Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Talks OF the Fishhouse Party the Marns-She
Hears That Mrs Clyde viii Be Chief Policeman
Country Fair-Other Dongs

THAT was a dandy party the Willis Mar
Il tins had out at their place on Saturday
night for Ellen Glendinning. The Martins
have been giving these informal dances for
a debutante every spring for several years.
The guests dance in the garage or barn and
have wonderful time. Gwen Martin, of
course, was Mt home and received the guests
with her mother, and Mrs. Flo Rivinus
(Marion Martin that was) was also there.
Among the girls and men who attended
the fshhousc party, as it was called. were
Sophie Yarnall Gertrude Conaway, Emma
Schwartz, Mary d. Norris, Sara Dolan,
Mary Glendinnng. Morris Freeman, James
Ferguson, Frank Trimble, Teddy Browning,
Persifor Frazer, Jr, Francis Z. Frazier,
Edward Starr, Jr, and Percy Glendinning.
VoU want to mind your ways when you go
l. out to the Country Fair at Devon next
week, for there are to be park police there
TO make you behave and you'll never be-
lievc me when tell you who they are. How
/, ever, The real truth of it is they will not
be there so much to keep order as TO hear
complaints and rectify grievances, should
there be any to report.
Mrs. Frank Clyde will be chief Of police
and her three lieutenans will be Mrs. Robert
Coleman Drayton, Mrs. George Wharton
Pepper and Mrs. Henry Berwnd. Some
rTN11EI have an information bureau out on
the Devon grounds already. 1t was
open on Saturday all day and will con
tinuc through this week Mrs. Henry Earn
shaw. Mrs. Joseph Snelcuburg and Mrs.
Joseph Page are in charge of it, and have
their hands full, I'm told, for the ways and
directions Of tho fair are intricate, indeed.
Mrs. Barkle told me she did not think there
hah pN,nr hoo e,pI ffaip In
Philadelphia before. It's really going to be
splendid. .........
THE welfare dances nt the Ritz this. week
L will be for the benefit of the social service
department of the Babies Hospital. The
patronesscs will be Mrs. William Gray War
den, Mrs. Henry Pepper Naux, Mrs. w. Il.
Donner, Mrs. Roland Pollock, Mrs. George
W. Ward, Mrs. Charles NJ. Wood, Mrs.
Charles f. Jenkn, Mrs. William U. Brad
ley, Mrs. q. Fl. Atkins. Mrs. Brooke n.
Anspach, Mrs. +. p. Barnard, Miss Mary
i. Fcbiger. Mrs J. S. &. Harvey, Mrs. Dale
=. Filter, Mrs. Howard A. Loeb, Miss Ida
T.. Fife, Mrs John Macklin. Mrs Charles
Quimby, Mrs. Frederick A. Rakestraw. Mrs.
John +. Sinclair, Mrs. Samuel II. Mellow
ell and Mrs. NJ. Whtlock. 1t certainly keeps
some of these people busy, because so often
they are interested in two different charities,
succession ] saw Mrs, Isaac Clothier at
the dance at the Ritz Friday afternoon. She
had on such II pretty dress of dark blue, I
think it was, silk jersey or tricolette. and
she wore an awfuly attractive little toque
of dark blue with funny little blue feather
sticking up in it.
IBID you know that Nancy Smith Miles's
~ baby won the first prize in the baby show
4 lf,.. -,
town last week? She's the sweetest, most
healthy. smiley looking little peach you ever
saw, and everybody wanted her to get the
prize. | don't remember who got the second
and third prizes but young Betty Riegcl,
daughter of Sergeant and Mrs. Jacob Riegel,
Jr., won the fourth prize, and she's another
beautiful thing. although she's good deal
younger than Nancy's baby. Sergeant Ric-
gel, by the way, is on his way home from
overseas, and | don't believe he was ever
half so proud of his scrgeant's stripes as he's
going to be of his little prize winner. And
speaking of winning prizes, the thing that
| desire to know more than 1 can tell you is,
Who won that yellow sweater?
! LAVE you ever stopped talking yourself
IL and listened carefully to what your
neghbor was saying? don't mean in dis
cusson or a real conversation or anything
. ike tnat, put III one OF tnCSc 'chatS, these
conventional things that you get off just in
order to say something. If people did stop
and listen to themselves. | think half of us
would be trotting around with deep rcd
bushes of embarrassment all over our noble
or girlish, the case may bc--counte-
nances.
| stopped and listened the other night at
a dance-not to myself, oh heaven forbid
but to a girl who made her debut about a
year ago, or would have if there hadn't been
war. She was standing up with plate in
her hand-it was during suppcr-and talk
ing, talking, and her eyes were roaming all
over the room and she hadn't the least idea
of what she was saying. Finally somebody
got up and offered her a chair.
''Oh, thank you she said, going rapidly
toward it, II really prefer to stand" The
kindly person with the chair took her word
for it and started offering the chair else
where. BY that time the lady had reached
4 it. 'Oh, I hate to do this, she drawled,
: and forthwith settled herself comfortably and
continued cating-dHd talking.
NANCY WYNNE.
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