Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-17
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Miss Mmgmeta Shmples to Be Debutante-Nncy Wynne
Tells of Plans for annual Flocer Market
in Rtenhouse Square

ONE of the latest debutantes TO be an
Onounced is Margaretta Sharpless that u.s.
the date of her debut has just been i'Nrnc
We have known for some time thaI si'e
would join the ranks of the debbles. one
is the daughter of the u. wilson Sharp-
lesses, you know, and related TO every
Dixon in the world it seems, Tor wheh one
comes to the Dixon relatives their name
is legion and the family branches out into
nearly every prominent family in the city
Mrs. Sharpless was Miss Susan Dixon,
sister Of Mrs. Linton Landreth, Mrs. Rus
sell Thayer Mrs Percy Keating, Mrs.
Francis j. Allison, Mrs Arthur Emen New
bold Mr. Thomas Dixon. Mr.. A. j. Dallas
Dixon, Mr.. George Dallas Dixon and Mr..
n. Henry Dixon. and so you realize the
number of uncles and aunts on the Dixon
side alone that this young debutante VIII
have, and on the Sharpless side OF the
family she has an uncle, Franklin Sharp-
less, who married Elizabeth Mexican
Rhodes, and an aunt, Mrs. Charlotte NJ.
VAIN.
TO go back to the Dixon relatives. think
Of the first cousins and the families they
have all married into. Just to enumcrate
the families, without going into particulars,
first cousins have married into the Cassatt
Nauxs. Groomcs. Thayers Peppers, 1arnalls'
Wideners. Norrises. Wainwrights, Pratts.
Krumbhaars--in fact two cousins married
krumbhaars: one. Anna Newbold, is the
wife of Charles Hermann Krumbhaar, and
the second Helen Dixon, married Ned
krumbhaar. | could 60 on and on, but l
think I have told you enough about her
relations. What about the debutante her
self? She is very sweet, rather dark, has
very curly hair and a most attractive
smile. She was a bridesmaid at her sister
Mollie's marriage last month to Major Eric
Pearson. of the British army. And she
has q sister. Charlotte. and a brother, Lieu
tenant Samuel Sharpless.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sharpless will give din
ner dance for her on June IA at their home,
on Chestnut avenue, Chestnut Hill, and she
will be formally introduced at tea on Sat
urday afternoon, October IS.
Think of it. Dates as far ahead as
January 0 and 10 arranged for already, so
great are the expectations of gayety next
winter and so many will be the debutantes!
WELL, well, well, The date of the
w Flower Market has been set. and l hope
it will be clear, and ! hope it won't be
too warm, and 1 hope it won't be too cool,
and altogether you'll call me quite the hope
full person, won't you? That being neither
here nor there, let us return to the Flower.
Market. It's to be May 81.
AS a matter of course, our thoughts 90
back to that beautiful woman who was the
first to inaugurate the Flower Market some
five or six years ago, the late Mrs. G. G.
Meade Large. whose early death was such
shock to many of us couple of years
ago. For two years Mrs. Large was prime
mover in the Flower Market. Then when
she moved to Princeton to live Mrs. Eli
Kirk Price, Mrs. Andrew Crawford, Mrs.
Willis Martin and, oh, ever so many others
took up the good work.
After these few words of the history of
the market have new feature to tell you
about. Ordinarily you know they have been
having tea garden. and dispensed sand
wiches, tea, chocolate, ice cream and such
things to eat, but nothing that would make
more substantial meal, and so most of
lis have had to go home or to hotel or
restaurant around lunch time. Well, this
year they are going to serve simple but
substantial and delicious luncheon for the
workers and visitors there, and then later
on there will be tea and light things from
until o'clock. Mrs. Charles Randolph
Wood is in charge Of that part of the work.
Another new idea this year is to have
little gaily decorated pushcarts, with toys
for the kiddies in them. and the sellers or
aides will push them about in true 'ped-
dleress" style
Speaking of the aides, I do hope the
younger girls will for that day at least wear
something light and pretty. Not that their
uniforms are not pretty. They are, but
sometimes long for the white skirts and
sheer waists and tioppy, fiowered hats. or
the bright sweaters and shady sports hats
They were always a picture in the green
of the square and the striped tent back
ground there. OF course it goes without
saying that the Market will be as hereto
fore, in Rittenhouse Square. L wonder if
the dream of those who started to beautify
Rittenhouse Square and to model it after
the Pare Manceau, in Paris, will ever
realize their dream. Perhaps the bushes
will grow to young trees and the trees
thicken to the necessary size. In any case
it's very beautiful as it is.
The main object of the Marche aux
Fleurs Chats Greek for Flower AIarket)
is to send flowers into as many homes as
possible, and the principal things sold are
towers-cut, in pots, in vases, in urns, on
little enamelcd fences, in every conceivable
way, flowers. It's really flower market in
the true sense of the word.
But, of course, there are benefciaries
One must have purpose you know. As
the mockturtle said to Alice. NO wise fish
would go anywhere without Il porpoise."
And so the ''porpoise'' of this affair is to
benefit the Hope Day Nursery, ST. Christie
piers Hospital. the Fairgrounds Assoca-
tion and the Rittenhouse Square Associa-
tion. The women interested include Mrs.
Eli Kirk Price. chairman; Mrs. Thomas
i. Elwyn, treasurer: Mrs. Howard W.
Pancoast, secretary: Mrs. Arthur II. Lea,
tlrs. Andrew Wright Crawford. Those in
charge of the booths are Mrs. Henry B.
Coke, Mrs. Joseph Leidy, Mrs William
HhnnHnra "a
Edward b. Cassatt, Miss Julia Berwind,
Mrs. Stanley G. Flagg, Jr., Mrs. William
d. Grange, Mrs. John p Hollingsworth,
Mrs. Marshall Scull Mrs. Robert e. Glen
dinning, Miss Sophie Cadwalader, Mrs.
Charles n. Scott, Mrs. j. Howard Rhoads,