Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-16

THE debutantes are beginning to get
i back to town now, as more and
more dates are announced and plans are
made for the coming festivities. l saw
Elizabeth Anne Taylor yesterday on
Chestnut street. looking very we'll and
very busy. She had on a pretty dark
blue serge dress with a blue hat,
trimmed with a feather of q lighter
shade of blue, and tiny little roses
showing here and there through the
feather. Awfully attractive hat. She
will make her debut on October IL, you
know.
ISN'T it nice to hear that Lieutenant
i Stuart Benson Clark, Z. S. NJ,
does not have to 90 out to the Pacific
fleet, but has instead been stationed at
the navy yard here? And so Ellsabeth
McNIichael and he will be married NO
vember 1, instead of having to wait
three years, perhaps. You remember
their engagement was announced little
more than a week ago.
Elisabeth is the daughter Of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton MCMichael. Her
mother was Miss Glendinning, as | told
YOU at the time of the engagement.
sister of Colonel Glendinning. She has
lived since little girlhood with her aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Nc
Michael, who brought her out three
years ago, before our entry into the war
IF YOU had gone with me to the Red
i Mill down at Cape May last Satur =
day night you would have realized that
the season is about over, for the poor
old mill has donned its storm doors since
that last festive dance. However, many
cottagers are staying down for the fall
And Eleanor Pispham, who has Just
come back from France, where she mas
been doing canteen work for the pass
five months, was there over Sunday
with her parents. At the Red MIL OF
Saturday night she was wearing .
black georgette dress trimmed with
Jet. She looks wonderfully well since
her return to America in spite of hav'
, ing worked so hard. And If you hat
seen the numbers of beaux dancint
attendance you would know that Others
besides Eleanor were glad that she /
back.
I heard splendid accounts of her from
several of the girls who have been owe
me, she was one favorite.
MIR. MYERS had seventy men oI
4F1 his hike last Sunday. i shoul
think he would be exhausted after thos
Sunday afternoons. Do you know h
goes in town every Sunday morning an
goes around to the various service club
inviting the men to take hike wit
him? From about twelve to two h
has a little time to rest, but at tw
sharp he and his men start out. Las
Sunday, the men were entertained a
supper at the Young Mems Christia
Association at Fifteenth and Cherr
streets. Mrs. Edward Powell, who ha
done such splendid canteen work, CAV
the supper. and the table was prett
with silver and flowers. The vaudevill
performance after the eats was unusu
ally good.
GDROTHER owes me a TOOTH sal
- Polly. and the family laughed
And then I heard about it. 1t appear
in Polly's family whenever she {
brother loses a tooth said tooth
tucked under the pillow at night, An
In the morning what do you think
under that pillow? Not the tooth, NJ
indeed. but bright new ten cent piec'
which is left there by the fairies.
Well, Peggy's tooth came out II
other day and Brother gazed longingl
and lovingly at it. Oh! how he di
wish that tooth was his. Finally /
q asked permission to play with it and {
Sister is a very generous little sistt
she said he might, provided he gave
back before bedtime. Alas! whe
bedtime came the tooth had disappeare,
D Dropped out of his pocket or fallen /
the wayside, no one knew; anyway
was not to be found.
So now the plan is, when Brother
next tooth comes out he turns it ov
to Sister and the reward will be her
And Brother, who is a fair soul,
perfectly satisfied. But every now al
then, like the wife to whom you oy
S5, Sister reminds him of it. Don
forget you owe me tooth"
NANCY WYNNE.