Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells of Many Week-End Paties--Mrs.
Archibald Thompson Entertains at
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A Ill the doings this week seem to be
"A house parties Most of the men have
a holiday on Monday, you see, and so
they will be able to stay till Tuesday
( morning. and as many left yesterday for
the week end, the resorts nre all pretty
we'll crowded. The Henry Pratt Me-
Keans are having a house party down
at their cottage at Bay Head. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Brockie IRE with them and
so arc Sturgis and Marion lngersoll.
Up in the Adirondacks the Russell
Thayers have a big family party. Gen
eral Thayer and Mrs. ThGyer md Molly
have been at their camp for the greater
part of July and August, but now the
three boys and their wives have gone
UP for this week end and Gene and
Aleck are also with them. The mar
ried Thayers are Russell, Edmund and
Joe, you know. Russ married Shelby
johnson. of Baltimore Edmund's wife
was Jean Thompson, and Joe married
Aimee Hutchinson.
Do you remember their wedding? Just
= at the last minute, almost, young Penn
berton Hutchinson, Jr., developed
measles or some such uncomfortable
malady and the wedding party, guests,
breab, Il and everything was transferred
to the Sydney Hutchinson's house on
Walnut street and the wedding took
place there.
yTHE Paul Denckla Mills have house
i party on up at Newport. Mary ana
Charlie Mum are with them, you know,
and they are giving dinner tomorrow
night. Then Lawrence Beggs has asked
two or three couples down to spend the
Labor Day week end with him at his
cottage in Ventnor. He has lAs chill
dren down there for the summer, you
know. Joe Beggs, his brother, and
Bessie, you remember she was Bessie
Kerbaugh, and they live in Pittsburgh
now, are going down there and so are
Sumner Rulon Miller and his wife and
the Richard G.. Wood, Jrs.
r MUST say / was amused yesterday
4 to read in several New York papers
of the engagement of Bettinc Stokes
Edwards and Captain Mercer, of Eng
land. And they say Philadelphia is
slow. Why bless your hearts, we knew
about that Saturday a week ago and
had it in the paper then. But, of course,
we are so "slow'' in Philadelphia New
York never dreamed it was two weeks
behind.
Bettine Stokes Edwards is the daugh-
ter of Bob Edwards who married Miss
Bettine Stokes, Of this city. He is a
brother Of Mrs. Frank Patterson and
of Mrs. James Hirst.
He and his wife were divorced num-
ber of years ago and she became Mrs.
Fitz- Hugh Perrin and has lived in New
York most of the time since then. The
children have been with their mother,
and Bettine is the older daughter. Cap
tain Cecil William Mercer, 1 think /
told you at the time of the announce
ment, is an Englishman, son of Mr..
John Cecil Mercer, of st. Johns Wood,
London He was in the army and saw
service in Salonica and Egypt. They
are to be married very soon / under
stand, but no date has been set as yet.
MRS. ARCHIBALD THOMSON has
ANl n house party. at her place in Mar
ragansett for this week. 1t consists of
members of the school set and they have
been having a wonderful time going to
the Newport Horse Show and the vari-
Gus doings at those gay resorts. Eleanor
Purviance known to her friends as Pur-
vie, is one Of the girls from Philadel-
phia in the party, and Loulie Thomson,
Mrs. Thomson's niece, is another, and
the little Whitwell girl from New York
Eleanor Purviance is the daughter of
Mrs. Pere Wilmer, of Germantown, and
a first cousin of the BrOckie girls,
nd hot
Brockie, should I not? Elizabeth Nor
gan is another cousin in that large and
attractive Morgan family.
MOLLY and Brewster Koons have
AVA gone down to Cape May to spend !
the week -end with Brewster's father |
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Koons.
They have taken a house of their own |
out in Strafford, did you know that?
After they were married you remember |
they lived in Rome, Ga. and then |
Brewster went to war, and after his |
return he was taken i'll with pneumonia,
and SO, altogether they were not able
to settle down at all, but have been |
living at the Bailey's. in Strafford, since
they returned to Philadelphia. You
know Molly Koons was Molly Baily, |
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Baily.
They expect to move into their own
home next month, and Brewster will |
be permanently connected in business
here. / am so glad, for it is hard
to be far away from ones own home,
even if 1t is with ones husband. The
early associations do cling and it's hard
to make new friends when ones ideas
and preferences are well formed.
AS one small bride of the recent year,
who was home visiting her family, re-
marked, when it was time to go back to
husband, "Oh, dear, hate so to leave
Philadelphia. and then she blushed
shyly and added, But, oh, dear, want
10 see Jack" and so it goes.
NANCY WYNNE.