Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-23
AR BRIDES GRIEF
is TURNED TO Joy
Iegram of Welcome Contra
diets Message That He
/ Wasn't Wanted Here
TO JOIN HUSBAND
By a Std6 Correspondent

BD cIuU Correspondent
lew York, Sept. 23.-Seeing New
k through a war brides eyes or
ler through the eyes of $50 foreign
llyweds isn't allotted many mortals,
ide the realm of war workers and
ice men husbands.
he American casual visitor to the
city can find a thousand thrills in
Igs the New Yorker has long taken
matter of course. But there were
words enough in the English Ian
ge, nor the French either, to de.
be the excitement that reigned dur
the hours ride from the Brooklyn
where the President Grant docked
1 her troops and brides Sunday
ming, to the Y. W. c. A. hostess
Sc, Forty first street and Lexing-
avenue.
long line of speeding. changing Red
SIS ambulances carried the brides
the city, ten women and a smaller
Ia of babies in each car. In one
'hOuS -hl .. USSSt II. NOA. one was u
IVY brown eyed. dark haired bride
n North Wales. But there was
;edy, a desperate sadness in her face
she gently rocked a six month old
y in her arms. Not a soul but the
W. c. A. worker beside her knew
story. The English girl was so
py when she received. word from
American husband that she should
e on, as he was discharged, that
was already at the port of embarka-
when another cable came telling
she would not be welcomed in
erica. She was heartbroken. This
the last bride consignment" to
e Liverpool. so the Y. w. c. A.
ker advised her to come on.
Oh, if he just sees our sweet baby"
sobbed on the Y. W. G. A. womau's
llder, "I'm sure he would recall
love for me"
o one could have been happier than
little woman when she reached the
;ess house to find telegram of well
e waiting her from her husband.
left yesterday for indianapolis to
him. New York to her is happy
e, even though tears blinded her to
things enjoyed by others.
ut right beside her in the ambu-
'e sat the gayest, most adorable
lish girl, commenting in her quaint
mt and high sweet tones on the
ngeness of the American city. If
had seen her atop a Fifth avenue
at first glance you might have
lght she belonged to Greenwich
lge. There was a certain swagger
1t her boyishly cut green suit and.
velvet tam worn rakishly aslant
= CLASSY bobbed hair that reminded
of the village. But a second look
we'd the wholesome pink of cheeks
the sparkle of blue eyes and girl
smile. She looked a child, but she
certain somewhere in the United
:es she had a perfectly good hus-
i. She thought he must have de-
led here recently and perhaps was
harged how. She scanned the faces
pedestrians to find her Jack" as
made running comments on the city.
But look, girls" she exclaimed,
ey have cocoanuts by the hundreds
e." and she pointed to a fruit
ID.
We Eat Queer Things
hen some one told her they were
cantaloupes. "Oh, we had some
board" she said. II like them.
at queer things you eat and such
ay times you have for eating them.
have had a frightful time getting
on the ship, and l suppose, it will
hard all 'over your country"
he gave a shrek, half of real fright
half of laughter as the ambulance
lie a quick swerve and stopped alb
tly to let traffic cross. Il never
so many automobiles in my life,
cried. How can you afford SO
iy, and how in the world does one
IS the street, and why does traffic
to the right instead of to the left
we have it in England? Do you
bicycles? I do so love to ride.
here was a gale of laughter as the
les glimpsed a street car. What
ny cars-all windows, they said.
,verything was funny to the little
nette, but to many others New York
led America and happy married
, Best of All
riyate Joseph r. Thornton, just
harged today, voiced this as he put
arm across his little brides shoul-
at the hostess house and said:
We were together in London and
Paris; now we are together in New
X, the best of all.
together and America meant happi-
!.
tomorrow Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton
be on their way home to Tampa,
James Ceilings and his Liver
! bride will be journeying toward
nsas City. H. A. Haush will be
ating out the landmarks on the way
Hutchinson, Kan, to his English
hty, and there will be others seeing
erica en- route to Oregon or the
kotas, Minnesota or Texas, as the
may be.
here is a rumor afoat that this
lie business is contagious. At any
!. Miss Helen Orr, who has directed
embarkation of brides from Liver