Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-20
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Hears OF Several Parties for the Lilest Chill
dren-Boys at St. Luke's School Make Jig SaU PUSHES
for Wounded Soldiers

THERE was the dearest party out at
4 Villanova on Tuesday afternoon. Small
Sammy Bodine was three years old, and
his mother, Mrs. w. W. Bodine, gave a
party for him, and all the wee guests were
three or four years old, you know how
darling it was Little Peggy Stroud, Hal
dee Morris, Nancy Townsend and Mary
Elizabeth Dennison were the small ladies
in the party, and the boys were little Billie
Forbes, Billie Atterbury, Parker William
Morris, Jack Strawbrdge and the little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred DevereuN, and
the John Shipley DiXons' small boy too
Mrs. Bodine, YOU remember, was Angela
Forney, a charming woman and an eX-
tremely beautiful one. The little honor
guest is named for his grandfather, Mr..
Samuel Bodine.
THERE'S to be another party for the
l. small kiddies--quite a large one at that
next Saturday. Mrs. G.. Brnton Roberts.
of Bala, is giving it for her little son,
Henry Roberts, and her nephew, Henry
Butcher, Jr.. who are both four years old.
Little Henry Butcher. you know, is the son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Butcher,
his mother having been Constance Dew
ereuX, sister of Antelo and Alfred Dev-
ereuX. L think there three Butcher
children. The party on Saturday will num-
ber some children who are little older
than four. but six or seven will about be
the age limit.
TNHERE is p great deal about the needs
l. of our boys in the hospitals which many
of us have overlooked. Do you know that
many of our boys who come back from the
hospitals abroad and from the German
prisons have literally their clothes only?
The Wayne branch Of the Red Cross heard
of this and the members out there are
busly making hundreds of comfort bags
for Camp Dix. They tell me some of the
boys have not even got tooth brushes.
TIfen another thing. Do you re-. tember the
wild craze every one had some years ago
for jigsaw puzzles? why. you used to
jigsaw in nearly every living room, and
big brother or sister was pasting up maya
zine pictures on thin wood and then out
would come the jigsaw and papers or sheets
would be spread on the floor to collect the
sawdust, and whizz. would go the gay little
saw for hours at a time. until the whole
picture would be cut out, and then the
whole family would clamor to have try
at the new puzzle.
And every child you ever knew had to
have a puzzle for Christmas. Well. as it
is the way with fads, the jigsaws were sG-
perseded by something else and now there's
scarcely one to be found in a shop.
But jigsaw puzzles are what the wounded
and convalescent soldiers want more than
anything else in the world to amuse them
selves with these days and do you know
that the boys at St. Luke's School out in
Wayne are giving all their spare time to
turning out puzzles for the soldiers? Isn't
that splendid? People who have old jig
saws slowed away in the garrets are bring
ing them out, and if they are not using
them themselves they are sending them up
to the school for the boys to use. And all
the magazine pictures they can find are
being gathered together. so that tie sol
diers will be thoroughly occupied.
T HEAR there are to be just three dinners
L before the Montgomery dance oil Marcn
NS1 There are to be seventy-fve guests at
the dance which is being given for the
oldest daughter Of the Robert l.. Mont
gornerys, Helen Hope. Mrs. Montgomery,
Mrs Paul Denckla Mills and Mrs. Charlie
Da Costa have divided the guests among
them and have asked all to dinner before
, the dance. I think that's very nice idea,
for it's always more fun when you are
fourteen or fifteen to go to a dinner be-
forehand. You feel so sort of grown-up
and everything.
hid you see what 1 saw yesterday? Or
- rather did you see Herr Why, nearly
had a fit and almost broke my neck walk
ing backward up Walnut street to watch.
This is what I saw: A girl, the daughter
of one of our Oldest and most disniied
families came out Of a shop blushed to
the roots of her hair, but with a perfectly
sober and serious face proceeded to- climb
I'D on the front seat of a truck, to the
utter amazement Of the driver, who gazed
at her in silence.
After seating herself on the little seat
beside him she got up and just as gravely
climbed down and walked back and toward
the side door of the store.
NSomething made me look up, and there
at the upstairs window of the building
: were many faces of girls about her age
and their faces were convulsed with mirth.
= And remembered, way back in the dim
dark ages of my youth, having had TO do
some such awful thing and l knew what it
all was. Mary was simply being initiated
into one of the fashionable fraternities.
NANCY WYNNE.