 a
husband
MERE YOU surprised to hear that
w George Philler, Jr., is engaged? I am
SO glad because it was SO hard for him
when his attractive young wife died five or
six years ago. His fiancee is Marguerite
Bard, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
w. Bard of Reading. George is the son of
the late George Stanley Philler and his
mother was Miss Nellie Montgomery, a
sister Of Archibald Montgomery and Miss
Bertha Montgomery, of Bryn Mawr His
brother Dick Philler is overseas with the
American Expeditionary Forces. Georges
first wife was Miss Carol Benson, a daugh-
ter of the Rev. Louis +. Benson and Mrs.
Benson. understand that there has been
no date set for the wedding as yet, but it
is likely that it will he soon.
T WAS sorry yesterday to note the death
l. in New York of Mr.. Clement A. Girls
com. He was the son of the late Mr.
Clement A. Griscom and Mrs. Griscom and
a brother of Lloyd and Rod Griscom, Mrs.
Sam Bettle and Pansy Griscom He mar
ried Miss Genevieve Ludlow and has lived
in New York most of the time. One of his
sons is clergyman. the Rev. Acton Girls.
com, and Lieutenant Ludlow Grscom,
another son, is in the army.
Mr.. Griscom was associated in almost as
many business affairs as his father. who
was one of the leading financiers of the
last quarter of a century. He was fifty
years Of age and had been i'll only few
days. II was pneumonia following "iu."
Mrs. Griscom is daughter of General
Walter Ludlow, U. S. A., at one time chief
of the water department of this city. Mr.
Grscoms death will be greatly mourned by
d
friends.
T TITLE Marjorie's parents, being loyal
~ Americans, haven't been to an evening
party for so long that they hardly know
what the inside of theatre or a ballroom
looks like. So, last night being New Years
Eve, they thought they'd indulge in dance
or two, at the club. So they got all dolled
10 death, and little Marjorie, not having
seen Mother dressed up" for ages, was
pleased to pieces with her stunning black
gown with. touch OF gold and red rose.
She was disappointed, though, when Mother
put on her carriage boots. "Oh, YOU don't
look dressed up Bit" she protested. Then
Mother put on her fur coat, and Marjorie
discovered to her horror that no hat was
anywhere in sight. She burst into sobs,
aren't you going to wear a hate" she
walled. "Why, you look as if you were
Just going to run up to the store for loaf
Of bread"
NANCY WYNNE.