Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-15
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy ynne Hears That Miss Agnes Spencer Has Returned
From Paris and Red Cross Work-Apother Rummage Sale
in Tie,o-Captain Henrys Death in England

hid you know that Fif Spencer is home
- from overseas? She was at the Victory
Ball on Thursday night and took part in
the tableaux. wearing her dark blue frcck
and blue veil and white band of a Red
Cross nurse. She has been at Neuilly. the
Red Cross hospital, ever since she went
over. and she's been over about year.
you know. I thought she looked awfully
well, though she seemed a little languid
and tired. She has been resting up since
her return for she wants above all things
to go back and continue to work for the
sick and the wounded and wretched Of
devastated France.
Anne Spencer, you remember, was dis
appointed in not getting over the time she
planned to go. She was named to 20 with
a telephone unit. as she spoke French with
ease. as do all the Spencer girls they were
educated mostly in France and Italy. you
know. and she even had her bag packed
to start on the ship, when it was decided
not to send the unit after all.
NTELL, have got fine piece OF news
wv for you. Mary Roberts Rinehart. who
has only this week returned from Europe
and who has been with the army of occu-
patton, is coming on here next Tuesday,
and she is going to speak to the workers
ot Independence Square Auxiliary that
afternoon, and you know that's going to be
exciting.
From the time I read her first book
I've admired her. haven't you? And to
hear her just when she's come from the
German territory and will have so much
to tell us of conditions over there! | tell
you. I'm afraid the work will suffer that
afternoon, for it will be so interesting it
will be hard to make the little dresses and
trousers for the little refugees, won't 1t?
The following week Sophie Norris will
speak at the auxiliary and on March 4
none other than Lillian Russell, dressed in
her army uniform, will speak to the work.
ers. Some interesting days ahead for us
workers, l should say.
TALKING of the refugees and poor chill
L. dren who need help makes me think of
ST. ICdmond's Home for Crippled Children,
which is to have it's annual rummage sale
the week Of March II. Mrs. James Mundy
is at the head of the sale. and you know
that alone spells success. She is certainly
one leader among women. Such "a fine
business head and everything connected
with the thing she undertakes right at her
fnger-ends.
Have you ever been out to the home?
It's at Forty.fourth street and Haverford
avenue, and it's the sweetest, "homeyest"
home I've ever visited. I went out there
recently to d card party, and really those
children are so sweet it made my heart
ache to see them. One poor little "early-old
tyke," whose leg was so wizened he could
not walk. wanted to come over and join
in the happy chorus q little ones who were
to sing for me; and <sSAslsu know, an older
boy who had only one leg got up on his
little crutches and with his free arm lifted
the little teeny one on to his whole knee
and held him there to join in.
There are not very many in the home as
yet, but there are just as many as the pres
ent building can accommodate. and II ever
wanted to help any place I'd want to help
that one. Because those dear babies do
need the the comfort Of that home SO much.
Mrs.. Thomas P. Hunter. Miss Adele
Tack, Mrs. j. Quennell. Miss Katherine
Raleigh and Mrs. Anthony Hirst are only
a few among the women who have resolved
to make the sale wonderful success.
OOMHHOw It just seems too sad for
- anything to hear that Howdy Henry is
dead 1t is not surprising In view Of the
fact that his heart had been in a weakened
state for a long time. In fact. 1t was
marvellous how he finally was taken into
the army. for his heart was not up to the
mark. and you remember he had lost one
eve in an accident. When he was growing
UP and went to the Germantown Academy
to school he was a promising athlete, and
in Princeton he made the big team. being
accounted one Of tho best football ends the
college had ever had. The year he was
graduated he married Mae Fell. the second
daughter of Mrs. Alexander Van Rensse.
laer, and they have been an ideally happy
couple. Howard felt his inability to join
in the regular fighting and did everything
to get into the army. His great knowledge
of horses soon made an opening for him
to work for his country. and he was sent
to the remount station at Camp Fremont.
in Palo Alto, Cal, and then later was
called by General Biddle to hold place on