Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-11
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Sees Smart Winged Hat OF Back-Red Cross
AUXILIARY Takes Soldiers to Valley Forge-The
Agones OF Learning to Type

T SAW Helen Moore the other day IN an
L awfully good looking dark blue dress
and n black straw hat, with high pla'N
wings on it. 1t vas stunning get up
aud she is so good looking anyhow WIN
her shining gold hair and blue eyes, She
is engaged TO Captain II. Fcnton flshcr'
of Jamestown, y. Y, you know, ana the
wedding is TO be on the twenty -hrst ot
May Her mother Mrs. George cameron -
much the same type ns Helen. tal auu M'n
built. with the same gold hair and pretty
skin, and she always dresses III extremely
GOOD taste. They live out in germantown
in n white house right across the street
from Germantown Acadcmy-and the Wcn
ding will take place in Calvary Church,
Germantown.
CUCH n gay crowd of soldiers as ! saw
Dycstcrtas afternoon in a perfect pun'n
of cars going ont through the park toWaru
Sycrbrook. One motor after another passcd
NO as walked along and saw across III,
hood of carh car Il huge sign WIN ,hcu
Cross on il. and then | recognized several
pcoplc and il was one OF the hen .r"SS
auxilaries. and all the women OF the Doaro
of managers who had ears had given Ihers
for tho hospital boys aud were taxing 'n'"
out TO Valley Forge. Ana thrF "'rc
smoking ana calIhS suh"" ''"'' 5
u wonderful time
DlD Won know that the Overseas Club ot
~ thc Emergency Aid is bcncfting by the
welfare dances Of the afternoon ana evening
at the Walton all this week. and next week
the Visiting Nurse Society is to be the pche-
tciary?
Mrs John c. Norris. one of the hvc stun
ming looking Dobson sisters. is chairman
of the Overseas Club and has assoclated
with her her sister. Ms. Dick Norris'
Mrs. Howard Pancoast, Mrs. William war,
den. Mrs Campbell Madeira and several
Others On the committee OF the \lsl'ins
Nurse Society are Mrs. Tom Dolan. pr'si
dent: Mrs. Norman Jackson. Mrs Horace
Howard Furness Jr., Miss Nina ga Mrs
Clarence A. Warden. Miss Mary 5. Febi-
ger. Mrs. Albert =. Brubakcr. Mrs. Henry
Wolf Bike. Mrs. G. Howard Clark, Jr.'
Miss Mary Roberts Coles. Miss DORIS
Earle. MA. Chancellor G. English. Mrs
Morris .Jastrow. Jr.. Mrs. William furnesS
jerks. Mrs Morris J. Lewis. Mrs Samuei
ID. Lit. Mrs. Francis II. Stewart, MISS
Anne Hampton Todd. Mrs. James ID. Win
sor. Jr., and Mrs. Louis Wolf.
DID YOU know that Mrs. j. Archer Rllon,
- of Devon. has been quite seriously i'll!
She is Just out of the hospital after an opera
tion and is getting better now. You know
she is a member of tho Red Cross Motor
Corps. or Motor Messengers. which is so
much easier to say. and she did perfectly
wonderful work driving She used to drive
nil the way into town from Devon and then
drive all day and then drive all the way
home again. And last summer at Cape
May she carried wounded men. and she
t.s been having wounded men out there TO
her farm to- rccupcrate at various times.
While she was crankng her car it kicked,
understand. and hurt her very badly. ana
/.hc has been out of the service ever since.
isn't that hard to have to give up Just when
20 many wounded men are coming nome ana
"rr is so much work to do And MIS- hu
IN, hear. was way up on the llst OF nara
vorkcrs OF the organization. She Is better,
,ut imagine it will be a long time before
he can drive again.
CHE was learning to write on the type
y writer. for since the war she did not
caro- to dance or play cards and so on. you
know mean she was taking lessons Ill
D.. stcnoyrap4y, and she was writing all those
ridiculous sentences that you have TO write
in order to show that you can WRITE Anu
she went slowly and then she went niue
faster. and still it didn't break. She was
delighted. and then she discovered that
sometimes the letters formed correctly ana
sometimes, oh horrid sight, they dldn T.. 30
she tried it out to find out why, ana TINS Is
what 7 saw when | happened to glance over
her typewritcr: 'The quick brown fox
iumpcd over the lazy dog this is Spe'
nf the work of thrs mach the quick brown
fox jumped over the lazy dosoooooooo' there
there there
NANCY WYNNE.