Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-11


that she was in poor health several years
ago, but we hoped that she had recovered
entirely.
Mrs. Tilghman was Miss Gabriela oe
Potestad, the only daughter of the late
Marquis and Marouise de Potestad. lho
Marquise was Miss Ella Chapman, or TINS
city, daughter of Doctor Chapman, VINO
lived in the old Chapman house on chestnut
street near Twelfth. There are not many VINO
remember the Chapman house, but ABOUT
seventy years ago they tell me. that whole
section Of Chestnut street from Seventh
and Eighth sweets up 10 Broad was sue
cession of residences The late Mr.. Emlen
Meigs's parents lived on Chestnut street be-
tween Eleventh and Tenth, and many other
old families were there.
The Marquis was a Spanish noblemah
and came over here in a diplomatic ca
pacity at Washington. He met Miss Chap
man while on a visit to Philadelphia and
having married her. took her back to Spain
with him. where she became most popular
and was made lady in waiting TO the
then queen.
Later they returned to Philadelphia, and
their daughter Gabriela married the late
Dick Tilghman. whose death occurred
about six years ago. Mrs. Tilghman was
a most accomplished musician and very
charming woman. Her son Dick married
pretty Mary Bohen, n daughter OF MIS-
woodville Bohlen, about two years ago
The daughter Gabriela, known to her intl'
mates as Gay Tilghman, lived with her
mother at their country place Tulip Hill
st. Davids. Mrs. Tilghman, through the
Chapman relationship, is cousin OF the
Thayers, Winsors, Laws and Carriers, of
this city
no YOU know there is to be huge
II dance pavilion out at the Carnival In
Devon, which is to be held In connection
with the Horse Show in May? It's to DO
erected after the likeness of the famous
"Cocoanut Row" down at Palm Beach and
after the show is over tea will be served
there and dancing will hold sway. The
afternoons will be long and summery,
expect. for you know we are going to lose
another hour in our counts from April
first until October, and noon will again be
before the sun is overhead, as 1t Is now at
twelve.
oh. it's a great life, so you remember
all the changes and restrictions. They tell
me they are considering the prohibition
Of coffee and tea soon. I wonder II well
be allowed to eat meat, next Vegetables
make for red blood you know.
MAJOR II. PENN SMITH. Jr., and Mrs.
AV1 Smith spent the weekend with Mrs.
Alexander Brown IN Bryn MawrS Major
Smith came-h home last week. you remem
ber, on the Leviathan. and went down to
Washington to be mustered out. They ex'
pect to leave tomorrow for a hunting trip
in Virginia and when they come back they
are Aoing TO take a house In Bryn Mawr
and ! there Mrs. Smith, Jr., was Carol
Hartman, of New York, YOU know. and
has been living at East sixty-ninth street
New York.
nID tell YOU that Doctor. Purnell' DR.
- Caroline Purnell, at that, Is going to
speak this afternoon at the independence
Square Red Cross You know she has
come back from France only recently and
she started quite number of hospitals
there during the war, so I think she'll be
very interesting.
Then on Thursday afternoon they are
going to have Mrs Maynard Ladd, who
has just returned after a year spent in
France. where she made masks for the
mutilated soldiers. Mrs. Ladd was Anna
Coleman, of this city, and is staying here
for a short time Mrs. Arthur Lea, who
is in the Red Cross, is greatly interested
in Mr4 Ladd You see. the making o.
masks is one OF the undertakings that the
Red Cross is financing, and it is wonderful
to hear how a man whose chin has beer
shot away, for instance, can be made Il
look almost natural again by false masi
which this clever sculptor has made.
1t is true that they usually have q
speaker at the Red Cross once week, or
perhaps. once In a fortnight but Mrs
Ladd, you see, has to go back to Boston
and Mrs Lea was most anxious to have
her go down and talk, so Thursday after
noon she'll be there at COS Chestnut street
you know.
DEOPLE really are hard to please, don
l. YOU think? heard some of the species
talking the other day and they were fndini
fault with a certain very well-known mu
sician. Hes fine, oh yes! and he's fearles
and he does splendid work, but the trouble
is, he's so unapproachable," said they
mused on the matter and started 4
walk up Locust street. Have you eve
noticed how, when you think OF some one
that some one is apt to come right up tn
street to meet you or you see a decides
likeness to him or her in the various per
sons you meet?
= Well I was thinking over their converse
tion and that, in so far as knew the
were right about the extreme dignity of thi
musician, when turned into cross stree
and chanced TO pass provision store.
looked In the wide glass window TO Sc
the esthetic object Of my thoughts in tn
store buying a string of Frankfurters ii
was smiling and shaking his bead at some
thing the man suggested, hnd then h
..zad.a aud y,ickinp I'm the string of sal