Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-07

r rErr, sure We are on the threshold OF
i a new engagement. I've seen them to-
gether at various places and many times
Of late. and believe it's a go. She Is
a widow and extremely good-looking. Her
husband has been dead at least SIX or seven
wears, and she certainly grieved sincerely
II ever a woman did I doubted very rnuch
that she would ever marry again; out she
is young and very beautiful, and the man
who Is devoted Is Dery devoted hhueeu'
and so perhaps 1t will come about hou
can't tell, but think you will join me III
being glad IL it comes to pass, as her lie
must have been very lonely since her nus
bands death.
NF COURSE, with Lent every one IS re-
~ doubling her efforts to heip anu u
work and sew for others. The Red Gross
.uxii,aries are pretty full up and yester-
day at the Independence Square AuNiiarS
u was remarkable how many were there'
They have. taken to calling Thursday Ac-
tiyi.y Day down there. BY the way uio
tell YOU that the board has asked florehce
Woodruff Hopkinson to take her mothers'
the late Mrs. Clinton Rogers WOODRUFF
n,ace as treasurer? Mrs. Woodruff was
treasurer there from the beginning OF the
auxi,,ary's xorl and was a most efficient
worker 1t seems to me to be very
,oye,v thing on the part Of the board OF
governors that they wish to perpetuate
her work and memory by having her
daughter take her place. I understand
Mrs. Hopkinson has accepted the treas
urership.
Nov would you believe for minute that
~ It is really time to talk about morse
shows again? why. just gasped When
heard today that not only were the oates
fixed for the indoor show. but the decision
has been made for the Devon snow. 100
and tie ro,nr to be wonderful out there
this year, too, for they are going 10 coHl-
Sb,ne the show with huge carnival such
ss they had at Bryn Mawr two autumns
ago for the Rryn Mawr Hospital.
Mrs. Archibald Barklie will be chairman
NJ the Devon show as she was for the
Rrvn Mawr. And the Devon show will be
on May 2s, 20, so and 81.
But the indoor show will come hrst' so
let's talk about that. It's going to be helo
at the Third Regiment Armory, Broad ana
Federal streets, where 1t has always peen
h.,d with the execution of last year, and
!, u,,,, he on MAYS, Q and 10, two weeks
prior to the Devon show. Mrs waiter
Hancock will be chairman as usual and
there win be eight hospital oenenciar'es'
So YOU know there will be great interest
in the affair." When hear about the COM
mittees and prizes I'll tell you some more
CPEAKINL of it's being time to talk about
~ horse shows, l wonder II the war gar
dens will flourish this year as they DID last
wear and even the summer before? Every
body has been wild on the subject Tor SO
long now that it's not surprise any more
to see beautiful garden Allied with beets
and lettuce that won't head and tomatoes
and such instead of roses, cornfiowers that
won't stay in their own appointed bed ana
sweet meas. And whenever 1 see new gar.
dens starting up, and a new husband snow
ing his new wife the new shoots OF the
parsley, think of the experience or
certain bride and bridegroom that KNOW
and shouldn't be surprised il you did, too
They made up their minds that. having
perfectly good home, they were going TO
have 1t surrounded with perfectly beau
tiful flowers, and they were going to start
good and early so that there would be no
possible doubt about having a garden. So
they got busy and planted tulip bulbs, and
then they watched and waited and Won
dered and anticipated, And about Easter
time, when they felt that they should have
at least two plants showing above ground,
there was nothing stirring anywhere. So
husband armed himself with angry deter
mination and shovel and went out to
find out the reason why. And when he had
dug up the bulb he found said reason.
In planting they had not realized that
bulbs have an upside down as well as
people and other things, and Bulb. having
an upside down but no brain. knew that 1t
had to grow and Immediately did so--right
side up, and the shoots that should have
Allied the hearts Of passersby with Joy were
growing merrily into the earth and speed.
ing Chinaward. NANCY WYNNE.