Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08


L has been appointed a committee of
one to have charge of setting out trees
in Narragansett Pier for the Ladies
Village Improvement Society. There's
something about that name that will
suggest, no matter how much try to
control It, "village ladies'" in their
best black silks, with red geranium
in one hand and tightly clutched
handkerchief in the other-do you
know what I mean? OF course, real
ize that the association itself Is not
anything like that, and l hope m not
stepping on anybody's generous teel-
ings, because from all know OF IL tne
Ladies' Village Improvement Society
does an awful lot of good up there
but that name! ... :, IN
~ The usual large and remarkable ball
that they always have about this time
az wear In Narragansett will be heid
tonight at the Casino. This year u s
a "Snow Ball." and the decorations,
which are always wonderful affairs VIII
include a snow fort under tall pine
-tree. which is almost guaranteed 10
make YOU SILVER, and grotesque snow
/, men. a real (or "purt' nlgh snoM
storm. snowbirds and sleigh bells hane
Ing from the ceiling. And, OF COURSE
everybody in the place will go .,o
And some of the everybody IN sn5
n,ace are the Norrises, Mrs. hicna.u
Norris and her daughter, Mary, VINO , Wll
he q debutante of next season e,a E,len
CIendinnine was there for "hile
visiting Mary, but I am not su,
whether she has come BACK Vi
Ellen is another debvtante. ,s
Lisa Norris, Pauline Denck.u nn
Ethel Huhn Baily are all up tne'
Won never speak of one OF 'nu' Nv
without mentioning the other TWO im
mediately afterward, and they surrey
do have good times together. The Issac
"A. Clotbiers, Jr., of Sunnybrook' had
NOR. are now occupying their mouse
there. Edith Hutchinson. another deo
of next season, is there with her parents
Mr., and Mrs. Mahlon Hutchinson
Edith is going to make her debut at a
dance at the Ritz on Friday. November
"a. Kitty Penn Smith and her mother
are Mt Mrs. Browns cottage. And Hope
Cromwell and her family are there with
ever so many others. You don't realize
how big a place Philadelphia Is until
Won begin to go over the number OF our
own people at each of the summer
nlaces, And then you find that II s as
b;p as New York and London put TO-
sether and some to carry.
rLEANoR PORCHER WINDLE
T. was in town yesterday wearing
very becoming dark blue voile dress
made very simply, with a white collar
tucked in bars. Her hat was unusually
pretty, too, because it combined utl!lts
with good looks, if you can talk tnat
vay about a hat 1t was a wlde
brimmed affair, turned down just
little. of dark blue, and the crown and
br;m were trimmed with large, nal
daisies. And then because that wouldn
stbe practical for shopping and traVel.
ing and all that. the whole thing was
r covered with dark blue chiffon, and the
result was most attractive.
n Mrs. Windle is the wife of Major
William Butler Windle, of West Ches'
ter, who was overseas for quite lone
time. She is the daughter OF MT: ant
Mrs. Samuel Porcher. of 7IOS NaVa
hoe street, Chestnut Hill. The Porcher'
were among the first to have one of those
attractive houses in st. Martins, neal
the Lincoln drive, when the 'helds
were first built up.
II memory is not playing with me,
think their house is the one that wal
remodeled from an old stone icehous'
which stood all by itself in the field
above the swamp which is now Lincolr
Drive. The grasses used to grow 81
high there that you could be completed!
hidden by STOPPING just a little, ant
when that pretty house grew out o
that almost chaos all st. Martins usec
to stop and stare.
Then everybody got the fever, ant
now there are any number of thos
comfortable, pretty houses up there.
IBID you hear how the gipsies took
- charge Of the golf links at Newpor
the other day7 There were lot o
people playing, when these gipsies
who, I believe, have been going abou
the town telling fortunes, descended
upon the links in a dark swarm, lik'
hock Of bees (bees aren't a flock
are they? they're a swarm, bit having
said swarm once, couldn't spoil m!
English by repeating. Perhaps
should have said they descended in 1
dark flock like a swarm of bees). Any
how, they descended, and insisted OIL
8 telling everybody's fortt es unit
everybody nearly went crazy and tn
4 = At-
course. NANCY WYNNE.
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