Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-15

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~ Do you realize that? And the fes
tivtics Of the days before are coming
on fast and furious, Tonight there will
be the theatre party md supper after
ward at the Bellevue. which the George
Hendricks win give for Rhoda Brooke.
who is, you know. Mrs Trenchard
Newbolds daughter by her first mnr
riage. Florence Kane, Peggy Thayer,
Evelyn Smith. Marie Louise Hepburn
Margaretta Sharplcss Helen Wilson,
Rosamond Wurts and a number of men
will be among the guests.
OF COURSE this morning there was
~ the musicale at the Bellevue with
Carolina La2zari aS' solotst. would
not miss one of those concerts, Thcy
are simply great.
Everybody goes
T HEAR that the Misses Ford are
coming over from England to spend
the Christmas holidays with their sis,
ter, Mrs. Herbert Lloyd. at Bod Llwyd
in Bryn Nlawr. it must be q JOY TO
Mrs. Lloyd to have them after the
hardships and turmoil of the .war.
Docs il seem possible that the night
ing has been over more than a year,
Somehow the war is still with us IN
our minds, though we would forget It
If we could. Mr. and Mrs: Lloyd ey 5 $
z niece Of the same name. Lloyd, who is
slso English. is spending the winter
with them.
lid you know that Susan Norris has
~ gone down to Ruthcrfordton, \. C.,
and is visiting Miss Maud Coke there
for two months? Susan is the daughter
OF DR.. and Mrs. Henry Norris, OF
Ruthcrfordton. and spent all her child
hood in Grccuvilc and Ruthertordtnn.
She is therefore totally unused to thc
climate in this part of the country,
and she has had one cold after another.
So the family decided to send her south
for two months to break them up,
It's too bad, in u way: as she was
having such a good time here. She is
awfully pretty and has such an at
tractiye manner. However, she is quite
over the colds now, so it paid to be
careful and she will not be so worn
out as the debutantes who are gong,
going, going, all the time.
You know, Doctor Norris and his
wife, who was Miss Ethel Wheeler. by
the way, are living UP here now. IheF
have taken n farm near Westtown, but
arc spending the winter in apartments
in West Chester. Doctor Norris has, a
hospital in Rutherfordton, which nc
has had full charge of for years but he
was so run down after his return from
France, he was persuaded TO give uI
work for time and has left the hos
pital in the hands of his brother in law
Doctor Biggs, who, You remember, mar
ried Mary Norris. Susan may possibly
come up in January in time to attend
the first Assembly, but perhaps she vii
stay till February and be here for the
II h ,Ntf 20 VNnIcG
in her debutante year, though the AS
semblies do not mean as much these days
as they used to.
TIME second current events class
i. which Miss Locke has at the Merior
Cricket Club meets tomorrow. | never
saw anything like the number of womer
who go to those classes. Aud most o
them 60 to Miss Richards's talks on
Wednesdays, too. It's dandy way
to learn about everything that is goinl
on if you have not the time to read i
yourself aud form your own opinions
I must say like to form my own, bu
then it's very interesting to hear others
too.
Just some of the women who go Il
the Merton class are Mrs. Samuel Bo
dine, Mrs. Clarrie Dolan, Mrs. Dewitt
Cuyler, Mrs. Henry l.. Geyelin. Mrs
George Keudrick, Sd, Mrs. Samuel Vau
claim. Mrs. Alba johnson, Mrs. Charlie
Luddington, Mrs. Frederick Morris
Miss Wright, Mrs. Ogden Hoffman
Mrs. Charles Wheeler, Mrs. Andrew
Aiutch. Mrs Charles Calvert Carter
Mrs. George S. Packard, Mrs. John B
Thayer, Mrs. Isaac Clothier, Jr., Mrs
Kenton Eisenbrey, Mrs. Henry Collins
Jr., Mrs. Tom Baird, Jr.. Mrs. War
ing Wilson,, Mrs. Henry Davidson
Mrs. Stacy Lloyd, Mrs. Horatio Gate
Lloyd, Mrs. George Thayer and dozen
Of others. NANCY WYNNE.