Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-01

To walk up or down the street around
o'clock; why. you see everybody you ever
knew and seme mighty pretty dresses on some
of the girls, who do not always wear UNI
forms. I saw Dorothca Oberteuher yes
terdsy. She was wearing an extremely gooa
looking costume. The skirt was one ot inc
pleated dark green and blue plaid ones and
her coat was o very dark, plain blue sports
material Her hat was a small turned up
one of blue straw. and she looked awfuiIN
well in it. Dorothea is good looking, you IL
agree with me, and she wears her clothes
awfully well.
ARE you going to the tableaux wants
"A and dansant combined at the Ritz to-
night? It's for the Msercordia Hospital
you know. The pictures will be copies oi the
old masters. and there will be- living statues
too. and a fashion show. So don mss H.
Something nj que. III say.
The hospital is out in West Philadciphia'
you know, and was taken over by the gov
ernment for the wounded men. and II SIM
ply wonderful how the women VIII" are IN
terested in that hospital are working FOR IT.
They had huge rummago sale ABOUT
three weeks ago. then there are innumerabl'
smaller affairs going on now and tonight
tableaux and dance will be about the biggest
in social Importance. Just some of the
patronesses of the dance are Mrs. Tony I'D
die. Mrs. Samuel Bell. Ir., Mrs. Percy
Keating, Mrs Robert w. Lesley Mrs. John
s. Newbod, Mrs. Parker Norris, Jr. Mrs
James Francis Sullivan. Mrs. Russell
Thayer and Miss Emlie Rivinus.
A RENT the members of the Garden Club
IAhavng a wonderful tim" this week!
You know what they're doing don't YOU
They went down to Washington on Monday
and from there they took steamer down
Chesapeake bay to Dld-Point Comfort ana
Norfolk. And then they are going up tn"
James river stopping at various p"lntS I"
see the wonderful old gardens of the southern
cline.
During the war the Garden Club stopped
its work with flowers and grew vegetables
but now that the members feel there Is
no further call for that sort of work, they
have gone back to their gardening. Mrs.
Charles Biddle is president OF the club. you
know. and is with those who are taking the
trip South. Mrs. Franklin Pepper is also
on the trip. and so is Mrs Charles +. Coke.
Mrs. Coke. they tell me. will stop OH at
Middleburg to see Jane, who is a student at
Foxcroft School there.
You know last year during the war the
club maintained n unit of the Land .Srmy at
Newtown Square. where they had large
farm. Among the members of the club ar"
Mrs. John Hampton Barnes, Mrs. Arthur
Riddle, Mrs. Charlie Rorie Mrs. Bayard
Bowie. Miss Martha Brown. Mrs. Ned
Browning. Mrs. Charles f. Coke and Mrs.
Charles Brown Coke. Mrs. Charles 'rcSs-
well, Mrs. William A. Dick. Mrs. Norton
Downs. Mrs T. Henry Dixon. Miss Ger
trude Ely, Mrs. Henry Middleton Fisher,
r.
Mrs. Bob Gcndinning, Miss Erncstne
Goodman, Mrs. Jack Gcary. Mrs. Rod Girls
com, Mrs. Henry Frazer Harris, Miss Jan"
Haines, Mrs. Horace Hare, Mrs. BayarI
Henry, Miss Anna Ingcrso, Mrs. Willis
Martin. Mrs. Arthur Meigs, Mrs. William
Mercer, Mrs. Marshal Morgan, Miss Marian
Mott. Mrs. Lewis Nelson, Mrs. John :.
Newbold, Jr., Mrs Tom Newhall. Mrs.
Franklin Pepper. Mrs. Charles Coke, 3d.
Mrs. Ned Sayres. Mrs. Edgar Scott, Mrs.
Marshall Scull Mrs. William Taylor, Mrs.
Frederick Wnslow Taylor, Miss Anne
Thomson. Mrs. George W. Willing. .Ir.,
Mrs. James ID. Winsor. Mrs. William Rotch
Wister, Mrs. Redwood Wright Mrs. Joe
Woolston and Mrs. Henry h. Thompson
. TIAvE you heard who the patronesscs are
IL to be at the dance tomorrow night for
the Southeastern Dispensary? You know,
told you that | thought they would be n
pretty nice lot of people, and they are.
cant remember the whole list, but taking
about every other two or three they are Mrs
John s. Adams, Mrs. A. A. Blair, Mrs
Howard Butcher, Mrs. Joseph Priestley
Button. Mrs. G. Howard Coket, Mrs.
Oliver Eaton Cromwell, Mrs, George w.
Childs Drexel, Mrs. Naudan Duer, Mrs.
Stanley G. Flagg, Jr., Mrs. Walter Jack
son Freeman, Mrs. Joseph NJ Gazzam. Mrs.
Robert Glendinning, Mrs. William Drayton
Grange, Mrs. Henry :. Grove, Mrs. Horace
r. Hare. Mrs. Thomas Hart, Mrs. William
H. Jeferys, Mrs. f. Bowman Leaf, Mrs.
Charles Price Maule, Mrs. William Paul
O'Neill, Mrs. George Wharton Pepper Mrs.
William G. Scull, Mrs. Edgar Fahs Smith,
Mrs. n. Allen Stockton, Mrs. Edward
Stotesbury. Mrs. Joseph b. Townsend, Mrs.
John Wanamaker and Mrs. s. Price
Wetherill. And those who are going to
have dinners before the dance and CONCERT
are Mrs. Maule, Mrs. Colket, Mrs. Button,
Mrs. Gazzam and Mrs. Grange.
WHEN Father married Mother and little
w Janey and Marie Louise came along sew
eral years later they were not surprised to
find a big sister and brother already in the
family. They took it for granted, just as
YOU and, did Father loved them all, SO
why should it be strange to have an older
sister and brother. One day, however, Marie
Louise came rushing into the house. Marie
Louise, be it known, is five and still has
all her chubby roundncsses, for she has not
reached the long drawn out age YETI Hei
cheeks were flushed and her eyes wide
''Mother," she exclaimed Indignantly, "Is
it true that before you married Daddy YOU
had another husband named Mr.. -, who
died?" Eyes, dearie, that is true" ''Un
hum, knew it, Daddy cruel stepfather," ;"
announced Daddys own daughter with con
viction.
NANCY WYNNE.